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[CENTER][h1][COLOR=Silver]Sigismund von Abhlemann[/COLOR][/h1][/CENTER]
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[b][color=GRAY]Sigismund Abhlemann[/color]
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[color=GRAY] Male [/COLOR] | [color=GRAY] 24 [/COLOR] | [color=GRAY] Rodion 
Scion of[/COLOR] [color=Brown][b]Earth[/b][/color][/CENTER][CENTER][SUP]_______________________________________________[/SUP]
[color=GRAY][i]”The Earth is a balance, it gives, and takes. It is health, and safety, but also destruction and desolation. It is up to the wise to use my domain properly. But our hearts are what drives us to greed.”[/i][/color]
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[center][h3][i][color=GRAY]”Strength comes in wisdom, freedom from will, but blood gives you a chance. ”[/color][/i][/h3][/center]
[b][color=GRAY]Holy Sigil Location[/color][/b]
[color=FFFFFF][indent]His symbol is upon his left breast underneath his wear.[/indent][/color]
[b][color=GRAY]Appearance[/color][/b]
[color=FFFFFF][indent]Standing at six foot three, and almost two hundred and twenty pounds, he is a large man. His body type is stocky, and not body builder like. His hair is short and maintained well, he tries to keep his facial hair clean if he is in long extended social events. Stubble and hair does grow quickly for him however. 

But, he typically dresses well, like nobles of old, his lesser house, and his family's military prowess gave him an upper hand in most of society and that includes his clothing. Keeping with traditional military and older military styles in his wardrobes rather than those common to the actual battlefield or officer events. Typically seen with frills, golds, and other embroidery over his clothing. But, most of his wardrobe is regency/early Victorian era military dress. He has a variety of hats, but mostly it will be fur hats or military caps such as Kepi, Picklehaubs, and folded wide-brim hats. However, he will wear others for social events. 

He has no augmetics, but he is a generally basic man who tries to look as high and mighty as he can, when he can due to his family, and some partiality on nationalism. 
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[b][color=gray]Personality[/color][/b]
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Sigismund would be rash, brash, and firey when in confrontational situations. But, he is relatively soft spoken, and quiet, a gentle giant and that shows. He might enjoy fighting, but he honestly cares for the small things in life. Compared to most of his family, he is very gentle, and well-spoken, but his main purpose and desire is balance. He had learned to due through imported texts and knowledges about life in genera, his knowledge of how to use the earth to both improve fertility in local farms, and how to use it to create fortifications quickly, or just buildings since he enjoys architecture quite a bit. 

He enjoys luxury and a life of fighting, but he does enjoy relaxation and quietness in life. There are two common things to find him doing, one is fighting, the other is reading. There are smaller things in between but he enjoys rowdiness with peace sprinkled in. He is a glutton, and will eat as much as possible due to his size, mostly meats. He enjoys hunting his own food, and that is likely why he likes to eat is because it means he can hunt. 

Should he be at a social occasion, he usually tries to roleplay a log standing there, typically wearing darker colors that aren't blue, like dark browns, burgundies and such, anything so he does not have to talk to people, and when he does talk, he tends to either be awkward and spew information, scare them with vigor about the topic, fight them, or stand there roleplaying a lot listening to people rant while he nods his head, and makes a small comment here and there. 

When it comes to others and his power, he runs them through the ringer, he makes sure that they should be trusted with his gifts, and that they are wise. People have tried to force him to give gifts, but that tends to go the bad way. He does believe they should be used in a military manner, but that is because of efficiency in it. The few he has given his gifts to are often nurses, but one commander whom he trusts. But, he believes war should be fought the old ways, or in duels. He sees what the world would come to with how quickly technology advances, and adding magic to that would only make it worse.

