Divankul Dul-Sansiska

Divankul Dul-Sansiska, 1100's, is a highly controversial figure in Terrosian society. Divan is a compassionate husband, and loving father who will protect his family with everything he has. Divan has contributed untold riches in the course of history to many causes and to Terros' people in direct and indirect ways. Despite his horrible unpredictability, Divan consistently delivers on his wish to bring good fortune to those below him. He had three healthy marriages by 1014AE, save for Reynea's untimely death, and by 1086 he is in the midst of his fourth marriage due to having fallen for (Insert an elf here) sometime in the interlude period.However, he has also struggled nearly his entire lifetime with a rather amplified form of High Elven Rot, this, mixed with his deep eccentricities, causes many to see him as completely nuts. Those who spend enough time with him understand the ebbs and flows of his episodes and when he's kept under supervision he proves to be a very consistent fellow. This was not helped by a head wound he received from what he recalls as being a fight with Xankresh Avani. This is unconfirmed, and there are no records to back up this claim, it is believed he sustained the head injury sometime during The First Demon War instead. However, due to reality manipulation magic that negatively affected Divan's already fragile mental state at the time, a centuries lasting episode began and gave rise to schizophrenia, dissociative personality disorder, and bouts of mania and depression. Thankfully this head wound was properly treated, but there has never been a cure for the affliction all true High Elves face. He receives treatment to lessen its affects and bring himself back to normalcy, as well as some other preventative measures, but for some reason, despite not being a pure blooded High Elf, he sustains a near constant amplified version of this most debilitating disorder.This lifelong status makes it hard for those unfamiliar with him to become comfortable around him, though so long as he has a family member or trusted person nearby him at all times, he tends to behave himself a lot better these days. Divankul remains a polarizing force in society, but for as much as people might hate him, just as many hold him as a treasure for all that he has done over the years, despite his instabilities.
== Biography ==
=== Mental Health ===
His biological mother was a heavy drinker, even for a high elf halfer, and this managed to help with some of his deformities and perceived developmental issues. That and the fact Al-Zehin was himself a mutant from a long since dead era, without the hearty stock of Dul-Sansiska to help combat some of the major issues with the highly volatile mixture of elven genetics, Divankul was at the mercy of biology. All of this is used as a contrivance for why Divan was always pushed away and aside by everyone and helped to foster his need for knowledge, to prove to everyone he wasn't a 'retarded mutt child'.
The only people who loved him in his childhood were his siblings, who took on the parental roles he so desperately needed, due to the abusive mockeries hurled at him by his own father and the dismissive negligence of his so called mother. This only reinforced certain bad habits and deepened his apparent lack of progress, as he retreated into books, magic, and technology instead of martial disciplines, the arts, and other pursuits of the drow culture of the time. Thus Divankul could not escape the labels that marked him as just a broken child who couldn't have any hopes of being normal. While Volia and his brothers tried to shield him, their efforts were hampered by their own parents.
Early in life Divankul would develop High Elven Rot, despite being only one third High Elf it was a fairly severe case, and he would begin to rapidly start disassociating and having issues keeping his mind in check. Being incapable of sleeping without being sedated, needing the most powerful medicines the Drow could come up with, and overall becoming a massive financial burden to the the family.
Divankul also garnered very extreme views and opinions on all races, including the drow, losing a lot of his inherit sweetness and kindness. Whatever was fueling this rapid deterioration also made him very capable at repairing and utilizing magitech and learning magic rather easily, this combined with his eyes meant that he was an indispensable tool when properly medicated to essentially do any magically related task you could ask of him. His mental health be damned, he was a true savant with magic and was otherworldly with his understandings of its workings. The mental instabilities only became worse int he First Demon War, deepening into traumatic stress disorder when losing Exarn and Xanmar, and entering into a deep depressive stage when he and his sister were used as political chips.
Then during Reconstruction he was lobotomized and indoctrinated by Jason Blackthorne, though in a fairly subtle way versus what he would do to later subjects.
