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KALOLAN
Played By Esher
CHARACTER PROFILE
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| NAME |
Kalolan |
| GENDER |
Male |
| AGE TODAY |
35 - as of death |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
(2509 SL) 1.7.25 |
| CURRENT LOCATION |
The Lodge at Omega |
| RANK |
Master |
| SEXUAL ORIENTATION |
Bi |
| RELATIONSHIP STATUS |
Single |
| SPOUSE/WEYRMATE NAME |
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| CHILDREN |
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| CHARACTER STATUS |
Deceased |
| CHARACTER TYPE |
Holder |
| DATE OF DEATH |
34.3.5 |
| APPEARANCE |
| HEIGHT |
6' 1" |
| WEIGHT |
178 LBS. |
| EYE COLOR |
Green |
| HAIR COLOR |
Blonde |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Kalolan is a beautiful man. He has an angular face with a straight nose and a bow mouth. His jaw line is chiseled and strong without seeming unrefined. His almond shaped eyes are thickly lashed. He has a slim body that was once athletic, but is now softening in his middle years.
((Kalolan’s model is Jude Law.))
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| PERSONALITY |
| PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION |
In public or the social sphere Kalolan is warm and charming. He is courteous in a familiar way, treating everybody like old friends. Most of the people who know him in his social world consider him a doting family man, and they are not wrong. Kalolan caters to his mother’s every whim as her dutiful son, and is positively parental in his role of big brother.
Most people also know he is a shrewd businessman, though the business he was in in the North, where he made most of his money, is not known to many in the South. Those who have the right connections back North could tell you that Kalolan is far from friendly when it comes to business. He is tightfisted and keeps careful records accounting for each mark made. All contracts he makes are honored, and all contracts made to him must be likewise honored. People who forget this may be harmed. When he worked with prostitutes he was known for providing good protection for them, and making sure unpleasant things happened to their attackers. This was not because he cared about them as people, but because he considered the beating or raping of one of his whores to be either property damage or theft. Neither of which are acceptable to Kalolan.
Kalolan is also very sensitive when it comes to aesthetics. He enjoys beauty, and demands that everything around him be pleasing to the eye and give off an aura of distinction. One might say that this basic love of beauty is part of what drives him to cultivate his social facade of charm and respectability.
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| HOBBIES |
After moving to Southern Kalolan took to the hobby of avian husbandry- catching song avians and keeping them in cages. He’s gotten quite good at keeping the animals healthy and his collection is impressive in quality. He is keenly interested in trying to get his pets to breed in captivity.
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| BACKGROUND INFORMATION |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Bitra Hold |
| MOTHER’S NAME |
Nontala |
| MOTHER’S RANK |
retired seasonal whore |
| FATHER’S NAME |
Jargot |
| FATHER’S RANK |
one of Nontala's clients |
| SIBLINGS |
Mayvis, 17
Kasiah, 15
Kerberos, 14
Belen, 13
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| SHORT HISTORY |
Kalolan’s mother, Nontala, was a typical seasonal whores in the Bitra area. Her family were poor cotholders who worked the land for a living. Nontala spent the planting and harvesting seasons helping her family. During the winter, when her continued presence could only be a burden, she was sent to Bitra Proper to sell her body. Nontala choose this arrangement over marriage when the choice was put to her at 14. She decided that the only difference between prostitution and the marriage she was offered was that the marriage wouldn’t pay as well.
Nontala had Kalolan when she was 15. The pregnancy was the inconvenient result of her inexperience during her first season. It was a mistake she would not repeat. She left him with her family during winters, and pursued her career.
Kalolan was not treated any differently by his relatives, and he was loved. Unfortunately his childhood was also dominated by the same hard work, sparse food, and sporadic harper teachings as those of all the other children in the poor, overcrowded areas around Bitra.
Kalolan grew into a startlingly beautiful child. When he was 10 an older street whore told his mother that there were some holders who would pay a great deal to foster pretty young boys. Nontala found just such a holder, and fostered Kalolan to him. Her family received a monthly payment as compensation for the lost labor.
Needless to say, Kalolan’s experience of fostering was strange and mixed. His living conditions improved drastically: he had enough food, good clothes, regular harper lessons with the hold’s other children, and access to a healer. But he also was regarded, at first, with suspicion and resentment by the holder’s wife and children, he had an ambiguous role in the hold and was of common blood. In the long run it could be said that these initial difficulties benefited Kalolan- if forced him in the more brutal of social “sink or swim” situations to develop charm. By his sixteenth birthing day Kalolan was indistinguishable from his foster siblings- he was well-groomed, well-educated, and a master of social graces. He was the confidant of the holder’s eldest son and heir, and regarded fondly by the holder’s wife, who threw a party to celebrate her “country cousin’s” birthing day.
In the mean time Kalolan’s mother had finally decided to marry. At 30 she threw her lot in with would-be cotholder who was looking for land in the South. She was already pregnant when they got on the boat.
For all the celebrations that accompanied it, reaching the age of 16 was nerve-wracking for Kalolan. He knew that soon he would have to find a means to support himself since, as generous as his fostering holder was with him, Kalolan knew he could not expect the man to “foster” him indefinitely. The education he’d been given would have let him apprentice to most crafts with relative ease, but apprenticeship wasn’t very appealing to Kalolan. At 17 he left the hold where he’d been fostered, and went to work in an alehold closer to Bitra proper.
Over the years Kalolan used his charm, social connections, and finical acumen to further his own career. After ten years Kalolan was running the alehouse, which had a reputation in the area for it’s good liqueurs, exciting games, and good companionship.
His comfortable life was not to last, however. Just before his 28th birthday he received a message from his mother. Nontala’s husband had died, leaving her and their children in the small cothold they had near Dawnsisters Hold. She had left the management of the cothold to her husband, and now that he was dead she didn’t know what to do. Kalolan went to her aid, abandoning his Northern alehold for his mother’s Southern cothold.
Under his management the small cothold flourished and endured through the years. Initially Kalolan also took over much of the parenting in the cothold, as his mother was deep in grief, and he never fully relinquished this role.
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| CRAFTER INFORMATION |
| CRAFT |
Entertainer |
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| SPECIALTY |
Pillowcraft |
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0 PETS
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APPROVED 2007-07-24
LAST MODIFIED ON 2008-03-18
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