holy madness burning in an icy gaze, the weight of a blackwood cross tucked beneath his robe, sermons rising to a fever pitch, morning fog and a nameless melody, the singe of blasphemy soothed by earnest repentance ...
// ELIJAH ERASMUS HARRIS — { priest of netherbridge }
tw: mentions of murder, depression, mental disorder, violence, abuse, addiction, etc.
( basics. )
› name : elijah erasmus harris › nickname(s) : eli, ras, father › gender : male (he/him) › orientation : demiromantic heterosexual. › date of birth : 11 october › birthplace : galway. › occupation : priest of netherbridge & leader of occult accord dawn of the 13th seal. granted the honorific the 13th apostle.
( physical & mental. )
› height : 6' › weight : 185. › body type : lean but mischievously muscled › eye color : ice blue › hair color : dark cinnamon brown › dominant hand : right. › scars : jagged scar along the hollow of his right cheek. lashes across his back. › conditions : prone of migraines, vertigo, and bouts of psychosis. › schemas : delusions of grandeur, flawed yet anointed
( personality. )
› 6+ qualities : tireless, charitable, compassionate, visionary, magnetic, devoted, disciplined + convicted › 6+ flaws : obscurantist, judgmental, can be cold, aggressive, and violent, and sometimes delusional and unhinged + manipulative › mbti : enfj › moral alignment : chaotic good › temperament : a paradox or a hypocrit, depending on the angle you take, elijah is a godspoke man with a dark & treacherous past, and though he lives his life in the light now, there are shadows in him that cannot be swept away. rage lives within him, and while he preaches forgiveness and means it, his demon is vengeance. those that trespass against him, his family, his congregation or his secret order are not likely to walk away. at the least, they will limp. he does not relish in being a sinner, but he accepts his light and his dark — uncharacteristic of a priest. most of his faith is bound to hidden texts he's discovered in his research. books of the bible that never saw the light of day. books gilded with occult wisom and knowledge. he considers himself a work in progress. most that meet him find him mysterious and magnetic, but there is a cold fire in him they cannot hold or temper. his patience lasts forever, but once the switch is flipped, the beast cannot be contained. › enneagram : type 8, the challenger / type 7, the enthusiast › soul type : wayward › animal : three-eyed serpent › greek god : hermes › zodiac : libra
( background. )
› intelligence : likely genius-level — but with that comes dark territory / could potentially harbor schizo-effective tendencies › skills : master of ancient languages & translation, prolific writer with many published works, master orator and natural leader, great with finances, inherent understanding of psychology › likes : reading, writing, preaching, ministering, time spent with this wife and daughter, fine tobacco, people watching, quiet, order, a well-built pyre, architecture & building, & mindful art, theater, symbolism, finding patterns & hidden meanings in everything, charitable giving › dislikes : self-righteousness, piousness, anyone that poses a threat to his wife & child, those that do evil for the sake of doing it (though he has once walked in a similar path), his past and discussing it with others, alcohol (due to his proclivity for addiction), himself
( facts. )
• born under a blood moon eclipse. named aodhan iarlaith. • orphaned when his mother murdered his father in cold blood. she was deemed schizophrenic and hospitalized after. he was barely 6. • at the orphanage, he learned scripture and hard discipline among other unmentionable abuses from the priests meant to guard him. while he longed for a connection with god, the stewards of his word were so terrible, the boy fled them at the age of 10. • after escaping the abuses of the orphanage, aodhan lived as a young street urchin for years. this drew him to addiction, violence, thievery. by the age of 14, he was a killer, running a young group of thugs that terrorized their small, irish village. • at the age of 17, his gang murdered a young man named elijah harris. he died in an alley with empty pockets the night before his voyage to england where he was to attend oxford and study divinity. for the first time in years, this dead boy, very nearly his own age, made him reflect on his life thus far. his pathetic stray from god's path — and a fire lit within him, even as he sobbed over the lifeless body in a cold, rain-drenched alley stinking of piss. aodhan died that night, and elijah harris was resurrected. he went to oxford a new man. • it was not easy, but elijah was smart. cunning, even. he excelled after a few seemingly devastating pitfalls — mainly due to his violent and unreasonable temper. he began to wake up. • he was briefly exiled as a heretic for his obsession with judas iscariot and the blasphemous nag hammadi texts. that exile led to travel and further delves into the occult, other cultures and religions, etc. his trip to china was one of the most enlightening experiences of his life, and he studied as long as he could with monks in the buddhist tradition. • when he was accepted back to oxford after countless appeals, he was welcomed back in and forgiven his past (even though he carried what he'd learned in his heart). soon after, the bishop installed the newly minted priest at netherbridge, ignoring his past discretions due to his charisma and enthusiasm. • not long after, he started the dawn of the 13th seal in shadow. • publishes his occult works in french under a pseudonym: lucien nébuleux. his most famous work is called exode: corporel.
