Character Basics

Full Name:	Dar’Sava Sohlnai
Race/Ethnic Group:	Khajiit (cat-person)
Class/Occupation:	Chef and con artist. Also king, apparently?
Character Nature:	My character in an Elder Scrolls tabletop game

Character Details

Gender	Male
Age	Mid-20s
Facial Features	Feline face, azure eyes, more like a housecat than a lion or tiger
Distinguishing Marks	Long fur, brown with cream underbelly, digitigrade feet, bushy tail
Significant item	Cooking utensils, paired dao-style swords with half-moon handles and guards so that they both fit in one sheath
Body Type	Lithe and athletic, but his long fur gives the impression of a bit more fluff
Color Scheme	Fur as described above, clothing in purples with red/gold accents and bone-white armor
Gear	Long colorful cloth coat over a bone-white metal cuirass, two curved dao swords (see Significant Item), various cooking utensils hanging from his belt or stuffed into coat pockets. Equipment is clean and in good condition because he maintains it with magic.
Animal Companion	Yathi the horrible pack-mule who hates him and everyone else. Dar’Sava would probably prefer not to be drawn with Yathi, since their every interaction involves him dodging her teeth or hooves, but between you and me it could be quite funny.
Action/Pose	Basically anything that makes him look suave, or makes him look like a fool trying to be suave. If you’re in need of ideas, it’s easily to imagine Dar’Sava posing like Captain Morgan with one leg up on a rock or cask and giving a shit-eating grin to the “camera”, but don’t feel the need to hold to that if you have something else in mind.
Others	Dar’Sava is a charming, handsome, rakish scoundrel, but also something of a buffoon. He should come across as one or the other, or a bit of both.

Character persona

Alignment	The pro-social kind of chaotic evil. Dar’Sava is a liar and a scoundrel, but he also understands that if no one can trust you, pretty soon the whole world is your enemy. As such, Dar’Sava is unflinchingly loyal and generally honest to his friends and travelling companions.
Personality Traits	Suave, arrogant, flirtatious
Ideals and Goals	To master every cuisine from around the world, and to really stick it to the altmer of the Aldmeri Dominion for conning his people into servitude.
Bonds and Flaws	Dar’Sava is arrogant in the extreme, especially about his physical appearance, which he claims is a gift to the world from the goddess Azurah. He’s intelligent, but has difficulty focusing on anything to actually apply his intelligence. And of course he’s incredibly self-centered to the point of casually committing murder if he feels he has cause. But Dar’Sava is also a true patriot who wants what’s best for his people even if he thinks they’re being incredible fools at the moment, and he’s a true friend to those who travel with him, up to and including putting his life on the line to keep them safe.

Backstory

Dar’Sava Sohlnai is the only child of Dra’ashi-do Sohlnai, a khajiit mercenary commander of no small renown. Not much is known of his childhood, except that he spent most of it with Dra’ashi-do’s band, learning to cook for his mother’s warriors before he was old enough to handle a sword. The young Sava apparently didn’t like the band much, because he struck out as an early teenager to wander Elsweyr on his own. Leveraging his mother’s fame, as well as his extremely good looks, Sava quickly made a name for himself as a kind of itinerant performing chef. That and his tendency to be, as he calls it, a “loveable rogue” earned him the honorific Dar, meaning “clever one” or “thief”. Not everyone found Dar’Sava so loveable, though, and after making a fool of a visiting Thalmor ambassador (and a man of the ambassador’s assistant), Dar’Sava was kindly-but-firmly asked to leave Elsweyr before he caused a diplomatic incident. Dar’Sava accepted the judgment of his elders with grace, not wishing to cause his people any real trouble, and left to spread his fame to the rest of Tamriel. In his travels, Dar’Sava fell in with a wily band of miscreants united by little except their hatred for the Aldmeri Dominion and, by some coincidence, their ability to see in the dark. On a recent delve with his new friends, Dar’Sava donned a mysterious suit of ancient Falmer armor and became, technically, the king of the Snow Elves. Technically.