Leaf
09-13-15, 01:22 PM
Level One Here (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?27350-Leaf-Father-Piggy&p=228309#post228309)
Name: Leaf "van der Aart"
Nickname/Alias: The Pigfather
Age: 24
Race: faun
Height: rather short for a faun - 5ft 8 inches
Weight: slightly less than medium, despite his farming background
Occupation: truffle-hunter and trader
Personality:
Leaf is a very calm individual. It takes a lot to make him express his rage. Raised from a young age on his family small farm, with a mining father who went on long trips often, he became rather good at working hard, but also hiding his feelings. From the outside often he appears to be kind and considerate, and in truth he is - yet he can also bottle up anger effectively. Once done it erupts in a way not unlike a volcano. He is a bit of a loner; his best friends are his pigs, and no-one else can get in their way.
Appearance:
Goat-legs up to his waist, very hairy/furry in a chestnut brown. His loins are covered with a suitable cloth, though they are hidden enough beneath the fur. He has large curling horns sprouting from his head - these curl forwards, not out to the side. His hair is brown, and very messy. Overall he is a little mucky, and the flesh of his skin is tanned from many years of being out in the sun. He has black eyes, wide and full of wonder.
Skills:
Fungus-hunting: This being his profession in the past few years, Leaf is apt at finding almost any truffle and/or useful expensive fungus (inc. hallucinogenic mushrooms) along with his side-kick pigs.
Tracking: Born and raised in a farm, on the edge of the woods, Leaf is surprisingly skilled at tracking man or beast through a forest. This, however, is not a skill he can use in the city as it is a rather foreign place to him.
Trading: All his years of bartering have paid off - Leaf is a most excellent barterer in terms of making money.
Temper, Temper: Leaf is very excellent at holding his temper, and just sitting there, quiet, until the opportunity arises for him to set the pigs on them.
Sickle-use: Leaf was raised as a farmer, and later a truffle-hunter, and so his skill with his sickle is largely cutting and slicing. He has not been taught to use it as a weapon, but with time this will progress. At the moment he is largely at moderate skill with this in fighting.
Pan-pies and flute: Leaf is a master hobby-ist when it comes to music. His skill at these instruments can be said to be "amateurish-excellent".
Fighting with Blade: Leaf is adequate with a blade, using his sickle for battle.
Abilities:
Pipes:
Leaf himself is proficient in the pan pipes. He will, over time, be able to play certain notes that give the pigs different abilities. These are varying in tone, and last for varying times and grant a singular pig an ability or other, depending on what is played.
At the moment he has mastered one note.
Rush: This allows one pig to gain haste for one minute or three posts of battle. This allows them to accelerate to three times that of standard human etc. It grants speed and dodge and also fast attack - general excelled velocity.
Pigs:
As detailed in his history, Leaf is the adoptive father of three unusual pigs. They are originally boars, but stopped growing when they were just three months, meaning they are about the size of terriers. This seems to be some magical fault, as the pigs themselves also have high-intelligence and very sensitive smell. They each are able to relate to him and each other telepathically, though not in words - rather images, sounds, tastes or scents. Over time, also, they will gain unique abilities by eating rare truffles that Leaf is an expert on.
Cookie:
Cookie is ginger, and quick to respond to any of Leaf's requests. Definitely the leader he is the eldest and tends to favour a stamp-on-a-toe attack. Recently he has begun to lose his eyesight due to a rather bad episode in Berevar concerning a giant boar, and in most instances therefore has begun to remain beside Leaf in most situations, providing mainly support and strategy more than anything. His intelligence is rather vast, and even as the other pigs remain something beast-like in their thoughts, always acting on instinct more than reason, he has begun to understand the concept of reason and morality.
Thor:
His skills are in his vicious bite with his large teeth and his size. With the more muscle and a tendency to eat the most he favours eating the truffles as soon as the pigs find them. He is the quickest to pick a fight, and can be stubborn at times. He is coloured like a baby boar; light brown with dark brown stripes down his back. His standard ability is 2x strength of standard.
Popsy:
The girl of the group she has the most sensitive nose. She also has remarkable attentive hearing (both at 2x that of a normal human) and is easily the best at finding the truffles. Her appearance is white with black splotches.
Recently also after digesting a part of the rare Blue Sky Truffle Popsy has actually gained the ability to fly. She can hover in the air for up to 2 minutes, at a height of 4 metres. This is, however, rather uncontrollable and a gust of wind will blow her off course. She has no wings, but rather is granted this via magic.
Equipment/Weapons:
One damascus sickle
Two base intelligence pigs
One high-intelligence pig
One flute
One set of pan-pipes
Pack to survive for up to a week in the wild (bed roll etc)
History:
Leaf is the eldest son in a family of ten faunlings, grown up mostly with his mother as the constant parent around. With his father gone to Radasanth city once every couple of months he quickly grew to take on the “masculine” responsibilities, despite the heavy female orientation of his eight sisters (four older).
