Appearance

Physical Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Even among Loxodons Lorke is a big guy, wich makes him huge among others. He keeps his hair, which is uncommonly full for a Loxodon, in dreads that he loosely braids. His skin is thick and covered in little scars and marks that speak to a lifetime of rough wild living and injuries.

Body Features

He's a giant slab of thick-skinned man, and shockingly colorful despite his gray skin. He has a long trunk and protruding tusks

Facial Features

He usually keeps his tusks painted with a bright blue color, and a long trunk that moves with a mind of it's own.

Identifying Characteristics

Good lord, where to start...

Physical quirks

After even a short observation, a person of another race would note that many of the seeminglyrandom movements of his trunk are not random, but expressive. At first he may seem aloof because he doesn't perform the small micro-expressions of the head and shoulders most do unconsciously, like nodding or shrugging or many facial expressions of the mouth. But watch long enough and you'll see that his trunk moves in ways that replace those.

Apparel & Accessories

He dresses in loose, flowy clothes, usually of very light colors like tans or yellows. He often has body paints on his chest and limbs in patterns that must have a cultural signifigance. All told with the paint on his tusks and dye in his hair, he is almost garrishly colorful to the dull Eisen sensibilities.

Special abilities

From his build to his musculature to the many, many, scars that cover him, it's clear Lorke has a history of hardship and violence, despite being so young. It doesn't take much to clock him as a brawler

Mentality

Personal history

Lorke is young, and has a shrt history. It's been clear to his family and tribe elders for years that he had a special spark to him, touched by wild-magic as his people sometimes are. But his childhood was happy and full of family and friends that loved one another.



He left his people a little under a year ago to go on the Lidû Soya-min, a traditional walkabout apart from the tribe. Roughly translating as 'the journey of chasing your shadow', it is a right of passage to learn about the outside world and it's people in order to be prepared for adulthood in the tribe and gain some spiritual growth.

Education

No european style schooling, but his tribe has many elders who act as teachers in matters of history, faith, philosophy, nature, and general education. He has roughly an equivalent education of any young person who went to basic schooling in most subjects, with a much more advanced knowledge in an eclectic range of topics and professions

Employment

As a nomad and effectively a tourist, he picks up random odd jobs here and there for cash and to learn about the Europan lifestyle

Intellectual Characteristics

Lorke is a bit naive, and an abundantly good-spirited kid. He's also very much a Himbo Barbarian.

Morality & Philosophy

While he is capable of tremendous violence, he does not see that as a dark thing. He fights often, but for the pride of testing strength and valor, not for cruelty or the sake of hurting others. He enjoys a good brawl, but would never kick a man while he's down- one truly could not count the number of men he's broken a barstool over or gotten bloodied by, only to laugh and buy them a round or 5 later in the night.



He has absorbed many teachings of his people, though he may not be a very wise man spiritually. He has a surprisingly zen outlook on much of life, enjoying and savoring unique experiences, and has an outlook of embracing what he views as basic decency and kindness to others unless they do harm to others. He has yet to grow up and have his sensibilities be tarnished with grey areas so common in the Victorian world.

person.sexuality

He is a healthy young man with a healthy libido and interest in (usually) the fairer sexes, though he has had a bit of a learning curve accomodating that to the (to him, at least) exotic races of Europa. (All typical D&D jokes aside, he legitimately had a hard time telling Elvish men and women apart for a while, which led to some awkward situations and him questionin things about himself. And don't even get started about Halflings with him...)

person.gender_identity

He identifies Male, though there are cultural differences from his upbringing that color that in ways that might stand out in a Victorian society. Coming from a matriarchal and gerontocratic people, he is not prone to try and lead or to acts of machismo as most men may be

Personality

Motivation

He's an undeniable Himbo, with a lust for life and good a good fun brawl. Occasionally he drops some nugget of exotic philosophy or wisdom from his background.

Quotes & Catchphrases

Phrases heseems torecite by rote:

"Peace and keen sight to you." (his typical greeting)
 
"Thank you for this teaching." (whenever someone explains something to him)
 
"The fish does not know much of the treetops, nor the falcon much of the tree's roots, no matter how keen his eye." (him aknowledging he doesn't understand something)
 
"The wise will listen to the creak of the branches even if they do not feel the wind." (roughly; 'okay, I'll go along with this')

Social

Family Ties

He has a cousin, Bront Milalrond, who left the tribe on the walkabout about 4 years ago, 3 years befor him. Bront was also touched by wild-magick, and unlike Lorke he was curious about magic and mysteries. Bront sent messages back to his mother for the first years of his Lidû Soya-min, but the messages stopped coming. Assuming that Bront has met some end, and having loosely followed his trail toEuropa as best he could find, Lorke keeps an ear out for any story that might bring a clue to discoving his fate and recovering his remains.