Ravenloft - Character Profiles

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My beginnings are lost in the darkness of the past​

Here is a basic layout for players to use to present their characters. Feel free to add any tidbits that you feel are necessary. Images are welcome, but not required.

Character Name:
Aliases:
Gender:
Profession:
Apparent age:
Appearance:

Personality:

Recent history:
Notable relationships:

Strengths, talents, and points of pride:
Weaknesses, detriments, and points of improvement:

 

[Xanaphia]

Character Name: Esperanza Sergovia
Aliases: Espie
Gender: Female
Profession: Duelist/ Bard
Apparent age: 22
Appearance: Tall and slender, with dark hair and eyes, and fair skin.

Personality: Espie is charming and well-spoken, having been very thoroughly educated by her adopted parents, an affluent merchant family looking to raise their status through the marriage of their daughter. She is not quite prepared to be tied down in marriage, promising that only one who can defeat her in a duel may win her hand. This hasn't stopped her from taking the losers into her bed.

Recent history: She is expanding her range of knowledge by traveling the land.
Notable relationships: Sergovia's, Accomplished merchants of eastern trade goods.

Strengths, talents, and points of pride: Knowledgeable about a wide berth of subjects, practiced singer and musician. Talented duelist.
Weaknesses, detriments, and points of improvement: Flighty, impulsive, independent

 

[Touch Of Temperament]

Character Name: Ekaterina Kolyana
Aliases: Katya, Legs
Gender: Female
Profession: Rogue/ thief
Apparent age: 22
Appearance: Her dark hair flows down her back. She is tall, built lean and lithe with long legs. Her eyes are of the darkest brown, appearing almost black, standing out against her pale skin. There's a tattoo of a stalking fox on her back.

Personality: Katya has learned at an early age that if you don't look out for yourself, no one else will. Growing up alone in orphanages and on the streets she has a very well developed sense of self preservation. She is charming and sassy, knows how to draw others in. At the same time she is cunning and calculating. Everything she does geared to either surviving or coming out better at the other end, with little regard to others.

Recent history: Life in Krotice has gotten even harder for Katya lately. The Feodorov crime family tried to recruit her, but she refused, seducing and embarrassing one of their sons instead. Now they've set out to complicate her life in Krotice significantly, thwarting her plots and schemes at every step.
Notable relationships: Complicated relationship with the Feodorov crime family in Krotice.

Strengths, talents, and points of pride: Intelligent with a range of questionable skills such a sneaking and lock picking.
Weaknesses, detriments, and points of improvement: Selfish and manipulative.

 

[xavierrol]

Character Name: Xavier Rollins
Aliases: None
Gender: Male
Profession: Guard/Teamster
Apparent age: 47
Appearance: Solid build, weathered face, salt and pepper hair is close cropped on the sides and just long enough to comb at the top. Green eyes are deep and piercing, usually clean shaven and well dressed but not flashy, a bit rougher out on the road.

Personality: Stoic and reserved. He is deferential towards the Sergovia family though more in a transnational manner then a true sense of fealty. He has a calmness borne of his extensive travels and experiences with the caravan trade.

Recent history: Xavier concerned himself fortunate to have settled into a more predictable and relatively safe life of looking after the Sergovia family, particularly Esperanza.
Notable relationships: Xavier's work is his life, both parents dying when he was still a child he had to work to survive and found a home on the road driving oxen and later guarding the Sergovia family trade caravans. His quiet competence eventually earned him the position of guarding the family itself, especially their prized daughter. Xavier's workman like demeanor rarely cracks but when it does it is usually in the company of the lovely Esperanza.

Strengths, talents, and points of pride: Well traveled and experienced living on the road. Good in a fight, slow to anger, preferring to keep his calm when most others are losing theirs.
Weaknesses, detriments, and points of improvement: The years have been hard on Xavier, he experiences aches and pains especially in the mornings. He is distrustful of outsides, especially those he feels would take advantage of his employer's generosity.

 

[BennyQ]

Character Name: Valery Bucren.
Aliases: Bucren (doesn’t reveal his given name often).
Gender: Male.
Profession: Ex-Mercenary/Farmhand.
Apparent age: Mid-thirties. 29 to be exact.
Appearance: Lean, with broad shoulders, slender waist. Strong legs from trekking. Voluminous raven hair, knotted in a short ponytail down his spine, braided if he’s having a good day. Winter-cold grey eyes and a trimmed dark beard. In his youth he braided the long hairs under his chin, which he still might, on a good day.

Personality: Bucren is a man hardened by his experiences, having beheld and engaged in death-dealing since he was young, forced to defend his familial home. His loss of family at an early age left him without much in the way of friendships or intimacies. Traveling much with mercenaries has also instilled in him a sense of soldierly duty, to do what must be done, as well as a sense of morbid foreboding, expecting death at every corner, living for the moment. A childhood idealist, who lost his loved ones, his cynical nature in his later age is a shield to protect him from further emotional trauma. Loved ones, friends, compatriots, the dog down the street, they all died eventually, leaving him bereft.

Recent history: Bucren has been in Boravia for many years, having found steady work and employment on rotation as a guard for a barnhouse on the local farms, locking up and guarding the animals while warding off dangers. He is waiting for some foreseen moment that will indicate it is finally time to leave Boravia, if one will dare the dangers lurking without.
Notable relationships: Is willing to do the tough jobs for Boravia, as long as they pay him enough. Some friends still in the mercenary trade. Does odd jobs for the Burgomaster and is known to his household. Interacts with the Tser Pool inhabitants here and there for trade.

