Description
Status
Longterm Plots: Open, but keep in mind he will be leaving Oakfern for Windbourne/a sea faring life in approx. 8 real life months
Roleplays: Open
Breedings: Closed unless its a plot related thing
Sparring: Open
Training: Open, especially if its water magic related
General Information
Name: Ruadh
Nickname/moniker: Redbeard (when he leaves Oakfern this will become the name he's known as)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Pansexual
Age: 13 Years
Year of Birth: Y756 of the New Age
Height: 9 Hands High
Build: Heavy
Phenotype: Flaxen Strawberry Roan Partially Restricted Fawn
Genotype: ee/A+a/ff/nRn/fwfws/nrz
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Design Sheet: cactus-sis.deviantart.com/art/…
Sire: Unknown - NPC - Unknown
Dam: Aoibhe - NPC - Alive
Bloodline: 100% Oakfern
Magic Type: Water
Skill Points
Skill Points
Speed: 3 [Basic Level] (Build Cap: 5 points max)
Stamina: 5 [Basic Level]
Strength: 9 [Basic Level]
Magic: 25 [Advanced Level]
Herbs: 1 [Basic Level]
Crafting: 20
Experience: 0
Breakdown
+4 stamina - base bonus
+8 strength - base bonus
+3 speed - starter bonus
+1 stamina - starter bonus
+1 strength - starter bonus
+5 magic - starter bonus
+1 herbs - starter bonus
+10 stat boost token Magic
+10 Crafting: Skill Bonus #037
+10 Magic: Token #1272
+10 Crafting: Token #1273
Magic Can Dos:
Directing small amounts of water - eg, altering the flow of a shallow stream around your feet
Basic control of water tension - eg, lake ripples, miniature images out of puddles
Affinity for swimming
Rain-repellent
Directing medium amounts of water - eg, redirecting a stream completely, making a wave in a still lake
Medium control of still water tension - eg, make a to-scale water replica of themselves/others/things, stand on a lake’s surface
Detect nearby water - eg, nearby lakes, other animals by sensing their body’s water
Boil/freeze medium amounts of water - eg, boil/freeze a cubic metre of water
Swim underwater with ease
Direct raindrops within a metre
Directing large amounts of water - eg, making waves large enough to carry you
Advanced control of water tension - eg, making a large water replica of themselves/others/things, stand on streams/sea no deeper than a few metres, allow others to stand on still water
Levitate medium amounts of water - ie, not touching any water/surface already obeying gravity
Boil/freeze large amounts of water - eg, boil/freeze five cubic metres of water, crafting ice sculptures
Control minor amounts of water inside another creature - eg, cause nosebleeds/disturb other easily-upset surface capillaries
Herd Information
Herd: Oakfern
Herd Position: Herdmember
Mate(s): n/a
Current Location: The Rabbit Hole
Details
Personality: (include strengths, weaknesses, relationships, etc)
Focused
"I can't stop now."
Once he has set his mind on and planned out something, it's near impossible to shake Ruadh from it; if he seems driven off, he's just taking his time.
Observant
"There's been more then one jaguar through here; a younger one padding in it's mother's footsteps, I think."
If he was more sociable, or planned to stay at all, he'd lend to be a decent guard; he often catches small details, in the low to no light of the caverns and warren like tunnels of Oakfern, or near the mouths of tunnels or caves at night.
Agnostic
If Gealach is so cruel a god, Ruadh figures the Oathbreaker's gods are likely to be as unpleasant, or at least useless. He does not voice this, but he is at least a sceptic to any god, and at most fervently hates them (Gealach), if they even exist at all.
Rash
"If you don't learn to give way to sense, you'll end up losing some important chunk sooner or later, Boy." -Aoibhe
If a predator is spotted in the caves, Raudh's first urge is to charge and try to drive off the beast by himself, not to call guards or the like. In his youngest years, he was also swift to try and fight other young fawns at the slightest disagreement; his avoidance of others mostly curbs this one now, but his nature still remains.
