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___________________CHARACTER PROFILE: HOST___________________

// About the Dragon, the Man, and the God //

ABOUT IGNOTUS
Name:
Ignotus

Ignotus- First Name

Latin meaning: unknown, obscure, ignorant, ignoble.

Ignotus was born without a name. Sold off at a young age to a Blackmarket Dealer who used to just refer to him as 'boy'. Ignotus as a youth was terribly tortured by his self-identity and gave himself the name 'Ignotus' as a symbol of the unknowns about himself.

Nickname: Iggy

Race: Ice Dragon

Position: Black Market Trader

Class: Mage

Gender: Male

Sexual Preference: homosexual

Age: Adult

Height: 6' 1"

Body Build: He's tall, lean and willowy with a posture that stays very uprightly rigid. He tries not to show any weaknesses.

Scars: His body is covered in self-inflicted scars from his formative years where he would cut himself to have some semblance of control of his life. However... this shows very much how weak he had been, currently he painstakingly wraps his outer limbs in bandages to hide these scars to make sure they are not seen from under his clothes.

Skin Tone: Alabaster white in color with his lips, inner mouth, tongue and inner eye lids being ebony in color.

Hair: Snowy white in color with a blueish reflect under the sun, much like that of Icebergs found in the frozen oceans. Length is down to the waist.

Eyes:

▶right eye: An empty eye socket filled with the a seething darkness.

▶left eye: This eye-socket is as empty as his right, however there are times when a small dot of light flickers in and out of his left eye-socket which represents the magic and life within him.

When he was younger, he used to hate how he didn't know how he came to be and how different he was from the other Dragons and Drakes. How it seemed that whatever life flowed through and made things living seemed to be missing within him, made obvious by the emptiness of his eyes and the flickering of magic all around him at all time. It came to a point of time that he hated the flickering magic in his empty eye sockets so much that he'd almost clawed out his entire eye with rage.

The three scars running down his left eye is a reminder of his more insecure days.

▶third eye: Is still a hallow eye socket but contains a floating blue iris with a cross shaped pupil, this eye symbolizes Ignotus' ascent into the Mastery of his magic.

The third eye is the ultimate expression of when an Dragon-Mage has gained enough mastery of his/her magic to gain a sort of demi-soul that is reflected back with a pupil forming within the socket of the third eye.

Ignotus can even use the eye to spy on opponents and people he's curious about. The eyeball can pop right out of the socket, leaving behind the hallowed eye and float like a portable spy camera anywhere he wishes to send it.

Master-Form Special Features
▶Wings: Ignotus has 2 pairs of draconic wings with an outer membrane coloring of bluish-white and an inner membrane coloring of pure white. The wings are soft, warm and made of a supple skin but thick enough to not tear easily.The upper pair tend to be smaller, riding just above his shoulders. The lower pair tend to be much bigger, spanning twice his height width-wise.

However, when Ignotus flies, the wings increase magically in size until they have an impressive wings span that can be a good 30 feet or more. They are then fully capable of carrying his weight and maybe a small child along with him during flight.

Being a Master Mage, Ignotus can bolster his flight capabilities with his magic. Either in lightening his weight, so the wings don't have to work so hard, or in using his magic to support his wings.

▶Tail: There are 2 long-ish blue-tipped blunted spikes at the base of the tail and 3 more at just below the tail tip. The tail is completely prehensile and sometimes its movement reflects Ignotus' current moods.


Clothes: After being so out of control of his life when he was younger. Ignotus now feels an urge to be rigidly in control of everything in his life. This is mostly reflected on how his clothes are usually very pristine and white, immaculately folded and flowing elegantly.

Ignotus often gets into short bursts of anger when his clothes are dirtied or besmirched and would be harsher when dealing with anyone who dirties him.

Weapon: An magical scepter which turned into a rather large ebony staff that seemed to gain more of a consciousness as Ignotus mastered his arts, much like an enchanted weapon.

He named his staff "Improvidus" or reckless. The circular glass orb on the top from it's scepter days slowly turned into a semi-sentient "eye" that tended to serve as Ignotus' magical eye whenever he took out his staff. Connected as he is to his weapon, Improvidus lends his a 3rd sight which allows him to look through almost any illusion and concealment spell. Other times though, the staff tends to loose focus and turns its gaze to things it really shouldn't be watching -- men's bathing areas for example.

Personality:

||VANITY + PRIDE neutral |
Ignotus is extremely vain and proud of his appearance. He shows this off by dressing impeccably and his hair combed to within an inch of it's life. Although he doesn't actively seek beautifying products or regimens, he prefers to maintain what he already has at it's optimum.

||MINIMALIST neutral |
The Mage also tends to prefer white as a general color theme as he often associates it with cleanliness and refinement. He often frowns on ostentatious displays and prefers the sleek and minimal. This is where "less" is considered as "more".

|| AVARICE+ GREED: ||
Although he is a minimalist, he is still very much a dragon. He has greed built into the very foundations of his being and much like his brethren, keeps a rather large collection of treasures. But unlike the others of his kind, he prefers to collect magical artifacts rather than the usual gold, gems and shiny trinkets of wealth. He picks and chooses what he loves and hides it in a secret vault he's built at a secret location no one but he, himself, knows.

