Endo Kamisato

Endo Kamisato (神里 遠藤 ── Kamisato Endō) is a half-blood human mage, adventurer, soldier and merchant currently affiliated to the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire. Endo was raised somewhere in the wildlands of the Katsura region; he became an expert in the art of trading goods, and also he’s well versed into both magical and martial fields, as he studied and learned about enchantments, potion brewing and diverse fighting techniques that included various knowledges from swordsmanship to warfare tactics since a very young age.

Appereance
Endo is a fit young male of tall height, although being a half-blooded he possesses a vast majority of human-like features, a clear-toned skin and an overall athletic body. He has straight dark-blue hair that also is somewhat short, small and slanted eyes that seem to vary from dark amber to a bright golden color. Despite his young age he also has many scars scattered all around his body from both stabbing and cutting injuries, mainly suffered during his battles or from when he was traveling around the lands of Eldham.

His major notable characteristic is probably the scar he has on his back, as it seems to assemble the same pattern than the kanji “力” (Chikara ── Japanese for “Power/Might/Will”) that being the reason of why his clothes have that same kanji drawn on them, this scar occupies the entirety of Endo’s back and it always has been there as it is a birthmark.

Besides when using armor Endo appears to always wear the same type of clothes, the majority of the time he wears his blue yukata with black pants and tends to use traditional tight sandals as footwear of preference, but when exploring for long periods of time he may change his clothes main piece of clothing for a thicker jinbei-style kimono.

Personality
Endo has such an intriguing personality, as it has many sides that conforms his behavior, ideals and forms of acting, he’s described as a man with almost an unlimited will-power when it comes to do whatever he qualifies as “right”, in those certain cases he may be serious and dedicated, some people even call him “perfectionist” because of how he looks for an optimal solution when he commits to a particular duty, but otherwise Endo tends to be simple and direct with everything else that is not a priority of his, thus making him a person that can easily find quick solutions to any trouble that gets on the way due to a peculiar mix between his analytical capacities and his lack of interest, this also applies to socializing as he adopts a more relaxed posture towards the most of the people, this also means that even if he just met them, Endo will simply speak sincerely under his standards to anyone regardless of who they are, although he does not want to trespass the barrier of just being plain disrespectful towards other people, it’s just that even if he tries to it is likely that he won’t hold his opinion back even when others could consider it offensive.

When it comes to his overall personality he’s confident yet easy to approach, even if he is too blunt sometimes when speaking with others in a serious manner, he is also kind and even may reach a prankster-like attitude when he’s around people he feels comfortable with or when he just feels like it, at that point his serious facet almost disappears as his uninhibited facet shows up, upon being in this state Endo enjoys joking around and can even reach to the point where he has no taboos, this also includes behaving somewhat promiscuously and joking about his own lewdness, and in some few occasions this relaxed behavior becomes even more intense (mostly when he’s drunk or tired but both scenarios are actually pretty rare to happen yet they still do occur).

As Endo was raised in such a hostile environment he is relentless in combat, even if he doesn’t have any other aftermaths dues to his time surviving and fighting in the wild, he acquired a survival and combat instinct that kept him alive; Endo won’t hesitate to commit murder in order to neutralize threats when he’s in combat, yet it isn’t like he does not have mercy at all, he may let his enemies go away under certain circumstances like if they were a good opponent, or if there is not a real reason to fight until death.

Endo also possesses an incredible control of his negative emotions, he may get annoyed at certain things but he can control emotions like anger and even suppress them at will, yet as every other person he has a limit in his patience that even his training as a mage and warrior can’t prevent him from reaching, Endo’s anger is described and violent as unstoppable as he loses the majority of his analytical capacities to find other answers besides from eradicating what triggered him. Still keeping a major portion of his combat technique and tactics he adopts an more offensive fighting style due to his incapacity to hold back, yet he’s still able to plan his moves and execute them, when interacting with other people during this state he becomes cold and distant even with those who are close to him. If a stranger or someone not that close to him tries to stop him it is likely that Endo could become hostile towards them if they get in the way of his rage.