Antisocial
"There's no point to that."
Ruadh is likely to try to avoid you should you try to pursue him for conversation, or try to do anything indicative of a friendship, or forbid, something more. He has been avoiding much interaction with others for so long, he is not quite sure how to do otherwise, either. Persistence is required with this one.
Relationships:
Hate Dislike
Unsure..
Acquaintance
Respect
Trust
Close Friend
Friend
Crush
Unsure/Mixed Feelings
Romantic Love
Love
Family
Deceased
Aoibhe - "Strained", to put it gently. He avoids the domineering, sharp doe, though he retains the same swearing habit she has. As to her opinion of him, he is disappointing.
Appearance:
Compact, and well muscled, Ruadh is unusually heavy build for a Oakfern. His flanks bear heavy scarring on one side, and more scattered scars pepper his body elsewhere, a result of charging predators, and scuffles. A scraggly, groomed beard hangs under his chin and lines his jaw; perhaps the most recognizable feature of the buck in dim lighting. There is some feathering just above his hooves, and his antlers, curved back low over his head, are sharp despite this. Often there is a rat resting in his antlers or on his back.
Oakfern Paint Reference: fav.me/daoqdgf
History:
Born to a medium built doe, Aoibhe. His mother was not publically mated to any stag in the herd, and all of the stags heavier built like the stocky buck she'd born, where monogamously mated in the herd. Disliking and suspicious murmurs of the doe and her fawn drifted about the herd; no stag had claimed the boy, and Aoibhe made no claim of who Ruadh's sire was. Just as well, the fawn seemed to have no talent or grasping of magic, while his peers easily boosted of little feats they'd managed - hard as he might try, in his youth the magic would not come.
In mimicry of their parents, it wasn't long before young Ruadh was taunted and teased by other fawns his age; echoing what their parents muttered, implying that the stag that had sired Ruadh was of those other herds. After all, Ruadh was thickly built for a oakfern fawn, and all the stags in the herd of a similar build were sworn to specific does - and not a trickle of magic to be seen. Ruadh rejected this, scuffling with other buck fawns over the matter fiercely; but when he went back to his mother, he pressed her for information.
Aoibhe sharply rejected the notion that Ruadh's sire was anything but Oakfern;
"If you'd been the siring of some Oathbreaker, I'd have had them give you to Gealach on the Full Moon, boy. Do not question your mother."
The next time the Full Moon sacrifices occurred, Ruadh paid attention; and felt a twist in his gut. His mother would have so easily given him to die, her own get, if his sire had been an Oathbreaker...
Ruadh begged his mother that they not go to the next, - he could not help to imagine himself in place of those fawns now- only to be scolded; "You would shame ME, shame US before Gealach?"
He made no more protests to his mother, but as he grew, Ruadh found himself more and more tangled in internal questions, and doubt; If Gealach was a just god, would he not wish them to punish the adult Oathbreakers, and not the unknowing fawns they bore? Were oathbreaker fawns born so impure they could not be led into the way of Gealach if they were stolen young? He spoke none of this to others; he knew better; but in his mind, Gealach could not be a kind creature to worship- he was a god that asked too much.
Ruadh does his best to remain seeming unremarkable, and too ornery to bother pursuing in friendship as much as he can. For the moment, he manages and tends to rats- both for his own companionship, and as not to appear totally useless. He attends every event, every Full Moon's sacrifice as he should; but the stag has plans that none know of. Once he is ready, he plans to leave Oakfern, and Gealach behind.
Timeline:
Y656 - Born. Has an interesting childhood and later cutes most contact with his dam in the following years.
Y766 -
Summer:
He is making plans and preparing himself to be ready to leave Oakfern behind, in the future. It is clear has barely a place here, and something is calling to him. He longs to shed the name his mother gave him permanently.
Misc Art:
Ruadh - Fawnling Gift by SilveringOak