=== Medical Doctor ===
It may come as a surprise to just about everyone, but after the First Demon War, Divankul retired from the military and pursued education to become a physician in the Ques Novich Society of Medicines. He spent the next two centuries as a traveling physician and even began the Order of the Traveling Doctors, though this would come to ruin during the Blackthorne Civil War. After this period (needs expanded), however Divankul's specialty has always been delivering children, and he has notably delivered every single child ever birthed by all members of his family outside of Exarnkul's children. Divankul has a perfect record in childbirth, ensuring that neither the mother nor the infant were to die-even if it seemed a certainly the child would be stillborn (due to hemomancy and animancy usage). Divankul's other focuses were infectious diseases and rare diseases as he is still a scholar and a researcher at heart, and took to tracking and studying such phenomenon so he could figure out ways to properly treat them. Divankul has prevented several plagues in his lifetime and discovered a myriad of rare conditions, and developed treatments to eradicate them. 
While forgetful, Divankul has always retained his medical understandings and professionalism, but the rest of the world has not kept up, and with his spiral into exorcism and hunting for demons, his medical work took a back seat except for pregnancies and deliveries. This has included Freyr Vennet, Dinth Alion, Rivka Vennet, Tor Vennet, and Dagon Vennet. Divankul was not called for delivering Javka and some have blamed the child's stillbirth on this unfortunate choice, and he was seen as not needed to deliver Vankul Vennet who was perfectly healthy.
Divankul would treat a plague in Briochi alongside many doctors he managed to wrangle into quick service in 1011AE. Divnakul blames himself for not stopping the plague sooner, and while he was able to successfully treat Freyr Vennet and Rivka Vennet, the latter losing all hearing in her left ear and needing a portion of Divan's own soul to pull through, he could not save Donnell'Tor Vennet or Dinth Vennet. The plague also badly affected the population of Briochi at large, and killed off nearly every servant int he Vennet Estate. Divankul holds quite a lot of guilt on his shoulders still to this day over the incident and his lack of focus to have seen the problem and begun treatment immediately before it spread too quickly.
Divankul would resume his practice as a physician following the end of the Second Demon War, with some skepticism until he proved his worth in (insert incident). At which point he was granted permissions to freely pursue his practice under supervision. Divankul to this day is still a practicing physician, and also has leveraged Volia's Grace's resources into the medical field to bring about a more peaceful world free of suffering, as per the promise he made to Jason Blackthorne eight hundred years ago. Divankul serves as the official head physician for House Dul-Sansiska, and has personally delivered every child born yet, and saved the life of one of his grandchildren in childbirth, though her skin is now red pigmented. 
Divankul worked tirelessly to combat the effects of the Red Death plague, but was unsuccessful in slowing its spread-though he saved many lives and brought comfort to those he could not save. He was said to have been going nonstop for weeks at a time, visiting every far flung village and farmstead he could get himself to, and leading an army of doctors everywhere possible. Though he made a valiant effort, he is still haunted by the idea that he could have done more, though in the eyes of the public he was a true hero for the people. There are scant few alive today that don't have a story of how Divan or one of his doctors, came to help them or a loved one, a friend, or just fellow villagers who were suffering. He could not save everyone, but he brought comfort and closure to those who he couldn't save, and supplies to help those struggling as the field fallowed and the skies darkened. Divankul laments it felt like he was back in the time of Vermithrax all of a sudden during the entire event, and that the Underking was laughing at him as he tried to save as many people as he possibly could. This would be the last major event Divankul's medical expertise would be demonstrated, and has done wonders for his popularity among the common folk.
=== Spells and Abilities ===
Pre-1016:
Elemental Mastery- Divankul, by way of his unfair way of learning magic, essentially copied from the many texts on magic he had access to, and by way of trial and error managed to control the power rather than try to learn it all from the ground up. This has worked best in the elemental side, with Light being his strongest and Darkness being his weakest. Divankul has found great ways to fuse his powers into interesting creations, and over time continues to refine his capabilities in such combinations that its hard to counter the myriad of expressions his elemental magic can take.
