Nalyd

Nalyd

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Demographics
Controlled by:	Nalyd
Species:	Human
Items and Abilities
Skills / Trades:	CRF Moderator. A skilled bio-mage and Shaper.
Items:	Lifesower

"Don't be so modest, Nalyd. You are pure genius and you know it. Master of death and life!" - Jewels

Nalyd is a recently-joined moderator at Calamity Refuge. His jurisdiction includes the Geneforge and Avernum forums.

Physical Traits and Appearance

Nalyd is, first of all, short. Petite. Barely 4'10", and weighing less than 100 pounds. Physically weak and very frail, but with excellent reflexes and very fast hands. His fingers are long, good for magic. He always wears a huge, light, diaphanous robe of shifting black and silver patterns. His face is never visible, hidden beneath the magically-inspired shadows of his hood. The only part of him anyone can see are his hands, which often twitch and tap out obscure rhythms on any available surface. Often, he will hold his hands out in front of him while walking or standing, or clasp them together.

Mentality

Nalyd is best characterized as the absentminded professor. Intelligent but flighty and with a very short attention span. Lacking in wisdom, if you will. His behavior is erratic at best. Often, he will focus on one particular goal to the exclusion of all else, only to do an about-face and work in a completely different direction. When talking, Nalyd will often get ahead of himself and stop making sense. Stubborn and obstinate, Nalyd is very loyal, and very difficult to excite. Underneath the seemingly childlike exterior, however, Nalyd is completely and utterly devoted to the traditions and furthering of his art, Shaping. Nothing else takes precedence, be it Nalyd himself or any other.

Nalyd is sometimes impeccably polite, and will often use formal names or titles as forms of address. Other times, he is vulgar, base, caustic, and downright unpleasant. Nalyd oscillates between these two extremes- there is no middle ground. Whether he uses one or the other depends largely upon his opinion of the person he is addressing, as well as whatever he feels like at the moment. While he is acutely aware of the effects of insults and vulgarity on others, he himself sees absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Nalyd, on the rare occasions that he is angered, is a berserker. Giving little heed to life or limb, he will lash out viciously and with little to no thought or planning. Be it with words or blade, his wrath will be considerable, though easily sidestepped by a cooler-headed opponent.

Residence

Nalyd doesn't have a permanent residence, but instead has a habit of keeping himself completely above the biological worries of other humans. Until he collapses into a coma, that is.

Duties

Nalyd's duties include moderation of the Geneforge and Avernum forums, as well as maintaining the Shaping lab in the Geneforge Moderation Centre. Generally a hands-off moderator, he sometimes rushes into the hands-on aspect of Shaping. Too little planning is spent on his experiments, and dramatic failure often results.

Relationship With Others

Jewels: Nalyd stole her baby after faking it's death, in order to perform an experiment in creating the ultimate human. While Jewels has decided to restrain her anger, Nalyd will do his very best to avoid her. Indeed, Nalyd hates Jewels for forcing him to create Stillborn before he was ready, ultimately ruining his experiment and delaying his ultimate goal.

Stillborn: Nalyd regards Stillborn as a creation, and more than that, his creation. To Nalyd, Stillborn is an animal, something to be commanded and experimented on. To Nalyd, Stillborn is a prototype of the ultimate human that still remains his goal, and a tool that may still be useful in pursuit of that goal. He intensely desires to examine Stillborn or continue his experiments on him.

Abilities

Is very skilled, though also very specialized. Bio-magic is really the only area that he has real power in, and he has extensive power in that area. This includes healing, buffing, and harmful flesh manipulation as well as Shaping. Is rather deft with the Scythe, though not exceedingly good and not at all strong. Is a trained Shaper, though he knows mostly Battle Creations. Excels at research when he takes the time to do it right, which is rarely.

Possessions

The only possession of real consequence is Nalyd's Scythe, or Lifesower. Nalyd will claim ownership of the Shaping lab if asked, being the only one that uses it. His robe, while exotic, possesses no powers other than the Shaper insignia glowing when he performs Shaping. Effectively owns The Roost.

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