Caluga

Information

Player: TadanoHitoshi

Character Full Name: Caluga Westbrook

Character In-Game Name: Caluga

Nickname(s): Choirboy (used by Cilas Westbrook), Cal, also uses various aliases when disguised

Association(s): Stormwind

Race: Human

Class: Rogue

Age: 32

Sex: Male

Hair: Naturally a brunette but often changes his hairstyle (even so far as shaving his head) and colour and makes use of wigs. Has a penchant for beards, usually grown naturally.

Eyes: Light blue

Weight: 70kg

Height: 170cm

Other: As Caluga has been trained to go disguised for long periods of time, taking on other occupations and personas, particularly that of a mendicant priest, he travels light, lacking all personal belongings except those pertinent to his cover or his mission. This extends to weaponry: his training included the use of a great range of weapons, enabling him to protect himself (or if necessary, eliminate a target) with whatever is to hand, though this jack-of-all-blades training means he fails to excel in any one field (though he is rather fond of thrown knives).

Appearance

Most often seen in the guise of an itinerant monk, clad in a light brown hooded habit and sandals, occasionally concealing leather armour underneath. At his belt hangs a couple of pouches containing assorted religious paraphernalia, enchanting apparatus, with the tools of his true trade mixed in.

His secondary disguises consist of that of a common fisherman (which also serves to provide sustenance when out in the field), a tailor, a miner or farmer. Though he is skilled in enchanting and tailoring (both as a means of income, cover and fabricating new disguises) he has had almost no experience in mining or farming beyond basic mimicry using clothes and props.

Personality

Alignment: Lawful good

Though one might expect a traveller such as he to be somewhat of a loner, unable to establish relationships, Caluga -on the contrary- has no problem in doing so. His work usually takes him to inhabited places and his cheerful, do-gooder personality often enables him to blend in well and curry favour with the locals. His cheerful and helpful character are not, as one might expect, an act, though he occasionally finds himself torn between prioritizing his work and giving aid where he believes it is needed.

History

Caluga was born during a time of great upheaval as the First War shook the human kingdom of Stormwind. He grew up surrounded by the construction of New Stormwind: a wondrous if somewhat dangerous playground for a young child whose mason parents were busy for most of the day with the construction of the Cathedral of Light. The Westbrooks had always been a pious line and when his parents weren't constructing the cathedral they were within it, praying, their only son by their side.

However, the relatively free-reign he had been granted in his childhood instilled little discipline within the boy, despite extra schooling by the priesthood in matters both theological and scholarly and so he often found himself given additional duties cleaning the cavernous cathedral...though when his short attention span and tendency to shirk duties had eventually driven his masters to distraction he was dispatched to Northshire Abbey, where he acquired a liking for singing. In hindsight Caluga often wondered if he was sent to the Abbey, with its training centers for warriors and paladins in the service of the Light and the kingdom, in an effort to temp him out of the church and into pursuits that might better suit a youth with too much energy and too little patience. Nevertheless, he had never shown a particularly violent nature and he finally seemed to be getting into his studies when, in his mid-teens, Caluga was caught with his hand in the Abbey's donation box when he should have been cleaning the narthex after evening services. After so many years of pushing and bending the rules, he had finally broken one. His parents, away busy assisting with reconstruction after the end of the Second War -though delighted at the news of their son's possible future in the priesthood- would have been shattered by the news of his crime…had he been caught by a member of the guard or priesthood.

As fate would have it he was caught by none other than his uncle. Uncle Cilas, brother of his father Noah had also been a mason involved in the reconstruction of Stormwind, though had allied himself with VanCleef and the others who opposed the government's treatment of them after the work had been completed. Hence he had been banished from the kingdom, not that Caluga knew though: Noah and his wife Melina had told him that Cilas had taken a job up in the north. Cilas himself had snuck into Northshire with the intention of joining up with the Defias Brotherhood. It was they who had sent Cilas, as proof of his commitment, to pilfer from the donation box. Instead he found his young nephew doing exactly the same.

Cilas of course berated the youth and agreed that he would not tell the priests…on a couple of conditions: he told Caluga that he and Noah had parted on bad terms and so he didn't want Caluga's parents knowing that he had returned. The other condition was that Caluga resume his studies, but also after his duties had finished, he was to meet Cilas daily in the woods behind the abbey. Perhaps it was the innocence of youth that saw Caluga taken in by the mason-turned-thief, or at last finding an outlet for all his energy and daring urges. He soon found himself meeting his uncle nightly and as the weeks wore on Cilas taught the youth various ‘survival' skills…much of which seemed like games: disguising himself, learning the dialects of other regions, sneaking about through the woods and towns. Cilas also listened intently as Caluga told him of the gossip within the abbey and the surrounding countryside.

The weeks turned into months and into years. Caluga's priestly studies were becoming stunted. He could not harness his faith as many other acolytes could, and he found himself longing more and more for his nightly excursions…until one morning he awoke to hear that a criminal had been arrested in the abbey grounds in the early hours of the morning. Obviously Caluga was questioned and the guards doubted his denial of all knowledge about his uncle's return to the kingdom. It saw the end of his time within the abbey, and his uncle's incarceration within the Stockade. Shocked at the knowledge his uncle was a criminal, and forced to look back upon what he had been taught with fresh eyes: for what purpose had Cilas been training him? Nevertheless he vowed to the Light to put his skills to good use.