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Age: 316 (guess who was born the season after Lysie!)

Appearance: Darragh stands at 5’10”, with an athletic build. Each elvish family is known for something; for instance, the Blodsian are breeders of the unique elvish swan, the Ælfhers are just very good politicians and once were great warriors/mages, etc. The Unorian are breeders of excellent hunting-hounds, built similar to the lean form of a greyhound but with enough bulk in the barrel and haunches to take down a deer or boar. It was these dogs which Melchios compared F’ntr to, a few pages back. Anyhow, this is related to Darragh because his family is that of the hunting-lords, and so he’s in good physical shape and has a competitive amount of upper-arm strength, with the chest and biceps to account for it. As an active man, his skin is tanned by weak forest light to a mellow shade, and his hair has a few lighter streaks in the front. Darragh’s hands are still uncalloused, for as a lord he won’t hunt without gloves, and bar a small scar on the lower left side of his abdomen (from a maddened horse), he’s quite whole.

The young lordling’s eyes constitute one of Lysander’s favorite aspects of him, as they remind him of both winter woods and wolves (bit of a romantic, ain’t he). Colored a plain, oak-bark brown and shaped in an honest fashion, Darragh’s eyes are rimmed with gray around the pupil. Proportionately divided, I’d say his eyes are 2/3 brown to 1/3 grey, with an appropriate portion of the brown flecked by lead-in colors, and with the grey impure.

Darragh’s forehead isn’t particularly high, and his nose is large. Not quite roman, and it has a bit of an imperfect character around the nostrils, but it does well enough as a sniffer. In terms of his mouth, it’s of middling fullness, leaning slightly towards thin—like narrow lips that ended up being just a touch wider. Speaking of which, he loves to smile and be light-hearted, so you may expect to see his teeth quite often. Darragh’s jaw is long, which lends his face a slightly more narrow appearance than it might have otherwise—although to some tastes, it may appear over-long.

His hair is let loose and is cut three inches below the shoulder. The left side has hair left loose for accent, the right side has the forelocks French-braided so that they fall behind his ear, affording him clearer vision. Generally, the rest of his seal-brown locks are left loose, with the rest of the fore-strands pulled back and ribboned off behind his head. A note on the nature of his hair color: it’s not a warm brown, it’s a cool brown. Just as raven-wing hair has a bluish tint to it, so too does his variety of seal-brown. If you’ve ever seen a chap with hair this color, you’ll know what I mean (it’s so attractive to me that I planned on making a character with it eventually).

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Personality

MBTI result: ENFP

Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
89 62 25

From personalitypage.com:

ENFP Strengths:

· They’re exceptionally perceptive about people and situations. They’re often able to quickly and accurately assess where someone is coming from.
· They accept and value people as individuals, and are strongly egalitarian. They believe that individuals have the right to be themselves, and are very tolerant and accepting of most people.
· They’re often deep and intelligent, and may be quite brilliant in their ability to tie things together. They’re wired to look for connections in the external world, and so they may mentally put things together more easily than others.
· Their interest in understanding the world usually makes them in tune with what’s socially acceptable and what isn’t. This may help them to be popular and likeable.
· They may be highly artistic. (Darragh's a musician)
· They will balance out their desire to meet new people and have new experiences with the desire to put their understanding to use in some way.


Potential Problem Areas:

· May be what many would call a “sucker”; vulnerable to schemers and con artists.
· May get themselves into dangerous situations because they’re too eager to push the envelope of their understanding, and not willing to apply judgement to anything.
· May feel intense anger towards people who criticize them or try to control them, but will be unable to express the anger. Left unexpressed, the anger may fester and simmer and become destructive.
· May blame their problems on other people, using logic and ration to defend themselves against the world.
· May develop strong negative judgements that are difficult to unseed against people who they perceive have been oppressive to them.
· May get involved with drugs, alcohol, or promiscuity, and generally seek mindless experiences and sensations.
· May skip from relationship to relationship without the ability to commit.
· May start projects but be unable to finish them.
· May be unable to stick to a career or job for any length of time.

Equipment

-His flute, in a soft white-leather case either strapped to his waist or on the side of his quiver, is omnipresent unless a situation is too formal for it to be allowed.

