JAHLRIN EILSUND
Fighter - Dark Elf - Sexuality: Panromantic | Ace
He/Him
MOODBOARD
NAME
Jahlrin Eilsund
Jahl
AGE
35
CLASS
Fighter
RACE
Dark Elf | Drow
WEAPONS
Rapier
Longbow
Handaxe (2)
Life in grayscale. Or does it deceive?
APPEARANCE
HEIGHT: 172 cm
SKIN COLOR: Lilac Gray || #9896A4
EYE COLOR: Spectra Yellow || #F7B718
HAIR COLOR: Lucent White || #F4F7FF
SCARRING: Cutscars littered across his body, one across his left cheek.
HAIR: He has a short buzz cut, but the white will peep through.
EARS: Rather long and elvishly pointy ears. Slightly angled upwards.
ACCESSOIRES: Ear cuffs around the outer rim, like protection, dark. He wears a blindfold most of the time to shield his eyes from the direct sunlight
TATTOOS: Head tattoos. His upper torso is blacked out with blackwork tattoo work. It fades away starting from his neck, where it transitions into his head tattoos. It’s also on his upper arms, where they fade into blackwork lines.
CLOTHES: Wears some (dark) reds, but mostly dark clothes
FACIAL STRUCTURE: Strong, broad jawline — Visible cheekbones, but not extraordinary — Narrow eyes, usually kind of sad looking — Long, thick lashes — Narrow but strong nose — light brow bone — Usually frowning — Normal thickness of brows, kind of straight, give him a stern looking face - Pointy teeth
BODY: Broad shoulders — Positively ripped because of all the training — Long legs compared to his body — Big, but slender hands, calloused from all the swordfighting
Day blind.
FAMILY || BACKSTORY
THE FAMILY
Mother: Miz’ri Eilsund
Father: Unknown
EARLY CHILDHOOD
As a young child, Jahlrin has only ever known his mother. The other parent has always been out of the picture. He used to be a rather quiet child, as his mother would often shush her child as he could understand. Miz'ri, his mother, an ambitious woman who wanted to make it in the world, saw him as a nuisance and physically abused her son from age 2 and up. If he did something she thought was slightly out of line, he would get hit. This taught him at a fairly young age to shut up and not cry. He knew it would only anger his parental figure. All she ever seemed to want was to rid herself of her own flesh and blood. He has no actual siblings by blood that he knows of.
AGE 9
At the tender age of 9, the abuse rammed into him, his mother left him with another family. Or so it seemed to be. What he was dropped in was a militia organization or orphanage. Because rarely any of the children actually had parents. There were lots of people and lots of voices to be heard. Due to his past, Jahl usually kept his mouth shut in fear of repercussions.
TIME AT THE MILITIA
The child learned quickly when he arrived. The first thing Jahl noticed is that everyone fends for themselves. The children had made small clans amongst themselves, so they were able to protect each other. There were somewhere between 100 and 200 kids in the camp, all for different reasons. The silent child took a liking to the more scrawny children, although he didn’t know why at the time. He seemed to fit there quite well with his lack of talking. He didn’t know about the bullying his choice would entail, but in the end it wasn’t as bad as what his mother did. So he just took it in stride and tried to protect the others.
Soon after he does discover in the rigid combat training, that whatever he lacked in social skills, he made up for in strength. He picked up the stances for sword fighting fairly quickly as well and took a shine to the lighter rapiers instead of the heavier swords. He also took a liking to the faster hand to hand combat. As time progressed, Jahlrin was able to give his less brawny friends protection from the bullies. Although they would occasionally find him in groups for a low blow to the stomach.
The orphan militia and its instructors were mainly female presenting drow whereas the men were more subservient. The ones with promise tended to be sent on dangerous missions throughout the underdark.
The time as a trainee ended by a trial by combat, where the kids were put together in teams of two in a fight (close to) death.
Jahlrin got paired up with one of the still scrawny girls of his group, Elvafae, pitted against two dimwits. Sadly enough the two were strong and killed his friend. In a fit of rage, he killed his opponents. One got stabbed through the gut and the other’s head got sliced right off by one of his battle axes. In short: he passed the test, but had to leave his friend in the dirt of the arena. Destined to take on dangerous missions for the militia.
