#audeon

Directory Information: Race: Draenei Class: Vindicator Age: On the far side of middle-aged Eye Color: Silvery blue Height: 8′2″ Body Shape: 397 lbs. (Stocky, broad) Birthplace: Mac’Aree, Argus Residence: the Exodar

Additional Information: Pronunciation: “Hayd-ee-ahn” Nickname: Grump Tattoos: Ancient draenei script across his upper shoulders in plum ink. Scars: Four parallel scratches across his nose. Missing left arm. Assorted battle scars. Affiliations: AU draenei, Auchenai, Army of the Light Vitality: Healthy, but tired and hungover. Languages: Eredun, Draenei, some Common, some Thalassian

Personality Traits: Lawful (15) > Chaotic (5) Optimistic (3) < Pessimistic (17) Friendly (6) < Unfriendly (14) Sober (10) = Drunk (10) Playful (7) < Serious (13) Swords (12) > Spells (8) Extroverted (3) < Introverted (17)

Physical Description: With skin the color of a deep summer sky marred by eons of war, a crooked nose with four parallel scratches over the bridge of it, and wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and mouth, this large draenei male is certainly on the far side of his prime years. His dark, bushy ponytail is well-kept, and the traditional rings of service and deeds on his tail and face tendrils gleam with pride. Broad and brawny, he walks with a militant clip and stands like he’s got a iron rod under that heavy, glorious tail. The matte grey of jovite lined with bronze forms his entire left arm from the shoulder down, a prosthetic built like the limbs of the Auchenai soul constructs.

His voice is a heavy baritone and he speaks only a handful of words in Common or Thalassian, learned from the recent off-world visitors.

History: Some draenei may recognize him as one of the guards who would stay behind to keep the Genedar safe when they landed on a new planet. Those from alternate Draenor may recognize him as one who was severely wounded in the crash of their Genedar.

A rare few might also recognize him as one of the stoic, Light-wielding tomb guardians from Auchindoun. He usually had a helm on, though, so maybe not.

Those who can see souls or ghosts whisper for additional information.

At First Glance:

Prosthetic arm The matte grey of jovite lined with bronze forms his entire left arm from the shoulder down, a prosthetic built like the limbs of the Auchenai soul constructs.

Smells like... The boozy scent of rum is rarely far behind him, but lately he's smelled like armor polish and soap too.

Do you see dead people? Mediums, spirit-talkers, Auchenai, and others who see the dead can speak with a young draenei woman who travels with Hadeon. Just whisper me to talk to her!

Other Information (OOC): I like big words and I cannot lie. http://valdiis.tumblr.com

Inventory:

Tagged by @josiehastings

1) What does your muse smell like? Rum. Heavily of rum. The living version of Hadeon from alternate Draenor is a heavy drinker and his favorite is rum. He also smells like armor polish and a hint of citrusy soap.

2) How often does your muse bathe/shower? When he’s not having a deep depressive jag, once a day. When he’s in a bad way, he can go as much as four days between showers.

3) Does your muse have any tattoos or piercings? He has many intricate vertical lines of script across the back of his shoulders done up in plum-colored ink. It’s a spirit contract, binding the soul of a departed girl to his own that he might keep her memory and she will protect him in death.

4) Any body movement quirks? (e.g. tapping heel, shaking knee, etc.) He tends to stroke his neck tendrils when deep in thought.

5) What do they sleep in? While he used to sleep nude, he’s started to sleep in boxers ever since Taalia was bound to him. She thinks it’s hilarious that he concerns himself with the virtue of a dead woman.

6) What’s their favorite piece of clothing? He owns a very nice suit made of loose wrap pants and a long tunic, all done up in a rich, royal purple silk that looks very good with his sky blue skin.

7) What do they do when they wake up? He usually stretches, then puts on his left arm - it’s a jovite prosthetic. Sometimes he remembers to light some incense to remember his departed friends by, but sometimes he forgets.

8) How do they sleep? Position? Most of the time, Hadeon sleeps on his back, his right arm under his head and his left stump under a blanket; he finds that spot gets cold easily. His hooves usually hang off the end of his bed.

9) What do their hands feel like? His right hand is a little rough to the touch, the callouses of awkward mace-work crossing his palm. His left hand is cool stone, a jovite and bronze prosthetic made for him after his left arm was crushed in the crash of the Genedar.

