Appearance

Body Features

Pale blue skin with dark blue hair, he's fit-slim with with a large, grey scar across his abdomen and various smaller marks across his body.

Facial Features

Tirinel's face reflects his trauma and tireless search for knowledge, bearing a permanent haggard look. His eyes are engraved into deep grey sockets, his cheeks gaunt, yet skin smooth save the scar down his right cheek.

Mentality

Personal history

Tirinel was born in growing village, the son of the gravekeeper and an astral druid. He was raised into his father's profession where he learned to tend to the dead, and assisted his mother in blessing the those passing through the veil with starlit rituals. Tragedy struck as unknown assailants raided and ransacked the town, and despite his parents staunch defense of their home, they were ultimately struck down.

As he lay dying with guts suspended in his fingers he uttered one final prayer to Lorn, and closed his eyes on a starry night for one last time. Groggily, he saw something - a vision, a dream, or something real - a plane where the souls of his loved ones were tormented endlessly.

Days later he suddenly awoke to a night sky surrounded by still-smoldering ruins and debris, his wounds closed with deep scars and dirt. Despite his trauma and torment his first instinct was to find his family and bury their remains, but they were nowhere to be found, only stains of dried blood and ash where they fell. Everything he thought he knew was shattered, those he loved gone, and so Tirinel cried out to Lorn begging to know why -- Why was everyone left behind? Why was he the only one who lived? Was this tormenting dream really their fate, or was it just that - a dream? Why would Lorn not speak?

No answers came, and as the corn crakes crowed above he came to his senses, the rancid stench of death and decay on the wind. He wanted answers, and would do damn near anything to get them.

Employment

Previously Gravekeeper and Grovetender, often lending his knowledge and services of preserving the dead to institutions in exchange for what they have recorded on the the gods and death.

Mental Trauma

Everyone he loved and knew died in front of him, and so should have he. He carries this with him along with his dream of torment that those killed might suffer, further jading him of emotions that life as a mortician would bring.

Morality & Philosophy

Tirinel will not go willingly to his death, and desperately defends his allies from theirs. Often seen as cowardly for his flightiness in situations where death seems likely, he sees this as a necessity. He sees people seeking their end as foolish, and the idea that there would even be honorable death ignorant and naive, as he once was.

Despite this grave obsession, Tirinel deeply believes in companionship and is loyal to a fault. Though some may view him cowardly, the idea of betraying an ally is abhorrent to him, especially abandoning them to a fate of death. His tormented soul does not afford his enemies any mercy, however, as he will without pause obliterate his foes for daring to threaten his friends.

Personality

Motivation

He has an incessant thirst for knowledge driven by his fear and desperation to prevent his own death. In time, he has resolved to become a force that protects the sanctity of death and find out how to fix this dreadful fate that he believes awaits him.

Virtues & Personality perks

Loyal, caring, determined and protective

Vices & Personality flaws

Mistrusting of people's intentions, Stubborn in his view of the gods and is inclined to inform people why they shouldn't be worshipped, Tends to be overly cautious, and likes to poke at peoples buttons.

Personality Quirks

Often looks over his shoulder and reacting to the slightest noise or movement.

Hygiene

Well kept, in effort to prolong his life.

Social

Birthplace

Dolten

Religious Views

Tirinel has a deep mistrust of gods, and views traditional deities as liars. He assumes they only see mortals and worshippers as some sort of game or resource for a purpose yet unknown, and believes his drive to deny them power through souls justified. The mortal-ascendent gods, however, have proven themselves fighting for mortals and deserve respect.

Social Aptitude

He's not very skilled with speechcraft, but he has a soft and genuine tone that betrays his gaunt appearance, often displaying his naivity of the wider world beyond his books and tomes. This combination often proves to his advantage though, as others may find him endearing.