Karuma Jepsaan

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## Karuma Jepsaan

What do you mean its clearly a purple gem?

### Occupation

Noble (Unavailable to use because of amnesia)
 Adventurer

### Class

Barbarian (7 | Path of the Storm Herald)
 Sorcerer (1 | Storm Sorcery)

## Biographical Information

### Languages

Celestial
 Common
 Primordial

## Relationships

### Enemies

The Jester
 Black Spider

### Affiliation(s)

Jepsaan Family (69th Prince)
 Unnamed Mother's Family (descendent)

**Karuma Jepsaan (Tom Holland)** is a human barbarian and sorcerer; he is one of the protagonists of the campaign, and a current member of The Book and the Peacock.

He suffers from retrograde amnesia which means he has no recollection of his memories before joining The Party. He is determined to recover his memories.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Karuma is a tall, young and handsome man with black eyes. He has long silver hair that he wears in a bun. Karuma's most protruding feature is a purple gem that is embedded on to his forehead which is hidden beneath his bangs.

He wears a dark black robe which creates an interesting contrast to his white hair.

### **Personality**

Perhaps due to his memories, he maintains the appearance of a man who is devoid of any emotions and is often hard to warm up to because of his cold personality. However, after many life and death encounters with The Party, Karuma is seen bantering and drinking with the group. He is closest to Pluck due to them having similar age.

Karuma always strives to improve himself not only for his life but for his friends too. He will never shirk away from this responsibility. He is prideful but knows when to retreat when the odds are not in his favour.

## **Biography**

***Background excluded temporarily. It's a surprise :)***

#### **The First Encounter with The Party**

Karuma's background is mostly unknown to himself and the party. The party first encountered him inside a storage room along with Nundro Rockseeker, although it was unknown to everyone as to why Karuma was in this situation. Due to this \*interesting\* circumstance, Karuma banded up with the party for reasons not exactly known.

#### **The Mysterious Gem**

Naturally, Karuma, who is still an amnesiac, does not remember why there is a gem on his forehead. He has tried to pry it off but every attempt results in excruciating pain.

He may not remember why there is a gem but he has a strong gut feeling that if the gem were to be seen by others, it will cause endless trouble as for all he knows, this could be a rare treasure which powerful might want to take from him. He decisively cut the front part of his hair to give him fringes which are long enough to hide the gem. Although, it could be found with detect magic (No one checked lmao).

Karuma becomes instinctively hostile towards anyone who tries to see the gem. Those who have seen it are dead except for Mikohalfu who somewhat became suspicious of him during his introduction but the reason for her suspicion is not exactly known (metagaming smh). Upon endlessly pestering him and seeing that she was going nowhere with the interrogation, Mikohalfu took matters into her own hands to find out what he was hiding beneath his hair. It is unknown whether she has seen the gem but Karuma fiercely reprimanded her to never do that again.

#### **The First Flashback**

After a long rest during one of the first few adventures with the party, Karuma was enlightened with a dream. He had visions of himself leaving a sandy isle, venturing by boat to a distant place followed by a flashback of a stormy mountain. With bolts of thunder and lightning roaring in his ears, followed by the final flashback of him waking up on shore. He finally woke up covered in beads of sweat as well as in extreme pain.

#### **Meeting the Jester**

After a short rest at a shrine in the forest between Reis and Kyoya, the party ran into The Jester who immediately giggled and threw a card which burrowed inside of Karuma's neck before he could react. The card was imbued with magical properties as upon contact with Karuma, his soul was seemingly transported to another plane leaving his physical body behind confusing the party because in, the real world, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. To the party, the Jester was performing simple card tricks. The Jester was attacking Karuma in the other side(tm) whilst taunting him before revealing to him that his name was Karuma Jepsaan of the Jespaan Royal Family.

Meanwhile, in the real world, both the other side(tm) and the real world were linked as multiple wounds begun to surface of Karuma's physical body which prompted the party to attack the Jester, who was unfazed by this, stood still during the party's constant barrage of attacks. In the other side(tm), Karuma was also attacking the Jester however before his foe, all his attacks seemed so ineffective. He immediately entered Rage to which his enemy said

"Now that is what I wanted to see"

whilst he began to admire Karuma from afar and has since stopped attacking him. The Jester once again taunted him again claiming that Karuma was too weak and that he will hunt him when he is stronger. The Jester fled the scene with a big grin, leaving behind the set of playing cards to which Karuma picked up a 5 of Diamonds; the same card used to send him into the other side(tm)

He was never seen again till later when Karuma heard mysterious humming during when he was safeguarding the party during their long rest. Upon investigating, the humming was revealed to be coming from the Jester who held and cradled, in his hands the head of the racist tavern owner whom the party encountered earlier on. Before speaking, he teleported in front of Karuma, giving back the dagger which belonged to Malekith Darkridge to which he remarked as interesting as he had seen the specific dagger before.

Seeing that his opponent was upholding \*their agreed promise\* of not attacking till he's stronger, Karuma took the opportunity to learn about his foe who answered all questions Karuma had for him. The Jester once again claimed he was called Karuma Jepsaan and that he was here upon the orders of one of many brothers of Karuma to kill him.

Karuma had no questions left at the time being to ask him so he left heading back to the area where the party was sleeping but not before sneering and saying

"Wipe that goddamn grin off your face" to which the Jester responded with "I love it when you make that face" in an expression of ~~ahegao~~ euphoria. Karuma informed the party of his second solo encounter with the Jester to which then he asked the party if they know who the Jepsaan Family to which Mal (and Esmund? Ash too?) immediately told him about the late king Cryus Jepsaan whose death caused the Royal Children of the Jepsaan family to fight for the throne. Seeing where this was going, the big-brained members of the Party asked if Karuma was one of the Royal Children to which some of the members found it hard to believe.

#### **The Awakening of his Sorcerery Talent & The Second Flashback**

In Sucheon, the party split into groups of two known as the mainland group and the island group. The island group consisted of only Ashlynn Crow, Pluck and Miko whilst everyone else, including Karuma, were part of the mainland group.