Jonas Mathews

[Jonas]

Jonas Mathews

Race:Human
Birth Date & Age: 3 days before Mid Winter, 486 A.V.
Gender:Male

Physical Description
Being human and 5'8 in Mizahar isn't all that uncommon. Like much of the commoner populace Jonas can not afford to be gluttonous. Just because he lacked the funds to eat hearty every meal he is still able to scrape up enough to stay in the positive side of healthy at 160lbs. Jonas wouldn't be called anything better then ordinary with his medium length dark brown hair and the thin outline of facial hair always visible. With his torso being adequately muscled and toned for a man used to working with his hands along with the murky brown of his eyes , his features would be considered average. One of the only other defining feature he possesses outside the ritualistic scars on his hands, would be the thin line of a scar stretching from the bottom of his right eye lid to jaw line.

Character Concept
Jonas would on a normal day be considered relaxed in a general kind of way. Not quick to anger nor prone to fits of depression. Over all possessing a cheery and quick to laugh disposition, those who had been a part of his life growing up often had joked about him being perfectly suited for a monk. However upon the use of his Djed in anything but small ammounts his very personality seem to change, his nature becoming cold and what some might call sadistic, very much like what a swordsman would become when blood drunk. Being the son of a herbalist Jonas never felt the want or need to worship Caiyha like his parents and siblings. Before his use Reimancy he felt a pull to the god Sagallius. The ritual and his new ability to use Reimancy only strengthened his loyalty to Sagallius though he chooses not to admit openly just who he prays to. While Jonas isn't one to sit iddly by and allow someone defenseless to become pray to something stronger then them, or for that matter why asked for help by someone in a dire position in general, he is a firm believer in people taking care of their own problems and unless paid for it won't go out of his way to be generous desite his seemingly cheerful nature. Jonas has an unquenching lust for knowledge of the arcane, even more so for knowledge of Reimancy.

Character History
Jonas could have had a bad life. He could have been beaten, he could have even lost his family. However, that doesn't happen to be the case. He was born into a commoner family yes but outside the usual beatings that you would get for doing something unruly he wasn't mistreated. Living on the southern outskirts of Avanthal wasn't what one would call an easy life but being one of the children of a doctor did have its benefits. At an early age his father began to teach him and his brothers (2 older brothers) how to mend minor injuries and which plants were toxic and which could help speed the healing process. Life seemed peaceful and relatively uneventful in his childhood years. It was a day in his early teens however that would change his outlook on the world. He had been in the middle of assorting various herbs and balms when he heard a horse skid to a hault out side their home. Jonas, not thinking anything of it continued about his work as his father went to see who had come to visit. It wasn't long after that his father was yelling for his boys to help him get the man to a bed. Upon seeing the man's face and torso Jonas cringed, it was riddled with open wounds, the blood seeping from them told Jonas that they were fresh yet his clothing showed no holes.

After hours of stitching the wounds his father had went to bed, leaving Jonas to watch the strange man while he laid resting. Thats when the man woke. He didn't seem to be all that suprised at his surroundings, however what did startle Jonas was the man's thin smile as his eyes settled on him, soon after his eyes clouded over and his lids closed. In the weeks after, his father had given him the job of watching after the man and caring for him as he recovered while he and his brothers went about their daily tasks. As the man recovered he began to speak to Jonas more and more often. Telling Jonas what had caused the wounds, how it was a side affect of his over use of Reimancy. Upon Jonas's seemingly unquenchable want to learn about Reimancy, he spun tales of various practitioners of Reimancy and their exploits, over the weeks he even went so far as to tell Jonas the legend of Sagallius Hrinn and how through his power and guile had ascended to godhood. When the man had fully recovered and finally decided it was time for him to leave, Jonas had decided to go with him. While he was greatful for his father teaching him on how to care for wounds and the like, the man had sparked a want to learn Reimancy. His father didn't particularly fond of the fact that his youngest son was leaving before his other children but on the day Jonas left he wished him a safe journey.

Nearly a year later he was kneeling before his teacher as he went through the initiation to become a Reimancer. He had been warned it was going to be painful but he had had no idea it would be this bad. Whether it was due to his own boyish pride or the fact the pain had disrupted all of his body functions he did not yell from pain. For what seemed like an eternity the pain went on and though he nearly pass out as it faded he looked back on that day later in his life and acknowledges it was possibly the best thing to ever happen to him. As he learned to use his Res to a better degree he began to want to use more and more of it as a time, far more then his master had told him that he should. One night in his early twenties, only days before his master was to release him from his apprenticeship he began to draw on his Res and didn't stop, drawing more and more. It wasn't until a few minutes later as the side of his face burst into a wound, blood spraying from it that he realised he had made a mistake. As he passed out from the pain and from the exaustion the comical thought of what his master would do when he found out what Jonas had done passed through his mind. As it turned out his master hadn't been far off and when Jonas came around explained that he had expected something like this to happen. Things like this were enevitable since there was always a limit to how much Res someone could use. Thats when Jonas decided that he was going to find a way to draw out as much Res as he wanted without overgiving. His master insisted that there was no way but Jonas, not listening set out the instant he was released. Though his family had not been native to Avanthal he had always felt at home there. It had been years since he had returned to see the city and his family, naturally causing that to be the first place for him to travel.

Training & Skill Points
Reimancy 35/100(30SP,+3,+2)
Medicine 20/100(20SP)
Herbalism 15/100(15RB)
Rhetoric 4/100(+4)

Lores
Knowledge of medical plants in winter climates
Knowledge of the god Sagallius
Intimidating People are Not always Mean Spirited
Reading the Mind Without Meditation
Reimancy Overgiving
Losing Control of Magic

Equipment/Possessions
Set of Clothing (cloak/coat & footwear included)
1 Waterskin
1 Backpack which contains:
1 Set of Toiletries (comb, brush, razor, soap)
Food for a week
1 eating knife
Flint & Steel

Ledger
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