Grey of Balance

Tav or Durge: Tav Name: Zarfryn Fre'Ate Race: Seldarine Drow Class: Wizard Subclass: Bladesinger Deity: Mystra Backstory: Outlander. Born on the surface. Her parents were from trading houses and still have siblings in the Underdark. The whole family, Zarfryn included, works as smugglers between the surface and the depths.

Path of Magic: Zarfryn was hungry for any book or scroll she could get from traders, smugglers, or through shady deals. She strictly avoided selling her soul—the Warlock path is not for her. Her father, a mage, showed her the basics, but her talent doesn't come from her blood like a Sorcerer’s; it is purely a product of her will and hard work.

Education: Later attended the Lady's College in Silverymoon. She lived in a "ghetto wing" of the campus, where her roommate was a Tiefling named Marisa—the reason Zarfryn doesn't view them as devils.

On Drow Nature: When asked if her kind is dangerous, her advice is blunt:

"Short version: yes, they are dangerous. Better to be suspicious and alive than kind and dead. If they worship Lolth—run. If they are Seldarine like me—judge by their actions. And yes, that applies to me too. Judge me by what I do."

Hair: Dyed (originally white)

Age: ~60

Philosophy: Chaotic Neutral

Playstyle: Heroic/Good

Tadpoles consumed: 0

The Astral Tadpole: Smashed by her boot immediately after it was offered. The Emperor watched her do it.

Personality: N-ruled INTP. Romance: None. She is too autonomous for the drama. To be clear: that’s it. Not asexual—on the contrary, potentially polyamorous. Perhaps aromantic in the traditional sense. Her "types" by appearance are Astarion, Shadowheart, and He Who Was. Regarding relationship views, she feels closest to Halsin.

Orpheus or The Emperor: Orpheus. The Final Sacrifice: Orpheus (no mods); no one (with the Nexus mod).

Relations with Companions Karlach: A battle sister. Zarfryn would do almost anything for her and went to Avernus with Wyll to save her.

Wyll: Thinks he’s too "lawful," but protects him because villains shouldn't be the only ones in charge.

Gale: They share an equal passion for magic. Zarfryn has grand ambitions too, but her intuition says Netherese magic is a threat to the Weave itself. She’s no moralist—she just thinks experimenting with it is a bad idea. She stopped his sacrifice because she didn't want to lose a friend.

Lae'zel: Unexpectedly, they became friends very quickly. They share a radical stance against Illithid powers—refusing that corruption even if "Tadpole-logic" claims it’s practical. They agree it's better to die than to survive without a soul. It's worse than being a vampire in Buffy.

Shadowheart: Neutral at first. Zarfryn sensed Shadowheart’s reactions didn't fit her "cheap nihilism" philosophy. Visually, she is Zarfryn's type. Zarfryn supported her autonomy throughout the journey—the girl isn't lost if you don't "defragment her hard drive" again. The path of Selûne.

Astarion: Visually 100% her type. In terms of choices, he was the most difficult; he disapproved of her actions more than anyone else. She supported his autonomy but without much optimism—he wouldn't have climbed out of his hole without a temporary anchor. Whether she wants that role or how long she’s willing to play it, she doesn't know.

Halsin: Deep respect and warm friendship.

Jaheira: The closest to Zarfryn in personality and decision-making. Can be perfectly logical but can also ditch pragmatism for a friend. Zarfryn has a massive platonic crush on her.

Minsc: His charisma simply bypassed all other reactions. Just like that.

Ok, who doesn’t know yet why and for who I use the name Xigard I’ll try to tell. 

The name of the character in my own Universe(not roleplay,not AU and not crossover -it’s only mine in my head with faces I like): Xigard Patrick McCoy

The prototype of his look: Alex Mercer(’Prototype 1′).

They have different personalities and biographies.

Also his hair is shorter and lighter.

Age: 23

Race: human, 6.25% demon-blooded.

Human-race: 100% White/European

By Kinsey scale: 3

Prefers free polyamory relations. 

Ambivert.

Childfree

Metrosexual, aesthete, not body-positivist.

