Aramirtheranger's Characters

Please note that this is a continually WIP page, since I regularly alter existing characters and create new ones, and need motivation to add s**t. I post backstory first, and later, I'll add in the equipment, skills, appearances, etcetera. etcetera.

Arahad: Farmer, by birth. Ranger, by training. Hunter, by his actions. When Arahad was nine years old, his village was attacked by corsairs, who destroyed all he knew and killed everybody he loved, save for his sister, to whom the captain took a fancy. Arahad was made a cook`s assistant in the captain`s household, while his sister Alette was made the captain`s "personal" slave, sometimes being loaned to his friends. That was why when she was loaned to a noble who didn`t know what was good for himself he ended up throwing her into the bay with weights chained to her when she resisted. Arahad heard about it as soon as the captain returned with the news- and the noble`s severed head. He was twelve then. A few months later he was sold into being a galley slave. Everybody told Arahad he wouldn`t last a year. He proved them wrong. Eight years of labor hardened him into a strong, tough young man- and a hateful one as well. He never forgave the corsairs, and he never forgot the sight of his family and friends as they were cut down, the smell of the village burning, the sound of the screams, the taste of the blood in his mouth, or the feel of the slave driver`s whip on his back in the galley. He lived as an unremarkable individual, not remembered by the many captains he served under, save the occasional mention when asked for stories of their travels about the slave that had been in the galleys for years. Then, eleven years after he was made a slave, the ship was captured by a Gondorian frigate that had shown up at the worst possible time. He enlisted, having nowhere else to go. After serving several years in the military, he turned his focus to hunting down and killing the captain. There was only one problem: he didn`t know the man`s name. The captain was, in fact, a rising star in the Merchant Houses at the time of the raid. Arahad had actually heard of him many times during his service: Ciryatur the Bloody-Handed (one of The Indomitable`s many scum-of-humanity characters).

Decimus Meridius Maximus: Yes, his name is a reference to Gladiator. No, he is not a gladiator. Decimus is of Imperial lineage, even though he didn't know it until during the War of the Ring. His father is the infamous "Mad Emperor" Sextus Ultimus Caesar, and his mother was the prostitute daughter of a poor member of the Praetorians. Sextus never claimed Decimus as his own, so when he turned six he was sent off to the training camps. He rarely saw his family again. His instructors singled him out as the best material, and as such, pushed him the hardest. At twenty-one he graduated into the military. For two years, he served, still ignorant of his father's identity. He helped put down a rebellion of the groups of Moredain who lived in the northwestern areas of the Empire.