Volo

Volo is a fair skinned human man with neatly trimmed dark brown hair and brown eyes. He has a moustache and a beard he keeps neatly trimmed, with thick eyebrows and high cheekbones. Volo wears the typical attire for a bard, dressed in blues, floppy velvet beret. His vest he wears is embroidered with gold thread and he has a high ruffled collar along with ruffles on his sleeves.

Volo is an impetuous but an engaging rogue. He is prone to being irrepressible, pompous and pretentious. He often speaks with honeyed words, given to exaggeration, misrepresentation, and flights of fancy. Volo has a reputation for embellishing the truth and for bragging and an overly high opinion of himself and his place in the world. He tends to be ambitious and greedy. Volo is overly honest and often mocking when he's not trying to sweet talk his way out of trouble. Despite his flaws, he's soft at heart, he cares for his friends most of all, at least those friends he has. He would do anything he can to aid them. Volo himself claims to have restless feet and a love of travel, of seeing new things and living life to the full, though this may be an excuse for his forced journeys. He considers anything outside the towns and cities to be boring and hazardous. He much prefers the setting of a pleasant tavern or festhall to trekking through a jungle, ruins, or dungeon, and he tends to indulge himself.

Volo is an adventurer and writer, dedicated to exploring the realms and keeping journals of everything he sees and experiences on his journey. Volo's research methods on All Things Magical were, according to Elminster, assorted notes, gossip, and stolen glances at other mages' spellbooks, with things hastily and secretly scribbled down when he had the chance or else hazily remembered when he did not. Elminster had to heavily amend and expunge Volo's works to remove errors, distortions, and revelations that might endanger readers or even Faerûn. This regularly led him to risk his life for a story. Volo was considered an untrustworthy source. Volo rarely stayed in any one place for long, being always forced to move on by his fearless reporting and inevitable frictions with local mages, merchants, and law enforcement. Unbeknownst to Volo, he is a Weave anchor, being imbued by Mystra with her divine fire as way to prevent the Weave from collapsing should anything happen to the goddess of magic, again.