Lesser Eyes of Creation- The strange eyes Divankul has, and what the Shadow Dancers wished to take from him in order to complete a strange type of magical artifact to give Vermithrax something of importance. Fairly tame in their immature state, Divankul can see magic, read all languages, and comprehend all context and subject matter. It allowed him to excel as a child and gave him a voracious appetite for information. The more the eyes are used in these fashions, the more they mature, supposedly after a long enough time they can mature to the state of the Eyes of Dawn and Dusk which are apparently Aradia's own eyes of creation she plucked out of her own head to gift to the dark elves. Divankul believes this to be hogwash and simply leverages the eyes for usage in achieving his goals far quicker than anything else he could be capable of without them.
Animancy- Divankul's demonstrations of Animancy, and its sub categories, is simply masterful and a showcase as to the power a one could achieve if they were to just study hard enough. Which is a total lie, Divankul cheated his way into most of the knowledge basis due to many part of Animancy being fundamentally hidden due to the unbelievable power one gains when they begin manipulation of souls and the power that's linked to them. Divankul can fully manipulate all souls he gains access to, including and especially his own, he can used them as energy sources, effortlessly cast spells of the Golden Tongue (to be continued)
Demonic Powers-Resonate Word, Final Cataclysm: Annihilation of Oblivion, The End- Divan’s most catastrophic spell ever conceived. It is the epitome of hundreds of years worth of plotting and scheming, power collection, and microscopic understandings of the core principles of magic. It is the power to destroy reality, warp it so badly it becomes unsustainable. This is the only spell to have utterly torn apart the fabric of the Void before, and its effects on Aradia were enormous sea quakes, thundering tremors, and a kind of echoing shout of malevolent energy that could be felt by every living thing.Medical Knowledge-Engineering-Other Skills-1016-1086:Split Soul- Divankul figured out how to willfully de-power himself and chose to do so shortly after the closing of the Void and setting into motion a number of major projects. Seeing that he was just going to waste away in isolation yet again, he decided to actively pursue his family over his projects and split himself from his power and abilities. This split soul as it was, shifted his demonic soul, a majority of his magic, and all of his illegitimately obtained knowledge into an artificial core that would regulate everything Divankul had set into motion. This left Divankul's conscious mind and enough power to at least defend his family if the need arises as he left to be much more attached to his family. It is possibly due to this extended period detached form his powers that they were so easily fractured more so when Divankul chose to flee The Lilin.Engineering- Divankul retained all understanding of drow engineering, and seemed to become more attached to making sure it worked, constantly feeding in more finding into his laboratory to have hit enact procedures and ideas based on Divankul's findings and studies. with the Void shuttered off, Drow Engineering had taken a very dark turn and was nigh impossible to have larger methods functioning unless Divankul's plans were in full motion, essentially siphoning Terros' natural mana to then express them and maintain at least some limited status quo of maintenance. This would also be the main cause for the Spreading to finally dissipate as its deep pool of energy was slowly siphoned and used to power all magitech for the last seventy years. Divnakul still employs a variety of magitech tools to empower himself in this time as a doctor and as an engineer.Doctoring- Divankul became an even better doctor than before with his enhanced knowledge over alchemy and botany instead of over reliance on magic this time around. Divankul is still best when it comes to pregnancies and deliveries, however his studies into infectious diseases and preventative care have grown by leaps and bounds.Alchemy, Botany, and Horticulture- Divankul's had massive increase in deep knowledge and practical sense of the subject matter due to a strong pool of teachers and textbooks to work with as he delved hard into these affairs, as a scientist and a man of medicine rather than a mage. Because he takes this so much more seriously than just cheating his way through with magic, while he is unable to achieve the same highs that he could with his large power, he feels that he has a greater familiarity and capability to recognize what needs to be done instead. This has also solidified his positioning as an environmentalist, though that is largely unimportant to larger concerns.Eyes of Creation- Divankul still retains the powers of the Eyes of Creation, and they have since matured due to exceptional amount of usage they get when helping with engineering, botany, and other studies as well as all the medical examinations and the like. These eyes also allow him to indirectly monitor the Wounds at all times, always judging the health of the barrier and sending information back to his laboratory on the status condition of the seals. Eyes of Creation provide all the benefits of their lesser counterparts, but more exceptional, though they lack the mind bending power of a set of greater eyes, but also do not cause Divankul any discomfort form the massive use of them, and continue to reflect his mood and personality.1086 Onwards:
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