Anselm

by **Anselm** on February 9th, 2012, 4:21 am

Anselm
Being dead ain't so bad
It's being alive that's hard

Basic Information

Race: Nuit
Birthday & Age : Animated 23 Spring 117 AV.
Gender: Male

Character Concept

Seeker of answers to mysteries.
Anselm had been undead for almost 400 years. Much of his life was spent as a wandering mystic and philosopher. He has recently turned his attention to the more arcane arts, especially fortune-telling and personal magic. He has also recently become obsessed with collecting rare, beautiful and unusual objects and travels around Mizahar in search of them. He is not particular about how he obtains them, just so he obtains them.
Anselm prefers to maintain a low profile and avoids conflict whenever possible. He presents himself as a travelling fortune teller.

Languages

Common: Fluent
Shiber: Basic
Vani: Poor

Physical Description

20 Summer 510 to Present

Human male in his sixties. Five feet, six inches tall, 140 pounds. Deep, raspy voice. Long stringy white hair. Gray eyes with dark shadows, deeply wrinkled face and hands. Wears a long black cloak with a black hood that hides most of his face in shadow. Nearly always wears thin black cotton gloves. Limps with left leg, uses a cane with his right hand. Sometimes repeatedly taps his cane on the floor. Sometimes raises his right hand as if dismissing you from his presence. Sometimes appears to have lost interest in the conversation and looks away or might even get up and walk away without explanation.

12 Winter 509 to 20 Summer 510

Svefra male in his mid-twenties. Six feet tall. 180 pounds. A nose that looks like it has been broken more than once. Splotchy, scab-covered face. Dull bluish lifeless eyes with dark shadows under them that look like a pair of black eyes. Simple white shirt, light blue pants, rust-colored leather shoes, light-weight leather gloves, large broad-brimmed straw hat. His voice is pitched a bit toward tenor with a ragged, asthmatic sound to it.

42 Fall 403

35 year old Isurian sailor.

Character Description

Conscious motivation:
- To find and solve mysteries that intrigue him.
- To surround himself with rare and beautiful things.
Unconscious motivation: To be accepted as he is by the people around him.
An extremely internal person. Sometimes gets lost in his own thoughts and in the past.
Dour. Somber and tight-lipped. Rarely smiles or laughs.
Indifferent about life in general but looks at people as puzzles or mysteries to be solved.
Is extremely curious about anything he doesn't understand or can't explain.

Skills :

Lore :

Lore of Advanced Meditation Technique: Mantric Meditation

Lore of Advanced Meditation Technique: Rhythmic Drops of Water

Lore of Amulet of Seduction

Lore of Amulet Stealing Task: Promise to Rendez-vous

Lore of An Ancient Dagger

Lore of Arm Yourselves!

Lore of Aura of an Ethaefal

Lore of Aura of an Object

Lore of Aura of The Bay Monster

Lore of Auristics: Excessive Djed

Lore of Auristics: Emotional “Pulse”

Lore of Avari the Konti

Lore of Avari's Thieving Skill

Lore of Avari: Tasking her to Steal the Amulet

Lore of Basic Djed Control

Lore of Basic Investigative Skills

Lore of The Body is Fragile

Lore of Casting Bones

Lore of Chaos and It's Civil Dangers

Lore of Challenging Perceptions

Lore of Chaos to Teamwork

Lore of A Charoda's Untimely Death

Lore of Clarity of Thought

Lore of Commune With The Obelisk

Lore of Contents of the Box

Lore of Contracting With A Thief

Lore of Cry of the Glassbeak

Lore of The Dangers of Overgiving: Hallucination

Lore of A Dark Rendezvous

Lore of Defeating The Leviathan

Lore of Djed Storm's Child of The Bay

Lore of Dressing For the Occasion

Lore of The Drunk Symenestra

Lore of Elem Bree: Doctor

Lore of End Me!

