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Name: Jamison Vard
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Appearance: Jamison (or James) Vard is of middling height, and has no particularly discerning looks, but has the rough-housed look of a someone mistreated in his youth. He wears practical and hardy clothing, often home repaired for lack of funds, and covers his disheveled brown hair with a sandy yellow sunhat.
Race: Human
Traits:
Way with words: James can persuade others and manipulate them with ease. He always knows the right things to say.
Archaeologist's instinct: James can often find things that others would not normally on pure instinct. He doesn't know how this works. Likewise, he can tell if old things are bad, or trapped.
Layman's Weapon: James knows that the average layman's tool, incorrectly used, is a good weapon.
Made of Strong Stuff: James shrugs off most small injuries, and some big ones.
Curiosity killed the Cat: His curiosity often leads him into bad situations, having to fight in his mind to not burst out if something old is at stake.
Hated: James carries the scar-marks of the Church, which makes most people resent him, but only if they know of it as well.
Findings over Life: James shows a hearty capability to disregard any issue to get the artifact home.
Multiple Personality Disorder: James is found to be almost like two people living in the same body. This attracts laughter in some, and causes others to ask for the authorities. It doesn't show up too much, luckily.
Religion: Human Supremacy
James was born into a cult who valued the Old One's technology above all else. They treasured and coveted their findings, and killed anyone who dared do wrong in the eyes of the Old Ones or found anything suggesting that the They were now utterly dead. The Church firmly believes that the Old Ones are there in spirit, guiding us and judging us to pass to a better world or a worse one.
Profession: Armed Archaeologist
Personality: James is an easy-going person, and happily fixating himself on examining every contour of an artifact for hours on end if it is suitable interesting. He demonstrates knowledge of social practices, and, as such, talks to others with ease and can wear people's mental defenses down with his quick banter.
Motivation: James is looking for artifacts of the Old Ones, because, while he deplores the beliefs of the Church, their fanaticism of the Old Ones' technology imprinted itself onto James. He looks not for wealth, although that is a part of it, but because he wants to find out more about humanity before the Great War; What were humans like? What did they dress like, eat like, fight like, etc.
Backstory: James was born, as mentioned before, into a cult that prized and revered the Old Ones. He grew up amongst the fanatics and their children, and even made a few friends. But one day, he strayed beyond the crumbly yellow stoned wall, and, horror among horrors, he made friends with a simlarly lost argonian. They played together in the sand outside the small, isolated Church building before an adult discovered them, and instantly killed the argonian with a knife. James never forgot the day when his playmate became a shower of blood, and the killing prompted his child's mind to start thinking alarmingly quickly; Why did the man kill his friend? Why couldn't James play with 'outsiders'? He wanted to learn more. Growing into an adolescent, James snuck out in the cover of darkness to find himself in a strange world, fill of strange people and stranger beginnings.
James found jobs in places, and his love of Old technology grew as he found more and more sites of antique discoveries. James always wanted to find old things and see how they worked, and where they came from, and now he has the chance.
Home Civilization: James was born in a small, isolated, crumbly temple, claimed to be what used to be a place of praying for the Old Ones, and now the living place for those that revered Them. It was in a somewhat arid zone, and presided over by a hierarchy of religious men, some faithful, some not, but regardless they responded to threats and kept the people safe, if under constant surveillance.