Strife Family/Cloud Strife

Cloud: The first and by far the most infamous member of the family. Initally coming from falasan he was quickly booted out of the realm after the men under his command went on an unauthorised looting spree. The fact that his "sister" had joined Darka did not help his case. For banishing him from his own homelands Cloud swore vengeance on King Maniac and the judge, Legolas. After a short journy he wound up in Talerium convinced that as the realm was allies with Darka that he would not have any problems of a similer nature. He was wrong, several of the leading Talerium nobles including there general Thorbjørn considered Darka to be nothing more then parasites. In an attempt to learn more about the political situation, Cloud asked several troop leaders from other realms to give him there view on how they saw Atamara, and how it had got into its current situation. During his time in Talerium he became one of the many hero's willing to risk themselves on the frontline.

Around 150 days into his career in Talerium, a raiding party attacked the top of Falasans northern border, Menedor. There on the walls of Menador stood Legolas, eager to finnaly have his vengeance Cloud surged forward towards the walls however his men never gained a footing before they were driven off. However another Talerium troop leader by the name of Rebel managed to shoot Legolas of the walls to his doom. Cloud has been friends will Rebel ever since.

Over the next 100 days Cloud's arguments with Thorbjorn continued to escalate until Thorbjørn sne a letter to the realm claiming that soon they would purge Darka from Atamara. At the same time a letter was apparently sent to Darka containing the military information of Talerium. Cloud was blamed for this and was fined heavily. In responce Cloud sent the letter Thorbjorn had sent to the realm to the current King of Darka... the two realms have never completely trusted each other since. When the council found out what Cloud had done he was banished from the realm and was chased to Cagilan Empire borders by a small battle group led by the madaxeman Khorne. At this time a bounty of 100 gold pieces was put on both Cloud's and Thorbjørn's heads. The Cagilan accepted Cloud after he was vouched for by Howard, who was at the time a highly respected member of the realm.

Cloud has been in the Cagilan empire for more then a year now and has participated in many major battles including the largest current battle in the history of the world. He has also become a master of the sword, as was first proven when he dueled the King of Falasan, Maniac and finnaly regained his lost honour by seriously wounding the King in a duel to surrender. Cloud still has several arguments with various realm mates over his "actions" in Talerium however they hold no real importance. No one yas yet to take Cloud's bounty despite numerous attempts. Even the legendary bounty hunter Si-Ju-Jarugi not only failed to claim the bounty but got seriously wounded in the process.

On the 3rd of January 2007 Cloud earned his first victory in a tournament successfully beating many of the best fighters in the world to win the Swordfighting title.

Traits/Other

• Cloud is very arragont
• Cloud is argubly one of the top 5 swordsmen in Atamara
• Blamed for starting the war between Darka and Talerium resulting in Taleriums defeat and Southaslands destruction as a result of the lack of support from Talerium and Darka.

• Cloud claimes that Thorbjørn is a traitor
• Cloud and Thorbjørn have agreed to a duel to the death once Atamara finds a time of peace
• Wields Requiem - a massive two handed sword