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101 Questions You Should Be Able to Answer About Your Character

1. What is your full name? Do you have a nickname?
Raseph Rakasha, which means "Bearer of hope, the Slaveborn". Nicknames include "The Shubian", "That Battlemage" and "Oh shit, here he comes again"

2. How old are you? When is your birthday?
I'm around 28, don't know exactly (D: His birthday is the 25th of April)

3. Where were you born? Where do you live now? Are you patriotic?
I was born in slavery on the desert plains of Shubië. I'm a traveling mercenary in Quon, but my home's in Qua'Jin, a big Shubian city. I'm very proud of my nationality, like most of my kinsmen from the Sag'Hum tribe.

4. Who are/were your parents? (Names, occupations, personalities, etc.)
My mother's name was Ivarï, she was a slave like me. When we were bought free she became a cleaner/cook in service of our new master. Now she's dead

5. Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like?
Nope

6. What is your occupation?
Traveling mercenary (formerly loyal to the Gruul Mercenary's), scholar and (Arch)Battlemage in service of the Qua'Jin magic academy. Nowadays I teach (Aether studies, pyromantics, chronomantics and enchanting)

7. How tall are you? How much do you weigh?
I'm about 176 cm tall, and I weigh about 70 kilograms

8. What color is your hair? What color are your eyes?
Darkblonde hair and saphireblue eyes

9. What is your race?
Shubian desertfolk, the Sag'Hum

10. To which social class do you belong?
Did belong to the slavery, now a part of the higher mage-caste

11. Do you consider yourself to be attractive? Do others?
I'm not too picky about how I look, but I had a few girls like me in the past and present

12. What is your style of dress?
Traditionally Shubian: Tribal skirt, sleeveless tunic, leather chestplate, blue mage robe, wolfpelt pauldron, leather bracers and scroll-cloths.

13. Do you have any scars? Tattoos? Birthmarks? Other unique physical features?
One long scar over my left eye and a few scars on my jawline. A few incantations next to my eye-scar and lightblue manalines over my left hand.

14. Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses?
Well, I'm sufering from split personality and have recurring traumatic visions, but other then that, I'm fine

15. Are you right- or left-handed?
Right

16. What does your voice sound like?
Like a gentle thunderstorm

17. What kind of vocabulary do you use?
Mercenary-vocab, combined with a scholarly intellectual speak

18. List three quirks or other defining characteristics.
- Can't stand lack of discipline and try to rout that whenever I see it.
- Any necromantic related talk get's me in kill-mode
- Bethaniël (my split personality) tends to take over from time to time

19. How often do you bathe? Do you wear perfumes?
When necesarry, perfumes however are unneeded luxury

20. What kind of facial expression do you commonly wear (dour glare, wry smile, etc)?
neutral

21. Do you use body language? How?
Very expressive, beware flying arms.

22. Do you have a commonly used saying?
"strength and honor", commonly used mercenary greeting

Childhood

23. What is your earliest memory?
Whips and cold nights

24. How much schooling have you had? Did you enjoy it?
Was teached to be a mage apprentice, also trained as a swordsman. Like all my schooling.

25. Where did you learn most of your knowledge and skill?
With my former master.

26. How would you describe your childhood in general?
Crap, until it got better

27. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
not a slave anymore

28. When and with whom was your first kiss?
none of your buisness (D: first woman to ever kiss him was one of his partners during his mercenary years, no lasting relationship developped however)

29. Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity?
yes, i'm a virgin, thank you very much, and I do not plane to change that. (Raseph is A-sexual)

30. Do you have a notorious or celebrated ancestor? Does that affect you?
Don't know my ancestry, I'm a rach-hasha, a slaveborn

Influences

31. What do you consider the most important events of your life so far?
Meeting the hoodlums? or perhaps helping reforging the black dagger, Aurus' blessed weapon. in any case, I had many important events, like turning a bouquet of flowers back into a baby.

32. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Writing the Codex Rasephicus, the standardized bookwork about shubian magic theory

33. What is your greatest regret?
Not dropping a giant stone on top of that anti-magic artefact instead of trying rituals. that was one sweet liver-operation

34. What is the most embarrassing or shameful thing ever to happen to you?
We don't talk about those days anymore (D: having the hoodlums operate his liver)

35. Do you have any secrets? If so, what are they?
If I told you they wouldn't be secrets eh? (D: wel- R: WOULD YOU STOP THAT???? D: sorry)

36. What is the most evil thing you have ever done?
Can't really remember, evil is relative.

37. When was the time you were the most frightened?
Frickin' banshees, frickin' recurring traumatic visions, grrr...

38. Have you ever traveled outside of your country? If so, to where?
Well yeah, I have traveled back and forth between Shubia and Quon several times and currently reside in Clarence, specifically east-methyr.

Beliefs

39. What is your alignment?
Chaotic Good

40. Are you basically optimistic or pessimistic?
Optimistic to a fault.

41. Do you believe in a god? If so, which one and why?
The Destiny-pantheon. If you see a God fighting for the survival of all creation right before your eyes, you'd be stupid not to believe eh? More specifically I serve Karvan, the god of magic, and Morvus, god of Death

42. Do you believe in an afterlife?
Yup

43. What is your greatest fear?
Having my friends turned into undead

44. What makes you angry? Sad? Happy? Why?
Angry: a lot of things
Sad: failure and loss in important things
Happy: many, many things

45. Do you think people are basically good or basically evil?
neutral

46. What are your views on politics? Religion? Sex?
- All hail the eternal Sol-raya, our awesome wizard-queen
- I'm sort of a improvised priest, so yeah, religion is nice
- Sex repulses me, but intimacy is a beautiful thing, if you find the right person.

