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"Kaliam", conjoined apprentice wizards

Started by Whim, February 19, 2018, 11:31:32 PM

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Names Kana Blackbraid and Liam Hargrove ("Kaliam" for short)
Age 14 and 14
Sex Male
Species Human
Ethnicity Duhjari and Serenian
Height 5'0"
Occupation Second-year Apprentices at Wyrdwood Academy
Residence Western Serendipity

Physical Description
"Kaliam" is a two-headed boy, fused by magic.

Kana, on the right, has a wide Duhjari face and dark hair drawn into pony-tail. Liam, on the left, has delicate Serenian features and shaggy black bangs. Both have the same hazel eyes. Their shared body is short and stocky with copper skin and swarthy black hair. Wyrdwood has relaxed its dress code for their sake, and they wear a loose-fitting blue robe with sufficient room for two heads. Separate wands jut from their left and right pockets.

Kana was tall and broad-shouldered. His skin was dark and his eyes brown. Liam was small, skinny, and fair. His hair used to be blonde, his eyes violet, and skin freckled. Their features seem to have bled into one another's since the fusion. Kana teases his new "brother" about their height; Liam complains loudly about having a hairy chest.



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Personality
Kana is impetuous and hot-headed. He's boisterous, quick to make friends, and loves competition of all sorts from arm-wrestling to magical-duels. Being an orphan, and slave, Kana is very clingy and easily hurt. He appreciates Liam as a friend who won't leave him.

Liam is is bookish, somewhat snobby, and highly critical of himself and others. His assets include a sharp tongue and endless well of tenacity. He resents Kana for his talent and likability, and complains loudly about having no privacy. Of course, without Kana Liam would be a friendless social pariah.

It's been a year since the fusion, and seats have surely opened up, but neither has broached the topic a reversal...

Magic/Abilities
Each has control over their shared body, though as an unspoken rule Kana works their right limbs and Liam their left. "Kaliam" is capable of casting two spells at once.

Kana is incredibly talented with elemental magic. He favors earth and stone, though can conjure any of the four. The boy is always testing his limits: What can his stone fists break? How fast can he fly? How big an elemental can he summon? Despite this raw power Kana lacks any kind of finesse. He's got a hammer and every problem is a nail.

Liam favors illusion and prestidigitation. He can conjure small, useful objects which persist so long as he concentrates. While not very powerful Liam is careful and studious.

Relationships
Are they students subject to an unfair spell by lazy faculty? Best friends? Brothers? Kana and Liam are trying to work that all out.

History
Kana grew up in a tribe on the Serha plains. He was orphaned at a young age, though the tribe cared for children as a community effort, thus no love was lost. Having sorcerous blood, the boy was to be trained as a shaman. The tribe had a run of bad luck when the Grimgut Company poisoned their watering hole, and slaughtered their warriors. Slaves were demanded as tribute and parentless children were sadly the first to go. He spent a week in the Adelan slave markets when a lady in blue came by clutching a mirror. She showed it to each slave-child, who saw the key to their shackles in the reflection. Kana was able to reach in and grab it.

Liam was the third child of the Hargrove Family of Fallial. After two daughters they wanted a big strong knight, but Liam's gentle nature was ill-suited for such a life. The Hargroves were never really a mage-family and it took a lot of strings and gold to find Liam a place at Wyrdwood. An ambitious fellow had a rather creative solution to the matter of finding him a seat...

No one is quite sure if Wyrdwood simply wanted the Hargrove's patronage very badly, or if "Kaliam" was simply an experiment they wanted to try. The son of a minor family and a foreign-born slave could hardly object, after all. The boys are considered one student for administrative purposes, though Liam does most of the work. Liam's education has sometimes taken a back seat to the cultivation of Kana's talent.

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OLIVER THE BARBARIAN - a very reluctant hero and monster-slayer
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Saoirse Nettlefield - Headmistress of Wyrdwood, conniving academic

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