Valentin

Valentin is a human bounded worldhopper and a messenger. He came from Airsthea, and often talks about it. His true name remains a secret and he keeps it to himself, so he used Valentin as a cover name and an alias. His main job is that he's a messenger, and simply delivers messages and packages to various peoples.

## APPEARANCE

Valentin is described to have shoulder-length black hair and dull greyish blue eyes. He is a tall man standing at 6'8 with wide shoulders and a tough athletic build to him.

Valentin wears a pale brownish coat and a brown tartan scarf. He wears a brownish trapper hat with goggles. And of course, a good handy pouch. Valentin is most often described to be a 30 year old man, though his physical age changes depending on the world he's in (it depends on the time he spent in that world).

In some other cases, he is described to be a rather elderly man who has streaks of white and greys at his temples, wrinkled thoughtful eyes, and a scruffy beard. In this case, he wears a thick long coat with a dusty greenish tone and big black boots.

## ACCOUTREMENT

Valentin always has along with him his goggles. His pair of goggles is a Shard Item, and helps him find rifts (though he doesn't know where it leads to). This can explain how Valentin can disappear more quickly than expected.

He also carries along a handy pouch to store his messages and packages. He changes it once in a while.

## PERSONALITY

Despite him often accidentally being intimidating to others, Valentin is a very jolly person who loves talking and is a great listener. He's optimistic, patient, curious, and is just ready to go meet new people and culture. He's a simple and humble person who travels around and helping to bring balance to worlds' conflicts.

Valentin is a huge pacifist, and is incredibly slow to anger. He resorts more to talking and solving things diplomatically rather than violence. He's exactly the type to help grandma cross the road while carrying her groceries

Valentin is sociable and trustworthy. He keeps his promises and he follows his own honor code. Due to this, Valentin is often tasked with discreet information. Valentin has many connections to many people (both important people and commoners). He's also fun around children.

## CHARACTERISTICS

Valentin is a bounded worldhopper, making him much harder to worldhop from worlds to worlds. So he often stays in one world for a long period of time before a conflict is solved and he moves on to a different world.

Like other worldhoppers, he is unable to use his own magic. Him being a bounded makes it harder for him to use magic as he is already tied to a specific magic system already .Valentin can only do very minor magic such as smoke illusion (taught by Alador). He generally uses this as a party trick and to create a little razzle dazzle when talking to someone.

He can still consume things, and appreciates food from different places. He can still harm things physically, though prefers not too and tries to stray away from any kind of violence. Lance often comments that it's a waste that Valentin doesn't take advantage of that fact. Valentin sometimes suffer from psychological side effects whenever he does harm creatures.

Valentin is known to be incredibly discreet about his true name and his past, though he makes it quite clear that he's from Airsthea whenever asked. Valentin always seem to be smiling and thinking of Airsthea fondly whenever he thought of that world, though a solemn remark comes quickly afterward.

Valentin likes talking about his home and the stories he collected through many worlds. He likes listening to stories and telling stories - though rarely ever about himself. Whenever anything about his past is brought up, he dismisses it and talks about another person's past instead. Whenever he's listening to someone talking, he tends to smoke a pipe and listen thoughtfully.

Although Valentin is sometimes odd. He somehow disappears randomly and cannot be traced, Then only to reappear again at unexpected times and asks for a favor (and of course, he'd repay that favor). His favors are odd and sometimes lead the person to suspicious places, but is always manageable.

He often talks about how he feels comforted around snowy-weathered areas, and that he feels and hears its calmness yet potential blizzarding strength.

## ALIASES

* Valentin: The most common name he is referred to, and the first name he gives to strangers
* Talandren: The name he goes by in Elsyrion, and also the name Elyssar calls him by
* Iaedre: The name he goes by in Validra
* Rhynan: The name of a dead person. Valentin rarely gets referred to as this as it brings back memories.
* The messenger: A common nickname for common folks

## ABILITIES

### WORLDHOPPING

Valentin isn't as skilled of a worldhopper as Lance or Flint as he is a bounded worldhopper, and isn't as skilled as Elyssar as he doesn't focus much on training his worldhopping skills. He refrains from worldhopping as it agitates him and affects his physiology, but he is very capable of travelling to rifts even if it's a desolate place. Valentin rarely ever worldhops, and only does when a current large conflict is solved and he is able to move on.

### TRAVELING/SURVIVAL

Despite not being good at worldhopping, he proves to be quite skilled with his survival skills. He can remember paths and find paths if it has been almost a century. His tracks seemingly cannot be tracked, and he always seems to travel quite fast even if not given any tools or equipment that aids in his travels (he also traverses in difficult terrains).

### ILLUSION

The only magic Valentin knows and limited to is illusion. Even then, Valentin knows very little of it, and is only limited to minor smoke and auditory illusions. He often uses this for fun and for describing something with visual effects. Overall, Valentin's not a dedicated storyteller, and only tell stories for the entertainment of it - which is something Lance completely disagrees upon.

## BACKGROUNDS

### MESSENGER

Valentin often takes on the role of a messenger, whether that be a friendly local messenger who helps a remote town deliver their messages, or a court messenger who delivers top-secret information of war from the king. He simply delivers messages, and is happy to do so. However, because he follows his own moral codes, he sometimes break rules to favor the more morally right side (and Valentin always foreshadows this whenever he's about to do it).

## RELATIONSHIPS

### LANCE

Valentin is one of the closest friend to Lance. He's aware that Lance personally dislikes him, and he's 100% okay with that. But he's also aware that the only reason why Lance stuck with him is that he's always trustworthy. To be honest, Valentin just thinks Lance is lonely and distant. Valentin is just there to ease the tension whenever Lance insults a noble. Valentin usually tells Lance to be morally better, Lance always retorts back.

It's quite clear that the two have a huge difference in their perspectives on the world. Valentin favors the morally righteous, in which Lance always questions his morality as something mankind form to excuse what knowledge they're limited to (Lance seems to always call people stupid). Valentin is aware Lance has a bigger motive but still hasn't found out what it is.

### ELYSSAR

Valentin meets Elyssar after getting introduced to her by Lance a few months after the Red Moon Ball event. Elyssar seems to be interested in Valentin's stories and his travels, and often interviews him. She also taught him to be more organized (in which he did and he appreciated it). Overall, Valentin feels Elyssar is a bit too judgmental although is brilliant and gifted. Valentin is also taken by surprise at Elyssar's and Lance's relationship.

### REGINALD

Valentin meets Reginald more often than Elyssar, and is quite close with him. Jay finds Valentin amusing and funny, so Reginald is dragged along with it. Valentin sometimes act as a sort of therapist and emotional support for the guy, and feels he's a bit distant and lonely too (which is something he correlates with Lance). But Valentin trusts Jay to be good company, and Reginald to be a good person at heart.

Reginald also shows signs of being a wisecrack, in which Valentin is very suspecting Lance for this fact. Valentin describes Reginald as a sharp and rebellious ave who always seem to wander off the wrong path yet end up at the same destination.