Fantons

### Description:

Fantons claims to be the last of his kind, a Phantomborn, half human-half phantom. He measures 6ft’5in (196cm) in height. The phantom side of his face has a green eye with black sclera and jagged teeth, while the human side has a normal green eye. His head is topped by a mass of scraggly green hair, and usually hidden behind a mask. The phantom side of his body has a sharp claw instead of a hand, easily capable of rending flesh. Fantons claims he once had wings and could fly, but they were burned off the first time he stepped foot into the sunlight.

If any parts of his phantom side are exposed to sunlight he will start burning. Fantons wears plain black long clothes with two cuts in the back of his shirt, the cuts reveal blues membranes on the inside of his shirt on his back, Fantons says this is where the remains of his tattered wings are. Fantons appears to be in his mid thirties, but according to Fantons, he stopped counting how old he is after 200 years, though he said that he was most likely born thousands of years ago. Due to his long life he has learned a variety of skills, including hunting, medicine, and other survival skills and techniques.

Fantons is not his actual name, it’s a nickname that someone used to reference him once and he started using it.

### Psychology:

Fantons is cautious whenever Sol is brought up as he dislikes Sol and believes Sol wants him dead. He often shows sociopathic behavior and only actually cares for a few. He dislikes interacting with people he doesn’t know well or respect. He rarely trusts others. He often is depressed and hides any sign of it when interacting with others.

### Backstory:

Fantons survived a mass killing of his species which took place while they were cornered in their caves during the day. He escaped by killing his attacker (which was an ordinary human), covering his head with its broken skull to shield him from the light, and fleeing into the sunlight, but this still left him charred and burned his wings off. He ran into the shade of a nearby forest, and hid until the attackers left. After they left, he returned to the cave to find he was the sole survivor. The reason for the attack remains unknown to Fantons.

He thought about killing himself, but he decided that he has only one purpose of living, preserving his species.Fantons acted defensive when wearing his mask near anyone because he thought it would be best to hide what he is, if anyone talked about the mask he would act offended or enraged.

### Arrival to the Riverlands:

Fantons was roaming around hunting for food, but he found a path leading to the auction house in the commercium of the Riverlands, inside an auction was being held, when it was over he met JesterInBlack and Jackskele outside. They both welcomed Fantons and Jack gave Fantons Netherite armor and other tools. Jester invited Fantons to join their nation of Aquos, which he accepted. While aboard the Aquos ship AWS Pride Thermo and the Riverlands’ high king DaviDustin came aboard, looking for him.

Thermo asked Fantons if he worshiped the air god to which Fantons replied with a simple nod. Thermo handed him a bottle of soulless whisper which Thermo thought determined if the drinker was chosen by the air god. If the drinker is chosen he would levitate and float off and slowly descend to the ground and feel normal, however if the drinker is not chosen they will feel euphoria when floating up and a sense of dread when going back down. Fantons decided to drink it, he felt normal which was strange to him, he thought that his god had abandoned him. He was unsure if the potion had actually worked or not. He was told a man named Luccky of Davi’s nation of Thoronor and the alchemist Classy drank it as well, Classy felt normal while Luccky felt dread and ran away because he thought that his king had poisoned him, only calming down once inside the Deep One’s southern water temple. Fantons didn’t believe the potion had worked so he asked Thermo for another when inside a cave the day after, and soon thereafter he visited Thermo in Laputria and drank another. He tried it again and felt normal, he accepted the truth and left angrily.

The next day, Fantons was informed that Jester had been killed, and Jack was now king of their nation of Aquos. Despite knowing Jester for only a day he was a bit saddened by his death because even during that brief duration, Jester had done much to win his respect.

After being used for an experiment with the whisper, Luccky decided to leave Thoronor and join Aquos and Fantons decided to meet him, they talked to each other in Luckky’s house. Inside, Fantons took off his mask and decided to not hide his face anymore as he thought people wouldn’t judge much and since he thought the Riverlands was a safe place.

It was not long before a conflict between Jack and Luccy led Luccy to leave Aquos and start his own nation, and not long thereafter, Jack decided to leave Aquos to pursue his own mission. With none of his old friends left in the nation, Fantons departed as well to join Luckky’s new nation of Scholaria, now called Sapientia. Sapientia as it turned out had a massive cave under the mountain it sat on, perfect for hiding from the sun. Fantons met other people in Sapientia including Pyrignos, who quickly became a friend.

A few days later, Fantons received a summons from the King of Thoronor, calling him to Thoronor for questioning about Jack. He came and after some questioning, Davi and Thermo concluded that Jack killed Jester and took over the throne for Nashar. IllumniEclipse also was in attendance, and when the meeting was over they both left. While walking away Fantons told Illu that he despised his god Sol with no offense to him. Angered, Illu, a devout devotee of Sol, hit Fantons with his axe creating a massive cut, and nearly killing him. Fantons hissed and cursed at Illu as he walked away leaving Fantons in pain and bleeding.