Lore of Eridanus: The Ethaefal

Lore of Ethical

Lore of Event: The White Obelisk Act II of Darkling Tides

Lore of The Feeling of Death

Lore of Forgotten Emotions

Lore of Fighting Wolves

Lore of Fortune Telling Trade

Lore of Humans: Innate Fear of The Unknown

Lore of Hypnotizing the Guards

Lore of Ignotus the Nuit

Lore of Ignotus' Secret Business Venture

Lore of Instilling Fear with Hypnotism

Lore of An Intellectual Retort

Lore of Ira the Secretive

Lore of Ira's Strange Box

Lore of Kaeson Dakano: Animator

Lore of Kesley Poole: Chauvinistic

Lore of Kelsey Poole: Tendencies at Sea

Lore of Kesley Poole: Quick to Anger

Lore of Kesley Poole: University Aligned Sailor

Lore of Knowing Better

Lore of Lord of Council: Maria Satterthwite

Lore of Lucas: Impetuous Youth

Lore of The Lucky Child

Lore of Making Deductions

Lore of Marathon Man

Lore of Master Ahn the Meditation Master

Lore of Master Ahn the Wise

Lore of Marin: Father's Bow

Lore of Matthaus the Irritating child

Lore of Matthaus' Oracle: The Cauldron

Lore of Meditating With Open Eyes

Lore of Meditation Mantra: KONE AHN KANE AHN

Lore of Meditation Mantra: Why Money?

Lore of Meditation: Unlocks Reality

Lore of Monsters From the Deep

Lore of Montaine: Plans

Lore of The Mysterious Cloaked Women

Lore of Nai'shee: A Thief

Lore of Nai'shee: Improviser

Lore of Nai'shee: Propositioning

Lore of Nai'shee: Where to Find Her

Lore of Ndale Soromund (acquaintance)

Lore of Ndale Soromund: Helping Ndale Soromund

Lore of The Nightshade Clue

Lore of Secret: Zeltivan Nightshade

Lore of Nobody Will Mourn

Lore of Nuit: Appearance

Lore of Oracle of Heaven

Lore of Oracle of Observing

Lore of Oracle of Warding

Lore of Oracles: Passing On Wisdom

Lore of A Petal's Form

Lore of Prepared Infiltration

Lore of Purpose of Breathing Techniques in Meditation

Lore of Raleaph: Story-Teller

Lore of Raleaph: Treasure Hunter

Lore of Reading Emotions

Lore of Reading Kelvics

Lore of Reading Palms

Lord of Rounding Up the Mages

Lore of Rule of War: Know Your Enemy

Lore of Satevis the Ethaefal (Son of Leth)

Lore of Satevis' Language: Shiber

Lore of Seeing Things As They Really Are

Lore of Self-Acceptance Over Others' Acceptance

Lore of Showing Your Face

Lore of Solving a Mechanical Mystery

Lore of Stoic In Danger

Lore of Story: Tragic Fate of The Shark and The Charoda

Lore of Tasler: Falcon Kelvic

Lore of Teamwork: Agent of Information

Lore of The Temptation To Help

Lore of Tock's Tears

Lore of Tock: A Gift

Lore of Tock: Gadgeteer

Lore of Truth Saying

Lore of Unknown Emotions

Lore of White Obelisk: Lowers Water In The Bay

Lore of Wise Adviser

Lore of Witnessing Political Suicide

Lore of Worse Things Than Death

Lore of Wrenmae: Storyteller

Lore of Yvera: Orphan

Lore of Zastoska Mountains: Master Ahn's Dojo

Lore of Zeltiva: Infirmary

Lore of Zeltiva: The Zeltivan Glassworks

Lore of Zeltiva: Wright Memorial Library

Lore of Zeltiva: World's End Grotto

Lore of Zerren: the Kelvic

Lore of Zerren: Unsure of his own identity

Lore of Zerren: the Once-Bonded

Lore of Zerren: Zerren's uncertainty on his loss

by **Anselm** on February 9th, 2012, 4:47 am

Anselm's Possessions

Possessions :

Collection :

by **Anselm** on February 10th, 2012, 3:19 am

Anselm's Ledger

		Starting fund	+100gm	100gm
61 Winter 511	Zeltiva	Purchase	-13 gm 3 sm	86 gm 7 sm
01 Spring 512	Zeltiva	Winter Income	+60 gm	148 gm 7 sm
01 Spring 512	Zeltiva	Winter Expenses	-45 gm	108 gm 7sm
01 Spring 512	Zeltiva	Misc stuff for thread	-1 gm 9 sm	106 gm 2 sm
59 Spring 512	Zeltiva	Purchase	-20 gm	86 gm 2sm
1 Summer 512	Zeltiva	Spring Expenses	-45 gm	41 gm 2sm
2 Summer 512	Zeltiva	Spring Income	+182gm	223gm 2sm
37 Summer 512	Zeltiva	Copies of glass dolphins	-10gm	213gm 2sm
37 Summer 512	Zeltiva	New clothes, etc.	-74gm	139gm 2sm
15 Spring 512	Zeltiva	Quest Reward	+50gm	189gm 2sm
36 Summer 512	Zeltiva	Quest Expense	-6gm	183gm 2sm
81 Summer 512	Zeltiva	Fortune-telling	+1gm	184gm 2sm
01 Fall 512		Summer Income	+273gm (+4 Fort. Telling)	457gm 2sm
01 Fall 512		Summer Expenses	-45 gm	412gm 2 sm

Zeltiva Status Points

38

by **Anselm** on February 10th, 2012, 3:20 am

Anselm's Thread List

Flashbacks :

Winter 511 AV :

Spring 512 AV :

Summer 512 A.V.

