Aozun, The Novel

Written by bulakay

Professor (Former) Aozun N/A (a.k.a. The Novelty)

The source of Aozun's drive is very simple. He wants to save the world from the damnation it currently faces, and anything or anyone is worth the price.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Aozun dresses in heavy black clothing blurring the lines between fashionable and functional, with a long black coat with numerous pockets for tools. Aozun almost always wears his spirit mask that he has fashioned into a full headed helmet resembling a gas mask for going out into the deadlands, in an attempt to cover his horns. Almost every square inch of his body is covered when in public, complete with gloves and a scarf or cravat. Without being completely covered he looks fairly normal with the exception of scales instead of skin around the base of his horns and at the base of his tail.

Body Features

Pale

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Aozun came to Duskwall as a young child, alone. He doesn’t remember much of his childhood other than the day his family died. He remembers the blood more than anything, so much of it that the air was filled with it. The smell, the taste still fresh on his tongue when he thinks of that time. That and the spirits of his family. They lingered in the house until he left weeping to him why he wasn’t with them, why they had been killed and he had lived, why he didn’t do anything to save them. After being discovered and rescued from the scene of his family’s death he took what belongings his family had, purchased a ticket and came to Duskwall leaving his ancestral homeland.
Aozun found out quickly how differently he was treated than other people. The stranger they called him. His long reptilian prehensile tail and small horns protruding from his forehead didn’t help. He spent many of those first years living on the streets, but his curiosity and thirst for knowledge led him to petty theft; not of the normal things other urchins stole like food or other necessities, but books. Aozun loved books more than anything in those early years. They taught him more about the new culture he found himself in than anyone else would take the time to do.
After years of self study Aozun took on an apprenticeship for a merchant near Charterhall University, primarily helping the shop keeper track his finances. The owner of the shop, Lord Scurlock, owner of many businesses in Duskwall, took great interest in the ambitious young man and all of his “novel ideas.” In exchange any books that came through the shop Aozun worked at was given to him before the books were resold. He didn’t mind that, he rarely forgot anything he found worth remembering.
Aozun became one of the youngest individuals to be admitted to the Charterhall University, and one of the few Tycherosi. It was unheard of. But the boys knowledge and thirst for more could not be denied, that and the patronage of Lord Scurlock. Aozun took every class he was allowed to take. He was at the university day in and day out. More than once he had to be removed from university grounds for medical needs, malnutrition or sheer exhaustion.
Aozun didn’t know where his thirst for knowledge came until he was admitted into classes regarding medical procedures and practices. As much as he took to studying other subjects, he took to medical and spiritual studies exponentially more.
He might not have been the youngest admitted into the university but he was the youngest graduate, and again the youngest research professor specializing in medical and spiritual studies. This is when Aozun’s obsession became troublesome, his experiments became more unorthodox, his peers distanced themselves from him. He didn’t notice their absence. He had found his calling. No one would ever suffer the way he had in that one memory from his homeland, no one would suffer like his family.
Aozun’s degrees were revoked, not a bother they’re just paper documenting his accomplishments, he already knew his accomplishments because they didn’t stack up to his failures. But then they removed him from the university, he was no longer allowed to teach, no longer allowed to research, not even allowed to study at the library. At the time this was a fate worse than death for him. Why were they so angry? No one was hurt and the girl’s spirit was only angry at him, THAT was truly his greatest regret. He hurt Nyryx more than he or anyone he had ever known had been hurt, that was not his intent, and now he was being punished more.
Aozun left deciding nothing would stop him. He would unlock the secrets of the human spirit and the limits of the human body and it’s connection with the spirit. He will right the wrong he committed against Nyryx and let her rest. Soon no one will experience pain like he had.
His personality is composed of his own personality overlaid with a shade of his former family members.

Education

Charterhall University, Lord Scurlock's personal library

Accomplishments & Achievements

Youngest graduate of Charterhall University and youngest professor of Spiritual and Medical studies.

Failures & Embarrassments

Death and subsequent release of the spirit of Nyryx. Every bell that sounds and the gate to the afterlife hasn't been reopened.

Mental Trauma

Being haunted, and possessed then exorcised, then repossessed by his immediate family as a child scarred him for life driving him to stop it from happening to anyone ever again.

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Ethnicity

Tycherosi

Year of Birth

824 IE 23 Years old

Gender

Male

Eyes

Light gray

Hair

Short, unkempt, same color as his eyes in spite of his age.

Height

5'10"

Quotes & Catchphrases

"My, my, my." When something catches his interest or someone exceeds his expectations of them, primarily intellectually.