Looking matters for him, he likes only some types of faces and bodies, for another - no chances, even if the personality is perfect - no sleeping, only friends then.  

Favorite music: rapcore, alternative

Skills: metalokinesis(very close to metal bending in ‘Avatar’) - as a human-mage, psychokinetic wave - as demon-blooded.  He can control and transform all metal around him. 

He feels artifacts, He’s an artifact thief and hunter - can risk to get them from dangerous places, or steals from one person to sell another. Thief-mages have they own rules - they can tell each other the information, and in the next time another thief can steal that artifact to return it to the previous owner. Later- again.

They prefer to be independent, not in mafia. Xigard worked with Ragnard on mafia once. 

Theoretically he could be hired as assassin, but only if he would be hungry at all - he prefers to work with things, not with people. 

For one he’s very cute, for another - not. His is not SJW but not the conservator too,  he has his own logic, and sometimes it’s very hilarious. If my ideas be the real TV series, I’m sure - there would be a full meme called ‘Xi-logic’. But with that logic and new standards would be no series.

His own ‘drugs’ is milk chocolate. Without it he can’t adequately think. Also he likes whiskey, beer, pizza and meat. Yes, he’s not friendly to veganish 10000%. 

Doesn’t  like ordinary cigarettes, cause they have no effect, but  sometimes likes marijuana to relax. 

His parents and grandparents are pagans, non-Christianized. They all are metalokinetics, it’s a family feature. He’s the only child, no siblings. All metalokinetics have their special ‘fight’ technic. Really it’s a distraction dancing. They are not warriors, even if half of them are combat mages, better to them to keep some distance from their enemies. 

They always were not law-friendly. One agent arrested his father when Xigard was 18, so he hates ‘special agents’. He killed that one later and can be hired to kill exactly agents. 

His relations with father are not so good but not so bad - 50/50 I would say. No traumas, but no pleasure when they were in one place.  His father  is not a master of inspire or encourage, he is more conservative in many questions, but not biphobic, he thought that he is bi too when he was younger, but father didn’t have relations with other men, only had thoughts about it. 

His mother is much younger then the father. 

My headcanon non-toxic polyamory without jealous and without.... growling(always make facepalm in that moments in all fanfiction - cause WTF). It’s not a joke or ‘bullshit’ - really in fanfiction all characters often EXACTLY GROWL!!!! In jealous scenes and just after . Stuuupiddd! Stupid stupid stupid stupid*10000000000000000000000..............0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even my avakhorn Rage(Ragnard) doesn’t do that! AND HE COULD MAKE A GOOD GROWL!  

I’ll even be waiting for discussion about how stupid it is. I’m such a troll! 

I’ll be tired to explain every time what means Altgard, so I’ll do it by request. I explained about my own Universe(created in 2003-2004), where Altair and Ezio are guests, other are OCs, even if they all are with faces I like in games, series, irl etc. 

Altzio I think all know what means.

Who already know about Xigard - good then. 

Their biographies, maybe their arts or references, maybe you even created them in other games character creator. Often OCs are from the same country as their authors. In what times did they live? Or maybe they are modern? Maybe they are friends of someone canonical characters? Excluding genderswap of existed protagonists - they are NOT original characters.

My characters are not assassin’s and not from that Universe too, even if they are assassin-friendly and anti-templar.   

If with Ragnard and Xigard all is clear - that they only look like Darth Maul and Alex Mercer, but they are separate and only my characters, and only I can manage their biographies.... what's the red line of Altair and Ezio? Where is already my versions - their clones, who's bios I can manage, and where is general original character, that is not in my influence? Why don't make them another bios and another names too? I don't know either.

What's the same and what's the difference between Altair from AC Universe and Altair, the guardian of the Air element from my Universe?(not simply AU fanfiction - my Universe will not die without that two, I have more then 500 characters). About Ezio we'll talk later.  

Let's try to think....

1.He was teleported to our time soon after defeating Al Mualim, before the Cyprus. He managed to study the apple a little. The fact that he considered it stupid - to cut off the ring finger and tried to immediately get rid of this tradition - is the same in game and mine versions. In our time Ezio demonstrated that Altair was succeed with that and he was happy about it.

