Solam

" Freedom of life, freedom of death. " Solam is a member of Libertalis on the Astral SMP, and the server's Document Master.

Hailing from mysterious origins, at some point Solam met Enxi and Serva, and together they founded the nation of Libertalis.

Appearance
Solam is an androgynous shapeshifter, and can change his appearance, features, and height at will -- the only exception being that no matter what form he's in, his skin is "shaded"/discolored in the same areas. He does tend to consistently give himself dark indigo hair as well, which is usually messy and long enough to pull into a thin ponytail.

In his human form, he has pale skin with almost bruise-like discoloration under his eyes, across the bridge of his nose, and on his fingers; he also has very faint pinkish streaks just underneath his eyes, which tend to be red in coloration.

In what he refers to as his "demon" form, he gains two curved horns and a very long, tapered tail with a white four-pointed star-shaped tip. Bright pink and white marks are prominently visible on his tail, under his eyes, and at the base of his horns, with the rest of his body colored in various shades of dark indigo. He usually has white eyes in this form.

Clothing
Regardless of what form he's in or where he is, Solam wears a red cloth headband, dark red, baggy pants, tall grey boots, a black belt with a rectangular gold buckle, and a golden double belt chain. Attached to his belt chain is an intricate golden crest, shaped like a sun.

Like all Libertalians, Solam wears Libertalis' uniform most of the time. He wears a red necktie with his standard-issue Libertalis revolutionary coat, as well as a white undershirt, but keeps the rest of his outfit the same. He also owns a more casual outfit that consists of a dark purple, lavender, and white hoodie, as well as an additional red cloth attached to the front of his belt.

Personality
Solam is a cheerful and animated member of the server. He often makes random lighthearted quips during more serious situations or causes some sort of chaos, like when he spam-opened doors in Ardoria for fun. He's also very sentimental, having many random items that he's named and grown attached to, as well as a naming theme for all of his tools and weapons.

Though he seems to make an effort to be friendly with most server members, Solam is almost unequivocally loyal to Libertalis, and generally trusts them much more than anyone else. He assigns his loyalties -- and his suspicions -- very quickly, and is slow to trust others once they've gained his scrutiny or dislike. Even seemingly-small things are enough to lose his trust, such as when he discovered Ant using his anvils and proceeded to treat him with a high level of scrutiny ever since. He also has no tolerance for theft.

Unlike some of the other members of the server, Solam believes not in any sort of god but rather the forces of "Luck, and its servant Karma". According to his ideology, these are inanimate, unclaimable, impartial forces that continually affect every person and the world around them. As part of his personal ideology, he idolizes the concept of freedom above all else, calling true freedom (or "freedom of life, freedom of death" as he likes to say) his ultimate goal in life to achieve. He is a bit hypocritical in this regard, however, prioritizing his and Libertalis' freedoms at the cost of limiting the freedoms of others.

Solam's D&D alignment can best be described as true neutral, leaning neutral good; he generally tries to uphold what he believes to be right and what will benefit himself and his nation, even if it means hurting others in the process -- though, he doesn't like to acknowledge this and tends to see himself as more of a good aligned character. He has his moments of chaos and breaking alignment, though, as his roleplayer has acknowledged his penchant for getting swept up in situations and ignoring his character alignment.

Before the SMP
Sometime in the past, Solam learned a bit about the nether -- either because he hails from there, or because he visited at one point. Regardless, he ended up stuck in the overworld. At some point he met Enxi and Serva, and grew close enough with them to join them in founding the nation of Libertalis.

SMP Debut
Solam joined Astral SMP at its creation, being the one to set up the rules document that governs the server workings and get players' signatures to pass them over to the server owner for the whitelist. He initially rolled a random set of coordinates to live at, but after deciding they were too far away from everyone else, ventured back to the spawn region to settle down in Libertalis, where he built his house and claimed the role of Ambassador for the new nation. Though he struggled to find diamonds and had to borrow from his fellow Libertalians, he managed to get an enchanting table set up very quickly, as well as found enough emeralds through mining to make a full emerald block.

On his second day on the server, he met Sylv, and the two exchanged items and talked about their personal ideals, as well as making a trade deal to allow Sylv access to Solam's enchanting table in exchange for access to Sylv's skeleton spawner in the Sprawling Forest. Later on he also showed Sylv to a second ruined portal near Libertalis. They agreed to help each other out in the future.

Solam later lead Sylv back to Libertalis' town hall after another short meeting in the wilderness, where they talked with Libertalis' other two founders before going to visit the developing nation of Ardoria. Solam met Dawn and Error here -- the former of whom he had heard about beforehand through an unknown source, but never met -- and he sat idly by messing with the Temple of Ardoria's doors before leaving for a meeting between Ardoria and Libertalis in Libertalis' town hall. He mentioned to those present that the Nether wasn't dangerous, but gave no further explanation as to why or how he knew this.

Early SMP
After a two-week break from the server, Solam rejoined to a more-developed Libertalis, where he proceeded to meet Ant and Poby, visit the Sanctuary (at the time just the Library), and take a short trip to see the nether portal quarantine (where he fixed a sign over a hole in the structure that falsely attributed the damage to Libertalis) and Ardoria to see how things had changed. He grinded up most of his gear afterwards, enchanting a good portion of his tools and making use of Libertalis' mending villager.

Trivia

 * Solam is a character version of his roleplayer's persona. His shapeshifting comes from this -- SalamanderMoon made him a shapeshifter so that he could draw Solam as whatever gender he wanted, corresponding with his identification as genderfluid.
 * On this note, while Solam uses either he/him or she/her pronouns depending on the day, only he/him is used on this page for simplicity.
 * Solam's roleplayer is the one who set up the wiki and the server's documents!
 * Solam canonically knows how to sew; he makes and tailors a good portion of his clothes, and is the one who designed and stitched Libertalis' first flags.

Quotes

 * "Freedom of life, freedom of death. That's my philosophy." - Solam to Sylv on their first meeting.
 * "I believe in Luck and its Servant, Karma. Ardoria can't claim those things -- they're forces beyond anything, not something to be attributed to any god!" - Solam to Sylv on their first meeting.
 * "MISTER PRESIIDENT! o7" - Solam to Enxi, after leading Sylv to Libertalis' town hall for a meeting.

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