Leader of the Satotha Beast Tamer's Guild
Kyris Freeclaw
Human Beast Tamer
Kyris has a small, thin, athletic build, 4'9", with sharp features. She has long, red hair and light skin. She has a bony face with a triangular jaw and small, blue eyes.
Actual Age: 61
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Rise to Power:Kyris grew up a child of the Satotha Beast Tamer's Guild. Her mother died shortly after her birth, and her father, Satotha Freeclaw, had formed the guild over his lifetime into a well respected society for the most renown beast trainers. The guild provided assistance to trainers of everything from wolves to giant spiders to dragons. Kyris grew up loving the great beasts, and spent her time studying and learning all the types of tameable monsters in the land. Over the years, Kyris began to become incredibly skilled at taming all sorts of animals, and was revered across the land as one of the leading experts in animal taming.
When Kyris was 19, her father died of illness. Kyris was elected the new leader of the guild.
Soon after inheriting leadership of the guild, war broke out across the land. Taking advantage of the opportunity to promote the guild and increase its wealth, Kyris began renting war-beasts to the nearby kingdoms. Kyris' and the guild's beasts soon became legend, leading numerous armies into victory, and helped to turn the tides of the war for those she chose to side with. As the renown of of the guild grew, Kyris soon became legend with it, often leading armies into battle atop well trained wolves and saber-tooth tigers, leading packs of fearsome animals across enemy lines. Kyris ended up leading the Great Battle that brought an end to the war, and a statue of her riding a dragon over the remains of the battle sits behind the throne of the victorious kingdom to this day.
Time continued on, and so did the land's lust for war. The guild had become incredibly well known for it's fearsome, powerful army of beasts, and power hungry kings began offering massive sums of wealth for the opportunity to use the beasts to wage battle. Becoming more greedy, kingdoms began misusing the animals, waging unnecessary battles, and often putting the animals in harms way, and even death, for petty gains.
Burdened by the increase of war and violence the guild had wrought, and the lives of precious animals lost, Kyris decided to end the guild's involvement in war. Lead by Kyris, 9 years after the guild's entrance into the involvement of war, the guild began removing beasts from battle and the ownership of kingdoms. This lead to many hard feelings toward the guild, as the loss of the guild's support caused the defeat of numerous kingdoms. Many long time companions of heroes were removed from owners who refused to end the use of their animals in battle. Bitter feelings still remain among heroes who's companions were reclaimed by the guild.
Using the wealth acquired through the times of war, Kyris turned the guild into a haven for the rescued animals. Following her lead, the guild vowed to no longer support wars or the use of animals in violence. As a result of this new direction, the guild began attracting many supporters of peace and pacifism, and began taming and protecting many animals, smaller creatures as well as the legendary beasts of old. Over time, the guild became quieter and less talked about, but the tales of Kyris and her army of monsters is still sung within the kingdoms she helped lead into victory in the days of old.
Combat Skills:Amateur Archery - Kyris used to be somewhat decent with a bow. However, her skills have faded since she took up more peaceful career aspirations. She still practices it for sport on occasion, however.
Wolf and Saber-Tooth Leader - During her time as a warrior, this was her main form of fighting. She is an expert at keeping in tune with packs of animals, and giving orders from a distance.
Dragon Riding - While famous for riding a dragon during her legendary victory, Kyris has little experience with using dragon's in combat. However, she has spent some time, as of recent, riding a couple of the guilds small dragons for pleasure.
Bird Mastery - Kyris is also well known for her ability to train and use birds, often for surveillance or sending messages.
Hobbies:- Camping
- Reading books
- Animal training for sport
- Racing on horseback
Your Gear:Clothes: Warm fur overcoat (It is cold), traditional Satotha Guild robes (Red with gold lining, and the image of a dragon embroidered on the back), riding pants, fur boots, and fur gloves.
Weapons: Simple Bow and a few arrows, a small dagger, and a longbow for Atris
Animal supplies: A pack full of food for the animals and a wolf saddle
Miscellaneous: A book on ice dragons, a tent, and a warm blanket
Your retinue:James Runebrew - The Satotha Guild's head bird trainer. He is a human, 22, and rides atop a giant falcon, which is his main pet. He also brought with him a snow-owl, as it is one of his only birds not suffering as badly from the extended winter.
Atris Freeclaw - She is Kyris' younger sister, 53 years old. She is an archery trainer, traveling between nearby kingdoms, often teaching new recruits for armies. Atris is less involved with the guild than her sister.
Snowflake - A lesser ice dragon, and one of the guild's rescued beasts. Kyris is not as familiar with Snowflake, but Snowflake is one of the only animals both capable of a long journey and thriving in the icy climate.
Warfire - A wolf, and one of Kyris' oldest companions. Warfire accompanied Kyris in almost every battle she fought in, and remains a loyal companion in retirement.
Retirement: After retiring from leading animals into war, Kyris has focused on making the guild a center of peace. Kyris has continued to lead the new guild, and has turned much of the animal training toward entertainment and positive, helpful behavior, such as search and rescue missions. She has also spent quite a bit of time traveling around promoting peace and pacifism to those willing to listen. Kyris has tried to keep the guild out of controversial, political affairs after the move to a more peaceful guild. Until the bitter cold started harming the animals, that is.
Family:While retiring from heroism, Kyris has remained busy taking care of the guild and guiding it in its new direction. She has spent little time working toward a family. She remains unmarried and without children. Her sister is married with two adult children, though.