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NAME. Altair Chakrabarti.
ALIASES / NICKNAMES. Warrior of Light, Altair Volos.
AGE. Thirty-five (by Endwalker).
RACE. Hannish Raen Au Ra.
GUARDING DEITY. Nald'thal.
HEIGHT | WEIGHT. 7'6" | 315 lbs.
GENDER | SEXUALITY. Cis man | Gay.
JOB | OCCUPATION. Midknight ( WAR / DRK / PLD / GNB ) | Eorzea's errand boy.
PLACE OF ORIGIN | HOME | AFFILIATION. Thavnair, Radz-at-Han | Radz-at-Han (post-EW) | Scions of the Seventh Dawn.
FAMILY. Anuradha (mother, alive); Souta (father, deceased); Farida, Shivaya, Prisha (younger sisters, all alive).
EYE COLOR | HAIR COLOR | SKIN TONE. A shock of violet and pink against the rest of his complexion. | Inky black, with a few spots of gray due to stress and light poisoning. It's thick, impossibly long, usually tied back, and evidently well-taken care of. | A warm, dark brown.
NOTABLE FEATURES. A large scar cuts across his back, right through his scales. He doesn't talk about where it's from or how he acquired it, he doesn't really like to. The truth is that it's from his battle with Nidhogg at the Final Steps of Faith, specifically when Nidhogg took control of Estinien's body, catching Altair by surprise and slashing him through his armor. It was enough to finally knock Altair out of the dissociative state that he had been stuck in ever since the events that took place at the Vault.His eyes glow most of the time, but it intensifies at night. It does have the tendency to startle others that don't expect it when they're with him when the light grows dim.His scales, already polished and white, still have patches that are almost impossibly brighter due to the light poisoning inflicted by the Lightwardens. It's nothing you would notice immediately, you would have to be looking pretty closely to see it. It's more evident on his back and arms.Post-Endwalker, he has another massive scar across the left side of his ribcage.Altair tends to dress more modestly, not showing much skin. Not out of any sort of insecurity, but just because he finds it more comfortable. Many of his outfits include long coats. His attire usually comes in many shades of red, accents of gold, with darker browns and black, and the occasional pop of white.He wears light makeup sometimes, mostly just things like eyeliner or some eyeshadow or kohl.His tongue is blue, along with the rest of the inside of his mouth.

PERSONALITY. Gentle and kind and endlessly brave, strong, patient, he embodies just what a hero should be. Bursting with love and compassion, showing in the lines beneath his sparkling eyes. He is a quiet sort, but his love is loud, and the fire in his soul burns bright.Altair is soft-spoken and careful with his words, calm and composed in nearly any situation. It is difficult to get him to openly react with any signs of visible fury.However, he often neglects himself and his own needs, his own desires, just to make sure others are well. He worries so very much for those he loves, and he's very bad at hiding it. Altair also has the tendency to be infuriatingly stubborn, along with somewhat vain—not that he would admit the latter.BACKGROUND. Born into a family of artisans and performers, Altair grew up in a loving and comfortable home in the radiant city of Radz-at-Han, where he was taught kindness he would carry with him for the rest of his life. He was well-loved and well-known by those in the city, vibrant and popular. It was hard for him to make any sort of enemies.At the age of fifteen, his father succumbed to an illness he had been fighting for a year, and Altair was thrust into the position of both a father and a big brother to his little sisters at a young age. He managed, even if it was hard at first. At nineteen, he volunteered to help on a merchant ship traveling between Thavnair and Eorzea—a few dozen malms from shore, the ship was struck by a Garlean vessel. Many of the crew were killed, but Altair and a handful of others were taken prisoner and held captive for three weeks. The merchant ship was sunk, and the entire crew was believed dead by those back home.Then one day cannon fire struck the side of the Garlean vessel and before Altair knew what was going on, he was being pulled into bright sunlight and helped onto another ship. He remembers it vividly: the bonds cut from his arms with a dagger, the piercing blue eyes of a young Elezen peering up at him past a messy curtain of red hair. The boy hadn't yet reached his twentieth year, still short in stature, Altair towering almost comically over him.He found himself part of this crew soon enough, adopting the surname Volos when he arrived in Eorzea for the first time, and it took him some time to reestablish communication with his family to let them know he was alive and well. Piracy was never something he would regret, he fell into the role with ease and thinks, against all odds, it helped him grow more as a person.And then, at twenty-five, under the banner of the Maelstrom at the Carteneau Flats, he saw the red moon crack, and the elder primal burst forth from within. He saw Louisoix's failed attempt to contain it. He saw the destruction. And this - this will be something he will never forget for as long as he lives.At thirty, while in Limsa Lominsa not long after arriving from a voyage from the Far East, he slips and falls and finds himself in the role of the Warrior of Light.The rest is history.