Post by Titus de Nostromo on Jan 28, 2008 22:37:52 GMT -5
Name: Titus de Nostromo
Age: 26
Height: 6ft
Weight: 220lbs
Build: Lean, agile, sinewy.
Eye Color: one green, one brown
Hair Color: Dark browns
Country of Origin: Italy -> Venice
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race: European
Affliation: Venice
Occupation: Marshall of Venice (for all intents and purposes is in power, as the Doge is senile and decrepid)
Upbringing: Peasant, Adopted into Aristocracy
Weapons/Armor: He wears light armour plateover a mail hauberk over leather padding. He wears one large Pauldron on his left shoulder which offers shoulder/ upper arm and neck protection from the left. This single Pauldron has become somewhat of a trademark earning him the nickname "Uno". He wears the Scarlet tabbard of Venice edged in gold with the Golden Lion emblazoned on the rear with a golden cross on the front. He has a fine long sword, elegant with a slightly curved (although not jewelled) crossguard (just think Gandalf's Glamdring from LotR) as well as a shorter (18") curved blade. He also carried two knives, one in his right boot and one in his left forearm bracer. He also has a shield baring the scarlet and gold arms of Venice, although it is unusual in that it is a circular shield. These are all the finest of quality armour. He was a smith's apprentice himself and so knows the hallmarks of quality armour.
Description: He is handsome, however his young life as a smither are evident in his firmly set jaw and calloused hands. He has long hair with a slight wave to it.
Bio: Born the son of a farmer in the pastures of northern Italy in the mainland area around Venice, he quickly became interested in Smithing. His father, being a prosperous man albeit still of the working classes, paid for him to travel to Venice to learn the ways of Smithing at the age of 7. He became an apprentice, and whilst not amazingly skilled, word spread of his hard work and his eye for detail. He soon became sought after as a Smither, and eventually came to work in the mian Forge which supplied the aristocracy their armour and weapons. He became aquainted with the aristocracy in this manner, particularly with the most powerful family in Venice at the time. He bared a resemblance to the son and sole heir of this family, the Nostromos. However, the boy grew weak and died of a wasting desease. The family managed to keep it underwraps for fear of losing their political dominance over the city. The boy's father came to Titus (age 15) and proposed to adopt him as heir to the family. Nothing further need be said as Titus joined the ranks of the Nostromo family and was trained as an aristocratic youth in the ways of art, combat and social etiquette. He eventually worked his way to being a Knight at the age of 19, around the same time that his adoptive father died (many suspect poisened by his brother, Titus' adoptive uncle). As the next best Candidate the brother was elected as Doge, however, over the next few years, he too started to show signes of mental and physical insecurity in his health. Titus pushed for higher ranks, achieving them with his fighting prowess and academia as well, eventually becoming Marshall of Venice, and essentially ruling in his Uncle's name.
PS. he has a love interest, Sophia Malacanthia D'Abbici
Age: 26
Height: 6ft
Weight: 220lbs
Build: Lean, agile, sinewy.
Eye Color: one green, one brown
Hair Color: Dark browns
Country of Origin: Italy -> Venice
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race: European
Affliation: Venice
Occupation: Marshall of Venice (for all intents and purposes is in power, as the Doge is senile and decrepid)
Upbringing: Peasant, Adopted into Aristocracy
Weapons/Armor: He wears light armour plateover a mail hauberk over leather padding. He wears one large Pauldron on his left shoulder which offers shoulder/ upper arm and neck protection from the left. This single Pauldron has become somewhat of a trademark earning him the nickname "Uno". He wears the Scarlet tabbard of Venice edged in gold with the Golden Lion emblazoned on the rear with a golden cross on the front. He has a fine long sword, elegant with a slightly curved (although not jewelled) crossguard (just think Gandalf's Glamdring from LotR) as well as a shorter (18") curved blade. He also carried two knives, one in his right boot and one in his left forearm bracer. He also has a shield baring the scarlet and gold arms of Venice, although it is unusual in that it is a circular shield. These are all the finest of quality armour. He was a smith's apprentice himself and so knows the hallmarks of quality armour.
Description: He is handsome, however his young life as a smither are evident in his firmly set jaw and calloused hands. He has long hair with a slight wave to it.
Bio: Born the son of a farmer in the pastures of northern Italy in the mainland area around Venice, he quickly became interested in Smithing. His father, being a prosperous man albeit still of the working classes, paid for him to travel to Venice to learn the ways of Smithing at the age of 7. He became an apprentice, and whilst not amazingly skilled, word spread of his hard work and his eye for detail. He soon became sought after as a Smither, and eventually came to work in the mian Forge which supplied the aristocracy their armour and weapons. He became aquainted with the aristocracy in this manner, particularly with the most powerful family in Venice at the time. He bared a resemblance to the son and sole heir of this family, the Nostromos. However, the boy grew weak and died of a wasting desease. The family managed to keep it underwraps for fear of losing their political dominance over the city. The boy's father came to Titus (age 15) and proposed to adopt him as heir to the family. Nothing further need be said as Titus joined the ranks of the Nostromo family and was trained as an aristocratic youth in the ways of art, combat and social etiquette. He eventually worked his way to being a Knight at the age of 19, around the same time that his adoptive father died (many suspect poisened by his brother, Titus' adoptive uncle). As the next best Candidate the brother was elected as Doge, however, over the next few years, he too started to show signes of mental and physical insecurity in his health. Titus pushed for higher ranks, achieving them with his fighting prowess and academia as well, eventually becoming Marshall of Venice, and essentially ruling in his Uncle's name.
PS. he has a love interest, Sophia Malacanthia D'Abbici