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[b]Name:[/b] 
Rumpelstiltskin –The Dark One –

[b]Real Name:[/b]
 Rumpelstiltskin

[b]Age:[/b]
 46

[b]Occupation (If Any):[/b]
 Deal-maker / Dark Sorcerer

[b]Appearance - Thirteen Years Ago (Age 33 ):[/b]
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[b]Appearance - Today (Age 46 [Physically still 33]):[/b]
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[b]Personality Traits:[/b]
Being the best person to understand that all magic comes with a price, there isn’t anything he can’t or won’t do to remain superior against other magic users. Arguably being the most powerful sorcerer in all the realms, Rumpelstiltskin uses the fear of his reputation against those who come to him for aid. He’s quick witted and cunning, often times leaving others feeling very unsettled in his presence and when he’s in an especially good mood, he’ll taunt those with a child-like voice to [i]really[/i] make others uncomfortable.

[b]Skills:[/b]
There is very little that Rumpelstiltskin [i]can’t[/i] do, but like any other sorcerer, he is unable to transport himself to other realms without use of a magical artifact, cannot bring back the dead or force someone to fall in love. He can, however, use his magic to spin straw into gold, materialize objects with the flick of a wrist, transport himself across the land, and has connections almost everywhere that can get him what he wants.

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[b]Biography (Before Earth):[/b]
Rumpelstiltskin was a nobody, a common man with nothing extraordinary or special about him. He grew up poor, and remained poor even until the day he married. His wife, Milah, he loved very much, and though she loved him in return she never passed up an opportunity to let Rumpelstiltskin know that she wanted a better life, and was miserable. Something changed in her, though, when Rumpelstiltskin was called to the front in the Ogre’s War, to fight and actually become someone. Milah was overjoyed in the knowledge that when he returned (if he returned) that they would have status to their name, and money, and she could finally have that better life she always wanted.

He left shortly after for the Ogres War, going through many months of training in the process and spent another few months in the battlefield waiting to strike when the time was right. The night before they were to ride into battle, Rumpelstiltskin came across a Seer who the army planned on using as a weapon to help favor their strategy. The Seer told Rumpelstiltskin that his wife was with child, but his actions would leave the child fatherless. Afraid that the Seer meant he would die in battle, Rumpelstiltskin took a sledge hammer to his leg and shattered his own shin bone so that he might be sent home and be reunited with his wife and newborn child. What he didn’t know, was that the Seer had seen the future regarding The Evil Queen’s threat. It was two sides of the same coin. Had he stayed to fight in the Ogres War, he would have died anyway.

When Rumpelstiltskin returned home, their child had already been born but Milah was less than happy that Rumpelstiltskin had injured himself to return home. Ashamed to now be, as she described, ‘lashed to the village coward’ their marriage became a downward spiral, the only thing keeping them together was their son, Baelfire. It was a rocky marriage; Milah was oftentimes at the bar or fooling around with other men, leaving Rumpelstiltskin to care for their son a great majority of the time.

When Baelfire was close to turning ten, the age draft for conscripting children to the front was lowered from fourteen to ten, putting Rumpelstiltskin into a frenzied panic. In just a few months’ time the soldiers would be taking his boy away from him, a sure death sentence as the Ogre’s were not merciful. An old beggar recognized the desperation in Rumpelstiltskin, and told him of a way that he could keep his family safe. It was a fool’s errand, but Rumpelstiltskin would do anything to ensure the safety of his child, and so, Rumpelstiltskin sought out to kill The Dark One and take his powers for his own.

Having to leave Baelfire home with Milah, Rumpelstiltskin began his journey to seek out the dagger Of The Dark One, which the beggar had told him about. Short of a month later, he located the magical dagger, summoned The Dark One with it and plunged it into his chest. The transformation was almost instant. His skin turned a sickly green with golden flecks, resembling scales. His teeth began to rot and his eyes dilated to almost twice the size. In appearance he was a monster, but that was nothing compared to the demon who now controlled his mind and body, the demon of The Dark One who thrived on dark magic and chaos.

By the time Rumpelstiltskin returned home, he was too late. The village had been completely destroyed, not a soul left behind as to tell him what had happened. He spent months searching for his family but he had only been able to learn about The Evil Queen’s up rise in power. It was because of her that his village was destroyed; it was because of her that his family was lost.

Perfecting his use of magic over the next month, Rumpelstiltskin was able to use a locator spell to find Milah, a pile of bones picked clean by the crows by the time he reached her. There was no sign of his son, Baelfire, and even after thirteen more years of searching, he has yet to find him. He can only hope that he was one of the children who had been sent through to this other realm he knew nothing about, but he still searches with hope.

[b]Biography (Life On Earth):[/b]
Rumpelstiltskin has never been to Earth, but has spent thirteen years learning about it so that if he was ever able to, he could travel there to find his son.

[b]Other:[/b]
Rumor has it that there is an ancient artifact that can control The Dark One completely, and this same artifact can be used to kill The Dark One at the price of taking on his curse… and powers.

Still considered a villain by the common people, Rumpelstiltskin is one of the few who refused to join The Evil Queen and instead, plots against her.[/center]