Reideliron+Slade

**Reideliron Slade**

 * The Draconic Bard of Riverdale**


 * Physical Description** -

Race: Draconic (1/2 Ehlessian)

Age: 720

Height/Weight: 7'1", unknown though he is slender

Hair: Blue-black, kept long almost to his waist

Eyes: Golden, slitted, with long black eyelashes which he sometimes accentuates with charcoal liner

Skin/Marks/Other: He has small scales running the length of his back.

Clothes/Armor: Reid wears only the most fashionable clothing, regardless of how much it costs. He has a lovely feathered hat, high boots, and a blue velvet jacket that he can be seen wearing when he travels. Reid never fights, and therefore has no need of armor, other than his own hide.

Weapons: While he considers himself a lover and not a fighter, he has come in contact with his fair share of violence over the years. That is why he keeps a sword tucked in his walking cane, a set of daggers hidden among his instruments, and most importantly, his songs of music well kept in his mind.

Items: He carries with him a small harp, a lute, and pipes.


 * Personality -**

Attitude: Smooth talking, laid back, and suave, Reid is a man of pleasure and simple delights.

Abilities:

Talents: He can play any instrument as though he's played it all his life.

Likes: Beauty, music, sex, and the general splendors of the world.

Dislikes: Creatures of destruction.

Habits: He has a great love of beauty, and will act upon it without hesitation. (meaning it makes no difference if you're male or female.)

Strengths: Older than most of the other Havenlanders, Reid has a wealth of knowledge dealing with the past. He is also very charismatic, and holds great influence over people. A bard of bards, he is gifted with the ability to play any instrument fluently, as though he'd been playing for years.

Weaknesses: A lover of beauty, his weakness is lies in charm and grace. He finds it rewarding helping those in need, even if they do turn out to be lovely assassins out to kill him.

Philosophy/Quote: "Truth, beauty, freedom, and love... all you need is love."


 * Background -**

Nationality: Ehlessian and Havenlander

Raised:

Family: His mother and father are dead, but his big brother, Sir Drayton Slade, still remains.

Friends: Reid doesn't believe in friends, but rather in loving acquaintances. He knows he will out-live nearly everyone around him, and therefore does not have the heart to get involved. Though, he did fall desperately in love with an elven lady once, but that was a long, long time ago.

Enemies: Reid hopes that no one really hates him enough to consider him an enemy, but there are the occassional few...

Demise:


 * Story:**

When his father was killed, both he and Drayton were forced to find their own places in the world. Sick of bloodshed, Reid took the path of the bard, and thus travelled and sang of his ideals.

He fell in love once. Her name was Tynessa Carawood. She was an elven princess with beauty beyond compare. One night, when he was staying in Graafton, she came to him and offered him the world. How could he resist? The son of Ashkore Sladescale and the Crown Princess of Athal? What a match, and what a fine song of love and romance it would make. Unfortunately, Tynessa had lied to him. The Baron of Graafton had wanted revenge on Reid for what his father had done to the Kadmians in the past. So, he had taken Tynessa's soul and trapped her into a bargain. She had been forced into assassinating Reid by dropping poison into his wine, in exchange for her heart. And, with dread, she solemnly obeyed.

Awaking the next morning, Reid unexpectedly found himself in bed, feeling rather ill. The poison had not been stong enough. Confused and sick, he went looking for his beloved, ignorant of the poison entirely. He heard her voice in the groves just behind the Baron's lands, and followed his ears. He heard the entire conversation between Tynessa and the Baron, the whole plot to kill him. Heartbroken, furious, Reid walked into the clearing to meet his would be murderer face to face.

Upset that the elven girl had not followed through with her task, the Baron smashed her heart. Reid killed the Baron with one single stroke from his dagger. Holding his beloved close to his chest, he kissed her as she lay dying. "I would have given you the world..." She wept, holding up the shattered shards of her heart.

Reid, dark and graceful....

Reid and Tynessa...



Reid and Minstrel...