Atrus Blackwell

Your Friendly Neighborhood Red Mage Cad

The Quick Bits

Name: Atrus Blackwell
Race: Elezen (Not a vampire, swear, despite what he may look like.)
Sex: Male
Hair: Raven Black with flecks of red highlights.
Eyes: Crimson
Age: 30s?
Relationship Status: Single
Orientation: Straight
Class: Red Mage / Dark Knight
Alignment: Chaotic GoodLikes: Knowledge, Books, Miqo'te Women, Rum and Wine, Fine Food, Understanding the Complexities of Magic.
Dislikes: The Ishgardian Zealots, Maelstrom, The Empire, Cactuars and their cold dead eyes.

Hooks

  • You have information pertaining to Arcane knowledge, books, repositories, or ancient ruins.

  • Are in need of a scholar who understands black magic and red magic.

  • You recognize him as a former member of Maelstrom.

  • You may see him wandering the streets of Ud'dah, Gridania, or Lavander.

  • He may be found in taverns, bars, restaurants, and even brothels. Spare the later often seeking or observing for information, or weaving tales and spinning up talks on the philosophical topics often associated with drinking.

  • You may bump into him exploring ancient ruins.

  • Competing for bounties to gather coin for research.

  • Carries a orb and rapier on his hip and a great sword on his back, unless hidden by glamour.

About the Character

Atrus is a veteran adventurer of sorts, seeing a lot of the world over the course of his life and living through many world changing events. That being said his passion is in scholarly pursuits and study, it just so happens the adventuring finds him thanks to his dangerous curiosity. He can also be greedy and full of himself at times, which does afford him other problems.When it comes to having to fight, he would rather not, preferring the diplomatic or retreat approach. Despite this, he will fight for the innocent and in general believes in doing the right thing, even if he tries to play the cold or aloof person in front of others.While still a bit of goof, underlining his grin is a man just seeking the truths that may lay hidden out there, and with his trusty chocobo Mao Mao, and his pet nutkin Bix, he moves from place to place, helping those he can along the way before fading into the sunset.

Timeline Thus Far

1543-1555
Atruex is most likely born. Said to be the child of an miner in lower Ishgard districts and a Tavern winch. Both said to have fallen to disease early in his life, he is taken in by the church.Trained as a squire, but he has a dislike of this life, and feels something is wrong and corrupt with the place.Has reacquiring nightmares, something about the dragons, a burning hatred towards Ishgard and it's people, betrayal, and that he must go east.Has visions of a place, an hourglass shaped red pyramid. Two meeting at a point.Escapes and flees with several other refugees wanting to leave the churches grasp to the outside world.

1555-1557
Arrives in Ali Mhigo, a wondrous place far from home, befriends a local old Thaumaturge hermit named Vernond Blackwell, becomes Atrus Blackwell as he it taken in as a pupil.Two years later the Garland empire attacks, sending the city into chaos, he is captured along with his master and taken to the prison camps, separated from his first true father figure.A young Atrus joins the Ali Mhigo resistance in their escape from the prison, Vernond is not to be found.
The resistance fails, forcing the survivors to flee.Upon their escape Atrus takes refuge in a structure called the Ziggurat, a red stone structure made of two pyramids mirroring and meeting at the tip like an hourglass. A place he remembers from his past dreams.He finds ruins with depictions of ancient mages and writings on the walls he should not be able to understand, but their meaning somehow comes through, his eyes pained while doing so, as if stretching muscle he did not previously have.It tells of mages who fled a great war in ancient times, coming together to forge both white and black arcana into the “Balance” forming something new, but what it is he can not fathom.
His night was short lived there, nightmares, and fear of capture plagued him. However he promised to return here. This place, it meant something to him.He makes his way far south to the sea, taking board a ship with many other refugees.

