Post by Zeno on Jan 9, 2013 11:15:44 GMT -5
Name: Nik'drizz't AKA Nik (Neek) the Bard
Age: 254
Species: Drow
Class: Sorcerer
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Occupation: Traveling Bard
Appearance:
Personality:
Nik'drizz't is a pretty easy-going person. He's not easy to upset, and he takes everything in stride. He is a very young man, having only just reached maturity, and left the Underworld, and so he is very sheltered, not really very learned in the ways of the surface-dwellers. Therefore, he tries to learn as much as he can from the various libraries and such that he encounter.
However, due to having been the host of a Slaad embryo in his youth, Nik occasionally gets flashes of the maddening images he was treated to on a daily basis during his time as a host. Although he's a sorcerer, he isn't very skilled at using his powers, as there had been no sorcerers in his home village to teach him, and therefore his powers are very uncontrollable, and he usually just channels his power through his body to blast his enemies into oblivion with uncontrolled bursts of arcane energy.
Nik is an excellent lyre player, who spends his days playing on the street in order to raise enough money to support his eating habits. Due to the uncontrollable arcane forces in his body, the fat gets burned from his body very quickly, and as such he has to eat... a lot. Some have compared his stomach to that of a black hole, due to his ability to devour pretty much anything that is put in front of him.
Although he is a very easy-going man, Nik is not above hurling insults at people if they truly anger him, which is a great feat in and of itself, given his relaxed nature.
History:
When Nik'drizz't was only twenty-seven years old, he made the mistake of straying too far away from his home village in the darkness of the Underword. This resulted in an attack by a Slaad. However, it didn't kill him. Instead, it merely settled for 'violating' Nik, implanting a Slaad embryo in his lower back, before leaving him alone.
Of course, Nik had no idea what had just happened, and was just glad the monster had left him alone. So, he went back to his village and had his wound treated. It wasn't until about a month later, when the visions started, that he started suspecting something.
Daily, Nik started receiving these maddening images, which flashed before his eyes every now and then. He was close to falling into madness, but took to the lyre, playing it every day, its notes soothing his mind while he wondered what the hell was wrong with him.
It was another month before he told his mother about the images, something he had been afraid of telling her about, as he feared that she might believe he had gotten night sickness. Night sickness was something that was spoken about in legends in Nik's village, a sickness that happened to those who weren't cut out for living in the dark Underworld, resulting in them losing their minds in the darkness.
His mother, however, calmly asked him when he started seeing these images. Nik informed her that he got them about a month after he was attacked by the Slaad. His mother, who knew about pretty much all the creatures inhabiting the Underworld, immediately took him to the village healer, who got to work removing the Slaad embryo that had been implanted in him, and just in time, too, as the embryo was in the process of developing into a tadpole. About a week more, and the embryo would have been fully developed, and burrowed out of his skull.
Now free of the maddening images, Nik'drizz't was free to return to his daily life, or so he thought. The implantation had left him with a dangerous amount of arcane power pulsing through his veins. He was unable to control this energy, and on more than one occasion, he accidentally blew holes in the walls of his parents' house.
Therefore, Nik only stayed for another two hundreds and twenty-three years, leaving the Underworld the second he reached maturity, and his parents allowed him to leave. He ventured through the Underworld, with nothing more than a small pack of meat and his lyre.
Using his arcane energy, Nik managed to kill some monsters by sheer luck, and used their meat, all of it, for his daily meals, which still left him unsatisfied.
When he finally managed to reach the surface world, temporarily blinded by the bright sun, he immediately set off toward the nearest town, where he intended on making enough money to buy a proper meal. He didn't know how much it would cost, though, as all his father had told him about the surface world was that you needed money to get things.
Since then, Nik'drizz't has been traveling from place to place, content with just making enough money to eat.
Family Tree:
Mother: Lun'diin
Father: Nani'rik
Fears:
-Starving
-His powers
Goals:
-To learn control
-To eat at an all-you-can-eat buffet
Likes:
-Food
-Music
-Nice people
Hates:
-Hunger
-Critics
Other:
Due to being raised in the Underworld, Nik'drizz't has, on the surface, no sense of direction whatsoever.
