Lawrence Maynard || Adult || Tenūsa Headmaster
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LAWRENCE MAYNARD
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"FORMER TENŪSA GRADUATE AND EX PEWARI OF DENBEIGH THOUGHT TO BE LOST TO THE WILDERNESS RETURNS. WILL OUR CHILDREN BE SAFE UNDER THE HANDS OF A MAN RUMOURED TO HAVE MURDERED HIS FELLOW PEWARI?"
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| Appearance. Lawrence is a healthy-looking older gentleman with mid-length curly blonde hair and a well-kept but full beard. His soft blue eyes have hints of green in them and resemble the ocean's calm waves. He stands fairly tall at 6 foot and has an athletic posture due to his high intensity hobbies of swimming and hiking. Due to the nature of his climate Law sports a healthy tan from his Australian ancestors on his father’s side but with a lack of sun turns pale due to his mother’s European roots. At 48 years old Lawrence has gentle wrinkle lines but still keeps very active and fit and thus can appear younger than he truly is. Under his clothes he sports many tattoos of geometric and divination based designs. | === | Personality. A social outcast and recluse for a large part of his life, Lawrence struggles to remind himself to be outgoing and personable when in company. He has a laid-back outlook on life which directly contradicts his seer talent but has leaned to take life as it comes as the future cannot be prevented even if it can be altered or misinterpreted. When he is with his nephew and niece, he is a completely different individual revelling in the youthful joy the two bring him and acting like a big kid himself. Lawrence has a heart of gold but a past that clouds his ability to let it trust others easily due to being outcast in his past. |
Biography.
Growing up Lawrence had a difficult family life with lots of external pressures to achieve given his elder sister was a squib. So, when it was discovered that Lawrence was not only a powerful wizard but a seer there were preparations made to send him to Tenūsa which only deepened the rift between his parents who would split over this choice. Lawrence's father wished for him to be trained by his ancestral family, practitioners in the aboriginal wizarding tribes, while his mother wanted a formal education so that he may reach prestige in the wider world and recover the wound of her own broken family tree. Eventually it was decided, and he was sent to the school where he was taken on at 11 as a pewari by Dukun Denbeigh along with another pewari Darana Poelina. Only very trusted Dukuns were ever allowed to take on multiple at a time as it often didn't end well. Much to that end their own dual study ended poorly with Darana's disappearance in the final year of their study and presumed death. Most blamed Lawrence knowing of their constant, often destructive, competition which led the boy to flee rather than face the whispers and judgements of the isle. Leaving in the middle of the night without word to anyone but Denbeigh he returned to the mainland where he disappeared for years to train with his father's ancestors and travelled the bush. Understanding his gift became his sole goal that drove him to everything and brought him all around the world seeking other seers. When he was young, he foretold a prophecy of the fall of Denbeigh with fire and death and that while uncertain it could lead to the fall of the isle for good. Unbeknownst to most Denbeigh had also had a vision sharing similar sentiments yet in his it was seen that the fall of the isle would happen only if Lawrence did not return and take the place of the Grand Seer. While he does not know this information, he was convinced to return by Dukun Coen Poelina, the father or Darana, whom he had not seen in years since leaving the aboriginal wizarding tribe. Accepting the position and returning to take his place as the Grand Seer of the Isle of Divination despite his trepidations.
First Instance of Magic
It isn't exactly clear when Lawrence's first instance of magic was as the boy had been predicting the weather from early childhood, but his parents never understood this to be his latent seer abilities. Instead, they believed him to simply be in tune with nature. The first time he truly performed magic was when their backyard in Adelaide caught fire in the Ash Wednesday bush fire of 1980, when his family dog ran into the woods attempting to rescue a koala. The animals got trapped behind a wall of fire that he parted for them with a wave of his hand and wailing cries. His parents would miss this event too panicked in getting the children away from the fire that would rob them of their first home and thus while it was his first it would go undiscovered. Moving to Melbourne his parents would inevitably discover his abilities at 6 when he levitated a poisonous snake out of reach of his baby sister preventing it from biting her until they could arrive. This granted him an invite to Tenūsa and the Isle of Divination though they expressed that they had known of his magic from the first instance. Despite this Lawrence would not attend the school until 2 years later due to the family division the decision split.
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"I see with more than my eyes, so I may guide the way for those who cannot."
- Lawrence Maynard, Grand Seer of Tenūsa
- Lawrence Maynard, Grand Seer of Tenūsa
Lawrence Maynard || Adult || Tenūsa Headmaster
Lawrence Maynard's Trunk
STATS.|| STA 10 | EVA 8 | STR 8 | WIS 20 | ARC 9 | ACC 10 ||
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ABILITIES.Year 1 - Seer Talent | Intuition (10% Auto-hit/Auto-dodge)Year 2 - | Binding MarkYear 3 - Seer Talent | Prophecy (50% vision chance once per moderated thread)Year 4 - | Evasive ManeuversYear 5 - Seer Talent | Indiscriminate Knowledge (No backfiring & +1 crit success)Year 6 - | ApparitionYear 7 - Seer Talent | Fate Spinning (Advantage up to 3 times in moderated thread)Adult I - | Restricted Charms Section
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ADULT ADVANCEMENT LOG.|| 2024/2025 : +1 Ability ||
|| 2025/2026: +5 stats ||
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Last edited by Dorion Anderson on 27 Apr 2025, 21:02, edited 2 times in total.
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