Matrim the traveler (Matrim Dermoor)

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Name: Matrim Dermoor, also known as “Matrim the traveler”

Age: 63

Gender: Male

What Creature Are you?: Humanoid.

Race: Citizen of Magix

Allegiance: He's neutral but has a strong tendency towards being good.

Origins: Magic user

Powers: Undetermined (see history)

Spells: None (See history)

Appearance: He is a man who most often dresses in colorful robes rather than normal clothes. His robes come in all colors except for pink, purple, white and black. His hair has mostly turned gray and he grows a beard which he wears braided. His hair grows long and sleek. It hangs about halfway his back. His skin is Caucasian but the many travels and the aging of his body has turned it leathery. Lines emerge from his eyes and the side of his lips and his cheeks are a bit soggy by the wear of time. Most of his face though is covered by the large braided beard he wears. When he reads he wears rectangular glasses which are surprisingly narrow. The glasses are set in an anthracite colored frame which only envelops the top half of the glasses and leave the bottom bare.

Strengths:
Explanation Scholar strength.
Matrim knows a lot of stuff from a lot of realms, knows much about the lore, the culture and the people there making it a knowledge based strength. Often he tells stories about his experiences in other realms and uses the wisdom gathered to solve or identify problems (problem identifier synergy).

Explanation moodlifter Strength.
Moodlifter is a strength that doesn't influence Matrim directly but he helps lift the spirits of those who seek him out and talk to him. He tried to give solid and honest advice. (Problem identifier synergy)

Explanation Problem identifier Strength.
Along with the analytic mind of his scholar heritage honesty makes Matrim very good at pointing out where exactly issues lie. Not only is he able to identify them, he isn't afraid of expressing where the problem lies. He will however always remain tactful about approaching delicate situations when feelings might be hurt (moodlifter synergy). Identifying problems doesn't benefit Matrim directly but it does positively influence his environment.

Weaknesses:
Explanation Scattered Weakness.
The scattered weakness (synergy with friendly) causes Matrim to regularly drift off subject when talking to someone. For instance when he's having a conversation with someone about flowers, he manages to fluently change the subject to bees, then to the price of honey and ultimately ending up explaining how the economy works. Indirectly his train of thought makes sense though it deviates vastly from where the initial conversation started. Matrim also has trouble identifying whether his conversational partner is still interested in what he has to say (Lonely Synergy) This way of talking is also something that goes on in his braid. He's scattered and it's hard for Matrim to focus on a single subject for prolonged duration of times.

Explanation limping Weakness.
Matrim cannot run. He could perhaps very briefly in the time of most need but can't keep it up for long and will be in pain when this occurs. This is a weakness when confronted with danger and he has to flee.

Explanation non-magical magic user weakness
it has been detected by the wizards that Matrim is a magical creature of some sort and does possess magical energy within him, be it a very tiny amount. Matrim however never managed to channel enough of this energy to discern where his power lies.

Explanation of Magical fear
Due to events going awry with his best friend (see history) Matrim is uncomfortable discussing magic since he cannot understand it and has seen first hand the devastating effects of it going wrong. He will refuse any magic being cast on him if he is able to do so (If he is conscious or awake).

Personality:
As explained in the Strengths and weaknesses Matrim is a friendly and honest man who's molded by the many travels he made, the different cultures he experienced and the hardship he's been through. Friendship is something he never truly knew for a long time, every time he made close friends he traveled to another realm (See history why). He's very talkative and loves to tell stories about his travels. He also enjoys an audience when he tells his stories.

Due to his many travels and many experiences with different cultures has caused Matrim to be extremely open minded about many ideas including ones persona. He almost always acts understanding even when faced with issues often considered weird or taboo even. Unfortunately his understanding of people and the many different ways people function also causes him to be understanding and supportive of negative traits. This is because he has come to understand that even when ideas seem weird or alien to him, in other societies this works just fine and thus he respects other point of views, both for the good and for the bad.

