Appearance

Physical Description

Partially paralyzed. Right leg is pretty much completely useless, and their right arm is gone and replaced with the arm of a limestone statue of Myllandra, enchanted by their patron, which acts as their arcane focus.

Body Features

Tall and thin, but with broad shoulders. No obvious secondary sex characteristics. Effectively androgynous in both face and build. Cannot stand up to their full height due to the limp.

Facial Features

Like all aasimars, they are rather attractive for human standards. If it weren't for the empty eyes and unnatural skin and hair, they would be a pretty beautiful/handsome person by conventional standards. The right side of their face has many cuts and, beneath the purple skin, bruises can be seen around the eyes and jawline. Despite their height and apparent emotional maturity, they are physically just before the full maturity of aasimars, and the softness of their cheeks and roundness of their eyes is evidence of their youth, though their otherwise frightening features sort of stifle this. Their regular facial expressions usually indicate a quiet pensiveness, or sometimes vague curiosity that doubles as confusion.

Identifying Characteristics

The magical arm made of limestone and distinctive limp makes them pretty identifiable. Also... they are purple/grey. And in a way they kind of... glow.

Physical quirks

Did I mention the statue arm?

Apparel & Accessories

Their outfit is very regular- a pair of trousers and a brown linen blouse, except that the right sleeve of the blouse is entirely torn off, and a lot of it is covered in blood, which is also all over the top of their trousers. Over this is a recently acquired, very nice, Cloak of the Manta Ray, covering up all that carnage. They also have a nice hat! And with recent washes the blood has been coming out of their clothes.

Special abilities

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Mentality

Personal history

Iltiari was born to two human parents in a quaint village full of other humans. It was prophesied before their birth that they would be born an aasimar meant to serve the Deva Myllandra, angel of Pelor. Most elders and religious figures of the village considered their birth to be good luck for the future of the community, but Iltiari's parents felt extremely pressured and scared by the prospect of having a child with mysterious celestial powers. Their older brother, Constantin, was four at the time of their birth, and as the two of them grew older Constantin became enraptured with the powers of Myllandra and everything that Iltiari was offered as they learned and worshipped under the guidance of their stoic, ethereal teacher.
 
Iltiari grew to not have the same interest. They felt isolated from their peers and, most painfully, from their parents, who saw their second child as an otherworldly entity meant to be treated and spoken to like one would speak to a god in prayer, rather than like a child in need of nurturing and understanding. Iltiari desperately envied their brother for receiving all of the humane empathy from their parents and being allowed to participate in regular human activities; meanwhile, Constantin secretly harbored envy that was fueled by the fact that Iltiari was born with incredible celestial power and prestige that he could never hope to have, no matter how studious he was or how much he prayed to Pelor. Iltiari loved their brother openly, trying to foster at least one relationship with a being apart from Myllandra. 
 
After 18 years of struggling against their fate and vying fruitlessly for familial affection, Iltiari decided they'd had enough and, during a lesson with Myllandra, rejected her completely. The results were immediate- a tremor shook the entire village, the temperature suddenly rising and Iltiari becoming overwhelmed with horrifying visions and terrible pain. As most of the village scrambled to figure out what had happened, Iltiari fought through the pain and fled their home, mostly unseen. With no sense of direction, just knowing they needed to be as far from Myllandra's grasp as possible, they ran, only the clothes on their back with them.
 
Iltiari didn't get far before they found themselves lost on a road following a vast field of corn, having never been physically outside their village before. It was then that Constantin caught up to them.
 
He had seen them flee and followed, enraged by what was obviously Iltiari disrespecting their Deva and running from the village like a coward after causing chaos. Iltiari confessed to leaving Myllandra, and Constantin flew into a rage, leaping at his sibling and attacking them with a farming sickle he had taken from their parents' yard. Iltiari did not fight back, paralyzed in the fear and shock of being attacked by their own kin. Years of Constantin's wild jealousy and silent hatred for his sibling culminated in him hacking Iltiari's right arm off with the sickle and cutting deep into the nerves of their right leg, as well as bludgeoning their head and much of their body. Iltiari fainted, and Constantin pulled back, believing them to be dead. He dropped the sickle in the pool of blood and turned home, remorseless. 
 