THE LAST DROP
The death of his friend had moved him and he despised everything the militia stood for even more. When he was sent out to his first mission, he packed all of the stuff he owned, which was not much and slipped away when a fight broke out between his party and the ‘enemy’.
He had seen enough of what the underdark had to offer, so he started his journey upwards. To the light above. He shaved off his long hair, as it was what most people recognized him by. He used to wear battle braids to keep his hair out of his face, usually receiving compliments from the female half of the militia. He couldn’t differentiate between heartfelt compliments and people trying to suck up to him for protection, so he shut them all out usually. Shaving it all off, freed him a little from the grip his past had on him.
THE SURFACE
After dying almost 3 times on his voyage upwards, after picking a tricky road to travel to avoid recognition and suspicion. He eventually reaches the entryway after what feels like games, but actually was between 3 to 4 weeks. He reached an entrance, or in his case exit, on the higher end of the Sage mountains.
Unknown with the place and the world in general, he surfaced at day, but very quickly learned that daylight is not the way to go for him. So he ended up tearing a piece off of his robes to use as a blindfold during the day. It heavily impairs his sight, but it did do the job.
THE JOB
After traveling down the ridge of mountains and afterwards doing odd jobs to keep his head above the water and his belly at least partially filled. Fighting off bandits left and right, keeps his ass safe. But it also brings him his job in the end. When he saw a coach getting raided by a small group of robbers. After fighting off two of them, they ran for the hills. The person he saved was a halfling woman, who turned out to be an important trader named Qini.
As a thanks for saving her, she appointed him as her personal bodyguard. Which he gladly accepts, but he soon comes to realize that it’s more of a ‘stand there and look pretty kind of task’, rather than what he had done when they met. He gets gifted armor and a rapier inled with red and a proper, prettier blindfold. He ended up liking the job though and stayed at Qini’s side for as long as he could.
THE DOWNFALL
Life doesn’t seem to give Jahl the breaks he deserves though and after a freak fight in a town square, Qini gets killed before Jahl could even reach her. He got pushed back by the panicking crowd while trying to do his job of protecting his mistress from harm.
Her other associates tried to pin him for her death and after a short trial, he was cleared of the charges, but the traders still shunned him from their midst. Thus losing him his job.
NOW
After his unspoken banishment, he travels to the Kveni plains, to go someplace where they do not really know him. He takes odd jobs to keep himself occupied, although he does have better clothes on his back and a filled money pouch in his possession. He occasionally stops at inns to have a hot meal and a good sleep, usually at daytime, which is often seen as unusual, but not frowned upon as much as he thought it would’ve been.
This brings him to the Kveni plains and the inn where the murder shall take place.
Like we discussed, Fae. The world above the dark
CHARACTERISTICS || ALIGNMENT
True Neutral — “Kinda care, kinda don’t.”
Diplomatic | Judgmental | Enigmatic | Aloof | Distant | Self-reliant | Mediatory | Even-handed | Fair | Indifferent | Impartial
Feels like he can never stop going (kinda like constantly burning, so imminent burnout is real all the time)
Air of sadness around him
Indifferent
Has trouble making his own decisions. He lives job to job, because he can’t sit still
Follower
He has a deep-seated fear of being betrayed, and it sometimes leads me to be overly suspicious of others. He won’t necessarily be hostile towards them, but for him to fully trust another he’ll need some time.
Lacks color and overall joy in his life. There is not a lot of passion, he doesn’t know what he really likes doing
Doesn’t know how to ask for help
Because he likes to read, he has been confronted with the concept of love more than once. He does not know himself what it entails, but he would like to learn.
Will give his live for those he trusts
Gut feeling and instinct are big drivers for him. It’s what keeps him alive.
LIKES || DISLIKES
Nighttime
The color red
Reading
Music. He likes to hum along, softly.
Birds
Sunny days
Unnecessary violence
The army
Big bodies of water (he can’t swim)
Physical contact, he struggles with it because of the abuse he endured
THE HEART REMEMBERS
EXTRAS
Ambidexterity: He uses both hands equally, which is why he owns 2 hand axes
Colourblind (deuteranopia): he is not aware of this
Jahl is surprisingly good with kids who are older than 5