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[hider= Yuri, the Last Disciple]

Name: Yuri Byrgenkirk

Age: 39

Gender: Male

Appearance: Yuri is a small man with a wiry build, with a tight, muscular frame and posture generally reminiscent of a weasel. His face is lined and drawn, and his hair has gone prematurely white, and so he appears much older than he truly is. One of his eyes is bright blue and alive with the spark of madness, and the other is clouded over with milky cataracts. Even when adventuring he wears spotless white robes overtop a grey jumper, giving him the impression of a doctor or priest of some description.

Personality: There isn't much left of Yuri's sanity, but what he has left he makes great use of. Despite his constant, delusional rambling, he is still quick-witted and pragmatic, traits that have kept him alive as an artifact hunter. He has the focus and determination reserved for the ranks of the mad, and when presented with a project he finds intriguing, he will pursue it for days on end without food or rest. While he is gregarious about sharing the asinine goings-on of his delusional mind, he stays tight-lipped about his past and his personal research.

Brief Backstory: Much of Yuri's early history is lost along with his mind, but it is known that he grew up in a city in the hinterlands of some great forest that was teeming with magic-infused beasts. He aspired to become a magical researcher from an early age, and became a respected name in his field. For a time, he worked directly with the Legendary Sage Hargrave the Enigmatic, but it is said that some cataclysmic accident both ended Yuri's apprenticeship and robbed him of his wits.

Since then Yuri has worked as a freelance artifact hunter, specializing in the most arcane and bizarre artifacts. While he doesn't mind selling off most of what he finds, he withholds certain artifacts in his possession viciously. Despite his insanity, he has proved surprisingly competent as a hunter, and has designed several tools himself to aid him in his adventures. He seems set on tracking down more bizarre artifacts to aid him in his private magical research, but to what end this research will hold, none can say for sure.

Skills: Even though he's lost his mind, Yuri is still an expert in magical artifacts, and has extensive knowledge of their construction and functioning. He's a capable artifact hunter, adept in exploration and combat when it is called for. He is also a capable engineer, and has designed some gadgets of his own to aid in his travels.

Abilities: Yuri has a knack for activating the most exotic magical artifacts that few others in the world could get to work. This includes the artifacts in his possession, the secrets to which he guards jealously.

Equipment: Yuri carries a variety of bizarre tools and arcane artifacts on his person, along with general-purpose hunter equipment. His primary weapon is the "Aspergillum," a chemical dispersal weapon of his own design. The Aspergillum can be loaded with a variety of chemical agents, such as incendiary fluid, liquid nitrogen, or an aerosolized toxic "quicksilver" concoction that Yuri also designed. These chemical fuels can also be loaded into grenade-sized bombs, which Yuri affectionately refers to as his "cocktails." Yuri's secondary weapon is more straightforward, an electrified mace with a spiked head, wreathed in blue sparks when activated.

The artifacts Yuri carries are among the strangest of their number seen in this world. He calls his most-used artifact the "Moon Augur," which at first glance does not appear to be an artifact as much as a small, magical creature. Its appearance is misleading, as it is an artifact that opens a portal only a few inches wide on activation. From this portal, one to a half-dozen powerful, sticky tentacles will emerge, which Yuri can direct mentally to grab things, push things away, or pull them closer to him. The portal only stays open for a few seconds at a time, after which it and the tentacles vanish. Sometimes small objects get stuck to the tentacles and get pulled through the portal; where they end up, not even Yuri knows for sure.

Yuri's other artifacts include the "Celestial Chorus," another creature-resembling artifact that creates magical projectiles that home in on enemies before exploding, and the "Heavenly Eye," an eyeball-shaped artifact that Yuri has replaced one of his own eyes with. The Heavenly Eye can be activated with great effort by Yuri to produce an arcane missile similar to those summoned by the Celestial Chorus, but cannot home in on enemies and is much more exhausting for Yuri to use.

Faction: None, freelancer. Formerly a student of Hargrave the Enigmatic.[/hider]