Hymn Bluebell

## History

Hymn is quiet on his own history, but multiple private investigators have managed to dredge up a relatively cohesive timeline regarding it over the years: He was born to a quiet and normal family in Cammora, Myandra, his Father a local fisherman, his mother a physician, and his siblings otherwise unnoteworthy. His life was by all accounts normal for a unlanded human child of the region, until, sometime into his mid to late teens, a Zohanil Sakhil took to haunting his mother's apothecary, where he and one of his sisters studied. Reports of what happened to the outsider are difficult to come by; the Chosen involved in its defeat and exorcism uncommonly tight-lipped about the ordeal. What is known is that everyone in the clinic, patient and staff alike, were killed by the beast, all except for Hymn who's at the time unknown status as Chosen gave him just enough resilience to persist until rescue. Unfortunately however, not before he was dosed with the venom of the Zohanil, a devastatingly addictive substance that blurs vision and deadens reflexes, and whose withdrawal symptoms cause effects similar to wasting and greatly enhance fear responses in the victim.

Hymn spent the rest of his childhood under the care of his remaining family, who report him being catatonic for almost a year after the incident before beginning to recover steadily, only to backslide into paranoia and anti-social behaviour as he approached 20. Hymn vanishes from Cammora around this time and his trail goes cold until he reappears two years later in Catania to join the Adventurer's guild. Although there are reports of rumours of a dark monster haunting the streets of Jarn-Bug that suspiciously match Hymn's description and new abilities, but such allegations are impossible to prove without magical intervention.

## Appearance

Tall, lean and dark skinned. His washed out eyes dart around constantly and even when he does focus on you there's an almost imperceptible waver to his pupils. His stature is normally hunched and his gait is more of a shuffle than a stride.

His dark full plate armour is designed to show as little skin as possible while equally being as unnerving as imposing; the helmet glows with an inner magic illuminating the array of spider-like eye holes in eerie purple even while the rest of the suit is decaled with various creepy crawlies, seemingly endless eyes, and other similarly phobia triggering imagery.

He wields a pair of gigantic tower shields whose darkwood construction seems to suck in the light around them. The one he holds in his right hand is studded with rusty nails pushing through to leave the enemy facing side a spiked mess; Hymn makes a point of not maintaining this shield to create a sort of entropic dichotomy between the two shields, leaving it bloodstained, chipped, and filthy while the other is pristine and unbreaking.

He fights primary magically, using his Psychic spells to sow chaos, and his hypnotic stare to implant horrible phobias into his enemies; phobias he draws out with the help of an orbit of mirror shards he swirls sedately around himself. Anyone under the effect of Hymn's hypnotic stare that even glimpses themselves in a mirror sees themselves beset and/or embodying their greatest fear, fear that leaves them vulnerable to Hymn, allowing him to access the deepest parts of the psyche and start destroying things.

## Personality

Hymn is insane; he understands real life at a conceptual level and can even mimic it fairly well. But he's broken, and he knows it; he gains literally euphoric joy in causing another living creature fear and so makes a concentrated effort or be as terrifying and unnerving as possible, except in situations where doing so poses a serious risk to his health, such as when in the company of other adventures. As confident as he is in his ability to beat the more junior of of them, that kind of reputation would make alleviating his addiction to fear that much harder.

## Goals

Embody the work the great Sakhils perform; create a little slice of Xibalba on material.