About Dareon LebedaAppearance: Dareon is a young man nearing thirty years old. He is conventionally attractive, if in a common way. His bone structure is symmetrical, his smile is pleasant, his eyes are a charming shade of very dark blue-green. His sense of style is boring - he usually just wears plain pants and an unmarked shirt. When it's cold or when he's going to go into battle, he dons an armored coat made from darkleaf cloth. He is unarmed. He has an unnerving piercing gaze. He holds eye contact far longer than is common, and has a habit of staring in situations when it's inappropriate to do so. Personality: Dareon is very confused, both consciously and unconsciously. Through his time with the tower he has learned that he has a whole range of memories that he has no access to. His predecessor left him with an overriding sense of shame about himself, which makes him somewhat subdued in many situations but also leaves him with even greater curiosity about who he must be. It must be something interesting to have that feeling. The sense of "not knowing who he is" makes it easy for him to alienate friends and family and difficult to make new friends and family, and also makes it difficult for him to pin down his behavior. At times, he becomes fixated on a minor memory or recognition, decides that "it must be part of who he is", and his behavior changes as his perception of himself does. - - - Dareon Lebeda
Fluff:
Background:
He was born somewhere like Gumlat, to simple commoner parents. However, he had psychic powers develop while he was still a young child. That ability to read and influence minds changed his entire childhood and allowed him to basically get anything he wanted from nearly everyone without any problem. He grew into a selfish, vapid child.
When he was in his early 20s he fell in love with a young woman. Without even thinking about it he used his powers in order to force her to fall in love with him as well, and within a year they got married and moved in together. He thought he was happy. After a few years of this life - crime lord during the day, psychically lobotomized wife at night - he had a crisis of conscience. He dispelled all of his charms and memory alterations because he felt it might restore her artistic spirit that he had fallen in love with her for. Worst-case scenario, he figured, she would remember everything and hate him. But to him, it was far worse than that. Without his psychic reminders, she just stopped. Everything about her personality had been accidentally erased as, for too many years, she simply hadn't had to think. She just stood there with a vague smile on her face. He fell into a grief and his first period of self-reflection. He came to many conclusions about himself and he began to prepare a plan: He dismissed most of his network and made a hole one person wide in the world. Then he used his magic, not only to change his appearance, but to layer false memories over his real ones. He layered a false memory of adventurers discovering his criminal empire and defeating him, and placed people he knew would be so dangerous and evil that he might die fighting them in his memory. Then over that he placed a layer of normal memories: The memories of the person he had removed to make room for himself. At that point, he was gone. He woke up the next morning as a 22-year-old baker's apprentice named Dareon with no memory of his previous life. Instead, he only had memories of Dareon's life: Dareon was an orphan who had been taken in by his current boss, a burly but good-hearted baker named Lewis. He lived in the attic of a bakery in Coran and worked most of the day. He had a girlfriend named Samantha, who he met at the library while trying to educate himself, since he never had the opportunity to attend school. He had friends, with whom he would visit cafes and restaurants when he had a few extra silver pieces to spend on someone else cooking for him. The plan to make Dareon into a regular person was a good one, but it wasn't long before he began to rediscover his psychic abilities, and his predecessor's spellcraft had been imperfect and left the vague impressions of some lost memories behind. Soon, Dareon approached the wizards at the Tower in Coran. He was curious about both of these strange phenomena. Despite the protests of his baker benefactor, he change residences and jobs to Tower-supported options as they offered to research his memory difficulties for him. In exchange, he would explore his own psychic powers by taking on jobs for him. They had indeed detected some memory blockers in his mind, and indeed had noted that his psychic potential was very great. They instructed him to keep notes on the effect and feeling of using his powers, as well as a dream journal and a journal of any deja vu he experienced. That was a year and a half ago. Dareon had undergone several missions on behalf of the Tower now. His replacement life's friends have distanced themselves from him somewhat, as it's strange to watch someone that you thought was so wholesome and simple become a magical enforcer of the law so suddenly. He's uncovered some things so far, but nothing very significant of his memories: Mostly new and old psychic powers. |
