Of Magic and Dungeons [OOC/PG-16/Accepting]

[LordCowCow]

On 10/10/2021 at 8:35 PM, Chaos Sonic said:

Jukebox Hero

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"Music is the greatest force. Those who hear it's melody, bend and turn in time with it's notes, as it even changes their disposition."

Personal Information
Name: Ziun Castir
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance:

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Height: 5'9"

Personality:

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Ziun is quite the character, in a good way mind you, but a character nonetheless. He is quite the gentleman and a smooth talker, specifically with the ladies, and respectful to those older and much wiser than he. He is always willing to lend a hand any way he can in most given situations, and when those aren't good enough, he's more than willing to lend his musical talents and even his voice. Most of these things are just due to him being a bard and was taught by both his parents and the Bards College to be quite the respectable gentleman, but he just finds it to be his personality and nothing more.

As a bard, Ziun is a lover of music and poetry and will often mention this in some sort of lament, to reflect on how great they are. He also goes to great lengths to dedicate every song he plays to either a certain lady he's had the pleasure of meeting or his number one "the Goddess of Poetry and Music". Though he's working on keeping that to himself rather than constantly announcing it...namely cause he realizes that could be quite annoying in the long run. Aside from this, there are a few things of note that he's tried to change in his life, but are immensely difficult to do. One of which is when inspiration strikes...no matter the situation, he'll have to write down the lyrics and verses of whatever he thinks...now this isn't a bad thing per say...unless you count doing it in the moments of a battle or even during a moment of stealth as not a bad thing. Try as he might with holding these urges to do this in, there are moments where he can hold it no longer and must write these things down. After all, once inspiration is blessed upon you, it can vanish before you ever have a chance to take it and work with it. Another issue he has is the feeling of...inadequacy. There have been some moments in his life, whether he wanted to admit it or not, where he felt like he was inadequate of being the musician he is. Would this stem from his constant battles up to the point where he finally convinced his father to let him chase his dream? Or was it stemming from the innate fear that while his heart yearned for the music and the melody, that he truly was nothing but the son of a blacksmith and that was his calling and purpose? Ziun couldn't tell you, but it's a fear that tends to rear it's ugly head every once in a blue moon.

In combat, well...he's not a frontliner at all. With his Illusion magic, he'd prefer to get by undetected and avoid fighting in general. Regardless, he also has the capabilities to buff his allies up in the realm of the Bardic songs he's learned, allowing these two spells to come in handy if necessary.

Biography:

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"All great melodies begin with the first note. So allow me to weave you the melody that is my story…"

Ziun Castir was born in the city known as Cheron, a quaint little place to live...but honestly it wasn't much. To Ziun, it was nothing but a haven for thieves and vile acts, and he and his family was stuck in the middle of it as a family of blacksmiths. Not only did this job help them, but it also hurt them, seeing as some patrons wouldn't pay and would say: "the prices is that you got out with your lives in tact!". A horrid thought to say the least, but it was an honest job so to speak...but unlike his father, Ziun didn't care for the life of a blacksmith...no, his heart belonged to the music.

The dreams of him being a musician and bard were always told to his parents, but of course, it never sat well with his father. Nevertheless, sooner or later, Ziun convinced him to finally allow him to follow his passion and dream, to which his father had no choice whatsoever than to oblige. This is when he took his first steps into the world of the Bards College, more specifically, the Bards College of Glamour in a place known as Steelhorn. Here, he would learn how to put his love for music into a career whilst even learning more about the magic he had the aptitude in: illusion.

It wasn't long before Ziun found a way to get to Steelhorn to apply for the Bards College and immediately was enrolled and was told he had potential by a unique teacher he didn't expect, an Elf: Jhaan. Despite being an Elf and practically having no magical aptitude, Jhaan was brought in due to him having the love of music, and because of the love that Ziun had for the art, he took the young man under his wing and taught him what it truly meant to be a bard and to follow where the music leads him. While Jhaan taught him the way of music, Ziun learned from his human instructors how to properly use his illusion magic. While some look at it as something horrid and heinous, Ziun learned during his time that a bard can utilize the illusion magic to suit his needs for the telling of a story...truly something that a bard could use properly.

Sooner or later Ziun, while taking to Jhaan's teachings and even the lessons on the magical aptitude, he finally learned enough to move on in search for his own music, to make his own tales of grandeur. Upon his departure, Jhaan handed him his favorite lute, as a parting and gift of friendship. Ziun took the gift humbly before leaving Steelhorn and began his own adventures as a bard.

