Audemus
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How are we to say we work the magic of humanoid biology when we lack a rudimentary understanding of it? Equal parts life and death, the study of life energy and death energy is interwoven and inextricable. You cannot say you are a master if you only see half the picture. There is more you can do.
Audemus Florenti Emilios
Didact of Necromancy
[ THE SEMPITERNAL ]
Ut spirare audemus, aureo floremus.
As we dare to breathe, we bloom golden.
š¯”…asics
titles
doctor, lord, prior, didact
age
60
gender
man [he/him]
species
quarter-elf
birthday
late spring
height
6'2" [190cm]
alignment
lawful neutral
class
wizard [necromancer]
š¯”„bout
"In my experience most students at this school wouldn't be able to incinerate a mouse, let alone a fellow person. I teach classes about dead people. I would know."
Eerie, gaunt, intimidating, and yet still hauntingly beautiful at the age of nearly 60, Audemus' is a face that people do not easily forget. His height and demeanor have him placed above the heads of others: always as a figure to look up to, never on an equal playing-field. This does not make him an easy man to connect toā€”on the contrary, he is one of the most starkly unnaproachable people many claim to have ever encountered.
In terms of personality, Audemus makes no effort to counter-act his intimidating presence. He is an asocial man who rarely if ever seeks out interaction outside of necessity. That being said, he is not only the head of a major university department, but also co-leader of the school, and a congressional & feudal politician. He is a supremely public figure. This all adds up to an incredibly overworked, overstressed man, prickly in his anxiety.
Yet despite everything, Audemus' positive contributions to the field of medicine and necromancy cannot be overstated: he has transformed a superfluous art into something with both moral and purpose, as well as made significant strides in the field of medicine and surgery. His nature, though ever dour, yearns to heal.
By modern definitions, Audemus is a queer autistic man who struggles with depression and PTSD alongside his epilepsy. He has a supernatural predisposition for sleeplessness (alongside a supernatural means of continued survival in the face of it). But in exchange for all of that, he has a mind without parallel.
š¯”‡esign
Palette
- Audemus wears exclusively comfortable and soft materials, and pays a premium to have a custom wardrobe designed and tailored to fit his tastes exactly.
- Although he has his ears pierced, he prefers only to wear light-weight earrings. His daily pair are black onyx studs.
- Audemus frequently wears ~4 rings total: 2 on one hand and 1-2 on the other. Two are marriage-related, one is his signet, and one is a gift from Oskar.
- The necklace on Audemus' didact uniform has 8 colored beads, each representing a school of magic at the University. He has 8 golden chains over each shoulder, each representing an academic honor.
Moodboard
ā„ombat
Necromancer
[ School of Medical Necromancy ] Necromancy is the science of the cosmic forces of life, death, and undeath. While some necromancers may choose to focus on the manipulation of life energy towards the purposes of death and reanimation, other necromancers follow a different path: focusing on the arcane study of life.
strength
dexterity
constitution
intelligence
wisdom
charisma
luck
will
faith
wealth
Weapon
A 6'11" staff in alternating colors of black and ivory. A custom-commissioned enchantment, the fluid-like black structures on the top and bottom of the bone rod function as entrances to pocket dimensions, allowing the form and shape of the weapon to change at will.
Anatomical Savant
A prodigious savant in the field of arcane medicine [necromancy], Audemus can monitor and exert complete, constant & conscious control over all of his bodily functions.
Necrotic Healing
Audemus' savant understanding of humanoid anatomy enables him to use magic to precisely pinpoint and correct maladies and afflictions in others.
Stasis Shift
Practice allows Audemus to temporarily alter or even suspend his own biological functions. To this end, he can manipulate his nervous system to feel no pain or slow down his circulatory system to prevent the uptake of poisons. This ability can only be used very sparingly.
Manipulate Undead
Due to his age and experience in the field, Audemus can interrupt the magical bonds between weaker necromancers and their summons.
Clinical Resurrection
An ability Audemus keeps secret from the general publicā€”Audemus can perform true resurrections and bring people back to life. It is an incredibly intricate practice that, depending on corpse degradation prior to resurrection, can come with a lengthy recovery process as the body re-builds degraded muscle and and re-acquires lost mass.
š¯”—rivia
- Audemus' initial inspirations were Havelock Vetinari [Discworld] and Sweeney Todd, both characters from media that I have not personally consumed and know fundamentally very little about. Later inspirations were Victoro di Terzo (owned by CoupleOfKooks) and to some extent, Dream of the Endless [Sandman].
- In terms of life, story, capabilities and personality I also drew inspiration from people like prodigious savant Daniel Tammet, Project Semicolon founder Amy Bluel, and my own (autistic) sister for this character.
- Audemus would be allosexual, demiromantic, and gay in modern terminology.
- Audemus has scars on his arms, covering his entire back and shoulders, and on his stomach and upper legs. When comfortable, he may roll up his sleeves. Otherwise, he absolutely always keeps himself covered up. The scars whose origins are self-evident are ones he has made his peace with. The others... not even remotely.
- Audemus does not talk about his backstory. He does not talk about anything, ever. Never has there been a more repressed man than this one right here.
- His favorite color is blue, his favorite animals are flamingos, and he can't stand Lowtown theatre productions.
Shadow Moses - Choir Noir
Husband. The two have a very atypical relationship based on respect, sex, and consentual violence (instead of frivolities like love). Has a mind that almost parallels Audemus'. See Links for more detail on character relationships!
Nephew. Official ward of the Emilios household, Oskar has lived under Audemus' roof since he was 16 years old. Audemus has a growing paternalistic relationship with him, though it is one Audemus internally denies.
Niece. Unofficial ward of the Emilios household, Atalie also lives under Audemus' roof. Audemus and Atalie maintain a rather antagonistic relationship towards each other.
