Rutland Djt-Setlas
[ruht-luhnd deh-jet-stal-les]
"W-Who are you? Please... don-- don't come near me!"
Quick Information
| Real Name: | Prince Rutland Claret |
| Species: | Viera / Veena |
| Age/Gender: | 562 / Intersex Male (He/Him) |
| Physical Details: | Tall, Slender, & Model-like |
| Birthplace: | Claret Forest, Skatay Range |
| Occupation: | Former Wood Warder |
| Aether Type: | Astral Earth (Honey-scent) |
| Alignment: | True Neutral |
| Nameday: | 26th Sun of the 1st Astral Moon |
| Sexual Orientation: | Aromantic / Hypersexual |
| Combat Style: | White Magic / Spear Handling |
| RP Themes: | Adaptable / Mature / Dark / Comedy |
Screenshot By @mooglemonarch
Hooks
Anyone who has extensive plant knowledge or can even commune with plants may sense something very unusual about him as if he is a tree himself or some sort of fae-based treant in some way despite appearing like a regular Viera. Well, save for the white bark growing upon his skin he keeps rather hidden or torn off.
He has an almost unnatural beauty as if he is bred into a more royal descent and pampered with perfect features through generations. It makes him sought after for many reasons to his dismay.
There's an odd struggle with him and interacting with anything that may have been invented or started within the past couple of hundred years. It gives an air as if he has completely missed a great deal of his life to something.
Though his Aether is predominantly a honey-scented earth type, there's lingering stagnating Astral Aether within him like mildew.
He will often be seen using both White Magic and plant-based flesh-mending magics completely unaware of their illegal nature within common society.
Born in a well-feared village of the Skatay Range known as Claret Village (or Claret Forest / Forest of the Blood Blossoms) which is fae-cursed to have anyone born there to eventually turn into white trees that bear the claret flowers. The way you can tell he is from there is his signature black eyes and striking blood-red hair.
Raised in a Rava village within Golmore Jungle from a young age (after fleeing his Veena village) he has the mannerisms of a typical Wood Warder and possibly even seen protecting his village around 500 years ago before he left.
Despite being fairly feminine himself, he is very wary of women and those presenting as feminine. This will come across as him being outright afraid of them as he was taught to respect and revere them, so now he is afraid of not living up to that.
A Brief Summary of Rutland's Story
Sixth Astral Era 1015
(562 Years Ago)
A prince is born.
Rutland Djt-setlas, also known as the runaway prince of fae-cursed Claret Forest. It is quite a long tale spanning back over five hundred years starting with a choice the Queen of Claret Forest made in ire against its King to protect the oblivious Prince. Such a fantasy-like tale of course, but one that needs to start to understand how it all went wrong...
Zerlina Claret - Queen of Claret Forest
Anker Claret - King of Claret Forest
As to why they fled, that is another story for another day.Young Rutland and his mother Zerlina eventually made their way from the Skatay Range all the way to the Golmore Jungle where a very different type of Viera dwelled. This is where a village took both of them in and thus starts the true life of Rutland; raised with the Rava, never to be reminded of his heritage and the cursed forest he left behind.
Sixth Astral Era 1075
(502 Years Ago)
It all changes.
Though Rutland went on through puberty to become intersex, he chose the path of following the men to protect the village as a Wood Warder. It was an exciting life and he relished in getting to leave to the various caverns that surrounded the thick jungle near the village.This, however, would be where he met h̵̺̑i̵̡͐m̵̦̈́...
Young Rutland - Age 60
T̶̽h̴͗ė̷̦ ̶̡̐R̴͎̈́o̸͖͋ț̸̅
There were no promises, no deals... no escape.And no apparent side effects... at first.
Sixth Astral Era 1081
(496 Years Ago)
It truly begins.
Going on with his life, Rutland soon grew fond of a fellow Wood Warder by the name of Halver. However, that fondness did not go beyond platonic despite Halver himself pining for the red-haired ex-prince. It made their coupling and soon bearing a child named Mikael all the more complicated, especially with the Rot slumbering as a second soul within Rutland.
Halver Rehw-Marouc
Mikael Djt-Setlas