Secluded Spaces by VNV Nation

Well, AUdeon (my nickname for the alternate Draenor version of Hadeon) is a rather lonely and solitary man, but when he finds someone interested, he will have sex with them. At present time, he is not sexually active, if only because there’s no one willing right now.

Ikeilos is very selectively sexually active. He has a severe problem with disassociation and requires special handling in order to remember to remain present in his body during sex. Thankfully, his lover is aware of this - and also able to have rather athletic sex in dreams.

Mathaes is, at present, not sexually active. It’s certainly not from lack of desire, but he’s between lovers and not in the mood for his usual brothel fare lately.

Tziska - 

Fun fact #1: Among Ash’anore Company - the band of mercenaries she lived with - there were occasional jokes that she slept with their commander. It was all meant in good fun. As it happens, these jokes started about a year before she actually did begin sleeping with their commander.

Fun fact #2: Though her excuse was the benefit of a bed over a bedroll, the romance between Tziska and her commander, Lanthrien Brightglen, had been simmering for several years. They officially married some twenty years before the first opening of the Dark Portal.

Fun fact #3: Tziska herself is completely talentless and blind when it comes to using or seeing magic in the way most elves can. This ‘null’ talent runs in the Shadowspite line, though it’s been known to skip generations. It’s a source of social shame as well as handicap, and it’s pure spite that put Tziska in the position of being an adept spellbreaker even with her null status.

Fun fact #4: One of her greatest accomplishments in supplementing her lack of native magical talent was the creation of a bandoleer of spell-scrolls which absorbed the mana of the spell being cast at her and either neutralized or rebounded it on the caster.

Hadeon MU - 

Fun fact #1: Hadeon has a weakness for women with curly hair. His first love had lush black ringlets. It’s one of the few things he can recall from that long ago time.

Fun fact #2: Though he appears to be somewhat averse to combat and violent action and professes himself to be “a man of the Light,” Hadeon is a strong believer in the principle of disproportionate response. Or as Machiavelli put it: “If an injury must be done to a man, it should be severe enough one need never fear retaliation.”

Fun fact #3: Only two people have glimpsed Hadeon’s “inner mental landscape.” Part spirit limbo, part mental refuge, and part metaphorical house of willpower, his personal inner representation is a stone tower in a barren grey wasteland. Trying to peek at his mind or soul via magical methods will only net one an image of roiling dark waters.

Hadeon AU -

Fun fact #1: The alternate Draenor version of Hadeon - an Auchenai warden who still lives - has a paperweight of Argusian prismathyst which has traveled with him since he fled Argus as a young man. It had been a gift from his first love and after she sided with Kil’jaeden and the Legion, he kept it as a reminder of how poisonous beauty could be.

Fun fact #2: Unsurprisingly, given that attitude, he’s had terrible luck with relationships because he’s always expecting betrayal and will manufacture some reason - in the end - to sabotage any good relationship before he can be betrayed.

Fun fact #3: Lines and lines of vertical Draenei script span his shoulders from the hump of his socketless left shoulder to the edge of his right. Impressed permanently into his skin in magical ink is a contract and a story of the spirit who chose to be bound to him as a guardian.

Zayneth -

Fun fact #1: Zayneth left an old bucket hat with his cousin when he left his guitar with her. In his mind, the two objects are inseparable - though he’s never been seen wearing the hat. It belonged to the bard who taught him how to play guitar when he was a teenager.

Fun fact #2: Though he was not successful in becoming a spellbreaker like his big sister, Zayneth was just as valuable a member of Ash’anore Company. A prankster and morale booster, he often charmed his (and the Company’s) way out of sticky situations.

Mwahaha...

This art is actually of the death knight version, but he’s so clean and pretty that I’ll use it to represent AUdeon, the living paladin version...

TAGGED BY: @centoridellanir

1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? “Hadeon.”

2. WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME? “You are looking for the titled and storied version? Well enough. Warden Hadeon of Mac’Aree, son of Degmon the Just.”

3. DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU WERE CALLED THAT? The vindicator stares across his desk. “Do I really need to pick it apart for you? Warden as in Auchenai warden, a senior guardian of the dead. Hadeon is my given name and I believe it is from an archaic Eredun word for ‘welcome.’ I was born in Mac’Aree on Argus, and my father’s name was Degmon. He was called ‘the Just’ as a vindicator of justice and to separate him from Degmon the Tall who also lived in Mac’Aree.”

