**Name:** Harold Helmonte (a.k.a Storm)  
**Species:** Cthonic Tiefling (Base species: Half Elf. Human father, high elf mother)  
**Class:** Wizard - Bladesinger (practices the style of the eastern elves)  
**Gender:** Male (He/Him)  
**Age:** 31 (Appears younger due to half elf heritage)  
**Facial features:** slender, soft face. Sleepy apathetic eyes. Thin lips. Small nose. (The party demands something they describe as "a fukboi")  
**Skin Tone:** Grey like rain clouds  
**Hair color:** Like black storm clouds  
**Hair shape:** Generally unkempt and shaggy  
**Eyes:** Soft shining white, like the moon through cloud cover. Sclera dark like night.  
**Body Type:** Average height, thin. He has a lithe but toned body from hours spent practicing his war dancing.  
**Attitude:** Resentful, Protective (of his brother), Impatient, Generous (money isn't important)  
**Combat Style:** He practices an art of Bladesinging developed by elves from the far east. The style was developed to ward off, defeat, and in extreme cases slay evil spirits. It utilizes a sword in one hand and a fan in the other, acting as spellbook and spell foci in tandem. Its movements are based on real world Kendo and Iaido martial arts, and, real world dance styles of Kenbu and Onikenbai.

**Clothes**: He wears a blue overcoat with dragonfly patterns on the sleeve and the bottom. He wears black leather boots and armguards. His general color scheme is blue, black, and white  
**Mask:** He has an oni mask he wears, normally on his belt but also during combat. The mask is mostly featureless for the red and black color schemes and space for his horns to sit where horns would normally be on the mask. Oni masks are tools to scare off evil spirits.

**Other Important Items:**  
**Weapon:** A katana with blue wrapping (Tsuka Maki) and blue scabbard. The blade itself is a smokey grey. The blade acts as his spellbook, and etched onto the blade are his spells.

**Folding Fan:** An important part of his spellcasting, it acts as a focus for his spellcasting. It is black with golden snake designs.

**Familiar - Habu:** His familiar is named Habu, and based off the real world habu snake from Okinawa, Japan. They are known as vengeful beings, and guardians that separate the physical and spiritual realms.

**Backstory:**  
Long ago, his grandfather, Wulfric, was a famous mercenary in a well known mercenary company. But he wasn't satisfied with fame and riches and illegally sold goods to the thieves guild. When he was discovered, he lost his career, all his belongings, and the nation left him with a fine that put his family into generational debt. Harold's father, Hoerwick, was a gambler that drove the family into even more debt, so much so that Harold had to drop out of a wizard college which he was attending with his adopted brother, forced to do jobs for the thieves guild to help pay off the debt. During this time he began taking lessons from his master, Yagiri, who began teaching him the art of bladesinging from his master's homeland. He planned to perform mercenary work to fix the mess of his father and grandfather. He had a purpose if not a future. However, just as he was finishing the fundamentals of his bladesinging training and was seeking employment in a small mercenary company, his father finally won it big in the gambling dens. Harold's father paid off his own debts, and those of the family, then told his son "We're not rich, I'm rich." He left with all the money, and left Harold with no purpose, and a future that his father had destroyed. 

He now follows his brother, seeking purpose and meaning in a life of freedom he never thought he'd have. But his resentment towards his past acts as an anchor that weighs down his every decision.

**Bonds:** Brother, and a desire for purpose. Perhaps to be know for more than his family name.  
**Flaws:** Intense resentment. Overprotective of his brother, and will follow him into any danger. Will always ask what he gets out of a request.  
**Ideals:** The family that matters is the family you choose. Money isn't important.  
**Quirks:** Unable to sit still, always bouncing his legs, tapping fingers, etc. Brother says he chews the inside of his cheek when deep in thought.

If there is any further information you wish to know, please message me and I will happily answer.

[LFA] Harold Helmonte, Cthonic Tiefling Bladesinger Wizard