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[h1][b][color=CCCCDD]Gosling "Gus" Mallory[/color][/b][/h1]
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[h3]Vitals[/h3]
[b]Name:[/b] Gosling "Gus" Mallory
[b]Gender[/b] Male
[b]Age:[/b] 34
[b]Sexual Orientation:[/b] Homosexual
[b]Birthmark Shape:[/b] [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/The_Squared_Circle.jpg]The squared circle[/url]
[b]Location of Birthmark:[/b] Outside of his left thigh

[h3]Skillset[/h3]
[b]Mundane Skills:[/b]
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[*]Outdoorsman - Gus could very well survive indefinitely out in the wild; he's an experienced hunter, gatherer, homesteader, and mountaineer.
[*]Weaponmaster - His magic sort of lends itself to this, so Gus has practiced with all sorts of melee weapons. Anything made out of metal, he can work with. Brass knuckles are just as good as a sword.
[*]Immunity to Boredom - He grew up in rural Idaho. You cannot bore him. He will outlast your patience.
[*]Excellent penmanship
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[b]Magical Abilities:[/b] Metallomancy. While most mages might consider it a mere subset of geomancy, the Mallory family has quietly molded it into a specialization all its own. Gosling has taken it to another level, mixing in combat principles usually employed by warrior mages instead of elementalists, treating his magical creations less like tools and more like an extension of himself. He might not have the talent or raw power of a more prestigious mage, but he's certainly up to the task in a fight.
Of particular note is that his magic works [i]better[/i] with the classical metals; mercury, tin, lead, iron, gold, silver, and copper.

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[h3]Personage[/h3]
[b]Place of Birth:[/b] Magic Resort, Camas County, Idaho, USA
[b]Currently Residing:[/b] Mackay, Custer County, Idaho, USA
[b]Personality:[/b] Gosling is a bit of an odd duck. When you hear about a loner, a mountain man, an Idahoan, you likely wouldn't imagine the personable, presentable Gus. He claims it's because he cleans up nicely, can't look anything but your best when you're in good company after all. Can't be a bad neighbor either. He's smooth, talkative, and quite clearly the sort of person who would open with pleasantries before a fight. Because it would be [i]rude[/i] not to.
When not in a social situation, Gus is a quiet, introspective man, who looks for meaning in the world around him. That's the mountain man when he's up on his mountain after all. He enjoys those quiet moments, when the world seems to have something of its own to say, and he's willing to be the ears that listen.
In one word, he's hospitable.

[b]History/Bio:[/b] The Mallory Family, having set up base in Idaho, is one of those mage families that tends to be a few degrees removed from the politics of the Guild, due to both distance from the HQ in New York, and the simple isolation of relatively rural living. As a family they are lacking in prestige or fame, and much like Idaho are the sort of people who might normally be just a footnote in the history books.
Well, who would have been a footnote before Gosling killed the golden goose of obscurity.

Gus grew up in the tiny little town of Magic Resort, Idaho, on the shores of the Magic Reservoir, in the Magic Valley. The region hadn't been called that when the Mallorys had arrived, as that title only came about after the 1910s, but the irony is not lost on [i]anyone[/i] from the family. Life was simple and pastoral out there, even after his mother explained the truth of the world to him at the tender age of six. Magic was interesting, sure, but he still had quite a while before he could do anything with it, and he'd been playing wizards and knights with other kids before that anyway.
Well, what few kids there were around. Which wasn't really enough to even fill a classroom.

Living a quiet life fit Gus quite well as a youth, even attaining his magic did little to change that. The thing that he did differently than his forebears, as he grew into that second life, was reach out. He wrote letters, and with the pen he spoke to people, people who were more connected in the Guild. He was quick-witted, and even though not much [i]happened[/i] in his little hometown, he certainly had a lot to say to people on the other side of the country.
He made friends.

As a young adult, Gus left Idaho, crossing the nation to see this world he had been born into. It was during these years of traveling that he became an agent of the Guild, having made his way to New York along the way and offered his services as needed.
That offer had taken him some time to consider, but he had seen enough of the world by then to know the Guild had a point; extreme as it might be, the world wasn't ready for magic. The world could barely handle itself [i]without[/i] magic.

Having gained the blessing of the Guild, and seen the world and what it might need in it, Gus returned to his home state, though not his hometown, seeking out a place where he might turn his unrefined art into a blade that could keep the world in balance.
He ended up making a homestead to the north of Mackay, in the foothills of the Lost River Range; still reachable, still close to civilization, but remote enough for him to live alone and disappear into the mountains to train his magic.
He might not have the great gift of power of certain people, but he could gain endurance, strength, and skill all his own, to protect a world he'd only seen a fraction of so far.
And he would do it all in the shadow of Borah Peak.

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