Raymond Gibbs (Raylan Givens, Fade Rift Native AU)

NAME: Raymond "Raylan" Gibbs AGE: 44 NATIONALITY: Fereldan RACE: human OCCUPATION: mage/researcher TITLE/RANK: Member of the Mage Council BEARING: Catlike, but not deliberately so. He's just naturally comfortable, confident, and adept inhabiting the body he inhabits, and it shows. The confidence that comes with having had it a long time, not yet touched by the creaks and cracks of age.	HEIGHT: 6'0 BUILD: thin. Lanky but graceful, he's noticeably skinny even at his bulkiest -- in canon he's referred to as "scarecrow" and "skinny-minnie". HAIR: Brown shot with silver, especially at the temples. EYES: On the brown side of hazel SKIN: Tannish. He's definitely darker than 'pale,' but not dark enough to be mistaken for not white. A Greek sort of tone.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: A few scars on the torso and a dog bite scar on the leg.

Wake up: about 10am.
Just after 10-2 or 3pm: teaches mage children basic lessons. Reading and writing, basic knowledge of plants and spells, basic spell control. On days he's not with them, he's researching in his room.
3-6: Wanders Skyhold. May be found in the library, battlements, or training grounds.
Around 6: dinner.
7pm-3am: researching in his room. He refers to it as his lab, and it's in the dungeon.
Sleep: 3am. If at all -- sometimes the research bug gets him.


Pro-circle member of the mage council. Generally taciturn, doesn't speak too much at meetings. Keeps to himself otherwise. Doesn't seem to be doing much of anything -- he's deliberately created an image that he's just a grumpy old man not getting anything of value done. Word is slowly getting around, though, that his father was one of the slavers in Crestwood, and he died as part of that process.


Research: Anyone doing particular research into the veil, the fade, or the rifts is of interest to Raylan. His current research goal is to learn everything he can about the veil, so he might understand the holes in it better. Not much information on this exists, so anything tangentially related is relevant.
Friends: Anyone near his age (here meaning within ten or fifteen years) who isn't actively an asshole or too political to keep their shit contained, he's interested in trying to make friends!
Shipping: We all know Fade Rift is secretly a shipping game anyway. I am super into any ship ideas you have, with the caveat that a) he's not into anyone younger than late 20s and b) he's got a weird thing happening with Boyd right now, but it has yet to be seen where that's going.

Not-so-much hooks:
Mentor: Raylan naturally lends himself to mentor/big brother/father figure CR, but I want to limit this a lot because it's only fun to play so many times.
Negative CR: Being a pro-circle mage and a fairly abrasive personality, I expect Raylan to pick up negative CR. However, he's too old to be pursuing people he hates (in words he would use), so he's not likely to engage with someone who doesn't like him and he doesn't like. So this is a pretty sure way to make sure Raylan doesn't have anything interesting to say to your character ever again (he can work with someone he dislikes, but it will be all business and not particularly interesting).