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Yet another OC, yes I know, I may have a problem. I felt I kinda had a lack of older folks among my OCs- so here's this fine lad right here!
He is also on Pillowfort: www.pillowfort.social/posts/20…

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Name: Cassidian Azul
Nickname(s): “The Blue Mage”, “Cass”

Age: 46
Race/species: Half-Elf (non elven parent was human)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Occupation: Mage, sells magical services from home.

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Height: 5’8”
Weight: 437 Pounds
Hair Colour: Silvery Gray
Eye Colour: Purple
Blemishes/Tattoos: Thanks to an accident while learning magic at a young age, Cassidian’s skin is permanently a dull shade of blue.
Clothing Style: Very, very formal when expecting guests. Typically wears a purple vest, blue pants, pink ribbon, and purple boots. These faded garments are replicas of his former adventuring gear (which no longer fits). His casual outfits consist of loose-fitting sweaters and other warm clothes. His cane is magical in nature, and is able to extend or retract from a minimum of 2 feet, to a maximum of 7 feet.

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Likes:
✧ Tea: A warm cup and a plate of cookies at his coffee table while he reads a book. That much is a deeply ingrained habit. His favorite flavor is mint, and he always keeps a large number of flavors in stock for guests- sheer remaining wealth from his adventuring days is what allows him to afford this.
✧ Wide Empty Spaces: This is for two reasons. One, an empty space such as an open field means that even grave errors with magic practice do not hurt anyone. The second is that these spaces are quiet enough to promote the state of calm he needs to cast properly.
✧ Company: Well, who doesn't like company? But Cassidian downright craves having a friendly soul to chat with. He rarely has anyone to talk to, aside from customers, and merchants while getting groceries, but that is simply business. He really values the opportunity for genuine conversation.

Dislikes:
✧ His Current Lifestyle: An average day for Cassidian, as it stands now. Involves waking up, having a few big meals, doing small magical tasks for customers, and whittling the hours away by reading. A sedentary life such as this has contributed to both his excessive waistline, and his fading reputation, and so, he resents this way of life.
✧ Fire Mages: Not the school of magic itself, but the stereotypical student of it. Those hotheads wishing to wield scorching power and exert their newfound strength at every opportunity. He won’t fault someone for wanting to learn a fire spell or two, but he holds an irrational dislike for those who introduce themselves fire mages, pyromancers, or anything of the sort. In his eyes, they are pyromaniacs.
✧ Staircases: He’s 437 pounds, not the strongest of all half-elves, and 46 years old. He is not fond of stairs, especially long or narrow ones. So he does not go up or down them unless he absolutely has no choice at all. For this reason, the upper floor of his home is rather dusty.

Personality Strengths:
✧ Hard To Surprise: Cassidian was once an adventurer, it almost goes without saying that the man has seen some truly wild- and horrifying- things. Few things excite him, but more importantly, it is very, very difficult to startle or frighten him.
✧ Tolerant: He has grown past simply judging people by looks or first impressions (except fire mages). It doesn’t matter what someone is, unless they are obviously evil, this half elf will treat that person as an equal. Even necromancy, he views simply as another school of magic, in spite of its grim exterior.
✧ Calm: Most of his magic inherently depends on a peaceful state of mind, and so his mind has already been trained to easily achieve such a state unless under truly dire pressures. A side effect of this is a generally relaxed attitude, in turn.

Personality Weaknesses:
✧ VERY Stubborn: You aren’t going to change his mind, no way no sir. Cassidian is not merely stubborn. He is stubborn in a way only an older man can be stubborn. Pressing him on things he’s made his mind on are one of only a few ways to drive this mage to anger.
✧ Pessimistic: Not quite about life, the universe, and everything. It’s the odds of smaller-scale things that he can feel rather pessimistic about. Will he be able to walk all that way without tiring too much to make it back? Probably not, he thinks. Will that wooden bridge be able to bear his heft? He certainly doesn’t want to find out.
✧ Lazy: He loathes to admit it, but a decade of retirement has led him into exactly what would be considered a lazy person. He mostly lies around his home. He only generally does things that he has to do or really wants to do. He is, by definition, lazy.

