And eventual Allies of Zekial:
More art to come for Vespry, Priest Lofayte, and Totem.
Valarii “ “, High Elven, 70 years old, lived in the great
cities of the High Elves all of his life, born into the lower class, his family
not having much but Valarii was quick with his studies and very agile, so he
was recruited into the Iron Guard at an early age and truly grew up in the
military, not to long after he was selected from the ranks to be a Black Runner
(High Elven Intelligence and Black Ops) had a few run ins with those who felt
they were superior to him, even killing a Lieutenant in a duel, the duel wasn’t to the death, but
the Lieutenant played foul, and Valarii did what anyone of his caliber would do
to defend himself. So instead of court-martial or death sentence as would be
commonplace, he was given over to the Letrevarian 13, to become its 13th
member for awhile, the best at what they did the worst of who they were. He
served with them for several years, being taught truly what it were to be an
assassin and the nationalism and philosophies of his people, this didn’t bother
him in the least, and he fell in quite well with them, that is, till one
particular situation. Now Valarii was very cold and calculating, but something
in him could not give in to killing the children required on one mission.
Something snapped in him, and he even tried to defend the children, even though
the unit’s policy was leave no survivors to tell any tales, this got him fired
upon by his own comrades and a wall collapsed upon him, and he was left for
dead. Soon after one, Totem of the Bear,
came along, after having a vision of a Wolf cub, its foot caught in a snare, he
retrieved the lad from the wreckage and nursed him back to health for nearly a
week, and stayed with him several days after he woke, imparting wisdom upon
him, and teaching him the ways of basic survival out in the desert where they
were. This Half-Giant and his kindness and ways confused him to no end, and by
High Elven ethos he should have long committed Hare-Kari , but his will to
survive and live were stronger. Still unclear about himself, and what was
“wrong with him”, by High Elven standards, he vanished one night from Totem’s
side, and struck out on his new course in life, giving into the ancient
frivolous side of his elven nature, seeking out his way in life, and learning
of society and culture outside of the High Elven citadels, being always taught
within, that all life other than High Elves were barbaric, worth less, and by
far useless and disruptive to the balance of life.
Valarii is very fast, agile and dexterous, he prefers to get
up close and personal in a fight, using his Elven Quick Blades, loaded on
spring-loaded gauntlets within his sleeves, however due to his time with the
Black Runners and Letrevarian 9/10, he’s become quite an efficient sniper/long
gunner, his rifle made to his specs, survived the wall crashing upon him, and
he carries it to this day.
The comic relief, per say, as he learns about society and
culture and what it is to be free and live life, stubbornness and a lack of
common sense at times constantly gets him and the others in trouble, albeit
it’s the kind of trouble to tell around the next campfire.
Vespry “ “, Half
Dark Elven, 45 years old, born to a Human rancher and his Dark Elven Wife (well
figure names out later), she grew up fairly wealthy, and yearned for nothing,
thus she’s fairly spoiled and very beautiful and knows how to use her beauty
her mind and her body, for martial arts that is, as she basically conned her
father to bring in a specialist to train her, took a lil while to talk him into
it, but being married outside of his
race, brings trouble, though he didn’t care what others thought, he still
wanted to protect his family, and did so. Her training didn’t take off like an
eagle, but she eventually did soar in her arts, she also bargained with some of
the hands to teach her how to shoot when Daddy wasn’t looking, and took to a
rifle and knives fairly well, mind you she doesn’t use these often outside of
scare tactics, as she prefers to use her wiles to get up close and personal
with her bounty-head and paralyze him/ knock him out, and take it from there,
but all of her training has come in handy at some point in her short career,
she had a daughter, this is where the story gets tricky, not sure with whom, a
young suitor, not sure his background, but he basically tricked her into loving
him, and then ran off, eventually with the child, or not, im not sure, maybe
the parents gave her up for adoption to save name. So need help with her back
story motivation, anyways so she sought out her daughter, and being off alone a
single woman, she had but a few choices, to fund her journey, as her parents
wouldn’t do so, or took to long and she was in a hurry and ran away after her,
or don’t know, just giving you ideas, to discuss/ rollover, so she became a
bounty hunter to fund her way from town to searching for that bastard and her
daughter or just her daughter.
Vespry’s main armaments: several knives and small single
shot derringers, one sawed off Springfield rifle, her looks her wiles and her
fists.
She’s got attitude and lots of it, knows how to wrap a man
around her finger then release, willful, but naive, still gaining her wits
about the world outside of Daddy’s ranch, but luck has been on her side so
far, gaining back her daughter and
knocking that asshole a new one has been her main prerogative for quite some
time now, and uses all means to get her closer to achieving that.
Totem Stone-Bear , 120 years old, Irukanii, Half Giant,
gifted with the spirit magic, which is very rare for his race, now Shaman of
his tribe, grew up with Zekial in their
younger years, also gifted with dream walking and visions, he sees Zekial for
who he truly is in his dreams but a big head can be pretty dense, so never
really makes the connection, he also sees Valarii as his wolf cub (pet) in his
dreams, more on that later). Totem is ever caring and always friendly,
sometimes to a fault, he is calm, well spoken, and wise, and very quiet unless
something needs to be said, (similar to Silent Bob), but can also be dense to
the obvious at times, you know the air of there kind of thickens too much
sometimes, but overall is quiet defender who makes cameos throughout the story.
Totem standing in at 12 and half feet tall, doesn’t often
need to use weapons, but his strength is obviously highly formidable, he
carries his Spirit Staff, invariably a Totem Pole for his use, that hell often
use for whopping the bad puppy when Valarii acts up around him, and so forth.
He also can call upon the elements, his favorite being lightning, and form them
into various shapes and uses (think Avatar).
Priest Kaire Lofayte, some 35 years old, like Vespry’s
father he is a thin blood, what is referred to as a human with Elven blood in
his lineage, they often times live to be about a 150-200 years old, middle age
being in their 70-90s. A man of the cloth who has become to accustomed to God’s
wonderful miracles, and sometimes, well to him quite often, lack there of at
times, starts going mad after Zekial leaves the monastery after his healing is
over. He’s witnessed to much and sanity is a stepping stone from tipping over
the edge, so he leaves on a quest to figure himself and God out, taking with
him a huge cross, and shotgun, he walks off into the desert, making cameos
later on, by then he’s become something of a Vigilante and Hero for the
People,.
His Cross being Hallow in the center where he has a sliding
backing where he hides his SG inside, the bottom arm of the cross, has been
cleared out and wrapped in cloth, so that he can beat evil-doers with the sign
of the savior, bringing them salvation with every lump, he also carries a few
side arms within his priestly robes for prolonged firefights, also carries a few
sticks of dynamite for what he calls a baptism of fire for rare situations.
Quite Mad, but quite Sane, kind of like Ash from Evil
Dead/Army of Darkness. Gives candy to children, always says a prayer for the
departed so forth and so on. He’ll curse em up a storm as he puts them down,
but once down he’s wishin em away to Heaven. Also along the way, he begins to
reinterpret God’s lessons and commandments…
Valarii, Vespry, Totem Stone-Bear and Priest Kaire Lofayte, these names and distinctive likenesses all are ©2013 Andrew Tyler Shepard
