Appearance ●●
Reputation ●● (as an Adventurer, and Beast Tamer)
Spoken Languages: Old Realm, Seatongue, Riverspeak, Forest-Tongue
Age: about 1600

History:

One of the eldest members of the Dragonblooded host, Bok has lived a life as long as many celestials, but has never held a high office or tremendous personal power of a scale noticeable to them. Born in the middle years of the Thousand Struggles Era.  He grew up in a lesser family as servant to a solar in the east.  His task was to join his dragonblooded brothers and serve as the solar's zoo keepers for an impressive menagerie of beasts both natural and created.  He rose to preeminence here as trainer and tamer of the beasts, and was granted many boons by his solar master.  When this master passed away during the cascading years event, he left the menagerie to Bok.

At this point in his life Bok became more of a public figure and with his own retainers traveled creation collecting and indexing more beasts.  The majority of his time was spent plumbing the edges of creation for their unique specimens.  These trips often were quite perilous and became a bit of an attraction, Bok made many friends among the solars and lunars who joined these expeditions.   This was so successful that a business was created out of it and his associates to this day manage trips in the formats he pioneered.

Bok most recently took and extended trip to the underworld and and spend so long there that it was thought he was not returning, his will was executed and funeral rights performed, but when he returned 40 years later the bureaucratic mess caused more than a few headaches and many surprised exalts.  He has currently taken of time from further traveling to spent time teaching as a favor to an old friend who helped him out of the problems involved in returning from the 'dead'. 

Description:

Varanasi is not a large man, he stands only a few hairs above five feet.  His skin is a pale gray green of lichen, his hair flaky brown of a vine, and his eyes the brilliant emerald of coalesced wood essence.  His deep Basso voice has an unusual quality of tearing and rending wood underplayed in its depths.

His usual attire, when about the academy on casual business, is a dark green silken robe of varying simple cuts, and a Green Jade Grand Goremaul that he uses as a walking stick, when afield or working with his beasts he dons a suit of the Most Merciful Armor of the Wood Dragon (a variant Wood Dragon Armor)