Thorn

[Thorn]

Thorn - The Nectrotic Doctor Appearance Gender: Prefers male-based vessels Race: Nuit (Everwalking) Age: 200 Vessel's Age: Roughly 18 Birthday: Season of Spring, 24th day, 313 AV Appearance: Though Thorn has no memory of how his face once used to look, he does have a stigma of picking vessels that he feels are more physically attractive and athletically fit so as to get the most usage from the meat suit. His current body happens to be a more androgynous specimen, leaning towards the male spectrum but with high cheekbones and a delicate curve of the jaw. The body is already showing signs of decay, so he will be needing a new one within the next year. Despite the more "pretty" look of the vessels he chooses, the one thing that remains through all his forms is the twisted, almost methodical and mechanical, look in his eyes. Current Vessel : Character Concept: Thorn is a well-meaning individual, despite the many things that he's done that some might construe as "evil". But the truth is that he needs others to die in order for him to live, so as the animal must hunt its prey, so he must sometimes hunt others for his own preservation. There is no ill-will that he harbors towards his former race - in fact, quite the opposite: he yearns to help as much as possible before his time on the world is over, to aid them through his own research and goals. However, his intentions pure and untainted, there are times when Thorn must do unspeakable and wretched deeds in order to survive, things that mothers tell to their children that some would say strengthens and reinforces the hatred that the living have towards his kind. Character History : The 200 years of life that Thorn has lived has made the memory of his previous life fuzzy and more of a dream that he half remembers, but the thing that will stay with him until the mountains turn to dust is his first death. He remembers being a healer, traveling on a pilgrimage of helping those with the medical skills that he understood and the low power of healing from a god. He was even earning a good bit of coin in a few towns from those who insisted on paying, when he came upon a badly beaten and bleeding woman on the outskirts of a town he forgets the name of. Rushing to the female's side, he pulled off his pack and retrieved some medical supplies, searching for a pulse and hoping he wasn't too late. That was when he realized his mistake when he saw the fluid leaking out of the woman wasn't in fact blood, but white ichor. Looking to her face, the mans' own drained of blood as he met the empty eyes of the Nuit, feeling a sharp and sudden pain of her blade piercing his heart. The rest of the memory is blurred as he vaguely remembers falling on his back, clutching the knife, and the feeling of the cold woman slowly climbing onto him, the faint sense of feeling fingers drawing strange patterns on his body, and then giving him the last kiss he would ever know as the living. Thorn still isn't sure what it was that allowed him to keep his own consciousness, seeing as the woman's own did not inhabit his body. Perhaps it was the fact that she had already lost so much of her own ichor that the transfer did not take, or perhaps she only wanted to carry on her line and make a "child"; whatever the case may be, it is not something that Thorn dwells on, but an event that is no more of a concern as one would wonder how a baby would come into existence: a miracle, to be sure, but just an odd fact of life that you get tired of thinking on after a while. Though his life was ended tragically because of Thorn's desire to aid and help humans through their suffering, it did not stop with his death; on the contrary, he became obsessed with it. Human life was fragile, and - from his new perspective - fleeting. So, the idea burrowing its way into his first body's decaying brain, he then resolved to discover a way to extend a mortal's life long past its natural time. This concept to help and even aid the living is a thought that is not pervasive throughout the Nuit - in fact, it is so against his nature of his kind, that he is mostly ostracized by his already-seclusive race. Honestly this does not bother him, as he prefers the company of the living anyway, if they will tolerate his decrepit and decaying appearance. But all his professing of trying to help the living aside, there is a dark side to this undead. In the 200 years that he has been alive, he has needed new bodies, and not all of them have been dead when he got his hands on them. There have been times when he has needed to leave in the dead of night with a struggling figure thrown over his shoulder, never to be heard from again. In fact, his true name is so infamous that he almost always uses a pseudonym, unless in the presence of his own kind, in which his talents of being able to stitch up a cadaver fairly quickly are not unknown. Aside from his fascination with the anatomy of the living, Thorn also has been known to conduct "experiments" in the attempt to better and improve upon the gods flawed and temporal design of Man. Experiments that, were he able to dream, would surely haunt them any time he closed his eyes. Thorn's ego tends to come through near the end of his vessel's life, when he gets the idea in his mind that he must design himself the perfect body, as all his others have never failed to rot away with time. It's at these times when Thorn's life is the most dark. There have been times when he's felt that perhaps he has drawn the ire of one or more of the deities for his tampering with the natural way of things through his science, but there are none he holds much respect for - that is, none other than Rak'keli, who he holds great reverence for and knows that it is only through her help that he will one day accomplish his greatest desire: the prolongation of Man's health and life to rival that of a god's. Languages Fluent Language: Common Good Language: Arumenic Poor Language: Zithanese Gnosis Deity Gnosis Progression Rak'keli Healing Marked   Skills Skill EXP Total Proficiency Embalming 10 RB 10 Novice Medicine 30 SP 30 Competent Stealth 5 SP 5 Novice Herbalism 5 SP 5 Novice Stitching/Sewing 5 SP 5 Novice Philtering 5 SP 5 Novice   Lores Lore of Human Anatomy Lore of Anisthetic Herbs   Clothing Plague Mask 1 Set of Clothing SP Simple Shirt SP Simple Pants SP Simple Undergarments SP Simple Cloak SP Leather Boots SP Wax Coated Coat Wide-Brimmed Hat Leather Gloves Undertunic (Comes up over back of head) Leather Belt Medical Outfit :   Equipment and Possessions Waterskin SP Backpack SP Bottle of Embalming Fluid SP Set of Toiletries (Brush, Comb, Razor, Soap) SP Flint and Steel SP Tourniquet Pair of Eyes in Jar of Embalming Fluid Torches(5) Surgeon's Toolkit Healer's Kit (Heirloom) Donkey/Mule Bit and Bridle Cart and Harness Tent and Bedroll Bullseye Lantern Silk Rope (50ft.)   Housing (Cashed in.)   Ledger Transaction Cost Total SP +100 GM 100 GM Cashed in Shelter +500 GM 600 GM Surgeon's Toolkit -200 GM 400 GM Donkey/Mule -8 GM 392 GM Wide-Brimmed Hat -8 GM 384 GM Cart and Harness -17 GM 367 GM Bullseye Lantern -12 GM 355 GM Silk Rope (50ft.) -10 GM 345 GM Tent, One Person -2 GM 343 GM Wax-Coated Coat -50 SM 342 GM,50 SM Leather Belt -2 SM 342 GM,48 SM Leather Undertunic -10 SM 342 GM,38 SM Leather Gloves -10 SM 342 GM,28 SM Plague Mask -10 SM 342 GM,18 SM Torches (5) -10 SM 342 GM,8 SM Bit and Bridle -2 GM 340 GM,6 SM Bedroll -1 SM 340 GM,5 SM Thread List