Meliadin Constarak

== Traits ==
Marks: WWW
Afflictions: 
*Damaged Lungs (through inhalation of water / standing in the path of a tsunami)
=== Advances ===
*Bagful Of Bizarre Things (Voting, +1 Academia)
*Extraplanar Trade Deals (Voting, +1 Governance)
*Summer Fey Croquet Buddies (Voting, +1 Academia)
*Beowulf (Infrastructure, Purity -> Military in Any Region)
*Knows Somebody Who Knows Somebody (Voting, +1 Governance)
*(Tainted) Soul Of A Devil Child (Voting, +1 Academia)
*Plunged The Depths Of Hell (Voting, +1 Academia)
== Background ==
Meliadin was born to Guinelte and Amfodred Constarak in the village of Nila Edhil (pop. 406), and was apprenticed to his father as a calligrapher. At the age of 28, Meliadin entered the Feywild through a portal by accident, becoming lost and unable to find his way back home. Time passed, and Meliadin somehow survived, learning to negotiate and how to cast planar magic in order to be able to return so that he could return; during this time, he also transferred his calligraphy skills to cartography, making maps as he could of where he wandered.
Unfortunately for Meliadin, the Fey who taught him planar magic did so without teaching him how to decide which plane he would travel to (finding amusement in his searching and wishing to prolong the game.) As such, once he learn to plane shift he did not end up in his intended location but instead in a plane of fire and elemental traders.
Meliadin's previous experience in the Feywild served him well there, for it meant that he was able to avoid being enslaved or bound; rather, careful deals combined with the talents he already had meant he was able to further build his knowledge of the planes and acquire a collection of useful and unusual items, which he took with him on his next plane shift. Numerous plane shifts followed, travelling across various other planes and trading with all manner of beings (not least the Fey, devils, angels, elementals and so on), each time collecting a few more items (predominantly curios and oddities rather than useful items) and learning more about the planes in an attempt to learn how to get back home; during these travels he additionally learnt to return to planar locations he had been previously, allowing him to at least go to certain places rather than always plane shifting blind.
Now 186 and having spent the past 158 years wandering the planes, Meliadin has finally learnt both the nature of his home plane and opened a planar portal to come tumbling back to Athesia, being unaware of the numerous changes since he left.
== Limitations Of Abilities ==
Some of Meliadin's planar abilities have limitations due to his own power as follows:-
Teleportation: Meliadin cannot take more than five others with him when he teleports. Additionally, when teleporting long distances, Meliadin must spend 1 second preparing per 1000 paces of distance (which requires uninterrupted concentration). Any who teleport in this manner must spend 1 second per 100 paces of distance recovering before teleporting again or risk injury from being torn by the magic.
Plane Shifting: Meliadin has the same limitations on plane shifting that he has on teleportation; he requires ten minutes of preparation before the plane shift, and two hours afterwards of recovery.
== Recent Events ==
=== Spring 2016 ===
* Meliadin found himself invited to the planar convergence festivities in Unity City. While there, he happened to end up assisting in busting a drug production line with the aid of Arianna Thistledown and Sparky.
* Meliadin found himself investigating the flooded waters off the (new) coast of the Fey Woods. Searching the waters eventually led to the discovery that the flooding was due to black bubbles that were using fish-people rituals and Shadowfel magics; the land was raised so it is no longer flooded, but the initial Shadowfel magics have resulted in a large rift meaning the lake in the raised area is still prone to flooding. A small black bubble was also recovered and stored by the Collegium Of Athesia from this mission, taken from a summer fey croquet party. (Number of side notes. It would appear that it is worth asking Morgan Redwood the nature of potions before drinking them since they may be, say, glowing liquids and drinking them results in being quite luminescent and attractive to jellyfish. It would also appear that croquet parties with the summer fey last three days and can't be remembered, though since I remain good friends with the summer fey croquet party it cannot have been too offensive.)
* Meliadin was requested to assist a Yorgen in testing some drugs (actually Loki). These mushrooms had a number of effects, but eventually led to a strange dreamscape where it was found that the Aesir and Vanir were once a happy family before Jormungandr grew too big and they split on whether they should contain this growth or continue to do whatever they wanted. (Side note: lucid dreaming works in these dreamscapes.)
* (A small aside: Morgan Redwood requested that Meliadin assist her in seeking the answers to some questions. While Meliadin did not know, he took her to talk to the Lady Of The Ways who assisted her with what little information she knew after being offered whatever she wished, which later turned up to be her wealth.)
* Meliadin was summoned by the Lady Of The Ways to test some Majik Beenz (C) TM. After being catapulted across the planes, a very strange adventure resulted; the exact details do not matter, though Meliadin is now a god of Titanicor N Frenz, 14 Nitez Of The Peproni Dizks due to impressive feats. They are are large mosquito-like creatures with green half-circle bodies that open up to fire teeth that spit rays of energy, and are very fond of asking people to "challenge their honour" and will "demand satisfaction" where they perceive this honour to be impugned (say, by somehow besmirching one of their arenas.)
