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   Leave me be, I'll talk to you when you have something I want
   

Name(s): Terrence Rilby
Nickname(s): Crazy book guy.
Age: 30
Sex: Male
Birthday: 28/June/X751

Sexuality: Asexual

Class: Mystic

Alignment:Chaotic evil under the Journal's control. Neutral otherwise.

Rank: D-Class

Guild: Eisenwald
Guild Tattoo: On the back of his right hand.

Face Claim: Trilby- Chzo mythos

II. APPEARANCE

Height: 1M75
Weight: 56Kg

Hair: Black, greasy and generally not well cared for, Terrence does not have time for such things as washing his hair on a regular basis.

Eyes: His eyes are grey and have rings around them caused by sleep deprivation.

General Appearance: Terrence is an emaciated man of large build although with a quite slender frame. He usually goes dressed in a ragged grey three piece suit and a grey trilby hat. His pockets are usually stuffed with parchment and a simple pen. The parchment is usually quickly covered in disjointed scribbles that seem to follow no logical pattern. He generally is covered in a layer of filth although he is sometimes forced to wash himself. This cleanliness usually does not last too long as he mostly ignores his personal hygiëne.

Extra: The most prominent feature of his appearance however, is a book connected to his arm with a gilded manacle. The manacle resist all attempts at removing it, magical or otherwise, and has no apparant way of opening it. The Master's journal, as it is called, is a large leather-bound tome with a seemingly endless amount of pages. Terrence Will under no circumstance voluntarily part with this tome and is liable to turn violent should someone try to take it from him.

III. PERSONALITY

Personality: Terrence is quite an unpleasant person to interact with as he mostly avoids attempts at socialization from other people in favor of working on the journal. Any attempts to get his attention while he is working are usually met with a rude answer asking to be left alone.

This behaviour turns around completely however, if the person attempting to talk to him has a magic or knowledge that has not been recorded in the journal yet. In these cases he will be very welcoming altough he will mostly try to converse about magic in an attempt to gain new insights or knowledge.

This obsession over acquisition of knowledge to the exclusion of all else is not something that terrence himself is in control over. Rather, the journal dictates most of his actions, with terrence himself having little volition of his own actions. When questioned about this, He will deny the journal has any particular influence on him and insist it is a harmless journal of his research into magic.

Should terrence somehow become seperated from the journal, he will fall into a panic and try to get it back. When he is not able to, He will mostly sit around and do nothing as he cannot make even the simplest of decisions without first consulting what the journal has to say about it.

Sometimes, when the journal's attention is not focused on Terrence, some remains of his original personality surface. These shadows of his former self are often pushed back immediately once the journa notices Terrence is slipping away from its control.
Likes:

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  Magical Knowledge: As a consequence of being the chosen owner of the Master's journal, Terrence has an obsession with the acquisition and recording of magical knowledge. This goes to the extent that one of the few things that can get his attention for any meaningful amount of time is the promise or even the possibility of learning something not yet recorded in the journal.
  

• Writing in,editing and generally maintaining the journal; When he is not chasing some piece of magical knowledge he usually passes his time with updating the journal. As due to it's age quite a lot of the magical knowledge contained within has become obsolete or requires revision to be accurate. As the chosen owner of the journal he is required to do this task on a regular basis.
  

• Destroying copies of things already recorded in thejournal; For some reason, The journal commands Terrence to destroy any existing copies of recorded knowledge once all that can be learned from that source has been transcribed into the book.
  

• Classical literature; When he is not currently doing anything with the journal Terrance likes to pass his time by reading Classical literature. He usually does not get the chance to properly read though as by the time he has properly eaten and slept the Journal usually demands his attention again.
  

Dislikes:

• Water, fire or other things that can damage text, as the chosen owner of the journal, Terrence is charged with making sure the journal is not damaged by any means.  though the joournal can generally survive such things mostly unscathed.. He thus has a strong dislike for things that can damage paper or make text illegible.
  

• People trying to take the journal away from him; Terrence will, never have the journam leave his sight or let someone else handle it at all. If someone tries to take the journal by force he will most likely use te threat of violence to deter them from it.
  

• Being disturbed in his free time; He very much values the free time alloted to him by the journal and thus finds it extremely annoying when someone disturbs him during these precious few moments of rest.
  

• People asking him to share the journal's wisdom; Terrence cannot stand it when people ask him questions about magical lore and knowledge seeing as the book has always told him he is not allowed to share such wisdom wth anyone else.
  

Motivations:  Terrence himself is lttle more than a puppet of the Journal. The Journal's interests are mostly the acquisition of magical knowledge and the destruction of other sources of it. Terrence does not know why the journal forces him to do his but is too weak mentally to resist it's commands. The journal itself sees Terrence as litle more than a disposable pawn, To be replaced when he inevitably breaks down. The journal generally does not concern itself with following the law to accomplish it's goals and is no stranger to causing bloodshed.

