Character Name: Roger Mehli
Race: Human
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Character Description: Roger Mehli stands at an okay height of around five foot seven tallfor a human, having dark brown hair and brown eyes that cover his own visage. His skin is somewhat tanned from work underneath the sun, as well as having a set of broad shoulders due to living a rural life for the majority of his own life. His own choice of clothes happens to be rather simplistic in the sense that he wears a set of coveralls with a simple set of pants and a white shirt underneath. He wears a set of boots to protect his feet from harm whenever he is doing the work he usually does, packed with a set of stockings usually to cover his feet underneath. Usually during brighter days he’ll be seen with a hat on top of his head usually made of straw to block out the sun to help him work.
Character Occupation: Fisherman
Character Personality/Traits: Roger happens to be a man who usually tries to live in the present and gives subtle thought to the future, usually the type to try and not overwhelm himself in his day to day life. He usually tries to keep himself busy and organized as well, trying to not go by a day without at least having done some form of progress, which is usually spent fishing or something along those likes not liking when he hasn’t been productive. Although he usually tries to put out a single day throughout each week where he can relax, just to take a break which is usually spent socializing or drinking at a local tavern or bar. He isn’t entirely reclusive but he likes to think he knows when to keep his mouth shut or keep his hands out of what could be considered drama, usually just trying to not draw too too much unneeded attention to himself. Socially he’s not against starting a conversation or anything of the like, though he isn’t keen to bragging or boring people with things he knows they wouldn’t find interesting, usually preferring to have a few friends to talk to when he needs it.
Character Biography:
Born around twenty two years ago into a small rural family on the edges of Barkhamsted, being the firstborn of Donovan Mehli and Debria Mehli whom owned a small fishery that bordered with the coast along that city. Born right at the beginning of the conflicts that occurred between Barkhamsted and the Pact, with his father serving off as a soldier in the war at the time. He spent the majority of his own youth laboring with his mother and the few siblings that came after him, hearing every now and then about the war effort. It wasn’t an easy life considering things always went bump in the night within the city, sometimes having to evacuate when things were snagging people off of the streets or so on, usually being scared for him and his family’s life whenever there were attacks from demons or similar beings on Barkhamsted. These events were what engrained a certain kind of reluctance into him when it came to fighting for Falkvard or Barkhamsted due to the scale of these entities, wanting to be as away from them as he could. Once the war cleared with the Pact cleared up and his father was finally home, he wasn’t entirely in one piece however due to having had a leg of his need to be amputated from a large arrow that struck into his leg during an arrow volley from their side that later on got infected. He was a bit more up in his years so he could take up some of the weight when it came to the business the family had, but his father’s condition with the missing leg crippled what money did come in. Slowly and surely causing the property they owned to be took back by the city due to lacking the capability to have a monetary upkeep when it came to the business, that and his two sisters usually being refrained from the hefty work. So in return him and his family were ousted from said property and least were keep around by a set of family friends on the same end of Barkhamsted for a time till the drain on having to support four other people pushed them on out. Roger internally not being happy about these circumstances during the course of his later teenage and younger adult years but knowing there wasn’t much they could do about this. So with what money they did have, they managed to land themselves a small shack on the property of someone who owned a farm in Falkvard and kept to what they knew to keep themselves well fed at the time. Roger being who he was just held his up high like his father and mother did and kept working to keep them all fed, when his sisters came of age they were married off to two other men at the time which least finally took some of the effort of saying fed and healthy off their back and brought least a bit of happiness to the family as a whole. Many could say what came next wasn’t really anything too out of the norm cause of his father and mother growing in age caused them to grow sick and not having the money to handle said treatment of an illness they died a few years later up until recently. Inheriting what little was left from the two in regards to money and property which he had to sell off in order to aid with paying for a decent burial for the two of them. Now being mostly on his own besides just the clothes on his back and what tools he could scrounge up, not entirely sure what to do next but to take it one step at a time and see where things go as a result.
Other/Extra: Pretty sure Bogrokka would be dead/off wherever so replacing him with this guy.
This character application is... Pending! Welcome back to Saphriel! Before I can accept this application there's a few discrepancies that need working on in your character's bio. Specifically, if your character is 22 then the Pact War ended 6 years before your character was born at this point so he'd not have lived through the war-times. There is also little mention of recent events, such as the Plague, the Acaedia War, Royal Wedding, Farm Blight and so on. As a fisher the blight and the Year-Long Winter would have definitely impacted him and his work greatly, as he would have been depended on during the blight I can imagine, and the winter would have made his work harder. What I'd like for you to do, is go back through the lore of Saphriel, maybe mention how the Pact War impacted his parents and thus how it impacted his upbringing, look at the different events that have occured since your character's birth and edit from there with in-depth details of how these events impacted his life. Or for events like the Royal Wedding for example, his thoughts on them. You don't need to write for every single one, but pick a good selection that seem relevant and write them into his backstory. You can also change his age to be older if you still want him to have lived through war times, but that's your choice.