The Great Expedition: The Story Continues With You!

Name: Elçim Çadormoç
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 30 (His appearance is of his early twenties)
Height: 6 feet, 4 inches (1.93m)
Weight: 143 pounds (65Kg)
Hair Colour: Very dark brown, almost black
Eye Colour: Green, slightly dark, with some brown spots.



Characteristics:
Elçim is a human that found himself into Felarya at a young age and was lucky to be adopted by an adventurer party. He went through many adventures and hardships, and eventually grew to be a fine, clear-minded man that knew how to survive in this world.

He has utmost belief in himself and his abilities, though he isn't a warrior or a mage, and this confidence is what makes him carry on even before great dangers. This stems from the time he spent in the Academy of Sentinels, where he learned to know himself and his limits.

In fact, that wasn't the only thing he got from his stay at the Academy. Just as it was rumoured, the teaching method awakened a psychic ability in him a few months after his fourth year, and he spent three more years there learning to use and control it, while further developing his self-knowledge.

This psychic ability makes him able to see "intention" as some kind of coloured mist around a sentient being, normally shapeless. With the correct interpretation and quick thinking, he is able to see his way through a conversation or to better predict when and where an enemy will attack. The ability may be powerful, but it still has its weak points. As it uses vision, it's useless against surprise attacks and is blocked by solid objects, even if they are transparent. Which means that blindfolding him will also render him unable to use it. On the other hand, it enables him to see invisible or camouflaged beings as long as they are within his vision.

Aside from that, Elçim is just a confident and knowledgeable human whose only proficiency is in stealth. Once caught, his only way to salvation is trying to talk the other party out of it. He also has a fairly good resistance to mind-based magic, due to his absolute self-knowledge.

Regarding personality, Elçim is introverted and unlikely to start a conversation. However, if he likes the first impression of the other person, he is polite enough to follow with the conversation once started. When you get to know him, he's very kind-hearted and would try to help however he can when he hears that something bothers you. On the other hand, he also tells you right away that he's no knight and he won't save you if you get caught by a giant predator, nor he expects it from you either.

He always wears the same overcoat, made of impermeable-looking dark green fibre and ridden with pockets of all sizes, even on the sleeves. It also has some kind of hollow reinforcement in the back that he uses to carry tools such as a hammer, an axe or a spade. This overcoat serves him both as a way to carry all the things he needs to, tying extra bags to the outside, and as a help when camouflaging in the jungle, as long as the surrounding plants are also green, of course.




Backstory:
Elçim is an off-worlder. He came to Felarya through a portal by his own will, if you can call that to a teen's whim. His original planet was a science-based one, with machines raging from those steam or hydric powered to prototypes of anti-gravity based ones. Accustomed to such an environment where the most trees you see together are those in a park, when he appeared in the middle of a jungle he had quite a shock, and an even greater one when he couldn't go back where he came from. With the help of the holobooks he liked to read and knew almost by heart, he managed to survive his first night. Well, that and the help of certain albino twins who took a liking to that 13-year-old weirdo that tried to do what Felaryan common sense dictated that it wasn't to be done at all costs.

On his second day he learned the absolute first rule of this world for him: Don't be seen. He was chased by a nasty critter for a while, but fortunately his screams for help motioned an adventurer party that saved him and took him in. Over the course of time, he was taught how to survive in Felarya and eventually became a full-fledged part of the group in less than three years, acting as a scout.

Elçim fit into the group quite well. After having seen Negav and Nekomura, he was sure he wished to stay with them. However, Felarya wasn't a world fit for wishes. Around six years after his arrival, the group's luck couldn't keep up with their activities. On an uneventful day with a dim sky and slightly hot weather, their senses were dulled. A slight rain prompted them to enter a cave where a succubus was, without taking the usual precautions, and only he lived because of a coincidence.

After that, he spent some time in one of the group's hidden huts, cursing this world. But he eventually made up his mind and carried on, his morals changing fast. In the end, he settled in the Motamo Docks, in part because he disliked Negav and also because he wanted to force himself to accept this world as it was, by living door to door with human-sized versions of the predators. As time passed, he found himself being more at ease with them than with other humans, finding their logic simpler and their characters more easy-going.

Elçim accepted any job and did mostly anything he could to get some money earned without going too far from the Isolon Eye; recollection, hunting, delivering messages, working as a scout, even spying or gathering equipment left behind by deceased adventurers. He met all kinds of people, both good and bad, and rejected jobs that were imposed onto him, gaining a few enemies.

His situation got worse and worse, he didn't know what to do anymore, nor who he was. Then he heard about a place, and headed there without a second of doubt. Leaving word he was to venture into the jungle to his neigbours, and trusting them with a good part of his savings so they could keep his home, Elçim left for the Academy of Sentinels, promising to return one day.

He managed to get to the Academy after a several weeks wondering about the Mist Ocean. Barely alive, but ultimately in one piece, his heated meeting with the person in charge made him be admitted almost at once. He spent seven years and a few months in there, and came out being a new person.

When he got back to the Motamo Docks, he was surprised to find his home still there, and still in his property much after the money he left would have run out. Only one of his neighbours kept her faith and believed he would be back some day, spending her own hard-earned money into the taxes to keep his home. Elçim became deeply indebted to her, both monetarily and mentally, and would instantly set himself to do whatever she asked him for, generally ingredients for her characteristic cuisine and her experiments.