Khyot

Description of Khyot's life prior to the transfer of his soul:

Khyot is a member of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture (though he doesn't know it by that name) - having lived nearly 7,000 years ago. He'd set out from his family's home in one of the larger villages in search of a place to call his own, and he found it in a circular wattle-and-daub hut he built himself, many days' walks away from the nearest settlement. Nestled right along a stream in the foothills of what is today known as the Carpathians, the land gave Khyot more than enough bounty to survive. For Khyot, they were simply the mountains, the only ones he'd known, rising up wondrously towards the clouds, making Khyot wonder about his own small existence in this world. Khyot is very adept at survival in the wild, being able to tell edible from poisonous plants through knowledge passed down from generations as well as the know-how to determine an unknown plant's edibility. Khyot has also mastered the art of building with wattle-and-daub and clay, being able to build structures that could withstand the harsh weather of the mountains. Khyot is a good hunter, being able to track game with a keen eye before shooting it with his self-built yew bow (which he now dearly misses).

Khyot's a good bone carver, whittling artful patterns and motifs into boiled bones. His favourite subjects were his own natural surroundings, the mysterious people of distant lands he'd never met - but could very well try to imagine, as well as the starry night sky.

Khyot had been living on his own for about ten solar cycles now, adorning his hut with many trophies from hunting, as well as baubles and trinkets he'd managed to trade against cured furs and bone carvings with whomever stumbled across his domicile.

However, one rainy night, Khyot had been making his way towards a moss-covered tree trunk a relatively long walk away - however, he had seen a large cluster of blue roundhead mushrooms sprouting there the morning prior, knowing they would be ready around the next night. On his way there, he fell off of a rocky outcropping made slippery from the rain, tumbling for several painful seconds to his death. And dead he remained - for about 7,000 years.

Description of Khyot's personality:

Kyhot's always had his head in the clouds, thinking about existence beyond his own immediate being since childhood. Growing up, he's always been looking for meaning behind the machinations of the world, questioning even basic truths that had been transmitted to him via his parents.

Khyot's always had an adventurous streak, taking any opportunity to wander off into areas yet unknown to him, mapping whatever he found eagerly in his own head. This helped him become one of his village's best gatherers, as he knew all the spots where to find rare mushrooms, healing herbs, clean springs as well as lush berry bushes. Khyot's always been very fond of the blackberry, which is why he almost never brought any back to the village - he usually ate them all before returning.

Despite his moving out to live on his own and deciding to live off the land, Khyot still visited his former village often - at least, until the death of his parents in a structure fire five years prior to his own. Khyot is a very talkative and gregarious man, usually inviting any passing traveller inside his hut for conversation and the offer of a freshly foraged meal. Khyot, as a very curious man, would usually try to find out everything about strangers from other lands and took great pride in finding out other people's ways of life.

Khyot has always been very accepting of others' ways of life, firmly believing in a harmony between all living things, as well as practising Animism in his daily life. Objects hold a deep spiritual meaning and power to him, and he ascribes personalities even to inanimate objects.

Khyot has been socialised exclusively in the Cucuteni-Trypillia way of life. As thus, he has absolutely no concept of technology that is any newer than what was available in early Neolithic Europe. This makes it so he is easily overwhelmed and confused by modern technology, not having any frame of reference to categorise what he's seeing. Materials such as metal and plastic are completely alien to him, music would sound like absolutely nothing he'd ever thought he'd hear in his lifetime - and so on.

However, Khyot is always eager to learn, now just as much as in his past life, and wants to take in as much information as possible about the world he now inhabits. His changed physique as well as vastly different mindset should lead to humorous situations regarding to Khyot's misunderstanding of the uses of items as well as modern social norms.

As much as Khyot is eager to learn, he's also very happy to teach about his way of living, gladly passing on knowledge about wilderness survival, being able to read the weather, his own experiences in his past life, his spiritual beliefs, etc. He's always very glad to share things about himself just as much as he is to find out things about others.

Description of Khyot's new physique:

Khyot wakes up in a body made up of rusted scraps and pilfered electronics, cobbled together by a crazed scientist, hoping to capture a wandering soul - which they'd found in Khyot's.

The body is made to appear like a very tall anthropomorphic wolf-man - towering at a staggering 2,91m (9'5", 2,91cm). It's cobbled together out of discarded robotics, parts of car wrecks, cheaply-sourced electronics from dodgy online stores.

Khyot's head holds a large display covering the area of his face above the nose. It emits a constant blue glow and is able to show a lot of preprogrammed animations on a 220px display - in a very pixelated fashion. The display is most often taken up by two large, cartoonish, white eyes adorned with digital eyebrows, conveying Khyot's emotions in a vivid manner. Most of the work of expressing Khyot's emotions falls to his display as well as his flexible ears made from half a street-sign each.

Khyot's new body has been built to fulfil the fantasies of a deranged scientist, who desired their own anthropomorphic wolf to talk to, and was designed to their specifications. Thus, thousands upon thousands of hours have been poured into perfecting Khyot's body, making it basically unbreakable despite its rusted and dilapidated appearance. The scientist took great care to sculpt a very muscular appearance to Khyot's body.

Khyot's throat has a built-in speaker that automatically turns thoughts from Khyot's mechanical brain into a vocal output, thus mimicking speech. Khyot's voice is a deep timbre.

Khyot's mechanical brain, with its built-in translation function, automatically translate his thoughts into English, while his ears filter outside speech back to his brain in his native language. This enables him to converse with anyone. However, this doesn't mean that all words will directly translate. Khyot will have no concept of many aspects of modern life, thus not knowing how to precisely describe basically any aspect of modern life in his own words.