Jesper Blodjaeger

A Boy of the First

INFORMATION

Name: Jesper Blodjaeger
Race: Viis
Physical features: Tan skin, black hair, one blue-green eye, one red eye (not visible without Mare until I can fantasia him). Peculiar recent scarring on his neck and stomach.
Age: 21
Height: 6' 1"
Gender: Male
Occupation: Adventuring jobs for the gil, otherwise defaults to hunting down sineaters, dangerous animals, and bandits.

Jesper was born to one of the more traditional villages in the Greatwood, and upon reaching puberty was sent away to be raised and trained by his mentor, Anton. A year before Jesper would have returned to his village, Anton was killed by a sineater, prompting the Viis boy to leave the forest and seek to find the source of sineaters themselves.He is a silent but deadly hunter of sineaters, bandits, and whatever else attacks humanity, and very proficient with the use of his gun. He is a boy of few words, but he is loyal to those he considers his friends.Due to a series of recent events, both including finding a special someone and death, Jesper found his very nature changed, but whether or not this will actually change who he is, remains to be seen.

Additional Gameplay Details

- Jesper is sensitive to characters that are aetherically bent towards light or darkness.- If your character can sense dark aether or aetherical compositions, they can sense Jesper has a barely noticeable amount of dark aether, at least compared to the average person.The below two points clarify two points regarding Jesper's nature and expectations around other players' knowledge of it. Do not click on them unless you wish to be spoilered.- I use the word "Nightkin" to describe Jesper and other vampiric characters of mine. The use of the word "Nightkin," while it also appears in the Red Mage storyline, is not meant to be similar at all, although it's entirely possible the Nightkin in Jesper's lore also have a distant as-yet-unknown tie to the 13th.- Considering Night hasn't been a thing for a hundred years and the vast majority of mortals who lived before the Flood are dead, I'd expect, if your (Norvrandt native) character knows about the Nightkin, they have a good reason for it (i.e. family history or have a specialty in knowledge of mythical creatures)For more information on Jesper's nature, click here

CONTACT

In game: Jesper Blodjaeger, Halicarnassus
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Character Playlist: hereDiscord: .rebeldragon
Dawn of the First Night (Norvrandt RP) Discord: here

Hooks

Protector: First and foremost, Jesper is a protector. Raised with the expectation of protecting the Greatwood, Jesper subconsciously approaches the rest of Norvrandt the same way, whether that protection be against sineaters, dangerous animals, or bandits; often without expectation of pay.
        ~There is a threat of some sort that needs killing. Either you are looking for party members to deal with a threat or you require protection or assistance.Loner: Due to his formative teenage years spent either with only his mentor or himself for company, Jesper tends towards solitude as a default state. He does enjoy some human interaction, although he does not have the greatest of conversational skills.
        ~You meet Jesper at a pub, or around a fire somewhere. You can join him for a drink and a chat, or drink and silence, whichever you prefer.Adventurer: Jesper makes most of his gil escorting supply caravans or doing deliveries to remote places.
        ~You're a fellow adventurer on a similar job or you're in need of an escort or an delivery.Wandering Stairs: Jesper sometimes works shifts at the Wandering Stairs, particularly at night.
        ~You could meet him either on shift or as he's getting off it.

Nightkin

They called themselves Nightkin; vampiric beings who require ingesting blood for the aether they required to survive. Light aether was especially damaging to them, and most of the very few who survived the Flood of Light did not do so with their sanity intact. In the tradition of most vampiric races, they are not born, but created from members of the other races by a mortal ingesting a Nightkin's blood, then perishing soon after.Jesper encountered one of these survivors, Zao-Tistt, on a mountain northwest of Clearmelt, and the chain of events that followed led Jesper into becoming one of these Nightkin. Unlike the Nightkin who managed to survive the Flood and therefore gained something of a tolerance towards daylight, Jesper has to avoid direct exposure. He is also finding it harder to regulate his emotional and physical state as his body and psych adapt to the changes they were forced to undergo. His new chronic hunger, and the danger he poses to the humans (and especially the closest human) in his life, has been the most challenging part of his transition.If you are interested in RPs involving Jesper's Nightkin nature or getting bit, you will need to let me know, as I will not assume you are interested in that without prior discussion.