He arranges his loot in an almost obsessive neatness that could rival any museum. Orderly in rows of shelving and cabinetry. Only those he deems the most trustworthy can hope to see his treasure horde.

||FRAGILE + PARANOIA neutral |
The Ice Dragon can also be very sensitive and leery about others talking about him. Often Ignotus will internalize imaginary insults he believes others are making up about him. This is probably due to being a loner and an outcast as he was growing up as well as the rough treatment of his former master/owner.

||FRANK + HONEST neutral |
Ignotus often says exactly what's on his mind and several times tend to blurt out the thoughts in his head before his brain to mouth filter engages. This can often lead to a lot of misunderstandings and hurt feelings but pretty much, Ignotus is a "what you see, is what you get"-sort of person. He doesn't believe in dissembling and being passive aggressive. He'd rather you say it in his face or say nothing at all.

___________________HISTORY & BACKGROUND___________________

// there are times you look back and totally forget the possibility of moving forward //

Ignotus was born without a name. Sold off at a young age to a Black market Dealer who used to just refer to him as 'boy'. He was treated more like a possession and a slave than a living being with rights. Often covered in bruises and scratches from the hard manual labor he endured growing up under the fearsome watch of the Black market dealers, it wasn't only until later he knew that his own mother has sold him to the dealers with nary a look back. Not even to grant him a name to call himself.

Ignotus as a youth was terribly tortured by his self-identity and gave himself the name 'Ignotus' as a symbol of the unknowns about himself and to prove to his mother, that even if she hadn't given him a name, he would make himself a name to be proud of.

Slowly as he grew into a teen, he soon grew to hate how it seems he was quite different from the other Dragons and Drakes around him. How it seemed that whatever life flowed through and made things living seemed to be missing within him, made obvious by the emptiness of his eyes and the flickering of magic all around him at all time. No one could quite rationalize how he came to be this way, and his mother had given no clue.

Ignotus often wonder if there were other Dragons like him, who seemed to be made more of magic than of the ice that were supposedly the element he embodied.

It came to a point of time that he hated the flickering magic in his empty eye sockets so much that he'd almost clawed out an entire eye with rage. The three scars running down his left eye is a reminder of his more insecure days.

His body is also covered in self-inflicted scars from his formative years where he would cut himself to have some semblance of control of his life. However, as he reached adulthood, he realized how the scars would show very much how weak he had been, and currently resolved to painstakingly wraps his outer limbs in bandages to hide these scars to make sure they are not seen from under his clothes.

Ignotus was eventually able to free himself from his slavery in an act of reckless deceit and abandon at the height of his teenage years. Conspiring with an equally ragged group of slaves and abused workers, after years of planning and subterfuge they were eventually able to kill all their Black market Slave Masters. It would be a day forever remembered in the historical annals of the Black market guild, as one of the biggest massacre and escape of slave workers in a hundred years.

Traveling far and wide, the young dragon soon sought a way to make a life for himself. Knowing nothing but the work he had been doing for as long as he's lived, he soon returned to doing shady deals and blackmarket wares of drugs, and forbidden goods. However, it was during one of these long trips that he stumbled on his future mentor, a mysterious and eccentric mage who discovered the hidden potential in the magic that always seemed to surround Ignotus. It was only then, under the tutelage of Mentor that he learned to master the magic that made him so different and it was only after countless grueling years of apprenticeship under the eccentric mage that Ignotus gained his mastery in the art.

Growing more sure of himself as he grew into adulthood, Ignotus soon found himself going yet again into his past and how different he was from others he had seen of his kind. Vowing to trace down the origin of his birth, he traveled far and wide in search for answers. Now and again, stopping to collect treasures and trinkets of great magic to add to his dragon's horde.

___________________THE QUEST___________________

// and you look at the details and the minutiae and life and ask: "is this all I am?" //

✙ deitie's influence: STAGNATION
Probably a good merge of both god and host rather than the god taking over Ignotus totally.

✙ colour scheme:
White-Blue (like Icebergs) as major color theme with minor colors of black/gray/electric-blue as you deem fit. But mostly it's a clean white.
This includes even hair and skin.

✙ clothing style: minimalist, well-tailored clothes, usually favoring all white in color (accents can be in blue or silver with black), can be any epoch in theme, although he prefers neat gentlemanly clothes. He wouldn't say no to Elvish style outfits with long flowing robes, but he isn't much for jewelry aside from simple hoop earrings or a single hair-clasp with no embellishments.

✙ gender: male

✙ wing type: dragon-like reptilian scaled or smooth leathery wings akin to a bat (minor detailing up to artist) - also feel free to make as many pairs as you want. I've had Ignotus with 1 pair, 2 pairs and even 3 pairs of wings at any point in time.

✙ tail type: depends on the wing type: if scaled wings - dragon-like tail, if bat wings - devil-like tail

✙ hair type: neat and tidy (length up to the artist), wouldn't mind having facial hair but no full beards. Neat and trimmed mustache or goatee (not both).

✙ two basic lineart edits: (up to the artist)

✙ rp status: rp active (albeit casual)

✙ jewel template: #3

✙ morph template: #1 (with the possibility of the gem becoming his 3rd eye)

✙ youth template: #2 (or as artist deems fit)

✙ OFFER: currently 3m

___________________RESERVED___________________

// utter blankness to be fulfilled //