Jack Allister

"It would be a shame to have the treasures of the Oceanic League end up as paperweights and trinkets, no?"

WORK IN PROGRESS

Jack Allister is a magic-addled scholar/diplomat turned rogue traveller based in the Kingdom of Nobrik, who ventures in search of collecting magical infused relics from the pre-collapse age which store immense power from their former users or guardians. This pursuit led him to become a troubled magic addict, reliant on the substance to maintain his sanity.

Early Life
Born as an only child to a wealthy and loving couple in Arbourne in the year 128AC, he was given the birth name of Jacques Auclair. Growing up on the shores of the Dividing Sea, he often came into contact with relics and artifacts from the pre-collapse age while playing in or exploring ruins in his youth which he would bring home to study. He excelled as a student of not only history and statecrafts, but showing prowess as a fencer and swordsman, while having no interest for casting magical spells.

As he was born to a wealthy wine-exporting father and a scholarly mother who was well aware of the political climate of the day, he was sent off to study abroad in the far-off Kingdom of Nobrik at the age of 15. He would travel North, visiting Port Lagariz and Regis city along the way where he collected several small magic-infused trinkets. Due to prolongued periods of exposure to the relics, he would gain his first taste of the effects lingering magic could have on the body.

After his late youth, he grew to be seen as a well known as an archaeologist and curator of pre-collapse artifacts in Heartland academic circles, leading him to choose whatever path in life that is most likely leave more magical substances in his hands. This had led to him being a diplomat in the First War of the Northern Divide on behalf of his native Arbourne and neighbouring Sea States, a region teeming with magical relics from pre-collapse relics.

Knowing his unique position in the conflict as well as his motives, his superiors in Nobrik would ransom his collection in return for sabotage of the allied sea-states. After the Heartian Coalition was drawn into the war, the Kingdom of Nobrik would open a second front aligned with the Novimus Republic as planned, beginning the

Early Life
Allister was born an only child to a wealthy and loving couple in Arbourne in the year 133AC, being given the birth name of Jacques Auclair. Growing up on the shores of the Dividing Sea, he often came into contact with relics and artifacts from the pre-collapse age. which were collected for vanity by his parents. He would spend his younger years studying magic and the power which relics held, while not particularly displaying any particular fascination for training under mages themselves. Noticing his fascination for magics, his family sent him to the last remaining Tidesage order on the banks of the Dividing Sea, only for him to drop out, hating the restrictive nature of the course and the discipline which the teachers would try to instill into their students. Before departing the order, he would steal a relic from an unguarded vault - a bladeless hilt with etched which he would bring home to study in secret. Little did Jack know, this relic originated from Grand Zahara, and was a base hilt for a conjoured weapon which morphed at the mercy of it's guardian. While keeping the hilt a secret he would enroll in a fencing school at the age of 14 where he would learn his first weapon - the rapier. He would do so encouraged by his father (Gerard Auclair), a wealthy and well connected wine exporter with ties royal customers who purchased his wine across the Heartland. His mother (Laurette Auclair) was a political science professor at the Arbourne Royal Institute, studying the contemporary affairs pertaining to the up-and-coming Novumius Republic.

Flight to Nobrik
Sensing the turmoil which was to come in the southern Heartlands as a result of rising Novumius dominance, Jack's parents planned to ship him away to Nobrik - a city far away from the frontlines of the war to come. His parents planned to remain in Arbourne in order to aid in any way they could to their dutchy. However, disaster struck on the day of Jack's departure. Novum sappers would detonate conventional blasts on the city's docks, not only crippling the Arbournian economy and navy, but killing both Gerard and and Laurette Auclair. Surviving the blast, Jack used his family's wealth in order to flee the city by caravan managing to escape the beginning of the Novum-Free State Wars with a majority of his family's material wealth intact, saving artifacts, valuables and mementos.

He was completely devastated by the loss. His parents had invested heavily into his future education at the Nobrik Historical Institute,