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"Yes. I'm a druid. What do you want?"
Telamere is tall and slender man, looking like he came from Irish or Scottish stock, with the accompanying pale skin and light dusting of freckles across his features. His eyes and hair are both dark shades of brown, with his eyes having little flecks of gold. His hair is kinked and wiry and full of loose curls, reaching down past his shoulder blades. It frizzes easily, and while Tela prefers having his hair down, he gets incredibly frustrated with it frequently while working so it ends up in a low ponytail often. His face isn't particularly expressive, leaving him with a deadpan or disinterested expression more often than not.
He's not a great fan of restrictive clothing, nor more modern styles of dress, so can often be found wearing a kilt or simple wrap around his waist to keep him modest, and little more than a scarf or something similar hiding bits of his upperbody. He rather dislikes the cold, and would rather just become a lynx to handle it appropriately. His shoes are rarely more complicated than a pair of sandles.
Perhaps the most interesting feature the man possesses is a series of tattoos, starting with what looks like a triskele on the back of his right forearm, turning into some celtic knotwork from there and winding up and around his arm. Looking carefully at the five bands wrapping around his upper bicept, one can pick out a human form, a boar, a lynx, a sparrow, and a sea turtle all within the knotwork. The knotwork gets more complicated as it spills down the right side of his body, from his shoulder, all the way down across his ribs and hips to wind around his right leg and terminate in another triskele on the bottom of his right foot.
- Rain storms
- Rocks (Particularly Fire Agate.)
- Cats (The bigger, the better.)
- Woodworking
- Unseelie Fae
- Snow/Cold
- Violence
- Tea
Telamere is a druid, and his magic is thoroughly based upon that which Druids use in Kevin Hearn's The Iron Druid Chronicles. His magic focuses, more or less, around the "Binding" and "Unbinding" of various natural pheonomenon and pulling power from the earth itself. (Or, whatever passes for "the earth" whereever he is. His local, high-tier earth elemental, more-or-less.)
He's talented at seeing the connections between things, which is the core of how he utilizes his magic. No fireballs, but he could certainly do somehing like, oh, bind your underwear to one of those little hairs about 2 inches above where your waistband normally sits, or use the energy he's borrowing from the earth to make himself stronger or faster.
He has a particularly close relationship with earth aligned elementals and can communicate with them in pretty simple terms, and occasionally call upon them for aid.
His magic can also be used to planewalk, usually through trees.
One of the limits of his magic, however, is that while he can shapeshift, only into four specific forms. A boar, lynx, sparrow, or sea turtle. Or, obviously, back into his human self. The second major, and more important, limit is that he must have his tattoos in tact to use any of his magic at all. If his tattoos are damaged, he loses access to all of his magic until they have been repaired, and they can only be repaired by another druid.
He must spend time in contact with the earth/local earth-aligned elemental/ground in order to refuel himself and refill his magical reserves. If he's in direct contact with the earth/local earth-aligned elemental/ground, he can more-or-less cast magic indefinitely. His magic is stronger, however, if both he and his target are touching the ground.
Hooved Animal Form: Boar
Predator Animal Form: Lynx
Flying Animal Form: Sparrow
Water Animal Form: Sea Turtle
His other primary skill is herbalism. He's got a particularly green thumb (aided by his ability to see the connections between things), and knows how to mix herbs to get the results he wants, thus can make some pretty potent potions, poltices, and teas.
But that doesn't mean he likes tea.
- Telamere has an elemental living within him, named Sehvyr. Sehvyr is the reason he can cast magic without touching the earth at all times, as most druids of his variety must do, and acts as magical energy storage in return for Telamere's protection. Anyone who might be able to see magical energies or souls or things of that nature may be able to tell that there are two entities within Telamere's body.
