Eyst

Eyst
Status	Active
Race	Gnome
Gender	Male
Guild	undisclosed
Instance	Prime

Presence

Looking over the gathering your eyes land on a gnome slightly apart from the main group. He is watching and listening intently, a slight frown on his face. Perhaps feeling your stare, he shoots a side glance your way before turning to regard you directly. He nods in acknowledgement. A friendly smile surfaces, at odds with the intense gaze now directed at you.

Appearance

Alchemist Eyst Pinunorin, a Gnome.

He has an oval face with bushy eyebrows, cold milky blue eyes and a hooked nose. He has thinning dark brown hair, with blue-veined skin and a thin build. He is very tall for a Gnome. He is an adult. He has a thick bushy mustache that droops heavily on his upper lip.

He is wearing a broad-brimmed black hat with several peacock feathers, a black linen jacket, a deep umber vest with polished jet buttons, a crimson icesilk shirt, a haledroth key embedded with a cabochon twilight sapphire, a tomiek-bladed surgical knife, some ebony cotton breeches and some scuffed leather boots.

Public Face

A citizen of Zoluren, a tradesman, and a scholar. Eyst's formal occupation is that of an alchemist as well as being a frequent student of the Asemath Academy. While most alchemists pursue their calling in the safety of a craft society, or at least the bounds of a city, Eyst differs. Happy to travel extensively to broaden his art, he has frequently found himself in the lesser known, dark corners of Kermoria. Understanding such places and their inhabitants opens a new avenue in which to use his scholarly skills and easily rivals his devotion to alchemy. If he can be found, he is always more than pleased to chat about what new esoteric subject has caught his fancy.

Private Face

It is not untrue that Eyst is a citizen, a tradesman, and a scholar. It is merely also true that he is a liar, a murderer, and a necromancer. While he goes to great pains to conceal his calling, all his endeavors are in service of the Philosopher's Great Work. The unfocused greedy nature that saw him spend most of his early adult life as a drifter was reforged and tempered by the Philosopher's methods; their books and teachings the tools he needed to engage with the world and carve out a place for himself in it.

While he found focus during his induction and training, a significant driver behind his intensity of purpose is a subtle but pervasive paranoia. A feeling that any truly idle moment is one that serves all the many enemies being a necromancer comes with. And while this fear makes it difficult to trust and truly connect with others, he is fond of collaboration in his Work. After all, what better way to ensure others keep no secrets and hatch no plots than to have them under your watch and working towards the same ends?

Performance

Current Study

Eyst is investigating the Forest of Night. He has an eye towards discovering what power is at the root of the Forest's corruption and what can be learned from the fauna and inhabitants that have been subject to its effects.

Past Studies and Adventuring History

• Tagged along with a party of S'kra & other adventurers that were attempting to learn more about the Kra'hei. Learned the history and general circumstances of the Kra'hei's creation. Some clandestine attempts to learn more of their curse specifically were made. Further studies have stalled but they remain a favored topic of his for discussion.

• (Not known to the public)Took part in documenting a dissection of a demonic minion. Wrote an account of the dissection and examination of the specimens.

Paraphernalia

Tools and Accoutrements

• a tomiek-bladed surgical knife - Made from recovered tomiek scavenged during the clean-up efforts on Andreshlew in 436
  This knife has a black tomiek blade held by a polished steel handle and is unusually large for such an instrument. A thin razor edge curves down from the knife's point before tapering in smoothly to the hilt. The long, narrow handle is grooved near the blade to provide more security when using a surgeon's grip.