Now just a sailor with a few tricks up his vest, Artie is willing to do whatever it takes to become the world's most powerful sorcerer, someday.

Age: 22
Date of Birth: October 31st, 1700 (Scorpio)
Gender: Male
Eyes: Green-Blue
Hair: Black
Skin Tone/Pigmentation: Olive
Height: 5ft 11 ½"
Weight: 172 lbs (78 kg)

Appearance

Physical Description

Buff

Mentality

person.sexuality

Straight but almost asexual due to his workaholism.

person.gender_identity

Cisgen male

Taboos

Artie does not believe in casting spells by channeling the Aetherwave through a human body. He thinks that is like channeling electricity through the human body, "historically not great".

Known Languages

Artie speaks Portuguese, Spanish, fairly good English, and a little bit of French, like just about everybody educated in Europe does.

Personality

Quotes & Catchphrases

My one fault is that I am a jealous man. It's just one of many things I have in common with God.

Likes & Dislikes

Artie views his natural tendency to form emotional attachments to people as his greatest weakness. Someday he may need to use necromancy to take the next step in his growth (or to stop someone more powerful and less responsible than he), so it would be better if he didn't get too close to his associates and employees.

Virtues & Personality perks

Artie from his first experience with the Arcanum viewed magic like a pocketwatch, not like money. Some Wavebinders "borrow" from the Etherwave Arcana until a backlash makes them repay their debt. Artie believes one must first "wind the watch" collecting and storing small bits of energy to be released later. Of course, his method is not without risk. No one wants to store too much energy and bust their mainspring.

Vices & Personality flaws

Artie's vice appears to be studying the Weird (and all things magical) with a workaholic's obsession, learning everything he can know about the Etherwave and how it works.

But, deep down inside, he is a Jealous man. The thought that someone might send the Otherworld and all its magic away again is a thought that claws at him. He just cannot trust anyone but himself with that much power. He must find such a person's fatal flaw or work even harder to out-gun them with superior magical knowledge, skill, or raw power.

What really relieves the clawing jealousy is researching and plotting to take any more powerful magician down a notch, or to get some leverage to manipulate them should it become necessary.

{In some stories, Batman and Professor Xavier have been known to do that regarding their teammates; you know, just in case one gets possessed.}

Social

Birthplace

Porto, Portugal

Current Residence

Looking for work with benefits

Contacts & Relations

Artie writes to his wealthy sister almost daily. Her husband is a Surgeon(Arcane Healer). See below about Artie's father. Artie's old professor and mentor is the Grimling Archnavigator, Paag Yorsteam, (Tealioth Sept).

Wealth & Financial state

Artie has the skills and reputation to find work easily, so he can gather as much money as he wants, given some time.

Family Ties

Artie's parents have been magically transformed into Mallard ducks. His father occassionally flies in and sits on Artie's shoulder and quacks to him about how his mother is doing raising the new chicks. Artie feels obligated to always let his father know how to contact him, which often means leaving a message which can only be read from the sky, indicating where he plans to head next.

His father knows a great deal of territory from the sky as necessary to migrating. And he remembers a lot about farming.

Religious Views

There is one thing Artie is certain about: If he ever in the future gains the kind of ultimate power he seeks, he will definitely (if there is any magic in existance capable of so doing, (and if there is not, then he will invent such a magic as fits his needs)) he will definitely send messages or influences back to his younger self to get and keep himself on the right track, gaining knowledge and power faster than any adversary, until he is the one and only Supreme Sorceror, able to hold the whole together, Earth and the Otherworld.

He believes that the bizarrely mangled spell which transformed his parents into ducks was sent by his future self to free him to travel the world and to free his parents from material needs.

Anytime he meets with bad fortune of any kind, he looks for the "silver lining", hoping it is just another push toward his destiny.

Speech

Artie controls his arcane inventions with spoken incants (like The Mighty Isis), which usually have the couplet format like:

"Zephyr winds which blow on high,

Lift me now that I may fly."

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March 18, 1722

Artie's First Ship: the Navem Stultor

by the magi Arbitrum Oliveira

NUTSHELL: 1722's Millennium Falcon

[THE TEAM'S SHIP IS DESIGNED BY ALL THE PLAYERS ON THE TEAM, SO THIS IS JUST A PLACEHOLDER (and Chip thinks it's a great idea) UNTIL THE ENTIRE CREW IS ASSEMBLED.]

NAME: Navem Stultor, Latin for "Ship of Fools" because it travels in dire need of knowledge. (In Portugese, "Navio dos Tolos".)

THEME SONG: Brian Setzer's "Who Would Love This Car But Me". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbKjr9J4PMU

HULL DESIGN: Schooner

DESTINY: These fast and efficient ships are built for exploration and Privateers who chase the horizon. This hull type was designed for long voyages, no matter how good (or bad) the wind. Speed and efficiency of travel are its hallmarks, making it ideal for courier work, exploration, or even smuggling. This Ship’s Destiny often sings of the unknown and discovery on the far shores of this world or the lost shores of Otherworld.

Ship’s components and modules : Navigator Portal Platform, and more TBD. It has no engines, only sails for wind power (for now).

History: This ship was built for the Grimling Archnavigator, Paag Yorsteam, (Tealioth Sept) after he retired from a long and mostly secretive career. It is said he could pilot it singlehandedly, although that idea strains credulity. It obviously has many more miles than years on it, judging by the overall condition. Professor Paag describes the ship as, "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts."

Professor Paag told Artie of his adventures in the Navem in only the vaguest possible terms. An only slightly stale half-eaten sandwich untouched by rats next to a pair of discarded ladies' underwear would be about average for the weirdness of items that can be found in the nooks and crannies of this ship.

Arbitrum Oliveira bought the well-used ship from his mentor who taught him Engineering and Navigation at Oxford, after spending a few weeks on the ship to learn the intangibles about her. Professor Yorsteam was (and still is) of the school of thought that a pilot needs to know how to repair every important component of his ship in order to maintain a good feel for how much stress he is applying to it and how much it can take before a component cracks or a system breaks down. As the song goes, "She'll never leave you stranded in a bad neighborhood," but that depends on excellent maintenance and a pilot who knows just how far he can press his luck. He made sure Artie knew the arcane materials to use and where one can find them (or at least used to be able to find them).

Artie had to promise the Grimling that he would offer assistance should the Stormchaser Guild call for help to hunt a rogue gate or whatnot.

(After Artie gains some more real-world experience piloting this ship, Professor Paag plans to lean on Artie to help him design and build the Navigation Portal Platform for the next "retirement yacht" that the Archnavigator plans to have built for his personal enjoyment.)

Now that Artie has purchased the ship, he is looking to hire a captain and crew to run the ship while he focuses on learning about the cosmos and gathering power.

Arbitrum's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

How I Came to Be
October 31st, AD 1722

Artie's Character Playbook
Oct 30, 1721

Artie's First Ship: the Navem Stultor
March 18, 1722

The major events and journals in Arbitrum's history, from the beginning to today.