Simun Sparweald

Captain Simun Ulysses Sparweald

Physical Description

Body Features

Simun is very slender in built. He always ties his hair to a pony tail, cause he believes pirates have to have long hair, same as wizards need a beard. He would never ever part from one of the two.

Facial Features

A scar across his left eyebrow (which he gained when hitting a table as a child)

Apparel & Accessories

An earring in his left ear, a purple coat and hat with golden stars and moons.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Simun always wanted to become a meaningful person, who would once go down in history as someone worth remembering for an eternity. A mighty wizard or an even mightier pirate - or why not both? The downside of this plan was, that he was neither magically gifted nor did he have a ship, or a family who was even living near the ocean. His childhood was as uneventful and normal as a childhood could have ever been. He grew up with an older brother in his families Inn, home schooled by his parents who always meant well but never had time to answer all his questions or spent enough time with him. Everything he knew about the sea came from old books and stories of travelers that were passing through Wanderer's Rest. He always told everyone he wanted to become a mighty wizard and pirate one day, proudly showing off his 'battle scar' on his eyebrow, not telling anyone he got it when he stumbled over the family dog and hit a table when he was younger.
When he became of age his father sent him out more often to pick up good from neighboring towns and cities, which was mostly a pretty uneventful job... until one night it wasn't. While picking up good from the Alchemist's Alembic he stumbled upon a group of half-elves by mere accident that was about to be smuggled out of Ederaa. Nosy and always interested in a good story he was spying on their conversations, until he was spotted by Vax. Having seen and heard too much she needed to make a plan to keep her organization save, and the stuttering and mumbling young man managed to 'talk' his way into her heart. He joined the group and was later reported missing by his parents and after some years declared dead.
In the meantime he reached Cirabaen after a rough boat trip across the lake of the Rumbling Cascades. He was so thrilled about being on his first 'adventure', that his positivity lightened the mood of his travel companions, even though he was an Ederaan, and they were once imprisoned Half-Elves.
Arriving in Queen's Rise, Vax decided it would be easier to just pretend Simun was also an half-elf than to deal with any unnecessary explanations. He found a job with one of his fallow travel companions at a magic shop in the city, spending the next years learning a lot about magic - one thing being the fact that he was not able to ever cast any. He was smitten. Depressed. Annoyed... he hoped to find any help with this problem in the Azuremist, so he embarked on his journey with nothing but the coins he had earned and his meager belongings, one of them being a purple coat with moons and stars, that he had bought shorty after his first paycheck, to at least look a little like the wizard from his childhood stories and tales.
In Daladrin a group on young elves made fun of him after listening to his dreams, sending him off to the Voidwake, saying the Tainted would be his only chance to ever be magically gifted. Not knowing what he was doing he embarked on this suicide mission, just to get lost and later be saved by a banished and disfigured member of sentient species that was highly magically gifted and intelligent. It looked like an octopus with only one eye and three tentacles... and still Simun and it became friends really fast, he even managed to infect his new friend with his dream of becoming a wizard pirate.
Skipping forward in time. His friend, now called Tripod had become an adult and was able to cast pretty high level arcane spells, but to hide the fact that this weak body was the source of this powers, Simun and Tri made up a charade of him being able to cast all these amazing spells. They were later joined by 'hat", a talking mimic taking the form of a wizard hat that was also used as a nice inter dimensional storage chest. The trio had taken of to conquer the Sea of Dust as mighty (and the only) pirates still sailing it. Reanimating an old, half rotten and former sunken ship that they found, Simon became the Captain of the C'Wind, a vessel that could be summoned from the sand and riding the dunes like ocean waves. The only people he was able to 'pirate' were some lost caravans with camels or other animals, asking them more or less politely for 'donations to his cause', but he had found a way to live his impossible dream.

Sexuality

He definitely loves women

Education

He was home schooled during his childhood and later picked up some inn keeper and merchant skills while growing up.

Employment

From helping out at his family's inn, the Wanderer's Rest, during his childhood and later at a magic shop in Queen's Rise, he ended up becoming a self employed 'pirate wizard' as captain of the C'Wind.

Failures & Embarrassments

They happen daily, but in a smaller scale. He just has a talent to sometimes make a fool of himself.

Personality Characteristics

Vices & Personality flaws

He would love to be a pirate, but he feels always guilty when he 'takes' anything from anyone, even if they basically hand it to him as a gift. He tends to say anything regarding of the consequences it might bring.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Vax - Good friend and his secret love interest, that has no clue he is madly in love with her cause of his inability to show it.

Religious Views

He believes that not believing in anything is also a form of believing in something.

Mannerisms

He gesticulates a lot while speaking, using magic to to the most mundane of tasks (thanks to Tripod) in a kinda try-hard way (o no, let me open the door for you!). Looks away when talking to beautiful women, mostly pretending to look out over the 'sea' or at a map or anything.

Wealth & Financial state

A great "treasure" that he obtained over the years, mostly mundane object or broken artifacts, random junk that only has any worth because of the stories attached to it.

Current Location

Sea of Dust

Species

Human

Date of Birth

6th of Saar 669

Year of Birth

669 29 Years old

Birthplace

Wanderer's Rest

Current Residence

C'Wind

Gender

Male

Eyes

Light grayish blue

Hair

Light copper

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Lighter tan

Height

5'9" / 179cm

Known Languages

He speaks Common (and the Ederaan' dialect) fluently and elvish pretty well, mostly self taught. He will mix up words here and there or might misunderstand some things sometimes, but it is enough to get around and understand people.