Haerthorne Family/Celyn
| Celyn Haerthorne | |
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| Status: | Alive |
| Continent: | Dwilight |
| Realm: | D'Hara |
| Titles Held: | Knight of Port Raviel Chief Strategist of Shadovar Marshal of the Dragons of Shadovar |
| Class: | Knight |
| Honor: | 26 |
| Prestige: | 10 |
| Age: | 18 |
| Height: | 6'1" |
| Weight: | Roughly 189bs |
| Eyes: | Dark Blue |
| Hair: | Dark Brown |
Gaerrant was a bastard, something that his sister and his children thought as they lived under his rule. Celyn was too, but that wasn’t a judgement on his character, it was a fact he had never been allowed to forget. Scowling beneath the safety of his hood, he allowed himself to think of all the times Gaerrant had insulted his mother for having slept with a stableboy, jeering that her son would grow up to be just as lusty and just as vile as she was. It was an insult that had been very hard for her to take. Her lover had died fighting against Ethiala before they could be bound in wedlock.
At the age of seven his mother had taken him with her away… seeking shelter from both family and war.
The Weary Wanderer
Striking a lean and hardened figure, Celyn is a sombre individual of fierce loyalty and silent bravery who has seen much more than many his age should have any right to. Born in the lands of Arcaea to Melisande Haerthorne, he is a bastard and a victim of both fate and circumstance, something which has made him hard faced when beset by pain and adversity. Sometimes he is apt to lighter moods, a blessing that is often needed when enduring the hard life of a colonist in the far western wilds of Dwilight.
When his mother fled the Far East, Celyn lived a life journeying from port to port and saw many different cultures and so many different faces, ingraining in him an almost unquenchable wanderlust. As a youth he fought across from Minas Ithil to Falasan in Atamara, gaining a good reputation with the sword. He journeyed to the distant lands of Dwilight and Pian en Luries, where at the tender age of 18 he came runner up in the first tournament on the continent, only falling short to a swordsman of far greater experience than he himself.
After a secession and a series of rebellions within Pian en Luries, Celyn found himself standing with the rebels time and time again, until they decided finally to leave their Lurian heartland for wilder lands in the west. Unfortunately, the monster hordes rallied in far greater numbers than ever before to besiege the fortresses of humanity, and thus the Lurian colonists found themselves helping the dying realm of Shadovar survive. Much time went by, and both the colonists and the Shadovarians suffered, their fortunes lost. It was then, after all that had been done for them, that the Dictator of Shadovar, Edelstein Greneburie, banished without a trial the leader of the colonists, Lady Katyanna Ogren, for having been seen in the company of dissenters in the underground.
The confusion that followed after involved bungled political maneuvering by both sides, and the colonists, along with a number of angry Shadovarians, very soon took up arms in rebellion agaisnt Edelstein's paranoid rule. As a result, the Lurian colonists who orchestrated the rebellion took over as rulers. Celyn became the General, and using the personal fortune he had built up from the dangers of treasure hunting, formed a new army and funded the first of many projects in rebuilding Shadovar. So much changed however, with factions positioning themselves for a conflict and events flying past too quickly for him to cope, thus torn by duty to his position and loyalty to Lady Katayanna Ogren he decided to leave for distant shores again. However soon his mind turned back to those he had left behind and soon changed his mind, coming back to wipe away his shame and inaction through hard service in the newly formed realm of D'Hara.
