Character Profile: Cast Silarion

Name: Cast Silarion

Age: 27

Race: Hylian

Gender: Male

Personality: Liars breed liars. Cast was born and bred among people whose existence depended on how well they could portray exactly what someone wanted, and he picked up the skills very well. Instead of being reliable and concrete, his personality is adaptable and fluid and he is very hard to read or anticipate. On the contrary, he reads people and behaves in a way suited to that person. He’s adept at portraying exactly he wants to in both his mannerisms and body language. 

Despite all this, there is a formed personality in his core. His ability to manipulate people has made this natural personality a little arrogant and playful, but because he’s grown up digging out his own existence in society, he’s no stranger to seriousness either. Most people have a hard time seeing his true nature for what it is, knowing what is the real Cast. 

Appearance: Cast is fairly tall, standing about 6'1" with an average build. He's relatively successful at his chosen profession, so he's filled out rather nicely with muscle over the years, looking nothing like the scrawny street rat he used to. His hair is a darker, ash blonde color contrasting against his honey brown eyes. He also keeps a very short beard, which he keeps trimmed and neat like his hair in an effort to remain relatively nondescript.

History: The bastard son of a whore, Cast was surprisingly well cared for in his early years. The house his mother worked for was very communal and had a habit of caring for one another’s children like their own. Local street rats and orphans were often jealous that the children born to this particular brothel were fed, clothed and sometimes even educated by the women, so they targeted them anytime they set foot out of the whore house. Cast was small and scrawny, but he never backed down from fights, which lead to him losing more than his fair share. Many of the children simply took the beatings and teasing in stride and refused to stand up for one another. This wasn't what their mother's were teaching them, he reasoned, so he would argue and confront the others about their cowardice. His words never amounted to anything more than his own isolation from the rest of the children, much to his mother’s dismay. But it didn’t bother him quite so much. He was fearless and long decided his mother was the only one important in his life.

Her death from syphilis hit him hard. The rest of the whores took him under their care in his mother’s stead, but Cast barely ate or slept for months. One day he simply disappeared. None of the women could find him or figure out where he went, so they simply gave up, praying for the goddesses to take care of him.

Already a budding idealist, Cast became determined to protect women from his mother's fate, protect them from resorting to prostitution. Reality burned this naivety to ash, leaving only a hollowed existence in its place for years, as the boy grew into a man. He became a simple thief, working alone, picking off the masses to drag his own existence through life.

Well into his teenage years, half starved one day, he woke to the reality that this path would kill him and soon. He contemplated letting the hunger eat him heart and soul... and found himself met with a visage of his mother on her deathbed, writhing in pain until nothing remained in her eyes. Terror lodged itself in his heart and drove him to reclaim his life. So using every tool at his disposal, he set out to do just that.

Cast now maintains himself as a skilled con-artist, using a variety of assumed names. Only contacts he uses to acquire certain tools know him by his real name.

Weapon: Street fighting and a hidden dagger.

Other: Cast possesses strange magic that he generally ignores because he has never understood it.