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NIKON
ic stats canon: The Great Life of Mankind - unfinished original work canon point: around 2014, following a catastrophic infection and grafting episode. age: over 2300 years old species: human, supposedly pb: Ben Wiggins reserve link: here		player name: Tony over 18? yes preference: Either - action spam is in second person POV; prose is in first HMD: Talk to me. contact: PM me or besosde time zone: EST
HISTORY
Nikon was born during the Ptolemaic period of Egypt to a priestess of Isis and a Greek merchant. He became a ward of the Library of Alexandria when he was a child and later a traveling librarian to Arabia, the Seleucid Empire and areas east. Shortly after he began traveling, he was struck with illness and, fearing for his life, sacrificed himself and his traveling companion to save his own life. Since then, he has maintained his longevity through a series of ritual human sacrifices, alchemical constructions, and even cannibalism - at least until approximately 1918, when this practice became too obvious for him to hide any longer. His first ritual sacrifice has tied him eternally to life through a pact with Anubis, as well as tying the soul of his friend to him as well. He has watched his family fade around him, and experienced many major historical events from the Crusades to the Black Death, World Wars to the Race Riots. Nikon's training as a scholar, seeking the preservation of knowledge, has made him curious about the lives of others and, occasionally, at risk of discovery for the strange situation of his life. More and more, in the modern era, people just clock him as having very good skin care. Since 1980, he has taught college under a variety of names, predominately in the Midwest US, where he settled in 1921 after WWI. He has been married three times, his most recent to a fellow professor. She is the only one, in nearly two hundred years, to know about his longevity and proclivities--or to know about his pact with Anubis and his ghost.
PERSONALITY
[HE'S REALLY DRY AND SARCASTIC AT THIS POINT, THAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN YOU'VE BEEN ALIVE FOR OVER 2 MILLENNIA]
SKILLS/ABILITIES
Although Nikon is still technically a human, his advanced age has awarded him a variety of niche and specialized foci, particularly in medical knowledge. He was a trained alchemist and scribe. ★ advanced healing ★ soul-tether: Nikon is haunted by his long dead best friend because their spirits are tied together due to Nikon's first ritual organ harvest.
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