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To most people, Pisces can come off as an arrogant and obnoxious jerk with an odd habit of sniffing when displaying scorn or showing off. He has a habit of using seven words when one word would suffice. Pisces often believes himself to be the smartest person in the room and enjoys lording over his intellectual superiority over others. While this attitude sometimes gets him into trouble,<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2016/08/31/1-10/ Chapter 1.10]</ref> he is not ignorant of the way it makes others view him, and occasionally even acts more arrogant than he really is in order to manipulate those around him.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/09/05/3-10/ Chapter 3.10]</ref> | To most people, Pisces can come off as an arrogant and obnoxious jerk with an odd habit of sniffing when displaying scorn or showing off. He has a habit of using seven words when one word would suffice. Pisces often believes himself to be the smartest person in the room and enjoys lording over his intellectual superiority over others. While this attitude sometimes gets him into trouble,<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2016/08/31/1-10/ Chapter 1.10]</ref> he is not ignorant of the way it makes others view him, and occasionally even acts more arrogant than he really is in order to manipulate those around him.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/09/05/3-10/ Chapter 3.10]</ref> | ||
However, Pisces has a softer, more human side that he rarely shows to others. He can be quite charming when he wants to, and is shown to empathize with the plights of others. | However, Pisces has a softer, more human side that he rarely shows to others. He can be quite charming when he wants to, and is shown to empathize with the plights of others. Despite being haughty, he enjoys lecturing and engaging in debates. His abrasive nature is mainly to hide his true personal feelings, and is often embarrassed when called out for doing so. | ||
As a result of choosing to be a [Necromancer], Pisces often attracts scorn and hatred. He refuses to hide who he is, choosing to weather this hatred as ignorance, refusing to change for societal pressure, and usually turns away from others.<ref>[[Chapter 5.18 S]]</ref> Unlike many other [Necromancers], he seeks to achieve beauty and truth through his craft, not power and the possibility to kill others. This always set him apart from other [Mage] outlaws, at least in his mind.<ref name="6.59" /> He has a great love for magic, and often spends days holed up learning new spells. | |||
By Pisces's own admission, he would have gone the path of death and destruction like Az'kerash and many other [Necromancers] if he hadn't met Erin Solstice. | |||
== Background == | == Background == | ||
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His change of mind occurred when he was a teenager, after meeting a [Necromancer] named [[Gewilena]] who showed him - as he tells it - a beautiful bone construct and helped him find out he was adept at magic, and Necromancy as well. He renounced his father's class and tried to impress his local [Lord] as a [Mage], even finding tutorship. One early attempt of his combination of fencing and magical skills was to become a [Spellsword], but he didn't manage that before being found out as a [Necromancer]. | His change of mind occurred when he was a teenager, after meeting a [Necromancer] named [[Gewilena]] who showed him - as he tells it - a beautiful bone construct and helped him find out he was adept at magic, and Necromancy as well. He renounced his father's class and tried to impress his local [Lord] as a [Mage], even finding tutorship. One early attempt of his combination of fencing and magical skills was to become a [Spellsword], but he didn't manage that before being found out as a [Necromancer]. | ||
Most of the [Necromancers] in his cabal including Gewilena were captured and executed by being burned to death.<ref name=":0" /> Afterwards, Pisces defeated his father in a duel and stole his silver bell. He ran away and used magic and sleight of hand to earn enough gold to pay the price of admission to Wistram | Most of the [Necromancers] in his cabal including Gewilena were captured and executed by being burned to death.<ref name=":0" /> Afterwards, Pisces defeated his father in a duel and stole his silver bell. He ran away and used magic and sleight of hand to earn enough gold to pay the price of admission to Wistram.<ref name="6.59">[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/11/23/6-59/ Chapter 6.59]</ref> | ||
Already during his 2nd year at Wistram, Pisces had made a name for himself with his prowess in magic and duelling. He could beat students with several years on him thanks to his talent with a rapier. But he was also rich in secrets due to his use of undead. Sometimes it appeared as though he knew everything. People could be whispering in the halls and he’d pick up on it. As a result, everyone suspected Pisces of having mastered an advanced eavesdropping spell, but no one could tell when he was using it or which spell it was. No one was aware that, in actuality, he was using undead mice to listen to other people's conversations. On numerous occasions, students had been casting [Detect Magic] to try and observe him using the spell, without any success.<ref name="Wistram-5">[https://wanderinginn.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/wistram-days-pt-5/ Wistram Days (Pt. 5)]</ref> | |||
== Chronology == | == Chronology == | ||