Felix Sartino

Felix Sartino

**Felix Sartino** is a human artificer. He is played by Adrian.

## Description

### Appearance

Felix Sartino is a young human male, appearing to be in his early 20s. He is about average height, with slightly-groomed short jet black hair, with forest green eyes and light skin. He’s wearing somewhat formal but not too flashy clothes (typical for traveling nobles, while not too obvious about his origins): some scale mail (as he knows never to travel unprepared) under a dark blue blazer and gray shirt with black trousers and shoes. Felix has a fairly large leather-and-cloth rucksack strapped to his back, very used-looking, with a light crossbow on his left hip, a folded-up heavy-looking leather wrapped pipe on his right hip, and a signet ring on his right ring finger.

Sometimes he is fidgeting with a small piece of rope hanging from his rucksack, and his eyes seem to quickly dart back and forth, almost as if he’s reading something invisible in front of him.

### Personality

On the surface, Felix is seen to be an uncertain young man and, at times, slightly cagey about his origins - which has only worsened thanks to the deteriorating relations between Feldar and Adestia. As a newcomer to adventuring parties, his battlefield mentality

However, what he may lack in combative skill, Felix more than makes up for in pure intellect. He's not afraid to let his curious side take over (especially if he has backup in case things go wrong), and he has an adaptive mind that enables him to make the most of any situation - as long as he can get past his initial anxieties.

## Biography

### Prior to The Unseen

Felix was born to House Sartino, a proud family of magic-users, in Desroven, the capital of the Feldaryn Empire.

From a very young age, it was certain that he was doomed to be the black sheep of the family. While his two older sisters were gifted with magical prowess and rose through the ranks at L'Academie de L'Arcan, Felix was developing gifts of his own - an affinity with magitek.

While most would welcome the addition of an artificer to their clan, the Sartino family held a much colder stance towards Felix's fixations on magical engineering. To most members of the Sartino family, magic is fundamentally incompatible with technology; at its worst, technology is a shackle, binding the power of the universe and restricting it from its true potential. As a result, Felix's family did everything they could to dissuade the budding artificer from his calling - including sending him to L'Academie at the age of 19 (with fully paid tuition, at least).

But Felix would not be discouraged so easily. To him, not interacting with his family for a year was an opportunity to take his own initiative, even if it meant disobeying his parents' wishes. With tuition money in pocket, Felix decided to take the first bold move in his life - attending a different school, namely the Helion Institute.

Felix's enthusiasm had never been higher than during his first year of secondary schooling. Within his first semester, he had crafted the basis for his Kinetic Hammer - a weapon that harnesses the power of lightning, and is fully customizable and upgradable. During his second semester, in between classes, he devoted time and energy into making it compactable so it can be carried around with relative ease. As he crafted and modified, his mind ran wild with the myriad ways he could make his "ultimate tool" even more ultimate.

However, while he was earning his A's, a problem was beginning to form. While House Sartino wasn't the most powerful family in Feldar, they were somewhat known in Desroven for being conservative in terms of their philosophy on magic. Unbeknownst to Felix, whispers began to stir that a Sartino was learning about magitek - at the Helion Institute no less, a first for a member of the family.

Eventually, these whispers reached the ears of Felix's parents, who were livid that their youngest son would besmirch the name of the Sartino family by attending a "less-prestigious" school, not to mention that he used their money meant for L'Academie's tuition instead. As a result, when Felix arrived home, he was greeted by his father, who gave him an ultimatum - give up on becoming an artificer, or be cut off from the family indefinitely. A brief but very intense argument - which turned into a shouting match - occurred, upon which Felix was disowned by his family until he "comes to his senses."

Dejected and abandoned, Felix yet refused to let go of his ideas and hopes for his future. However, with a lack of access to his family fortune (not to mention the family retainers that were also forbidden from having contact with him), his plans of going back to school were quickly put in jeopardy. He began to take odd jobs across Feldar, in the hopes that he could save enough money for school - if not the Helion Institute, at least the next best thing that money could buy.