AKIRA ZENIN
LAST OF HIS CLAN
CHARACTER
You stood in the ashes of your home, surrounded by the bodies of your family and your clan. You the would be samurai who had trained to be the strongest of all of them. While you were a fighter, the others in your village had chosen a life of peace, a life that hadn't even made them a target to the Garlean invaders. Yet here they laid, slaughtered senselessly. Worst yet you hadn't been there.The voices in your head cried out in anger as you tried to make sense of the scene in front of you. Was it real? A bad dream? Were you losing your mind? Something broke inside of you, and it probably won't ever be fixed.You knew the powers your clan carried, the powers they had shunned. You had started to learn how to use them. With that you had become a weapon, a weapon that had planned to be used to protect the people you cared for. To take back your homeland. With them gone what kind of weapon would you become?The anger bubbled over, and you were engulfed by the fire of your ancestors. Whoever, or whatever did this would burn, and anything that got in the way would burn with it.
HOOKS
Your character may have heard of legends of the Zenin Clan and their bloodline. The warriors of the clan were known for their ability to wield fire and their apparent ability to predict the future in combat.
The massacre of the Zenin Clan is widely known about among those from Othard. Rumors range from the village was attacked by a hoard of monsters, to a single man went mad and burned the village to the ground.
Those with the ability to sense aether would note that Akira's is very unnatural and heavily aspected towards fire. A significant portion of aether gathers around his flaming gold eyes.
While Akira claims to be the last of the Zenin clan, some may have heard rumors of a man with golden eyes and a giant sword who also appears to be a son of the Zenin clan.
Akira primarily works as a monster hunter and will happily take on any quest that pays him to kill monsters. He has made a reputation for himself as an efficient and deadly hunter.
GALLERY
This journey started when you were young...
...born to a war your family refused to fight...
We were only a child when the Garleans first found the village. The adults in the village held a meeting and argued about what to do. Some wanted to fight, that was what the clan was founded for after all. Father disagreed, we had put that behind us, now we had more important things to worry about. Better to appease the Garleans and keep them ignorant to our true nature. Keep them from learning what we really were, what secrets we had hidden below our village.It wasn't long before our village was surrounded by war machines and soldiers. They demanded food and supplies and left next to nothing for us. Some of the older children and younger men were taken to Garlean factories to aid in building weapons. The adults just let it happen, father even bowed to them.We had read stories of heroes, stories of the legendary samurai, and heard legends of our ancestors. We were scared, terrified even. We tried to look brave for our younger brother, to tell him we'd protect him even if father wouldn't. In truth we weren't strong enough to protect anyone. We wished for one of those legends to swoop in and save us, but no one was coming.In our heart we knew we had to do it ourselves.
We had heard the legends of our clan, that our bloodline carried great powers. Father and the elders refused to teach them to us, they said we were too young, and they were too dangerous. They said that our clan had left that in the past, buried it, and that we were carving out a new future. The future we saw was under the boot of men who hated us.We had overheard men talking about the catacombs under the great temple, and how the elders hid all the secrets of the clan there. If we wished to find a path to power it would be hidden there.Very few people had permission to visit the inner sanctum of the great temple, fewer still were allowed below into the catacombs. That didn’t deter us though, we would learn the secrets of our clan and use them to protect everyone, even if they were too scared to protect themselves.Late at night we stole father’s keys to the temple, and crept silently through its halls. We explored the inner sanctum first, and uncovered the teachings of warriors long past. Their illustrations showed sword forms, and their writings spoke of harnessing the fire inside each of us. These teachings were more than enough for us to get started, and we took them hungrily.During the day we would head to the woods and practice, and at night we would sneak into the temple to procure more teachings, more power. We started to become stronger, but we weren’t strong enough. Our path was set. We had to go deeper.
...you became a weapon.
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