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Player Pronouns: she/her
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Player Interests: Science fiction and fantasy novels, tabletop RPGs, crochet and needlepoint, drawing, writing, astronomy. (I'm a recovering academic, so filling out the information reminds me of writing syllabi.)
Character Name: Penric kin Jurald (plus Desdemona)
Character Pronouns: Pen's are he/him, Des's are she/her
Character Canon: World of Five Gods, specifically the Penric and Desdemona series
Intended Housing: Skolem Townhomes
Intended Position: Anatomy Professor, though Pen is easy to get off topic about any use of sorcery or theology or anything else.
Summary of Character:
Penric was a minor noble's youngest son, being married off to a merchant's daughter, when he stopped to help a dying old woman on the road. It turned out that the woman was a sorceress -- which in this world meant 'has a demon sharing her body' -- and the only help Pen could give was to accept her demon when she died. Pen promptly had his marriage called off, made friends with the demon (and gave her an actual name, Desdemona), and begged the god (the Bastard) to let him keep Desdemona when the Temple decided that Des jumping to some random guy was a sign she was dangerous and tried to exorcise her. (It turns out when your saint gets orders from his god that 'no, he can keep this one', the Temple listens.)
Pen was promptly bundled off to seminary, and worked as a court sorcerer for the aunt of the royal family. When his patron died, he was sent to train as a sorcerer-physician, as several of Des's prior riders had been them. Pen learned that while he had the skill for it, he absolutely lacked the temperament to be a physician, and Des pretty much told him to find any other posting before his mental health deteriorated more.
That lead to him accidentally getting involved in politics, meeting his future wife (after he blamed himself for her brother getting blinded, and stayed to heal him), and discovering that he could do what we'd call medical research on how to better use sorcery to treat people. At this point, it's pretty clear their patron god has taken an interest in Penric and Desdemona, which is of the 'may you live in interesting times' thing when that god is the trickster of the pantheon.
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