Nonne
The barbarian who will not rage
At a Glance
- Who
- A Shifter barbarian who refuses the one thing his kind is known for
- Build
- Barbarian — Path of Wild Magic
- The heritage
- One of his parents was a Shifter — in his blood from birth, hidden until the ship
- The second self
- Another personality surfaces when he shifts and rages — more aggressive, a different person, and the one who acted on the ship
- The fear
- He is afraid to rage — not of the anger, but of the wild magic he cannot control
- The unknown
- He does not know where the wild magic comes from
- How he came here
- He washed up on the shores of Onda and was found by Trill
- What he did
- He killed people on a ship — and remembers none of it
- Addendum
- Before the Shore — player-provided canon: his life up to the day on the ship
- Status
- Facts recorded — the story behind them is not yet written
Identity
Nonne is a Shifter, and he walks the Path of Wild Magic. The heritage is blood — one of his parents was a Shifter, and the lineage has been in him since birth. It stayed hidden: nothing in his life ever surfaced it, he grew up not knowing it was there, and the ship is the first time it showed. The wild magic was already in him too, and had been since he was young. He uses he/him.
The Ship
He discovered the power on a ship. There was an altercation — what it was about is not recorded — and Nonne lost his temper. He shifted, the wild magic came with it, and it went through the people around him. He injured some of them. He killed others.
He does not remember any of it. Not the altercation, not the shift, not what the magic did, not how he left the ship. The next thing is the shore. The memory is not gone — it is held.
He washed up on the shores of Onda, where Trill found him. They came upon a stranger and nothing more: they did not see the ship, they do not know what happened aboard it, and they could not have told him even if he had asked.
Something survives. The ship itself, hung on the reef below Onda with her hold still full — and a man who walked off her alive. That is the record of what happened aboard, and it can be found. Nobody has connected either to him.
The Second Self
When Nonne shifts and rages, someone else is there. A second personality surfaces with the rage — more aggressive than Nonne, and for all practical purposes a different person — and recedes when the rage ends.
It is the one who acted on the ship. The rage that went through those people was its, not his, and it carries everything Nonne lost — the altercation, the shift, what the magic did, how he left. The amnesia is not damage; it is custody. It keeps that day from him, deliberately, and its aggression runs the same direction: it does the things Nonne cannot afford to remember doing.
It has no name here. It is aware of him — the keeping is proof. Whether Nonne is aware of it, and whether the two have ever met, is not settled. And it does not sleep when he does.
The Fear of Raging
Nonne is afraid to rage. The fear is specific: it is not the anger he mistrusts but the wild magic that comes with it, which he cannot control and cannot predict. A barbarian's rage is the one reliable thing he owns, and he will not reach for it, because what comes out the other side is not his to steer.
Unknown Provenance
He does not know where the wild magic comes from. Not inherited, not bargained for, not granted — or if it was any of those, no one has told him. It is simply in him, and it answers to nothing he recognizes.
Deliberately Unwritten
Open threads — absent, not settled
The origin of the wild magic, the second self’s name and what it wants beyond the keeping, whether Nonne knows it exists, his Shifter subrace, and his sheet numbers are not yet written. Nor is anything before the ship — who he was, where he sailed from, or what the altercation was about. Which parent carried the shift, and everything else about his people, is likewise unwritten.
The record has a form now. A wreck and a survivor, both, fixed 2026-09-08 at Jack’s word. Who the survivor is, and where he went, are not written here — the story holds them.
Canon is frozen once written; silence here is a gap to be filled in a later entry, not a fact that these things do not exist.