Lysander

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Appearance

Lysander Docatto Valestri presents the poised elegance expected of an Elbionese merchant-noble heir. His build is slim and wiry-limbed, giving the impression of a practiced fencer rather than a warehouse laborer. Waves of snow-white hair fall in light, neatly tousled layers, framing a pale brow often banded with a narrow strip of linen—a fashionable cover for a fading duelist’s wound. One half-lidded eye, the colour of polished amber, lends him a languid, almost teasing expression.
His preferred formal attire is an ivory tailcoat cut to military precision, every seam outlined in fine gold piping. Beneath it sits a deep cobalt waistcoat and cravat, the latter pinned with a miniature golden knot that echoes the city’s heraldic insignia. Matching white trousers taper to crisp breaks above polished leather brogues, while thin gloves keep ink and street dust alike from touching his skin.
Lysander’s accessories subtly declare his status: a single teardrop sapphire earring swings from his left lobe; a blue rose is often twirled between gloved fingers or tucked into a lapel, providing a cool contrast to the warm gilding of his outfit.
Skills and Abilities
Arcane “Promise”: Lysander was born with enough raw mana to light half the street lamps in his neighborhood, but unfortunately skipped every third lecture on how not to set them on fire. He can shape basic motes, lashes, and force shields with admirable flair; the results are loud, bright, and—on a good day—pointed in the correct direction. Professors describe his spell-work as “crude yet effective,” the sort of back-handed compliment normally reserved for siege engines and boiled cabbage. Still, his mastery of the basics is commendable, if not necessarily incendiary.
Bladesmanship: Where magic lessons went astray, fencing drills did not. Lysander wields a rapier in his main hand and a slim parrying dagger in the off, dancing through bouts with the airy confidence of a man who knows repartee in both senses of the word. His style favours feints, flourishes, and the occasional underhanded flick that polite dueling manuals never mention but streetwise tutors happily demonstrate. Colleagues insist he is “unable to look menacing,” which suits him fine; the grin he wears while disarming an opponent tends to finish the job.
Bladesmanship: Where magic lessons went astray, fencing drills did not. Lysander wields a rapier in his main hand and a slim parrying dagger in the off, dancing through bouts with the airy confidence of a man who knows repartee in both senses of the word. His style favours feints, flourishes, and the occasional underhanded flick that polite dueling manuals never mention but streetwise tutors happily demonstrate. Colleagues insist he is “unable to look menacing,” which suits him fine; the grin he wears while disarming an opponent tends to finish the job.
Personality
Positive traits: Forward, honest, charitable (at times), a lover of animals and art, reasonably easy to negotiate with, provided you possess something of interest. In short, mercantile.
Negative traits: vindictive, prone to anger, self absorbed, greedy, possessing of the "out of sight, out of mind" worldview, mildly racist.
Negative traits: vindictive, prone to anger, self absorbed, greedy, possessing of the "out of sight, out of mind" worldview, mildly racist.