4. ARE YOU SINGLE OR TAKEN? “Doomed to bachelorhood, I am afraid.”

5. HAVE ANY ABILITIES OR POWERS? “This seems an odd question. Anyone who has no abilities does not survive infancy, yes? I can cook adequately. I excel in combat with maces and shields, less so with blades. I can sing a a soul to rest. I can dance. I can call upon the blessings of the naaru and the Light to protect the souls entrusted to our care here at Auchindoun. I can feed a pet. I can reset a dislocated joint. This question is too open-ended and ridiculous.” With a frown, the vindicator eyes the heavy crystal paperweight on his desk.

6. STOP BEING A MARY SUE. “Ma risu? What is a-” He pauses, head slightly tilted left as if listening intently. “I think perhaps you have the wrong idea of the definition of ‘abilities’ - or I have an inadequate grasp of Common. Equally likely.”

7. WHAT’S YOUR EYE COLOR? “... Blue.”

8. HOW ABOUT YOUR HAIR COLOR? “Black, though in some lights it has a dark green sheen to it.”

9. HAVE YOU ANY FAMILY MEMBERS? “Remaining? No. No, not for thousands of years.”

10. OH? WHAT ABOUT PETS? “I kept care of a squitten once, after Tiraan fell on the eighth planet and someone needed to care for Nallah. I have not seen the like since, but off-worlders tell me of a ‘cat’ which is similar but with half the proper number of legs.”

11. THAT’S COOL I GUESS, NOW TELL ME ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DON’T LIKE. “I must admit a distaste for abruptness which borders on rude.”

12. DO YOU HAVE ANY HOBBIES/ACTIVITIES YOU LIKE DOING? “I enjoy games of tri-qirkat. I used to find peace in smithing and the swing of a hammer, but that is no longer something I can do; I teach a handful of students the basics. Of late, I have found renewed interest in the scientific aspects of metallurgy even if I cannot bend the metal myself.”

13. EVER HURT ANYONE BEFORE? “It is my job to train the newest crop of Auchenai hoplites and wardens. By necessity, that means bruises, temporarily disabling blows, and the occasional broken bone. I do not consider myself actively malicious or sadistic, but hurting people - both in training and in living - is unavoidable.”

14. EVER….KILLED ANYONE BEFORE? “I suppose that depends on your definition of a person. Plenty of demons, one or two Eredar who were once people.” The vindicator’s chin lifts as his smoky blue gaze goes distant. “The longer ago Argus becomes, the easier it is to forget I once knew them.”

15. WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU? That distant gaze snaps back to the interviewer. “Awfully arrogant for a quadruped insisting on walking on their back set of hands. Are all of you docked your tails at birth?”

16. NAME YOUR WORST HABITS. “Must I?” Hadeon sighs heavily and lifts his left hand. With a faint whirring noise from the pistons and gears in his palm, he counts off his fingers. “I drink - heavily. I have difficulty respecting the priesthood despite my faith in the Light. I prefer spending time alone rather than with my fellow wardens. I have a quick temper. Oh, and I forget to scrub the soaking tub in my quarters after I have used it.”

17. DO YOU LOOK UP TO ANYONE AT ALL? “I used to, but Tena died on planet twenty-nine. I do not believe I will ever meet her equal.” The vindicator pauses and glances skyward. “Fine, fine. I do look up to my adviser, Taalia. Because she insists.”

18. GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL? “Sexual. Oh! Those are classifications for... Women. I prefer women. I can appreciate that a man may be aesthetically pleasing, but none have ever inspired me the way women do.”

19. DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL? The vindicator barks a laugh. “To teach it, yes!”

20. DO YOU EVER WANT TO MARRY AND HAVE KIDS ONE DAY? And just that fast, the mirth is gone. “That is a painful question. The short answer is yes, but the long answer is more complicated. Women do not stay with me - like as not, yes, yes, because of me. And few enough of them want to attach themselves to a speaker for the dead. I think...I would make a good father. I know that I never will.”

21. DO YOU HAVE ANY FANBOYS/FANGIRLS? “Fanboys? Fangirls? Oh. On my good days, I believe Taalia would count as a fangirl. Ow! Woman, I do not need to explain your ghostly presence to this interviewer!”

22. WHAT ARE YOU MOST AFRAID OF? “Have any of your interviewees mentioned how jarringly disparate these questions can be emotionally? No? Hmph. I fear dying with my soul unhallowed.” The vindicator smiles wryly. “I fear heights.”

