Fikk Pessu

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Core Statistics

Name: Fikk Ronald Pessu
Title: Head Librarian, "Lamelegs"
Age: 32
Race: Human
Eyes: Constantly changing; "rainbow"
Hair: Orange
Skin-Tone: Pale
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 101 lbs
Alignment: Neutral Good

Personality / History

Years ago, Fikk was a confident, handsome show magician, renowned throughout the continents for his talent, showmanship, and commitment to his performances. Crowds would convene from towns around to see the man perform, and not a soul ever left the show disappointed. His entertainment techniques ranged from taming wild monsters to making entire farmyards simply vanish into nothingness. While some of what Fikk did was simply well-angled illusion, a good majority of the magician's talents were authentic, though it was unknown to those watching. His commitment was eventually his downfall.

During a particularly daring show where Fikk had promised the crowd that he would physically morph himself into an acid-spewing devil with the use of some unknown reagents, a ritual of Fikk's went horribly, horribly wrong. The magician had intended to summon a devil for a brief, brief moment, make himself invisible, and then immediately send it back from whence it came, with the hopes that the onlooking crowd would think he had morphed. This was not the case. Fikk's magics had spewed out scours of devils more than he anticipated, and there was a delay in the spell that was intended to return the beasts to their home plane. It was just enough for them all to surround the poor mage, and perform some sort of unspeakable draining incantation. No one, not even Fikk himself, knows just what that incantation did specifically, but the man was never the same. With the magician on the ground, broken and weak, the audience of Fikk's last performance fled, screaming, even after the devils had been sent back.

When the mage had been hospitalized and recovered, those close to him noticed gaping and morbid differences in his personality, behavior, and speech. He could no longer walk using his legs alone, his face seemed to be perpetually white and flushed as if he was dealing with some sort of bone disease (which gave him a sort of sickly feminine look in combination with the addition of new wrinkles), his previously confident and determined demeanor was replaced by a nervous and stuttery one, and his eyes, which he can barely see through, now fluctuated in color.

It was from then on that Fikk's life began to fall apart; his wife, severely alarmed by the drastic change in his mentality, left him immediately, taking their child with her. He was unable to take a single step without the use of a specially designed walking cane, his magical talent was similarly crippled, seemingly beyond repair. When Caedril Rossil, who had attended Fikk's fateful last performance, heard of the poor man's situation, he offered him a job at the Ignis as its Head Librarian. Fikk accepted the job, and maintains it to this day.
And so Fikk Pessu now calls home to the endless bookshelf known as the Ignis Fatuus library, tending to books he can barely read with his own eyes. Through it all, though, he keeps a small smile.

On the inside.

Abilities/Other Information

Fikk, who used to be a very accomplished magician, is reduced to cantrips at his best, due to an infernal draining from a group of devils.

Fikk's speech is very distinct in that he perpetually sounds nervous, jumpy, perhaps distressed. He often starts sentences with phrases similar to "W-well, I mean..."

Fikk's nose is always running.