Roderic Cliché - Revision history

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‎Origins

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 ==The Present==
-After a brief reappearance in [[Myrken Wood]] in between July and December of [[Anno Regalis|AR]] 206, Roderic spent several years in [[New Dauntless]], taking on a role of a traveling toymaker for hire.  On finding minimal work there, he sought to return to [[Myrken Wood]], there to offer himself as a business partner with the newly christened [[Lord Steward]] [[Aloisius Treadwell]] and as a potential suitor to [[Aloisius Treadwell|Aloisius']] sister, [[Elizia Treadwell|Elizia]].  Roderic remains perpetually cautious and nervous, though, on careful lookout for all manner of adventurers and Elves.
+After a brief reappearance in [[Myrken Wood]] in between July and December of [[Anno Regalis|AR]] 206, Roderic spent several years in [[New Dauntless]], taking on a role of a traveling toymaker for hire.  On finding minimal work there, he sought to return to [[Myrken Wood]], there to offer himself as a business partner with the newly christened [[Lord Steward]] [[Aloisius Treadwell]] and as a potential suitor to [[Aloisius Treadwell|Aloisius']] sister, [[Elizia Treadwell|Elizia]].  Roderic remains perpetually cautious and nervous, though, on careful lookout for all manner of adventurers and Elves.  As of November, [[Anno Regalis|AR]] 216, though, he has sent Treadwell a letter stating that he must return to long unfinished business with the Elves of [[Mythago Wood]], removing himself from his position of traveling salesman and assistant to [[Tready's Toys]].
 ==Plots==

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 The Elves of the [[Mythago Wood]] knew that Roderic was alive--the magic invested into their new [[Father Winter]] had not been passed to another as it would have on his death or his voluntary surrender of those powers--but they knew nothing of where he was nor were they willing or able to hunt down the black, two-headed dragon responsible for the destruction.  They were also ignorant of the possibility that Roderic himself was the culprit for such damage.  Therefore, though Roderic has had no further dealings with these Elves in the ensuing decades, they would very much care for the safe return of their Elder Fullness to them, especially given the seeming absence of the black dragon that destroyed their homes and destroyed their families.
-==Recent History==
+===Recent History===
 Mister Cliché would eventually resurface in the mid-200s in [[Myrken Wood]]: unharmed, unaged, and unwilling to discuss any of his past from the final five and a half decades.  He struck up a fast friendship with then-Councilor [[Aloisius Treadwell]] on settling into a storefront in the middle of town, near the Deck--a storefront that would eventually progress from being Cliché Toys to the current site of [[Tready's Toys]].  He would begin teaching [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]] about making toys and would eventually pass on the mantle of [[Father Winter]] to the tax collector.  This passing of magic from one man to the other--something that ultimately ended up being temporary due to [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]]'s misuse of such--was the last that anyone in [[Myrken Wood]] saw of Roderic for a time.  He left his toy store in his successor's hands and simply wandered off, pale and ill, into the night.

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 | features      =    Portly body; bushy gray mustache
 | birth_date    =    December 2, 100 [[Anno Regalis|A.R.]]
-| birth_place   =    [[Mythago Wood]]
+| birth_place   =    A cave near the village of [[Delamar]] outside the [[Mythago Wood]]
 | death_date    =    <!--date of death-->
 | death_place   =    <!--place of death-->

