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Dungeoneering Professor Alexander Flinté​

Personal Details
Race: Human
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Major: Dungeoneering
Relationships: n/a
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Skills/Abilities
Party role: Mapper/navigator, trap disarming, Magic item identifier,
Magic type: Soul
Spells:
-Enhanced ability: A staple ability for soul mages, Enhanced ability increases a casters natural skills by nearly tenfold, though use of this ability is incredibly draining. For Alexander this means that he can increase his aim to inhuman precision and give himself the agility he needs to dodge projectiles and escape traps unharmed.

-Detonate: Alexander charges a bullet with soul energy causing it to rupture and explode violently when it hits its mark.

-Soul bullets: Alexander's pistol does not reload like a normal firearm, instead he shapes small pieces of soul energy into projectiles which can be fired from his pistol. This allows him to alter the effect of the shot, ranging from healing bullets to fire and poison, though the bullet must be altered before it's loaded into the pistol.

-Mage hand legerdemain: With his free hand, Alexander creates a floating hand out of soul energy which he can move anywhere within a 30 foot radius of himself. With some concentration Alexander can turn the hand invisible, but it reappears if this concentration breaks. The hand mimics his own actions allowing him to interact with complex objects at range, giving him the ability to do things like pick locks or disarm traps from a safe distance. Can use both hands to make two mage hands at the same time if both hands are free.

Weapons:
Alexander's Pistol:

A mastercraft firearm, this pistol serves as Alexanders primary weapon as well as his spell focus, allowing him to not only cast powerful spells through it, but also utilize enchanted bullets. This revolver fires six specially crafted rounds before needing to reload.

Alexander's Rapier:

A finely crafted sword gifted to him by an old party member, Alexander uses this sword as a backup in close combat.

Armor: Leather armor and his trademark backpack which seems to hold everything he puts into it without giving, Alexander's gear reflects his practical and agile nature.

Training: Alexander graduated Lyzander's academy with a major in dungeoneering, as well as training in all of the prerequisite skills. He also has a great deal of experience in the field.

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Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Skin colour: white
Height: 5'9
Weight: 130
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Personality: Straight and to the point, Alexander is a man who doesn't like to waste time with formalities or jokes. Often called businesslike thanks to his professional attitude and quiet nature. Alexander likes things that are practical and reliable, often sticking to and teaching his older methods, preaching their reliability over newer techniques. He prefers to make his class into a very hands on experience, and will often create trials which the students will spend the period completing to show their understanding of the concept. The man tries his best to help his students, taking their success in class and life as his utmost priority, to this extend he spends a great deal of time tutoring or performing one on one lessons late into the night, with classes the next morning. This means that he is usually a very weary person, coffee being the mans life blood to keep him coherent enough to carry out his lesson.

While Alexander is old for a professional adventurer he still keeps himself in good shape, whenever he isn't busy with school work he can be found practicing his techniques to keep himself sharp. His favorite thing to practice is mapping, an act that he finds somewhat calming, almost meditative.


Goal: Keep his students safe
Likes: Students who try, meditation, mapping, painting
Dislikes: Disorganization
Strengths:
-Expert marksman: Alexander has a high level of skill with his chosen firearm allowing him to fire quickly and accurately.
-Agile: Even for a man of his age Alexander is surprisingly mobile, able to outmaneuver most opponents.
-Dungeon smarts: As a professional dungeoneer, Alexander is familiar with many tricks of the trade allowing him to spot out many things that a greener dungeoneer would not such as mimicks and hidden rooms.

Weaknesses:
-Old fashioned: The definition of an old dog, Alexander sticks to the tricks of the trade that he learned years ago, forgoing more modern teachings.
-Physically weak: Alexander's combat specialty involves dodging and avoiding rather than meeting threats head on, this means the man strongly lacks in physical strength.
- Retired: The man hasn't set foot into a dungeon in years, because of this he may be a bit rusty.

History: Alexander Flinté was born to a family of noteworthy dungeoneers, the Flinté family was known for being the best in their time which left few options for the future of him and his brother, Andrew. Together the two took quite well to the craft, and soon became competitive in their accomplishments. When they were old enough to attend the academy they were quickly accepted and joined a party together with two others, an elven arcane mage named Lyssa and a paladin of light named Elric. Together the group of them formed the perfect team, Elric took the front, guiding the party with his deities light, Andrew and Alexander took to disarming traps, mapping the dungeon and taking enemies down at ranged, while Lyssa kept the group safe from magical traps and used her versatile spells to aid the party.

They passed the academy with flying colors and went on to gain renown for their ventures, but with great adventures came great risks. Elric was the first to die, slain by a powerful golem at the end of one of their ventures, but the group was tough and they figured Elric would want them to soldier on. In the next few dungeons the party went into dispair, Elric was an important part of their team, and they couldn't deal with the gaping hole he left in his absence. Lyssa and Andrew fell during a rather nasty encounter with zombies in one of the later dungeons, Alex just barely managing to escape himself and retired from adventuring soon after. With nothing left to do, Alexander spends the rest of his life dedicated to teaching the younger generation in hopes of preventing his own mistakes.

