Post by ladymoth on Dec 9, 2010 7:18:17 GMT -5
Name: Jeralt
Age: 89 / 21
Race:Vampire
Occupation: Juggler, fire breather, sword swallower, illusionist, acrobat, stilt-walker, contortionist, knife thrower - basically any task that no one really needs to be performed
Allegiance: Unofficially the Hand of Leona- but that’s more a means to an end.
Physical Description: By virtue of his species Jeralt is in prime condition, he looks as though he spends his life working on his appearance when in reality he treats his body more like an amusement park than a temple. He’s dark skinned and has an unusual bone structure compared to other humans in Alagaesia. Despite the fact that his skin is dark it’s oddly reflective and silvery, as if he were made of some sterner stuff than normal skin. Despite his bulky upper body his lower body is surprisingly lanky; he has spidery legs. His clothing is ornate but not sophisticated; he usually wears brightly colored embroidered capes with hoods to keep the light away, he keeps his chest bare but accessorizes himself with a few too many chains. He paints red around his eyes to a make them appear blood shot; his costume makes sense when he’s around other members of the Nine Moon Cicus, but not when he steps outside of the big top- so to speak. That’s not even mentioning the form he takes when he feeds or attacks, that’s when his face becomes bat like; his nose becoming faintly muzzle like, nostrils flared and his forehead sloping with his brow knotting together and his eyes sinking into the skull and turning bright red.
Personality: Jerk. Jeralt is a sadistic, hedonistic, downright solipsistic, grade-A villain. He looks and acts human but he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing, looking at humans as if they were cuts in a butcher shop. He is somewhat like a cat though because he loves to play with his food before he eats it, he takes a lot of joy in inflicting pain on others and he can be a bit of a ham; which is why being a circus performer suits him so well. He makes his money from the crowd, picks out a good meal, and then the next day he’s rolled away with the circus- he doesn’t even have to bother picking up after himself. In the end he is a being that really should never have been, he is a human granted elven immortality, and he has no idea what to do with himself other than to go crazy.
History: He was at one point human, up until he was twenty-one. He wasn’t a saint before he was a monster; he was just a stupid kid. He reveled in the underworld of Ceunon. Quite disinterested in what his rich parents wanted for him he spent his days boozing and gambling in the company of loose women. He was a scoundrel and a thief and took practical jokes too far which meant that he made as many friends as he did enemies. It didn’t take very long for his rampant merry making and tricks to catch up with him; he was stabbed In the neck whilst taking a drink out of another man’s tankard. Instead of dying then and there he was saved by a member of The Hand, who had no so much taken pity on him as feigned the emotion of pity to trick themselves into thinking they still possessed the ability to feel. Jeralt’s body was made an ark for blood magic, and blood is the only thing that keeps him alive- as long as he keeps drinking it. Jeralt wasn’t fond of killing humans at first, he did it for the first few times to stay alive. He was young then and feared death. Soon his addiction to blood overwhelmed him and he constructed his villainous persona that he still keeps up to this day. He distances himself from humans this way, he’s acted so long that he has become the evil thing that he once pretended to be.
The Nine Moon Circus came about unrelated to the fact that a member of the hand saved his life (he never knew about how he came to be a vampire owing to the fact that he killed his creator the instant he came back to life.) Jeralt visited the Circus on a whim and stayed to learn the tricks of the trade because the life style interested him. The Nine Moon Circus serves the same purpose as Christian con-men do in American society, they are an all human circus that claims to be able to do highly advanced magic though the grace of Nyx, when it reality it’s nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Jeralt himself cannot perform magic, the only magic he can do is keep his body running by taking the blood of others.
