<strong>Name:</strong>Rudorph "Rudy" Smoothstone<br/><strong>Age:</strong>40 (which is just reaching adulthood for his race)<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Dwarf<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Straight (but totally up for all manner of traps, futas, and dickgirls)<br/><strong>Class/Profession:</strong>Wizard<br/><br/>Appearance: Like this, but a little bit more dwarf like proportions and probably taller:<br/><br/>http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130625120851/finalfantasy/images/7/77/ARR_Black_Mage.png<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Rudy has always been a pretty guarded person, because of his various oddities, like being a dwarf wizard from a place where the arcane is thought of as un-manly and for his complete lack of beard. It's part of the reason he tends to stay so bundled up. He loves learning and solving puzzles, but he also loves history and tales. He isn't very fond of the stereotypical gruff dwarven attitude, but he doesn't like going too much the other way and come off as too sensitive and intellectual. He's insecure insofar as his looks, but he tends to have a determination and professionalism in his work. Despite being a wizard and rather learned, he tends to act immature at times.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Growing up, Rudy was the laughingstock of his enclave. The Smoothstones were called such as a sort of punishment for something one of his ancestors did. Each telling of the event changed but it boiled down to that his great great great something or other had been a coward and nearly lost them some big battle. The tale says that the dwarven gods took offense and made his beard spontaneously combust and for ever after, the family could barely grow stubble and were thereafter called the Smoothstones for their nearly bare chins. In early life, he was picked on for not wanting to join the other kids in their war games and work. And when no beard whatsoever came in when everyone else started to grow them, everyone started to say he was a girl. He learned to fight real quick then. And his father, a sniveling wimp of a man that always kowtowed to the other better off families, blamed Rudy for all the family's problems. If he were only more manly and more dwarf like and would just grow a damn beard, he could become something more than the simple laborer his father was.<br/><br/>As soon as he was old enough and figured out where the nearest surface settlement was, he hid among a passing caravan and made it to the surface. From there, he sought out the nearest wizard, for he had read and listened to every tale he could find about them. Luck was on his side and he managed to find a nice, unprejudiced wizard who took on a handful of students every few years. Unlike the others, though, he was penniless and dressed in little more than rags, so he was made to work for his keep. When he wasn't sleeping or in lessons, he was cleaning his master's house, tending his garden, fixing random things, and any other thing that needed doing. The other students were all humans from rich families who were bored and had little to inherit and they teased him mercilessly about being too dumb to know that dwarves shouldn't be wizards and that he could barely be a dwarf with no beard. And truth be told, the magic came slowly to him, until he learned not to force it. And once he did start getting the hang of it, he started with a focus in spells to hamper enemy spellcasters, so when they tried to get him into mage duels for fun, he would disable their casting ability if he could and then beat the hell out of him, which he did rather handily because of the time he spent brawling as a child.<br/><br/>One of the other students, a half-elf girl of dubious birth, who was quite beautiful in her own shy, quiet sort of way, was the only one who was nice to him. He became smitten with her, but he knew it was hopeless. She spent a lot of her time with one of his main tormentors. Eventually, they were given a sort of final test where they were all sent into a dangerous complex of caves nearby to harvest a rare mushroom. They were supposed to go in pairs but no one went with him since he was the odd man out. Inside the cave complex, he ran into the half-elf and her boy when they were in trouble. They had found the mushrooms but they couldn't get back out because a ferocious beast had them cornered. Rudy offered his help, but worried that he couldn't get a mushroom himself. The human boy promised to get one for him, so he led the monster away and then met back up with them near the surface. At that point, his tormentor dropped Rudy's promised mushroom and ground it into the floor. Rudy held back for the sake of the half-elf, but she clung to her human when they got back out to their master. They had been on a time limit, so Rudy failed the test. He tried to explain to his master, but the older wizard explained that treachery had been allowed.<br/><br/>Rudy left right then, not staying for the celebration or the issuing of charters from the local lord to practice in that land. He figured he didn't need it and decided to just wander. And now he's been doing that ever since.