E'lias Windjammer
Sage, Physician, Counselor
A sage of Sharlayan's Physis Technon, E'lias tends to the residents of La Noscea as part of Sharlayan's turn back to Eorzea. E'lias offers care without condition, mending both wounds of the body and soul, in hope that small, deliberate, acts of kindness and love will truly change the world.
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad gardeners - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Details
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Race: Seeker of the Sun (Miqo'te)
Height: 5 fulms, 6 ilms
Build: Bookishly Athletic
Deity: Venerates Azeyma and Thaliak
Relationship Status: Happily Married
Lives in: Sharlayan and La Noscea
Notable Scars: A knife-cut on his cheek, severe levin-like burns on both hands
E'lias smiles - usually the warm, professional, good humor cultivated by doctors. A smile for putting the mind at ease. Much of his appearance, clean, pressed, garments, properly ordered uniforms, serve the same purpose, speaking quiet, confident, compassionate, understanding. Though his eyes often cause problems for that effort, often looking at people in a way that suggests looking through rather than at them.In the moments where he can set aside the physician's mask, he has a performer's fascination with life - an animated, as eager to listen as to talk, delight in it, especially in his family. And, as almost an inverse to his preference for professional uniform, E'lias dresses both loosely and vibrantly, the mark of someone used to dancing, used to entertaining, and used to the sun.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
About
Perhaps it's easier to separate E'lias's history using Vesper Bay as an edge. Before, a traveling priest, a seer of sorts, and a physician - someone breathing fire onto the cooling embers of his mentor's legacy in hopes they'd burn again. A life lived paying back a debt.Much of that life he spent in La Noscea, tending to the hurts and questions of fishermen, farmers, and pirates in the villages surrounding Limsa Lominsa. A life lived with every intent of being born and buried having never left the islands, nor the people he cared for.A vision in the year or so before the days where the sky caught fire, he left Limsa, acting on a vision that sent him to work for a company in Ul'dah, where he met his wife, Nailah Kanaan. He credits her with kindling a new fire and pointing him toward new roads. Roads that eventually lead to Sharlayan.There, at the request of the Lady Alexandara Bienvenue, he broke from the life he'd been living, to the debt of his mentor's ideals, and embraced a new one, the life of a Sharlayan Sage, and a member of Physis Technon. Her generosity saw both he and Nailah sponsored, made part of Sharlayan, and his new duties laid on him, carrying on a different legacy now, one of the Sages of Physis Technon.Now, E'lias serves as part of the Medical Ministry within Physis, a small, independent division, that, since the Forum's change of heart on Eorzean cooperation, sends its physicians to Eorzea to tend the wounds of the continent Sharlayan turned its back on. Work that returned him to Limsa, where he still travels those outlying villages, tending to wounds there, and in the Dawn Lady, the one-Miqo'te La Noscean free clinic.
Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect. - Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
Roleplay Hooks
General
He's a Doctor: You're currently injured or in need of medical attention. E'lias treats injuries without consideration for how, or why.
Counseling: E'lias considers healing of 'soul/mind' wounds just as important as physical wounds, if not moreso. If you need someone to talk to and to help you move beyond those wounds, ask, appointments are available.
Father: E'lias is a new father, with a daughter nearing six months. He is very excited about his family, so questions about his daughter, Laleh, or his wife Nailah, will almost certainly spark conversation.
Sharlayan
New and Foreign: If the Lominsan accent wasn't a dead giveaway, E'lias is a newcomer to Sharlayan and to Physis Technon, directly benefitting from the more open-minded stance adopted by the forum.
Physis Technon: If you work with, or for, Physis, E'lias a new face the medical outreach division, working under a Jin Kunikida. You might know him, or his superiors. He is occasionally medical care in the Labryinthos, and does work with new physicians in Physis for training in general practice/family medicine and mental health counseling. Perhaps you took a class from him?
The Art of Somanoutics: E'lias studies Somanoutics with a focus on corporeal and incorporeal aetheric mending. If you work in similar lines of research, you may have crossed paths with him.
Accidents: When on duty in Sharlayan proper, E'lias is often assigned to the Hamlet, and deals with the injuries, of both body and soul, that come from research in Sharlayan's restricted spaces.
La Noscea
Traveling Doctor: Even before joining Physis Technon, E'lias maintained a medical route in La Noscea, doing everything from delivering infants to palliative care. He's kept this route up for more than two decades. If you're from La Noscea, there's a chance he's helped you or your family!
Performer E'lias used to perform, dancing and singing, in his younger years alongside his mother C'laria Windjammer, the Del Sol Sapphire. You probably haven't heard of him, but you might have heard of her.
The Dawn Lady: E'lias maintains a small clinic in La Noscea for general practice and family medicine.
Ooc Info
Disclaimer: While I write a doctor and a therapist, I'm not one and have no medical or psychological/psychiatric training. Do not take anything E'lias says as reasonable medical or theraputic advice.
Personal Preferences and Limits
Themes: Adventure, Exploration, Medical/Therapy RP, Slice of Life, Mystery and Investigation, Research
Style: Usually Para/Multi-Para.
Walkups: I'm generally fine with walkup RP, but my schedule of late makes planning RP ahead of time a better fit. As a new dad myself, I do need to leave scenes abruptly to deal with family matters, and it's easier to plan for RP when I can. That said, if you want to walk up, go for it, or send me a tell if it makes it easier to start things.
Story Preferences I tend to prefer lighter themes in RP where I can. While I enjoy writing E'lias as someone who listens to trauma and helps people walk through it, I'd prefer not to frequently engage darker storytelling beyond that. There's a difference between recounted trauma and actively occurring trauma.
Style and Story: I tend to be pretty close to the earth, preferring slice-of-life themes to grand adventure, I'm also fairly lore-abiding as far as XIV goes, and prefer to stay back from the 'edges of possibility' in the setting.
Relationships: E'lias is married. He and his writer are not interested, trying is going to go nowhere.
MSQ: E'lias's story contains Endwalker spoilers, specifically regarding Sharlayan.
Medical and Therapy RP Guidelines
Begin with the End in Mind: Know how you'd like your OC to recover from their injury or struggles with mental health, or whether you want them to at all. Let me know what your goals are, I'd like to work toward your vision.
Recovery Takes Time: A single session doesn't often produce results, and expect even with magical healing for there to be time to recover.
Not Everything Can Be Mended: Healing magic and alchemy have limits. E'lias can't reattach limbs, and if your body couldn't reasonably heal on its own with help, there may be little he can do.
Fade to Black: For my own comfort, I don't go into gore or explicit parts of medicine in detail.
Availability
Timezone: EST (GMT-5)
Hours: Available Monday - Thursday, usually between 7pm-12am EST. Occasionally Sundays.
Server: Mateus, Crystal Data Center
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