Ezekiel Pike

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Ezekiel Pike

Name: Ezekiel Pike
Age: 21
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Sexual Orientation: He likez womenz
Eye Colour: Hazel, with a bit of a green lean
Hair Colour: Dark brown
Height: 6'
Weight: 176 lbs
Notable tattoos/scars/birthmarks: He possesses two white tattooed lines that run parallel to each other and trail from both eyes down to the base of his neck, giving him four in total. Also possesses some minor scars.
General Clothing: As seen in the pic above, Ezekiel favors hooded robes, typically in deep blue, green, or brown, with the slightest amount of leather armor thrown over for protection. Most of his robes aren't in the best of conditions, and he doesn't get them fixed because he thinks they make him look rugged. Underneath, he typically wears a pair of plain ol' pants and a sleeveless shirt, plus some light boots. Gloves show up only when it's really cold outside. He hates not being able to feel things directly (yeah, he's OCD like that).
Weapons: He carries a sturdy, long staff of birch wood that possesses a sharp metal cap he uses to poke things. He also has an old dagger he inherited from his father that's kind of chipped up and not the most combat-useful.
Pets: None
Likes:

• Good drinks, better food
  
• Sarcasm
  
• The chaos of a busy city
  
• Outsmarting people (which he thinks happens a lot)
  
• Women as smartassed as he is (warrior maidens are great, too)
  
• Digging up expensive things
  
• Owning Templars (especially those who barely know what an arcane warrior is) in the face at every opportunity
  
• The company of other free mages who aren't completely and totally insane

Dislikes:

• Templars (duh)
  
• His inability to totally trust women- thanks, mom
  
• Anyone taller than he is
  
• Blood mages (not the mages themselves, just the whole idea of the art)
  
• Sea travel
  
• Authority figures
  
• Anyone who tries to blame him for anything
  
• Naked elves

Strengths:

• In very good shape (a requirement for an arcane warrior) and a natural all-around athlete
  
• Intelligent despite looking to come over as ignorant on certain subjects
  
• Very good negotiator- could out-swindle a dwarf (okay, maybe that's carrying it a bit far) and is quite charming when he wants to be
  
• Quick with good comebacks and insults.....usually

Weaknesses:

• Still working on his gifts, as his path is not as easy as that of some other mages, who can just cut themselves and go mana-crazy (some of them, at least)
  
• Has issues with relying on others beyond conversation
  
• Gets himself into trouble due to having something of a bold tongue, especially when it comes to Templars
  
• Can annoy people with his stubbornness and sarcasm with surprising ease

Class: Mage
Specialization: Arcane Warrior

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Character History: The city of Highever bore witness to the birth of Ezekiel Pike in an uneventful time for the city. For the young child, however, the day of his birth would be an eventful one. His father, secretly an apostate mage, worked for the Cousland lords of the city, tending the horses. Mere hours before his son was born, his father had been chasing down an escaping mare outside of the city when he came across an elvish book, well-worn from its long existence. Upon taking the book home and studying it, he found that the ways of the ancient elves and their champion mages, known as arcane warriors. That night, his son was brought into the world, undoubtedly with the same mage blood flowing in his veins. His father, tossing aside coincidence on the timing of his finding the book, looked to train his son in the arts the book taught, though his mother wished to see him live a normal life without sculpting himself into a mage.

His fathers will won out, and Ezekiel spent his first few years living relatively normally aside from spending time under his father's magical tutelage and having to evade Templars on a regular basis. In all, the young man lived a normal-ish life for an apostate, developing a strong relationship with his father. There isn't terribly much to mention until he reached the ripe old age of seventeen years old and he and his father were revealed as an apostate to two surprisingly relentless Templars. After a short scuffle, his father managed to kill them both with some assistance from Ezekiel. His mother, upon seeing their blood-stained clothing, seemed absolutely shocked about the entire situation. That night, she would stick a dagger through her husband's heart out of fear of the Templars (and possibly jealousy for his close relationship with Ezekiel).

Ezekiel, crushed at the discovery of his father's body the next morning, would lash out at his mother first with his tongue and then with his staff. Though he barely left a scratch, he left his deepest wound when he chose to leave both her and his home city and head out on his own for a while. Three years were spent with him moving from town to town with little more activity than combat with the occasional Templar and all the things a young man might partake in on the road, though little is worth mentioning.

Hearing of the king's march on Ostagar to combat the darkspawn, Ezekiel, now going mostly by 'Zeke', wished to assist in the fight due to his remaining loyalties to the Cousland family. Though he set out immediately upon hearing of the march, he would not arrive until the king's forces had been nearly wiped out. Though he never managed to make it to the focal point of the slaughter, he found himself under attack nonetheless and was forced to flee like any other survivor, managing to fight off the stragglers from the hordes and make a somewhat more difficult escape than he would have liked.

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Alias: The Glorious Kentus
Timezone: EST
Other Characters: NAY MY LADS
Notes: I liek turtles?

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