NEW HOPE CHARACTER PROFILE

Originator of Character:  Margaret Dean
Name:  Tyvek
Soul Name:  n/a
Race:  Elf
Gender:  Male
Birthdate/Approximate Age:  c. 200 - 250 years old when he first comes north from the Reach
Origins:  Godlings' Reach

Hair Length/Color/Style:  Light brown, straight, length to mid-back.  Usually wears a circlet or faceguard to keep it confined.
Eyes:   Blue-green
Skin:   Medium fair
Height:   5' 2"
Build:  Slim, languid
Voice Quality & Speech Mannerisms:  High Ones help me, he sounds for all the world like a cross between Byerly Vorrutyer and Peter Wimsey playing the silly-ass-about-town.  Elegant, effete, affected.  Pitch is in the tenor range.
Other Physical Attributes:  Long-fingered, elegant hands, which he uses to effect for elegant gestures.

Parents:  TBD
Siblings:   TBD
Other Relatives:  Torivek, uncle.  (*sigh*  **You can choose your
friends, but you can't choose your relatives.**)
Current Mate:   Open
Recognized?:   To Keshir, eventually
Previous Mates:   TBD
Children:  (In development)
Closest Friends:  Sudu, Kanwar

Special Talents:  Rockshaper, fair-to-middling by Reach standards, which probably translates to fairly powerful by the standards of most other tribes.
Skills:  Architect
Hobbies:  Badinage, piffle
Weapons Used:  Tongue
Bondbeast:  None

Jewelry Worn:  Yes.  Particularly likes circlets and face guards to keep his hair neat, and rings to show off his hands.
Clothing:  Yes, as fancy as he can get it . . . within the bounds of taste, of course.  Loves silk, fur, feathers.
Other Special Possessions:  n/d

Personal Info:

Tyvek and his two close friends, Sudu and Kanwar, are young elves of Godlings' Reach who've become dissatisfied with Reach society and, after Ionell brought back tales of his journey north, decided to leave the Reach and seek their fortune (and scope for their talents) elsewhere.

Tyvek is the extrovert of the three and usually seen as the "leader,"  partly due to this personality trait and partly because the Reach elves consider him of higher status because of his Talent.  If Tyvek himself thought about it, he'd probably characterize himself more as spokesman than leader, however.  He is a rockshaper, but what the Reach elves
customarily use rockshaping for -- dueling -- bores him silly (and disgusts him.  Violence is so . . . icky).  He doesn't want to play dominance games, he wants to =create.=  He wants to =build= . . . somewhere where there's =room= for it.  Not to mention adventure, and excitement, and Really Wild Things.  And neither New Hope nor the Tower is quite what he's looking for . . . (Eventually, he and his friends, along with Keshir, will be moving to Firsthold.)

Tyvek's customary light patter conceals considerable intelligence.  I want to say he's good at math, but am not sure how far the Reach has gone with it -- things like geometry, stress analysis, things that would haveto do with architecture and building.  If the Reach has developed this sort of thing, he's very good at it; if not, he'll pick it up from someone who =has= worked on it as soon as he's able (possibly the Kepetal?  The Taiakaari?).  Socially, he is quick to pick up undercurrents and innuendoes.  While not malicious, he's rather self-centered; well-mannered more because it oils the wheels of social intercourse than because of a sincere regard for others' feelings.

Delicately sensual, sensitive to textures; also to tastes and smells.  A sincere lover of beauty.