Appearance

Identifying Characteristics

Virgil has a large scar that stretches from his forehead down the left half of his body to his left foot. It is a result of Virgil being struck by lightning while conducting a magical experiment.

Physical quirks

The same experiment the gave Virgil his scar also caused his eyes to radiate a soft blue glow, the same color his lightning magic glows.
 
The lightning strike that caused Virgil's scar also damaged some of the muscles on the left side of his body. His arm and hand were spared the worst of it, but the rest of the left side of his body is stiffer in its movements than his right. This is most noticeable when he is walking or running.

Apparel & Accessories

Virgil wears a pair of crystal earrings that act as his arcane focus.

Mentality

Personal history

Virgil is part of a long legacy of storm sorcerers and wizards. His family has been furthering the study of lightning magic for generations and it was expected that Virgil would also add to the family's store of knowledge in time. Unlike some of his siblings, who rankled under the pressure and expectations, Virgil relished the opportunity.
 
Eventually Virgil came across a major obstacle to his progress. His family had been studying storm magic for so long that there were almost no avenues left unexplored and the last few generations had been forced into smaller and smaller niche areas of expertise to make any new progress. Frustrated, but not deterred, Virgil decided that if there were no paths left for him to explore, he would create his own.
 
He started by trying to garner a greater and more intimate knowledge of lightning itself in order to spark an idea for a new avenue of exploration. His attempts were frustrated by the speed at which electricity moved, making it near impossible to study a single bolt in detail, but it was in that frustration that Virgil found his inspiration. He would find a way to freeze lightning in place or to slow it that it might be studied.
 
It took several years of intense study and experimentation until, quite by accident, he stumbled upon the solution. It started with an experiment gone horribly, almost fatally, wrong. Virgil had contained a bolt of lightning in a glass orb and was in the process of manipulating it when his youngest brother, still a young child, burst into the room looking for him. That moment of distraction was all it took for the lightning, which had been feeding off Virgil's magic, to escape his control and explode out of its container. Time seemed to slow down for Virgil as he watched a bolt of electricity head towards his brother. In a moment of desperation Virgil grabbed onto that sensation, pouring his magic into it and managed to lengthen that moment of time even further, enough for him to exert enough influence on the lightning to pull in out of its previous trajectory and towards him instead. Years of studying storm magic gave Virgil enough resistance to keep the strike from killing him, but he was left a scar running down the entire left side of his body and partial paralysis of that same side. Despite his injury, Virgil came away from that disaster pleased, because in that moment before the lightning struck Virgil had stumbled upon an entirely new dimension of magic. He had learned to manipulate time.

Education

Virgil received a high level education from his family.

Employment

Virgil is a scholar and researcher.

person.sexuality

Gay

Personality

Motivation

Will depend on campaign, but will likely have to do with his family.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes: Arcane discoveries and secrets, family, children, teaching, dancing, stormy weather
 
Dislikes: Dry climates, purposeful ignorance, extreme cold

Social

Contacts & Relations

Virgil is the eldest child of the Stormcloak family. He and his immediate family (his parents and two sisters and brother, all of whom are many, many years younger than him) lived in a large estate together with most of his extended family. He maintains a positive relationship with all of them, except his cousin Maximillian who views Virgil as a bitter rival getting in the way of his own success. Virgil humors him.
 
Virgil's family is very well respected within the magical community and he share in that prestige in addition to the respect gained from his own individual accomplishments.

Wealth & Financial state

Virgil comes from a very wealthy family.

Family Ties

Virgil is the oldest, by a wide margin, of four siblings. The closest of his siblings to him in age is still 15 years younger than him. That age gap led Virgil to acting more as an additional parental figure rather a brother to his siblings. This has made him quite adept at handling and humoring young children.

Social Aptitude

Virgil has spent almost all of his life dealing with only two types of people, brilliant scholars and very young children. These make up his only two solid frames of reference for how to deal with other people. Because of this Virgil tends to treat people like another academic initially and then when they fall short of that expectation (as almost all non-scholars do) Virgil falls back on the attitude he used to deal with his much younger siblings. This makes him very good at dealing with these two specific sub-groups of people, but rather poor at dealing with any other kind of person.