Name: Xanpos Applewood
Class: Clockwork Soul Sorcerer
Race: Lightfoot Halfling
Background: Exiled (Previously Woodcarver)
Age: 40
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Orientation: Cisromantic Demisexual

Bio: Today’s going to be a great day for Xanpos Applewood; the sun is out, the birds were chirping & he’s about to be married to the girl of his dreams, Rosara Grandclock.

Born & raised to be a simple wood carver & printer in Ammathluir; a trading hub within the Continent of Luiren, his Halfling brothers & sisters helped to create some of the finest wooden furniture & tradesmen this side of the Great Trade Way. He even held up his own shop for carving toys, always glad to be of service to whomever would pass by. He had a crush for quite some time & now he had his chance; a letter was sent out days earlier to meet her near the docks to propose with the sunset. He made his date & she said yes, happily engaged & to be wed. They both had a passionate night out together, confessing their love for each other & went to bed; excited for what may come next…

The day turns, the sun is out, the birds were chirping. But Rosara wasn’t there. His clothes are… the same…. The notes he wrote & worked on; his wooden projects looked like they were still in need of repair…. Strange. No matter, he got to work on the projects as Rosara was a busy girl herself. The night came, she didn’t arrive back…. Xanpos got worried & knocked at her door. But he was soon greeted with a slap in the face & a crumped up note…. Her date letter?! He tried to explain himself that it was all a big misunderstanding & that he hoped to reconcile. She agreed, letting him stay the night at her place, hoping to make sense of this crazy day. Was it a dream?

The day turns. The sun is shining, the birds were chirping…. He was sleeping in his bed again?! What was happening?!? There’s gotta be an explanation for this. Time & time again, he was experiencing the same day over & over, yet he remembers everything that happened before. There was something horribly wrong. He combed through his family’s notes & archived projects. Something about the workings of Mechanus or Modrons or some kind of March? None of it was adding up, so he spent days, weeks, months combing through as much information as the Trading Hub could provide, but there was no clear answer for why his family had dealt with such machinations of time & order. His own written notes are the only proof he’s had about these time loops. He’s not crazy, he can’t be… The same day looped over & over as long as he stayed in this one spot. He even tried to leave only to slip & fall to be knocked out, only to end up the exact same time from when he started. There was only one thing left to do by that point….

He took the letter from his wife beforehand one night while she was crying, the one thing he can manipulate is printed word & his letter was the catalyst for his engagement to occur. He loved his life & his family, his lover as well. But if he were to solve the mystery behind his newly forming powers & the Applewood Clan’s involvement with the Trading Hub & why he’s been affected, then he’ll finally have that dream day of proposing to his lover & going back to a normal life. Until then, he must sail away to adventures unknown from his home; to make sure the time loop doesn’t occur as he discovered while running away in one such instance.

The only way it’ll reactivate now is if he died & he’s seen too much to know that this kind of time looping power is dangerous, so he must travel in exile to avoid the Trading Hub from being reset each time. He’s harnessing this… power or curse, for survival. At least in this timeline….

Goal: To gain enough insight into both his family history & his own power in order to stop the supposed time-loop that plagues both his hometown & his lover; along with setting up a new job using his Carpentry skills outside of his community to help steady his already fragile mind

Personality: Paranoid & possibly schizophrenic. Think of him like a shaking shivering Chihuahua. While he may look like a man deep in study like a wizard, it’s more so in a more panicked manner that some of his assumptions can be interpreted as being insane. He’s a kind, gentle & polite fellow though. Shy of the outside world around him, but does enjoy to live a little once he’s gotten to know adventurers. More so if they were gnomes, Dwarves or Halflings to meet him eye to eye. His scared paranoid nature also has a benefit of making him quite intimidating to people, stating what they were in a previous life as an ant or something small enough to be squashed.

Weapons: Magical spells using the powers of both time & space to bring over aspects across timelines, such as summoning grease from one timeline to the next, even transforming & swapping your body with an alternate reality version of yourself where you were a dragon or a mouse. Also blasts of Psychic energy from the vast information stored deep inside his mind.

Flaw: Due to his exiled background & constant paranoid, he’s scared to be alone & over-explains many aspects of life to the point of deterring other people to think he’s crazy. Even he doesn’t know if he’s gone crazy. He’s also got an inexplainable fear of fish that even he’s not sure why; maybe an allergic reaction when he was younger.

Theme Song: “The Diary of Hoarse Wimp” by Electric Light Orchestra https://youtu.be/Cws8r_vFpFs?si=VQI6LgjhxFNdLQTA

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