Zin

Zin

Current status:

These days, Zin is a loving father, a protector of Treegum and a calm, collected man. Rumour has it he plans on starting a school of some sort.

Description:

Zin is a half-elf that appears to be around his early thirties by human standards, and stands about 5,9 feet tall. He has some muscles, but his slim structured body makes it clear that his dominating physical attributes lie within speed and agility. As with most half-elves, Zin has emerald green eyes, slightly keen ears and a sharp nose. His hair is short, roughed, shiny, white, and some have made claims that it smells nice too (like minty apples).

Background

Thrust a thousand years into the future by the ancient, red dragon Slaverious, Zin became stuck in a time he clearly did not belong to at first. After realizing that going back to the past would be near impossible, he decided to get comfortable in Treegum. Here, he found himself in good company with characters like Perry, Sam, Gatts, and Judea, as well as many others. Thanks to an idealistic upbringing, Zin decided to pursue a life of doing as much" good as he possibly could," which involved protecting the innocent while delivering idealistic speeches that went on for a little longer than necessary at times. Over many years, Zin has finally turned this repeated pattern into a mastered art form. He became skilled in protecting people and reducing his word count by 50%, and he's now been travelling the world, correcting wrongs where-ever he finds them. (Or so legend has it.)

Family, friends and allies

Perry Sten

A halfling man of many titles. General, sir, father, hero, a friend....

To Zin, he is a brother from another mother. Many appreciated Perry for being a strong weaponsmaster and an inspiring leader, but the half-elf always felt that the halfling's strongest weapon was his personality. He could make friends much quicker than most, and people trust him easily. Perry often used that trust to strengthen everyone around him, and spent that abillity wisely.

That said, Zin and Perry often got into the strangest of adventures when it was just the two of them. They have a strange influence on one another where both think the other guy knows what he is doing, but both are actually just stumbling about. They are often surprised when they learn that the other doesn't know what he is doing, and they have to improvise... But perhaps they both know how to make each other feel confident by solving the toughest of problems together.

Gatts

Legendary swordsman, drunkard, hero, villain...

All titles are true. To Zin however, he is mostly an incredible... awesome... drunkard... with a sword... and he was also saftey net. When Zin was just starting out in the "heroic" business, having Gatts along made him feel safe. Zin could practice his heroic speeches and logic against many strong villains, while letting Gatts' handle the really nasty stuff if a fight broke out. However, Gatts was always doing his own thing, and it was more luck than anything else that their motives overlapped. But because of this, Zin and Gatts became good buddies as well. Gatts was sometimes humored by Zin's heroic tendencies and Gatts taught Zin a thing or two about smack-talking, and enraging other people together like few others could. Well maybe Miles and Fren could. Anyway, thanks to Gatts' influence, Zin was eventually able to become a saftey-net himself for a new generation of heroes and adventurers.

Judea

Trickster. Shadow. Friend. Practical.

To Zin, he's an incredibly like-minded adventurering companion. Over many years, they trained together, went drinking, talked trash, and saved Treegum a few times too many.

Lisa Linton:

While struggling to find his place in this timeline, Zin eventually met a beautiful woman outside the church of Ra'Ma. She fell ill during their first encounter, almost fainting on the spot, so Zin carried her to the Church of Vadriphose where she received immediate treatment to the strange magical sickness. Strange occurence aside, it quickly became clear to the half-elf that this woman's name was Lisa Linton, a powerful sorcereress with many friends as well as enemies. The half-elf related to her easily enough, what with him being extremely opinionated and having received his own share of personal hardships in life, so they had lots to talk about.

Lisa was one of those people who was always nice to Zin, and she was extremely protective of him at times. If someone spoke ill towards the shifter, she would be quick with a comeback or a reassuring comment. "That guy's an ass. Don't worry about it," she would say. There was even one time she physically defended him from a murder in Treegum square. The elf Artemis Ma'Forr one day received enough of Zin's idealistic talks and he killed the preaching half-elf outright in the open streets. While people and friends stood around in shock, or perhaps paralyzed out of fear of what Artemis might do next, the sorceress came to see what the commotion was about. At the moment of realizing what had happened to Zin, Lisa cussed out in rage while hurling a powerful spell, forcing Artemis to his knees. She was about to return the favor for what had happened to Zin, despite guards warning her to stand down. A part of her could not let go of the rage however, and she decided to charge up the next spell to finish off Ma'forr. But in that moment, Gatts, a friend of everyone involved, snapped to it, and used his sword to knock Lisa down on the ground. Many words were shed, things happened, but at the end of it all, Zin was brought back to life, and he knew who thank for being alive. It was the woman who later proved to be the mother of his child.

Juliet Linton:

After a growing relationship, Zin and Lisa now has a child together, Juliet Linton. Zin did not get to spend a lot of time with his daughter when she was a child before the mother wandered off and lost her in a strange plane of existence. Zin and Lisa set out to look for her together, and they eventually found her.. as a bitter adult with abandonment issues.

At first, the parents were dumbstruck with how they were going to communicate with their daughter who had lost touch with normal society after being lost to the magical planes for so long. However, this whole event made Zin rethink who he was. He knew how to be a hero, but he had never learned anything on how to be a family man. He didn't know how to deal with a girlfriend, much less a daughter. That said, after a lot learning and committing to patience, through better and worse, Zin and Lisa finally have a healthy relationship with their daughter, as well as each other.