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 This temporary residence turned into a very long one; the plump toymaker grew into a fast and deep friendship with the Elves and their families who lived there.  Taking on the name of Elder Fullness while living with them, Roderic stayed there, not visibly aging for the next fifty years, rousing some suspicions from his Elven hosts who recognized a potent, ancient magic about him but not recognizing the source of such.  At the end of this fifty years, he inherited a magical role known as [[Father Winter]]--an Elven character devoted to the well-being of children and to the caring for the community around him.
-At this point, Roderic's history is muddled.  The Elves of [[Mythago Wood]] assumed him missing on the morning of his ascension to the role of [[Father Winter]].  During the night, on attaining the magical powers and heritage of [[Father Winter]], Roderic had involuntarily changed into [[Bracchus]] in his sleep, waking in a pained and shocked fury as Elven magic mixed very poorly with his own.  Taking flight in blinded rage, the dragon then torched Roderic's house along with much of the surrounding village and the nearby [[Delamar]]--a fact that Roderic came to regret deeply on regaining his human body and senses.
+At this point, Roderic's history is muddled.  During the night of his ascension to the role of [[Father Winter]], on attaining the magical powers and heritage of [[Father Winter]], Roderic involuntarily changed into [[Bracchus]] in his sleep, waking in a pained and shocked fury as Elven magic mixed very poorly with his own.  Taking flight in blinded rage, the dragon then torched Roderic's house along with much of the surrounding village and the nearby [[Delamar]]--a fact that Roderic came to regret deeply on regaining his human body and senses.
 The Elves of the [[Mythago Wood]] knew that Roderic was alive--the magic invested into their new [[Father Winter]] had not been passed to another as it would have on his death or his voluntary surrender of those powers--but they knew nothing of where he was nor were they willing or able to hunt down the black, two-headed dragon responsible for the destruction.  They were also ignorant of the possibility that Roderic himself was the culprit for such damage.  Therefore, though Roderic has had no further dealings with these Elves in the ensuing decades, they would very much care for the safe return of their Elder Fullness to them, especially given the seeming absence of the black dragon that destroyed their homes and destroyed their families.

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 This temporary residence turned into a very long one; the plump toymaker grew into a fast and deep friendship with the Elves and their families who lived there.  Taking on the name of Elder Fullness while living with them, Roderic stayed there, not visibly aging for the next fifty years, rousing some suspicions from his Elven hosts who recognized a potent, ancient magic about him but not recognizing the source of such.  At the end of this fifty years, he inherited a magical role known as [[Father Winter]]--an Elven character devoted to the well-being of children and to the caring for the community around him.
-At this point, Roderic's history is muddled.  The Elves of [[Mythago Wood]] assumed him missing on the morning of his ascension to the role of [[Father Winter]] due to the absence of a body on finding his house being destroyed, along with much of their village, by dragon fire from a suddenly visiting draconic scourge that torched much of their town and all of [[Delamar]] to ashes in a passing rage.  They knew that he was alive--the magic invested into their Father had not been passed to another as it would have on his death or his voluntary surrender of those powers--but they knew nothing of where he was nor were they willing or able to hunt down the black, two-headed dragon responsible for the destruction.  In truth, though Roderic has had no further dealings with them in the ensuing decades, they would very much care for the safe return of their Elder Fullness to them.
+At this point, Roderic's history is muddled.  The Elves of [[Mythago Wood]] assumed him missing on the morning of his ascension to the role of [[Father Winter]].  During the night, on attaining the magical powers and heritage of [[Father Winter]], Roderic had involuntarily changed into [[Bracchus]] in his sleep, waking in a pained and shocked fury as Elven magic mixed very poorly with his own.  Taking flight in blinded rage, the dragon then torched Roderic's house along with much of the surrounding village and the nearby [[Delamar]]--a fact that Roderic came to regret deeply on regaining his human body and senses.
 ==Recent History==

