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[b]Name:[/b] Thomas Tessel

[b]Age:[/b] 18

[b]Appearance: [/b]
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Thomas is just over six feet tall and weighs 140lbs, giving him a thin, but average, build. The hours spent indoors have given him a pale complexion.[/center]

[b]Occupation:[/b] Scribe

[b]Personality:[/b] 
Being the son and apprentice of a scribe had granted Thomas a rare privilege: access to thousands upon thousands of texts - historical texts, religious texts, play scripts, propaganda, and more.

And the biggest thing all those words taught him? People are selfish, manipulative, liars, and woefully inconsistent.

Contradictions were abundant from book to book, and it was clear authors were often not being truthful. Thomas spent much of his time theorizing [i]why[/i] a writer would try to twist the truth of events; it nearly always boiled down to controlling the way others thought and self-benefit.

Eventually, the boy came to the conclusion that that was simply the way people were; they would do anything to get ahead in life.

This way of thinking was cemented when he realized he himself was proof of it. He, like everyone else he knew, acted sociable and kind, like someone who's self-confident and self-sacrificing. Living in a highly religious town meant he could never express his doubts, or even come out and say that he was a non-believer. He pretended to accept the teachings he had rejected. 

And he only did these to be accepted and liked - to give him an edge in life. 

Behind his happy demeanor, he's suspicious of other's true motives, believing that everyone is ultimately only out for themselves. While this is the way he thinks, he desperately wants to be proven wrong. He [i]wants[/i] to be able to trust others, and he sometimes does - only to ultimately be disappointed.

He has an inquisitive mind, and loves to figure out how and why things tick - whether that be machines, animals, or people - and will often disregard the things he's taught himself if it means discovering the answer to something.

[b]History:[/b]
From the moment Thomas could walk, he was being taught to read and write. According to his father, he [i]wrote[/i] his first word before speaking his first, though Thomas has his doubts about the legitimacy of that story.

He lived a comfortable upper-middle class life, and spent most of his hours in his father's study, reading and writing. This lead to him developing his somewhat skewed view of society, and prevented him from building any deep friendships; everyone he knew was merely an acquaintance, and he wouldn't have had it any other way, considering the fact that he believes they would have all betrayed him should an appropriate situation turn up.

Many of the texts he copied were dry and boring, but some were incredible - fictional stories of knights fighting dragons, old myths of gods warring amongst each other, kings who found magical weapons and smote evil-doers.

While he didn't dislike scribing, it was these kinds of stories that made him dream of more. He wanted to go on fantastic adventures and meet the genuine people depicted in them. Obviously knowing that this was impossible, he decided he'd settle on being one who wrote them.

He never did quite get to start, however, as work kept piling up. 

And then one day, he woke up in a different world.
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