Although he is almost completely dominated by the journal, some part of terrence is still weakly attempting to resist. This part of him is actively looking for a way to break the journal's control over him and then destroy it permanently.
Fears:

• The master's journal being taken away from him; Terrence literally cannot function without the journal's commands. The very prospect of losing it's guidance terrifies him.
  

• Someone discovering the journal's true nature; Terrence keeps the journal's true nature a closely guarded secret, As he is firmly convinced people will mercilessly hunt him down as a vessel of evil should thy know the exact nature of what he carries with him.
  

Positive Traits:

• Appraise Magic Value (+4): Your ability to determine an item's worth and your knowledge of magic allow you to determine the exact properties of a magic item.
  

• Stealthy (+3): You are particularly good at avoiding notice. You could be sitting somewhere in a thread at a bar and people wouldn't even notice that you were there.
  

Negative Traits:

• Aloof (-1): Your manner is cold and unapproachable, distancing you from friends and strangers alike. Your preternatural intelligence lends itself to viewing others as slow-witted and a waste of your precious time. Your charisma is lowered.
  

• Bruise Easily (-2): Each time you take bludgeoning damage, including that from falls, you take more damage than any other person.
  

• Dark Secret (-1): (The journal's true nature) You have some sort of secret that, if revealed, would make you an outcast amongst your society and companions. While this secret is on your mind at all times, it will come up in topics only once in a while, but when it does, watch out!
  

• Vulnerable (-3): You are not very good at defending yourself and moving out of harm's way. In combat you take hits easily, in roleplay terms this means that you can only dodge one out of three attacks, regardless of how easy it was.
  

IV. MAGIC

Magic:Master's journal; Solid script
Caster or Holder: Holder magic,
Description:
The holder object of this magic Is a large leather bound book with no real title, but is often referred to by its owner as the master's journal, It has a seemingly endless amount of pages and can rearrange itself at will. Most of the pages are filed with handwritten research and lore about magic, with the occasional illustration. There is no table of contents and the book actively resist any attempts at adding one. The book is sentient and does not allow anyone other than it's owner to read it. This owner is usually a person of weak will which the book can easily dominate with it's mind-controlling powers. This control is limited to only one person at a time, this being the owner. The book is completel indestructible and seems to be able to move itself over sort distances  as long as it's destination is a collection of other books

The magic Terrence learned from the book is a variation of solid script magic that allows the one casting it to temporarily store the words on the paper for later use. He has also develoed a way to augment the more basic spells with adjectives to alter their properties, for example, he could add the adjective 'flaming' to the word 'sword' to gain a spell that behaves as a sword set on fire. However, it is important to know that both the words flaming and sword are seperate spells in this instance, this allows for quite a bit of flexibility on what kind of spells are used. The spells within this magic can be roughly divided in two categories

Base words that can be used on their own, this includes words that behave like physical objects. These words can be used on their own but can also be augmented with adjectives.

Adjectives like flaming, electrified and others. These words augment base words but can not function on their own, if this is attemted they will harmlessly dissapate as when they used in this is gramatically incorrect which disrupts the magic's function

The words can be written with any writing implement as long as Terrence is convinced it can write, regardless of whether or not it has ink in it or not or is even functional.

Strengths: Terrence's application of solid script makes for a varied and adaptable set of spells, He can also store the spells on paper for a small upkeep cost per word so he can deploy multiple words in quick succession. The words can also be written on solid surfaces to be triggered at a mental command of Terrence.

Weaknesses: Due to the fact that all of the words need to be written correctly and in a specific font, it is quite impractical to write up new words in the heat of combat, A single writing error could cause the entire word to harmlessly fizzle , wasting some magical power in the process. The words can also easily be erased  by other persons if they have not been activated yet. Also causing the power invested into the to be wasted.

V. HISTORY

History: Terrence was born as the son of a librarian in a small town somewhere in Fiore. Even though he was born with magical abilities, he never had the ambition of learning to utilize it and joining a guild, instead preferring a more quiet life. He soon joined his father in maintaining the local library. Then an incident on his 15th birthday.

A mysterious death had occured not far from the library where Terrence and his father worked. The victim was identified as Phil Fowler, a small-time treasure hunter who had withdrawn from society for some reason some years earlier. The cause of death was severe sleep deprivation and malnourishment. As if he hadn't properly eaten or slept in days. He was also found clutching an enigmatic note warning whoever found him to 'not trust the book'. This event, though quite bizarre, soon faded from the general public's memory. A few weeks after the incident, Terrence came across a strange book while going through the library's  as part of his daily routine.

For some reason, this particular book seemed to call to him. Terrence, who liked to read in his spare time, took the book home. That evening, he started reading. It was an aazing read, the book contained an absolutely enormous amount of data about magic, not just quick summaries, but detailed research and personal notes, and every time he grew tred of any particular subject, the next page would be the start of something else. It seemed like the book knew how to keep him reading and wanting for more, He was abruptly cut off when his father caled him to go to work.
Terrence had read the entire night. That day, He left the book at home, yet he coudn't concentrate on his job. He wanted nothing more than to go back home and continue reading.

