Name: Cateb (kuh-teb)
Age: 11 years
Height: 4 feet, 8 inches
Weight: 84 pounds

Cateb is a twitchy, excitable kid originating from a small, peaceful, northern tribe of hunters. Not very intelligent, strong, or fast, there’s not a whole lot to notice. Well, he’s a little special in that he’s the messiah of the prophets. Cateb is a savior-in-training, raised until this point by friends who aren’t much older than he is and have no more ideas on how to rid the world of evil than he does. He takes his job seriously, however inexperienced he is, and will talk passively and simply on holiness just as soon as he’ll spout out an accidentally paradoxical parable. In short, Cateb has no clue what he is supposed to do as the messiah, only that he is the messiah.

When it comes to unusual powers, sometimes he can summon peaceful milk spirits from his own blood, but it’s usually when he’s asleep. He attracts all things spiritually nasty and restless like a magnet, though, which can be a bit of an inconvenience to his very human traveling buddies. Cateb is not much of a fighter in nature, and has no clue how to ward something (other-worldy or otherwise) off beyond waving his hands around and becoming cross with it.

Ultimately, Cateb is a good, positive kid with big ambitions and no idea how to unlock the skillset that he’s sure he has deep down inside. He often struggles with the concept of right and wrong or good and evil, but always believes that he is soundly right in his views when they come out of his mouth. Not much of a brainiac, he’s a simple person, though he tries to avoid asking for help, instead puffing his chest and muddling through because he’s “the messiah, and the messiah sure as beans better know how to do these things.”

Upbeat and cheerful, Cateb is interested in people and their cultures, a bit shocked after leaving his village for the first time. His accent can be hard to understand, but he’s genuinely friendly and kind and gentle; all the main attributes of a baby cow or goat or something. He gets frustrated easily, but always attempts to control his emotions in order to live up to his assumed title. Cateb is constantly trying to be a better person in one way or another, though often times he fails and gets teary-eyed in the process. He has an odd fixation with all things rotting or decaying. There's a trademark, creepily innocent interest-to-the-point-or-mild-obsession with the physical remnants of death or any type of festering wound lying below the surface of a kid who has no clue that it's weird at all. He has a tendency to stare at roadkill for an uncomfortable amount of time and a penchant for poking dead things with sticks. Most of this originates from his early childhood familiarity with terrible manifestations of different angry spirits, but some of it is just because he's a little off.

I suppose I should mention the poncho: Cateb’s outerwear was a gift from a traveling stranger, as most cool things are. The colors are a novelty, because dyes that vibrant aren’t available where Cateb lives. It’s not special apart from sentimental value; the poncho is Cateb’s most prized possession. He never lets it get dirty, and washes it every night no matter how clean it is. He rarely takes it off, but if something is about to happen that he suspects might muss it up, he folds it and tucks it into his bag. (The sketches provide an idea of what his clothing looks like underneath.)

Lastly, the milk spirits. These are summons with no personality or ability to communicate that just sort of happen when Cateb doesn’t mean them too. They generally appear in the vague, wispy shape of an animal, or sometimes person. They aren’t constant summons, but there are generally a handful of them every day, most often appearing from Cateb’s nose or ears while he’s unaware, or “exploding” out of his hands when he tries to summon anything other than a milk spirit (it doesn’t work). After being summoned, they either evaporate immediately or follow him around until they fade away within the hour.

Feel free to ask about anything I didn't cover!

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