PICTURE:
~Basic Info~
NAME: Dian Zerakhil
AGE: 26
GENDER: Male
RACE: Human
HEIGHT: 5’9”
BIRTHPLACE: A small mountain town near the borders of Midland, Highlands, and The Great Wilds
LANGUAGES: Common, Demonic
SEXUALITY: Homosexual
MARITAL STATUS: Single
OCCUPATION: Healer/Ex-Clergyman/Would-Be Prophet
~Inventory~
WEAPON(S): The only weapon Dian carries besides his herbalist’s knife is a steel-shod quarterstaff which he uses for traveling far more than combat. The staff is of a sturdy, but scrached Rowan with only four crosses carved around the top to give it any significance.
CLOTHING: Because the world is a dangerous place, Dian travels in a suit of sturdy leather armor purchased at a small village store after his first attack on his journey. The amour is maintained with a caring, if inexperienced hand so it does not move or fit as well as it could. When working in towns to work with the sick, he eschews the outer covering for a healer robe that has seen far too much blood, offal, and washings to be called pure white anymore.
OTHER: An ornate silver cross hangs around Dian’s neck. His last momento of his time spent as a clergyman.
~Personality~
ALIGNMENT: Neutral Good
LIKES: Angels, Helping Others, Living Things, Seasoned Meat, Men
DISLIKES: Demons, Corruption, The Undead,
DESCRIPTION: Dian is a man with a goal. Through his eyes, the world is a dark and terrible place where the forces of darkness hold sway over all, and even the church which is supposed to be a stalwart bastion against evil, has slipped into decay and corruption. After his expulsion from The Holy Order for the double crime of Homosexuality and using mystical powers, Dian’s life was turned upside-down. Believing that men could not interpret the will of God correctly, which led to such darkness being present in the world today, the ex-Clergyman refocused his goals from those of The Holy Order to finding a way to realize god’s will more accurately.
~Biography~
Like many young priests, Dian entered The Holy Order at a younger age, but in his case it was far younger than others as he was left there at five years of age by parents who’s failing farm could no longer care for all of their children, so they were forced to give up their youngest son. Due to both the malnutrition and the young age, Dian has little memory of life outside the order, and littler care to find and burden his birth parents with their past. For fifteen years the young boy lived within the halls of the church, slowly memorizing their doctrine and only interrupting his molding into a perfect Priest by his incessant empathy for those who did not receive blessing from God.
Being caught in an act of passion with a local stable boy at the age of seventeen didn’t help either. But unwilling to give up their most hopeful candidate for High Priest in a very long time, the higher ranking members of the local church decided to turn a blind eye to his ‘indiscretion’ under the oath that the young Priest would never participate in such a thing ever again.
However, three years later when it was discovered that Dian’s treatments for the sick were augmented by mystic powers, no amount of potential the now-man had could save him from the Order’s Strictest doctrine. Under cover of night Dian fled into the mountains where after collapsing from exhaustion and loss of will to continue on, he was discovered by an old man who lived in an abandoned miner’s shack. While nursing him back to health using his own mystic powers, the (possibly crazy) old man told Dian tales from ancient books that told of the creation of the world, and most importantly, of angels. These winged beings of divine radiance were as close to god as one could be, and yet were not god himself. If there were any way to discover the true Word of God, these beings would surely hold the key. His faith restored, Dian took the books the man gifted him with and set out into the world, determined to find a way to save it.
