Name: Azkaret Orrekar or Az for short Race: [hider=Avaryn] [img]http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff9/nacron/2ed99949-6d84-4457-9e37-53b2cdfd1d35_zpszcrmr0r4.jpg[/img] The Avaryn are a species take on the appearance of different birds but only have feather on their head in place of hair. Avaryns hit sexual maturity around 20 Universal Standard Years and live up to around 120 Universal Standard Years. At this point, the Avaryn reach their full height, the tallest reaching around 5'10" in height, and are done growing physically. The Avaryn have three talone digits on their hands and feet, the middle of which is the longest. Avaryns have a very lithe frame due to their bones being less dense than those of humans. Because of this, however, the Avaryn are known to move much faster than humans but are less durable, which they compensate for with heavily shielded armor for their warriors. They cannot make the armor heavier than average, so they have high-strength individual personal shielding built into their armor. In Avaryn society the females are more prominent, similar to how males usually are in human society, taking on roles of power such as in politics, military, etc. The males usually involve themselves with more passive professions like science, medicine, etc. That’s not to say males in Avaryn society don’t join the military or rise to power or that females never become doctors or scientists. The Avaryn military is known for its long range and espionage-based fighters. They are also known for their more defensive approach to military technology, preferring to research more into protecting their troops than they do in harming opposing armies. Their technology is a blend of the magical and mechanical. Most of their technology is powered by the primal force that surrounds all living beings. In particular, their armor with personal shielding uses a dual purpose power amplifier/generator to project a shield around the individual. The runes carved into the power source of the shield draws in primal energy from the world around them and then amplifies the output to form the shield. This is how much of their power sources function. Much their military technolgoy is powered through Arcana, though. Their weaponry is made to absorb the magical forces around them like their shielding and then release energy in the form of different spells. [/hider] Age: 63 Universal Standard Years Gender: Male Appearance: Az stands at 5’7” with the lithe frame common to his people. Az most closely resembles a horned owl with dark coppery feathers across his head. He usually wears a chest piece with the personal shielding technology from his homeworld as a precaution as he travels. In addition to his armored chest piece, Az usually wears a long robe of dark maroon over his clothes. Over his eyes, he wears a holo visor similar in appearance to glasses, but with holographic screens in place of the lenses that provide him with better sight, a Heads Up Display, and various readings and information from the world aorund him and are linked to his personal terminal. As another precaution, Az carries a pistol on his belt. This pistol is Avaryn tech and is able to harness different sorts of magical energy and dispel various kinds of blasts depending on the energy absorbed. Homeworld: Airys Alignment: Lawful Neutral Role: Archaeologist/Navigator Skills: Az is a skilled navigator and archaeologist. He has studied the Astral Gates and various relics from different societies around that time to see different sides of the puzzle. Because of his studies, he has naturally picked up how to navigate the Void, mostly from studying how older voyagers would do it. Along with his archaeological and navigation studies, Az has delved into the magical arts. He is most proficient with Psionics, as his race is born with basic Psionic abilities, but he has also studied the branch of Arcana. He utilizes his magic mostly through his pistol by absorbing different sorts of energy into the instrument and then firing the output from the pistol as different kinds of spells, but he is also able to perform basic “utility” spells without his pistol. History: Az fell into line with the typical gender roles of his species and chose the path of an academic. He decided to study the Astral Gates left behind by the gods, having always been intrigued by puzzles and the past, being a firm believer in the people of the present being able to learn from the past should they actually choose to listen. Once he finished his formal education in his chosen area of study, Az decided to delve as deep as he could into the mysteries left behind by the gods by beginning with the relics left behind on his homeworld, and throughouthis studies he as regarded as a fool for studying the ancient beings. In the midst of his studies of his homeworld, Az married and had a daughter. His studies slowed after he started his family, and he was uanble to travel as much. Both his wife and daughter served in the military, and he unfortunately lost both of them to a war and was left alone. It was then that Az decided to take what he had and leave his homeworld behind and study what the rest of the universe had to offer in the way of his studies. While traveling, Az was unable to receive any sort of funding for his studies because he refused to join with either of the governmental systems or guilds because he felt they would restrict his studies too much to be worth the funding. So naturally, Az gravitated toward smuggling parties that would allow him the freedom he wished. The drawback to this, however, was that he would at time have to find them valuable artifacts to sell. Fortunately, Az was able to keep the artifacts he needed for his specific studies and find them other valueables. Az eventually had a falling out with the crew when he thought they were hindering his research by making him find more valuables for them to profit off of than allowing him to go about his studies. Az left the crew behind in search of another one that would offer him more freedom. That was when he found the Nova Dawn and her crew. He has been with them for almost a year now. Personality: Az speaks very bluntly and doesn’t often put his words through a filter before speaking. This had led to people generally thinking he’s insulting or rude. When he sees he has offended someone, he usually decides to steer clear of them because he knows they are not the sort of people he will get along with and will be unable to really speak with them. He is also dedicated to his area of study and has been labeled as a “workaholic” on many occasions. Not surprising then, he is rarely seen outside of his work space, especially when he believes he is on the verge of discovering some new part of the puzzle he has dedicated most of his life to.