Editing Zhubin

== Appearance  ==

Zhubin is a withered and gaunt man in his late 30s. He stands only 5'3, and slowly walks with the aid of his staff, never in any hurry. The lack of color to his skin, combined with the heavy scarring of burns across much of his body only serve to strengthen the idea that the man standing before you has lost much that he held and is now reduced to a wretched shell of himself. His hair is pulled back into a twisted white braid, laying against his neck.  Zhubin normally wears a thick layer of clothing covering nearly all his flesh to protect it from the harsh light of the desert sun. When he can, however, he still goes in light silks for the heat, showing the raised scars through the cloth.

== History  ==

Zhubin was born to a minor Guild merchant and was raised to be a trader from the time he was young. He grew up with a sound, if not genius mind.  He followed in his father's footsteps and began to make his own fortune. All seemed to be going well, as his stake grew larger, his share of the caravan wider, and his fortune larger. On his most recent trip, some 20 years after he began trading, however, it began to fall apart.  In the high desert, many miles south of Gem, and even further from home, the caravan was ambushed and destroyed by a massive bandit raid. Zhubin survived, and by force of will dragged himself over burning sands through the desert, back to Gem, and then home, the sun burning him, destroying his body.  During these weeks of hellish travels the only thing he saw/felt much of the time was the Sun. And he had time to think. It was so powerful that it could rob his body of its color, why wasn't it placed properly and worshiped? <br>
On the last trip, Zhubin's wife, Azra, and young twins, one boy and one girl named Prabhat (Morning) and Nisha (Night), respectively, were cut down by bandits in front of him, leaving him still seething at the injustice and cruelty of those who rob others.


== Personality  ==



== Mechanics  ==

=== basic info  ===

'''Name:''' Zhubin Ochieng<br> '''Splat:''' Zenith Caste Solar<br> '''Concept:''' Sun Priest<br> '''Motivation:''' Establish the Sun into his rightful place of worship!<br>

Wolf, do you even realize that inalftoin is the result of the central bank printing more money and injecting that money into the economy thus decreasing the buying power of the money that was already in the economy?Is the rationale  It is OK to steal only 10% from your neighbor to stimulate economy. Otherwise your neighbor may get complacent and simply sit on his money without spending it  moral in your book?

=== abilities  ===

  DAWN         ZENITH          TWILIGHT
  *Archery 1   *Integrity 2    Occult 1
  War 0        *Performance 1  Investigation 1
  Martial 0    *Presence 5     *Lore 3
  Melee 0      *Resistance 3   Medicine 1
  Thrown 0     *Survival 2     Craft 0
                              
  NIGHT        ECLIPSE        
  Athletics 1  *Bureaucracy 3  
  *Awareness 2 Linguistics 3  
  Dodge 2      *Ride 1         
  Larceny 2    Sail 0         
  Stealth 0    Socialize 1    
 
 
 

 SPECIALTIES
 
 Presence: The Sun 2
 Ride: Cute and Fluffy 1

 LANGUAGES
 Riverspeak
 Firetongue
 Old Realm
 High Realm

== Advantages  ==
=== Charms ===
''Performance:'' Third Excellency<br>
''Bureaucracy:'' Second Excellency<br>
''Presence:'' First Excellency<br>
''Resistance:'' Durability of Oak Meditation, Iron Skin Concentration<br>

=== Inventory  ===
Old Realm Hymnal <br>
Ghost Robes (with Orihalcum) <br>
=== Backgrounds  ===
Resources 4<br>
Reputation 1 (Zhubin still carries an excellent reputation for driving a wonderful, but always fair, bargain.)<br>
Contacts 2 (2 of note)<br>
Allies 1(+3) (V'Neef Ashum, an old companion from Zhubin's early days of trading. They've fallen out of touch since Zhubin's ill-fated caravan and trek through the desert. Last time they'd communicated, Ashum had just been promoted to a regional Guild position.)<br>
Familiar 4 (Cute, the Dromedary, and Fluffy, the Bactrian. Both are trained War Camels, who were on the last trip Zhubin took. Being exceptionally hardy specimens, they managed to not only survive the desert, but probably saved Zhubin's life by carrying him along when they had the strength.) <br>
Followers 2 (Most of a gang.)<br>
Followers 2 (Again, but this time guards!)<br>
Artifact 3 (Currently placeholding)<br>
Savant 5 (....why do I know this?) <br>

