Application
(IC)
Race: Human.
Gender: I am a Male.
Age: 29 years.
Place of birth: ... Tanchico ,Tarabon
Hero Class:Warrior
A class best suited for swordplay and defense.
Weapon(s) of choice: A longsword, shield, and a crossbow. It's a practical trio for a former mercenary such as myself.
Armor type: Medium weight.
Skills:
Heavenly Dirge
Kascarde lifts his weapon into the air with both arms then plunges it into the earth, causing a shockwave around himself.
Burnt Asunder
A crowd control move where Kascarde sets his sword ablaze and performs a grand swing after another.
Tearing Step
Kascarde grips the sword with two hands and sends a wave of slicing winds a towards his opponent. It's a rather dangerous move at point blank range.
Divine Brace
Kascarde musters all of his strength to stand against a possibly fatal attack. If he takes an attack to his flesh whilst performing this skill, it will cut through enough skin to cause him to bleed heavily, yet not sustain too much injury to his internals. He tends to only use this when he tries to rescue someone important as this increases the possibility that he will die due to not being able to recover quickly enough to evade another attack. (This is what he used to save that kid in his bio.)
Inspire
Kascarde at his best, is a father and brother to those he serves with or leads, he'll encourage them to try harder and will hesitate if he believes that what he says or does will end up doing nothing besides bring down morale.
(OOC)
Weaknesses:
He currently has a habit of biting off more than he can chew, sometimes resulting in him being injured, or at the very least, slapped.
He'll often trust people too easily. It's a habit he's trying to break out of.
Aside from being too trusting, he's a bit of a chivalrous pervert. Both have led to him being taken advantage of in the past.
He'll often let his emotions cloud his judgement, rather than show it, which hinders his leadership skills. He constantly get frustrated with himself over this.
A certain thirst for money that Kascarde has occasionally lands him into doing dirty work. Though, he suspects that he's just one of the many.
Reason character joined army/goal(s): Seemingly, he was bored... He heard that the King was hiring knights during his travels and decided to enlist to "make a bit of coin." However, in truth there is an underlying reason of why he chose Rolf's army to serve.
Personality: Kascarde is typically well reserved, but a tad bit condescending, which sometimes leads to people mistaking him for a noble. He is rather... far from that stature. On a good day, he's an optimistic type that could easily boost the morale of those he's around. On a bad day he's usually silent, drowning himself in alcohol, or the like.
Short bio: Kascarde's told history is riddled in myths and blatant lies, some of which he's told himself, to avoid having to reflect upon the past. It is unknown whether he actually was born in Tarabon, if he's just some vagabond acting as if he's on a pilgrimage, or what have you.
He was first noticed as a late-teen with no home to return to. He had rescued a little boy, no older than 8 year old from a skirmish that had come close to harming a town in Northern Tarabon. The boy's parents and siblings, albeit surprised by Kascarde's unhealthy appearance and the wounds that he had sustained in the boy's place, were very thankful for his plight. They had nursed Kascarde's wounds, and the oldest sibling, a former guard, had even taught Kascarde some advanced swordplay techniques learned by knights. Kascarde had stayed for around a two month period before leaving and carving his own story, as he felt as if he were actually a burden on the small family. He had taken work as a mercenary for a few of his years, met friends, skirmished, killed enemies, met newer friends, Skirmished, killed older friends. It was a satisfactory life to live, despite all of those silly employment issues and depressing coincidences that came with the job.
Kascarde eventually gave up that line of work. The pay just began to get worse and worse, for the same old risk... Death. He wanted a change of pace, so he started to travel around Dalanaia searching for information about something presumed to be precious that he heard about from a deceased comrade of his.
An artifact that unbeknownst to Kascarde acts as a key to unlocking unprecedented power, but ofcourse... There were repercussions to even wielding the thing...
[spoili] 1. You may be attacked by the creators of the damned thing. Dragons.
2. Wielding it for too long will kill you on it's own, as it molds itself to you like a parasite.
3. If this artifact "kills" you, you may actually become a physically heartless zombie, kept alive by it's presence. How you lose your heart? It's torn out of you by the creators as payment.
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His journey got side tracked when he heard that the Kingdom of Tarabon was recruiting, and well... his curiosity got the better of him...
Signature(IC name):
Kascarde