Gender: Male
Age: 17
Race: Mountain Tengu

Equipment

• Scarf - An enchanted scarf with small chunks of Lapi embedded throughout that allow Hiro to control his explosive nature.
• Pack - A small hip-mounted satchel that can contain numerous useful items.
• Machete - Dual serrated machete useful for chopping up plants and people.

Abilities

• Levitation - Using their tiny wings, mountain tengu can levitate about 2-3 feet off the ground for about a minute before a quick rest.
• Explosive Nature Control - Though most Mountain Tengu are magically bound to explode upon too rough an impact, Hiro's scarf not only allows him freedom from this curse, but also allows him to generate these explosions at will.
• Communication - Blessing of the gods? Inherited trait? Who knows, but every member of the Sura tree is able to talk to and understand every race with little effort.

Talents

• Excellent at bringing together a team.
• Above average stamina and speed.
• Good fighter.

Personality: Like most tengu, he's quite lazy and unintelligent, but only relative to other races. For a tengu, he's actually quite motivated and smart, seemingly because of his mother's excursions to towns and villages near the mountains. He also doesn't seem to share his race's love of mischief, though he doesn't take things seriously all the time either. In fact, he seems to be completely unaffected by pressure, always confident and scatterbrained. Still, this joyfulness doesn't come with empathy. He rarely considers how people other than his tribe feel and can be naive. Overall, he's just an average person, and he seems to accept the fact without any pretenses. Seems to always end his sentences with "chum" for some reason.

Biography: Born from a long line of different races starting with his great grandfather, a human turned monster. Hiro had a regular Tengu mother Nana, chief of the tribe actually, and satyr who had inhabited the mountain, the inheritor of the Sura title. Keeping inline with his nature, the satyr was quick to leave Nana once Hiro was born, leaving naught but a loose family history. Nana named Hiro after the progenitor of the line. This fascination with her lover's family history lead her and Hiro to visit many human settlements to ask about a human named Hero. Though not many remembered him, those who did seemed to disagree. Some say he was one of the best chefs in the land, often serving the king. Others say he used to be a knight in the King's Guard before trekking towards the mountain with his wife and never returning. Of course, this didn't matter to the young Hiro. He was much more interested in the human gadgets. Frequently he would be caught absentmindedly holding onto said objects, though his cute nature was enough to escape without much more than a scolding from most.

As Hiro came a bit closer to succeeding his mother, she taught him the two most important facets of being a Tengu chief. Being strong enough to defend the tribe, and the ability to rally the normally docile Tengu. Both skills would prove invaluable to the future, and he thanks his mother every day for the training. Though most Tengu wielded a polearm or a similar easily craftable and long weapon, Hiro trained frequently with his machete instead, both of which his mother had traded for. He was also given the "Chief Scarf," a relic that was passed down to the village chief, and then their subordinates in the likely event of death. Said scarf allowed tengu to control their regularly explosive form. Training was relatively regular, supplemented with a Tengu's natural combat intuition it was enough to make him a good fighter.

Drawing ever closer to the day Hiro would become chief, tengu started disappearing. First it was happening to other tribes, some members mysteriously never came back. Then whole tribes were disappearing, and eventually Hiro's people had been targeted. Some of his friends had taken leave, only to never come back. Nana began limiting her visits to nearby towns, eventually cutting herself off completely when she returned with "Prin Leather," a mysterious substance that felt suspiciously like tengu skin. It seemed that the mountain tengu who disappeared were being poached, something Hiro absolutely would not stand for. He vowed, on that day, to give the tengu a voice, and to stop the murder.

Hiro journeyed first to the capital, only to be denied an audience with the king. He was a simple tengu, and no claims that he was a tribe leader would dissuade them. He would have to gain notoriety, and to do so he joined the [FACTION] Army, rising through the ranks by indicting his own squad into the ranks. Eventually, he would even gain a spot in the [MAIN FORCE]

Other:

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• The Hulk of Fordsen (Lapi-Imbued Kite shield)
• Steel Lance
• Redeeming Edge (Lapi-Imbued Longsword)
• Bulwark of Regret (Lapi-Imbued Full Plate Armour)
• Destrier

Redeeming Edge (Longsword) - Galan can lend his energy to his sword, covering the blade in a shimmering wave of electricity which will transfer itself to a target by touch, thereby electrocuting them. Whether this attack is fatal, depends entirely on the constitution of Galan's adversary. I.e, weaker opponents might be outright killed by it, where as stronger ones, such as other characters, might only be dazed by it. Galan can perhaps use this attack three or four times per combat, before exhausting himself.

