Cerinn Vaar

Cerinn Vaar was a performer, primarily participating in shows and theatre productions throughout his home city of Levoncroff. However, after a trip to an alternative dimension, which caused him to go through great suffering, his entire mentality of young and blind arrogance was changed dramatically. He now is journeying throughout Karvoun in order to locate other Soul Seekers like himself, after being ordered to do so, while being in Limbo.

## Biography

### Background

Cerinn Vaar was once a famous performer, renowned throughout Levoncroff, for his feats of acting, and seemingly magical stunts. So much so that he was once nominated for the coveted reward of Lodere’s Mask. This obviously ruffled a number of proud feathers causing multiple assassination attempts to be made. Cerinn, famously shrugged these off, both ignorantly and arrogantly. Though the government of Levoncroff, The Vthespiad Convocation, did not appreciate Cerinns laid back attitude to such events, and once placed him under an armed security detail for months. Vaar grew tired of the constant interruptions of his performance, and his life in general, by these safeguards. Eventually, though not easily, he managed to bribe the chief of one of these details, to allow him a moment of piece for a week, around the same time he was performing in the newly built Stadium of Tears. During one of the final stunts of the show, Cerinn was knocked out by a mysterious assailant who had jumped onto the stage, via multiple lacerations to his chest. When next Cerinn awoke, he had found himself in a world similar to their own: albeit, twisted, reversed, warped. Though he was unaware at the time, the dimension he had been transported to was the alternate dimension known as Limbo.

### Time spent in Limbo

For the next 100 or so years of his life, he would be trapped in that universe, doomed to behold its crooked form and be tortured psychologically by its eldritch rulers: the Tragodis, who explained to him the so-called importance of this torture: which involved the weakening of his soul so it may be offered to the All-Seer. Near the end of his time there, the Tragodis grew bored of Vaars torment, and banished him to the very border of Limbo, dubbed the Outer Wastes: a desolate land bordering the Void. In order to survive there, Cerinn was forced to adapt his theatrical skills in order to meet the challenges of the Wastes. Dexterity, agility, deception. All of these helped him to evade the likes of Void Walkers, others banished to the Wastes, and an otherworldly entity, with many eyes.

After what Vaar assumes was around eleven years, he discovered another banished individual, albeit, with one difference. One he wouldn’t discover until attempting to kill this banished. An attempt that would result in Cerinn being knocked unconscious by a powerful magical force. After awakening, Cerinn awoke in a shelter built by the banished that had attacked him in retaliation. The banished revealed to him that he was something the Tragodis dubbed a “Soul Seeker”: an individual who possessed the capabilities to sense both living and passed lives around them, and the imprints they leave upon the world. Some can even manipulate a soul and twist them to their will. This is what the banished had used on Cerinn, initially to kill him. But Cerinn had not died. His survival meant, that he had the abilities of a Soul Seeker, but had not the training to fully awaken those abilities. The Banished Seeker stated that he had not the time to train Cerinn in the ways of these abilities, seemingly because Karvoun was in peril: danger that could be averted with Cerinns help. He needed Vaar to find other Seekers. He knew not exactly why, but he knew enough that doing so would help Karvoun tremendously. Seeing no other option to aid Cerinn to learn his powers quickly, the Banished Seeker sacrificed his soul in order to awaken Vaars slumbering powers, resulting in his death and a portal that returned Cerinns soul to his physical body, essentially bringing him back to life.

### Return to Karvoun

Cerinn found himself in his body, miraculously preserved in a sealed coffin of sorts. Using his natural skills of escaping, he opened the coffin and fled it. Though shocked by his excessively ancient body, devoid of any remembered youth, he was more shocked at what had happened to the world in his absence. Vaar discovered that much had happened since his death. The world had been ravaged by the Reawakening. Levoncroff had become decrepit, overrun with abominations, and the maniacal husks of Levoncroffs populace. He also sensed the presence of a being that shouldn’t have been there. A being that was supposed to have remained in the Void. Now tasked with finding other Soul Seekers, by the Banished Seeker, Vaar joins a travelling circus in order to better help with this. Allowing him access to a wider range of Karvoun than he would normally. He would eventually become the ringmaster of this travelling circus, after the untimely death of the original.

## Abilities

Cerinn is extremely dexterous, an ability born from his many show stunts of almost magical escapes. This has also made him quick and effective when using small weapons such as knives and daggers, as well as spears. Vaar has also been hardened in his time spent in Limbo, making him more ferocious in battle than he otherwise would've been had he not have been sent there. Cerinn is an impeccable actor and can use this in situations which demand great subtlety and deception.