Name: Nicholas D. Ardel
Age: 34
Birth Date: August 22
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Height: 6'6''
Weight: 190 lbs.
Build: Lanky, athletic; swimmer's build
Identifying Marks: Tattoo between shoulders; scar on forehead, a small line surrounded by the six holes of the three stitches that shut the wound; long scar across back; long scars on both wrists; puncture scar in right shoulder; scar from breastbone to around the left pectoral area.
Occupation: Artist, chiefly portraiture (see: Ardel's)
Home: Ardel Estates. Celfaire/Lowcountry borderlands

A Summary of Public Knowledge

Age 23 - Appears in the Lowcountry, knowing only his name and random details of his life prior. (Note: This is not necessarily common knowledge about him, but may have appeared in an article or something profiling him for a paper.)
Age 25 - Marries the Lady Ayresaelian, whom he had met as a friend more than a year prior. He works in the restaurant portion at her inn, The Bough and Blossom, playing piano music for the guests. As time wears on, however, his appearances become less reliable, until he...
Age 27 - Is divorced by the Lady very much against his will, pursuing her and asking her back so insistently that she feels forced to relocate out of the county for a year to be free of him. He is left her Estates (renamed under his surname upon their marriage) and a small fortune on which to live.
Age 32 - Buys the spot of a former indoor marketplace, and has it renovated to function as his shop: sales floor, workspace, office, facilities, and storage area. He shows much of his work upon opening, including three portraits of the Lady Ayresaelian, clearly works of warmth and beauty seen through a lover's eyes. He refuses to accept any amount of money for these and soon locks them in a chest to be shown only on request, presumably for fear they'll be stolen. Few, if any, know how that large gap of time passed for him, being that much of it had been spent between his home and the Lowcountry.
Currently - Is well-respected in the community as a talented and highly professional portrait artist, also completing a number of noted commissions for murals, some of them for the city. Rumors of his personal life are merely searches for information, as all things indicate that he lives alone on that spacious Estate. He's considered something of an unhealthy eccentric, as he almost never responds to invitations given to various private parties, and balances on a place of commission where he is almost constantly working, but able to give all clients their due attention.
Bonus Information - Has an accent that no one has been able to place; claims that it feels like a lingering relic of a forgotten life, and the fact that it is not colored much by the local accent is something of a conscious effort to hold on to the few things he has remaining from those days.(See: The Cat Piano for an example of his speaking voice.)

For a completely spoilerific profile that gives some insight into who this character is, click here (Finished. Notice how the quality gets worse and worse as it goes on, haha. Warning: It's nearly 6,000 words.).