When Leaf was five, however, his father did not return back, as promised. The family waited a few weeks. Then a few weeks longer, until their mother, Rarity, could take it no longer. She took the twin young babes, and left for Radasanth in search of her husband. Leaving the eldest daughter in charge she was gone for more than three months, and when she returned one of the twins had died and she was distraught. Having had no news, nor having found anything at all of her husband, Rarity fell into a deep depression and the farm soon became impoverished.
The elder daughters did what they could over the next few years. They sent the youngest children - all those under Leaf - to go and live with their great aunt. Determined, they kept the farm on, and despite having to beg at moments, the five eldest children looked after their mother well and brought the farm back from the brink of collapse.
When Leaf was sixteen years old had become a strong-hearted, caring individual, whose life was centered around his family. He was a keen worker on the farm, and had great skill with the sickle. It was around this age that he was in the forest, searching for wood, and he came across a strange sight; a slayed mother wild boar, her throat gouged out by some giant unknown beast. Beside her were the forms of four tiny piglets.
Leaf knew his mind was already made up when he stood there, watching these pigs. He scooped them up and took them back to the farm. Carefully and kindly he cared for them, giving one of them to his mother to try to get her liveliness back. That pig later died, but the remaining three began to grow - then stopped. Strangely, absurdly, under some unknown magic, they grew in intelligence, but not in size over the next few years. They would follow him, like he was their father, on tottering legs, and help him in his work. They related to him as a father, and he knew them as his best friends.
Slowly Leaf became more and more isolated from real life. The pigs themselves grew especially skilled in finding the rich and powerful fungus known as truffle, and later on more hallucinogenic members of the mushroom family. Specifically he began trading in these, and despite his sisters’ jibes he was proud of himself. In this way he became an eligible bachelor and arrangements were actually made for him to marry a girl from the same mining village. They met a few times, and he began to consider it. He started to go on trips, like his father before him, to the city to made tradings, for longer and longer periods of time, to try to make more money to save up for a house and his future family. However, a cold winter soon came, and when both she and his mother died on his 24th birthday he said goodbye to his sisters for good and decided to move to Radasanth to start life, anew.
Level Two Update:
Leaf came to Radasanth with nothing, but was quickly found by a curious and big-breasted faun. After a brief discovery and a thread called Good Relations, Leaf discovered that this faun was his half-sister by his father's other wife. He also discovered that Philomel, for that is his sister's name, killed their father by going back in time, majorly because he was abusive and in no way a good father. After a brief amount of anger, Leaf reconciled with his sister but also vowed to bring peace to the world in a way that she did not understand. Confused by her inability to accept that love even existed and was needed in the world, he left her and went on his own way. He met various people on his travels, mostly going out to search for the rarest truffles he has only heard of in myth, but still remained as shy and kind as ever.
Name: Leaf "van der Aart"
Nickname/Alias: The Pigfather
Age: 24
Race: faun
Height: rather short for a faun - 5ft 8 inches
Weight: slightly less than medium, despite his farming background
Occupation: truffle-hunter and trader
Personality:
Leaf is a very calm individual. It takes a lot to make him express his rage. Raised from a young age on his family small farm, with a mining father who went on long trips often, he became rather good at working hard, but also hiding his feelings. From the outside often he appears to be kind and considerate, and in truth he is - yet he can also bottle up anger effectively. Once done it erupts in a way not unlike a volcano. He is a bit of a loner; his best friends are his pigs, and no-one else can get in their way.
Appearance:
Goat-legs up to his waist, very hairy/furry in a chestnut brown. His loins are covered with a suitable cloth, though they are hidden enough beneath the fur. He has large curling horns sprouting from his head - these curl forwards, not out to the side. His hair is brown, and very messy. Overall he is a little mucky, and the flesh of his skin is tanned from many years of being out in the sun. He has black eyes, wide and full of wonder.
Skills:
Fungus-hunting: This being his profession in the past few years, Leaf is apt at finding almost any truffle and/or useful expensive fungus (inc. hallucinogenic mushrooms) along with his side-kick pigs.
Tracking: Born and raised in a farm, on the edge of the woods, Leaf is surprisingly skilled at tracking man or beast through a forest. This, however, is not a skill he can use in the city as it is a rather foreign place to him.
Trading: All his years of bartering have paid off - Leaf is a most excellent barterer in terms of making money.
Temper, Temper: Leaf is very excellent at holding his temper, and just sitting there, quiet, until the opportunity arises for him to set the pigs on them.
Sickle-use: Leaf was raised as a farmer, and later a truffle-hunter, and so his skill with his sickle is largely cutting and slicing. He has not been taught to use it as a weapon, but with time this will progress. At the moment he is largely at moderate skill with this in fighting.
Pan-pies and flute: Leaf is a master hobby-ist when it comes to music. His skill at these instruments can be said to be "amateurish-excellent".
Fighting with Blade: Leaf is adequate with a blade, using his sickle for battle.
Abilities:
Pipes:
Leaf himself is proficient in the pan pipes. He will, over time, be able to play certain notes that give the pigs different abilities. These are varying in tone, and last for varying times and grant a singular pig an ability or other, depending on what is played.
At the moment he has mastered one note.
