Name:
Warren Tully
Age: 26
Race: Human
Preferred Eventual Class: Wizard
Professions:
Farmer: Warren was born to a family of farmers and as such it is his inherited profession, despite being embarrassingly ill-suited to manual labor due to his pathetic physical state. He quickly learned how to use his head to make his jobs easier, grasping the concept of leverage, the benefits of planning things out ahead of time, and that the right tool for the right job can help make any task easier. This ingenuity infuriated his father, who had intended the chores to beef his son up, seeing the boy as a stunted weakling.
Engineer: Thanks largely due to his childhood chores, Warren developed a knack for tinkering. Pulleys, gears, tension wires, and triggers were his toys for the first decade of his life. When his father suffered a crippling injury, Warren was given more freedom, and managed to build a complex irrigation system that allowed his father’s farm to out-produce any other, earning his father’s begrudging respect. By the age of 20 Warren had all but rediscovered arithmetic. no one in his village could manage much beyond adding two numbers together, usually using their finger, yet Warren had grasped the basics of algebra and geometry.
Adviser: Warren’s irrigation project earned the attention of the village elder council who recognized his potential. Warren was asked to consult on several projects, and Warren was at first enthusiastic, but he soon realized that the elders simply wanted him to build them what they asked for, not to listen to his actual input on what the village needed. These issues caused a great deal of friction between Warren and most of the elders, save one. Elder Iroe, an old man of good humor who found Warren’s stubborn attitude to be very refreshing in place of all of the placating yes men he had grown accustomed to. Warren soon became Iroe’s adviser, as the old man routinely spoke with the boy on many of the major issues facing the village, and in doing so became the only elder for which Warren held any respect.
Doctor: Due to Warren’s fascination with nature, he discovered several herbs that had medicinal qualities. This impressed the local healer Challa, whom Warren considered a superstitious fool, but he wasn’t going to let that stop him from learning the woman’s secrets. During his brief time being tutored by Challa, Warren managed to discern the basics of actual medicine buried under the mystical nonsense, but his poor bedside manner would eventually get him banned from the healer’s home.
Librarian: Although books in Warren’s nameless town are near non-existent, the few that do exist can be found in his possession. Being one of the only people in the village who can even read, (having taught himself) Warren found that most of the books in his collection were previously being kept because the owner either thought the book had magical powers, or liked the pretty letters. The knowledge Warren gleaned from his collection has only wet his appetite for more. Though not a steady paying job, there are enough members of the community willing to pay for the knowledge within Warren’s collection to make a fair bit of money by loaning them out, or reading their contents.
Hobbies
Warren loves reading books and any piece of parchment that he manages to find. To him, reading is like being taught by those that are long dead. The conversations are much more to his liking than anything those in the present can offer. He also believes that knowledge is power, and books are a means to that power.
Warren‘s favorite activity is simply thinking. He can sit and think about things all day long. Pondering the secrets of the universe, imagining machinations that could improve his world, or just wondering what might be beyond the mountains surrounding his sequestered home, if Warren could do only one thing for the rest of his life, it would be thinking.
Warren enjoys tinkering with tools . Action and reaction, turning gears, levers and pulleys delight him to no end. He loves to watch gears move, mesmerized by the beautiful symmetry with which his little inventions function. He finds machines preferable to people, as machines simply do what they are designed to do, while people complain and laze abut. There is a perfection to engineering that society simply lacks.
Warren enjoys observing nature, learning how the world works, and simply appreciating the beauty of the land around him. It has so much to teach, to those who take the time to pay attention. Currently Warren is trying to figure out how birds fly.
Perhaps his most vindictive trait, Warren loves to point out flaws in the plans of others, often berating and mocking them. Of course he only does so when he has a better solution to the problem. Just about the only time he can be bothered to interact with other people is so that he can crush them in a verbal duel, or prove how much more intelligent he is. Not surprisingly this wins him no friends, but then why would he want to be friends with such intellectual inferiors?
General Demeanor
Warren is usually quiet, especially when around others. He prefers to keep to himself, as his is the only company he finds rewarding. Most of the time, he has a bored or disapproving look on his face unless he encounters something of interest. When this happens, his eyes widen with excitement, and it becomes hard to shut him up as he will begin talking to himself very quickly about whatever is on his mind. He has very little patience for ignorance, superstition, and stupidity. He has no respect for anyone simply because they are attractive or big. To him, the only thing that matters is whether or not you are right.
Family Ties
Warren is at odds with his family. His father is a strong man’s man who constantly ridicules Warren for his “odd habits” He Believes that the solution to every problem is a strong back and a can do attitude. He has repeatedly tried instilling this philosophy into his son, but has gotten to the point of simply giving up, believing Warren to be a failure of a son, and a sign of his failure as a father.
Warren’s mother loves and dotes on him, but she is a very simple woman, and although he holds no resentment towards her, Warren finds he has nothing to talk to her about. She is a weak willed, meek individual who is incapable of standing up to her husband despite disagreeing with how he treats their son. A quiet people pleasure, she simply wants everyone to get along and be happy, though she lakes the drive to make it happen.