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 Being an ancient dragon in disguise, Roderic has lived much longer than he ever readily admits.  Seeming to be perpetually just shy of old age and claiming to be "Somewhere around sixty years, I think?", Mr. Cliché's first known appearance dates back to the second of the twelfth month, in [[Anno Regalis|A.R.]] 100, when the old man was found lying unconscious and naked except for his eyeglasses in a dragon's cave a mile from the small hamlet of [[Delamar]].  Originally claiming to be largely forgetful of much of his history before he woke in the back bedroom of the town's church, he soon proved himself both the richest man present--arguing successfully that his having been the first in the dragon's cave after the dragon's leaving meant the dragon's hoard was his by right--and the generous benefactor who would soon be called Baron Cliché by the citizens.  Within five years, he was also husband to one Elizabeth--a stout nag who kept him very much henpecked.  After her passing shortly thereafter, Roderic took leave of [[Delamar]] for the time being, venturing into the [[Mythago Wood]] to meet the Elves living there and to take up temporary residence.
-This temporary residence turned into a very long one; the plump toymaker grew into a fast and deep friendship with the Elves and their families who lived there.  Taking on the name of Elder Fullness while living with them, Roderic stayed there, not visibly aging, for the next fifty years, rousing some suspicions from his Elven hosts who recognized a potent, ancient magic about him but not recognizing the source of such.  At the end of this fifty years, he inherited a magical role known as [[Father Winter]]--an Elven character devoted to the well-being of children and to the caring for the community around him.
+This temporary residence turned into a very long one; the plump toymaker grew into a fast and deep friendship with the Elves and their families who lived there.  Taking on the name of Elder Fullness while living with them, Roderic stayed there, not visibly aging for the next fifty years, rousing some suspicions from his Elven hosts who recognized a potent, ancient magic about him but not recognizing the source of such.  At the end of this fifty years, he inherited a magical role known as [[Father Winter]]--an Elven character devoted to the well-being of children and to the caring for the community around him.
 At this point, Roderic's history is muddled.  The Elves of [[Mythago Wood]] assumed him missing on the morning of his ascension to the role of [[Father Winter]] due to the absence of a body on finding his house being destroyed, along with much of their village, by dragon fire from a suddenly visiting draconic scourge that torched much of their town and all of [[Delamar]] to ashes in a passing rage.  They knew that he was alive--the magic invested into their Father had not been passed to another as it would have on his death or his voluntary surrender of those powers--but they knew nothing of where he was nor were they willing or able to hunt down the black, two-headed dragon responsible for the destruction.  In truth, though Roderic has had no further dealings with them in the ensuing decades, they would very much care for the safe return of their Elder Fullness to them.

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 ==The Present==
 After a brief reappearance in [[Myrken Wood]] in between July and December of [[Anno Regalis|AR]] 206, Roderic spent several years in [[New Dauntless]], taking on a role of a traveling toymaker for hire.  On finding minimal work there, he sought to return to [[Myrken Wood]], there to offer himself as a business partner with the newly christened [[Lord Steward]] [[Aloisius Treadwell]] and as a potential suitor to [[Aloisius Treadwell|Aloisius']] sister, [[Elizia Treadwell|Elizia]].  Roderic remains perpetually cautious and nervous, though, on careful lookout for all manner of adventurers and Elves.
 [[Category:Characters]]
 [[Category:Active Characters]]

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 | build         =    Plump
 | features      =    Portly body; bushy gray mustache
-| birth_date    =    100 [[Anno Regalis|A.R.]]
+| birth_date    =    December 2, 100 [[Anno Regalis|A.R.]]
 | birth_place   =    [[Mythago Wood]]
 | death_date    =    <!--date of death-->
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 }}
-Roderic Cliché is a short, quiet, tubby little man who claims to be nearing sixty.  He has spent very little time actually in [[Myrken Wood]]--merely long enough to establish a toy shop in the heart of town, meet and befriend [[Aloisius Treadwell]], and then pass on the mantle of [[Father Winter]], which Roderic held for some time, to the tax collector.  This passing of magic from one man to the other--something that ultimately ended up being temporary due to [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]]'s misuse of such--was the last that anyone in [[Myrken Wood]] saw of Roderic.  He left his toy store in his successor's hands and simply wandered off, pale and ill, into the night.
+==Description==
-In truth, there are a number of sides to Mr. Cliché; he presented himself first and foremost as a quiet, though jolly when met, toymaker.  Secretly, he held the aforementioned role of [[Father Winter]], a personage held in some esteem mostly by elven communities some distance from Myrken Wood; the tradition of such was only newly reintroduced to the town primarily by [[Aloisius Treadwell]], although some older records of the Father exist in Altruian Mudd's [[Library of Mudd]].  Roderic was rumored to hold a great number of other magical abilities, many of them bestowed on his old self by adoring children.
+This image, however, is a front; the lovable, cautious toymaker is a shape-shifted body used to hide the presence of an aged, corpulent, two-headed dragon named [[Bracchus]].  Rather than deal with the infirmities of being a dragon of advanced age and rather than deal with the assaults on his person and hoard that would come with such, the great wyrm chose to hide himself from smaller eyes, a deception he has maintained well throughout the years.
-Roderic, in the past, has delved deeply into one such ability when talking to those same children, though always in jest: he always seems to have one tale or another about his ability to turn into an ancient (and friendly) black dragon that was long since thought dead or merely legendary.  That dragon supposedly has an immense appetite and a neverending failure to land properly.  That dragon is named [[Bracchus]], though Roderic himself never gave anyone in town visible proof of being able to change into such.
+==Background==
-The truth of the matter is that he really is the big dragon in question, and, as of late, he is spending more and more time as the great lizard, especially at night.
+This temporary residence turned into a very long one; the plump toymaker grew into a fast and deep friendship with the Elves and their families who lived there.  Taking on the name of Elder Fullness while living with them, Roderic stayed there, not visibly aging, for the next fifty years, rousing some suspicions from his Elven hosts who recognized a potent, ancient magic about him but not recognizing the source of such.  At the end of this fifty years, he inherited a magical role known as [[Father Winter]]--an Elven character devoted to the well-being of children and to the caring for the community around him.
-As of July, [[Anno Regalis|AR]] 206, Roderic has made his appearance anew, returning to [[Myrken Wood]].  After having reopened his toy store--though this time out of his house and not from its former location in the middle of town--he comfortably eased back into everyday life.  However, in December [[Anno Regalis|AR]] 206, the traveling toymaker found himself leaving town, heavy of heart and simply not feeling like he'd found a place he could call "home" again just quite yet.
+At this point, Roderic's history is muddled.  The Elves of [[Mythago Wood]] assumed him missing on the morning of his ascension to the role of [[Father Winter]] due to the absence of a body on finding his house being destroyed, along with much of their village, by dragon fire from a suddenly visiting draconic scourge that torched much of their town and all of [[Delamar]] to ashes in a passing rage.  They knew that he was alive--the magic invested into their Father had not been passed to another as it would have on his death or his voluntary surrender of those powers--but they knew nothing of where he was nor were they willing or able to hunt down the black, two-headed dragon responsible for the destruction.  In truth, though Roderic has had no further dealings with them in the ensuing decades, they would very much care for the safe return of their Elder Fullness to them.
 [[Category:Characters]]
 [[Category:Active Characters]]

