Name: Ruffian (Ruf, Ruffi - don't try to that to much)
Gender: stag
Year of Birth: year 748 of the New Age - 21 years old
Height: 11.3hh
Build: Medium
Phenotype: Black restricted smokey fawn
Genotype: EE/aa/nSty/fwsfws/nRx
Eye Colour: reddish-brown
Design Sheet: Bacon - Jian Design

Family Lineage: See here
Sire: Darius - Warrior
Dam: Estrena -  Shaman
Siblings: 
- Older brother (halfbrother trough dam)
- Older brother (halfbrother trough dam)
- Stanis (born 746) (halfbrother trough dam)
- Younger brother (Born 751) (halfbrother trough dam)
 Logan (halfbrother trough sire)
Proof of Breeding: Starter
Offspring:
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Bloodline: Purebred Blackwood
Magic Type:  Necromancy (inborn), Illusion (learned)

Skill Points

Speed: 4 [Basic Level] (Build Cap: 15 points max)
Stamina: 9 [Basic Level]
Strength: 5 [Basic Level]

Magic: 15 [Basic Level]
- Necromancy: 11
- Illusion: 4
Herbs: 0 [Basic Level]

Experience: 0

Breakdown

+2 speed - base bonus
+4 stamina - base bonus
+4 strength - base bonus
+2 speed - starter bonus
+9 magic - starter bonus
+2 Magic (Illusion) - lit - 1000-1999 words - A Blackwoods Trial
+3 (+2 stamina, +1 magic*) - collab lit - 1000-1999 words - The Dark Servant and The White Witch
*He's trying to use his magic, which works for a few seconds to then get the feeling to be blocked off
+1 magic (illusion) - lit - 400-999 words - [FAWN] Fooled by the mind
+1 magic (illusion) - lit - 400-999 words - Leaving the New Age
+1 stamina - practicing/sparring/fighting with another Fawnling - Leaving the New Age
+1 strength - lit - 400-999 words - The contract with the devil
+1 stamina - lit - 400-999 words - Paleness and hate
+1 stamina - lit - 400-999 words - The fur of the fox
+1 magic (Necromancy) - lit - 400-999 words - The end of his revenge

Herd Information

Herd: Renegade
Herd Position: none

Details

Personality: 
- On the outside
Ruffian is like he is supposed to be. perfect! He helps with 'master' with very swift movements, not asking any questions. He is careful and correct and shall always great a fawnling with the title and respect it's deserves. He tries to do everything into the ultimate perfection, so that his 'master' would stand in the good light and get the recognition. he does nothing for himself, his 'master's status is higher then that of himself. If Claribelle say "jump", he is gonna jump. If Claribelle say "kill" ... he is gonna kill. If Claribelle say "find a mate" ... O well, way not!
Even if you would scold him, he would just accept it with a smile and say he was indeed wrong and shall not do it again.
It's bery hard to find something wrong on this guy. Even his coat is always clean and shiny as it should be (but never to shiny, so that he doesn't steal the spotlight of Belle)

- On the inside
flipping wicked and mad. He only took the 'contract' withClaribelle because it sounded funny and because of his curiosity. he was bored for many years and the pale petite stag was a welcome distraction on his path and he took it. Yet that didn't change Ruffian from who he really was.
Dark minded, sleek and manipulative.
He had always learned that the weak shouldn't live ... so he was surprised to find this tiny, pale stag alive. Why not follow it and see how it's going in it's further life?

When fighting a stag and he wins, he shall decide what to do with his victory. he has a obsession with collection 'souls' to 'play' with them. Yet only those of who he calls interesting. So most of his collected souls are those from worthy opponents.
On those he calls weak, you better meat him in a good mood. Then you have a change that you stay alive as in his opinion he thinks that nature would just claim them back anyway. If he's in a bad mood ... he shall not hesitate to be faster then nature ...
At least, that was before he met Claribelle ... As with the pale stag at his side, he need to watch out with what he does ... and can only kill those that his master commands him to, if he doesn't want to be the next victim at the hanging tree.

Skilled in his work, he if able to hide most of his killed victim on a way you aren't able to find them back easily. And he also hides them so that others wouldn't track him down, unless they have a death wish themselves. He mostly kills in a quick way, without letting his victim scream. To hide his vitims, his necromancy was very handy.

Smart as he is, he is perfectly aware that he can't use his magic in public and is always on the look out. Yet that doesn't leave him to sometimes prank someone by letting a dead rat run over their hooves. Or spook a fawn ... those are just childstories, no?
Yet he is careful, certainly after some stories about the Glenmore princesses. he hasn't been able to meet any, as the Royals barely come to The Oldgrove ... Yet they seem to be ... interesting.

