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Title: Kai Wilding
Post by: Whim on January 25, 2016, 07:31:34 PM
Name Kai Wilding
Age 20
Sex Male
Species Human, transforming into a donkey
Ethnicity Serenian
Height 5'6"
Orientation: Bisexual
Occupation Adventurer, formerly a squire
Residence Serenian

Physical Description
Kai is a handsome youth with delicate, fey features and a wavy mop of auburn hair. His fair skin is dotted with freckles. Teetering between adolescence and adulthood, he sports a slender body with just a hint of muscle. In his other shape Kai is a strong, young donkey with auburn fur and a ropy tail.

His garb tends to be stylish: embroidered waistcoats and silk tunics. In combat he wears a bronze chestplate emblazoned with his family crest, though much of his defense comes from charms and magic.

Personality
Kai is adventurous, quick-witted, and generous. At times he can be a petulant and stubborn with those who don't defer to his judgment. He loves magic and luxury though averse to the work involved in achieving either, and is easily tempted by short-cuts.

Magic/Abilities
A potent curse is transforming Kai into a donkey. He's able to briefly suppress it and appear human, for a time, but the curse always catches up with him. The transformation is able to regenerate wounds and his form seems always that of a young, healthy beast; any other magical transformations are purged in an effort to revert him to this new 'natural' form.

As a squire, Kai knows how to use a sword and fight in armor. Although not a proper mage he is able to bend existing spells in his favor, and carries a number of magical charms and trinkets. These include: a broadsword made of ice, bracers of stoneflesh, and a potion to make him appear human.

Relationships
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History
Kai is the youngest of a small, yet very old, family of Serendipity. He grew up on a tiny ramshackle estate and was envious of children with prettier homes and less eccentric families. The boy was trained to become a mage-knight. Though Kai lacked the discipline for military life, natural talent and charms were able to carry him through.

He and several other squires were soon tasked with purging a barrow of evil spirits. The tomb belonged to the chieftain of a fey-worshiping tribe long since absorbed into Serendipity's peasantry. Twice an old sage appeared before Kai, begging for the barrow to be spared, and twice Kai refused him. On the third and final day the sage returned to court and revealed himself to be a faun, a genus loci who'd watched the Wildings' land for untold generations. The faun was furious at Kai's disrespect for his old followers, and decreed Kai should be cast down and made to work the land. Kai's britches ruptured on the spot and a ropy tale emerged. The faun fled.

The relics were returned, redemption was sought, gifts were offered, and wizards summoned, but nothing could halt the curse. His ears changed, and fur beginning to sprout, so Kai set off in search of a reversal...

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Current Threads
Outlaw Country (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=23872.0) - Kai has his stuff stolen, but meets a new friend.
Curses, Foiled Again (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=20152.0) - Trying to break his curse Kai meets the outcast and cursed unicorn Areharis. The pair delve into the nature of divine curses, and his affliction only grows worse.

Complete Threads
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