Eyes of the Sun Hexblade :: (Read-Only)

Description

Ndoki is short and slender, his wiry muscles clearly showing underneath his brown skin.  His hands are large and powerful and his feet are calloused from waking barefoot over uneven surfaces.  His face is round (though not plump) and his hair is cropped short, almost to the point of baldness.  His eyes are deep-set and he paints the area around them a light grey color, making him look almost raccoon-like.

His clothing is strange to you.  He wears a pair of long, somewhat tight, white trousers under a finely-woven (but worn) tan tunic edged in maroon at the hem, sleeves, and neck.  The tunic hangs unbelted from his shoulders and reaches to just below his knees.  The sleeves are somewhat wide but he has wrapped a thin black band several times around his upper right arm.  He has wrapped a cord across his chest and over one shoulder made of strips of finely-tooled leather in a number of colors (mostly earth-tones and dark blues and greens), from which hangs a number of pouches.  At least four pendants of various designs hang around his neck and he fingers them consistently.

When he stands and walks he leans on a long guisarm, the haft of which is wrapped in sweat-stained maroon wrappings.  Behind his legs you can see a shadowy, cat-like figure with the heavy shoulders and shaggy mane of a lion.  It�s difficult to make out and clearly insubstantial while also just as obviously real.  Occasionally Ndoki moves his hand to pet the cat, despite the fact that his fingers pass right through it.

Personality

Ndoki�s mindset is strange to you.  He neither fears nor cares about the gods, revering instead the spirits of his ancestors.  He seems to speak with them on occasion, though usually not in circumstances where others might easily observe.  From them he seems to have inherited a strange sense of time from his interactions with the dead and only speaks in the present tense (even though he�s articulate in all other ways and even and his accent is slight) as though everything (even events in the past or those yet to come) is happening for him in the now.

As a prisoner and outsider in Aaru, Ndoki has a somewhat sullen and antagonistic attitude by default.  Before joining the group, his only encounters with the people of Aaru were overtly hostile, either raiding parties or captors.  If his ancestors have given him any insight into the nature of the plague he refuses to let on and only participates in the quest for fear of the consequences of failure (you�re not entirely sure about how his participation is being enforced).  He can be eloquent and persuasive, even bordering on gregarious, at times, but these moments are few and far between.

As a practitioner of kindoki (a type of magic of which you have no understanding), Ndoki has long been shunned even by his own society.  Other prisoners refused to associate with him and even the Queen�s Seer was careful in his presence.  He assumes that people distrust him and can be genuinely surprised by kind gestures and fanatically loyal to those he sees as friends.  He isn�t above using others� discomfort for his own gain, however, especially in battle where he does everything he can to appear frightening and intimidate his foes.