Rush: This allows one pig to gain haste for one minute or three posts of battle. This allows them to accelerate to three times that of standard human etc. It grants speed and dodge and also fast attack - general excelled velocity.
Pigs:
As detailed in his history, Leaf is the adoptive father of three unusual pigs. They are originally boars, but stopped growing when they were just three months, meaning they are about the size of terriers. This seems to be some magical fault, as the pigs themselves also have high-intelligence and very sensitive smell. They each are able to relate to him and each other telepathically, though not in words - rather images, sounds, tastes or scents. Over time, also, they will gain unique abilities by eating rare truffles that Leaf is an expert on.
Cookie:
Cookie is ginger, and quick to respond to any of Leaf's requests. Definitely the leader he is the eldest and tends to favour a stamp-on-a-toe attack. Recently he has begun to lose his eyesight due to a rather bad episode in Berevar concerning a giant boar, and in most instances therefore has begun to remain beside Leaf in most situations, providing mainly support and strategy more than anything. His intelligence is rather vast, and even as the other pigs remain something beast-like in their thoughts, always acting on instinct more than reason, he has begun to understand the concept of reason and morality.
Thor:
His skills are in his vicious bite with his large teeth and his size. With the more muscle and a tendency to eat the most he favours eating the truffles as soon as the pigs find them. He is the quickest to pick a fight, and can be stubborn at times. He is coloured like a baby boar; light brown with dark brown stripes down his back. His standard ability is 2x strength of standard.
Popsy:
The girl of the group she has the most sensitive nose. She also has remarkable attentive hearing (both at 2x that of a normal human) and is easily the best at finding the truffles. Her appearance is white with black splotches.
Recently also after digesting a part of the rare Blue Sky Truffle Popsy has actually gained the ability to fly. She can hover in the air for up to 2 minutes, at a height of 4 metres. This is, however, rather uncontrollable and a gust of wind will blow her off course. She has no wings, but rather is granted this via magic.
Equipment/Weapons:
One damascus sickle
Two base intelligence pigs
One high-intelligence pig
One flute
One set of pan-pipes
Pack to survive for up to a week in the wild (bed roll etc)
History:
Leaf is the eldest son in a family of ten faunlings, grown up mostly with his mother as the constant parent around. With his father gone to Radasanth city once every couple of months he quickly grew to take on the “masculine” responsibilities, despite the heavy female orientation of his eight sisters (four older).
When Leaf was five, however, his father did not return back, as promised. The family waited a few weeks. Then a few weeks longer, until their mother, Rarity, could take it no longer. She took the twin young babes, and left for Radasanth in search of her husband. Leaving the eldest daughter in charge she was gone for more than three months, and when she returned one of the twins had died and she was distraught. Having had no news, nor having found anything at all of her husband, Rarity fell into a deep depression and the farm soon became impoverished.
The elder daughters did what they could over the next few years. They sent the youngest children - all those under Leaf - to go and live with their great aunt. Determined, they kept the farm on, and despite having to beg at moments, the five eldest children looked after their mother well and brought the farm back from the brink of collapse.
When Leaf was sixteen years old had become a strong-hearted, caring individual, whose life was centered around his family. He was a keen worker on the farm, and had great skill with the sickle. It was around this age that he was in the forest, searching for wood, and he came across a strange sight; a slayed mother wild boar, her throat gouged out by some giant unknown beast. Beside her were the forms of four tiny piglets.
Leaf knew his mind was already made up when he stood there, watching these pigs. He scooped them up and took them back to the farm. Carefully and kindly he cared for them, giving one of them to his mother to try to get her liveliness back. That pig later died, but the remaining three began to grow - then stopped. Strangely, absurdly, under some unknown magic, they grew in intelligence, but not in size over the next few years. They would follow him, like he was their father, on tottering legs, and help him in his work. They related to him as a father, and he knew them as his best friends.
Slowly Leaf became more and more isolated from real life. The pigs themselves grew especially skilled in finding the rich and powerful fungus known as truffle, and later on more hallucinogenic members of the mushroom family. Specifically he began trading in these, and despite his sisters’ jibes he was proud of himself. In this way he became an eligible bachelor and arrangements were actually made for him to marry a girl from the same mining village. They met a few times, and he began to consider it. He started to go on trips, like his father before him, to the city to made tradings, for longer and longer periods of time, to try to make more money to save up for a house and his future family. However, a cold winter soon came, and when both she and his mother died on his 24th birthday he said goodbye to his sisters for good and decided to move to Radasanth to start life, anew.
Level Two Update:
Leaf came to Radasanth with nothing, but was quickly found by a curious and big-breasted faun. After a brief discovery and a thread called Good Relations, Leaf discovered that this faun was his half-sister by his father's other wife. He also discovered that Philomel, for that is his sister's name, killed their father by going back in time, majorly because he was abusive and in no way a good father. After a brief amount of anger, Leaf reconciled with his sister but also vowed to bring peace to the world in a way that she did not understand. Confused by her inability to accept that love even existed and was needed in the world, he left her and went on his own way. He met various people on his travels, mostly going out to search for the rarest truffles he has only heard of in myth, but still remained as shy and kind as ever.