He isn't such a believer in the gods. Mainly because he never saw any proof of them. If there isn't proof, it doesn't exist in his mind. Maybe that the reason why he never was on good terms with his family? While he's not stupid to go in an open discussion, he can ask some 'weird 'question about it, asking why another Fawnling is so sure of it that their deities exist.
When he heard about the 'Swan princess' in Glenmore, he got curious. But when he actually got a glimps of that so called 'godly' doe, she just looked as normal as a Fawnling should be ...

Has an obsession with foxes ... After seeing enough wolves, those tiny little red fluffy things are like a drug to him. Or more, pets he can't have ... can he?

Body
Ruff shows a combination of what you would call a Glenmore X Blackwood crossbred. Far less skinny then his brothren in Blackwood, he still shows some 'sharp' edges, not showing the full round body that most Glenmore stags have. While he has enjoyed the 'good life' for the Glenmore flora, you can't call him fat (pretty fast metabolisme. Barely gains weight) and due his training he gained a nice portion of muscles.
His sleak body could expose his real bloodline, but anyone that gives a suggestion to that part, get's a nice explantion about his Commonor background and the lack of good grazing grounds.

Further interests
- Foxes! Yes, those tiny little reddish furballs with their fluuffy tails. So soft, so gorgeous, so elegant ... so much better then snarky Blackwood wolves. Why can't he keep them? Eum ... because master Belle thinks they are nice ornament to sell. No killing Ruf's fluffy ... friends!
- Princess doe's. Are they really so good as they are? They say they can sense who you are, if you come from another herd. With that new degree that new King gave, this must be true. Hhhmm, tricky ... Who are these so called 'special' ladies.

What he think off ...
Claribelle
Fucking, irritating, pale, weak, little .... RUNT!! Why was he ever so stupid to say yes to that deal? Ow, because it was supposed to be fun. Oké, he has fun. but the fact that weak thing orders him around. Yuk! And then how he acts ... like a doe!  Can you fall lower then that?
One day, boy ... One day ...

History: 
Ruffian was born to a Shaman doe and a soldier stag. He never really saw his father so much and his mother was often busy with her shaman stuff to actually take care of another of her sons. So Ruff mainly grew up by himself. Being one of the 'smaller' fawns, it was easy to sneak away. While being able to play with the other fawns, he also loves it to be by himself and observe some of the necromancer magic wielders. So when he turned three and was able to use magic himself, he started to practice a lot.
While the herd was talking about power, about the heathens of the other herds, the poor does that were kept suppressed, etc ... Ruf wasn't so 'powerfocussed' as others were. Learned about Uir, he wasn't really impressed by those words. As for him, he had not seen her, nor saw proof of her existence. While he never expressed himself about it, he kept it in the back of his mind.
At the age of 5, he left his mother's home to never return. Later that year he took part in his coming of Age trial, in which he succeeded. While the others were showing off with their kill, talking about their power, Ceraf didn't. Yet he was impressed by something, by that lurking feeling inside, that was rooting for the kill, to just relive that moment when a spirit left it's earthly body and disappeared. The young stag got more and more focused on the dead and got more and more away from the herd.

A few years later, he also leaves the herd, just out of boredom. He got tired of all the powertalk, but no action. Yet he was also curious about those stories from the other herds, if they were true? So Ruffian traveled around, to watch each herd and to learn. In those years, he noticed that his so called deity was never aside him ... that even none of the others were that he had heard about.
With only the dead at his side, he learned more about his magic, tried to get further each time he used it. He learned to keep the spirits with him to reanimate dead corpses. Some time later, he also learned he could do Illusion magic, by accident.
He saw the advantage to use it for himself and his own gain. While he didn't had the opinion that the weak had to die, he also had no mercy for them and it wasn't unusual that he could kill a weaker opponent, just because he liked it and to toy with the dead body. Yet he prefers to 'play' with dead critters.

Eventually he stumbled in Glenmore, traveling alone the outer rims until one day he hears some noise and a scream. Curious as he was, he went to look and saw a battle between a strong build bull and a weaker thin looking pale doe. To bad that doe later turned out to be a stag.  Pale, skinny and far away from strong material. Ruf was almost dying of laughing at this pathetic creature. 
Curious about the outcome of the battle, Ruf started to watch ... in the open. The pale stug suddenly dashed towards him, hiding behind his legs, asking for his help (like an princess XD). The bull saw this as another opponent and attacked Ceruffian. 
Ruffian didn't had to much trouble with fighting the stag and killed him in the end. Without even spending attention to the pale one, he started to play with the just released spirit and dead body on the ground.
Claribelle, as the pale stag was named, asked who he was, in which Ruffian just said who he was on a plain way. Seeing potential in the Blackwood stag, Claribelle suggested him a deal: stay at his side, be his servant and guard. In return he could play with any spirits of his enemy he could get. And when the time was there, Aza would surrender his own soul to the stag.
Interested by the weird deal the stag was offering, Ruffian became curious about the reason behind it. And now that he was in Glenmore, he could also learn about the herd itself as he had heard many things and rumors about it. And he was bored to travel anyway and didn't want to go 'home' as well.
Out of boredom and out of curiosity, Ruffian accepted the deal, learned how to be a servant (with the order to not use his magic in the open!) and staid at Claribelle's side as a loyal guard. Shortly later, the pair went to Oldgrove, where Claribelle started his own shop.

