Axle the forsaken

Axle Hikari Ducheft (a.k.a. Cold Death Dealer)

”My family was torn apart by his hands, I watched in the distance as he smashed my mother and father to pieces. Leaving their bodies and stones scattered about the room; their gems sparkling from the moonlight overhead. I watched as he had a look of satisfaction....a look of peace as he slaughtered my family. Then the men came after, and picked up my sisters, my mothers, my fathers hearts and stowed them in bags..I watched the Darkness that night; the cold personification of death..and it will haunt me till I pass.”
~ Young boy ashik

Divine Domains

Dark

Mental characteristics

Personal history

“Til the darkness finds him.” These were the words his father spoke when first gazing at the mark on Axle’s chest. Axle was first-born to a proud couple in Ashton, a mining village in the south east of Naraffain. The miners of Ashton lived hard, but fulfilling lives, supplying Old Naraf with plenty of iron to equip their militia. As a boy, Axle lived a life indistinguishable from the other miners, despite being born a Legacy �earer. His fellow villagers had little use for magic and had even less interest in any disruption to their simple lifestyle, thus ignoring his mark proved easy. It allowed him, his family, and his village to continue their simple existence without disruption. Axle’s father, however, wanted more for his son. He had heard the tales from the traveling merchants, and wanted to be sure his son was ready for more than the mines. So after their grueling shifts of work, Axle and his father spent hours into the night practicing with a sword. His father told him that someday he would get a chance to be part of the militia, maybe even serve as a guard captain, but deep down, Axle knew there was more to it. Whenever his mother or father would whisper “Til the darkness finds him”, he knew they meant something different for Axle than they did when the saying was spoken of anyone else in the village. In Ashton, miners would say the brief prayer to wish someone happiness and prosperity in their life, until the day they die. For Axle, they whispered it like a ward against evil, and it always worried him. Despite their fears, he lived a warm and happy life among the miners, until the “day of the scavenger”. During one afternoon’s work, a miner found the source of some missing ore, and it turned out to be a lone Ashik. The Earthborn had been eating the stored ores waiting for transport and when the Minor confronted it, things turned violent. Axle, like the rest of Ashton, knew to avoid the roads to the south, close to Agro’mosh. The Earthborn had no love for humans and were savages that would just as soon eat a man as speak with him. At least, this is what the villagers believed. As for Axle, he had never given much thought to the Ashik, but would find a hatred for them a few nights later, when a war and of Earthborn attacked Ashton. He gave everything he had that night. Every lesson his father had given him he out to use as he stood with the few militia of his village. By the time the night was through however, Ashton was no more. There were precious few survivors and Axle was one of them. In the years that followed, Axle enlisted in the militia and was given the admission due to the accounts of his bravery during the fall of Ashton. once he had distinguished himself in service, the regional army finally granted his request to alllw him to assemble a small armed force for the soul purpose of suppressing the Ashik Incursion. finally accessing and embracing his Legacy power after the destruction of his village he quickly became a local legend among neighboring towns. He wielded his deathlord gifts in a crusade that saw dozens of Earthborn destroyed. In the end, Axle watched as his quest for revenge in the name of the dead saw him do things he never dreamed of. He wielded dark arts to carve through Ashik settlements. He led soldiers into deathtraps just to ensure his prey wouldn’t escape. When a gang of gem thieves began hunting Ashik for poaching, he traded intel with them, and even funded some of their hunts. The break point came after finding a young Ashik sitting in the ashes of a Telling site. Axle had stayed behind to study the remains and found the Earthborn whispering to stones that were once her parents.Hestowedhisbladeandlistenedtothechild weep a tale of woe. Her people had been hunted off their lands and began sneaking into human villages to find ore for food. She spoke of the fear they felt as they snuck across the Naraffain borders and the hatred they saw in the human’s eyes as they burned Their telling sites. She sobbed as she mentioned how they tore the gems from her siblings bodies. Then she prayed that the young God’s would keep her safe until the darkness finds her. These were not the words of mindless savages who hungered for mortal flesh. These were the words of a scared child who had lost everything. These were words much like those Axle had spoken years ago. Axle left the ruined site. He decided then and there that he would carry no family name but “Forsaken”, as he was certain that had his father lived to see this, he would be ashamed of his son’s handiwork. There was something rotten in Naraffain and he would be part of it no longer. \he whispered then to his father for the first time since Ashton was destroyed. ”The Darkness found me father, it was inside me all along.”

Divine Classification

Rank unkown Legacy Bearer: DeathLord

Species

Human

Year of Birth

218 AA 36 Years old

Circumstances of Birth

Born to a kind mining family as a legacy of dark, most people in the village chose to ignore his curse/blessing in hopes of avoiding it, his father however always spoke “The darkness will find him..” Though the darkness was just in slumber

Eyes

Cold dark soulless green eyes

Hair

Short messy Brown

Height

6ft 7in

Weight

143lb