__________________QUICK STATSName Ezka Shaans
Age 26
Gender Male
Species Human
Ethnicity Serenian
Height 5'7"
Occupation Grad student and Research assistant
Residence Airelos University - Reichsgard
__________________IN-DEPTH STUFFPhysical DescriptionOn the shorter side of average with a soft stomach and hands that comes from spending many years bent over books and little else. Tawny skin and dark eyes and hair to match. Disheveled, hair kept long but pulled back, forever still in his face, giving the air that Ezka is always just this side of a frantic all-nighter, something also reflected in his dress.
Ezka knows little of modern fashion or trends, being shut away in the school as often as he is. He tends to layer up, throwing extra cloaks or sleeves over his normal layers, still not entirely acclimatized to the colder weather of Darken Vei compared to his home region of Summervale.
PersonalityAt first glance, Ezka comes across friendly if somewhat frazzled, his speech reminiscent of someone who's constantly trying to chase their own thoughts before they get away from him, though it often doesn't take long for people to find Ezka's chatty, curious nature overbearing.
Typical social boundaries and niceties have always been a little harder for him to grasp and Ezka is quick to over-step, insert himself where he isn't wanted, or miss his cue to leave things be. As such, he can count the number of close relationships, platonic or romantic, on one hand (possibly even one finger). This has caused Ezka to work even harder to ingratiate himself with his peers or even random passers-by, eager to earn this attention and affection.
It also has fostered a great love of knowledge and learning, a thirst he pursues with similar bloody-mindedness, quick to engage with any new or interesting magic or factual tidbit and intent on mastering and improving both his own magical skills and any perceived lacking social skills he could fill with pure knowledge. Unfortunately, it means he knows his way better around a library better than any tavern or dance hall, not that he'd let that slow him down (or be aware that maybe he should).
Strengths: Tenacious, open-minded, intelligent
Weaknesses: Impulsive, naive, people-pleaser
Magic/AbilitiesTrained in Elemental magic though Ezka admittedly holds little real talent for it. Ezka's true skills, if they can be called that, lie in his penchant for luck based magic, able to theoretically adjust the likelihood of a specific circumstance occurring. It's a skill he eagerly pursues to improve and while he has a great capacity for it, Ezka is far more likely to manipulate probability for the worse, commonly causing misfires, calamities and misfortune as readily as whatever he was actually trying to do.
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HistoryOriginally from Summervale, the Shaans family finds itself firmly on the lower end of the upper-class crust, producing a few mediocre mages in their time and little else. When Ezka showed some magical potential at a young age, his parents were eager to encourage and cultivate it though it quickly proved more trouble than it could be worth.
After Ezka managed to vanish all the doors in the family home for the third time in a row, it became apparently that more advance schooling (and distance) was needed. A far flung letter from his mother to an uncle on the faculty at Airelos secured him a spot at the school in his teens, though not without more than a few strings, embroiling Eska in an extensive debt.
Frankly, it's a miracle that Ezka managed to graduate at all, but what he lacked in magical talent and control he barely managed to make up with tenacity and booksmarts, though he's made little progress in his career or academics since his graduation a few years ago, often stuck in the further reaches of the school catalogues and stacks that the faculty can stick him to keep him out of trouble and out of their hair as they count down to the day he either finally finishes his graduate work, pays off his debts, or simply manages to blow himself up.
With the hopes of encouraging one or the other of those outcomes, Ezka has recently been assigned to field work, researching and mapping magical or historic sites across the continent, something he's never done but has taken to with great gusto. Time will still tell if Ezka will manage to find anything of note or at the very least not end up dead in a ditch somewhere.
__________________THREAD TRACKERCurrent ThreadsComplete Threads__________________POTENTIAL PLOT IDEAS- Travelling companions either temporary or long termPeople to annoy
- People to give Ezka a taste of "the real world" or take advantage of him
- Plots involving the search or discovery of magical or anciet locations/items