 

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• Descriptive Information

• Personal Details
  Name: Martin P. Arvelis
  Title: Professor of mythical and mystical fauna units I and II, mythical and mystical flora all units.
  Race: Elf - Palisima
  Age: 51
  Gender: Male
  Major: Mythical and mystical flora all units.
  Relationships: N/a
  Other: Martin is one of the few professors who'll join students in dungeons. He attends mostly to collect samples of flora or fauna from the area before returning with the students. There have been cases where he goes off alone or with a small group of teachers to help him collect what he needs.
  
• Skills/Abilities
  Party role: Illusionist, Strategist.
  Magic type: Soul.
  Spells:
  
  • Enhanced ability - A common ability among soul mages, it increases the natural abilities of the caster tenfold but can leave the caster feel drained once cast. For Martin, this spell feeds into his natural perceptive senses allowing him and even more acute sense of hearing, sound, touch, sight and on rare occasions even smell.
  • Perceptive exploit - A spell dedicated to his knowledge of monsters and his constant self reflection over his own flaws. This spell brings summons ring like shapes atop the target's most vulnerable locations that fade after a few seconds. The spell isn't tiring to cast but grows duller in light intensity the more its used consecutively.
  • Projection - As with most illusionists, Martin is capable of projecting a magic image of not only himself, but those in his party. These projections can do no damage and will fade into nothingness once struck.
  • Nightmare fuel - A spell inciting fear and panic into his foes. Nightmare fuel plucks a beast from his own knowledge, his own imagination, or straight from his enemy's worst nightmare and makes it seem real. This beast won't harm anyone but is often terrorising enough to paralyse a foe dead in their tracks until it fades away.
  Weapons: Trusting in himself above all else, Martin's weapons are his own two glove bound hands. His gloves function as channelling conduits for his magic much like a wand, staff or tome would. He carries no weapons beyond those and supports his teammates bloodying their hands, but not himself.
  Armour: If fine clothes count as armour then he has it in abundance. He wears two to three layers of fine clothes at a time. Beyond cloth he has nothing. His resistance to swords, axes and spears are minimal at best but wearing piles of metal or leather armour has never been something that appeals to him.
  Training: 20 years of teaching under his belt, with only 7 years of sparring on and off. He stays to the back of his parties and coordinates the team rather than joining in the fray. If ever he's needed to fight a foe one on one his chances of winning are minimal, this extends to most students from a violent or military background.
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• Appearance Details
  Hair colour: Brown.
  Eye colour: Steel grey.
  Skin colour: White.
  Height: 6'1| 185 cm
  Weight: 132 lbs| 60 kg
  Other: Has a nasty scar over his right eye, marking the exact second he decided that learning self defence would be a good idea. He's thin framed and features almost no body hair what so ever.
  
• Character Details
  Personality: Arrogant, with a dash of elitism and a hint of tenderness. Martin lives by the book on just about everything he does. He likes order and routine and believes in a strict set of guidelines for society to function properly. He doesn't believe in deities and believes anyone who does is choosing to play a fool.
  He has a soft spot for small animals and babies. Despite his best efforts to act as though he doesn't, he has been known to play with babies while their parents aren't looking or offer after hour child sitting free of charge to allow the parents some time away. If ever he's asked about this however, he will deny such claims as being nothing more than rumours.
  Goals:
  
  • To teach the young minds around him about the world they live in, and those beyond it.
  • To be remembered throughout the ages.
  Likes:
  
  • Soul magic.
  • Plants of both Ascerius and the portal dimensions.
  • Animals of the smaller variety.
  • Small children.
  • Being acknowledged.
  • Honesty.
  Dislikes:
  
  • His weakened sense of taste.
  • Criminals.
  • Demonlikes.
  • Divine magics/Divine worshippers.
  • Heroes/'Selfless idiots'.
  • The lower class and their crass behaviour.
  
  Fears: Being ignored. Being forgotten. Being worthless.
  Strengths:
  
  • Acute senses - His senses are all finely tuned and with the assistance of magic, are beyond flawless. In his daily life there are few things that slip by him with the exception of the sense of taste. These senses, with the exception of taste, work together to provide him with an amazing set of perceptive traits.
  • Soul magic sensitive - As with all elves, he's sensitive to soul magics. This means that his ability to manipulate soul energy comes somewhat naturally and is easier to harness than any other magic.
  • Poison resistant - Most elves are immune to most poisons or possess high levels of resilience to them. Martin is no exception. This trait is used almost daily as he handles potentially poisonous flora in strange experiments and willingly digests lesser poisons in front of his classes to provide them with a real life example of what each poison does to a near immune creature.
  • Elvish endurance - Elves require little sleep and can run for hours. He's no exception. Martin, while weak, can run for hours if needed and he meditates more often than he sleeps. His meditation is mostly to pass the time but because of these constant rest periods he rarely ever feels the need to sleep at all.
  • Knowledgeable - His knowledge of monsters and plants can prove invaluable to dungeoneering teams. He has a deep understanding of most monster behaviours, physical weaknesses, and of course their diets. These combined pieces of knowledge make taking down a monster all that much more simpler.
  Weaknesses:
  
