Let me introduce
Gianni de Riva
After having fought with this template for like forever I finally put together some information about my Rook!
Gianni is an Antivan Crow of House de Riva, but just because I can, I combined my two favorite origins and made him the nevarran crypt-baby too. An expedition with his guardian, a watcher named Ingellvar, led him outside the necropolis, where they fell victim to slavers. Six year old Baby-Rook was tossed from board by Ingellvar near the coast of Antiva, where he survived as a thief in the streets of Mareda.
Approximately a year later he crashes one of Viagos contracts (who is around seventeen years old at that time), but the crow sees potential and takes him back to Salle. Gianni becomes a crow and Viagos closest confidant, acting as a thief of goods and information alike.
Where Gianni goes, Chaos follows. Literally, because similar as Mythals memories living on in Morrigan, a small fragment of Chaos has latched onto Gianni since he was abandoned in an empty crypt as a toddler, becoming the source of both of his best and worst ideas.
Gianni becomes Rook after being exiled from Antiva due his attack on the Antaam in Treviso and his relationship with Viago gets cracks. To make matters worse, sharing headspace with Chaos and Solas has consequences and Rook loses his memories after the interrupted ritual. Now the infamous ghost crow has to stop two blighted elven gods to save the world from ending in demons and fire while simultanously trying to redefine his place in the world.
You can read more about Gianni, his life as a crow and his struggle as Rook in my upcoming fanfiction, which I will link here, as soon as it's published!
Additional information:
Rook romances Lucanis Dellamorte
Rook is trans-masc
He prefers to fight with orb and dagger, because carrying a staff while thieving is inconvinient
He can swim, but is deathly afraid of anything deeper than a puddle, since he fled the slavers ship by swimming to shore at age six
His hate for magnolias is rooted in his past with a brothel called House of Petals
Wisps and spirits are drawn to Rook, because he grew up with them in the necropolis
Though he mostly casts lightning, he also can summon nightmarish visions and would be able to raise spirits, if he trained more. He does not possess the abilities Emmrich has and cannot talk to corpses
Because of Chaos, Giannis eyes are faintly glimming in the dark
After a failed contract, invoving poison and a curse, Gianni suffers a chronic illness, he has to battle with daily intake of medicine. If he doesn't, chances are high that the curse mark will act up again, making it hard to breath for him, possibly resulting in death by choking. Viago makes the medicine himself. Cold triggers it to act up.
The curse mark left scars looking like lightning branching upwards at the sides of his neck.
Gianni shares Viagos affinity for puns and names his own poisons in the same fashion.
Gianni is unpredictable. While others simply chose to play against the rules, Gianni is playing an entire different game.