||Name||
Boiko
||Title||
The Fortuneteller
||Gender||
Male
||Age||
31
||Class||
Gypsy
||House||
Mobile wooden house with wheels (picture below, it's like that except a big longer and completely covered in wood)
||Personality||
Being a gypsy and the way he looks, a rumor has spread around him that says he is a thief that tells lies and steals your money. Despite what the rumors say, he still gets a steady flow of customers to come to his fortunetelling stand. When they come they realize that he's just an honest man doing what he was born to do, warn others of what is going to happen to them. Most of his predictions are exactly what happens, other times it doesn't really matter how it happened but the real prediction was right. The latter only happens on death telling however, luckily he doesn't go through a lot of that.
When you're just talking with him, he can't really keep up a conversation for more than a few minutes until he convinces the person to have their fortune told or he goes through one of his feint spells. Boiko's feint spells aren't real though, he just uses it as an escape route because he's not one for talking.
||History||
Boiko grew up as a gypsy, being raised as a child among all the other gypsies. He knew who his real family was, but it was better that everyone acted as if they were all one family. It helped him realize what he was meant to do, tell fortunes. Training with the other fortunetellers, old and young, he learned from the best of them to become the current best of them. He has never went to school, but his 'family' took care of that. Plenty of people there used to be scholars, they knew how to read, write, do basic math and every gypsy had a past occupation that would be helpful to learn. Some used to be pirates, tailors, blacksmiths, navigators. Anything you would ever need to learn, someone knew. That was in Egypt though, where he wasn't shunned because of who he was. At least not as shunned as Thalon made him.
When he was 23, he decided that it was time to move on and create his own stories. Taking his expertly crafted wagon house, he bought a good enough mule to get him wherever he wanted. His first thought was to go to a major city, but he wasn't built for city life. Then he thought of going to live with the Moors, but they would shun him as much as any other religion. Taking his maps of Europe he started to look over where settling wouldn't be a problem. Finally, after deciding very carefully he chose the most obscure place to move to; Thalon. It took a few years to get there, the distance and the stops he made, this also gave him a chance to work on his reading skills taught to him by his 'cousin,' and plenty of other things that had to due with paper as in writing and math. But when he finally arrived he was 26 and had twice as much knowledge as he had before, after finally being able to expand his vision of the world which he'd only read from books or heard from stories. Still keeping his fortunetelling as his greatest skill, plenty of people would love to have him as their apprentice if he weren't so old and weren't a gypsy.
Thalon was the most biased towards gypsies than any place he'd been to to get there. Still he made an honest work out of it, becoming one of the wealthiest people only because he didn't buy anything. He had gained a well enough reputation with the tailor to get a discount on his clothe repairs and when his house broke down he gathered the supplies and repaired it himself. Doing odd jobs also got him where he was, but not really in Thalon more of when he was making trips back to Egypt which he did often. A reason why people might not like him so much is because he doesn't even buy anything from them or even go into their stores, only the tailor's but that's just a guess.
Boiko
||Title||
The Fortuneteller
||Gender||
Male
||Age||
31
||Class||
Gypsy
||House||
Mobile wooden house with wheels (picture below, it's like that except a big longer and completely covered in wood)
||Personality||
Being a gypsy and the way he looks, a rumor has spread around him that says he is a thief that tells lies and steals your money. Despite what the rumors say, he still gets a steady flow of customers to come to his fortunetelling stand. When they come they realize that he's just an honest man doing what he was born to do, warn others of what is going to happen to them. Most of his predictions are exactly what happens, other times it doesn't really matter how it happened but the real prediction was right. The latter only happens on death telling however, luckily he doesn't go through a lot of that.
When you're just talking with him, he can't really keep up a conversation for more than a few minutes until he convinces the person to have their fortune told or he goes through one of his feint spells. Boiko's feint spells aren't real though, he just uses it as an escape route because he's not one for talking.
||History||
Boiko grew up as a gypsy, being raised as a child among all the other gypsies. He knew who his real family was, but it was better that everyone acted as if they were all one family. It helped him realize what he was meant to do, tell fortunes. Training with the other fortunetellers, old and young, he learned from the best of them to become the current best of them. He has never went to school, but his 'family' took care of that. Plenty of people there used to be scholars, they knew how to read, write, do basic math and every gypsy had a past occupation that would be helpful to learn. Some used to be pirates, tailors, blacksmiths, navigators. Anything you would ever need to learn, someone knew. That was in Egypt though, where he wasn't shunned because of who he was. At least not as shunned as Thalon made him.
When he was 23, he decided that it was time to move on and create his own stories. Taking his expertly crafted wagon house, he bought a good enough mule to get him wherever he wanted. His first thought was to go to a major city, but he wasn't built for city life. Then he thought of going to live with the Moors, but they would shun him as much as any other religion. Taking his maps of Europe he started to look over where settling wouldn't be a problem. Finally, after deciding very carefully he chose the most obscure place to move to; Thalon. It took a few years to get there, the distance and the stops he made, this also gave him a chance to work on his reading skills taught to him by his 'cousin,' and plenty of other things that had to due with paper as in writing and math. But when he finally arrived he was 26 and had twice as much knowledge as he had before, after finally being able to expand his vision of the world which he'd only read from books or heard from stories. Still keeping his fortunetelling as his greatest skill, plenty of people would love to have him as their apprentice if he weren't so old and weren't a gypsy.
Thalon was the most biased towards gypsies than any place he'd been to to get there. Still he made an honest work out of it, becoming one of the wealthiest people only because he didn't buy anything. He had gained a well enough reputation with the tailor to get a discount on his clothe repairs and when his house broke down he gathered the supplies and repaired it himself. Doing odd jobs also got him where he was, but not really in Thalon more of when he was making trips back to Egypt which he did often. A reason why people might not like him so much is because he doesn't even buy anything from them or even go into their stores, only the tailor's but that's just a guess.