Time	Location	Story	Status
01	Zeltiva	Anselm the Fortune Teller (Closed)	Completed
04	Zeltiva	An Unplanned Series of Events (w/Nai'shee)	Stealth+2 Disguise+1 Auristics+1 Hypnotism+1 Projection+1
08	Zeltiva	Ignotus' Fortune	Fortune-telling+2 Interrogation+1 Philosophy+1
15	Zeltiva	Ira's Fortune	Auristics+1 Rhetoric+1
30	Zeltiva	Avari's Fortune	Fortune-Telling+2 Observation+1 Persuasion+1
36	Zeltiva	A Dark Rendezvous (Quest)	Auristics+2 Intimidation+1 Hypnotism+1 Investigation+1 Interrogation+1
37	Zeltiva	Seeing Triple (w/Montaine)	Completed
38	Zeltiva	Nightshade (Quest)	Subterfuge+1 Stealth+1 Projection+2
60	Zeltiva	Lucas' Fortune	Observation+1 Fortune-Telling+2 Auristics+1 Teaching+2 Writing+1 Investigation+1 Rhetoric+1
72	Zeltiva	Dead Like Me (w/Noaru)	In Progress
81	Zeltiva	Eridanus' Fortune (Eridanus, Nira'lia)	Philosophy+1 Fortune-Telling+2 Auristics+1 Negotiation+1 Observation+1
82	Zeltiva	Negotiating the Future (w/Tock)	Fortune-telling+1 Interrogation+1 Philosophy+1

Fall 512 A.V.

Time	Location	Story	Status
01	Zeltiva	Anselm the Fortune Teller (Open)	Started 9/3
01	Zeltiva	Savaria's Fortune	Abandoned
02	Zeltiva	Gale's Fortune	FortuneTelling+1
03 & 06	Zeltiva	Tock's Inquiry (w/Tock)	Submitted 9/23
06	Zeltiva	Anselm's Advice (w/Ignotus)	Teaching+1
07	Zeltiva	Matthaus' Fortune (w/Matthaus)	Observation+1 Fortune-telling+1 Philosophy+1

by **Anselm** on February 24th, 2012, 11:39 pm

Anselm's House

Were you to follow Anselm home some evening, you would discover that he lives in a small house on the outskirts of Zeltiva. At first sight, it would appear that the house is in some disrepair. This is because it is. Grass and weeds threaten to take over the short path leading to the only door. The roof is smothered with wet leaves that have obviously been there for a while. One of the two windows on either side of the door has been boarded up. Clearly the owner of this domicile is not particularly concerned about keeping up appearances.

Were you to walk around back, you would notice a third window and an outhouse that does not appear to have been used for a long time. Continuing on around, you would discover some firewood neatly stacked against the side of the building.

Were Anselm to invite you into his home, which is highly unlikely, you would see immediately that it is a small house indeed: a single room with a fireplace, a narrow bed, a medium-sized chest in one corner, a small wooden table and a chair that looks like it is about to collapse under its own weight. The chest is secured by an intelligent iron padlock that shakes violently if anyone tries to open it without the proper password. Inside the chest you would find Anselm's collection of rare, beautiful and unusual objects. The floor is mostly covered by a tan rug with blue swirls.

