MALKIN GREY

The Thanaturge

GENERAL INFO
Full name: – Malkin Grey
Alias/Nicknames: – Thanaturge, Shadowbreaker
Gender: - Male
Species/Race: – Human
Birth Date: Rain’s Hand 15 (Elder Scrolls Calendar)
Age: - 28
Descendent(of): – Coultrer Grey, Father
Sandine Grey, Mother

Current Residence: Wanderer
Job/Profession: Practical/Utility Mage
Title: – Mage/Necromancer
Allegiance/Alignment/Clan(s): – Chaotic Goodish

APPEARANCE
Height: – 5’8
Weight: – 135lbs
Build: – Tall and Average Weight
Eye Color: – Pale blue
Hair Color: - Black/Dark Brown
Handedness: - Left
Skin Shade/Color: – Light Tan, Caucasian

Description:
An average-seeming human, Malkin wears an assortment of blacks, greys and browns, preferring to wear more practical working clothes and tunics which, whilst of a highly professional cut, do not impede his ease of movement or shout "wizard". Malkin abhors arcane ostentation, and believes in dressing appropriately for someone who has to travel a great deal and also work alot, both physically and mentally. He carries a simple, slender yew staff, unadorned with any magical bricabrac, and serves mostly as a walking aid, and, in an emergency, as a means of defence.

Malkin has a rugged, if somewhat plain face, occasionally rugged or lightly bearded with his dark-brown hair. He is tanned by years of working outdoors, in marked contrast to most spellcasters. Malkin believes that the best way of learning Magic is not ivory tower experimentation, but to go out and -do- it, and see it at work in the wild.

MENTALITY
Sexuality/Preference: - Heterosexual
Sanity: – Eccentric
Friends: – To be Determined
Likes: – Research, Helping People, Turning Evil against Itself, Bad Puns
Dislikes: – Evil for its own sake, Selfishness, Ignorance, Paladins
Hobbies: – Researching Dark and Weird fields of Magic, and then coming up with ways to use it safely for the greater good.
Personality: –

Malkin is considered eccentric by other wizards and spellcasters, if only for his very hard-headed, rational approach. He sees Magic as being the same as any other tradecraft or act of mechanical labour. What makes this attitude particularly noteworthy is his choice of tools- he believes in using Necromancy, Thanaturgy and other, darker arts to accomplish practical and beneficial goals, for himself and for the community at large. If Grey found a town's bridge was out, he would offer to employ his arts to task the village's deceased to work day and night to rebuild that bridge. If there was a dispute over a Will, he would speak with the departed's spirit and determine how they wanted their material goods divided.

Not suprisingly, Grey's arts have won him mixed acclaim, some damning him as a niave meddler at best, and a sinister and perverse spellcaster at worst. Shrugging off such naysayers, he lets his actions stand for themselves, and continues to wander, in part to keep a safe distance from those who refuse to understand his work, but mostly to ensure he never becomes complacent, in his search not only to help people, but find new and interesting and weird forms of magic, understand them, and then use them to create practical and beautiful solutions to problems.

In many ways, the Thanaturge is also something of a Mage-Engineer hybrid.

EQUIPMENT
Weapons: – Yew Staff
Combat Attire: – Wears his practical robes at all times.
Accessories: – Serpent Ring, belt full of magical reagents and gewgaws, backpack full of scrolls and a spellbook full of scribblings.

FIGHTING STYLE(S)
General/Preferred Style: – Magical Combat
Hand-to-Hand: – None
Weapons Style: –Uses Yew Staff

Magical Abilities

Chant Magic:
-Chant of Sleeping (can make people drowsy and fall asleep)
-Chant of Awakening (can keep people awake and energised no matter how exhausted they are)
-Chant of Ending (Can release a tether of life/send a spirit on to the afterlife or undo the magic keeping the undead animate)
-Chant of Seeing (Can See Spirits and ethereal evidence of death/murder)

Rune Magic:
- Rune of Absorption
- Rune of Gravity Manipulation
- Rune of Paralysis
- Rune of Repulsion
- Rune of Invisibility
- Rune of Binding
- Rune of Acceleration
- Rune of Slow
- Rune of Pain (For every wound inflicted, the pain doubles. Four hits is 16x the pain.)


Conjuring Magic:
- Spirit Calling – Can summon, with some effort, spirits of the dead or recently departed and speak with them and their Shades.
- Raising the Dead- Separate to spirit calling, he can animate the bodies/corpses of recently dead humans and animals to serve his bidding, for a time.
(more to be added)

Space/Time Magic:
- Gate of the Dead: Allows, with enormous effort, Malkin to open a temporary portal to the world of the dead.
-Tether of Life: Allows, again with enormous effort, Malkin to temporarily keep someone on the cusp of death alive for a few minutes longer.

Curative Magic:
-Malkin can restore the flesh and form of the undead, regressing decomposition and knitting parts together with a touch, but he cannot heal the living.

HISTORY
Family: – Coultrer Grey, Father, Sandine Grey, Mother
Known Languages: –Many
Personal History/Background:

– To Be Developed!