=== Virtues  ===
'''Willpower:''' 10<br> '''Virtues:''' Valor 1, Conviction 5, Temperance 4, Compassion 2<br> '''Intimacies:''' Worshiping the Sun, Bandits (negative), Cute and Fluffy<br>
=== Health/essence  ===
'''Health:''' -0x3, -1x6, -2x6, -4x1, INCx1<br> '''Essence:''' 2<br> '''Personal Essence Pool:''' 16/16<br> '''Peripheral Essence Pool:''' 36/36<br> '''Experience: '''
=== Merits  ===
Legendary Stamina <br>
Priest (1pt, Zenith)<br>
=== Flaws  ===
Sun Seared (No more!), Unusual Appearance (2pts), Sun Addiction (2pts, reduced), Known Anathema (3pts, Oldschool type) <br>

== Combat Statistics  ==

The ability to think like that is always a joy to belhod

==== soak  ====

*'''Unarmored''' 
**6B/3L/-A 
*'''Armor (Perfect Breastplate)''' 
**4B/6L/6A 
*'''Total''' 
**10B/9L/6A

==== combat  ====

''Natural Attacks''
*Punch
**Speed 5, Accuracy 2, Damage 1B, Parry DV 1, Rate 3
*Kick
**Speed 5, Accuracy 1, Damage 4B, Parry DV 0, Rate 2
*Clinch
**Speed 6, Accuracy 1, Damage 1B, Parry DV -, Rate 1

''Weapons''
*Bow
**Speed 6, Accuracy 4, Damage by arrow, +1, Rate 2, Range 250

If you view the dollar price per biioctn on an exponential scale, it oscillates and increases consistently, which means it will probably continue increasing in value exponentially and the recent crash in the Bitcoin economy on an exponential scale looks like normal oscillation and not a crash at all.Why should people invest in dollars which consistently go down in value, and have recently nearly crashed but were bailed out, when they can invest in a kind of money that consistently increases in value?One of the bigger advantages of Bitcoins is nobody, not even the Federal Reserve if it was made into law, can create more Bitcoins except in the slow way that was decided and set-in-stone when the Bitcoin network was booted up. The Federal Reserve has been taxing all dollars by printing more dollars which causes inflation, which reduces the value of every dollar, which is a tax on the value of all dollars, a secret tax since government does not call it a tax. Since the USA government is not willing to call inflation a tax, they have no legal basis for creating an inflation tax in Bitcoins, if it were even possible. That's a major advantage for Bitcoins  They have no leak to suck the value out of.Plus they're very much in demand by people who want to move money secretly, you know like politicians who want to receive their bribes with no paper trail. That's going to very much up the price of Bitcoins.Let it be mostly an investment for now. Later people will see that their good investment is also a good way to automate money systems, like connecting open-source software to payment systems without going through banks.

== Background Items  ==

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'''Join Battle:'''4 <br>

Exp 88 base + 11 logs, +1 for HEAD-WHAMMY!<br>
Spent 4 to raise Dex 1 to 2.<br>
Spent 3 for 2 dots of Followers in game.<br>
Spent 6 for 2 more Familiar.<br>
Spent 3 more for 2 more Followers.<br>
18 on Merits/Flaws <br>
3 to raise Artifact <br>
Savant 2 (5 with Greeny's approval) 6<br>
Manipulation 1 to 2, 4 xp. <br>
Lore 2 to 3, 3 xp favored. <br>
Integrity 1 to 2, 1 xp favored. <br>
Total 51 spent. 49/100 remaining. <br>
In the works: <br>