The birth of a fallen star
Endo Kamisato was born during the very first minutes of a New Year, under the noise of the fireworks exploding in the sky and the stars shining through the black blanket of the night, besides from that, little to nothing is to be known about the first moments of his life. Who were his parents or where exactly he was born remained a mystery, exactly one hour after the New Year celebration, when the fireworks were over, one brilliant unidentified object was seen over the Katsura Region, it was first described as a unusual golden shooting star, yet it didn’t pass by for only a few seconds as shooting stars usually do, but it started to become brighter until suddenly disappearing when passing over a small gunjōnese village making its inhabitants confused and fascinated at the same time, the next morning a retired mercenary that lived in that village went to the nearby forest in order to collect some wood for the elders, but he found something else between two massive wisteria trees, a place where snow melted and revealed the purple flowers that shouldn’t have bloomed at that season, where the grass was soft and green, filled with life during the cold of the winter, without any other explanation he felt warmth all around the zone coming out of that basket, after thinking about it twice, he decided to open it, and it was such a surprise when he found a newborn with a note that had written the last name of this baby, “Kamisato”. Upon finding him, the mercenary won’t hesitate to take the newborn to the village, he brought a branch of the wisteria tree to prove he was not making up his story about a newborn under protected by bloomed flowers during cold temperatures, every single member of the village was intrigued about him as they saw a strange birthmark on his back and his golden eyes, but they finally decided to take care of him, and after a meeting decided to name him “Endo” which literally meant “Far wisteria” as he was found under the cover of those flowers and his origins were unknown.

Childhood and education
During the first years of his childhood Endo was the center of attention of that humble village, its inhabitants saw him as “divine blessing”, although he was not officially adopted by anyone, every single villager took his turn to take care of him, but mainly there was two people who took care and educated him the most, the retired mercenary who found him and a woman who was into witchcraft but gained the trust of everyone because of her medicines and kind nature, he learnt the most of these two.

Endo helped the villagers with many tasks and learnt from many fields from a very young age, during that time he never got sick neither got exhausted, instead he seemed to be stronger and healthier than other kids even older than him. When under the protection of the mercenary, who turned out to be a famous war veteran with several battles in his career, Endo was introduced to the martial arts, mainly swordsmanship, Endo had both talent and will to improve, his efforts weren’t in vain as he improved insanely quickly as he was declared to be a prodigy, and also he had another talent that was discovered under the wing of the benevolent witch of the village, he had such a good connection and sensitivity to magical energy that he managed to enchant his first item by accident while just being a 4 years old kid, he studied and managed to both learn and memorize entire books with great detail and was also revealed to conceal a tremendous magical potential within his body, that fact in addition to his mysterious origin started the rumor about him not being a human.

The Dark Odyssey
Even after years of studying and researching an immeasurable quantity of books, Endo couldn’t find anything related to his origins, this clearly annoyed him, although the villagers were like family to him and he knew that it was really unlikely to find anything related to his parents in a small Gunjōnese town, he really wanted to know more about the Kamisato family, find where he came from, know about his race and maybe discover how he ended up in the middle nowhere; this martyrdom of researching in the village’s old library lasted for years.

Endo spent his entire childhood in that village, it seemed like even though he did not have a family, he still was going to have a good life due to his charisma and productivity, sadly the village’s witch got sick when Endo was 7 years old, she taught him advanced magical concepts but finally passed away due to her illness one year after, he still lived in the village until he was 10 years old, a day before his tenth birthday he ceased his research in order to get some sleep and prepare himself for his the New Year festival that was being prepared by the villagers, little did he know that tragedy would strike down to end his pacific life.

The village was filled with happiness and hope for another good year of success and abundance, once again the fireworks filled and lighted up the sky, since there was another reason to celebrate that day: Endo’s birthday, after a great event he felt somnolent and decided to sleep while the adults remain awake to party and drink, a couple of hours later he woke up to the smell of burnt flesh and smoke, confused he got out of his cabinet to find out what was going on, his golden eyes opened up in a mixture of despair and fear while he was horrified: there were dead bodies everywhere, fire arrows embedded on the houses while their roofs were burning down and the deafening screams of children and women coming from the depths of the forest.

After recognizing the villagers bodies he got traumatized, the people that always were so kind and friendly to him were now dead, he decided to look out for any survivors, and finally found two siblings in the middle of the chaos: a young kid with his little sister, the brother took her hand and they started to run towards Endo, and so he did as well, but before he could even reach them a rain of arrows brutally killed both of the children in front of Endo, they were unlaid upon the mud of the ground, Endo fell on his knees and saw six bandits that also noticed him; Endo couldn’t do nothing, he was in a total shock and his body did not answer, he wasn’t even able to get on his feet, the bandits aimed at him, and almost all hope was lost, but a miracle occurred, the retired swordsman jumped out of the bushes and single handedly took out all bandits with his iron sabre, he looked over his shoulder noticing Endo, yet when he was about to approach him an arrow was shot into his calve, he yelled at Endo, telling him to run away. Endo woke up from his shock state and got up, he tried to somehow help the mercenary, yet he took two arrows more this time to his back, coughing blood it was obvious that there were many more bandits, dozens of them hiding in the trees and shooting the swordsman with their crossbows. Endo cried in pain as he saw one of the few people he knew slowly dying, but finally his will allowed him to do what he was told and he started to run away just before 20 arrows or so finally ended up killing the mercenary who collapsed in the ground, Endo was being persecuted by the bandits, the arrows were hitting the trees as he fled the scene, being that traumatic event the start of his dark odyssey.

