Darius Cabal

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“"ข้าอยากกลับบ้านไปอาบน้ำแล้ว"”
Darius, born a noble at birth. Also known to be a perfectionist among his friends. After accidentally turning himself into a centaur decades ago, he was exiled from his home. He was one of the first adventurers to appear in Rausten.

## Background

A noble-born human from a long-lost family. The high-born Cabal family, which consisted of mostly humans, once governed the town of Windtrip, Zeldrithia. In private, Darius had been secretly practicing the art of druidic magic without any official training. His hidden art was revealed to everyone when he accidentally turned himself into a centaur. The local population accused Darius of the failure of crops in the local area, which many people relied on. The Cabal family was nearly wiped out by local residents decades ago. Darius is all that remains of the noble family's bloodline. Darius survived the assassination attempt but he was now stuck as a centaur.

## Characteristic

Darius has strong opinions on just about anything. Although he often keeps it to himself most of the time. From his appearance, anyone will be able to tell that Darius values styles over functionality, even when in the form of a centaur. Routinely, Darius would express his interest in arts and fashion and will always keep his clothes ironed out and spotless through all sorts of adventures. Becoming a centaur was Darius' deepest insecurity though he plays it cool the majority of the time. Darius is known to be extremely afraid of rats, dirt, and gore. Even more, he is a strict rule obeyer and not a risk-taker.

## Godfrey's Plantation

Darius shares the same residence with the Godfrey family, another noble family who is also from Zeldrithia. Thou they may view Darius as part of their rare animal collections. The Godfrey offered a small stable for Darius to live in, in exchange for being their exotic pet. Frustrated and ashamed at first, Darius somehow grew comfortable with that fact later on.

## Early Adventures and Adaptation

Even though Darius has been on countless adventures for years, he's never seen himself as an adventurer but more of a pioneer involved in the taming of Eotia. Darius' first experience with adventurers was difficult, as it was also his introduction to people of different demographics, backgrounds, and ideas. Darius wouldn't trust nearly all of his peers and sometimes would look down on them based on their tastes and beliefs. In the early years, Darius had been trying to sustain his past nobility status and image, however, those slowly faded as Darius gradually understood he wasn't really the center of the world. That realization came when Renell, an oblex that wiped out a whole village was given a second chance to live a normal human life in secret back in Rausten. Darius saw this as a major threat to the community, what made it entirely worst was that most of his trusted friends didn't seem to understand his point of view. Fueled by anger, Darius personally reported the existence of the oblex to the authority himself, resulting in a town search one day. However, by then Darius had understood that this oblex would be in a better hand under his friends' instead of the town officials'. Darius assisted his companions in the hiding of Renell underneath the town's sewage where Bjorn, Darius' best friend, explained why Renell deserved a second chance just like when Darius was given one from Eotia. The group came out of the sewage system with a new understanding and smelling like sewage. Darius gradually turned into a more approachable and understanding person after that day.

## Returning human

As many of you know, Darius hated it when someone mentioned anything about him being a centaur. He would not allow anyone to touch him or use his body for horse-like purposes. However, as time goes, Darius and his friends would slowly grow comfortable with him in this state. But it wasn't enough to fully break his insecurity. Darius would buy expensive 'Self-Altering potions' to turn himself into a human before being confident enough to hit on his crush, Tuck, a bartender at Donburton, who Darius supposed she did not know was actually a centaur.

It was until one day, hesitated and was scared at first but Darius took the chance to interact with the Old God at Dunburton. The tree granted him the ability to shapeshift back to his human form with just a sneeze and in return, Darius swore to help the Children Of God protect this piece of land as well as the tree. Darius quickly ordered himself a new pair of pants from Habetrot and returned to Tuck who somehow already knew he's been a centaur. The two ended up riding into the sunset that evening.

## This big old world sure got me running ’round

Following Tuck and Darius' relationship. The two bonded quickly and filled each other missing gaps. Darius's never been this happy and started to grow quite tired of his past 'adventuring' lifestyle. It would be one of his life goals if he could settle in with Tuck anywhere where he has full control and not work under anyone. Darius would also like it if his closest friends such as Bjorn, Astrox, and Rellee would join too. No longer wanting to risk himself around anymore, Darius tried multiple business ideas which all failed. One was a delivery service where he would turn himself into a bird and fly across the continent and another was brewing his alcoholic brand, Gency. Gencies turned out to be too expensive for the local population and Darius ended up carrying shipments of Gencies around everywhere he went.

## Connection with the gods

Darius was not born gifted with powers like the others, he wasn't a strong believer and didn't see why any god would attempt to make any connection with him, from what he understood he was just a regular human that understood the art of druidic. The higher beings were something he respected but not fully dedicated to. That soon changed when one day, Bjorn invited Darius and their close friends to Mali, the group had a crazy night which ended with Darius waking up as a dog in the morning. Not wanting to be rude, Darius participated in Bjorn's religion ceremony and without any warning, Darius was teleported to another place while attending. It was Feydelyn, god of nature who took Darius here and personally gave him a blessing. Feydelyn also explained how important he will be in defending the world from it's ending. Darius' perspective on himself changed after that event, he became somewhat more confident.

## The World's End

The rumor about the end of the world spread around adventurers fast. Darius was skeptical about the whole idea at first until the prediction was confirmed by Feydelyn when Darius visited Mali few days prior to the Armageddon. Once returned from Mali, Darius spent the last remaining days with Tuck and prepping for the fight. Darius promised to return home within a week but little that he knew he would be time travelled 30 years into the future.

## Relationships

Bjorn - Bjorn has been Darius' most trusted friend. When they first met, Darius was actually too distraught by Bjorn's touchy behavior and exotic cookery. Subsequently, Bjorn assisted Darius to adapt to the commoner's world.

Relle is one of Darius's most trusted friends who share chivalrous ideas. Relle would volunteer to help Darius in times of trouble.

Astrox - Astrox and Darius came a long way. Darius doesn't understand most of what he said but Astrox have shown Darius plenty of neat moments.

Xavier - Xavier was once really hated by Darius due to his strange spiritual obsession. Still, Xavier was probably the first person Darius managed to learn to co-exist with. Both went through a lot together and were trusted by Darius.

Habetrot - Darius has always been fascinated of what she could do. Habetrot's also very civil and often expresses compassion to all which Darius approves.

Artinus - Darius hated his guts and everything about him seemed to piss Darius off. His presence bought nothing but mayhem in Darius' eyes. Both also came a long way but in the end, Darius accepted Artinus for who he was and wanted to be. The two apologized for what they'd done to one another before saying goodbye for the last time.

## Notes

* Darius' goodberries are infused with aspirin and have the same property as magic mushrooms
* Darius became a vegetarian after becoming a centaur.