Fantons was able to get up and stop the bleeding. On his way through Ivy Hills on the way back, he encountered Jack, along with his new master, Horoloth, who both stabbed him multiple times then left. Despite being stabbed many times in a day he was able to survive and recover, he still respected Jack, at least for his skill. When word reached Fantons that Jack was killed he was saddened to see another man he respected killed.

Fantons had a dispute with the Count of Crassus, which the two settled with a duel in which Fantons was killed.

### Resurrection:

The god of air created a new body for Fantons, and placed his soul and most of his memories within.

Fantons returned to Drevhall and was welcomed by Kairos of Cortosa, who quickly became a friend. Fantons joined Cortosa and settled in the sewers alongside fellow Cortosan sewer-dweller Tabbs. Tabbs was later arrested on allegations of having committed some crime, and Kairos broke him out of prison, leading to his own arrest. Meanwhile, Tabbs went into hiding. With his friends and neighbors gone, Fantons would turn elsewhere for company.

#### The Mushroom Cartel

Fantons became friends with Hazzar of Salacia, who after some time invited him to join his criminal enterprise, "The Mushroom Cartel", which distributed the banned ahppy cookies illegally. Fantons joined, but the next day Hazzar was killed by a bomb set by the authorities. Then Tanovar, another member of the cartel ratted out Fantons and Leah as members of the cartel.

Because Fantons did not do much within the organization, his sentence was light. He would have to build Venicia in Cortosa as a service to a community the cartel had harmed.

However, before he set about righting those wrongs, he decided to avenge the wrongs Tanovar had committed against him. He snuck into Tanovar's home in Hollow Mount under cover of invisibility, and found him studying the sculk in his lab, unarmored. He was taken down easily, but in a show of mercy, Fantons decided not to kill him. Instead he made him drink poison which caused him debilitating pain, and clawed one of his eyes.

Still invisible, Fantons refused to respond when Tanovar asked who he was, and took his leave.

Fantons returned to Cortosa to begin his community service, while Tanovar demanded his attacker face trial. There, Fantons was accosted by IllumniEclipse, who suspected Fantons of attacking Tanovar due to being a former member of the cartel he had betrayed. Fantons cracked under the pressure of Illu's accusations and threats that he would kill him if he did not confess, and admitted his guilt. Fantons would later claim he had been forced to falsely admit to this crime under duress, while Illu denied he had threatened Fantons.

Fantons later revisited Tanovar's house, but he was not home, so Fantons robbed the place, stealing a plague doctor suit and his research notes and plans to restart the cartel. Fantons later placed these looted items in Salacia's storage to make it appear that Salacia was behind this. When Salacia found the stolen items, they were kept secret by the nation's leadership.

With so many diversions holding up progress on his community service, High King David imposed a deadline on Fantons to complete his labor, or he would be resentenced. And so, Fantons redoubled his efforts on building Venicia. During this time, he heard that Tabbs had been captured, but then both Tabbs and Kairos had escaped. And that Illu had found Kairos and killed him. The death of an old friend saddened Fantons.

Tanovar sent Fantons a request to meet in Hollow Mount to discuss the situation between them. Fantons decided to meet with his old adversary. During the meeting, Tanovar revealed that he knew all Fantons had done, but offered to forgive him if he would kill Queen Iona of Salacia. Illu had been waiting just outside during this entire meeting, and chose that moment to barge in and apprehend both of them. He called Navi Strongkar of Marina to decide their fates. Navi decided to allow Fantons to go free, but try Tanovar for conspiracy to murder a high official of Marina.

Around this time, Tabbs paid off his bounty, and became a free man once again. The two friends met, and founded a news group called "The Daily Tide" to cover current events in Drevhall accurately.

### Relationships:

Davi-Neutral: Fantons has only met Davi twice, so he doesn’t know him well to like or dislike him.

Thermo-Neutral: Fantons doesn’t hate nor like him.

Jack-Positive: Even though Jack stabbed him, Fantons still seemed to respect him a lot since Jack helped him a lot on the day of Fantons’ arrival. He was saddened when he was killed.

Illu-Negative: Fantons once had a respect for Illu but after Illu nearly killed him, he completely lost all trust and respect and hates it when he’s around.

Luccky-Positive: Luccky and Fantons have a good friendship and Fantons respects Luccky a lot.

Pyrignos-Positive: Fantons and Pyri are good friends.

Sol-Very Negative: Sol has been the cause of many deaths in Fantons’ species and prevents him from going outside during the day, Fantons believes that the fire god is trying to kill him.

Jester-Positive: Even though he only knew Jester for one day he had a lot to judge him off of, he respected Jester a lot and was slightly saddened when Jester was killed.