Endo got lost in the wildlands, yet from the life in the village he already knew the basics of survival, days passed by, he survived with the food he could recollect or hunt down, he returned to his village to bury every single member one by one and finally paid respects, he was broken at first, even started to complain about just dying to the cold or to some wild bear, after all he lost every single person he knew, yet something in the bottom of his heart made him say no, even although he was desperate he did not lose hope, it was like his own will power didn’t want to just give up, he needed answers to his own origins and now he had another reason to live: avenge the ones who loved him.

Two years passed by, Endo started to hunt some animals and sold them to other villages, as he had collected the loot of his village, the group of bandits that attacked his village was well-known not because of their skill but because of their numbers, it was dangerous yet Endo was filled now with anger, just pure and absolute anger that created a wish of vengeance that was burning like a flame that couldn’t be extinguished, when the day came finally he track down the bandits, he had everything prepared, Endo decided to first set their campsite on fire just like they did with his village, then he went on a killing spree, using the mercenary's sabre he started killing every single bandit one by one in the middle of the chaos, Endo physical abilities were certainly superior which was actually rare because of his very young age, but this only proved what he was capable of and made clear that he was not a ordinary human being; after the attack was finally over, Endo have killed 24 bandits with his sword and other 45 due to the fire he started, and finally the souls of the people that raised him could finally rest in peace.

Swords, Books & Warbands.
After accomplishing his vengeance, Endo decided to live in the wild for 4 years, he often encountered bandits when he was travelling in the steppes or wild beasts when camping in the winter forests so danger became a quintessential part of Endo’s environment, yet he overcame every single obstacle on his way thus developing his innate survival and fighting instincts. As Endo’s childhood ended when he was 10 years old, he was forced to quickly mature in order to stay alive; he understood that there was evil all around the world, people that were capable of committing such horrendous acts like the genocide of his village, and so the wish to never let that happen once again encouraged Endo to get stronger in order to survive the dangers of the wildlands and protect what was precious to him.

When he reached the sixteenth year of his life he finally “returned” to civilization, yet he was not wild, instead Endo actually had matured since he spent that time meditating and reflecting, and so he started to look for any jobs available to him, Endo decided to travel all around Eldham to find a way of make a living there, mainly he committed to the job of a mercenary since all he knew was fighting, he did not have an easy life, during that time he would most likely end up sleeping in the mountains or in some dirty barracks, fighting without a purpose was something that he would usually do, yet he still had in mind to investigate and try find answers to his questions, these hardships made Endo a man with a strong will, even if he was in misery he still kept going forward, and without even noticing Endo was already 20 years old; as a mercenary he was mainly contracted by merchants to protect their products, and he learnt the art of trading traveling alongside with them, besides trading Endo also studied many sciences during his travels, and finally after 4 years of wandering as a hired blade Endo decided to start planning on what to do with his life.

Endo realized that he could use his knowledge to start a life as a standalone merchant, and so he did, he arrived to the nation of Tortuga, and stayed there for a little bit but quickly decided to quit after he discovered that they were also raiders and pirates, thus making the nation not compatible with what he thought it was right.

He started to wander Eldham’s lands once more, travelling from one frontier to another, but finally encountered a place, and that was because of a single person: After walking for several kilometers in one of his journeys he found an enormous mansion in the middle of the territory of the A.W.E. and he also encountered the owner of that mansion, Vik Leyla-Earcala, he and Endo managed to have a conversation despite of their abrupt meeting, Vik revealed his position as a High Council in the A.W.E. nation and directly invited Endo to join their forces, he even offered him a house in any town of his choice for free, and after not-so long consideration Endo finally accepted the offer and joined the empire.

Endo decided to move to the remote province of Bostadia, a snowy region covered in ice, the main reason of his choice was that he didn’t feel that it was correct to ask for a house in one of the major cities since he was not paying for the propertie, after traveling a little further he finally arrived at the little town that was also the regional capital and shared the same name with the province, Bostadia; as promised Endo was given a small cabin and he met Lafonze Adan who was the major of the town, soon after they became very good friends as well and as Endo was in gratitude with the A.W.E., especially with Vik and Lafonze, he decided to use his talents to provide the police force with large amounts of potions as he was allowed to expand his home and make it his own workplace.