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 {{Infobox character
-| name          = Roderic Cliche<!--character name-->
+| name          = Roderic Cliché
-| title         =    <!--noble titles, honorifics-->
+| title         =    Baron of [[Delamar]] (Former)
-| image1        =    <!--character portrait-->
+| image1        =    Roderic_Cliche.JPG
 | alt1          =    <!--character portrait alt text-->
 | caption1      =    <!--character portrait caption-->
-| archetype     =    <!--character archetype-->
+| archetype     =    Traveling Toymaker
-| hair_colour   =    <!--hair colour-->
+| hair_colour   =    Bald/Gray
-| eye_colour    =    <!--eye colour-->
+| eye_colour    =    White
-| height        =    <!--height in feet and inches-->
+| height        =    5' 6"
-| build         =    <!--build - slender/skinny/stocky/muscular/fat/etc-->
+| build         =    Plump
-| features      =    <!--notable features - tattoos/scars/birthmarks/mutations/etc-->
+| features      =    Portly body; bushy gray mustache
-| birth_date    =    <!--date of birth-->
+| birth_date    =    100 [[Anno Regalis|A.R.]]
-| birth_place   =    <!--place of birth-->
+| birth_place   =    [[Mythago Wood]]
 | death_date    =    <!--date of death-->
 | death_place   =    <!--place of death-->
-| spouses       =    <!--spouses-->
+| spouses       =    Elizabeth (Deceased)
-| children      =    <!--children-->
+| children      =    None
-| profession    =    <!--profession(s)-->
+| profession    =    Toymaker
-| religion      =    <!--espoused religion-->
+| religion      =    None
 }}
 Roderic Cliché is a short, quiet, tubby little man who claims to be nearing sixty.  He has spent very little time actually in [[Myrken Wood]]--merely long enough to establish a toy shop in the heart of town, meet and befriend [[Aloisius Treadwell]], and then pass on the mantle of [[Father Winter]], which Roderic held for some time, to the tax collector.  This passing of magic from one man to the other--something that ultimately ended up being temporary due to [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]]'s misuse of such--was the last that anyone in [[Myrken Wood]] saw of Roderic.  He left his toy store in his successor's hands and simply wandered off, pale and ill, into the night.
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 [[Category:Characters]]
-[[Category:Inactive Characters]]
+[[Category:Active Characters]]

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