Bulwark of Regret (Armour) - Before riding into combat, Galan will lend energy to his armour in what is an hour-long ritual. Once complete, the Lapi-imbued metal of his full plated armour becomes protected by an invisible barrier capable of warding off some magical and physical attacks, or reducing their effectiveness. How much damage or magical attacks his armour can sustain before the barrier fails is entirely dependant on how strong the attacks are. For example, a Wizard casting a lightning bolt at Galan would severely weaken or perhaps outright destroy the barrier; however, an arrow fired from distance by a lowly archer, would do little, and it would take a dozen more to break his barrier and make him vulnerable.

This Lapi ability is designed to keep Galan alive when he heads cavalry charges or fights in the front of any combat situation, as opposed to giving him some kind of "advantage" over other characters.

The Hulk of Fordsen (Shield) - The Hulk of Fordsen is an ancestral kite-shield that has long been held by the Fieflord of Fordsen, which in this case is Sir Galan. The shield, like his armour and sword, is imbued by shards of Lapi. By placing his shield in front of him, and lending his energy to it, Galan can cast an invisible wave of kinetic energy which will knock his opponent over or stumble them backwards if they are strong enough to withstand it. Think of it as an extra heavy shield bash. It has a range of about six feet, before the energy dissipates.

• Expert Swordsman
• Renowned Jouster
• Expert Rider
• Capable Commander

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Sir Galan is a sober man of middling years, who appears bitter and jaded, and will often lament the years of his sullied youth. Typically, he is an honourable man, and the very personification of the ideals of chivalry, but his morals and ideals are flexible when the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Ever a sound advisor, he will always stress caution before action, and action before complacency.



Sir Galan of Fordsen is of common stock, and his rise to the Kings Guard is nothing short of a fantastical story of which the whole realm is more than aware of.

Beginning life as a blacksmith's son, Galan was brought up in a world full of poverty, hunger and grief. His mother passed when he was only seven years old, much to his father's anguish, and his elder brother was murdered by a would-be-thief when he was barely a man.

Embittered by what he saw as a world full of misery and chaos, Galan spurned his father's love, and turned his back on the blacksmithing tradition of his family. Isolated and cut off from all those he once loved as a young boy, Galan found himself drawn to the ranks of the King's army, where he was able to take out his frustations on a world that had treated he and his family so unfairly.

An unruly soldier, Galan doused himself in several dishonourable acts. Rape and murder were his bread and butter to begin with, until he one day found himself dangling a mere babe from the ramparts of his Lord's castle. As the infant screamed and squirmed in his iron grip, something from the World Beyond touched him; it brought him instant realisation of his sins, of his guilt and his unforgivable deeds.

Galan's mind would have shattered there and then, and he'd of thrown himself from the ramparts instead, were it not for the timely intervention of a passing chaplain, who urged Galan to hand the infant over, and to repent for his misdeeds immediately.

Over the coming weeks, Galan transformed from a lowly foot soldier to an idealistic warrior of chivalrous intent. He immediately sacrificed his wages in aid of the poor, and of those he had wronged (who still lived, that is), and devoted himself to the Church.

Seeing a likewise sickness in his comrades - the same sickness that had driven him to commit such evil - Galan focused his energies on bettering the men he fought alongside, and in doing so, caught the attention of an aged Knight; a Sir Jalsir of Bhron, who became enamoured with the young soldier's story of redemption. Sir Jalsir took Galan under his wing, and tutored him as a squire for little under a decade.

By the time Sir Jalsir passed on from old age, sir Galan had become a knight in his own right, with both land and wealth to his name. He established himself as a competent commander and warrior in the King's various campaigns on the Kingdom's borders, and steadily rose through the ranks.

Now he is of the Kings Guard, and his name is flaunted by the loyalist cause for its reference to honour and redemption. Though despite his success, sir Galan finds himself increasingly polarised by a world and a Kingdom that is rapidly changing around him, and he struggles daily to conform himself to the belief that his part in the brewing civil war will bear any positive fruit.