From all this evidence, you might be tempted to think that Nuits – or at least this Nuit - have relatively modest needs. And you would be right.

by **Anselm** on March 2nd, 2012, 3:06 am

Anselm's Goals for Summer 512

Character Development

Collect three rare, beautiful or unusual objects
Do several solo flashbacks showing Anselm at a younger, less mature age
Do several solo flashbacks showing Anselm visiting various cities and encountering various races
Discover a criminal organization in Zeltiva
Start a detective business
Acquire a detective partner

Skill Development

~~Fortune Telling to 40 (+7)~~
~~Auristics to 33 (+6)~~
~~Observation to 22 (+6)~~
Investigation to 18 (+7)
~~Meditation to 20 (+9)~~
~~Interrogation to 5 (+4)~~
Hypnotism to 26 (+12)
~~Philosophy to 8 (+4)~~
Disguise to 4 (+4)

Other

Seasonal income 270
Put Anselm's collection on display around his cottage

by **Anselm** on March 6th, 2012, 3:01 pm

Story Ideas for Spring 512

In which Anselm solves a mystery that requires intelligence, observation and investigation.
In which Anselm discovers the existence of a conspiracy to sell newly discovered ancient artifacts on the black market.
In which Anselm discusses philosophy with The Master [Flashback].
In which Anselm receives hypnotism training from someone (Raleaph?).
In which Anselm receives meditation training from someone.
In which Anselm gains Serra Danelle's indebtedness (so that he can use her as a source of information in the future).
~~In which Anselm establishes contact with a thief (so that he can make use of his/her talents in the future)~~.

I would be happy to engage with anyone in a thread revolving around any of the above ideas.

by **Anselm** on March 11th, 2012, 3:03 pm

Anselm's Acquaintances

Adarra	20 Summer 510
Aello	15 Spring 512
Anikah	31 Spring 512
Avaltri	71 Spring 512
Avari	30 Summer 512
	36 Summer 512
Canrehna	15 Spring 512
Elem Bree	10 Spring 512
Eskin	65 Winter 511
Faylon Kwanda	15 Spring 512
Fiera	20 Summer 510
	13 Spring 512
Idue	15 Spring 512
Ignotus	8 Summer 512
Ira	15 Summer 512
Kaeson Dakano	59 Spring 512
Leigo	13 Spring 512
	15 Spring 512
	33 Spring 512
Liora	20 Summer 510
Lucas	60 Summer 512	Alias Poison
Lyam	15 Spring 512
Marin	90 Spring 512
Montaine	82 Spring 512
	86 Spring 512
Nai'shee	15 Spring 512	Serbia, 14 yrs old
	94 Spring 512
	04 Summer 512
Ndale Soromund	61 Winter 511
	10 Spring 512
	71 Spring 512
Nira'Lia	20 Spring 512
Rayage	85 Spring 512
Satevis	20 Spring 512
Siarak	13 Spring 512
Sylkra	34 Spring 512
Tallis	13 Spring 512
Tasler	01 Spring 512
	10 Spring 512
Tock	54 Spring 512
	85 Spring 512
Wrenmae	88 Spring 512
Yvera	84 Spring 512
Zerren	91 Spring 512

by **Anselm** on May 20th, 2012, 11:28 pm

Master Ahn
156-261 AV

Master Ahn is a philosopher. He has devoted most of his life to exploring the fundamental questions of reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language. He looks very old, although no one seems to know how old he actually is. He is of medium height for a human, overweight and bald except for a fringe of white hair that runs from his temples down to a full, white beard. Laugh lines surround his eyes and form wrinkles across his forehead. This is a man who laughs easily and often.

No one knows where he came from, but at some point he withdrew from civilization and retreated to a cave deep in the Zastoska Mountains. A few of his disciples followed him into the mountains and built a zendo, or meditation hall, which has come to be known as Ahn's Mountain. He freely teaches all who come to him, although few do owing to the fact that the zendo is nearly inaccessible even to the very few people who know where it is.

Philosophy 80
Meditation 60
Play Musical Instrument: Oud 40
Auristics 55
Teaching 80

Master Ahn's Dojo

Located in the Zastoska Mountains is the zendo, or meditation hall, of a reclusive philosopher known as Master Ahn. It was built by a handful disciples who accompanied Master Ahn when he withdrew from civilization and retreated into the mountains to meditate. It is usually referred to as Ahn's Mountain even though it is not actually on a mountain.

Few come to this place because few know of its existence, let alone its location, and even those who do know where it is find it nearly inaccessible. But those who find their way to this hidden retreat are welcomed by Master Ahn, who freely teaches all who come to him.

by **Anselm** on June 16th, 2012, 10:56 pm

Anselm's Consequences

CONSEQUENCE	TIME SPAN
Forced Overgiving - distant and detached for a full season, with random flashed of the charoda and shark, and their fate, before finally your mind will recover.	Spring 13 - Summer 13, 512
Shark Tooth "Can sense the monster's essence with Auristics, if ever all the teeth are returned to the sea the soul will be completely returned to the cycle."