Azzarion

Description

A savage of a young man, Azzarion's hair is a dirty blond mass of braids and rough-polished stone beads. Unwashed, there's a tribal wildness about him, particularly in the stormy blue eyes that pierce their way from the weather-carved planes of his face. The nose is hawkish, bent in the place it was broken once before and there's a couple scars along one jaw, silvery hash marks striping his dirty face. He stands 5'5, a thin feline of a man with reedy muscles caging his wiry frame. There's no mistaking the predatory stance that comes natural to him. He knows the best way to use those tight bound muscles despite the small package.

Background

80 turns ago, Azzarion's grandfather was stripped from his bed in the dead of night at the age of 18 turns. Deemed a dangerous upstart and shit disturber, his powerful uncle decided that the boy had to go, before ambition turned the lad towards a marriage of power. Truth is, Merrio didn't have a head for politics nor the smarts given to any decent canine. He got mixed up with the wrong people at the wrong time and the wild-eyed youth of eighteen ended up on an island at the ass end of nowhere.

70 turns ago, Merrio fall in love with Brillia, another exile. She had the misfortune of a jealous younger sister who made sure to drop the right amount of suspicion in the right ears. In the outside world, no one would have allowed them to link bloodlines. It was a bright spot in their lives, to thumb their noses at those on the mainland and be happy as they could together. They had 5 children in exile. Borrio was the youngest of those children.

55 Turns ago, Borrio was born.

45 turns ago, Borrio met Alyzza, the only child of another pair of island-folk. They hated one another. Borrio with his happily matched mother and father and Alyzza who had lost everyone except her older brother when she was only four turns. Alyzza who fished and hunted while Borrio spun stories and 'tall tales' with his five brothers. Her older brother Zaerl never spoke. Some sort of shock from being an infant brought to the island with his mother. Rumors were that Alyzza mother was the fulltime mistress of an esteemed lord and had tried to make trouble when he refused to accept her son as heir, but Zaerl, a giant of a man, took matters into his own hands to silence any wagging tongues. The story of their mother went with her when she died giving birth to Alyzza. Her father was unknown, a brief union between two grieving exiles.

It took 10 turns for Borrio and Alyzza to realize that their passion was not really hate but that other close emotion. Love. The boy with his head in the clouds spreading the stories that they'd be rescued by the flying beasties his father told him about. She, level headed, solid and dependable who would do anything in her power to make sure the soup stretched just one mouth larger so fewer people went hungry.

35 Turns ago Borrio and Alyzza got handfasted in the 'old ways'. It was the same turn that his father Merrio passed away.

32 Turns ago, Brillia passed away.

19 Turns ago, Az was born. The child was strong and smart and wild. Like his mother, he loved to hunt and fish, yet he was like his father too in that he had big dreams, as wild as their rough, cold home. His uncle Zaerl, silent as ever, helped mold him into the man he would become. Able bodied, strong yet fiercely protective of his family. At a very early age he went out with the hunters-they let him collect bait. Before most children on the mainland join a craft, he was out with the hunters and fishers, helping secure food and hides.

5 Turns ago, Zaerl and Borrio died after a series of brutal storms.

2 Turns ago Alyzza passed away after a rough illness.

Today, Az has little use of fantasy stories, though he misses the idea of that world his father says his grandfather told him about. This is the only life he has known and he will make the most of it. He spends his time with the hunters and has made a name for himself, at least among them. No good dreaming about the old days, or what might be, he lives for today and the joys he can find in spending time with friends and living his life.

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