Arka the Wanderer

Fallen Elf · November 5th, 2011, 1:50 am

Here's that charry I talked about. As you can see, Zar'rac knows his way around. :P

Name: Arka the Wanderer

Age: 300

Gender: Male

Skills ~
Disabilities and Strengths: Due to being a mute and having only one arm, many underestimate his abilities. He can't speak verbally but only through telepathy. Therefore, he doesn't use magic for something he can accomplish with moderate effort otherwise. However, when he does use magic, it is decisive and powerful. His swordsmanship is amazing, despite only having one arm to work with. His skills in martial arts are proficient, although, again, he only has one arm to work with.

Assassination: Arka is skilled in the art of assassination, and often performs jobs for money. He doesn't feel remorse for killing strangers in exchange for money. Due to being half-elf, he retains his ancestors' balance, strength, and speed. Due to his being an assassin, his balance and agility are heightened more so than most elves. He has blades and weapons hidden throughout his body that can be used for various tasks in his job. He is even moreso skilled in making use of his surroundings. To mask his form or achieve some sort of advantage over someone. This helps in his job greatly. His senses are stronger than even an Elf's.

Knowledge Ripping: Unbeknownst to those issuing the contracts for assassination, Arka wipes the minds of his targets after defeating them, and forcefully extracts everything that person knows about combat and/or magic and adds it to his own reserve of information. Anyone can do this, but Arka is particularly skilled in it. It takes a while (at least a year) for the information he gathered to settle in his mind due to how much he's taking in. This is partly how he is so skilled in magic and swordsmanship. As one could assume, his mental capacity is quite huge. He is extremely efficient at defending and concealing his own mind, but not so much in attacking another's mind.

Magical Overflow: A disease he contracted recently (as in four or so months). From absorbing so much knowledge, his magical power has reached the maximum amount a single host or consciousness can handle. Because of this, he has contracted this fatal disease. There is no known cure for it, and he only has a year or two left to live. Occasionally, his magical power will reach a climax and exert from his body in an explosion. This explosion can cause damage to both himself, nature, and anyone unfortunate enough to be around him at the time. He has found that he can use this sickness as a weapon. He can use the rapidly building energy, and exert it from his a body part in a powerful blow.

Race: Half-elf

Hair: Spiky, rosy-colored hair. Odd for an elf, but it suits him.

Eyes: Brown

Home Village: The Spine

Parents: Daemon, his father, and Elysia, his mother. His mother died soon after giving birth, but he doesn't know where his father is.

Character Personality: Arka despises optimists especially, probably because of how down his life has been. Due to his sickness, he wants to visit as much as he can in the last couple of years he has left before he has to succumb to death. He feels indifference about ending a stranger's life, just considering the action the way of life. If someone's meant to die at a certain time, then he or she will die at that certain time. Despite this, though, he still doesn't want to die. He hates his sickness, but more than that, he hates people who pity him for it. Pity won't change the fact that he's inevitably going to die in a couple of years, and it won't help him find a cure. He is a bit intelligent, and he often sees things as how they are. This leads him to question the actions of many. If Arka had to choose something that he wanted before he died, it'd probably be a good friend. Throughout his life, he hasn't really had any close bonds with anyone. A close bond keeps him going more than any desire to see the world. With a close friend, he thinks that he can die in peace. Some might consider it ironic, how he dislikes others to feel pity for him, but he still wants to be close to someone. However, that's just who he is, and all he wishes for is a friend.

Siblings: None

Character History: Born in the Spine due to his mother not being able to make it to a village, Arka and his mother would be hard pressed to survive in the wild area. Fortunately, a hunter, human in race but braver than even most dwarves, came by and rescued them both. Well, his mother was in poor health, so she died even after the man's help. The hunter revealed himself as Qu'ara, part of an ancient tribe. Despite Arka's pointed ears and angular features, Qu'ara didn't expect him to have so much elven blood in him since his mother was human.

