Kaiphas de Gault

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history

the gault name is old in la noscea, and entailed to it is a manse of sprawling construction. while it is not uncommon to find elezen among the earliest settlers of limsa lominsa, the house of gault has long since divested itself of shipping interests, though a personal craft remains listed among its assets. it undertook a voyage to the silver bazaar some four decades ago, and there begins the record of this man's life.his name first appears in the rosters of ul'dah's guild of thaumaturges shortly after that voyage. he took concurrent study with the alchemists, and paid his dues to both guilds with familial wealth.upon exhausting ul'dah's curricula of interest, gault applied to the studium of sharlayan. he completed a course of study at their dravanian colony, earning his sage's mark in aetherology. when the colonists returned to old sharlayan two decades thereafter, he took up residence on the island. in the five years that followed, he earned a secondary mark in anatomy and medicinal knowledge.having always been fascinated by the aetherial sea and the nature of the soul, he pursued opportunities to observe at both the antitower and the aitiascope. what he observed there he does not speak much of, but just before the calamity, he abruptly quit his post in sharlayan, chartered a crew for his ship, and made for othard.when kaiphas de gault returned from dalmasca, it was with a new companion in tow--the taciturn and mysterious jona archades. the pair have traveled together since; kai has largely abandoned the cloistered study in favor of academia, and jona serves as both bodyguard and research assistant by turns.

appearance

appearance

somewhere just beyond the cusp of middle age, kai's impressive height is undercut by his gangling build and easy manner to rob his silhouette of any intimidating factor. he wears his dark hair short, though never short enough--it resists all attempts at neatness to lie in shaggy ruffles about his crown. his beard and goatee he has better luck with, and keeps well-groomed.the backs of his hands are marked, each in kind, with the blood-red ink of a sharlayan sage's tattoo or archon mark; the one upon his right hand is slightly more feathered and aged than that upon his left. those hands are soft, seemingly unused to any toil harder than thumbing tomes or writing treatises. his body likewise lacks any telltales of physical combat, though an aging scar splits his left cheek, faded to pale against the warm brown of his skin.he tends to dress in monochrome, in multiple layers--the sharlayan clime is changeable and libraries are often cool and dry for the sake of conserving the tomes they house. he seemingly prefers accessories of gold: ear cuffs and rings, cuff links and tacks all feature at least occasionally, but quite often he wears a pair of stylized aigrettes resembling leaves or blossoms at his temples. what honor they might signify he does not say, more focused, perhaps, on the way they compliment the rich gold of his eyes.his posture is easy and his manner louche, not given to the stiff formality expected of either an elezen nor a sharlayan scholar. he has a ready smile, an easy laugh, and an accent native to nowhere he's ever claimed as home.