Tariel
Sobriquet: Tarl
Appearance: Tall, slender, with strong shoulders and arms. His face is bearded, his eyes are a light blue.
Behavior: Tarl is a study in duality, sloth-like in rest, sleek and smooth in motion. He is known to talk while he fights, but say virtually nothing when a blade isn't in his hand.
History: Born in the wild Georgian mountains, Tariel was orphaned, left for dead by raiders. The local lords wife Ashkadiel heard about the infant, and begged her husband to take him in. The husband acquiesced, the child was strong and lively. While not a blood heir, he would be a strong member of the family. Tariel was taught by royalty, blades, etiquette, and academics.
At the age of nineteen he began to have strange dreams of a tiger, white, orange, and black. The tiger both scared and excited him. He was terrified when one night he became that tiger. An old man of the mountains approached him, telling him of special knowledge. The old man took him back and taught him of his tiger heritage. When Tariel returned to his adopted family, he found them dead at the hands of Vangarians.
For months he hunted the killers, using his sword and claws on many groups of the men. On the day that Tariel found the killers of his family, the men were in a group of three hundred. Tariel approached the leader, a man named Vardoun, and asked to fight each man in hand to hand combat to the death.
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