Fears:
✧ Being Forgotten: Cassidian is no fame-seeker, but he was once a well known and respected adventurer. He notices that those who have heard of him and his past deeds are fewer in number. For that reason, he’s afraid of being forgotten entirely. Of just being ‘that old mage at the outskirts of town’ and nothing more.
✧ Aging: As a hybrid of a long lived elf, and an average lived human, as well as having been physically weak all his life. This half-elf is haunted by the knowledge that he has no idea how long he has to live. He could have 20 years, he could have a century ahead of him for all he knows! He could, in theory, try to deduce the answer through magical experimentation- but the idea of learning an unpleasant answer unnerves him even more than not knowing.

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Fatal Flaw: Unmotivated, unless in direct relation to his firmly decided goal of finding and then teaching an apprentice. Cassidian finds it extremely difficult to get the motivation to get off his butt and do things other than his usual schedule. His increasingly large weight only further complicates this issue, and the ability to summon a plateful of cookies at will really is not helping either. In this sense, he is sorely in need of another person to give him a bit of a verbal nudge. He would be deeply grateful for that, but even then, that would be far from actually solving the issue.

Personality: A patient, calm, and welcoming old man. That is the first impression that Cassidian gives to many. These traits are true, but there is more to him than that. He speaks fancifully, and always, always sticks to the idea that hospitality is sacred. The man is old fashioned, but not ignorantly so. The blue mage has respect for all except evil, and fire mages. Cassidian is proud of his skill in magic, but loathsome of his current state of life, and will gladly ramble endlessly about his past if given the opportunity to do so.

Skills/Talents:
✧ The Magical Arts: Primarily water, ice, and mist based spells, but he has also dabbled in a variety of other spells. Having practiced since a young age, he is very experienced in this field. The kinds of magic that Cassidian knows are as follows. His magic is cast by hand via gestures, and requires both focus and a calm state of mind.
Water, Ice, and Mist manipulation (Controlling the substances, including using them as projectiles, requires substance to be nearby to be used)
Dowsing (Only for water)
Summoning or Stopping Rain (within a short radius around self)
Barriers (composed of ambient humidity, sturdy enough for him to stand on top of!)
Summoning food (He’s not proud of having mastered this spell, usually consists of tea and a plate of cookies)
Featherfoot (Makes him able to move as though he only weighed only 100 pounds for 10 minutes, after the effect wears off he is exhausted. Does not affect his appearance)
Future Prediction (The most difficult and energy-costly of his spells to use, said prediction is always very vague)
✧ Handwriting: Cursive writing so fancy that most would probably have a very difficult time actually reading the stuff.

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Backstory: Cassidian was born to a long line of water mages. Magic did not run in the blood, but this traditional lineage meant that he, like his father and mother before him, quickly took to water manipulation, and other simple water spells. His fate was not merely to be just a skilled mage of the water spells, for an accident occured while training that he hasn’t the foggiest memory of. It occurred when he was but a wee lad, and it permanently turned his skin a rather dusty shade of blue. His parents were anxious, and saw this as a bad omen, but were not so heartless as to disown their child over something such as that. Nonetheless, that sense of worry was something young Cassidian could feel, and not wanting to stress his parents further, he struck out on his own as soon as he was physically able.
As a travelling mage, learning from libraries, guesswork, and wild experimentation in the wilderness. Cassidian eventually caught the attention of an adventurer’s guild, and thus began the first major successes of his life. Progressing from ridding basements of pests, to looting ruins and caverns, and even so far as to slay a wyvern that was harassing travellers. Cassidian’s reputation became both far-reaching and positive, and the better an adventurer was known, the more money they would make. By the time he was 36, The Blue Mage had decided to retire.
Cassidian had enough money for more than his remaining lifetime, sure, but ultimately, he regrets this decision. Now, too weak, too rusty when it comes to adventuring, and too fat to even put on his old gear. He has decided to seek out the next best thing. Picking out an apprentice, and passing on his magical knowledge.

Goals: To pass on his knowledge to a worthy apprentice.
Wishes: To be remembered as the adventurer he once was.