* Meliadin was required to assist in securing a source of power for a now-abandoned plan to erect a rainbow curtain. After asking the Lady Of The Ways and not getting anywhere (and learning that Morgan Redwood had given her wealth to said Lady) the party drew the power from the excess in the Elemental Fields instead, returning with a large sphere of said energy. (Side note: The Lady Of The Ways seems to now sport an impressive regalia of solid gold (including a solid gold finely embossed top hat) whenever Morgan Redwood is around.)
=== Spring 2018 ===
* Meliadin became a lich of Osiris, and has relinquished all formal ties to the Collegium of Athesia as his presence would otherwise pose a threat to their research and current projects (given other invested allies have objections to the undead.) In doing so, he has also been "promoted" to the Grand Vizier of the Osiris Liches, with his responsibilities being predominantly academic in nature.
== Current Mysteries And Quests ==
* Morgan Redwood seems to not be entirely happy with gifting her wealth to the Lady Of The Ways. It's amusing for now, but the game may well tire eventually; might want to come up with a better game with the wealth as a stake for more entertainment. [Resolved[]
* Nila Edhil has disappeared, along with all the members of Meliadin's family; while the previous site of the village shows signs of planar disturbance, Meliadin has not been able to deduce where the village has gone or the nature of it's disappareance, or even when it disappeared. Meliadin wants to find out what has happened, and recover the village and his family if he can. (Note that due his planar travels and having been to planes where time is not synchronised with the material plane, he doesn't even know when he left outside of his own timekeeping.)
* Meliadin is being followed by creatures he can only see out of the corner of his eye that have followed him since his early days in the Feywild; he has gotten used to them, but has no idea who they are or what they want and is curious to know.
* Meliadin has spent a long time wandering the planes and the numerous wondrous places within, and wishes to continue to explore and discover such places, be they on the material plane or another.
== Current Duties And Obligations ==
* Meliadin is to carry a specific seed wherever he goes, which he is to plant when he finds the correct place for it. (He will 'know' when he finds the correct place according to the giver of the debt.) [Agreed to in a deal with a family of trees in the Feywild; in return, Meliadin has the right to take their fruit when they are ripe for picking.]
* Meliadin has restrictions of how long he may return in a single place; see the contract with the Lady Of The Ways for full details.
== Possessions ==
* Numerous maps and charts of various planar locations.
* A book containing all debts Meliadin owes and that are owed to him, along with every debt that he has owed or been owed. (Discharged debts are crossed out with a single line with the date (according to his personal timepiece) they were repaid; as such, they are still legible).
* A sturdy walking staff.
* Numerous curios and oddities within his Trader's Satchel (bag of holding).
* Various trade goods (predominantly unusual and planar in nature).
* Useful items for planar travel (timepiece, wayfinder's pendant (can be used to point to nearest trail, settlement, water source or shelter) and vision goggles (interchangable lens that provide various different vision options - current lens are normal vision, darkvision, low-light vision, magnification, glare / brightness reduction and detect magic.)
* IOU's for various favors. (Notable favors include some from various lesser fey and from various lesser devils.)
* Phylactery (containing his own soul; probably need to get better protections for this soon...)
== Significant Relationships ==
Guinelte Constarak
Mother and homekeeper.
Amfodred Constarak
Father and calligrapher. Amfodred trained Meliadin in the art of calligraphy, intending for him to take on the trade before his disappearance (by which point Meliadin had only reached apprentice level.)
Escalannan Constarak
Eldest brother and village guard. Fought with twin swords.
Lyodwen Constarak
Younger sister and twin of Gahacoir. Was apprenticed as a courtier and diplomat to the Summer Court when Meliadin disappeared.
Gahacoir Constarak
Younger brother and twin or Lyodwen. Before Meliadin disappeared, was apprenticed as a protector and bodyguard (favouring a single sword and empty hand, and fighting as a duellist), with the intent to protect Lyodwen once she became a full courtier.
Lady Of The Ways
Summer fey. Taught Meliadin planar magic (albeit not completely; Meliadin is not aware the holes in her teaching were intentional, however, and believes that his inability to select new destinations except randomly is due to the difficulty of the magic he has been taught). (Also apparently known as Lady Grace.)
Azsothiel
Devil. Trading partner in Hell who Meliadin acquired rarities and other useful things for from the 40th year of his travelling the planes through to the 90th (upon which Meliadin stopped, having been influenced by travel through more strongly good aligned planes). (Of note is that some of these acquisitions were souls; this is not public knowledge, but the main source of Meliadin's Guilty Conscience.) Meliadin also carried out transport works for Azsothiel during this time. While all accounts are settled (after all, Meliadin never breaches an oath), the offer for further work is no doubt still open.
Morgan Redwood
Went on a lot of missions together. Have introduced her to the Lady Of The Ways. Bit salty about the whole loss of wealth thing, and not good around fire or magma or anything a bit too hot in general.
Atiya El-Amin
Current Reaver of the Osiris Liches (after needing to decide between themselves which would take the position.) Present for the ritual that turned Meliadin into a lich.