Bink's Wrath of the Righteous OOC

[Amazo]

I'll be playing Thyxius Koszer, the tiefling investigator. His sheet is here.

Spoiler: Background

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Thyxius was born to a human mother and a tiefling father. His mother, Ysabel, was a wizard of some power and renown in Mendev. She fell in love with his father, Zarin, during the First Mendevian Crusade when he joined her party of crusaders acting as its scout during their missions in the Worldwound region. Eventually, the two settled in Kenabres after the crusade's conclusion and started a family with Zarin some years later. Both parents were hopeful that their son would follow in their footsteps and become a hero of the crusades, but Ysabel was especially disappointed when he turned out to be a layabout and delinquent when it came to her lessons in magic. Worried that his aloofness would be indicative of the general morale his entire generation, Ysabel took it upon herself in her twilight years to delve once more unto the breach of the Worldwound during the Third Mendevian Crusade. Alas, this campaign proved to be disastrous both overall and for her, as she was slain during her excursion there. Little did she know, Thyxius' delinquency had taught him much of his father's scouting skills as a matter of course, which he put to use to run away from home and follow his mother on her final expedition. Sadly, the boy was forced to bear witness to his mother and her party's slaughter at the hands and other ghastly appendages of a cabal of powerful cultists allied with the demons, as he hid nearby unable to do anything to affect the outcome of the battle. He did manage to recover the charred and mostly ruined remains of his mother's spellbook, but the point seemed moot at the time. Stranded behind enemy lines, Thyxius would surely have died if not for a chance encounter with a mysterious, beautiful woman whose skill with a bow Thyxius has not seen anyone rival since. He returned home to his father in tears with her help, and ever since then has devoted himself to learning what he can of both his parent's skills to honor their legacies as part of the crusades. Only having recently become an adult and completed his training, Thyxius has opted to apply what remains of his mother's magical research to the field of bottled wizardy, alchemy. He hopes to one day discover a way to distill the most advanced magics into their physical forms as the ultimate tribute to his mother's accomplishments, despite the fact that this is a feat that has eluded every alchemist in history of Golarion. He remains confident that the answers to the reality bending and unnatural processes required for such a feat can be found at the Worldwound if they exist at all.

Spoiler: Physical Description

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While clearly physically a descendant of his father's fiendish heritage, Thyxius more resembles his mother. He inherited her relatively weak and slight frame and parts of her visually pleasing face. Alongside his fiendish manifestations, including a broad tail that tapers to a fine, whip-like point and a pair of upright draconic horns, he has a mixture of facial features and affectations equally suited to striking terror as to charming onlookers. His skin more closely resembles the red flames of the lower planes seen in his father's own skin, but some peachiness has mixed its way in from his human heritage, dulling that intense scarlet to a dusky rose color instead.

Spoiler: Personality

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Thyxius possesses a brilliant mind that some have said is squandered on the "lesser" magical art of alchemy and ruined by his relatively late initiation into arcane study. These critics do not understand that his delinquency as a child was mostly due to the feeling of not being challenged by the more traditional schools of arcane might. Alchemy is as important a challenge in his mind as the demons he helps fend off on the battlefield. He seems to have inherited his mother's penchant for rash, overdramatic decisions, but he has applied his vast intelligence after enough near-death fiascoes to leave strategic decisions to those with greater wisdom or intuition than himself. Despite his poor decision making, Thyxius is usually considered a competent conversationalist, and he tries to keep himself and his companions in good humor and spirits as much as is appropriate.

Wealth: (3d6)[12] x 10 = 120 gp

Edit: In light of some of the other character's decisions and the implementing of the Background Skills system, I updated my sheet a bit. I now have a rank of Linguistics and Heal, as well as the Precise Treatment trait to add my Intelligence to Heal checks instead of Wisdom. I also added some more personal details.