2. He's still an introvert. Hardly opens his mind to others. And feels more comfort in the hood. Observes, draws conclusions. Little by little he opened up to the other three, because he did not feel threatened or discomfortable.

3. At first glance, it may seem that the connecting link between all four is Xigard McCoy, but in fact this is a controversial issue.  Altair and Ezio have a connection like soulmates. Altair is spiritually connected with avakhorn Ragnard. Two introverted assassins who understand each other perfectly, while others have a long time to explain what they are talking about. Well, AltGard is a separate topic. Yes, polyamory is the norm for me, there is no jealousy and monogamy. Deal with it, personal tastes and triggers. With Ragnard the connection is only spiritual.

4. I don't have Isu in my lore. From AC Universe I have that two good looking characters, the confrontation between the orders of the Assassins and the Templars, where the first are definitely good chaotic, and the second are definitely bad supporters of order, hooded robes and some magical artifacts. So Altair is not Isu-blooded, he is ANGEL-blooded. And not a common Whitelighter-healer-blooded. It seems like something more serious. Light-and-sound waves that burn out the darks - are the ability of only archangels. Yes, angel-blooded spiritually connected with avakhorn.

5. In order not to run far from the spiritual connection, biography and the blood of angels. Altair's childhood is the same as described in the book "The Secret Crusade". He never told anyone about the traumatic memories aloud, and no one asked ... right up to the moment when it was necessary to find out how he was angel-blooded. He was worried to look at his past, and the ritual required the presence of someone from the team to be escorted by him in order to get him out in time. This is one of my favorite hurt-comfort moments. And he didn't say, but ... agreed to show Ragnard a picture. Not right away. For Ragnard, this was also the first experience. He never wanted to be a shaman, although by his ancestral duty he should have been him. And shamans also act as psychotherapists for the avakhorns. In general, the two of them were so new to open up. Ragnard even accidentally revealed the memory of his deceased three-headed cat -familiar.

6. Both Altair and Ezio survive after battles with a large number of opponents and falls from heights thanks to artifacts. Altair has an artifact cat, Ezio has an artifact dog. Both of them are hidden right inside their bodies, which is rare even for experienced magicians. Altair has a cat-artifact from birth, therefore, aquaphobia, if his feet do not reach the ground in the water - all is from an artifact. I have no animus.

7. There is a theory that he is a mix of Arab and European. This is exactly how it is in my version. And his face is exactly like in Assassin's Creed 1. In "Revelations" - is not the face of my character. But I took advantage of this to make a replacement. Not to break the full history by butterfly effect, in some events, the another person, his follower will replace him. This is a separate topic.

To make me want to play the game it’s only 2 ways:

1. Good character creator - then I‘ll make my character myself by my tastes. If CC is bad, or good, but I can’t create someone I like, then I wouldn’t play.

2. To make ready character, that I would like very much. It’s a very rare thing. Altair, Ezio, Geralt/Ciri, and that’a all. I also like Alex Mercer, but the game itself I don’t like. If I like someone not playable(NPC, the ally[Kat from DMC 5] or the enemy[Ruvik from TEW] of the protagonist) why should I play, if I can see cutscenes? Nothing unique. I’m too lazy.  

The game can be super perfect, but I play only if I like my avatar.

My very first work in XNALara. Don’t know how to remove weapons. 

Hope in future my works will be better.

Headcanons. 

All is complicated. In my Universe the first two only look like Darth Maul and Alex Mercer, but that’s my OCs, with different names and bios, created by me - like actors in different roles. 

The character, who’s prototype is Darth Maul is avahorn Ragnard Seyan’Rekh.

The one, who looks like Alex Mercer - is Xigard Patrick McCoy.

1. Publics from 2013 are abandoned 2. Most of AC fans now prefer Valhalla and Odyssey 3. Canonical fanatics HATE slash and will **ck my brains with their Maria and Sophia. 4. Others don’t care about characters personalities and usually speak about gameplay, mechanics, global lore about Isu. 5. Some love slash, but also think that templars can be good. No they all are bad. 6. FINISH.