GINSENG

Contact Info: Blade, kumonryuu@hotmail.com
AIM: Kiima

Full Name: Unknown

Occupation: Itinerant Wizard

Residence: His apartment, which despite being no larger than a usual
three-room apartment on the outside, somehow manages to host several
bedrooms, a dojo, a olympic-sized swimming pool, and dozens of
storerooms containing strange, wonderful and occasionally dangerous
objects.

Height: 6'2"

Weight: 148 lbs.

Eyes: Grey

Hair: Salt and pepper, reaches to the nape of his neck

Birthday: Unknown; Ginseng appears to be in his mid-forties but has on
several occasions talked as if he were much older.

Blood Type: Unknown

Curse: None

Clothing: Ginseng dresses like an archetypical fuddly old wizard; he
wears musty robes with seemingly random arcane sigils on them.  He
walks with a staff, except when he forgets to bring it (which is
fairly often).  He is never without several pouches and bags which
contain an astonishing variety of things unrelated to the pouch's
actual size.

Personality:  "Absent-minded" doesn't even BEGIN to describe Ginseng.
He is so scatterbrained that he makes Akemi look like a model of
stability.  Seemingly incapable of staying on one topic for more than
a few seconds, his conversation meanders like Ryouga's sense of
direction.  The only topic he seems to return to frequently is Lower
Slobovia, a mythical (?) country with insanely complicated, intricate
and dangerous customs of etiquette.

However, despite this, somehow his students (Akemi, Blade, Rarion and
Tarou) have turned out to be extremely powerful, if not exactly
well-adjusted.  Noting this, several people have tried to get some
sort of martial arts advice from him.  For those with patience, he can
usually be eventually steered onto the topic, but his advice seems
almost random, often unrelated to the person he's talking to.  Or is
it...?

Magical items are his other stock in trade.  People like Blade, Tarou
and Lo Shin have all made use of Ginseng to aquire enchanted objects
of a wide variety of uses.  Ginseng is more than happy to help out
anyone-and I mean ANYONE-who asks him for one of his experiments, and
you will usually get something resembling what you ask for, but be
warned: magical items from Ginseng's storerooms tend to be as
unpredictable and eccentric as the wizard himself.

Identifying Quotes:
"Hmm...and who are you again?  Aren't you dead?"
"...and so, that is the proper Slobovian usage of shotguns at the
breakfast table.  But, you see, during the summer solstice..."