For those who ask where he comes from, Ruffian hold his story high that he is of Commoner birth and has lived mainly at the outside ring of the herd, barely entering coming close to anything Royal. When he get's the question why he can't do Earth Magic, he has to confess that he is born a dud. To not be useless, the stag started to search for a 'job' and found Claribelle on his way, who offered him to learn him anything about the way of being a Merchant, making contact and get the best good, in return for his loyalty and his guarding of his master's goods.

 Year 748 of The New Age (0 years)
- The 7th son / Ruffian is born

 Year 750 of The New Age (2 years)
- Autumn
--- The prey has won /  Ruffian plays with his older brother end friends, but get mocked because of his small size. They eventually go hide and seek ... in which Ruffian wins the game, due his small size! 

 Year 751 of The New Age (3 years)
- Summer
--- The dead bird /  Ruffian comes across a stag who can perform Necromancy. The colt is interested in this kind of magic and want to learn it. 

 Year 753 of The New Age (5 years)
- Autumn
--- A Blackwoods Trial / Ruf leaves his parents home, ready to take his Trial of age 

 Year 756 of The New Age (8 years)
--- Leaving the New Age / A golden halfbred stag becomes king, WTF!! A pale stag with crossbred blood becomes KING?? Oké, this herd has lost it's guts and turns more stupid every day, Ruffian is leaving!

 Year 757 of The New Age (9 years)
--- Fooled by the mind / Does some tricks in Silverthorne

 Year 758 of The New Age (10 years)
    - The contract with the devil / Comes across Claribelle, who is in a bad turning fight. 'Accidentally' saved the pale weak stag and get's an interesting offer, which sparks his curiosity.
- Paleness and hate / Claribelle pulls Ruffian into the Glenmore herd and he learns about those interesting Princess does
- The fur of the fox / Creates a fox obsession! yes, pale furry tails!! so fluffy!

 Year 760 of The New Age  (12 years)
- Claribelle tries to be the better one of the Merchants ... Ruffian helps him out with making his deals ... and scare one or two.
- King Drustan flees with a part of the herd. So that was a King?! Thees, pathetic! Pale none the less. At least he gave some struggle to the herd. Gone? oké, next and better. Not that Ruf cares ...
- Hears the rumor that the 'Swan princess' had returned and dares to take a peak into the herd. Yet that doe look normal, weak and sad? It that supposed to be a goddess? Lies!

 Year 761 of The New Age  (13 years)
- King Rafe declares that every newcomer has to be screened. Is he lucky that he already has been in the herd before this. Better stay away from anything Royal for the first .. eum, years?

 Year 765 of The New Age  (17 years)
- Preparing his gifts / Assisting Claribelle with a sale 
- The Dark Servant and The White Witch / Ruffian need to go out to find some herbs and comes across a ... interesting pale doe 

 Year 766 of The New Age  (18 years)
- A Merchants Business / assist his master Claribelle in showing off some goods. Not those gorgeous fox coats!!

 Year 770 of The New Age  (22 years)
- The end of his revenge / With Claribell's revenge complete, their contract ends ... and Ruffian claims what was promissed.!

 Year 775 of The New Age  (27 years)
- Into the fray / Ruffian is slowly turning mad ...



Plans to do
- Lots and LOTS of way to funny RP's with Claribelle.
- Past stories of Ruffian, building up his childhood
- Being the wolf in Fawnling clothing in Glenmore. Meaning: why not prank one or two with a dead moving rat? Yet, fawns mostly...
- Meeting a princess that doesn't want to bail him out! He is curious about these does, who they are, their magic. This is something that was never heard of before. They seem to be pretty rare ... and seen as a prize? Poor ladies.
- Having some sort of relationship with a princess doe (who doesn't expose him XD) Not in a romantic way (as I have no plans on fawns ... unless the lady wants to, he isn't gonna refuse XD) Mainly based on interest in each other ... and seeing it as a way to release their frustrations about their lives (as I can assume some princess need that strong shoulder)
- Kick Claribelle's ass ... one day .. in the future.

Ruffian (c) jian89
Design (c) KiaFyre 
Fawnlings (c) Fawnlings