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Nathaniel Abbey - tortricidae - 08-29-2017
Character's Name: Nathaniel Abbey
Nicknames: (Feel free to make some up)
Age: 1545
Gender: Not Applicable (he/him)
Species: Spirit Elemental
Abilities: Nothing too out of the ordinary. Magical Absorption. He can absorb all kinds of magic, but he prefers spirit based magically qualities. Often seeks souls of other species as his source of spirit based energy.
Appearance:
Natural Form:
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Other Form:
When Nathaniel takes a more palatable humanoid form, he looks unassuming and benign. He has a warm smile, with pointed teeth and a light blue tongue. He has light brown skin with orange undertones, and long light blue nails. The palms of his hands and the bottom of his feet are a dark orange. His toenails are black.
His hair is short and wild looking. Two-tone light and darker oranges. It is the most unkempt thing about him, but no matter how hard he tries, he can’t seem to get it to behave. Sometimes, if one is staring for too long, they will notice that his hair seems to move with an odd energy that unsettles the very essence of one’s being.
His eyes are a pale blue, and glow intensely, giving away his elemental status.
Nathaniel is an incredibly rich being. He has access to more wealth that all others in Seliel City, and he dresses extravagantly. The finest silks and the softest cottons. He frequently adorns himself in exceedingly rare accessories that have a variety of magical properties to protect him from harm.
Though infrequent, he does sometimes wear clothing that shows off the odd markings left over from his natural elemental form. He is also unable to hide the spiritual tail from his natural form, so he hides it in sashes of similar color and texture.
Personality:
Nathaniel is an asshole. Wicked and sharp, he rules over the company he developed with an iron fist and will punish and make examples of anybody who dares to speak against him. He has no qualms about showing his wickedness because there is not a single person who will stand up against him in any of the societal rings in the city.
He relishes in the control he has over others and things of increasingly horrible ways to keep others down. He has deliberately salted fields, sunk cargo, and razed the homes of the innocent in his displays and he feels absolutely no remorse for any of his actions. Money and wealth is equal to power and he doesn’t care about anyone who doesn’t stand with him.
And even then, he doesn’t care about his peers. He only cares about wealth and power. And perhaps his husband, Markus Justinius, but that feels shaky at best. Sometimes people think it’s a competition between the two of them to see who is more wicked and the stakes keep rising.
Nathaniel takes what he wants, throws money at anybody who complains and has those who don’t accept intimidation and gold conveniently disappear.
However, he is a damn good liar and uses his wealth to manipulate others, even his own family.
History:
Nathaniel was created out in the wilds far from any kind of civilization. He managed to survive the grueling first few days of his life and took to surviving through sucking the spiritual energy from living creatures around him, fueling his power and strength. The longer he was alive, the more souls he absorbed.
Generation after generation, he grew stronger until he was able to take another form, where he lived in huge cities and sucked magic out of every aspect of the areas around him. He was particularly fond of mages, using them as vessels for a more consistent flow of magic. He’d spent time in Yfrelo at the Mage’s College for a few years, eating the edges of the wards around the city despite the consequences of doing so.
After a while, he left and roamed Sleibte until he moved onto Xira, where he started a business shipping small loads of cargo along the rivers. The cargo loads got bigger and bigger and he branched into other areas of business: real estate, agriculture, and wealth management. He bought lots of land in Seliel City as it popped up and turned over the properties into homes for people to live in. Every time there was something available, he scooped it up until he was literally paying people to leave their homes and relocate so he could control larger and larger areas of the multiple districts in the city.
He met his husband around this time. The story of how they met is constantly changing, but he was seduced by a beautiful bird that made him laugh and was excellent to bounce ideas off of. He gave Markus anything he wanted, and Markus kept him on his toes and sharp as a tack.
Nobody was able to stop Nathaniel from his acquisitions because he operated under a lot of different names and personas – often with Markus’s help, the damn bird. Sometimes the original owners of the land would mysteriously disappear, but a fat bag of gold usually kept the suspicious ones quiet. And if not, hmm, how odd. Never heard of Seth Allens. Must be talking about someone else.
Turns out, Seliel City needs a new leader. Nathaniel happens to know a guy perfect for the job.
RE: Nathaniel Abbey - Kila - 09-02-2017
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