Verigan Trimarch

Beginnings in Kastollia
(Nothing here is final yet, just jotting down some of the main points before fleshing everything out)

Verigan lived a Nomadic lifestyle for much of his early life, preferring to travel with his friend Aurel and see Syltors beautiful landscapes. These times quickly came to an end.

Upon reaching the Baykonian province, Aurel and Verigan decided to set up camp at the Greypeak mountain close to Vel Deur and the Baykonian capital, Salameberg. Once there, they chanced to meet an ambitious man named Jayhawk alongside his two close advisors Erik and Slappy. The five men quickly became acquainted with eachother and Jayhawk convinced the pair of nomads to join his hamlet of Meteora, a city hidden on the Greypeak Mountain. Sensing an opportunity to make a home, they agreed and aided Jayhawk in building his city into a Fortress overlooking the plains below.

The Three Crowns War
When Meteora, under the banner of the union of Kastollia, declared independence from the Baykonian Commonwealth the humble settlement quickly turned into a place of war as the Kastollian troops prepared to march on Salameberg.

The battle was a massacre and Verigan, in attempt to rescue Jayhawk from the ensuing route, lost his arm in the fighting causing him to become disillusioned with his trust in the man he saw as a friend. Jayhawk would name Verigan his Grand Warden in order to focus on rebuilding Kastollias might once more. Verigan instead ran away in the middle of the night alongside four soldiers and set sail for the southern Rathniri state of Avaria eager to return to his nomadic lifestyle and discover secrets long thought lost.

The Eye of Harmony
Accompanied by Krimson, Athelyne and Manilus. Verigan would claim an abandoned town in the middle of the Velande desert and name it "Luxor". While mapping out walls and claims Krimson discovered a Pyramid buried in sand, it contained warped nether blocks and its walls were covered in blood and insane ramblings, this discovery peaked Verigan's interest and he ordered the area be excavated for further research.

Upon further investigation of the temple, several notes were found within it containing various pictures, any text within the collection of notes were written in an unknown language. Verigan would keep the book close and spend many weeks attempting to decipher it.

During one of several cave-ins at the site, Krimson was crushed by falling debris. Emotionally distraught by Krimson's death, Verigan, Manilus and Athelyne would cease their excavations into the Pyramid and would begin fishing as a pass-time. Verigan, having gone through the months of pain and misery had finally reached his breaking point and decided to try and decipher the notes one more time. After some time he managed to decipher one of the notes, a recipe to create an alloy named "Living Steel", it was an alloy that takes the shape of whatever its Master wanted but when it took a shape, it would not change. The steel would come at a price however, it needed to be imbued with souls.

Using this new-found knowledge he lured Manilus and Athelyne into the Temple and sealed the entrance behind them, as they slowly suffocated, their souls would leave their bodies and enter the Iron Ingots laying in the middle of the room. Afterwards, he heated the Iron until it became molten and uttered the incantation from the notes, the steaming molten Iron slowly crawled its way up onto his exposed Shoulder and took the form of the arm he lost in Salameberg. As Verigan flexed the new arm, it rippled as he began to hear the voices of Athelyne and Manilus tormenting him, slowly unhinging his mind with their screams and shouts.

(I still haven't written the book of notes since i'm lazy af)

Return to Kastollia/Varandoy
For the short time he lived in Luxor, alone and depressed, Verigan was constantly plagued with nightmares and panic attacks, always looking around the corner for the phantoms of Athelyne or Manilus to come after him. He considered the bundle of notes he had stashed inside his personal diary evil but couldn't bring himself to get rid of them. Verigan had gotten tired of his quickly deteriorating situation and decided to return to Kastollia in hopes of finding safety there.