Fade Rift application

PLAYER

Name: Cami
Age: 30
Contact: PM or eolasemah
Other Characters: Sina Dahlasanor, Cade Harimann, Teren von Skraedder
Interests: This guy is the worst and will probably have mostly negative CR. This is ideal. I'm not 100% sure what I want his arc to be yet, but I imagine it will involve learning to be less of a shit.

CHARACTER

Name: Benedict Quintus Artemaeus
Canon/OC: OC
Journal: altusimperius
Race: Human
Nationality: Tevinter
Occupation: Apprentice, baby Magister, oblivious baby Venatori
Division: Prisoner at first, then probably Diplomacy
Mage or Not: Mage
Age: 22

History

Benedict has lived an extremely privileged life with parents who simultaneously almost never interacted with him and indulged his every whim. He was raised by a nanny, Michaela, the only human servant in their household, and maintains a good relationship with her, to the point where she may actually be the only person he likes. The majority of their servants are elvhen, with a sizable number of slaves to fulfill the household's unseen roles.
His parents, Calpurnia and Aurelias Artemaeus, are among the Minrathous elite, powerful magisters who contribute a great deal to the city-- and greater Tevinter's-- politics. In his young adulthood, Benedict's parents have made the decision to steer him from his path of hedonism into one of personal growth under the tutelage of Magister Atticus Vedici, of whom they've become aware as a circumspect and well-grounded member of the Venatori.

Benedict has been a willing enough apprentice, but was not told of his master's status in the Venatori, and has been of the impression they're traveling Thedas to broaden his horizons and research whatever boring thing Atticus is into.



Personality

The short version: a spoiled brat. The long version: a young man of dubious emotional maturity who has never had any reason to believe the universe doesn't revolve around him, who presumably, deep down, has some redeeming qualities apart from being exceptionally good-looking, but has yet to find them or see any reason they should be found.

Benedict loves luxury, things that are pretty, people scraping and bowing in awe of his glorious presence, being right, and having no responsibility or accountability for any of his actions. He hates anything that reminds him that poor people exist, including poor people themselves, and is probably the kind of person who would genuinely think the wealthy have it worse.
He's well-enough educated and likes to read, speaks Orlesian in addition to Tevene and the trade tongue, and actually does have a decent head for bargaining when he can manage to pull it out of his ass (rarely). In truth, if asked if he's good at anything, he would have a difficult time answering, but likely wouldn't suffer the asker much longer.

Arrogant, selfish, and childish, Benedict is easily aggravated when he finds himself in situations where he's not completely in control or the center of attention. The flipside of that coin is a giant well of insecurity, drawing from the fact that he hardly knows his parents and they don't seem to care for him beyond what he can bring to their family's legacy. Admitting weakness would be admitting that he doesn't know how to perform most basic tasks, interact with people as an equal, or demonstrate any kind of useful skill, all of which he understands, at least on a fundamental level, are necessary to existing in the world.
Before beginning his apprenticeship, he has never had a reason to rise above his identity as an entitled princeling, and the process is proving increasingly challenging. Having witnessed no hardship in his life, he is overly sensitive to pain, cruelty, and any form of ugliness, all of which he is finding in abundance in Kirkwall. How he'll manage to adapt to it is the question of the hour.

Opinions & Affiliations

Tevinter: The best and brightest. Land of milk and honey and rightness. The Divine should be male.

Venatori: Actually not super well-aware of who they are and what they do beyond what he's done with Atticus. Leans toward sympathetic.

Southern Mages: Weird and wrong but maybe not the worst. Don't know their own power.

Templars: Pointless and offensive.

Elves: Serving class, not worth addressing.

Qunari: Enemies and monsters.

Dwarves: ???????

Other nationalities: Who cares, Tevinter is all that matters.


Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths: Really really ridiculously good-looking, has some capacity for research/reading/writing when he can be convinced to make the effort, charming enough when it's worth his while, reasonably talented in magic.

Weaknesses: Incredibly easily flustered, insecure, spoiled, refuses to do any physical labor (and wouldn't be too useful even if he didn't), intractable, doesn't care about dogs.

Inventory

The clothes he was wearing and the tools he was carrying when they were captured, both of which are far too expensive and fancy for fieldwork and have probably been confiscated.

Motivation

CAPTURED
His main motivation at present is to escape the Inquisition and get back home.

SAMPLES

Two for one on the TDM! (two separate logs)