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1. Staff Post
2. Table of Contents
3. Rules
4. Vander at a Glance
5. Vander in Depth
6. The Life and Times
7. Relations
8. Art Gallery
9. RP Log
10. Other


Merits / Virtues / Vices are referenced from World of Darkness
( White wolf games ) and for any who require clarity it is suggested you
search there for intended character effect.

Flaws and Merits

[ Vander at a Glance ]
Its not over till its over






Name: Vander
Gender: Male
Race: Orderite
Height: Adult- 5'4
Text Color: dimgray


Vander suffers from dissociative identity disorder and these are his alters details.

Name: Echeleum
Gender: Male
Race: ---
Text Color: maroon

[ The Life and Times ]

Having been sheltered from an early age, Vander is quite the innocent with a
sweet disposition and a high set of moral standards.

Born to parents who lived a quaint life with his mother, a woman of the
healers talent, and his father who was a warrior when ever the need arose.
The three of them lived alone, secluded from the world or well, as secluded
as one could be. Much of Vander's childhood was happy with a blessing of
very little strife and no knowledge of what was going on around the world, of
the massive death tolls and the war that had raged on since what would be to
his people the beginning of time. Instead his mother elected to bring him up
away from the fighting, the hate and the bloodshed where she could teach
him to respect life in all its forms.

This would work for a great many years until Vander grew and became more
and more curious and as children do when they're curious he explored until
he found a small town where he discovered his passion for metalworking. At
the early age of twelve and after begging day in and day out for the
blacksmith in this little town to teach him the old weathered man finally gave
in to the bright eyed Vander. Passing much of his time here he dedicated
himself to the study of metalwork while specializing in jewelry and fine hand
wrapped and hand made pieces as he found that it was almost like
meditation to him, the zen he could find while sitting wordlessly beside a
crackling fire with fine spun metal and working it tirelessly into a ring or a
bracelet was rivaled by nothing.

Peace only lasts so long and it was a painful lesson for Vander to learn as
war took his mentor and many of the town away not to mention his own
beloved father leaving holes in his life when several of them didn't return,
holes that couldn't be filled and rendered his poor heart and mind. Acting out
and behaving in a new and sudden way had his mother who was now in
charge of bringing up Vander alone was more than a little worried. Her once
kind and loving son who would spend his days alone beside her fire weaving
anything he could find to accessories was now becoming violent, angry. It
spread a rift between them and turned the town cold when they too were
subject to his behavior.

Unable to deal with the death of both his father and his mentor Vander's mind
had reached the breaking point and in effort to save its self a new young man
was created, a young man Vander was unaware of for a shockingly long time
thinking it some form of joke or prank in bad taste, though as time went on
and the 'act' was kept up he began to feel more and more fearful of himself
and of what exactly was going on inside him, if they weren't kidding and he
was some form of horrible monster. With the realization that they were not in
fact kidding and it wasn't some horrible and unfunny joke he ran away, both
afraid of what he would do to his friends and family and afraid of what they
might do to him acting this way.

While aware that he's not alone in his own mind, Vander is unaware of his
other personality and has no memory of what it does while he's 'away'. This
is something he greatly fears to this day and attempts to live alone where he
might not hurt life that he still thinks of as so precious and fragile.

Now Vander can only be found by ones who can track or if he wants to be
found as he lives alone in what can only be described as a 'den' made from
nature around him. While he's had time to make his 'home' more comfortable
it's still largely made of natural material and his only forge is also a crude
hand made one. This is not how he wanted to live and hardly what he had
planned for himself and in a way that is still quite sad he has given up any
hope of living a normal life of any sort.

[ Echeleum in Depth ]



The Virtues:

Fortitude: I will remain resolute.


The Vices:

Gluttony: I must have more.
Pride: I have no fault.
Wrath: I have no equal.



The Merits, Flaws and Skills:

Code of Honor: I will not harm children and will not allow them to be harmed.
Gall: Try it. I dare you.
Intolerance: I just can't stand people like you.
Masochist/Sadist: I honestly just want to see you suffer.
Vengeance: I will get revenge for them.


Confused: Shut up! Shut up! I don't know what to believe!
Daredevil: You know, I'm pretty sure I can make that jump.
Illiterate: Screw you, you read it.
Disturbing Mannerism: /Rakes nails down arms /

Solo RP - Learning the trade
Skill for Vander only, his Alter doesn't have this skill

Will be posted soon