Kothos (prime)

Kothos Blud Brother Blud (as crafted by Stormyrain) Race Half-elf Culture Seareach Class Priest Profession Cleric Religion Order of Ivas Disposition Warm and welcoming Demeanor Charming Flaw Unaccustomed to social conventions Greatest Strength Serenity and intensity Greatest Weakness a naif to the outside world Habits flirtatious and libertine Likes rhetoric, beauty, company Dislikes ambivalence Fears losing control

Biography

Kothos Blud is a priest of Ivas who was until recently cloistered in Her Temple in Vipershroud Swamp. He is originally from Brisker's Cove in the county of Seareach. Rather than being the scion of an elf and human union, Kothos is descended from others of mixed heritage, and is unaware of the origins of his elven heritage. Not much is known of his life prior to his taking up Service in the Temple just east of Wehnimer's Landing, where he has been a fixture for nearly two decades.

Kothos is of the priest rank within his Order, and is responsible for receiving pilgrims when they arrive in the Temple, as well as training and teaching new converts. His newest disciple is Xanthium, a young dancer and performer who came under his wing in the summer of 5119. Through his close relationship with her, he was convinced to reemerge into the outer world, he has begun taking day trips to the Landing, and even further. While still feeling his way through these experiences, he has found himself more able to serve with the power he has gained, and to explore the mysteries of life with a passionate curiosity.

Appearance

You see Lord Kothos Blud the Brother.

He appears to be a Half-Elf.

He is very tall and has a broad-shouldered slender frame. He appears to be in the spring of life. He has copper-ringed seaglass green eyes and sun-bronzed, coppery skin. He has long, voluminous raven black hair cascading into a lush tumult of violet-sheened curls. He has a graceful, oval-shaped face, an aquiline nose and a set of high cheekbones that are softened by the gentle contours of his jawline.

He has a copper-traced leaf green viper languidly draped across his shoulders, its eyes half-lidded.

He is wearing a carved jade medallion ringed in gold, a dark azure silk kimono patterned with silver-edged white blossoms, an orbicular wispy red glaes emblem, a silver-strewn celestial blue wrap-skirt, and some burnt umber sea silk sandals laced with thin copper chain.

Associations & Beliefs

Kothos is by nature a tolerant man, and makes it his practice to have all those who sojourn to Ivas' hall welcome and fulfilled, regardless of their gender, race, social status or religious leanings. His devotion to Ivas and his disciples is unwavering, and both bring him great joy. While not as accomplished a dancer as Xanthium, he incorporates movement and form into his religious rituals, and sometimes indulges in a little playacting with the other priests and acolytes as an enticement for the shyer Temple visitors to join them in a Dance for and in Her Grace.

Besides his protege, Kothos has taken to a number of new acquaintances since his return to society, fellow Ivasian Nola, the sylvan artist and healer Alvyara, former mayor Lylia Rashere (whom he had broken cloister twice before to vote for her), 5120 mayoral candidate Faerinn Greatsinger, and has a rather enjoyable rivalry and respect for the warrior rake Lazaryth.

He recently hosted a celebration of the Ivasian Rite of Summer, Hunger of the Pines, in the Temple, where Xanthium was promoted from acolyte to the rank of minister. He and Xanthium also performed a dance entitled Passion's Snare, set to honor a poem by Charna, for the Revelia Carnivale event, Brigatta in Flight.

Biographical Excerpts

• Glamour - An offer made to the pilgrims of Mallach Burdos and the Blood God
• Meridiem - Calling in a favor in a time of need
• More than This - A response to dispassionate justice
• The Stone Set in Your Eyes - A priest offers a sensate shelter
• Shelter From the Poison Rain - An exercise in solace and understanding
• Severance - Last Rites for a Madman

Images

Images

Brother Blud outside the Temple of Ivas by Stormyrain

Keanu Reeves in Little Buddha (1993, Bertolucci)

Keanu Reeves in Little Buddha (1993, Bertolucci)

Brother Blud by Stormyrain)

Keanu Reeves in Little Buddha (1993, Bertolucci)

Rusalka by Juspera Spintari