Fade Rift: Side Character App

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PLAYER

Name: Tori
Other Characters: Colin, Nathaniel

CHARACTER

Name: Aristide "Ari" du Pasquier
Race: Human
Nationality: Orlesian
Mage?: No
Age: 33
Affiliation: Templars
Occupation: Knight-Corporal
Goal: Test-run for a potential fulltime character, also adding templars to the game
About: Aristide is the son of farmers, hence the surname. He joined the templar order at the age of twelve, knowing he had a lot of catching up to do and dreaming of becoming a hero. He hopped around between Circles in Orlais, rarely encountering incidents until his first abomination happened when he was nineteen. It made an impression, killing three mages and five templars before being put down. The incident renewed his conviction and he was a model templar from then until he served at the White Spire as Knight-Lieutenant when Lord Seeker Lambert raised arms against the conclave of First Enchanters. Aristide killed innocents at Lambert's order. He did not hesitate, and he did not stop and feel bad at the last minute. It was in the cold light of day that the faces of the innocents haunted him. The Seekers and Templars were broken away from the Chantry soon thereafter, and Aristide attempted to resign from the Order, as it had become the opposite of what he had wanted to accomplish when he joined. His new captain did not accept his resignation, but gave him leave to return to his family's farm for a time and regain himself, telling him that it is men and women who have been through such things who are most important for the order to keep around. He returned in a month's time, dour and with an attitude that earned him two demotions between then and now. He was fortunate to be among the templars recruited at Therinfal Redoubt.

Ari is not a nice man, per se, but he is deeply principled. He'll make a show of being indifferent, but can be incited (with drink) to rant passionately about how badly the order needs to reform, and how templars have become a greater threat to mages than demons. He cares very much about the state of the world and his place in it, and believes there is no atoning for what he did at the Spire. He is large, intimidating, and grumpy, and takes almost a delight in people being uncomfortable around him, as a form of self-punishment. He makes no excuses, does not believe there is any excuse for following an unjust order as he did. All the same, he will do his damnedest, even give his life, to keep such a thing from happening again. He owes it to the dead.