The first thing that comes to mind is how Xavarian loves to travel, is so excited to go to new places, even moreso to find rumored ruins, or places of aetherical interest to him...
Yet he is terrible with directions. Â Completely, unforgivably bad. Â If he gets to a place he was hoping to somewhere within the week's time, he considers it a success. This applies within cities too.
He has gods know how many maps, and he still can't seem to figure them out. Â The best you'll get out of him is the ability to backtrack where he just was, though he tries intently to write down notes to a place he has to know how to get to. Â The Shroud is sometimes the exception, but he's already missed some assignments that his mentor has given because he couldn't find the location he was supposed to meet, and only ended up going in the right direction by the time everyone else was finished. Â Of course, this will never stop him from trying.
I've also found in playing him, that he isn't the best at speaking anything purely assuring. (Speaking coherently in general aside.) Â Granted, the times it's happened, the other person somehow took to being cheered up anyway, but Xavarian can't simply say 'It'll be alright'. Â He adds more detail. Â Too much detail. Â
'I hope that your friend ends up alright- not that he won't survive, of course.. maybe, or that you or he necessarily have explicit reason to worry, really. I mean- well, I can't speak for how proficient or not he may be in duels to the death, perhaps he has had similar encounters; he looks like he may be able to take a spell or two as well, not that looks are any way to judge such a thing.  Though of course maybe he does have reason to worry, especially given that he doesn't know much in the ways of Aether in an Aetheric duel- But he might not!  And you might not.  It could end up quite alright for him, considering how unstable Aether can be at times, perhaps it will explode upon his opponent and hopefully not the other way around~  There is always something to be said for the unexpected- not that him being fine is unexpected- *muttered curse, and a pause*  ... If one of you is worried, however, might we be able to teach him something more in the remaining hour? Â
...No? Â
Hells.'
He means well, really.
Yet he is terrible with directions. Â Completely, unforgivably bad. Â If he gets to a place he was hoping to somewhere within the week's time, he considers it a success. This applies within cities too.
He has gods know how many maps, and he still can't seem to figure them out. Â The best you'll get out of him is the ability to backtrack where he just was, though he tries intently to write down notes to a place he has to know how to get to. Â The Shroud is sometimes the exception, but he's already missed some assignments that his mentor has given because he couldn't find the location he was supposed to meet, and only ended up going in the right direction by the time everyone else was finished. Â Of course, this will never stop him from trying.
I've also found in playing him, that he isn't the best at speaking anything purely assuring. (Speaking coherently in general aside.) Â Granted, the times it's happened, the other person somehow took to being cheered up anyway, but Xavarian can't simply say 'It'll be alright'. Â He adds more detail. Â Too much detail. Â
'I hope that your friend ends up alright- not that he won't survive, of course.. maybe, or that you or he necessarily have explicit reason to worry, really. I mean- well, I can't speak for how proficient or not he may be in duels to the death, perhaps he has had similar encounters; he looks like he may be able to take a spell or two as well, not that looks are any way to judge such a thing.  Though of course maybe he does have reason to worry, especially given that he doesn't know much in the ways of Aether in an Aetheric duel- But he might not!  And you might not.  It could end up quite alright for him, considering how unstable Aether can be at times, perhaps it will explode upon his opponent and hopefully not the other way around~  There is always something to be said for the unexpected- not that him being fine is unexpected- *muttered curse, and a pause*  ... If one of you is worried, however, might we be able to teach him something more in the remaining hour? Â
...No? Â
Hells.'
He means well, really.