  • Elvish metabolism - While struggling to gain weight sounds like a blessing, it's actually a curse. Their metabolism is so high that if they don't eat frequent meals throughout the day they'll feel incredibly fatigued. The concept of days without food is foreign and avoiding food often leads to a coma-like state brought on from exhaustion and malnourishment.
  • Physically weak - Martin is physically weak. This means his fighting abilities can't rely on him taking damage or dealing it. He needs to be quick or at least observant to avoid putting himself in the fray. When all is done he won't be carrying any wounded, and likely struggles to carry his own pack.
  • Low pain tolerance - Not only is he weak, but his low pain tolerance means he's quick to cower behind others for protection or resort to tears from pain. Too much pain can cause him to pass out and even friendly bumps on the arm can make him rub the area in pain.
  • Rigid - "By the book" is an expression that would best suit him. Change isn't his strong point and his stubborn nature causes him to clash heads with most on many topics. He needs explanations in the classroom for everything, demands all his students demonstrate a thorough understanding of his teachings, and that hands must be raised to get his attention.
  • Arrogant - Because he is so knowledgeable about the world around him, he feels as if he's above it. His views of other races, magic types and social positions demonstrates this arrogance in its most obvious forms. He's not above learning new views of the world but his current one is so set in stone that the chances of him being swayed are incredibly unlikely.
  
  History: Galladre Pallaya Arvelis was Martin's original name. He was born in a coastal town near the sprawling farmlands known as the Palisades. His mother and father were of higher standing and because of this, he was blessed with a comfortable life and access to a private school known by the city's most elite. Shrewd business men and women sent their children there for a more focused education frugality, leading scientific minds sent their children there for access to all sorts of future fields, but the most common reason children were sent there was to network.
  
  Galladre never made friends easily, even when he was a small child, but he could understand the importance of strong social connections. As he grew the concepts of "They'll share sweets" evolved to "They'll share facilities where I can pursue my research." He studied botany out of preference with animals stealing the show in his final years of schooling. He became a fully qualified botanist and began his research but it didn't feel right to him. He wasn't happy just learning about plants and their impacts on animals, he wanted more. He wanted to get his hands on mystic plants from the other side of the portals. He wanted to see what they did to those animals. Sure he knew about it from books but that was nothing like being able to see it for himself.
  He spoke with some of his connections and found himself landing a job as a teacher's aid and lab assistant in a strange human settlement known as 'Lyzander's Academy for Advanced Exploration of Dangerous Unidentified Realms.' Off the bat he found the name to be a mouthful and wasn't fond of the disproportionate amounts of humans. He felt he stood out with a name such as Galladre and quickly changed it to one more human in nature. Galladre turned into Martin and Pallaya turned into Patrick. He could pursue his research in peace here and never have to risk his findings being undocumented.
  
  Martin was happy for a short two years before finding he didn't want to sit there as a lab assistant. He saw the professors educating other people, young minds that soaked up everything they said like the sponge lotus he'd been researching at the time. He turned to the professor he worked along side and began to ask questions, another year passed and he was allowed to take a lecturer's course onsite. It was almost too easy for him and he blitzed through with flying colours, all the while maintaining his research.
  He was fully qualified to hold lectures within six years and began teaching immediately. He felt fulfilled. He didn't care about his students in the slightest but he loved being able to teach them. What they did with this information didn't phase him in the slightest but making sure they knew it seemed to fill him with a greater sense of purpose than anything else had so far.
  
  He got into a scraps here and there with the more violent tempered students, especially demonlikes. After a specific incident where he pursued a demonlike down the halls shouting, "Your kind shouldn't even be allowed to walk these halls let alone sit in my room and ignore me!" And more insulting taunts like, "Your nothing but a living mistake!" and "If your parents had any kindness in their hearts, you'd have been put down at birth!" She snapped at him and the two began yelling, growing closer. Before he could react she wrapped her hand around his throat and pushed him against the wall. He struggled to break free, going for his pocketknife but found her to be less forgiving of this. She tore the knife from his hand, screamed in his face, and attempted to cut his eye out of his head before being restrained by a passer by.
  The demon was expelled and turned to authorities where what happened to her, no one knows for sure. Martin enrolled himself in the school's combat skills subject for self defence purposes and while he's graduated from the class already, he doesn't feel he's deserving of it at all.