But with that, he also sees both potentials as honoring his duty as a scion, he trusts the church but believes in a more internal vision of his worship. He sees the world as a place that needs change; he believes the church could do that, but they refuse to step too far into politics. He sees the church as a limiting factor, as a good thing because of the lack of trust in the hearts of man, but a hindrance to progress and freedom. He truthfully cares about the traditions of his homeland more than the church, however. But, for now, he sees a status quo in the world as the best thing, until a definitive edge can be found somewhere. 
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[b][color=gray]Biography[/color][/b]
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The firstborn son of Otto von Abhbleman and his wife Lorietta, he grew up relatively pampered due to his seal, given the best things, and also bringing his family out of near poverty. He saved his family from loosing what is left of their land, and estates purely because of a holy mark upon his chest. But, from a young age, as soon as he could be trained and taught things, those in power sent him tudors and teachers to bring him into a more nationalist fold. He grew up loving his family, and they grew because of him. They showered him with gifts, and toys, and he lived life well as a youth. Learning to be proud of his people, his family, and those around him, indoctrination is the game, and it probably messed with some of the social queues in his life because he often didn't spend time with those his age. It was frowned upon it for him to speak with anyone his age that wasn't family for fears of messing up his 'learning process.' the church also did something similar, and gave him a bit of humility, but it still messed with his social development skills. 

While his family rose, they did not rise to control. They were more of puppets, and guides for their young boy to grow to be a literal war machine behind the back of the church. Did that happen as intended, not really, maybe they should have let him have friends that weren't old generals, random engineers, philosophers delving into the nationalist ways, and the eventual priesthood member. His siblings, had similar treatment without the church, and they were allowed friends. 

As soon as he became the ripe age of fourteen, he was allowed to go to school, military school to learn doctrine, further his skills reading and writing, and he took to engineering, and sciences more than he did most of his true classwork. He found a love for architecture. Enjoying those two studies, and masking them into building fortresses. The church of course did not enjoy this at all, and did give him side classes again, taking up the time for socialization to learn how not to be a killing machine. 

He spent most of his life there, or in court, he was often sent to social occasions to be a statue of pride for the nation, and people, while offering him up like a turkey to suitors. However, that was more of the family's decision than anyone else's, and they were looking for a strong suitor for him. He would enjoy life, however, primarily through food and hunting. Hunting was one of the few things that the church and he encouraged as it taught him to do things for himself and basic survival skills that can be used on people. 

When it comes to that, he found himself to being a decent engineer as he enjoyed making his own weapons, but this was seen by the church in a negative light, and by his people as a major positive as they thought he might be just a natural in creating things to kill and hoped to see what monstrosities of war he could create. In which he created rifles to hunt with, and a crossbow to shoot smaller animals and not waste meat. 

But, he grew to be both patriotic, full of zeal, anger, but someone who desires freedom. He sees what is around him, yet he can only enjoy so much of it due to his position in life. He often tries to do things with others that can, bring him into interactions with others outside of those the government and church tries to bring him around. He often does this through sparring matches which he can say is just a way to continue to train, or to protect honor and face. He makes excuses to live life, however he can. But, at the end of the day, he is pretty much just a pawn to be used until he sees fit to change that, or someone else does.  
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[b][color=GRAY]Weapon of Choice[/color][/b]
[indent]His preferred weapon would be a rifle of some kind, but he will use autoloading pistols, and swords. He sees the use of magic in war as only a last chance, or as an equalizer in a larger battle[/indent]
[b][color=GRAY]Misc.[/color][/b]
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[*] Constantly fights, and purposefully gets hurt so that he can train his healing abilities on himself. 
[*] If he stands very still for a long time, he can be considered a log.
[*] He does fight, on a constant, and will with anyone who wants to willingly, even if it means getting his ass handed to him. He loves it because it means he can talk to someone or at least have contact with people besides those assigned to be around him.
[*] He does not like a lot of art, or music due to associating that with social events. 
[*] Dislikes using magic, but sees it as a necessity. 
[*] Been a scion since birth, 24 years. 

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