Deucalion

Campaign: TOMAGOMB

Alias: Deucalion

Birth Name: Arthurius Tirilith

Birth Place: Rytli

Gender: Male

Age: 23

Race: Human, for now... (Compliments of Zerm.)

Religion: Barognis.

Profession: Alchemist, Thief, Umbra (Shade)

Fighting style: Stealth, Caution, and Grace. Deucalion tries to refine his art of melee competence, but is more concerned with being unseen and staying alive. He favors the barbed dagger, because of its greater damage potential when making stealthy attacks.

Languages Known: Arithmeian, Bedkip, Common, Elven, and Thieves' Cant.

Appearance: He has an ample body build with long raven black hair, brown eyes, and a tan complexion. His clothing changes quite often due to him being in constant disguise.

Siblings: His half-brother Lucien Tirilith, former Captain and Commander of the Lumesthus Brigade. (Slightly modified Latin word for fear.)

Ambition: Discover the fate of his half-brother Lucien, and if he is alive, hopefully determine his whereabouts.

Theme Song: Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots.

Back Story
Deucalion goes by several names, but one from a more well-known campaign would be "Daeus." Deucalion is my "overhaul" of my character from the Sea Faring Campaign. I tried to make a more "playable" version of him that was less broken and more flexible as far as acceptance would be. Anyways, on to his life story.

Deucalion was born in the country of Rytli on the continent of Drammir, west of Baldorn (the army who formerly employed us.) as Arthurius Tirilith. His mother died giving birth to him and his father left before he was born. After the passing of his mother, he was raised by his older half brother, Lucien for the majority of his life. When Arthurius was five, him and Lucien traveled to the country of Baldorn where they stayed with a few distant relatives for a few years. Lucien joined the army at the age of 15, and climbed steadily through the ranks. Though he had a minor reputation of being portrayed as a bloodthirsty, warmonger, it did little to diminish Arthurius' pride in his older half-sibling. While his brother was off in the war, back in their new home city in Baldorn, Arthurius became a local street urchin. He quickly learn the trade of a thief, occasionally having brushes with the law. The local thieves' guild, though pitifully smaller than most, became intrigued by his potential for the stealth profession and hired him on for a couple of years. He still retains membership to this day, but the guild has most likely been dissolved or absorbed by a larger one. At the age of 16, he joined the Baldornian army under Lucien’s influence as a supply scout. Two years into his military service, his brother was on assignment deep in the heart of Baldorn investigating some ancient ruins, when all of his troupe suddenly vanished without a trace. Very little information was ever recovered from the site, and what was known is now lost due to either negligence or direct intent on the army's part. During Lucien’s disappearance, Arthurius was having a falling out of the scout sect. Several so-called "accidents" which caused the death of other scouts and soldiers were directly connected to him, and were stated by army authorities as "premeditated" murders. Also, valuable items had come up "missing" from fellow scouts in his troupe. With so many outstanding rumors and gossips, he was brought up on charges of theft and murder. After a brief trial, the judgment presented sentenced Arthurius to be executed.

As distraught as he may have been over his brother's sudden disappearance, it ironically proved to be a boon for his current situation. Leaving a small trail of dead in his wake, Arthurius escaped under cover of darkness from a small military prison camp. He ventured back to Rytli in the disguise of a wealthy merchant's son, and eventually returned to his home village. While staying on the western continent, he went by the alias "Deucalion", the name of a deceased Baldornian king. (In real world terms, Deucalion I was a king in ancient Greek mythology. Son of Prometheus and Epimetheus and a descendant of Gaia.)He searched for five long years, drifting from town to city across the western continent taking any thieving jobs he could, all the while his secret motive being that of obtaining information on his missing half-brother. Though the trail quickly turned into a dead end, and what few scraps of knowledge he discovered only led him to ask more questions. At the age of 23, after years of searching with nothing turning up, he heard rumors of the Baldornian king, Thrymic VI, hoping to expand and capitalize on the resources of the Bedkip occupied Sinesteene Region to the east. So, he traveled for weeks to a far port city on the coast of Baldorn and snuck aboard a military vessel, and sailed to the eastern continent of Safeev.

Hiding in the cargo hold, surviving mostly on rats and even animal companions of several soldiers, as the chance to steal food was fairly limited and quite risky, he attuned himself to the perfection of his practice. Being talented at stealth, he managed to evade the inhabitants of the ship, but the cargo hold was cold and wet, thus making many nights in the ship very unpleasant. After months of travel, the ship finally docked on the coast of the Sinesteene Region, in the confines of a large encampment headed by [the late] General Kadrick, right hand to Thrymic VI. The stowaway left the ship and made haste to the forest. He then encountered a necromancer by the name of N'wrath, and joined with him under the guise of a mercenary named Jeggred O'Connell. None within the camp seem to suspect his true identity, but Deucalion still remains ever wary of treachery, not even revealing his own nature to his group members for fear of the danger it could bring.