Kardis Shadowcaster

~ Basics ~

 

Name: Kardis

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Class/Profession: Shadowcaster

Race: Human

Alignment: NG

 

~ Appearance ~

 

 

Height: 5’5

Eyes: burgundy

Weight: 140

Hair Color: back

Hair Style: long and tied back

Complexion: pale and fair

Build: slender

Scars:

Distinguishing Features:

 

~ Personal ~

Weapons: 2 wands of magic missile (1st)

Armor:

Clothing:

Important Items: Shroud of night lesser, Collar of Umbral Metamorphosis, Bracers of armor, Gloves, Ring

 

Dialects Spoken:

Common, Elven, Dwarven, Goblin

 

Character History: Since he was a young boy, Kardis has never been afraid of the dark. He didn’t have trouble walking home at night or in the predawn hours which wasn’t strange at all really. Everyone gets accustomed to the darkness in time, he just seemed to get over it faster than everyone else. Growing up, he’d work at his parents’ small little scribe business. He’d fetch ink or parchment for them when needed. Though most of the time, he’d entertain his little sister by making shadow puppets with his hands.

 

He got really good at them too, forming shapes with his fingers that seemed almost impossible when projected upon a wall as a dark shadow. Of course, his sister loved it and when she had friends over for sleepovers, he’d put on puppet shows for them. One night when he couldn’t sleep, he decided to play around with his shadows and began trying new shapes. Creating a new show for his sister, he lost track of time and himself. About an hour later, he realized that his hands weren’t moving any more. The shadows on the wall were responding to his thoughts and not being cast by anything. He was more than startled by this and bolted to tell his parents.

 

He’d show them what he was able to do and they were terrified by the prospect of their son being able to control darkness itself. They told him it was a foul evil power and that he should stop it. Kardis tried, he really did but now that he was aware of it, he began to notice his shadow moving on it’s own forming shapes that he didn’t cast. There were times shadows slowly stretched out to him as if seeking him out. This went on for years, he and his parents tried their best to hide it.

 

Then one day, someone came to the door and asked about his shadow. They claimed to have spotted his shadows moving about freely in the square. His parents pale fearing the worst. The stranger introduced himself as someone very much like their son. He was part of a school that would teach him how to suppress the shivering shadows, hiding it. His parents scared for their son agreed.

 

The next several years, he spent most of his time with his new Guild, learning about shadow magic that it wasn’t something necessarily to fear. That shadow was more common and infinitely older than light itself. That everything is born into darkness only later being introduced to the light. That calmed Kardis in a way and he studied hard. He gained control over his own shadow and then began to figure out how to control more shadows. Upon graduating, he understood that he was in control of the darkness but also that people would fear and more than likely try to harm him if they found out.

 

Deciding it would be best to take up a normal profession, he’d follow in his parents footsteps and became a scribe to a local ruler. He’d put what was spoken or decided upon into writing. Due to his vast learning in his Guild, he began offering advice to his ruler and gradually earned his trust. Kardis still practices his magic and research to further his knowledge but it’s all done in secrecy.

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