Braune

"He was the finest of the Feyfar this age has seen! He was true to the quest of our ancestors, and he fought for good, unlike many of his ancestors."

-a history teacher at Mes University expounding on the details of the Days of Upheaval

Braune of the Feyfar was, and in many ways still is, a hero of Mescar and all of civilized Pentham. Born on the ocean waves to a nondescript sailor and his wife, his first home was the deck of his family's skiff. Mostly sailing the Eastern Reaches and the Mith Sea, Braune became accustomed to the Centre Nations and their customs. Of course, growing up on the boat was a dream come true for Braune, but being a Feyfar meant not everything in his childhood was smooth sailing. Being a faun meant being the workhorse and laborer, the poor and miserable, the outcast and enslaved.
For context, Feyfar is the name of the fauns driven out of their homeland in the northeast by humans wishing to conquer all of Centre's landmasses and secure trading. Seeing the Feyfar and their supreme sailing abilities and knowledge, the men of Centre sought them out and slaughtered them, bringing an overwhelming force to bear against them.
Ever since this tragedy occurred several hundred years ago, the Feyfar have been the boot of the nations, kicked around and made less than everyone else. That being said, Braune had his fair share of ridicule growing up. It was easiest to do what his forefathers had done and live out on the seas of Centre, selling fish or ferrying goods and the like.
So of course, Braune was a good sailor.

"Let them mock you for what you look like and let them talk down our family and our heritage. They can hate you, but they can never take your pride and your love. Never let them take that from you, Braune."

-Braune's Mother

Braune Settles Down

Braune's story of heroism begins when he had reached the tender age of twenty-three years and both his parents had just passed the year before from a local blight originating in the northeast of the Mith Sea. Devastated by this loss, coupled with the fact that his only sibling, his brother, passed only the year before, Braune was left completely on his own.
After wandering about the Mith Sea for half a year, Braune wound up in TOWN and ended up finding himself a small hut of a house to live in. He began, in a sense, to domesticate himself. He chose this town in particular due to its Feyfar population. A small community of Feyfars had settled here over the past one hundred years and Braune hoped he could find a few people to make friends with and start a new life. To purchase the hut, Braune used a large portion of his saved earnings from years of fishing and merchant sailing and managed to keep the boat too.
It was during the first two months here that Braune met Fae'nn Nunguay.

Lifelong Friends

One dark, terribly old night, as Braune was mooring up his skiff in the private merchant's sector of the marina, he heard a strange exchange. He had happened to hear a scuffling noise and saw two dark shaped run and hide behind a pile of fishing net set on the dock one ship over.
"We can't just steal a ship, Ahren!"
"Well, how else do you think we can sail across the Mith?"
"Stowaway?"
"Way too risky. At least with our own ship, we wouldn't be caught on board. And besides, how would we know where it is going?"
There was a brief pause in their conversation and Braune moved closer to the pile, clutching a fishing rod in both hands. Boat thieves! Of all thieves in the Feyfar community, boat thieves were the absolute worst.
"Fine. But if we get caught, we're dead."
As the two shadows bolted out from behind the pile for the ship next to his own, Braune brought the pole crashing down on them both.
"Get off the docks, thieves!" He bellowed.
Other boat owners started to turn around to watch the scene unfolding. The two thieves, caught in the act, lay sprawled on the dock, a look of shock on their faces. The shock turned to horror and fear, a different kind of fear than Braune was used to seeing in a petty thief's face. Then he noticed how tall they were and the paleness of their skin. One of then, the long-haired one, had lost his headscarf and two pointy ears poked through his hair.
"Elves?" Braune whispered.

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Thus, he had met two unlikely yet lifelong friends: Fae'nn Nunguay and Ahren Cardenell. After listening to their story, Braune decided to help them by sailing them across the Mith Sea to the island they hoped to transform into a haven. He stayed with them for a while but when plans were developed to bring the elvish population out of slavery, Braune moved back to TOWN where his little hut was. Here he waited to fulfill his part of the plan as a safehouse and ship across the sea.
He was there for the first rescue from the Northern Divide. One late afternoon, he found Ahren Cardenell once again at his door but this time with a young elf woman. She was Faierah Nunguay, sister to Fae'nn and she was the first rescue from the mountains. Carrying out the plans Fae'nn had devised back at the island, Ahren and Fae'nn freed a young druid boy by the name of Jonan and the four of them, including the wild dog who had followed Faierah and Ahren from the mountains, joined Mariann and Zathrian Krahn aboard the faun's ship. This party, with the later addition of Aoife Mesukha, would eventually come to be known as Llwgwaed in the days that followed.
After the tale which follows which includes sailing across the sea, finding allies, and a great battle, Braune was proclaimed a hero and was given the title of 'Sir', the first of his people to become publicly honored in such a way. Braune was happy to have received the title but wished more fauns could be given the same honor as himself. Thus, he later established several orphanages for young Feyfars Fauns and helped establish a Feyfar community in Meerenah.
He lived for ten years after the Great Battle of Mes with a wife, three children, including Jonan whom he had legally adopted, and a stone house in Meerenah to his name. He died after an arrow shot by an invading pirate pierced his heart. This occurred in the port of Meerenah as a pirate gang attempted to seize the royal Mescrian ship to use Mariann Krahn for ransom. The attempt failed and Braune died within the hour.
But despite his tragic death, his legacy lives on in the hearts of his children and the hundreds of young fauns he had created a home for. A statue of him was erected in Meerenah in the Port Square which sits at the water's edge in the middle of the city. Also, his family's ship is permanently moored next to Port Square.

Ethnicity

Feyfar Fauns

Date of Birth

2nd of Tauehnsun, 5113

Date of Death

27th of Eisensun, 5150

Life

5113 5150 37 years old

Eyes

Dark green, shining

Hair

light brown, wavy, unruly

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

pale, pinkish skin with medium dark brown fur with red accents

Height

5'10"