Vali Canrich

Overview
Full biography found here.

Appearance
Hair: Black, long

Skin: Fair

Eyes: Light green

Height: 5’9”

Weight: 145lbs

Body Type: Slim, fit

Markings/Noticeable Features: He has a nose ring on the left nostril, couple piercings in his ears.

Personality
Vali is a very cheery and charming individual, well-mannered and poised, albeit a bit high strung. Nice to most and seen to be rather eccentric and effeminate. Despite his charming disposition, Vali is also known to be quite ruthless when it is required of him. Some say it’s not a side they ever want to see of him. Any time Vali becomes nervous, anxious, worried, anything like that, he has an innate habit of twisting and fiddling with one of the rings on his fingers.

Magic:
Like the many Canrich’s before him, Vali was a powerful mage. His mastery being Chlorokenisis and Geokenisis, with a little bit of Hydrokinesis thrown in there.

However, as per family traditions, he has broken his ties with magic and is now a powerful Mage-Breaker.

The radius of his anti-magic field reaches a fair distance. A radius that reaches up to thirty feet. However, it has different increments. At 30ft, there is only a 25% chance of failure of magic. At 20ft, there is a 50% chance of failure of magic. And within 10ft, there is a 100% chance magic will not work.

Other:
Vali is considered to be quite intelligent, cunning, and clever. Speaking several languages fluently and can understand the basics of a few others; along with a Masters in Botany and Horticulture and basic degrees in business and politics.

Though he does have self-defence skills in hand-to-hand combat, swords, and guns, Vali prefers more stealth than anything. Like many before him, he has an aptitude for poisons, made from the various poisonous plants he has growing in the family garden. Often used in the disposal of those who pose a problem to him or his family. Being considered small for a typical male has made him proficient with quickness and stealth in general.

He’s also a very talented painter and sketcher. Often he enjoyed sitting in the family garden painting or drawing various plants and sometimes even going to the outskirts with a sketchpad.

His mother was known to be a talented musician, in both instruments as well as singing. Something she passed down to Vali. He is a natural singer with a beautiful voice and his mother taught him to play the violin as well as the piano.

History
Vali grew up as well as anyone could in his situations. A lavish life with whatever he pleased whenever he pleased. Not a worry in the world. At least, when it came down to his living situation. Family was an entirely different situation.

His mother passed when he was in his early teens. His father had very little to do with him. The times he was around his father, he was generally belittled, in some cases physically harmed. Vali was the youngest in his family, though the only male, making him heir. Most fathers would be thrilled and he was at first. However, being his father more often wasn’t around, off working or whatever it was he did that kept him away so often, Vali had been raised by his mother and only had his sisters to look up to as an influence.

Due to this, he had more interest in things that most would consider feminine. Most people didn’t care too much, others who judged often kept it to themselves but his father wasn’t too pleased. Odd coming from a man who essentially grew flowers for a living. At least in Vali’s eyes.

His relationship with his sisters was for the most part fine. He was closer to some of them than others. There was still some animosity between him and his eldest sister. When he was born, although she was never down right cruel to him, she knew that meant he would be the heir to the family fortune. Not her. When his mother got sick and eventually passed, it had put even more pressure on his relationships with his family, as she was the one who held everything together.

Despite the strain with his family, not long after his mother’s passing, Vali had gone off to university. Without the stress of his family, he excelled with his studies. Top of his class in botany. Before he became a mage-breaker, he was a very skilled mage. Being the heir of the family, he was also taught about business, so he could run the family businesses as well as politics to ready him for the Inner Chambers.

Things were all and well until he was about twenty-eight. Still young to be head of a house but he had gotten a message his father didn’t have much time left. He wasn’t sentimental by any means nor was he close to his father. Still, family is family. By the time he returned home, his father passed shortly after. Frankly, Vali was lost, he didn’t know what to do or how to go about taking things over. Luckily, the family’s lawyers helped him out. Set him up so he could take things over as easily as possible.

Being his father had very little to do with him, Vali soon found out why his father was as absent as he was after he took things over. There was a darker side to the Canrich fortune. He never understood how their family thrived so well. Though they owned successful businesses in Steamhaven and they did accumulate a fair amount of profit, it wasn’t as much as what the family actually had. Vali always figured there was something that wasn’t quite on the up-and-up and he was correct. The house was well involved with the black markets of Steamhaven.

He did have a set of morals for the most part and was even a little taken aback but Vali also knew how the world worked. He may have grown up a pampered rich boy but he was no idiot. The world was cruel and to get ahead, sometimes one had to do things that weren’t always seen as right. So he kept the family tradition and their connections to the black market. He may be at odds with some of his sisters but in the end, he thought this was his way to do right by them and keep their way of life safe.

Things have changed since Vali’s taking over of both legal and otherwise endeavors but he seems to have eased into the position of Patriarch quite easily. With his various education and personality in general, although he’s not fond of the politics side of things, it seems to suit him well.