<br/><br/><br/>Name: Aric<br/>Species: Human, kind of. Descended from a father from Amber and a mother from the Courts of Chaos<br/>Age: Around 80<br/>Gender: Male<br/>Sexuality: Straight, but in a non-Euclidean way, or maybe not. It's a long story.<br/>Staff or Guest: Guest<br/>Appearance: Looks mid 20's, athletically built male, looks human for all intents and purposes. Black hair, green eyes. Stands five feet, ten inches tall, and is slender. Very graceful in his movements.<br/><br/>Personality: Decent enough, but filled with a hatred that bubbles out at times. Fortunately, that hatred is reserved for some of the members of his family. To everyone else, he is generally kind, decent, and generous. He brooks no foolishness and is incredibly aggressive when threatened.<br/><br/>He is studious and will think nothing of taking a year to plan something that others would simply ad-lib. However, based on his age and apparent age, he has the time. He frequently keeps his thoughts to himself, but those thoughts are in constant motion. He seems like he is hiding something, even when he is being open.<br/><br/>Background: If you ask him, he will tell you that he was born in House Sawall, in the Courts of Chaos. His mother was smitten with Prince Caine of Amber. Aric didn't know for a long time that Caine had murdered Lady Sawall and stole Aric with the idea of raising him as his own son. Caine was serving Eric at the time, and Eric eventually became King of Amber. Caine was no fool and assumed that Eric would probably be killed by one party or another and he decided that Aric would be a great heir for Caine, after Caine took the throne, or at least until Caine could find another son to fill the job.<br/><br/>Caine was ruthless and cruel to Aric, but taught him how to fight, how to survive, and when to run, which Aric will gratefully acknowledge. Aric discovered that Caine killed his mother, and that changed everything. Aric fled Amber and sought out those who would destroy Amber and kill Caine. He was more concerned with the latter than the former. He was nearly killed at the end of the Patternfall War, by his father, whom he dueled. Aric had thought Caine to be dead.<br/><br/>Aric escaped and later hooked up with a cousin named Rinaldo, who was the son of Caine's foe Brand. Brand had been slain at the end of the Patternfall War. Aric helped set Caine up, and Rinaldo shot Caine dead. Aric once had nine daggers his mother's people had given to him. One for each of the Princes of Amber. Aric threw the one for Brand into the Abyss, where Brand had fallen. He left the one for Eric in Amber, where his uncles would find it. The last one he no longer carries was left on his father's body. Now he only has six of the emerald-set daggers.<br/><br/>He recently was involved in a power grab in a far-off Shadow where he was trying to find information about his Uncle Bleys. He was attacked by a deadly assassin, whom he barely managed to kill, but was badly wounded in the attempt. Aric needs time to get his thoughts together, plan a strategy going forward, and get rid of the other six daggers, hopefully by leaving them on the bodies of his uncles.<br/><br/><br/>SKILLS & POWERS:<br/><br/>Physical. He is strong enough to throw a motorcycle or a horse. This is because of his non-human heritage. He can fight or otherwise exert himself for a long time, and is deadly with blades and any other weapon he gets his hands on. Mentally, he can defend himself from some attacks, but it is not his forte. With his healing ability, he is not quite immortal, but unless slain by violence, which is almost certain to happen, he should live several thousand years.<br/><br/>Pattern. He has walked the Pattern of Amber and can move between worlds, among other things.<br/><br/>Shapeshifting. As a scion of the Courts of Chaos, he can shapeshift, which he has become very good at, for reasons he does not often discuss.<br/><br/>Skills. He is a trained assassin, with all that entails.<br/><br/>Ons: Knowledge, planning, drinking, eating, the company of women, occasionally a good fight.<br/><br/>Offs: Being hunted, his father's family, men who mistreat women, the fact that he has to be fundamentally dishonest.<br/><br/>Others in O/O.