If hunting:
-A longbow, or whatever bow he prefers that day (he's on a longbow phase at the moment)
-A skinning/gutting knife with a finely enameled bone handle
-A translucent, gold-rimmed horn made from the horn of a ram and studded about the edge and mouthpiece in citrines, amber, and dark emerald; a gift from the late Ossian Percepi of the faery King's consul.
-A quiver and plenty of white-fletched arrow rimmed with indigo on the feather-s edge and with three bands of the same color near the tips, to indicate his mark.

History

Bio: Lysander was born in midsummer and Darragh in early autumn; as such, they spent a good deal of time together, and even engaged in the foster-system between lords of a family later in their lives. Most times, this means that a noble family will give their child to another family to raise until they come of age, in order to strengthen bonds of loyalty and trust between the two. In Lysander's case, he was sent as a three-year-old fosterling to live with the seventh generations of Unorians (they're the second oldest of the aristocracies, with the oldest being the Aedellic [Ciaran was ninth generation]). He became fast friends with Darragh primarily because they were the only two elflings of a close age, but also because they shared a similar viewpoint of the world at large, albeit with an open-ness on Darragh's end that frequently results in minor scorn from Lysander.

At the age of twelve, both boys were sent back to the Aelfhers, where Lysander was reunited with Altair and began his apprenticeship to Nieander. Darragh's magic is similar to that of Aedan, a mage in WoLad who could communicate with all animals by accurately replicating their sounds and mannerisms, regardless of prior experience; his magic is such that it's limited to a single animal family, Canidae, and that within that family, his motions may be translated into their communications as well. A variety of Aelfhers mages tutored him in his magic, since such narrow, specific arts aren't widely-occuring, even within family (ex: Caera's the only living plant-telepath of her family, though not of the elves at large). To hone his marksmanship and the like, he returned home after he turned forty, pressed by the fact that from a family of huntsmen, he'd not want to stand out as an unskilled archer. Every once in a while, his preferred weapon changes; at the moment, he favors the longbow.

At the Aelfhers, he also cultured himself by learning how to play the bansúir, an elvish wood-wind fashion of hollowed hardwood and not unlike a flute. Later in life he also learned how to play the panpipes, motivated by inspiration gleaned from a romantic lay involving a travelling bard whose pipes could charm the shiest roe.

As someone who has ingrained such a deep position for himself in the Aelfher's household, he'll speak more boldly and familiarly than is strictly courteous and if he doesn't entirely skip the appropriate greetings, as he recently did IC, then he'll greet the Aelfhers as though they were his own. Meaning that:

• To a lower-ranking Unorian/Aelfher, he'd kiss their eyelids (this is because he's part of the lower half of the generation-range: Nieander, in a similar situation, would kiss the forehead due to being on the higher half of the total generations living [yes, all the 1st-gen. Aelfhers are fini]).
• To an Aelfher/Unorian of equal/near-equal rank, like Faolan, he'd kiss their lower lip. If the person is of an equal rank and has an immediate relation, such as sibling or half-sibling, then they'd get kissed straight-on. Because Darragh perceives Lysander as his brother, he'd do this greeting for him and through extension, Altair (though he sees the latter as being more like a young uncle).
• To a higher-ranking Aelfher/Unorian he loses the option of initiating greetings and would wait for them to kiss him first, whereupon he'd engage in a verbal greeting and, if the higher elf should be on courteous terms with him, kiss the fingertips of a proffered hand.

The Unorian favor more of a nuclear family structure. Most of their family members have been raised by mothers and fathers, unlike the Aelfhers, and they generally don't send members of their family to be fostered as much as they foster others. As a child who found himself cut short of this particular upbringing, Darragh's always felt a little bit needy in the family fold, with an almost worshipful obedience to Parthalán Unorian, the oldest man of his line-- a second generation elf who remembers the first generation, and who is truly worthy of the word "ancient". This neediness also manifests itself in his slightly attention-seeking behaviour, his minor tendency to test the limits of the love others may bear him, and his over-fondness of distant, rude, pretty women.

Darragh Unorian's Story