Age: 254
Species: Drow
Class: Sorcerer
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Occupation: Traveling Bard
Appearance:
Personality:
Nik'drizz't is a pretty easy-going person. He's not easy to upset, and he takes everything in stride. He is a very young man, having only just reached maturity, and left the Underworld, and so he is very sheltered, not really very learned in the ways of the surface-dwellers. Therefore, he tries to learn as much as he can from the various libraries and such that he encounter.
However, due to having been the host of a Slaad embryo in his youth, Nik occasionally gets flashes of the maddening images he was treated to on a daily basis during his time as a host. Although he's a sorcerer, he isn't very skilled at using his powers, as there had been no sorcerers in his home village to teach him, and therefore his powers are very uncontrollable, and he usually just channels his power through his body to blast his enemies into oblivion with uncontrolled bursts of arcane energy.
Nik is an excellent lyre player, who spends his days playing on the street in order to raise enough money to support his eating habits. Due to the uncontrollable arcane forces in his body, the fat gets burned from his body very quickly, and as such he has to eat... a lot. Some have compared his stomach to that of a black hole, due to his ability to devour pretty much anything that is put in front of him.
Although he is a very easy-going man, Nik is not above hurling insults at people if they truly anger him, which is a great feat in and of itself, given his relaxed nature.
History:
When Nik'drizz't was only twenty-seven years old, he made the mistake of straying too far away from his home village in the darkness of the Underword. This resulted in an attack by a Slaad. However, it didn't kill him. Instead, it merely settled for 'violating' Nik, implanting a Slaad embryo in his lower back, before leaving him alone.
Of course, Nik had no idea what had just happened, and was just glad the monster had left him alone. So, he went back to his village and had his wound treated. It wasn't until about a month later, when the visions started, that he started suspecting something.
Daily, Nik started receiving these maddening images, which flashed before his eyes every now and then. He was close to falling into madness, but took to the lyre, playing it every day, its notes soothing his mind while he wondered what the hell was wrong with him.
It was another month before he told his mother about the images, something he had been afraid of telling her about, as he feared that she might believe he had gotten night sickness. Night sickness was something that was spoken about in legends in Nik's village, a sickness that happened to those who weren't cut out for living in the dark Underworld, resulting in them losing their minds in the darkness.
His mother, however, calmly asked him when he started seeing these images. Nik informed her that he got them about a month after he was attacked by the Slaad. His mother, who knew about pretty much all the creatures inhabiting the Underworld, immediately took him to the village healer, who got to work removing the Slaad embryo that had been implanted in him, and just in time, too, as the embryo was in the process of developing into a tadpole. About a week more, and the embryo would have been fully developed, and burrowed out of his skull.
Now free of the maddening images, Nik'drizz't was free to return to his daily life, or so he thought. The implantation had left him with a dangerous amount of arcane power pulsing through his veins. He was unable to control this energy, and on more than one occasion, he accidentally blew holes in the walls of his parents' house.
Therefore, Nik only stayed for another two hundreds and twenty-three years, leaving the Underworld the second he reached maturity, and his parents allowed him to leave. He ventured through the Underworld, with nothing more than a small pack of meat and his lyre.
Using his arcane energy, Nik managed to kill some monsters by sheer luck, and used their meat, all of it, for his daily meals, which still left him unsatisfied.
When he finally managed to reach the surface world, temporarily blinded by the bright sun, he immediately set off toward the nearest town, where he intended on making enough money to buy a proper meal. He didn't know how much it would cost, though, as all his father had told him about the surface world was that you needed money to get things.
Since then, Nik'drizz't has been traveling from place to place, content with just making enough money to eat.
Family Tree:
Mother: Lun'diin
Father: Nani'rik
Fears:
-Starving
-His powers
Goals:
-To learn control
-To eat at an all-you-can-eat buffet
Likes:
-Food
-Music
-Nice people
Hates:
-Hunger
-Critics
Other:
Due to being raised in the Underworld, Nik'drizz't has, on the surface, no sense of direction whatsoever.