Character Repository

Zandoran was left at the doors of the Temple of Eternal Dawn when he was but a small child. The Monks there took him in and raised him as one of their own. Training focused on the synergy of three components to create a TRUE WARRIOR; Combat Skill, Strong Spirit and Healthy Body. The body has to be free of tension, filled with endurance, flexibility, effortless movement and explosive potential.
Zandoran trained hard and advanced quickly through the ranks. One day, soon after the 15th anniversary of his arrival at the temple a fellow Monk returned from a sojourn with a package addressed to Zandoran. The package contained a Katar emblazoned with a Coat of Arms but nothing else. When Zandoran questioned his friend he was told that the package had been in the Monks room one evening with no clue as to how it got there…
Curiosity got the better of him and so Zandoran approached the head of his order and asked permission to travel the world and seek the owner of the blade…

Needing some shins to fund his expedition he hired himself out as a body guard to Ythindra
Zandoran feels that Zippo probably looks down on him for not using "real" weapons in a fight
Crash really freaks Zandoran out, but thankfully he has been given the keys to Crash's manacles so he feels a little safer now

Ythindra is horrendously deformed, and has been so since birth. The right side of her body was originally scaled and inhuman, and the left side relatively unblemished. During her formative years, she was snatched by local youth, and they put her into the coals, attempting to purge her of that which was distasteful.

The youth yet live, know having grown to adulthood. Ythindra, having grown under the tutelage of her mother, a reknowned nano of the area, found herself with similar gifts. The incident with the fire, however, awakened great powers. Her touch could heal wounds outright. Save for those of her own acquired before the incident.

Appalled and heartbroken, the youths and adults of her village loath and love her. Unable to look directly at her, as a reminder to their own deficiencies as well as her own, they nonetheless treasure her abilities and place in their lives.

Deep in her heart, however, she longed for release from her bonds. When her mother died, she inherited much of her duties and responsibilities. In the dark of the night, she packed what was important and fled.


On the road, she came across the strange creature known as Crash. She finds in his mannerisms a kindred spirit; touched by the numenera and cursed by the sensitivities of strangers.

The Lanten family tree reveals a long line of ancestors who've served as Constables in a small town in the region of Navarene, called Fasten. Mig, and his lineage, are known to everyone and opinions vary. Despite an occupation that rewards suspicious hunches, Mig is good-natured and leans on humor to diffuse tense situations, and he likes to give people the benefit of the doubt. He has a knack for reading people's tells; those micro facial movements that convey an individual's mood and disposition. To Mig, people are open books.

His gift for empathy helps him navigate social situations and control them to avoid misunderstandings and prevent useless conflicts from erupting. But, the constant bombardment of emotions from those around him takes a toll. He used to wear his heart on his sleeve, but ever since the Incident, he tries to close himself off and remain inscrutable to others out of a sense of self-preservation.

His family's creed: In essentials, Unity. In non-essentials, Liberty. In all things, Charity. Someone has to stand up for the helpless, the weak, and the unprotected. Mig believes this duty (more like an inheritance than an obligation) falls to him?and has thus spent much of his life watching out for people. When he sees someone in trouble, he is the first to lend his hand. He might give up his last shin to help the hungry, take a beating to save a person from the same, or call on his own friends to tackle an injustice wherever it might lead.

He bears many scars from previous conflicts. He treats each one as a token of someone's gratitude, a permanent currency. His self-imposed exile has led him to wander, righting wrongs where he can, and moving on before he makes too strong of an impression and word reaches those that would see him hang for his political indiscretion.

Connections
Before The Incident Mig often took security jobs for caravans. This is where he met Zippo and eagerly absorbed the martial knowledge that Zippo could provide.
The Incident: Some time ago, Mig took the side of an outsider, defending them from the retribution of his town's council. She was the scapegoat for a crime she couldn't have committed. But it was an easy conviction for the council, outsiders make closing cases easy. Mig, slipped in and freed the accused under cover of night, choosing to be banished forever with this stranger, but choosing Truth. Her name is OOLIN.

Crash has lived off the scraps of society for as long as he could remember, watching, mimicking and hunting to quench the hunger inside him. Always alone, on the outside watching and waiting. He got his name from when he was younger as a ‘child’ one who would shambling and rush through the forests chasing his prey making feral noises with the anticipation of eating his prey. A wife’s tale at times he found out for what happened to bad children, the Crashing Thing will come and get you if you go into the forests alone at night. As he got older he learned and stopped attacking the livestock of villages as he moved around quite a bit since sometimes he would cause problems for people due to misunderstandings while other times they just didn’t like the look of him. He’d learn to hunt what would not be missed, predators in the area causing problems or vermin although he would hunt vermin in greater amounts since they weren’t very filling sometimes supposed criminals were never found for a reason. As he grew older due to his nature he was oddly quick to figure out people since he was one to always watch first versus think what he would do. Acting like others instead of his first impulse meant he could manipulate people at times, it wasn’t something he needed to hunt but it kept people from stopping him from doing so. Thriest eventually seems to be on the way of Crash’s nomadic path. A place of great wonders might mean a lot of different people. Maybe even a place where he could stay inside at night.

Connections:
Zandoran has keys to a set of manacles to bind him
Ythrinda helps him find wild game instead of the alternative