AA - Bartholomew

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For the glory of Miras!

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Name:  Bartholomew
Age: 260 (37 y.o)
Birthday:
    Standard: Year of Beginnings (8253), Day 18th of the Month of Fire (Cartha the Scroll)
    Song-lu: Year of the Lambent Gold Falcon, Day 8th of the Month of Raven
    True Animal: Jade Rabbit
    Secret Animal: Raven
    Lambent and Perfume
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 8"
Race: Wood Elf (Both Wood Elf parents)

Class: Druid
Occupation: Traveling healer
City: Estraude
Allegiance: Miras Kingdom

Personality:

+ Hard-worker | Kind |  Adaptable | Teacherly
- Gullible | Serious | Narrow-minded | Strong-willed

Bartholomew may come out a serious and grumpy faced wood elf on the outside appearance. But inside he is a kind, dependable man that would be willing to help his fellow wood and light elves, even humans. With his extensive knowledge as a Healer class, he easily adapts to a few areas he could use his magic during battles. Co-owning a family orphanage, his teacher-like instinct will act up to young individuals, though it ends up more to be on a parental-side because of his caring nature. He is also a hard-working individual and prepared to learn anything new in the outside world. His narrow-mindedness has effects on people he converses to especially on Dark Elves, in which he would be careful on whatever he says even if his communication skills are good. Being strong-willed would cause him to ignore any advice he was to be told and determines to do it although it is against one's orders.

History:

Bartholomew was born from a small lineage of wood elf healers and the only son inheriting the family line. Both of his parents are Wood Elves; his mother who is a healer, owner of the orphanage and a beloved housewife while his father, a well-known healer around the town.

At a young age he pressured his own self to learn magic just like his parents and make them proud at the same time. His mother often guides her about doing small livelihood work like cooking and herbal products. His father would help him teach the basic magic but ending up to overexert himself. Bartholomew was a persistent child yet willing to expand his knowledge further on any new discoveries which his parents were proud of.

With his desire to know more of its healing magic, he decided to enroll at the town's magic school. There, along with few students wishing to learn, worked hard and study its properties. The elders teaches everyone the basic knowledge of nature and necessities of being one of their kin, this what Bartholomew was inspired of and amazed to use the said magic.

The family built a small orphanage in hopes of giving children or other young ones who were abandoned, missing or lost their will to live. With partial support from the Chamber of Aedles, the building was a success with Bartholomew as a 'youth counselor' guiding the young kids using the knowledge the Wood Elves had learned and shared with other people. From this, their young minds filled with nothing but fear, distrust and solitude was replaced with a chance to change their lives. He dedicated his life to work in their family orphanage to change children's lives for the the better. He began this job at his teenager years (age 100) on volunteering around the orphanage. Coping the children to be better even amidst they lost their way looking on their own path. Bartholomew also teaches them to read and write, taking up the mantle of a young teacher.

His parents are what is motivating point on pursuing his job as a healer, so as the orphanage children. That hope he would see in their faces influenced him to help anyone in need. The elders from his magic school also influenced Bartholomew's mentorshipping and potential to use more of his magic outside his hometown.

He continues to serve for the youth and as a mentor for more than 110 years, to guide the children for their future and to change their lives as well. With every new children the family adopt, Bartholomew grew close to them (more of a sibling relationship) and willing to assist in their needs. Along the course of his counseling, his mentorship in the magic school also allowed him to teach the new potential healers. Demonstrated his healing abilities to his young students, he shows his labor of hard work and effort from his studies. Improving his physical body, he would volunteer himself on doing chores or errands that requires physical motion like woodcutting, carrying boxes and sacks of good. To him, balance must be in play. So not only does he train his magical properties, he also improves his physical attributes although he chose to be a healer.

During his long stay at the town's family orphanage, he wondered how he can help more not just in his hometown but to other places as well. With this decision and asking for his parent's blessings, he left Estraude and the orphanage at the age of 250. Entrusting the children's care to his parents like how he was raised with love and care. As a traveling healer he hopes to share his knowledge, explore and venture the world that he never knew, plus proving to himself that his studies were to be useful in the outside world.

Within his present journey and hearing the kingdom needed aid from the people, he decides to join Miras. Not only to support the kingdom, but to help those in need with his magic. As he signs up in Miras, his allegiance gears towards both the kingdom and his family. His connections with light and wood elves are in good terms with the exception to dark elves, which make him feel uneasy and distrust against them. After leaving home and joining the kingdom he pursues to hone his healing skills, to aid the wounded soldiers and contacts his family in Estraude knowing that he was fine in his dependent life outside home. He cares for the people who must be treated for their safety despite the war that's currently in the run.

Additional info:
- He is a co-owner of the family orphanage for children/elves in order to guide and support them
- When not doing his healer job, he occasionally applies as a babysitter
- Loves to carry children in arms and often acts like a 'monkey bars' whenever they would love to
- Has a weakness on alcohol
- His stave he carries was given from his mother
- The markings on left hand helps him to control over his healing properties


Relationships: N/A

RP Logs: N/A

RP Preference: Skype (note me for my Skype handle name) and dA notes.

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I'm through on this.

(c) Bartholomew, mine