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Username: Ganon Firenight
Name: Ganon "Firenight" V'Chek
Class: Bard
Description or Splice: [Not a proper sprite, but that would be nigh-impossible.]
Ganon is a strange reptilian creature who, at roughly eight and a half feet tall, towers over everyone around him. He is also perhaps one of the single strangest men in Learania, with a unique body and even more unique skills. Ganon's entire body is covered in small, bright-green scales, with larger, slightly softer scales on his underbelly, which runs down the front of his body from his neck to his crotch and down the underside of his six-foot-long tail. On his back and tail are a few well-spaced, thin bands of white scales. His snake head is mounted on a long, graceful neck, and hosts several rows of sharp, curved teeth in his smooth, wide muzzle. A scar and simple black eyepatch cover his left eye, but the right eye is bright green, with a tall, slit pupil. Along the top of his head and down his neck, Ganon has a messy crimson mohawk that he styles meticulously into long, thin quills. His nimble hands bear retractable claws, and he stands on powerful legs that end with wicked talons. His clothing is usually a loose black shirt with matching pants and a colorful scarf tied around his belly, along with a strap over one shoulder and under his other arm with a mandolin, a violin, or both attached to it. Like laguz and dragons, his species has an incredibly long lifespan, so he looks much younger than he actually is.
Personality: Ganon is incredibly friendly, even toward his enemies. Many believe it to be an act, but if it is he maintains it extremely well. There is little that genuinely angers the bard, who keeps up a smile even in battle as he plays for his friends and to slay his foes. He delights in the dramatic, and prefers to make an adventure of anything-- even something as simple as attending the market-- than to allow himself to settle into the mundane. His greatest pleasures in life are music and the entertainment of children, whose untainted views of the world around them give them what he feels is deeper insight into his music than most musically-trained adults could ever manage.
Past: Ganon, a Tokkan hgi˝val, was born the first son of the dreamweaver of his village in the jungles of Brisal, a large country that takes up much of southern Tokka. As such, Ganon was taught from a very young age to play the drums and tell stories, as part of his training to become the next dreamweaver. The dreamweaver, or mnoh-ha't`chk, of a village would pass on the stories and lore of their ancestors.

For three years, Ganon was taught rhythm, and in that time he was not allowed to touch the drums. Instead, he developed Perfect Rhythm using his voice and hands. It was apparent from very early on that Ganon was a musical prodigy, and his skill on the drums rapidly grew. At a little past thirty years old, Ganon set out to explore all of Tokka so that he could return with new stories. Down on his luck, without work or money, Ganon found a discarded guitar and fixed it up, then taught himself to play it over a few weeks. With his prodigious skill, it was not long before he began to play for audiences, and his fame began to grow along with his repertoire.

After forty years, he had assembled quite a lot of music and instruments, along with his own cart and ox-- horses seem to hate him, for some reason, as do pegasi-- and was bound for home to share his tales with his village. As he passed through the gates out of the town in which he had spent the previous day, he seemed to pass directly from a world in which it was midnight to a world in which it was noon. He had entered Learania, and with a new world and a new adventure before him, he set off to explore it and never looked back.
Attacks: Ganon has two primary attacks: one involves creating high-speed, invisible blades that whip through the air with his music, and the other turns his violin and bow into a kusarigama-- a small scythe attached to a weight on a long chain.

He always gives his foes a second chance or an opportunity to re-think their decision before his first strike, but after that he fights ferociously with blades of sound from his violin, which are easily capable of slicing straight through a human's body and out the other side. His attacks are nonmagical, but they are affected by his enemy's resistance to magic, so bishops will have a better time against Ganon's music than myrmidons.

Ganon's kusarigama is a very dangerous weapon, especially against sword- or spear-wielding enemies. He whips the weight around and wraps the chain around his enemy's weapon to disarm and trap them, then moves in close for the kill with the scythe. He never throws out the scythe, even against magic-wielding, armorless foes; he simply uses the weight as a bludgeon or catches them by the legs, arms, or neck with the chain.
Debut in the Canon?: Easter '09, but ICly has been in Learania for over 7 years.