History:
Matrim was born in the suburbs of Magix and his life was pretty much like any other average life in Magix. Matrim excelled in school in the subjects history, geography and English while being substantially weaker with the beta subjects like math and science. At his sixteenth when his high school time ended Matrim attended to wizard school. He unfortunately needed to stop with his studies very soon since his magical energy was too weak to even determine the origins of his power, let alone that he could actually channel anything useful. However Matrim had to stop training to become a wizard, the school did see the intellect Matrim possessed and let him study on the school anyways to become a scholar, which was all that Matrim wanted. During Wizard school it was also when he met Mark. During freshman year they were assigned a project together in history class.

During this project Matrim and Mark became good friends and for the first time Matrim learned to link happenings that happened between realms, how one thing on melody could influence the political course on Lynphea. How everything played out.

This was the start of a great friendship that lasted through the entire duration of Wizard school. Matrim expanded his knowledge about history and culture of all the magical realms and also one non magical realm, namely Earth. He saw his friend not only grow in his knowledge but also in his might as a wizard. He had amazing abilities to teleport over vast distances and also to create gateways between different realms. He would travel all the realms, working towards his dreams.

It was near graduation, with the final exams nearly over both Mark and Matrim were sure to get their graduation. Matrim as a scholar and Mark as a wizard. They had agreed to travel the realms together and get to know everything. Right before graduation Mark decided to jaunt to his home realm of Dolona to visit his parents one last time before he would head into the world.

It was at the day before graduation when his friend mark wanted to visit home. The wizards had a year of unprecedented feuding with the witches behind them, though no one was prepared for the final blow the witches would deal. Mark became a wizard specialized with transportation magic, he could conjure the most accurate portals over great distances. So the day before graduation he decided to head home. Unfortunately for Mark his magic was tempered with and when he realized it was too late. His portal scattered his body and spat him out distorted beyond recognition. Until this day, this image is burned into Matrim's memory and the death of his best friend weighs heavy on his shoulders.

At graduation Matrim stood with tears in his eyes on the stage. In his speech he asked everyone present to have a minute of silence for Mark, since he had only died the day before and so they did.

Graduation was hard for Matrim, he lost everything he cared about and now he was a scholar, equipped with the knowledge to gather more. And so a couple of days later, after giving himself some time to mourn Mark's death he started with his journey, the journey Mark was supposed to take with him, though he was no more, only with him in spirit so he decided to visit every realm for the both of them.

And so he did, starting with Solaria. He made detailed documentation of all he saw and took whichever jobs he could do in order to provide for his existence. He had refused Alfea's offer to become their historian, though he always returned to the place in order to leave his documentation. Every time he was in Alfea he told the fairies who studied there the stories of his travels and did whichever services needed to pay for his stay, not that it was required of him since he delivered the documentation which he wasn't really paid for at all.

It was at his first visit to pyros Matrim had started to always carry a quarterstaff around, Which he could often be seen decorating, making carvings of what he had seen and experienced. Ever since his visit to Pyros Matrim had a limp which seemed to be the reason why he had the habit of walking with a quarterstaff. Until this day he refused to say a word about what happened and neither does he allow the limp to be magically healed.

This cycle continues until this day, though his stays at Alfea became longer and longer each time he visited. As he grew older he couldn't ignore the rest for which is weary bones yearned. Nor could he ignore his brain yearning for familiarity. Visiting all the realms and studying their cultural differences enriched the man, but also took their toll. Now he has arrived at Alfea once more, perhaps permanently unless the allure of traveling calls him once more.

Edited the creature type and history.

History edits:
Removed detailed and conversation parts and replaced them with short summaries.

I'll give an approval.

[Added weakness]
Due to events going awry with his best friend (see history) Matrim is uncomfortable discussing magic since he cannot understand it and has seen first hand the devastating effects of it going wrong. He will refuse any magic being cast on him if he is able to do so (If he is conscious or awake).

I rather like this and I'll give it a reapproval.