23. WHAT DO YOU USUALLY WEAR? “Clothes. Should I wear something else? Oh, you mean type. I prefer our wrap-around pants instead of kilts and long sleeved tunics to ward off too much staring at my arm.”

24. DO YOU LOVE SOMEONE? “Alas, as a guardian of the dead, all of my loves are dead. Yes, even you, Taalia. No, I am not being rude!”

25. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WET YOURSELF? “I had a nice long soak in the tub last night.” He pauses, head tilted as if listening to the unseen. His expression quickly becomes affronted. “That is none of your business!”

26. WELL, IT’S NOT OVER YET! “It had better be over soon because I am getting rather annoyed at this level of invasiveness.”

27. WHAT CLASS ARE YOU? (HIGH CLASS, MIDDLE CLASS, LOW CLASS) It takes a moment for the vindicator to understand this question. That moment may involve a round of translation not only from the Common language to Draenei, but from common concepts to draenei. And back. “Middle? Middle. High middle? I have enough to do what I like and anything I want for is nothing I can buy. As a vindicator, I have always been a well-respected member of our society; yet as an Auchenai, I have always been feared and shunned. You tell me what that means in your off-world planet.”

28. HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU HAVE? The vindicator is silent so long that it becomes uncomfortable for all parties before he finally grunts, “One.”

29. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON PIE? “Pie is adequate. Kunafah is better - honey and soft cheese pastry.”

30. FAVORITE DRINK? “Rum.” The vindicator winces as though struck. “Or telaari grape juice. Taalia advises me that I should drink a great deal less rum.”

31. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE PLACE?  “The shoreline just north of Karabor. I have always loved the ocean.”

32. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SOMEONE?  “No. I find very few people interesting any more. The last was a little brown woman... I could even forgive her those ridiculous walking hands. She was interesting.”

33. WHAT’S YOUR BRA CUP SIZE AND/OR HOW BIG IS YOUR WILLY? “And I thought the questions were invasive before? Light’s mercy...” The servos in his mechanical elbow whir as he lifts his hand to pinch the bridge of his nose. “More than adequate. I am apparently required by the woman whispering in my ear - Taalia, I told you to stop watching me sleep! - to say eleven and three quarters.” ((Bearing in mind that dude here is eight g’damn feet tall, this maintains a ratio of approximately an 8.5″ on a 6′ fella - or...more than adequate. Yes, I just did dick math for you. You’re welcome.))

34. WOULD YOU RATHER SWIM IN THE LAKE OR THE OCEAN? “The ocean, absolutely.”

35. WHAT’S YOUR TYPE? “My type? I suppose... I once favored priestesses, the sweet and loving and gentle sort with patience to rival the naaru themselves. All too often, they turned out to be anything but.”

36. ANY FETISHES? Hadeon’s cheeks turn a dark shade of navy and he closes his eyes, wincing as an invisible something jabs him in the ribs over and over and over. “Fine. I do enjoy having a partner restrained so I can pleasure her beyond what she thinks she can endure. And though I will never indulge it again, I find the sight of my hand curled gently around my partner’s throat - not a threat, but a symbolic gesture - rather erotic.”

37. SEME OR UKE? TOP OR BOTTOM? DOMINANT OR SUBMISSIVE? “Ooky? Um...” Grimacing, the vindicator shakes his head and tries to follow the rest of the questions. “While I have no problem with a partner riding atop my hips, I am not at all the sort of man who enjoys submitting.”

38. CAMPING OR INDOORS? “I have no significant preference in the matter. Oh, fine, outdoors then. I enjoy the stars.”

I have thought a little bit about AUdeon! There is a version of Hadeon that lives on the alternate Draenor that our characters have come to. He’s a senior warden of the Auchenai - and still very much alive. It is possible that visitors to Auchindoun could encounter him. At the core of his personality, he’s almost identical to Hadeon.

But where Hadeon lost his commandry mates at the fall of Auchindoun all at once, AUdeon has watched them drop away in battles on various planets one by one until he’s alone. Where Hadeon chose to alter his corpse for personal reasons, AUdeon lost his left arm (and he’s a southpaw) in the crash of the Genedar. Where the spirit known as Taalia only met Hadeon recently and briefly watched over him on MU!Draenor, she’s been a facet of AUdeon’s life for many years now and is his last trusted companion. AUdeon is a lonely, depressed man who resents the loss of combat readiness that his injury represents (even after its replacement with a perfectly functional prosthetic) and self-medicates with drink not only to keep himself numb but to drive away any who might try to help him.