He was quite tired from the entire night spent reading. This worried Terrence's father as his son would usually go to sleep quite early, only really staying up late on rare occasions. He didn't ask et as at this point, there was nothing unusual apart from that all-nigther reading in some old book. yet that evening, Terrence stated reading once more, again being so utterly absorbed into its contents that he lost all sense of time. This time, he was interrupted around midnight by his father.

He was worried about his unusual behaviour lately. He wondered just what book Terrance was reading, he had never seen it before, neither in his personal collection of books nor in the library's. He tried to ask his son just what was in the book that compeled him to read it so fanatically. But Terrance simply told him off, saying he didn't have time to talk about it.Terrance then forced him out of the room and locked the door. Subsequently spending the rest of the night and most of the following day reading through the book,  failing to notice something about the book was slowly creeping into his head. He finally emerged from his room sometime around the evening.

His father and his mother were now both quite worried about their son. They tried to talk to him, but Terrence left the house without even answering them. He came back sometime later carrying a large collection of books about magic he had taken from the library. They again tried to talk to him but he simply went back to his room, again locking himself in.

This third night, he compared te books he had with him to the large book that had been dominating his life the last few days. Much of the information was already recorded in the book which he came to call the Master's journal. He didn't know when this name occured to him but it was simply the one that felt the most natural. Dissapointed that he couldn't add anything to the book, Terrence cast the smaller nooks, now worthless to him, aside. Finally, the sleep deprivation and lack of food of the last few days was starting to get to him. Yet he didn't want to go out of his room and risk having to talk to those troublesome parents of his.  He did vaguely remember somethiing about his mother coming up to his door earlier saying she left a tray of food for him. So he fetched it from the hallway. He didn't spend much time eating, mostly wolfing down the food so he coud get back to work faster, but something was telling him to just get some sleep before he would collapse. So he laid himself down and fell into a deep sleep.

That night, a vision came to him in his sleep, a vision about the master's journal. It called to him in his sleep, explaining his new purpose to him. He was to leave his old life and name behind and become the book's owner. He would share in it's boundless knowledge in exchange for his service as the book's guardian and caretaker. When he awoke the next morning, he was his old self no more. He took the book and went downstairs, stopping in the stairwell as he could see strange men downstairs, he quickly realized they worked for the psychiatric clinic over in the next town. Quickly deducing they were probably here for hi and would take the Journal away from him. He stayed upstairs trying not to be seen.

The men in white were talking to his parents, who were describing his unusual behaviour of the last few days. His parents couldn't understand what got into their son to have him distance himself fro them and the res of the world to such an extent. Terrence had heard enough, he could not trust his arents, they would take the journal's guidance away. He went back to his, locking the door behind him. He wondered briefly what to do and decided on using the classic bedsheet escape rope to climb out the window. Just as he had finished tying the sheets together and lowering the n down the window, the men in white came knocking on his door. It wouldn't be long until they would force themselves in as they probably had experience with such situations.

They forced open the door to find the room empty save for a collection of books on magic that had been haphazardly strewn across the floor. They quickly realized Terrence had fled through the window and into the nearby woods. That day, Terrence followed the book's commands and left his old life behind. His parents, struck with grief, decided not to start a manhunt for their lost son. To this day, they wait, hoping that Terrence will see reason and return.

Terrence, now completely under the books control, spent the next 14 years wandering Fiore, Maintaining the journal and reading it's knowledge. Yet the rush of the first few times never really came back to him. The journal didn't want it's new owner to gain too knowledge, as quite a few of the previous owners had attempted to use their acquired knowledge to destroy the book. The previous owner had been quite a good inion, listening to its commands without question, yet he, like all the others, eventually broke. Terrence built up quite a record of petty theft and other minor crimes, some in his pursuit of knowledge to record into the jurnal, others in times of desperation where he had to do so to stay alive. Over these years, Terrence slowly but surely pieced together the knowledge within the book, learning himself how to use a magic based on words. the book begrudgingly allowed this as Terrence showed no indication of wanting to use this power to break free.

It was around his 29th birthday that Terrence's exploits caught the attention of Fiore's criminal underworld. More specifically the dark guild Eisenwald. As a dark guild, they were always looking for new members to replace the ones that got killed or arrested on the job. One day, Terrance was approached by one of Eisenwalds members. Extending an offer to join the guild.

Terrence, having lived on the street for most of this time, was skeptical about this person. However, the journal was ecstatic at the prospect of it's owner becoming a member of a magic guild. Thus ,Terrence became a member of Eisenwald. Although he didn't make many friends due to his constant questioning of everybody about magical without ever talking about another subject. He crawled through the next year with relatively little advancement within the guild. even worse, he hadn't been able to catch any of the members with strange or unusual magics in that whole year as they mostly ignored him as the insignificant grunt he was.