Personality

Raised without any formal education, Tadgh struggles with complex topics like math, history, geography, or how to operate anything more complicated than a tent. He is kind to a fault, though, always seeking to help those around him. Due to the nature of his powers he tries to avoid any and all form of exciting or stressful activities, and usually tries to keep his own mood somewhere between sullen and neutral, out of fear that becoming too happy could have tragic consequences.

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History

• Clan Mac Conchobhair were not true natives of the south, but that did not prevent them from thriving. Donnacha Mac Conchobhair had gathered mages from all corners of Ivras, all twisted in some bestial way by their magic, all longing for freedom from the oppressive gaze of society. And with Mac Conchobhair, they found it. There, deep in the Sunless Jungle they lived as free as the beasts they resembled, hiding their gifts from no one. It was pure, total and utter freedom, all any of them wanted. Except for Tadgh.
• Tadgh was the first child born into the motley pack, and it was nearly immediately apparent that he did not mesh. Where the older mages preferred freedom and chaos, Tadgh craved structure and certainty. When his magic manifested at ten, and the boy grew to twice his size and shredded a tent into pieces, his family celebrated his newfound "freedom" while Tadgh felt only terror. There was little education to be given to the boy, aside from feel-good platitudes about "finding" himself and "embracing his true nature".
• It all came to a tragic head at 19 when, while roughhousing with another member of the clan, Tadgh's magic triggered itself in the excitement. He doesn't remember what happened that morning, only waking to the screams of his family and the foul, metallic taste of blood on his lips. His playmate, a hind barely younger than himself would never walk again, not without expensive prosthesis imported from Faline, something the clan had utterly no means to acquire.
• Horrified with both himself and the damage he'd caused to a fellow person, in one night Tadgh packed everything that he owned (which wasn't much) and left the clan, heading north towards the city of Faline. He hopes to somehow join the Mage Order and learn to properly control his magic, or rid himself of it entirely.

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