Appearance

Physical Description

Rather tall and lithe, though his babushka and James are constantly telling him to put more meat on his bones.

Body Features

There are incredibly intricate tattoos along his torso and all the way down his back. The front resembles some sort of collar with cascading vines going down chest in a sharp v. They wrap around to his back, turning from flowery vines into sharp but elegant runes to ward away evil and bad luck.

Facial Features

He is constantly told that he looks like a fox. He has a narrow face, sharp cheekbones, and sharp eyes framed by long eyelashes. His eyes are the color of honey, almost looking yellow in certain lighting. Some wrinkles, like around his eyes, are beginning to deepen and become more prominent.

Identifying Characteristics

His long, jet-black hair is incredibly notable and is usually the thing people remember about him. He usually wears parts of his hair braided and held by glittering pins or high quality silk and velvet ribbons.

Apparel & Accessories

He is almost always wearing black. While in Rhapsody teaching, Ninian would usually wear nicely tailored suits. While traveling, his attire is clearly well tailored but made to withstand the harsh conditions of adventuring. Everything is made for him personally and is to fit his slim figure. Everything is predominantly black with accents of red to show that he is still mourning his brother and to keep him hidden in the shadows. The most notable thing about his attire is the occasional use of his hat, a dark red number with briars, foxglove, and a veil adorning it.

Mentality

Education

He is highly educated, as he was personally tutored growing up, went to college, and graduated. While he was as impressive in practical demonstrations of magic, his understanding of how magic works is what got him accepted at the university and then allowed him to become a professor at it later on. His specialty is alchemy and defensive forms of magic, such as 'war magic.'

Employment

Ninian's normal day job is that of a professor. He teaches two areas of expertise, alchemy and modern magic theory. Even though he assigns a lot of essays in his classes, he's still quite popular among students.
 
What he discreetly calls his 'hobby' is his secondary job as a spy for James. He mostly keeps an eye around the university for any suspicious activity and watches out for potential spies sent by Madame Guillotine, dealing with them swiftly before they can get information back to her or get a foothold in the power structure within the university itself.

Accomplishments & Achievements

He has written multiple papers, such as “Alchemy in the Modern World: How to make an Outdated Art Thrive in Our Age”, “A Theory on the Weave of Magic: Knots of Mana in Relations to Vancian Residual Manifestation”, and “Dark Tales of the North: A Collection of Naryadstian Folk Tales and How they Show How the Sickening Transformed Dark Magical Practices”. Because of these papers he has become well known in the magic world around Rhapsody, Nadeyatsya, and a few cities around them.

Morality & Philosophy

"I don't know if right and wrong are constants in this world, but I have ideals. I have morals and I stick to them, even if they don't line up with other people's."

person.sexuality

Gay.

Known Languages

Common and Naryadstian.

Personality

Social

Birthplace

Nadeyatsya, The City That Can't Fall

Current Residence

Rhapsody

Hobbies & Pets

While he would not consider them pets, Ninian has his trusty familiar (named Krasivyy by Ascelion) and a cat that occasionally comes by his apartment and eats food (called 'the damn cat' by Nin).
 
His main hobby is oil painting and he has given a lot of portraits to James, some of them being of him and of his cohorts. Ninian dislikes painting himself.