Strengths, talents, and points of pride: More skilled with his bow than his sword, possesses a rusting sword, a yew-bow and a shorter dirk. Survivalist and hunter, knowledgeable about local fauna, what is edible and what is not (through trial and error). Former harpist who doesn’t play anymore.
Weaknesses, detriments, and points of improvement: Currently suffering an infected wound, unable to afford treatment, making strenuous activities like drawing a bow or wielding a blade difficult. Impoverished. Pessimist. World-weary and tight-lipped about his past. Distrustful of acts of charity.

 

[TheCorsair]

[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Character Name: [/BGCOLOR][BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Andrei Ovidiu Constantin[/BGCOLOR]
[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Aliases: None[/BGCOLOR]
[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Gender: Male[/BGCOLOR]
[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Profession: Burgomeister’s Guard[/BGCOLOR]
[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Apparent Age: Early 30s[/BGCOLOR]
[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Appearance: Andrei is tall, nearly 6’ 7”, with a lean build and well-defined muscles. He wears his jet-black hair shaggy and shoulder-length, and has a prominent widow’s peak when he (rarely) pulls it back. His eyes are a piercing blue, his nose is straight and hawk-like, and his face is expressive and frequently smiles.[/BGCOLOR]

[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Personality: Andrei is friendly and outgoing, with a playful streak and a broad sense of humor. He also has a fierce temper and a strong sense of personal honor, strong enough that he has had to struggle to control his impulses when insulted. He is extremely loyal to the Burgomeister, to his fellow guards, and to Barovia, seeing it as a duty owed to the land ge calls his home.[/BGCOLOR]

[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Recent History: Andrei has lived in Barovia all his life, growing up in the mists and the shadow of the von Zarovitch castle (the “Castel al Bestiei” as it is known in the village whispers). His family was slaughtered by intruders late one night when he was eight - bandits, the official story goes, but young Andrei saw the misshapen, inhuman figures too clearly to believe that - and the Burgomeister took him in. [/BGCOLOR]

[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]He might have become a household servant had not Ismark seen potential in him. So instead, he was trained and raised to be one of the Burgomeister’s household guard, protecting the family that took him in and the community he still lives in.[/BGCOLOR]

[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Recent History: Andrei has been a guardsman, hunting wolves along the roads and in the forests, guarding the town walls at night, and generally doing his duty.[/BGCOLOR]

[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Notable relationships: Andrei loves and respects the Burgomeister, who is much like a second father to him, and his son Ismark, who is very much an older brother to him. Sir Leo deGrey taught him most of what he knows about handling weapons, as well as his faith in the sun god, and he would die for that man if he asked.[/BGCOLOR]

[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Strengths, talents, and points of pride: Andrei is skilled with staves and poke arms, and competent with swords and knives. He reads in his spare time, mostly histories and religious texts (I.e. the contents of the Burgomeister’s household library), has taught himself to play the fiddle, and is a moderately skillful dancer. He also knows the roads and forests of Barovia like the back of his hand, and is a skillful tracker.[/BGCOLOR]

[BGCOLOR=rgb(25, 49, 66)]Weaknesses, detriments, and points of improvement: Andrei has an alarming temper, one that can explode if provoked. He suffers from nightmares on occasion, reliving the slaughter of his family in dreams. He can be selfish and possessive, and feels deep religious guilt over this. He’s a bad cook that thinks he’s a chef[/BGCOLOR]

 

[AlluringEnigma]

Character Name: Theodosia Zima

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Aliases: Teo

Gender: Female

Profession: Gyspy

Apparent age: Late twenties

Appearance: Long raven locks glide down her back and pool at her shoulder blades, forming an impossibly thick mass of black hair. Pale blue eyes peek out from underneath her gaze, pale pools of beauty that shine brightly in the night, though her downwards gaze often hides them from the viewing pleasure of her company. She's slender and very leggy, though her height never seems to be intimidating. (Here's where we diverge from the image). Intricate and carefully crafted tattoos spiral down her arms and cover the pale skin in black ink. Moons, ominous eyes and intricate and foreign designs litter the curated and storied tapestry of her arms, fulminating in a long and intricately designed crescent moon that spans the length of her back.

General Style of Tattoos

Personality: Teo is, at first introduction, quiet and reserved. Despite this, she's quite a clever girl, anyone living away from the care of the Madame has to be, and blunt with her comments. She's never found the use in picking fights with those she doesn't like, and thus she doesn't. With those she's more comfortable with, Teo has a very dark, dry sense of wit. She's very much a product of the precarious position in the world she exists in. Teo is fiercely loyal, though overly ambitious - as evidenced by the death of her closest confidant.

Recent history: Teo, five years ago, encouraged her friend in a romantic, of sorts, rendezvous with the Count. Her friend was hesitant to anger the Madame of the Gypsies, but Teo pushed her, insisting this was her golden ticket amidst a land of constant strife and danger so commonplace that it was often dull. So, when it was found out her friend had been learning the forbidden arts from the Count, she was stoned to death. Teo holds herself personally responsible for this. Aside from assisting the other gypsies outside of the Madame's sphere of influence, she is also the only one in town who can help soothe the wailing of Mad Mary. Maybe it's from a companionship borne out of loss, or maybe a specially brewed cup of tea. Either way, Teo is the only one who seems able or willing to help the poor woman.

Notable relationships:

Mad Mary - Read Above
Madame Eva - Estranged
Barkeeper Arik - Friendly


Strengths, talents, and points of pride:

Ambitious
Cunning
Even-headed
Forgettable
Talented with a knife, minor abilities in soothsaying, dexterous hands (good at thieving, picking locks, and the like), sneaky

Weaknesses, detriments, and points of improvement:

Ambitious
Often overplays her hand
Not trusting enough of strangers, too trusting of accquaintances
Liable to put too many balls in the air and end up dropping them all as a result
Physically weak with the mindset of a physically strong person in a fight