Hours later Iltiari awoke to moonlight shining down on their bruised and bloodied face, and an inky black tentacle making circles in their vision, as if it were floating inside their eyes. A voice spoke to them- one no worldly being could ever possess or imitate, that reverberated in their skull and flooded their senses with prickly cold- and Iltiari obeyed its command:
 
"Rise, child."

Education

Had a slightly elevated education compared to the other children in town, as they'd had additional lessons from religious leaders, as well as their Deva. Myllandra did not provide them with as much of a worldly education as she did vigorous lessons in how to trust their instincts, giving them more wisdom than intelligence. Their lessons with Myllandra were private and basically contained to visions that only Iltiari could see, and much of the information that they obtained never left the room, partially because Iltiari began to actively reject Myllandra's teachings.

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Known Languages

Common, Celestial, and Deep Speech

Personality

Motivation

They were given a second lease of life by Cthulhu, and now serves him faithfully, forging through the awful nightmares he gives them and going where he tells them to, despite not understanding his reasoning in the slightest. Sometimes the tasks he gives them are obvious- go convert a species of fish people, go steal this thing, go kill that person. But a lot of the time, he puts them in strange situations with strange people with no obvious goal in sight, and it drives them insane, but they don't say no. They just hope it will pay off in the end, because ultimately what they want to gain for themselves is the free will to choose their own fate. After being born into serving Myllandra in a place that was ungrateful for their passion and power, they feel that serving Cthulhu gets them the appreciation and, in some sick twisted way, the parental attention they always craved. They believe that serving Cthulhu will help them achieve some personal Nirvana, and don't seem to entirely grasp the tight space Cthulhu has squeezed them into, as he has done VERY well at convincing them that they are doing things for themselves rather than him.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Savvies:
Charismatic and observational. Always thinks twice and reads between the lines when dealing with other people (but maybe not with Cthulhu but its fine lmao). Very persuasive, and when persuasion doesn't work, they have Cthulhu, so intimidation is preeetty easy. 
 
Though they may not be entirely aware of it, the mental wounds caused by past traumas are still pretty fresh, so their capacity for empathy in some situations is pretty high. They have a softness for youth, especially young girls, who are going through struggles, and in very honest fashion, try to comfort and assist.
 
Ineptitude:
 
No real sense for sarcasm. Often says things that seem snarky or even comical, but they're totally serious.
 
Constantly overthinking and just kind of assumes the world is out to get them.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes:
Old Bay!!!!!!!!!!!! The idea of romance (in practice? well they have no damn idea), very small and quiet animals, dark blue, big open meadows, white linen, warm days with a soft breeze
 
Dislikes:
The persistent face that lurks just beyond their vision in their nightmares, corn fields, food (most of it just doesn't have taste anymore...) dragons

Vices & Personality flaws

Absolutely unaware of the true nature of their pact to Cthulhu. As of yet, he has not asked them to truly sacrifice something or do something that would harm them exponentially. Even when he made them desecrate items sacred to Myllandra, it's not like Iltiari didn't already want to do that, they just hadn't thought of it, and Cthulhu just... gently probed them into it. He is very, very good at gently probing them towards things they thought they already wanted to do. They faithfully obey, every time, feeling like they had already wanted to do that particular thing in the first place.

Hygiene

Was VERY cleanly in their youth- aasimar levels of cleanly- but after their fall and the whole almost getting murdered thing they seem to care less. They still like bathe and everything, but they didn't really seem to care that they were wearing tattered, blood-soaked clothes for weeks on end. They don't quite see the value in buying clothes for the aesthetic rather than the practicality.

Social

Birthplace

Some Bumfuck Place in the Mortal Kingdom

Current Residence

BEHIND YOU

Family Ties

The Summerdanes are a regular old human family, but somewhere deep within their family lineage, there is celestial blood (or else how would Iltiari come to be y'know?) Iltiari and their parents never actively tried to track this heritage, but their older brother Constantin might've tried.

Social Aptitude

If it weren't for their bizarre appearance, they would be able to blend into almost any social circle. When they open their mouth, though, their charisma really works in their favor.

Hobbies & Pets

OLD BAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!