Post by Professor Dragomir Ghica on Mar 19, 2023 20:03:10 GMT -8
Name: Dragomir Alexandru Atticus Ghica
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Nicknames: Drake
Age – when turned: 29
Age – Actual: 259
Birthday: November 5, 1764
House: Atticus (Attended Durmstrang)
Creature: (human, werewolf, veela, etc): Vampire
Wand: (size, wood, core): 12 inches, Ebony with a phoenix feather core.
Patronus (if known): Wolf
Physical Looks: Average height for the times, he stood tall in his own at 5’10”. His pale skin radiates, nearly reflecting the light. His eyes are a deep crimson color.
Personality: Confident and arrogant from centuries of walking among wizards and muggles alike, he comes off as aloof. He dedicates himself completely to the task at hand, be it mastery of a new subject, or helping to shape young minds in the classroom.
General Attitude
Likes: Sunrises, Ancient artifacts, History, Muggle as well as Wizarding.
Dislikes: Graveyards, Mirrors, Garlic…..
Special Abilities (i.e. occlumency/legilimency, parseltongue): Legilimency and Occlumency, Daywalker
Bad Habits: Distancing himself from people he starts to care about.
Fears: Certain magic.
Background/Family
Hometown: Bucharest
Parents: Son of Iacob Gicha
Siblings: Brother - Scarlat
Blood: Pure-blood
Language(s) Spoken: Wallachian (Romanian Dialect), Romanian, Russian, Gaelic, and English.
Pet: - Mal, an orange and black Kneazle.
Economic background: Grandson and Nephew of the Prince of Wallacia, depending on the year you’re considering.
History: (Tell us what has happened in your life. 1 paragraph minimum.)
Dragomir is the eldest child of Iacob Ghica, nephew of Alexandru Ghica the Prince of Walachia and Prince of Moldova. The Ghica family has direct lineage to Antonin Atticus. Like any Walachian wizard, Dragomir entered Durmstrang at the age of ten. His years at Durmstrang were mundane by other wizard standards, he made good grades, was a seeker for his house quidditch team and excelled at the dark arts and their defenses. After leaving Durmstrang, Dragomir spent time in the collection and trade of magical creatures.
In 1791, an uprising of magical creatures threatened the wizards in Walachia and Dragomir returned home to fight for his uncle and country. During the uprising which lasted nearly four years, Dragomir was recognized as a relative of the Prince and taken prisoner by a group of vampires. As revenge for the way the Prince had sought to eliminate vampires from Walachia and Moldovia, Dragomir was transformed into a vampire. It was this transformation and subsequent release that helped to end the war as the ban on vampires was lifted in both countries.
Dragomir’s transformation gave him more access to the society of “dark” and magical creatures and he spent sixty years studying their various abilities, strengths and weaknesses. During this time he was taught legilimency and occlumency and has mastered them over the centuries. After the formation of Romania, Dragomir left the communities to return to the darkness of Romanian nights. However, he missed the ability to interact in wizarding society so he perfected a spell that would protect the user from sun damage. The spell takes decades to perfect and can sometimes leave the user extremely drained and unable to complete the most basic of spells. The inability to know when these effects are taking place has resulted in the deaths of numerous vampires and the hesitancy of most to even attempt to perfect the ability.
Given his proficiency in the dark arts and their defenses, Durmstrang offered him a teaching position for the 1876 -1877 school year where he passed on his knowledge or thirty-six years before he tired of weather and moved from Bulgaria to Scottland. He has been living in the highlands monitoring and mentoring magical creatures there since. His desire to teach at Hogwarts is based on his love of educating others as well as desire to learn as much about the world as possible.