Qu'ara then quit the tribe and raised Arka as his own, teaching Arka in how to survive. Arka began to adopt Qu'ara's usually-cold nature, as well as the human's natural knack for survival. Qu'ara began to get suspicious of Arka's supreme agility and balance. However, he still thought nothing of it. When Arka was sixteen, they had ventured into a city in what would, in modern Alagaesian days, be called the Empire. Due to there not being a war yet to worry about, elves traveled freely throughout Alagaesia. When an elf asked why Arka was traveling with a human, both Qu'ara and Arka were baffled beyond belief.

Feeling betrayed, Qu'ara quickly fled, leaving Arka on his own. Since Arka was sixteen and had been taught how to survive in the wilderness, it wasn't difficult for him to survive on his own. Although, there was one problem he encountered: money. Despite being able to survive in the wilderness, Arka still needed money. Finding a job when you were alone and suspicious was difficult, so Arka wallowed throughout the streets of a nearby city in misery. Without money, he didn't question the inevitable obstacles he would face in life.

Knowing his misery, someone had approached Arka from the shadows - literally. The person had proposed an assassination request for the young Arka. Being desperate for money, Arka gladly took the well-paying request. . .The job went well, and Arka collected his moderate sum. The mysterious person who had given Arka his first assassination task came to him yet again, proposing that the two make a contract. Arka would be his personal assassin, and the mysterious man would teach Arka magic and pay him a nice sum for every request Arka completed. The man leased his name off as Zar'rac.

Twenty years went by without problem, and Zar'rac taught Arka the odd art of Knowledge Ripping. Although, Arka soon began to question his occupation as an assassin. Killing for money seemed to occur to him as morally wrong at the time. When he confronted Zar'rac about his recent changes in mind, he was attacked. Being caught by surprise, Scirvir lost an arm and cut Arka's vocal cords as punishment. Bleeding profusely, Arka would have died had Qu'ara not shown up and saved him. There was nothing the hunter could do about Arka's acquired imperfections, however.

When healed, Arka searched for Zar'rac, bent viciously on revenge. However, the Shade had vanished, as did Qu'ara after he had healed Arka to sufficient health. Broken, Arka began to wander Alagaesia aimlessly, killing those who frustrated him. Assassination didn't strike him as morally wrong anymore, and he soon resumed his job except now under a different vendor. Soon, Arka obtained an infamous title throughout Alagaesia, known as the 'Dead-eye Mute'. This was do to his accuracy with throwing knives and his inability to speak verbally. Arka continued this life until, at 299, he was consumed by his own magical ability. The explosion that followed bruised and battered his body. After doing some research, Arka stumbled upon the unfortunate illness he had contracted. The explosions have only gotten worse, and Arka will only submit himself to his fate when he can find a good friend.

Weapons: His magic, some throwing daggers, and a single broadsword.

Likes: He likes animals. That's pretty much it.

Dislikes: His illness, how cold life can be.

Weaknesses/Fears: His weaknesses are his disabilities. Without an arm, he doesn't have as much balance as he could have (although he is still very balanced). Without the ability to speak verbally, he only uses the Ancient Language when he has to, although he feels that this makes his spells stronger. He is scared that his illness will take him before he can find a friend.

Animal Companions: None

Physical Description: Arka stands at around 5'11", weighing around one-hundred and fifty pounds. His body is very toned, although he isn't strikingly muscular. He has a slightly pale complexion with rosy-colored hair and dark brown eyes. His sword is sheathed at his left hip, with throwing daggers concealed throughout his person. He commonly wears leather clothing with a midnight blue cloak, the left sleeve of which hangs limply without an inhabitant. He has brown leather moccasins that Qu'ara made for him, and it's one of his most prized belongings.

Dreams: To find a friend and a cure for his illness. Although the latter is more of a very faint hope than anything else.

Reasons for Dreams: He doesn't have any friends? And he's tired of not knowing whether or not he'll live to the next day.

Alignment: His own.

Arka the Wanderer

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