Othos Byzol

Childhood and Younger Life
Othos' personal background is mostly obscure, with the only information coming from Othos' own stories. The earliest of these being from Othos' childhood on their family farm. Othos often spoke of the various mercenaries and knights, seeking fame, glory, and coin, resting at their farm. Othos' being an opportunist, capitalized on this by trading some of the crop for lessons in various trades and skills. The most prominent of these being fishing, butchering, spice trade; the basic uses of the crossbow, shield, and dagger; and the importance of technique over skill.

Othos eventually was forced to leave the farm, as drought had plagued the region heavily for the past 3 years and constant strife from conflicts in the nearby regions had caused brigands to constantly raid the farm. Othos, now a young adult, was forced to choose between the life of a poor farmer, with no homestead to their name, or to become a mercenary, risking his life for coin. Othos chose the latter.

Mercenary Work and Meeting the Crown
Othos' stories from their time as a mercenary usually involved tales of their long treks through various lands and less of their exploits. Yet most people infer that Othos had some combat experience, based on the dented pauldrons, breastplate, grieves, and armet, a type of 15th century knights helm. Othos' armet and waist were always adorned with a tattered teal rangers hood and cloth respectively. When asked why they would not elaborate on their equipment, Othos' usual reply was that they reinforced it and worked on it regularly, stating, "A blacksmith, a mercenary does not make."

The only exploit Othos had ever referred too in their stories is how they had first meet the Crown of Voastralis. As Othos had retold it, time and time again, they had decided to head from a port town to an island nation in far off seas and wound up lost at sea. Eventually encountering the Crown of Voastralis, onboard a ship escaping the revolution occurring in their homeland. Othos was met with obvious suspicion at first. After all, mercenaries have a tendency to betray their employers quickly if it benefitted them. Othos, however, held such people in high contempt. They never go into the more intricate details of how they got their position amongst all the other advisors or ministers.

Appearance
Othos' appearance usually consists of a thick deep blue padded armored suit, metal grieves, large black padded gloves, metal breastplate, metal armet, and two teal cloths that are attached to their armet and waist. Its normally common to see Othos armed with a dagger, shield, and crossbow while they patrol the lands of Voastralis along with their traveling companion, a motley pack mule, named Grant. Othos' race is unknown as they're never seen without their armor on, though most onlookers can easily eliminate halflings, dwarves, goblins, humans, orcs, and elves from the list as Othos' height is a towering 8'7". Due to their sheer muscle mass and strength, presumably gained during their years of farm work, Othos can usually be seen working as a labor easily constructing buildings in a matter of one or two days.

Personality
Othos tends to be inquisitive and will often times become reclusive as they work. As their position amongst 'The Crown of Voastralis' can tell anyone, Othos, to quite an extreme degree, values tactical planning and defensive stratagems over combat in an open unrestricted field. They also are open to ideas from people of all positions and normally disregards anything to do with class structure as a hassle. Despite working hard manual labor jobs, planning defensive fortifications, or running through theoretical tactics, Othos prefers to sit down and write within their own personal log and read a book to end off their day.

The First Diplomatic Relations (Story in Progress)
(WIP)