Name: Celtorix Uthorim
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race: Zeroth
Residence: Anameleth, Artificer's Annex
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 152 lbs
Hair Color: Silver
Eye Color: Pale Blue-violet
Career: Master-rank Artificer
Abilities: Apprentice level Law Magic (magic school that focuses on temporarily altering the laws of the universe in a localized area), Journeyman level Biomancy (school of magic focused on controlling the function of a body at the cellular or system level), Apprentice level Neuromancy (school of magic focused on altering brain functions, affecting moods, perception, etc).
Appearance: Celtorix, like most of his race, is tall and slender, with pale skin with a faint purple tint. Unlike most of his race, Celtorix is a rare mutant with long silver hair. He is slightly more muscular than most of his people due to intensive physical conditioning. He has one artificial eye, and a long scar crossing it from the surgery that implanted it.
Personality: Celtorix is a highly imaginative and intuitive thinker. Though his rare genetic disorder makes his brain grow more slowly than the average Zeroth, this has allowed for the creative aspects of his mind to play a larger role in his development. As a result, he is more prone to unique and novel thought than many of his peers, in spite of his lesser capability for raw logic and information processing. Celtorix has what could almost be described as an addiction for problem solving. He grows bored and iritiable when not faced with an interesting challenge to work through. In Zerothi society, Silvers are generally shunned and dismissed as lesser minds, because of this, Celtorix has developed an intense need to prove his worth to any who would recognize it. He is ambitious, and has a certain penchant for rulebreaking, likely a result of having to rely on misbehavior as a child to gain the attention of his parents, who had otherwise written him off as a waste of resources that would never contribute anything of value to society.
Background: Born to the esteemed Uthorim house, Celtorix was already a disappointment before he uttered his first words. Celtorix was the unfortunate inheritor of an uncommon recessive gene that slows the intellectual growth of Zeroth. In a society that extols the virtues of intellect, this is much like being born with a crippling and hideous birth defect, and it leaves a visible marker in the form of silver hair. While their brains grow more slowly, a Silver's brain will eventually reach the same level of intellectual development as any other Zeroth, and they tend to live much longer, but that fact is lost on a culture obsessed with constant growth and possessing little patience. Paradoxically, in addition to this defect, which could be described as a form of retardation, he is also a savant, with intellectual ability far exceeding the average Silver. He was always capable of achieving the same level of success in his studies as any of his peers, albeit at a slower pace, centuries of bigotry against the silver-haired minority obscured that fact in the eyes of his people. For a while, Celtorix's sole obsession was to find a way to rid himself of his defect. He studied neuromancy in hopes of finding a way to directly enhance his intellect, but upon realizing this was futile, he turned to biomancy, hoping to find a way to change the faulty gene. That too, proved to be an exercise in futility, yet it wasn't a complete loss. While both of his masters had only taken him on as a sort of charity for those less fortunate, he managed to attract the interest of his biomancy master's elder sister, a skilled craftsman who saw something of value in Celtorix's obsessive nature and drive to improve himself. When he eventually gave up on his study of biomancy, she offered him an apprenticeship as an artificer. During this apprenticeship, he was able to distinguish himself to a degree with various inventions that improved the basic quality of life of his peers. Though still not held in high regard, he was able to begin taking side lessons in other professions, expanding his fields of expertise, in hopes that they would make him a more competent artificer. He grew more confident in himself, and starting making ever more ambitious leaps to create new things that hadn't been tried before. At the height of his hubris, he thought to challenge a proposal set forth by Illumaria herself to improve the design of their steam power system, suggesting that instead of trying to beat another few hundredths of a percent efficiency out of their existing systems, that there may be entirely different energy production means that could vastly exceed to capabilities of steam power. Though his arguments were compelling, and strictly speaking, better than Illumaria's rebuttal, nobody in Anameleth challenges the Elder and retains any shred of respect. The only one who openly agreed with his position was his own master, but most dismissed her support as an emotional bias in favor of her pupil. Privately, however; several Zeroth likely shared his opinion at some level. He has since spent most of his time researching alternative means to generate energy. His most promising idea has been to use the relatively new and unexplored field of Law magics to alter the laws of physics in a localized area, allowing an engine to violate otherwise immutable laws to achieve much higher efficiency than would otherwise be possible.
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