1558-1561
The ship was actually run by a band of pirates and slavers, who gave the refugee's three choices, be sold to the empire, join the crew, or take a dip in the drink. Atrus chose to join, as did just about everyone else.Serves on the boat over the next few years, leading along the southern sea.The captain, a Roegadyn by the name of Lammmerl, and his crew took a liking to the young Thaumaturge, using him as entertainment for magic shows and the like or to start the wood stove and light torches in a downpour.The seas were dangerous with the war and the threat of Primals, but they were a great also with opputunity, be it wreckage, stealing, or smuggling.But that luck would eventually run out, and in the year 1561, while near Limsa, Lammmerl, was captured by Maelstrom, he and his crew were hung, the refugee's were given their second choice, join up, or join the pirates. As you can probably guess, Atrus picked the one were he lived.

1562 -1572 (The 1.0 Years)
Atrus Arrives in Limsa, now forced to join the ranks of Maelstrom.
He joins up as a newbie in a regiment run by a Highlander woman by the name of Beyhild Cater.He serves in various missions over the years, slowly raising in ranks and becoming a spy for infiltrating Garlian forces and pirates, using his skills as a Thaumaturge to some effect.On a mission in Gridania, in the year 1571 he meets Vernond Blackwell once more, connecting and bonding over their past. But it was short lived, Vernond would not survive the end of the world and the falling of the red moon Delmund.

1572
The fall of the red moon happens, sweeping away the world he once knew, sending him into a long slumber, waking to a world in the aftermath, all he once knew long since gone.

1577 and on (Present Age)
Atrus awakens in a new era, and time has stopped for him it seems between then and now. An effect of Delmund? That dragon? Maybe that so called “Balance” he was seeking?A mark has appeared on his forehead, a symbol he does not understand yet.He rejoins Maelstrom, and in doing so meets a Miqo'te named Tai'lya, who is to be his partner as he resumes roll as a spy.The destruction of the world has changed things. He learns the dragons name, Bahamut, laid ruin to the world he knew, that five years had past and he had not aged a day in the blink of slumber.

As time resumes, he became close to Tai'lya, forming a partnership, than a romance. Often working in tandem, as she was a warrior and he a mage.During one of their missions, their location was found by the Garlians, many of Maelstroms ranks were lost in the failed raid. It was found that a mole had infiltrated the ranks, and Atrus was the prime suspect. The only one who believed him was Tai'lya, or so it seemed.In the end, Tai'lya was used by Maelstrom to determine that he was the mole, and to keep and eye on him the whole time since his return.The true pain of it all, in the final moments before he escaped nearly being taken in and killed by her and her men, stabbing him in the chest, it was whispered in his ear that she was in fact the Garland agent, and cast him into the sea's of Limsa.A drift, he woke upon the deck of a fishing boat, heading to Ul Dah. Once there, he adopted a new life as a drifter, moving from place to place. Taking up the sword as a mercenary and fueled by his black magic and bitter spite of being betrayed focused on practicing his blade skills.Taking many jobs at the time. His only friend at the time was his mount, “Mao Mao” a Chocobo and a Nutkin named Bix he met in Gridania.

He joins a troupe of performers run by a Lalafell named Ornil and joined the group.He specialized in magic tricks, illusions (skills that fit his thaumaturge nature), and sadly advertisement, often dawning a fat chocobo mask when they performed near Limsa. His temper cooled off, though still willing to play their enforcer.As time past once more the troupe dispersed, he continued his studies, perfecting his magic till one day everything fell into place.Atrus, finally cracks the meaning of what the mages of old were trying to do. It was Red Magic and he would become a practitioner of the art. Mixing his skills in black magic, his now fledgling white magic abilities, and his skill with a sword (and perhaps the showmanship of the troupe).Currently he is trying investigating the ebb and flow of Aether near Mors Dhona, and the tower.

About the Player

Hi, I'm a long running player off and on again. I've been playing since the 1.0 alpha, and this character's story is one that spans from his time on Besaid to Bal, Gilg, Mat, and finally back to Balmung once more. I hope to have him meet plenty of new characters as his journey continues.As for myself, well I'm an old school nerd of Anime, Videogames, Scifi, and Fantasy. I love the Expanse, Final Fantasy, Wheel of Time, Overwatch, and biking when it is actually sunny were I live. Outside of that I work, eat, and sleep.