Appearance

Physical Description

Ziven is very slim like most elves. He is not very strong but is relatively dexterous.

Body Features

Ziven has many tattoos all across his body that he uses to tell his story. His chest and arms are the most notable.

Facial Features

Ziven has dot tattoos under his eyes. One of his eyebrows has a cut through it that refuses to grow hair. He also has a weirdly misshapen nose due to injuries long forgotten.

Identifying Characteristics

The most notable feature about Ziven is his tattoos, the most legible from a distance is his tattoo of three autumn leaves that crawls up his neck.

Physical quirks

The elf with a beard is certainly an oddity.

Apparel & Accessories

Ziven typically wears light clothing. He always has a low v-neck tank top to show off his chest and tattoos. He usually wears baggy pants and golden trimmed sandals.

Ziven also wears a lot of jewelry, mainly earrings and necklaces.

Special abilities

Ziven's magic forms from music notes that emanate from his ukulele.

Mentality

Personal history

Most of Ziven's early history is unknown even to him. However, what is known is that he has always had a problem with alcohol and other addictive substances. Prior to the events of the Criminal Underbelly and The Sinking Seas, Ziven had only been sober two years out of his whole life. Unfortunately, Ziven does not remember those two years due to the effects of the Forest.

After Ziven left the forest and his family behind, he traveled the world in a band of misfits and musicians. It was mostly just homeless people like himself wandering around for kicks. Ziven met his first love in that group, but the relationship ended poorly. After some time, Ziven got off of the drugs and started his two years of sobriety. Ziven somehow managed to go from the Heartoak Confederacy all the way back to Alverholdt during that time.

In Alverholdt, Ziven broke his no drinking streak and began to drink heavily again. Here is where he met the party of The Criminal Underbelly. The rest of the events in his life can be viewed in those campaigns.

Education

Ziven has little in the way of Education. He knows a couple of languages from his travels and most of his music knowledge is self taught. He did briefly go to college but was immediately kicked out for drug abuse.

Employment

Ziven had once attempted to join the Crows group in Birchkeep along with his brother and father, but was not welcomed in due to his addiction problem.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Ziven has little of these during his life. His main accomplishments come from his death. He was responsible for helping the Sinking Seas party win the fight against Selenite at the cost of his own life. Upon dying, Ziven was given the position of Dream Monarch and now rules over the Emerald Theater in the dream realm.

Failures & Embarrassments

Too many to list here.

Mental Trauma

While Ziven is not fully aware of it, he has had a lot of mental trauma in the past. His biological father is responsible for his addition problem and his brain damage. Ziven has always had a distaste for people who treat him like a dog, but unfortunately, he never remembered who treated him as such during his life.

Intellectual Characteristics

Ziven is not the smartest individual, he has never sought out knowledge of the world. Rather, Ziven seeks out the knowledge of music and stories. He enjoys to learn about others and be around them.

Morality & Philosophy

Ziven is the Alignment of True Neutral. He is unsure of where he stands when it comes to morals. He is naturally a person of good heart, but his vices and flaws get in the way of rational thought. Ziven accidentally hurts people in the wake of his vices. Ziven does not believe he has fully earned the title of a "good person" as most people in the Emerald Theater see him, as he believes he still hasn't fully made up for the mistakes he made in life.

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Gay

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Male

Taboos

Before his time in the Dream Realm, Ziven would have no taboos. However, now that he has grown, Ziven has a great distaste for addictive substances and actively bans them from his domain.

Known Languages

Common, Elvish and Sylvan.

Personality

Motivation

Ziven's motives during his life were to recover his memories and figure out the mystery behind his own past. Now as a Dream Monarch, Ziven's goal is to help others like himself free themselves from vices and trauma.

Quotes & Catchphrases

*Ukulele Noises*

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Ziven is surprisingly good at persuasion despite his complete lack of social knowledge. Ziven is horrible at most other things, but he's gotten better overall during his time in the Dream.

Likes & Dislikes

Ziven of course enjoys music, dancing and generally having a good time. He also likes adventuring and learning about other peoples stories.

Ziven despise the fact that he cannot remember most of his life. However, now that he can remember things clearly, he has a great distaste of Alister Zalton. He came to realize that the person he thought was his friend constantly treated him like his pet. Ziven hates the fact that he let Alister walk all over him. If Ziven is ever put face to face with Alister again, he might finally snap back at him for all the harm he caused.

Vices & Personality flaws

Ziven was once addicted to every substance that could be found either in the forest or on the streets. Ziven has also never been the best with relationships, but is working on that with his partner in the Dream Realm.

Personality Quirks

Ziven tends to tap his feet in a rhythmic pattern when he is nervous or tense. He also fidgets with his jewelry and earrings when he is in deep thought. Ziven is always moving his hands about when speaking.

Hygiene

Ziven use to be very bad at Hygiene, but as he grew, his habits improved. He is generally very clean now.

Social

Birthplace

The Rivena Forest

Current Residence

The Emerald Theater in the Dream Realm

Contacts & Relations

Ziven was under the watch of the Zealots of the Wolf during his late life, but now Ziven resides in the Dream Realm. Ziven has a few connections with the Empress and other dream monarchs.

Ziven is currently in a relationship with his golith retainer Argus Stonemoss.

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Ziven has the title of Dream Monarch. He rules over the Domain of Fractured Minds and Musicians, that being the Emerald Theater.

Wealth & Financial state

Ziven has never had much in the way of wealth.

Family Ties

Ziven has his twin bother Zellious and adopted father Ouroborous wandering around the Veilnum.

Religious Views

Ziven has little in the way of religious views. His only views on the topic of gods is that "they are probably busy dealing with cosmic events too much to pay attention to his small folk".

Social Aptitude

Ziven tends to mumble and ramble a lot unintentionally. He tries to use big words that do not fit in his vocabulary.

Mannerisms

Ziven moves his hands a lot when talking.

Hobbies & Pets

Ziven has never had any pets.

Ziven enjoys playing his ukulele in his free time when he is not performing for the theater or organizing his soul collection.

Speech

Some would describe Ziven's accent somewhere between British and Russian sounding. He tends to speak in run-on sentences.