Marital Status
Warren has never even had a girlfriend, let alone any hope of finding a wife, and he has long since abandoned interest in a relationship. He has a very low opinion of women, seeing them as fickle, shallow creatures, who are simply looking for a big dumb brute to fertilize them. Though desperately lonely, Warren accepts that there simply isn’t anyone out there for him as the women in his village are so below his intelligence, that he views having relations with them as akin to bestiality.
Superstitions/Phobias/Insanities
Warren hates superstitions, but he is deathly afraid of giant spiders as he understands their eating habits, and sees it as a horrific way to die. He also fears heights, deep water, and the thought of being buried alive, also because he understands that they are slow, terrible ways to die. Really any kind of lingering death that gives you time to contemplate you doom is an intimidating prospect when you think as fast as Warren.
Character Flaws
Warren can be extremely condescending and intellectually arrogant. He sees most people as insufferable simpletons that should shut up and do whatever they are told if they do not have a better solution. He despises those who complain about situations that they put themselves in as they have no one to blame but themselves. He has almost no social skills whatsoever, finding it hard to understand why people focus on trivial things rather than facing their real problems.
Of course, years of being bullied by larger boys, and even some girls, had taught Warren the value of keeping his mouth shut when he is at the mercy of such individuals, but once he realizes that he is going to take a beating regardless, he usually decides to get in his verbal licks while he can.
Despite his smug sense of superiority, Warren suffers from extreme depression, often feeling alienated and empty. He is trapped in a world that does not appreciate his talents, filled with idiots he cannot relate to. The only person he can stand is an old man named Iroe who openly admits that Warren’s mind is far beyond his own. This unfair state of affairs leaves him feeling hopeless at times, and he has contemplated committing suicide on more than one occasion, seeing it as his only, inevitable escape
Character Strengths
Warren is a very good problem solver. He is able to analyze a situation and come up with an effective solution to it quickly. He is a fast learner with a thirst for knowledge, but perhaps the trait that is his greatest strength, the one that separates him from the members of his village the most, is that Warren aspires. He wishes to become more than he is, and improve both himself and the world and people around him. He believes to his very core that the world could be, should be better than this
Favorite Food
Warren prefers fruits and veggies over meat, though he isn’t opposed to it. He loves apples.
Background
Born to a farmer in a secluded village with less than 300 people, Warren was always a very awkward child. While other little boys were fighting with sticks and wrestling, he was watching birds and wondering how they could fly. It quickly became clear that his ability to process and absorb information was far superior to his peers. This, along with unsociable nature, made him a constant target for teasing and ridicule. This laid the seeds for his ever growing low self esteem and depression, as well as the resentment he has for the rest of his species.
His belligerent father only compounded Warren’s sense of rejection by berating him for being such a scrawny weakling. Warren received regular beatings as his father attempted to harden him, though it only made him more withdrawn. His mother, though a kind hearted woman, was too submissive to stand up for her son, and too simple-minded to offer any useful advice.
Although Warren’s engineering accomplishments earned him some degree of recognition, he was still seen as an unnatural freak, never being a member of the community or the group, never belonging. This only magnified Warren’s sense of alienation and detachment from society, as he focused more and more inward to his own thoughts. Through books he has learned that the world is much larger than his tiny home, and that human civilization used to be so much more advanced. His life’s goal is to discover humanity's lost past in the hopes of creating a better future. A future where people such as himself can be valued rather than shunned.
Warren’s home is sequestered in a mountain valley, and as such is relatively unmolested by outside troubles. Aside from the occasional monstrous spider or dire wolf, his people face few threats. The downside is that this seclusion has left them very ignorant of the rest of the world. The population is entirely human, and no one has ever seen an elf or dwarf. Warren has read about them, though he remains skeptical as to whether or not they truly exist, or were merely fanciful tales.
Warren has never been in a fight in his life, or to be more accurate he has never physically fought back in his life, preferring to use his words and wits as a weapon. The village bully once tried to pick a fight with him, but Warren simply declared the other boy the winner and walked away. When the larger boy stopped him and asked why he didn't fight, Warren berated him for the stupid question, stating that it was obvious who the victor would be and that he had nothing to gain by trying. The bully was so perplexed by Warren's logic, that he simply walked away.
Goals
Warren has dreams fixing everything wrong with his village. If he was in charge, he could tell everyone else how to do it right, if only they would listen to him. He knows that there is a world beyond the village, and the caves in the surrounding mountains might just lead to that outside world, but the elders have forbidden exploring them. One of the village’s many superstitious beliefs is that the only thing that awaits beyond the mountains, is death. Perhaps if Warren can prove that this is wrong, if he can go outside the caves and come back, maybe with something from the outside, then he can finally get them to listen.
Appearance
Warren is a small man with a scrawny frame, so much so that he is often mistaken for a child, a joke he has heard many times. He prefers wearing very simple clothes, valuing comfort and functionality over appearance. His straight brown hair is often left uncombed and cut to keep it out of his eyes. He often carries a book in a satchel with him for the purpose of taking notes, though this behavior has started several malicious rumors about him. He has sharp, green eyes, though his expression is usually a melancholy one. Warren’s boney back is crisscrossed with scars from his father lashing him.
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