Role

Chapter 4

Erighan was a neglected child who had a rich internal life, and he was driven
even deeper within himself by the trauma of witnessing his single,
marionette-selling father's gruesome murder.

He has a habit of talking to inanimate objects. It's often safer than talking
to animate ones. He dances with marionettes and has conversations with them.
It makes them happy. He'd probably do the same with dolls. He also has
violent impulses that would need to come out over time.

He is wildly delusional, but not stupid.

On some level, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. But he
likes the comfort of his fantasy and would rather drag others into his
fantasy than meet them in reality.

According to him, he has traveled to modern Thera from the past, where he was
a swordsman for Galadon whose strict sense of honor was assaulted by an Ogre
mage. The story will most likely evolve over time.

Often, Erighan will be in-character, speaking in a knightly tone that might
seem bizarre coming from a wood-elf.

There is actually no specific reason for the deception, except for whatever
internal benefits he gets out of it. Perhaps on some level, he's deceiving
himself - a protective mechanism to shield his scarred psyche.

Or, perhaps on some other level, it might just be that he's turning Therans
into his beloved marionettes, pulling strings just to make himself happy.