Player Name:	Linn	Tobin: Winner of the GWA '04 "The Fool"
Player E-mail:	Email Linn
Character Name:	Tobin
Gender:	Male
Age:	8
Soulname:	Riph
Origin:	Native
Family:	- Drizzle: Mother (deceased) - Tuyen: Father (deceased); - Nock; Grandmother; - Darkrider: Guardian (deceased);
Soul Siblings:	Open
Lovemates/ Lifemates:	too young
Recognized Mate:	too young
Magic:	Healing/Antihealing
Skills:	Tracking, Herb Lore
Weapons:	Prefers to be weaponless, but knows how to use a dagger for the times he gathers herbs. Also uses a long staff.
Personality:	Introverted, idealistic, and mature for his age, this boy thinks much and often before he speaks. His mood is stable and calm, and it takes a lot to intimidate him physically, although he's easy to hurt emotionally. Although he is rather reserved when he can get away with it (it's easier to learn if you listen instead of talking) the boy has a passion for healing, learning, and helping others, and it's that passion that's kept him going. When he's worked up about something, it's difficult to recognize the usually quiet boy.
Likes:	Being solitary. Life, magic, warm breezes, light, music, sunsets. Has adopted an unusual fascination with humans.
Dislikes:	Being insufficient, death, panic, doubt, obnoxious elves, loud fights, being ignored. Snakes.
Fears:	That everyone he ever cares about will just walk out in the woods and leave him. He has developed a crippling fear of change.
Appearance:	Lithely slender, but growing into a stronger frame. Although he can antiheal, he prefers to walk softly and unnoticed to avoid being seen.
Marks/Scars:	A faded birthmark in the corner of his left eye, no more than a gray shade that brings out the color in both his eyes.
Hair:	Tousled, soft and curling outwards now that it has grown some length, his hair still only reaches the nape of his neck. The color is a dark brown, although the color has seemed to fade a little to grayness, not as vivid as it was before. There are some blonde highlights in between.
Eyes:	Expressive as only a child's can be, the color is of a swirling purple hat reveals something intelligent and dark. His eyes are medium sized, and leaf shaped. Eyebrows are straight and black.
New Green Clothes:	A black, tight-fitting top, sleeveless and dark brown pants sewed with purple. Belted at the waist with a tan leather belt, and a dark purple loincloth with black ornaments sewed onto it. Soft, brown shoes made of doeskin. Fingerless gloves with wrist guards are a must. He may wear a dark purple jacket if the weather is bad.
White Cold Clothes:	A black, hooded cloak over his usual clothes, or a violet tunic with long and wide sleeves, belted at the waist and reaching mid-thigh. Knee-high boots with gray doeskin leggings tucked in. Black, long gloves.
Jewelry:	None.
History:	Born to loving parents, Tobin hardly missed anything in his first five years of his life. Unfortunately, both his parents disappeared after that, presumed to have died in an unusually violent hurricane, and his mother's griffin left the monarchy in its grief. Only days later, he went on a search for them, weaponless and inexperienced. Tobin managed to fall down a hill and break his arm, and unable to climb up again without both arms, he waited for help. By a stroke of luck, that way he discovered his magic--and his soul-name. When he returned and it was discovered that he possessed the healer's magic, Dark Rider took him in under his protective wing, for reasons unknown to the cub or the tribe (the fact that Dark Rider was a healer was revealed later on). The cub grew very attached to Quill, a cub about his own age who lost her parents in the same storm. She went on her Soul Quest without a word, and Tobin was deathly afraid for the whole month she was gone. After Quill's disappearance, Tobin had stopped wearing his heart on his sleeve, refusing to heal his own personal pain away, and even dabbled a bit with anti-healing for the very first time, although he doesn't know that the pain-touch he's playing with actually has a name. In case of intense frustration and anger the black magic appears, to his horror. Dizzy was the first victim of this. Quill did return, however, and as much as Tobin is grateful and more protective of her than ever, he still remains suspicious, and is simply waiting for the next elf to walk out into the woods and be lost. Unfortunately, Darkrider and Dawn did just that, creating a fear in him he shouldn't have. His guardian's death made him all too aware of death: even healers can die. His bond senses his gloom, and will walk as a dark protective shadow behind him whenever possible
Bond Beast:	Swift, griffin, Age 122 Gender: Male Swift is a dark/black griffin with all his feathers intact, a long tail and big back paws, grey eyes. He is a fierce, sometimes annoying bond, because he's not used to the elves' ways, but he's learning. He's clever, with keen eyes, and very curious. Unfortunately, he is not afraid of danger, and shows it far too often. When it comes to flying he'll swoop until he's about to hit the ground, then swoops upwards gleefully. It can scare his riders. However, he is very careful not to let his riders fall off.