Leopold Demarco

A catfolk druid who knows no better peace than a fully tummy and a pipe full of suncluster.

### Affiliation

Featherlight Tribe, Northern Hemisphere Party

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Wind Ravaged Rasugia, Wind Focus (Contested Rasugia)

## Physical description

### Gender

Male

**Leopold Demarco** was born in **Wind Ravaged Rasugia**and was fated by birth to take on the family mantle of burden of the becoming a **Wind Channeler**, one of many who are responsible for keeping up the walls of life threatening weather which defend the catfolk air druids who isolated themselves from the rest of **Rasugia** with their destructive winds to try to reclaim some of their own native land.

Leopold had a troubled childhood growing up, and at a young age picked up the habit of smoking; particularly a rare import of flowers called **Suncluster** which could never grow on their land because of the absolute lack of any sunlight penetrating through the thick clouds that were constantly pouring with rain. The brief respite that the sunclusters provided helped ease much internal pain than he normally keeps hidden under a lazy and lighthearted veil.

He acquired this addiction to cope from the memories of a terrible accident that occurred during a training expedition at **Yarnue** one of the five Yarn Towers. This included Leopold, his teacher Master Gree, a group of a few other students as well as the daughter of Master Gree, **Adav Gree**.

Leopold trained for decades under Master Gree, albeit somewhat intentionally slowly for his absolute disdain for taking on his families unfair burden placed upon him on birth to take on the role of a Wind Channeler.

On the day of his inauguration into his fated "role", he tried to avoid it as long as possible, purposefully avoiding meeting up with his Master to accept his role and to allow the current channelers a brief respite with new blood.

As he made his way to the temple, he was given a lecture by his Master; as was expected, but he moved on and followed his orders to begin mediation and to attempt to attune to the Wind Focus. As Leopold did, he was whisked away by a mysterious means (*later known to be caused by the strange mage that named themselves to be Reuben*) onto an island surrounded by fog somewhere near the South-West of Rasugia, near The Great Divide.

Surviving for a few days, and encountering strange occurrences such as a boat, a horse, and an elven woman falling out from the sky, much like Leopold did, and landing into the surrounding ocean of the small island they were trapped on. Using the resources, Leopold attempted to escape with his two new companions; only to have them vanish off the boat as they entered and exited the surrounding fog on the island.

Looking around Leopold could only find himself, the boat, and the massive stone wall structure he'd only read about before in books. The Great Divide stood before him, and he slowly made his way up its steep steps and begun to explore the remnants of previous expeditions, offerings of various types ranging from alcohol, sculptures, coin, and more.

Pushing ahead, Leopold made his way towards some preestablished campsites and looked to see that he was stood near a massive hole that he didn't spot before in the wall. This was a big deal, as in his books he had read that nobody was able to get through the wall before, as the material of the stone itself is nigh indestructible, so seeing a hole here made him want to only press on further.

Climbing some rickety ropework, Leopold climbs into the hole and begins to push into the bright light ahead of him leading to the opposite side. He walks for a unreasonably long distance for what seemed to be a short walk, and ends up nearly falling off the wall as he reaches the end. Once his senses come to, Leopold spots that he has just walked all the way back to his original location, despite never making any turns and always moving in a straight path.

Before being able to process any more of this info internally, a strange green doll starts to creepily move; hovering in the air but walking towards Leopold slowly as if it was skipping like a child. It asks about information regarding the other side of the wall, and demands to know why Leopold came back. Leopold tries to talk but is just as confused as this strange effigy is. He then notices the green threads that shimmer in the light that drift into the fog, like tethers.

A man clad in green calls the toy "Rupert", and identifies himself as "Reuben". He approaches Leopold directly and tries to attempt to gather some more information which Leopold can't provide. With a few arcane flashes, Leopold is suddenly barraged with a nauseating feeling of being suddenly swept up from under his feet, as well as a mild headache. A few moments later, his vision clears and his headache passes, only to find himself laying near a waterfall in some tall grass.

Shortly after, he encounters the party and ends up joining them on their adventure, taking on a new and strange life as an adventurer, and just going with the flow.