It's been about six months since his departure of the Bards College and Ziun now has a new target in mind: a certain city with a certain magical dungeon. A time to find his own music within this dungeon...stories to be told...who wouldn't want this opportunity?

Combat Information:

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Experience Level: Average
Magic Level: Hybrid
Non-Combat Skills: Musician, Songwriter, Virtuoso,
Magic Schools: Illusion
Combat Style:
Combat? What do you mean combat? For all intents and purposes, Ziun doesn't do physical combat at all. Is it because he doesn't know how to fight? Not at all, not at all. He's very proficient in using his rapier that he carries around him, however, the bard himself prefers to avoid conflict and confrontation if at all possible. This is where his Illusion Magic comes into play. By utilizing an illusion made for a situation, Ziun can easily trick those around him in order to evade and avoid a scuffle.

Equipment:

• Light Armor - It's light...it's armor...what more do you want?
• Lute - Ziun's go to instrument, one he is the most proficient at using. This lute is dear to him as his teacher at the Bard College presented this to him during his graduation.
• Elegant Melody - A rapier that Ziun carries with him on his left side. When the situation calls for it, he'll use it, but normally it's there just for decoration.

Songs Played:

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These are the songs that Ziun has gathered either during his time at the Bards College or during his travels from home, and the story they tell through the music is also presented (more to come):

• The Song of the Golden Dragon: An instrumental song that lets the listeners envision a village that would be terrorized by a dragon adorned in golden scales. However, through this song, a brave knight challenges the accursed beast in order to free the village. Through the melody, it becomes clearer and clearer that the true hero of this story is actually the golden dragon, who is the sole guardian of the village and that this is being retold by the wicked knight who laid to waste the majestic beast for his own gains.
• Return to Me Under the Tree: An instrumental song that tells the story of two young lovers, sitting under an apple tree, when the young man tells the young girl he'll be leaving on a small quest and he'll be gone for a bit. However, he makes the promise that he'll return to her and marry her. They promise to meet once more under this tree's shade and the young man leaves. The young girl comes every single day to wait under the apple tree, in hopes that he'll return, it goes on for quite some time. Two years passed and the girl stopped waiting under the tree for a bit of time, but out of the blue one day, she decided to return to that hill. When she returns, she sees someone waiting for her under the apple tree: the man she loved had returned. With an embrace, they reunite and marry underneath the shade of the tree.
• Sand Through the Hourglass: An instrumental song that can only be truly brought to life by the use of a piano. It tells the story of a man's last minutes. Through these last minutes of his life, he can see his past unfold before him. His youthful days, the ones where he was a happier child, up to the point where his life took a different turn. During his adolescent years, the man became one that was a rebel, a troublemaker. And upon one day in his life, before he finally found happiness, he was confronted by a stranger in a cloak that was as black as night. From this stranger, he was given an hourglass, with quite a bit of sand going through it. Some was normal, but the current set that fell was black, just as his soul. After this was handed to him, the stranger was gone. This hourglass was his life and it reflected this oh too well. The man finally found happiness within a woman and the sand turned normal once more and remained that way for a number of years. However, like the sand that fell through the hourglass, things began to change. As the song continues, the man would lose his wife and fall into despair, making the sand once more turn black like his soul. All the things he did after that, drinking to forget, gambling away everything...nothing changed his hourglass sand back to normal. As his life finally arrived to where he was now, he would finally look once more at the hourglass. The man began to regret everything in his life and wished for his sand to just become normal once more, and to pass from this life as a good man. Soon he was met with a familiar figure, the stranger who handed him this hourglass all those years ago now stood before him. This stranger would move and take the hourglass in his bony hands and sigh. "I gave you this to make sure you did the right thing...all I can see is that you are truly rotten to the core", the stranger said, before watching the last few drops of sand fall through the hourglass and with it, the man would draw his last breath. Once the man left from this mortal coil, the stranger flipped the hourglass over and left...to find another to hand their hourglass to.

Miscellaneous Information
Ziun's Theme | Battle Theme

• Ziun's text color is #ff0033.
• Ziun is a massive remake and rework of another Bard character I had worked on before, Ebxes Hymn, a Tiefling Bard that would've and could've appeared in Zai's RP "The Maw".
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How fleeting. Accepted, yo