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Name: Cristof
Age: 43
Residence: SeaCraft Hall (SRH)

Craft: SeaCrafter
Craft Rank: Sr Journeyman

Pet:Papi
Pet Type:Canine

Brief Description of Persona:

Cristof stands at 5'8 and weighs in at a healthy weight for his height. He has the muscles and the strength gained over time as a seacrafter working on a deck and doing manual labour. He has broad shoulders and sturdy, long limbs. His hair is a dark blonde and wavy with bleached streaks in it and he wears it fairly short, its just long enough that he can tuck it behind his ear and it hasn't any grey or white in it yet. His eyes are green and his skin is tanned to a healthy copper-brown. He has crows feet at the corners of his eyes, some lines on his forehead but for a man whose spent the majority of his life out in the harsh sea elements he's still young looking. His face isn't bad looking with an angular jaw, broad, high cheekbones and quite a broad nose. His lips are full with the lower lip being fuller then the top and he has unusually perfectly straight, white teeth and an endearing crooked, slow smile. He walks with a slight limp because his left shin was broken during a bad storm and never quite set right or properlly. His nose also has a bit of a bump to it from being broken and the big toe on his left foot is missing.

Despite his earlier business failures Cristof still holds onto his childhood love of fishing and will happily spend candlemarks fishing. He also loves sailing, having recently invested in a small craft that he uses to sail around in and often charges people to come on joint sailing and fishing adventures. Being a good businessman and a good entretainer has meant that this business venture is thriving.

Cristof in some respects is like your typical seacrafter he's gruff, patient and a pretty tough, resiliant soul. Surprisingly he's a very level-headed for a seacrafter so he's slow to anger or really show any emotion and he's friendly and straight talking enough that he's generally liked by most in the seacrafter and merchant business arena. Like all seacrafters he's a bit of a romantic and loves the life of a seacrafter and the sea. He's also terribly fond of a good story - both hearing one and telling them. He has a broad streak of the mishevious on him so he does like to do the usual amount of exaggerating in his tales. For a bachelor Cristof loves children and gets along really well with them, even though he's given up taking a wife and children as he's wise enough and kind enough that he knows his lifestyle isn't fair for a wife and family. Part of him is a bit wisftful over this choice he's made, but he thinks he's too old to settle down now. But he has adopted a young orphan and settled that side of his soul, even though he can still be found enteratining groups of children when he's on shore.

Cristof, if he has to, can survive on very little and despite his background isn't stingy with his marks, although he does worry constantly about marks and how to get it, remembering that he doesn't want to live like he did as a child. So he does dabble in smuggling to suppliment what he earns as a first mate on a merchant ship.

Brief History of Persona:

Cristof or Cris as he's generally known was born as the youngest of three brothers born to a Journeyman Fishcrafter and his Journeywoman Weaver wife at Keroon Hold. Cristof was always a pretty mischevious, out going, entertaining child and was generally found in a large group of youngesters or off fishing. A love that he inherited through his father and he relates fishing on a nostalgic level for he, his father and his brother often spent rest days fishing. But nothing truely traumatic happened to Cris or his little famiy, life was generally good, although with a father for a fishcrafter things were often tight, his family was very poor, so they might miss a few meals and had to live with the basics because of it, but his childhood never lacked for fun or love. But his poor background and spare childhood has meant he grew up quite a tough, resiliant child.

At 13 he chose to apprentice as a seacrafter like his older brother, both of them having inherited their father's love of the sea, but neither wanting the hard life of a fishcrafter. Their middle brother however chose to be the family black sheep and was Searched at 15 and brought to Dawning Light Weyr, there he Impressed a brown. His apprenticeship passed him by fairly quickly and before he knew it Cris earned his juniour journeyman knots and decided to be independant investing some marks he inherited from an uncle into a ship that ran fish. That was a bad choice for although it started out profitiable, the ship was caught in a bad storm and washed up on a reef while carrying cargo from Ista Hold to Coral Reef Hold and he lost his investment with the ship. It was a hard blow for the young 22 turn old but being a pretty resiliant soul he picked himself up and went to work as a deckhand on a ship, the same ship as his older brother. At first Cris was not happy about having to start again and work up ship ranks but he soldiered on. But his dedication, hard work and loyalty had his captain promoting him to first mate which came as a surprise when he was 30 and at the same time he earned his senior knots. Not long after this Cris's best friend was killed in the same bad storm that broke his leg and lost him a toe. His friend however had made a request that if he died that Cris was to find his son, born to his wife and tell them that he'd died.

SO Cris honouring his friend's request soon had im adopting his friend's son, as the young boy's mother died of a bad fever. Cris found he couldn't just leave the boy on his own so he took him in and grew to love him and ended up adopting him as his own. Finding that he had Hanry to look after meant he was back to worriying about being able to take care of him and himself so he turned to smuggling, an avenue his brother was into and who hooked him up with a man called Bari who was known around the area for being in the business. So Cris moved to Sandstome River Hold with Hanry and joined up on a ship down there as second mate, his credentials and reputation being so good that the captain hired him on that spot. Over the past few turns he's been working away and he thinks he's doing alright for his adopted son and himself. He's also started his fishing and sailing business which has grown to be successful over the last few turns and he's risen to first mate again, taking over the spot the old first mate retired.

Pet Description:

Papi is a small mutt of a canine. He's pure white in colour and is similair to a mix of a jack russel and another breed of terrier. Papi is quite a quiet canine for one his small breed but he's a great hunter and serves the spot of a ship feline in that he's very good at catching and killing pests. He is fiercly protective and possessive of his pet and is very loyal. He's also spoilt rotten by Cris.

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