Name: Ishmael Eldouir
Age: forty
Birth Season: Summer
Occupation: Queen's Deputy
Kingdom: Lorendale/Dresmond
Citizen Status: Royalty
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs.
Body Description: Big Ish is a nickname most deserving for Ishmael Eldouir. A large barrel sized man who always smiles, blazing red curly hair and large beard (to hide the terrible collar scar) with acid green eyes, Ishmael is a man who can easily intimidate by sheer appearance. He loves heavy cloaks, fingerless leather gloves, and his self made knitter sweaters.
Values: Family - family. family. nothing he values more.
His Children - after family comes the raising of his children.
Order - he uses order as crutch for the families demented lifestyle; without order nothing would exist. With order he can push his own evil ways onto others.
Aspirations/Ambitions: power - Ishmael wants the family to return to Lorendale and reclaim their home but simply because he wants to rule Dresmond with Myla and Avalon while Hiram with the rest of the lot can have Lorendale.
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Reputation: Ishmael is the strong quiet violent type of man, while physically present domineering Ishmael has the uncanny ability to just bleed into the cracks of conversation judging and observing the wild antics of his family. He is soft spoken usually coming off as the jolly gentle giant but the underlying messages are always hidden with dark cryptic words. He's very pro-Eldouir. Very pro his children. But he's jealous of Hiram, no one would know because he acts like a loyal dog to Hiram despite the preceived notion "Ishmael has a weak Gift" he does anything asked of the family (kill this person/do this or do that). The reason he's so pro his kids is because they are the next generation and he doesn't want them to feel/be like him "last best". Ishmael doesn't rise to meet his anger instead using his anger as a cold calculated means to a end. In Dresmond as the Queen's Deputy he is most certainly effective in carrying out their demands and is a silent contingency of a Shadow King when the King or the Queens are away.

Combat Experience: Ishmael is a tried and true combat trained Eldouir, Extensively and intensively trained in combat from the age of six. At the manifestation of his powers, however, his training switched from the broad training of all the Eldouirs, to personal training with his Father. These brutal, and occasionally inhumane, lessons left him with more broken bones and lacerations beyond what any living creature could endure. It was a frequent occurrence to be beaten within an inch of death. As such, not only does he have an incredible tolerance for pain, but is deeply trained in nearly every weapon they possessed. Where Ishmael excelled was in freeform combat; using anything and everything as a weapon, combined with speed and unrelenting attacks. There was never a single moment he could match the strength or experience of his trainer, but he learned how to avoid being hit, his Gift alone makes the most ample distractions. Being one of strategy became his ally, animals became his tools, and brutality became his trade. As for weapons, in melee his preference is for blunted weapons such as maces, clubs and morning stars. Nothing beats the visceral crunch of bones break. Overwhelming his opponents with a mix of close combat, and his Gift. Ishmael served in the Gifted Legion and then again as a Lieutenant of the Royal Legion, he saw conflict and battle against Coheed and Cambria.

Animal Lordship allows the user to communicate with and command animals through speech, which to the outsider gifted or non-gifted sounds like gibberish.

This makes Ishmael a versatile Gifted due to the diversity of abilities found within the animal kingdom. For example, bugs with their small size and burrowing capabilities are able to perform sneak attacks from underground, birds are useful for reconnaissance due to being flying creatures with great eyesight, and so on. The downside to his Gift is of course a lack of animals or animals being outside of his range to speak to them. To compensate Ishmael usually befriends a animal or two, in Dresmond he has two pet bears, a wolf, and countless birds (a useful tool for surveillance). The limit of what he can command is unknown but he has managed several dozen species at one time again making his Gift very versatile. Having never lived by the sea it is assumed his communication with underwater creatures doesn't exist.
Family: The Eldouir
Joel and Tamra Eldouir (parents; deceased)
Hiram Eldouir - oldest half brother
Sammael Eldouir (older brother; deceased)
2 other siblings

Julai Eldouir (24) - daughter w/ Eldouir cousin
Avery Eldouir (7) - daughter w/ @myla mother/cousin
Helga Eldouir (5) - daughter w/ Avalon Eldouir Mother/cousin

Tale:
Ishmael is the son of Joel and Neila Eldouir, half brother to Hiram Eldouir but also a slew of other half siblings. He was born big at 15 pounds and 6 oz and when he came into this world they say Ishmael never cried. In fact Ishmael had been a fairly simple child: he would laugh but he didn't show much else as far as emotions no tears, no anger, no saddness, nor did he talk much always observing. One time he asked a question and had his jaw broke for it plus a good group wailing, it kind of made him the target of bullying but still Ishmael just took it. A brother asked him once why he took it all and Ishmael said, "because I'd kill them," and left it at that. Until his teenage years Ishmael seemed to have a knack for having limitless pets; mostly small rodents to which his grandfather would find and kill them because they were pests and Eldouir didn't befriend rodents or pests.

Ishmael is no ladies man but Eldouir women seem to be attracted to the big man (not just for that either actually) possibly for how he's just a good listener or how he'll do anything for a woman/Eldouir family member. He has three baby mommas Myla Eldouir, Avalon Eldouir, and ____ Eldouir. All of his children are girls.

Ishmael was in the Gifted Legion and had one handler, Cassandra Leymonte, for his entire military career until the Uncollaring to which he still served while his handler retired. He served mostly as Intel which was an advantage for the family as Ishmael used his Gift to have the endless rats collect information for years, he had ears in the palace, ears in the homes of lords and ladies, and birds in the skies of towns scattered. Thanks to his Gift when the family escaped Lorendale it was Ishmael and his animals that guided them through Lorendale without being caught.

Living in Dresmond Ishmael again is the eyes and ears for his King and Queen's serving as the Queen's Deputy. The Shadow King or more personally for Ishmael the Rat King or Bird King as he watches everything from way up high to way down below....Ishmael is always watching.

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