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Description
Yet another OC, yes I know, I may have a problem. I felt I kinda had a lack of older folks among my OCs- so here's this fine lad right here!
He is also on Pillowfort: www.pillowfort.social/posts/20…

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Name: Cassidian Azul
Nickname(s): “The Blue Mage”, “Cass”

Age: 46
Race/species: Half-Elf (non elven parent was human)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Occupation: Mage, sells magical services from home.

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Height: 5’8”
Weight: 437 Pounds
Hair Colour: Silvery Gray
Eye Colour: Purple
Blemishes/Tattoos: Thanks to an accident while learning magic at a young age, Cassidian’s skin is permanently a dull shade of blue.
Clothing Style: Very, very formal when expecting guests. Typically wears a purple vest, blue pants, pink ribbon, and purple boots. These faded garments are replicas of his former adventuring gear (which no longer fits). His casual outfits consist of loose-fitting sweaters and other warm clothes. His cane is magical in nature, and is able to extend or retract from a minimum of 2 feet, to a maximum of 7 feet.

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Likes:
✧ Tea: A warm cup and a plate of cookies at his coffee table while he reads a book. That much is a deeply ingrained habit. His favorite flavor is mint, and he always keeps a large number of flavors in stock for guests- sheer remaining wealth from his adventuring days is what allows him to afford this.
✧ Wide Empty Spaces: This is for two reasons. One, an empty space such as an open field means that even grave errors with magic practice do not hurt anyone. The second is that these spaces are quiet enough to promote the state of calm he needs to cast properly.
✧ Company: Well, who doesn't like company? But Cassidian downright craves having a friendly soul to chat with. He rarely has anyone to talk to, aside from customers, and merchants while getting groceries, but that is simply business. He really values the opportunity for genuine conversation.

Dislikes:
✧ His Current Lifestyle: An average day for Cassidian, as it stands now. Involves waking up, having a few big meals, doing small magical tasks for customers, and whittling the hours away by reading. A sedentary life such as this has contributed to both his excessive waistline, and his fading reputation, and so, he resents this way of life.
✧ Fire Mages: Not the school of magic itself, but the stereotypical student of it. Those hotheads wishing to wield scorching power and exert their newfound strength at every opportunity. He won’t fault someone for wanting to learn a fire spell or two, but he holds an irrational dislike for those who introduce themselves fire mages, pyromancers, or anything of the sort. In his eyes, they are pyromaniacs.
✧ Staircases: He’s 437 pounds, not the strongest of all half-elves, and 46 years old. He is not fond of stairs, especially long or narrow ones. So he does not go up or down them unless he absolutely has no choice at all. For this reason, the upper floor of his home is rather dusty.

Personality Strengths:
✧ Hard To Surprise: Cassidian was once an adventurer, it almost goes without saying that the man has seen some truly wild- and horrifying- things. Few things excite him, but more importantly, it is very, very difficult to startle or frighten him.
✧ Tolerant: He has grown past simply judging people by looks or first impressions (except fire mages). It doesn’t matter what someone is, unless they are obviously evil, this half elf will treat that person as an equal. Even necromancy, he views simply as another school of magic, in spite of its grim exterior.
✧ Calm: Most of his magic inherently depends on a peaceful state of mind, and so his mind has already been trained to easily achieve such a state unless under truly dire pressures. A side effect of this is a generally relaxed attitude, in turn.

Personality Weaknesses:
✧ VERY Stubborn: You aren’t going to change his mind, no way no sir. Cassidian is not merely stubborn. He is stubborn in a way only an older man can be stubborn. Pressing him on things he’s made his mind on are one of only a few ways to drive this mage to anger.
✧ Pessimistic: Not quite about life, the universe, and everything. It’s the odds of smaller-scale things that he can feel rather pessimistic about. Will he be able to walk all that way without tiring too much to make it back? Probably not, he thinks. Will that wooden bridge be able to bear his heft? He certainly doesn’t want to find out.
✧ Lazy: He loathes to admit it, but a decade of retirement has led him into exactly what would be considered a lazy person. He mostly lies around his home. He only generally does things that he has to do or really wants to do. He is, by definition, lazy.

