FEF4: Noel Schoech (SeriousConcentrate)

Name: Noel Schoech
Class: Shaman
Character Specific Skill: Vantage
Affinity: Wind
Personal Fault: Can't Focus: If Noel is suffering from Poison, -2 Base Damage for duration of ailment
Personal Skill: Strike First, Strike Best: If Vantage activates, +2 Damage dealt
Personal Skill: One With The Shadow: When Noel is wielding a Dread Tome, +2 AS

Preferred stats: MAG, SKL

Weapon profs: Dred (C), Drud (C), Dark (D)

Level: 13 (0/100)
Total Level: 13

Progression spent: 300/300%

HP: 19 (60%)
STR: 2 (0%)
MAG: 7 (60%)
SKL: 4 (60%)
CON: 6+2 (-)
AID: 5 (-)
LCK: 2 (10%)
DEF: 1 (20%)
RES: 5 (20%)
SPD: 4+2 (70%)
MOV: 5 (-)

First class lvl2: +HP, SKL, SPD
First class lvl3: +HP, MAG, SKL
First class lvl4: +MAG, SKL, DEF, SPD
First class lvl5: +HP, SKL, LCK
First class lvl6: +MAG, RES, SPD
First class lvl7: +HP, MAG, SKL, SPD
First class lvl8: +HP, MAG
First class lvl9: +HP, MAG, SKL, SPD
First class lvl10: +MAG, SKL, DEF, SPD
First class lvl11: +HP, SKL
First class lvl12: +MAG, SKL, SPD
First class lvl13: +HP, MAG, SKL, SPD

Current Stats:

HP: 27 (60%)
STR: 2 (0%)
MAG: 16 (60%)
SKL: 14 (60%)
CON: 8 (-)
AID: 7 (-)
LCK: 3 (10%)
DEF: 3 (20%)
RES: 6 (20%)
SPD: 14 (70%)
MOV: 5 (-)

[code]Inventory:
Name            Type () RNG MT WT CR Hit QL
Flux            Dred (E)1-2 8  9  0  80  33/45 [E]
Carrion         Dred (D)1-2 9  10 0  75  20/20 [Poison on hit]
Vulnerary (2/3)
Knight Crest
[/code]

Battle stats (Flux):
AT: 24
Hit: 109
AS: 14
Eva: 31
Crt: 7
DG: 3

Battle stats (Carrion):
AT: 25
Hit: 104
AS: 14 - (10-{8+2}=0) = 14
Eva: 31
Crt: 7
DG: 3

Bio:
Noel, despite being only eighteen years old, has a somewhat chaotic and troubled history. Born to the noble Schoech (pronounced Shay) family of Miccah, Noel was the second son of four children (the daughter being the eldest). Noel's father was a worshipper of Xatar, unknown to all of the family but Noel himself as he discovered early in life by accident.

As a youth and growing up, Noel was always fascinated with cryptozoology, the unknown, and the dark in particular. Where most would hide from the shadows, he would lose himself in them, exploring the dark nooks and crannies of the Schoech estate. It was while he was exploring that he came across a hidden room filled to the brim with arcane texts detailing worship of Xatar.

The young Noel would sneak in every chance he got to read more and more of the books, unaware that this was his father James's collection and that he was aware someone knew of them. Eventually he caught Noel sneaking in... but rather than berate him, they had a long discussion of the nature of Xatar and James welcomed him into the local cult. Under his father's careful eye, he began to learn magic.

His brothers were jealous of Noel suddenly having their father's favor and attention and began to try to outdo him to earn it for themselves. This usually manifested itself in cruelty and pranks to Noel, all done in an attempt to make him seem the weakest of the three brothers rather than the heir apparent to the Schoech name. This continued on for several years until Brian and Edward also stumbled upon the secret library and took it to be Noel's.

This was their chance. The great noble family of their county of Miccah, Belvoir, had had their eye on Camilla Schoech for some time to marry their oldest son Geoffrey as a way to take the Schoech fortunes for themselves. When they heard the rumors that Noel was a worshipper of Xatar (spread by his brothers in an attempt to get him exiled), the head of the Belvoir family proceeded to proclaim the entire family heretics and put them to the sword, giving Camilla the chance to 'repent' and marry Geoffrey or die with her family. She accepted rather than die.

The only other member of the family to survive was Noel, and only because his father had sent him on a journey to the Zorostraian Empire merely the day before to learn more advanced magic than he was able to teach him. Devastated and panicked, Noel abandoned his original journey in case he was being pursued and fled to the capital instead.

He's now worked for the royal family for just under a year, as they were kind enough to take him in. Although he's grateful, he does resent being just a servant to Prince Aliberti, feeling it's beneath his noble blood and he should be on more equal standing. His main ambition in life is to finish his training and return home to obliterate the Belvoir family, thereby reclaiming his family's honor and possibly taking over the Belvoir lands as well.

As for his relationship with Xatar, despite his father's fanaticism, Noel's was always more of a scholarly nature. The texts interested him on an intellectual level, not a spiritual one, and given that this interest made him a natural pick to inherit he had no reason to not fake a belief. Since becoming one of the royal librarians, however, he has pretty much dropped all ties to the cult of Xatar.