47. What are your views on gambling, lying, theft, and killing?
If it serves a good goal, hey, why not?

48. How far will you go to defend your beliefs?
kill for them if necesarry.

49. How much do you value money?
Lately I've begun to value non-material things more. Can't spend money when you're dead.

50. In your opinion, what is the most evil thing any human being could do?
practice necromancy or actively further the needs of evil deities.

51. Do you believe in self-sacrifice for the greater good?
Kinda, I respect those who do

52. Do you believe in the existence of soul mates and/or true love?
no comment

53. Are you superstitious?
meh

54. How much do you respect the beliefs and opinions of others?
very much, as long as they don't try to kill me

55. How honest are you about your thoughts and feelings?
depends on who's asking

56. Do you have any biases or prejudices?
Shubians always go first, naturally

Dealing With Others

57. Who is the most important person in your life, and why?
I have several, but I think Ariena the hoodlum is the best, because she saved my hide countless times on the operating table.

58. Who is the person you respect the most? Why?
Derreck Cutter, he was a man who gave his life to defend us. May his soul find peace eternal.

59. Do you have a significant other? Who?
not one particular

60. Do you have a lot of friends? Who is your best friend?
Yes. My best friends are probably the hoodies, Xirlin and Logan

61. How do you relate to members of the same race? Class? Sex?
Shubians stick together, in all we do. I have the habit of helping the less fortunate out when I can, since I remember where I come from.

62. How do you relate to members of a different race? Class? Sex?
If I can learn from them and they don't try to kill anyone I know, I try to like 'em

63. Have you ever been in love? If so, describe what happened.
nah, not really

64. What do you look for in a potential lover?
not looking

65. How close are you to your family?
Unknown and dead, so nothing to say about it really

66. Do you want a marriage, family, and/or children?
maybe later, when I'm well in my thirties and this war to save the world is finally over, although that whole kids parts means I need to "get busy", not sure how I feel about that yet.

67. Do you tend to argue with people, or avoid conflict?
arguing is fun, and best resolved by setting the other party on fire

68. Are you a listener or a talker?
both

69. How long does it usually take for you to trust others?
quite short actually

70. Do you hold grudges?
oh yeah, I do

71. Do you tend to take on leadership roles in social situations?
yeah, especially when magic is involved

72. Do you like interacting with large groups of people?
I more preffer smaller groups

73. How well do you express yourself?
Quite well

74. How quickly do you judge others?
Fast

75. Do you care what others think of you?
Not a shit is given

76. Do you have any enemies? How or why are they your enemy?
Do you have a few minutes? It will take a while to sum it all up, and I think Ranur still has a bounty of at least 1000 gold on my head.

Personal Taste and Opinions

77. What is your favorite pastime? Color? Food? Possession?
study of anything magical. none. anything that doesnt kill me. my mage's robe

78. What are your preferences in arts and/or entertainment?
Shubian poker

79. Do you smoke, drink, go whoring, or use drugs? Why or why not?.
Smoking rarely, drinking when I feel like it, whoring is a waste of money, plus, asexuality doesn't help either, and drugs? nah, I can do with magic

80. How do you spend a typical Saturday night?
what's a saturday?

81. What is your most cherished fantasy?
To obtain an artifact of world shattering power, and to be able to study and use it.

82. How long is your attention span?
I can outstare you by two days if I want to

83. Do you laugh a lot? What do you find funny?
yes, a lot.

84. Is there anything that shocks or offends you? If so, what?
necromancy

85. How do you deal with stress?
kill it, set it on fire or diplomacy, whichever is socially favored at the time

86. How much athletic ability do you have? Artistic?
athletics? quite good, artistic? I can draw neat magic circles

87. Do you like animals? Do you like children?
yes.

88. Are you spontaneous, or do you always need to have a plan?
I usually make shit up as I go

89. What are your pet peeves?
Do I have those?

Self-Image

90. What is your greatest strength as a person? Weakness?
Magical Knowledge

91. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
The scars on my back?

92. Are you generally introverted or extroverted?
Extrovert

93. Do you like yourself?
yep

94. Do you have a daily routine? How do you feel if your day is interrupted?
nope

95. What goal do you most want to accomplish in the next six months? Your lifetime?
kill Zashak

96. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?
As archmage, as father and perhaps dead.

97. If you could choose, how would you want to die?
In a huge bang that would take a score of my enemies with me.

98. What is the one thing you would like to be remembered for after your death?
That I was the one who always knew the solutions to magical shit (I.E. poke it with my stick)

99. What three words would you use to best describe your personality?
- Explosive
- Interesting
- Knowledgable

100. What three words would others probably use to describe you?
- Strangely reliable
- Dangerous
- Batshit insane

101. Why are you risking your life to adventure?
- Why not?
for =iAozora
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cuthalion-moonshade's avatar
Hell, I'm going to fill this list for my Warhammer 40k character