Niklos

Bri

Name: Nik

Age: 20 (m09/d03)

Position: Journeyman Bard

Appearance: Thin and gangly, he is 5'6,with muddy brown hair that is unkempt and a shade to long to be neat no matter what he does with it. He has a slight limp from a 'accident' when he was 8. His face is rather unremarkable with only his eyes standing out, they are a startling shade of silver-blue and framed by thick lashes.

Gifts: Average Bardic Gift and Talent, weak Creativity

Personality: Sweet-tempered but wary of strangers except Bards and Heralds he's also a little bit distracted... all the time. He is incessantly humming the newest tune he's heard, which tended to enrage Metran. He feared his 'father' greatly and tiptoed around him. He was a thief and has always lived on the streets or in rundown hovels but despite this he always believed there is something better out there for everyone. And now that theory seems to have been proven out.

Short life story: Nik has lived his entire life on the streets of Haven in the slum areas with his 'father' Metran. He doubts Metran is actually kin to himself but since he has no memory of anyone else he can't be sure. He did attend the schooling required by the Queen, but he didn't really excel at anything. He has always dreamed of being a minstrel despite Metran's repeated attempts to beat the music from him. He learned the liftin lay at an early age and once old enough moved on to rooftop work. More than once his habit of incessantly humming has nearly had him caught by the patrol. Due to the poor conditions of his upbringing and the malnutrition and the weekly beatings, Nik was very late to reach puberty, but his voice is now settled and his Gifts are trained.

Since becoming a Full Bard, or well a Journeyman anyway, he has traveled about and been the finder of more than one Gifted youngster, an odd situation to be sure for the young man but one he considers only his due to pay forward the kindness wrought on him when he was 'discovered' and brought to the Collegium.