Fears:
✧ Being Forgotten: Cassidian is no fame-seeker, but he was once a well known and respected adventurer. He notices that those who have heard of him and his past deeds are fewer in number. For that reason, he’s afraid of being forgotten entirely. Of just being ‘that old mage at the outskirts of town’ and nothing more.
✧ Aging: As a hybrid of a long lived elf, and an average lived human, as well as having been physically weak all his life. This half-elf is haunted by the knowledge that he has no idea how long he has to live. He could have 20 years, he could have a century ahead of him for all he knows! He could, in theory, try to deduce the answer through magical experimentation- but the idea of learning an unpleasant answer unnerves him even more than not knowing.

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Fatal Flaw: Unmotivated, unless in direct relation to his firmly decided goal of finding and then teaching an apprentice. Cassidian finds it extremely difficult to get the motivation to get off his butt and do things other than his usual schedule. His increasingly large weight only further complicates this issue, and the ability to summon a plateful of cookies at will really is not helping either. In this sense, he is sorely in need of another person to give him a bit of a verbal nudge. He would be deeply grateful for that, but even then, that would be far from actually solving the issue.

Personality: A patient, calm, and welcoming old man. That is the first impression that Cassidian gives to many. These traits are true, but there is more to him than that. He speaks fancifully, and always, always sticks to the idea that hospitality is sacred. The man is old fashioned, but not ignorantly so. The blue mage has respect for all except evil, and fire mages. Cassidian is proud of his skill in magic, but loathsome of his current state of life, and will gladly ramble endlessly about his past if given the opportunity to do so.

Skills/Talents:
✧ The Magical Arts: Primarily water, ice, and mist based spells, but he has also dabbled in a variety of other spells. Having practiced since a young age, he is very experienced in this field. The kinds of magic that Cassidian knows are as follows. His magic is cast by hand via gestures, and requires both focus and a calm state of mind.
Water, Ice, and Mist manipulation (Controlling the substances, including using them as projectiles, requires substance to be nearby to be used)
Dowsing (Only for water)
Summoning or Stopping Rain (within a short radius around self)
Barriers (composed of ambient humidity, sturdy enough for him to stand on top of!)
Summoning food (He’s not proud of having mastered this spell, usually consists of tea and a plate of cookies)
Featherfoot (Makes him able to move as though he only weighed only 100 pounds for 10 minutes, after the effect wears off he is exhausted. Does not affect his appearance)
Future Prediction (The most difficult and energy-costly of his spells to use, said prediction is always very vague)
✧ Handwriting: Cursive writing so fancy that most would probably have a very difficult time actually reading the stuff.

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Backstory: Cassidian was born to a long line of water mages. Magic did not run in the blood, but this traditional lineage meant that he, like his father and mother before him, quickly took to water manipulation, and other simple water spells. His fate was not merely to be just a skilled mage of the water spells, for an accident occured while training that he hasn’t the foggiest memory of. It occurred when he was but a wee lad, and it permanently turned his skin a rather dusty shade of blue. His parents were anxious, and saw this as a bad omen, but were not so heartless as to disown their child over something such as that. Nonetheless, that sense of worry was something young Cassidian could feel, and not wanting to stress his parents further, he struck out on his own as soon as he was physically able.
As a travelling mage, learning from libraries, guesswork, and wild experimentation in the wilderness. Cassidian eventually caught the attention of an adventurer’s guild, and thus began the first major successes of his life. Progressing from ridding basements of pests, to looting ruins and caverns, and even so far as to slay a wyvern that was harassing travellers. Cassidian’s reputation became both far-reaching and positive, and the better an adventurer was known, the more money they would make. By the time he was 36, The Blue Mage had decided to retire.
Cassidian had enough money for more than his remaining lifetime, sure, but ultimately, he regrets this decision. Now, too weak, too rusty when it comes to adventuring, and too fat to even put on his old gear. He has decided to seek out the next best thing. Picking out an apprentice, and passing on his magical knowledge.

Goals: To pass on his knowledge to a worthy apprentice.
Wishes: To be remembered as the adventurer he once was.

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