Name: Phaustas Falastur

Age: Twenty-three for human years. Not even one dent for elven status. [I hardly think he’d make it even if he did live past twenty-three.]

Race: Human, Southern Gondor. [The people of Gondor, the South-kingdom of the Dúnedain, whose rulers were descended from the Númenórean exiles who fled to Middle-earth with Elendil in the late Second Age.]

Gender: Male.

Horse: Has a long wild looking mane and tail, with matching eyes. His color is mostly a light brownish [buckskin] color, with hooves that fade down into black. Phaustas has dubbed him with the name Desperado because the horse has a tendency to filch things off others as well as desperately nudge others for attention or food to the point it’s nearly stubborn of him.

Family: A large one. Aunts, uncles, and cousins galore. Phaustas is the oldest sibling of his family, being the oldest male of the household. His father died during a siege in the lower levels of Gondor and since then he’s been trying to pull the weight of keeping his family intact by himself. He has one small sister, and the middle child is a younger brother so there are three children in all [including Phaustas.] However, he finds that his relationship with his cousin Vidarion is the one he values the most. They grew up together, as if they we attached at the hips and are just as inseparable presently. Phaustas calls him ‘brother’ instead of ‘cousin’ because he feels as if Vidarion could be his little brother. Phaustas remains with a different name from Vidarion because they are related through Phaustas’ mother, and Vidarion’s father, [brother to his mother.]

Weapons: Phaustas owns two twin long blades – thin and nearly up to his waistline in height. They’re both lined with runes he can’t read, having been given to him when he was young before his father went to fight against Sauron in the war. He’s not much for a bow and arrow, and is a terrible shot. If it’s brought to hand-to-hand combat, Phaustas is pretty formidable against even skilled opponents, having been taught swordplay and combat by the best he could find. He is constant in never playing fair – even if he’s teaching another person, believing that in real life it is never fair, and you need to consider every option of your opponent.

Appearance: Phaustas is often adorned in a rugged dark blue tunic that wraps to one side of his waist and sections off at one end near his knees. The tunic is sleeveless, but Phaustas wears a dark color underneath the blue fabric that ends at his wrists loosely. His belt is a wrap-around, and has a circular buckle off to the side with a metal decorative piece at the end of the extra piece of belt. His boots are leathery and black, and very rugged to the point he probably will need to replace them soon. They tie in the back instead of the front with a few laces at the top where the boots flop over to show a flap in their design. His leggings are a dark grey color, looking black in the darkness. Phaustas’ cloak is truly black, and lined with a grey wolf fur at the neck and hood. His skin is pale often – but out in the sun he tans which often causes a few freckles across the bridge of his nose. His hair is long and straight most often – though unruly and tends to curl where it ends just around the ears. He also has a pair of black etched gauntlets that end in a point over the top side of his hand. His eyes are a piercing dark brownish-green color, and Phaustas stands to around the height of five foot ten inches.

Personality: Light-hearted and often the clown of the group dragging his cousin into it with him. This distracts any suspicious nature he might have otherwise. On the surface he seems very perceptive of other’s feelings, and their fears, weaknesses and strengths. He plays along – pretending to care to get people to open up to him so to exploit what he knows about them later. He’s often entertainingly charming to anyone who is around him. Phaustas is a constant liar, and if anything happens he fails to explain he’ll end up jesting around that it was his cousin, demeaning Vidarion behind his back. His voice almost always retains a humorous hint of sarcasm in it to the point it’s hard to know when he’s serious, or just being immature. He doesn’t really talk much of his own past, finding that’s one of the few things that hit his core. Phaustas is almost completely secretive about his entire nature, the darker side and Vidarion knows nothing of it.

Strengths: He’s a decent liar, as well as persuasion and manipulation for his own will. He’s a formidable opponent in battle, often being ruthless toward anyone who challenges him [except in playful fight against Vidarion.] He’s a good pick-pocket, though it’s not known where he ended picking that up. His light-hearted nature on appearance keeps the eye off him of being suspicious.

Weaknesses: His dark side – the part that felt like it died when he lost nearly everything. He could consider Vidarion a weakness because it is the last person he feels any value for. He also doesn’t know more than a few words in elvish, enough to get by in small conversation.

History: Having lived in Southern Gondor, this means that the city was under constant siege of Mordor. Houses burned to the ground, and screams, too common nearing the end of the third age. Phaustas sadly was the only one to make it out of his house in time, and watched as his own family was trapped inside, burned alive. He was perhaps in his pre-teens when it happened, and not wanting to see what ended up happening – Phaustas ran into the house and tried to save his family. The only person he managed to recover was his littlest brother, who upon dragging out of the house found he had died anyways. Phaustas has still never forgiven himself for what happened, thinking somehow or another he could have saved them. Often he still hears the screaming in his dream – the fire, the burning flames of running through the house somehow hoping that time around he can save them. Phaustas sat in shock for days through some of the rubble from what was once his home before Vidarion found him just sitting there, having not eaten for days and sleepless. He came to live with his cousin’s family, who hadn’t been taken in the siege luckily, but often Phaustas became distant and through the first year or so he barely spoke to even the cousin he called brother. He left for a period of time, without warning to his cousin, and came back a year later. After which he became much like his old self again as if he’d never left, only this time he came back two timing – under the service of Meren. Having lost his family Phaustas felt he had nothing more to lose and therefore vulnerable Meren picked at his weaknesses persuading him to serve the wrong side. Phaustas remains to have his better side – and enjoys spending the time he can with his cousin, but now has a darker side. He wishes someone understood what he went through when he lost everything – his home, his family, even his father before it all. It seemed that no matter how bad Phaustas’ life got, it found a way to become even worse and there was no stopping it. He gave in finally, and now Meren’s sent him to bring the downfall of the company before they reach Amon Lanc, and perhaps while he’s at it Phaustas will find some satisfaction in knowing he’s not alone in losing most of the people he loved.

It's a good bio ;) Kind of makes me think of Erelith for some reason though. They resemble each other in some dark way. Though wasn't the last alliance ages ago, like Second Age or beginning of Third Age, something like that? And he's only 23... mistake?

Nope. He was meant to be inexperianced and young.

No, what I meant was-- (I looked it up this time, so I'm sure) The Last Alliance happened like 2,979 years before the War of the Ring, right? (even though I distinctly remember Elrond saying in the movie, 'I was there 10,000 years ago' O_o) So, if his father died in the Last Alliance, Phaustas would at least have to be a few thousand years old, except he's only 23. :oddlook:

Alright I changed it so his father died during one of the sieges of the lower levels of Gondor.