Character Profile: Prince Sirius

Sirius Nathan Beryl

17 Years old at start of story.

5'10

Long, straight, White hair

Fair Complexion

Skinny

Dark Blue Eyes

Armor: Black with a silver trim

Weapon: Wields a light fencing sword as opposed to the heavier swords his brothers use.

The youngest of the five Beryl brothers, Sirius was born after the King had disappeared. Due to the timing and his appearance being strikingly different than his father or brothers, it was a popular rumor that he was from an affair. Being named after a prominent general certainly compounded those rumors.





He was the only one of his brothers who enjoyed any sort of affection from his mother. She took interest in his upbringing outside of the harsh lessons she gave all her children. Drakin was old enough of the time to watch over him as well, playing more of a fatherly figure to him then one of a brother. Because of this attention and genuine care showed to him, he grew up believing what his family was doing was for the best, even as they carved the world asunder with war.





Despite being foretold to be the "Destroyer of Hope" he himself is actually the most optimistic of the brothers, besides perhaps Jerik. He earns his title by being the messenger send to other kingdoms and announcing Negus's ultimatum: surrender and be integrated into Negus's society and enjoy full privileges and rights as citizens, or be completely razed to the ground.


Despite being a less accomplished swordsman then most Negus soldiers, he actually remains a huge threat on the battle field. He has the supernatural ability to heal others, with but a touch life threatening injuries fade to mere scars. There are limits to how much he can heal in a given time and it seems he is much more capable in healing Shaokin then he is normal humans. Much of his training involves learning as much about medicines, antidotes and alternative treatments. For any injury or poison that he comes across, he often can find multiple ways to save the patient, relying on his power only when there isn't time for a longer treatment.





Author Notes:
Sirius was created to fill in a gap. The number five felt natural to me at the time (I blame Captain Planet) so I wanted to make sure there were five brothers. The rest of the brothers created, I realized that, if they were an adventuring party. They would need a healer. Boom! Sirius was born. I based how he looked based off an old Magic the gathering card: Justice (which also went on to inspire the template of the armor all the brothers wear.)

He was the first of the Brothers to meet the current adventuring party. I wanted to emphases that these people, who are the big bad and are doing all these horrible things, are still people and have some good in them. As such I was heavy handed in Sirius explaining how good and right his brother Drakin was. DJ actually just called him a "fan boy" of his brother and I realized that was exactly how I was playing him. This cemented Sirius's personality for me, as well as reminded me to not fanboy my own creations again (at least not as blatantly)