Kenian Deepwood
Bio
- Full Name: Kenian Deepwood
- Age: 25
- Birthday: Fadun 03, 1497
- Hair/eye colour - Atharia: brown/blue
- Hair/eye colour - Keverynn: green/red
- Skin tone: His skin appears jaundiced. His skin is marked with deep bruises and eczema.
- Type of build: lanky with little muscle tone
- Weight: 9 stone (roughly 140 lbs)
- Favourite colour: green tones
- Hobbies: reading
- Level of Education: high school
- Known family members: Parents Arvela and Weliam (deceased), sister Arbella (deceased), twin brother (Aenek Deepwood)
- Character flaws: Occasionally depressed. He's terrified of dragons.
Clothing and Accessories
He has a bracelet left to him by his father that is always on his wrist.
He almost always wears his half of his grandmother’s necklace. The other half belongs to his twin.
Likes and Dislikes
It makes him feel old when people call him Mr. Deepwood.
He hates being seen in his nightclothes.
He doesn't like potatoes.
History
He's suffering from Stage 3 of Rescher's Syndome, an incurable illness he was diagnosed with early in his childhood. Doctors often wondered why only the one twin was affected but since no one knew what caused Rescher’s Syndrome, there was no way of knowing for sure.
Background
Kenian and his twin brother Aenek were raised by their paternal grandparents in Edelride after the accident that killed their parents and their older sister. They were only five years old at the time, so neither twin remembers much about their parents or sister beyond stories told by their grandparents and images left behind.
Not long after his eleventh birthday, Kenian got sick. At first it was unexplainable eczema that resisted all attempts to treat it. He suffered from debilitating nightmares. As such, his sleep was poor, and he was constantly fatigued. After his third bout of unexplained vomiting, his grandmother took him back to the doctor and insisted that they look into it. There was something seriously wrong with him. The doctor agreed as Kenian was exhausted, underweight, and eczema was getting worse instead of better. It took two rounds of tests to confirm their findings, but they diagnosed him with Rescher’s Syndrome. It came as a minor consolation that he was one of the youngest people to have such a diagnosis. The doctors tested Aenek, but found no trace of the illness. In all cases of twins with Rescher’s Syndrome, both had it. This was puzzling to them. Aenek only felt relief that he was still healthy.
Knowing what was causing him to be so sick only helped him treat the symptoms. The doctors gave him powerful drugs to treat the nausea and help him sleep. The doctors continued to test Aenek for signs of the syndrome, but after a couple years and no signs of illness they stopped, giving him a clean bill of health. Kenian began showing signs of Stage 2 not long after his 16th birthday. By this point he’d stopped attending public school, though Aenek still went. It was while attending school that Aenek met and befriended Asharos Sigilkeeper. While Aenek wasn’t the first person to follow him and subscribe to his beliefs, he was the first member of his inner circle.
One day while Asharos was visiting the Deepwood family home, he met Kenian and saw how sick he was. He told Kenian that all the science and technology on Atharia couldn’t help him, but he could. He’d learned the secrets of magic, and if Kenian joined his group and dedicated himself to learning their ways, he could learn how to rid himself of his illness.
Kenian had his doubts, but Asharos was persuasive, and Aenek clearly trusted him. He knew Rescher’s Syndrome was incurable and likely fatal, so he had nothing to lose by seeing what Asharos had to offer.
He was with the Cult of Atraxia for six years before he began exhibiting Stage 3 symptoms. He’d made no progress in ridding himself of it, he had no friends among the other cult members, and he had about as much magic as a twig.
In his time among them, he watched as the group grew, drawing the attention of the authorities. That came as no surprise to him, given how Atharians felt about religion of any sort. What surprised him was how much difficulty the Agency had in locating them.
He watched as Asharos demanded stranger and increasingly violent things from his followers to prove their devotion. He was able to plead out of most of them, using his illness as a shield, but the other members of the inner circle were becoming suspicious and becoming insistent that Asharos make him partake in the rituals. Membership in the cult wasn’t generating the result he hoped for, so he formed a plan to get out. One day, the opportunity presented itself to steal a bike and make it to the city of Aren’march where he turned himself in to the Agency.
The Agency put him in lockup for a few days while confirming his identity. After that, he was handed over to the lead Agent on the case, one Captain Drianna Snarevine, for interrogation.
