Omaren

Omaren is a taller than average, 19 years old Mahadorian man. He is slim, with well developped and strong muscles, which he aquired as as hunter during his teen years and which he now maintains with regular training. That training also offers him great stamina, making him a great runner as well. He has dark skin and braids along the top of his head, which are pulled together and banded at the back of his head. The sides of his head are shaved.

Tattoo

As a Ak'aaran fire mage, Omaren was tattooed along his right arm. It has great cultural significance as it is related to both his abilities as a mage, as well as a spiritual connection to Esh'kai, the Ak'aaraan patron goddess of firemage. It is composed of a series of lines mimicking the shape of fire spreading down his arm. As per the tradition, the tattoo is drawn onto the person's dominant side. Since he is right-handed, it was drawn along his right arm. However, the tattoo is incomplete, as he only had the first two parts done, at 8 and 12 years old, respectively. Had he been able to attend the third and final ceremony at 16 years old, his tattoo would have stretched down his arm and over the back of his hand.

Ears

Because Omaren is a fire mage reaching his 20s, his ears have grown way past human proportions, now being long, slender, and stretched into a point. They have thus become a very prominant and easy to find identifying feature of his, marking him as an elemental mage to anyone that sees him.

Omaren is a Firemage, a type of Elemental Mages that is able to control and produce fire. Fire mages are some of the most powerful elemental mages in general, but Omaren has especialy potent abilities, which have been well trained and honed at home in Mahador and later in a mage school in Arros.

Omaren's weapon of choice is the bow, which is what he used to hunt with back in Mahador. In fact, he still has the bow he crafted out of Emandine wood during his 14 year old birthday. Thanks to training and natural talent, he became a very good archer, and he even claims that he was the best one in his entire village. He still trains with it to this day and has become quite attached to it since he left Mahador, as it represents his connection to home.    He also always carries a bronze knife/dagger on him, which he prefers to a more common and cheaper iron blade since bronze is a natural mana-reactive alloy, so Omaren is able to light the weapon on fire, making it more useful for him. He also personaly prefers the colour of bronze over iron.

Early Childhood

Omaren was born in the year 351, in a small town called Coraka, located in the hills south of the port city of A'anora, in Northern Mahador. When he was three, his little brother, Loharen was born. Soon after, Omaren discovered his abilities and he began training his control over them. At age 8, he received the first part of his tattoo, placing him officialy on the path of becoming a fire mage soldier in the future. As for his social life, he had become the most popular kid in town, which he liked a lot. This changed when his brother was revealed to be a Light mage, a type of mage that is even rarer than a firemage. A fierce, but amicable rivalry developed between the two over the years, which was mainly expressed in the form of pranks at each other's expence.

Teenage training

When he turned 12, Omaren received the second part of his firemage tattoo and began more serious magic training in the following months. By age 13, he was regularly able to acompagny hunters, but was prohibited from participating, much to his annoyance. Finaly, at his 14th birthday, he participated in a coming of age ceremony that consisted of making his own bow for hunting, which he was then able to test out in the wild and catch his first game. In the following years, he became a very good archer, as he trained regularly and absolutly loved the sport. During his 15th year, he started a relationship with a girl named Akna, which lasted 6 about 6 months before they broke up, mainly because of the pressure from her parents. This broke his heart and he became depressed for a while. Just a few months later, he was sent to a mage school in A'anora to further train his magic potential. He came back to the village after half a year, just in time to see his brother's 12th birthday, and took him on a few hunts during the following year. In mid-spring 367, he learned that he was to be sent to the capital, Noamarù, so that he could join the firemage ranks of the military.   

The attack

Seeking refuge

Now completly unwilling to fulfill his commitement to join the ranks of the local army, and trying to find out where his brother had been taken to, he fled to the city of A'anora where he became homeless for a few weeks until he was taken in by a Inn's keeper, jakun, who gave him a storage room to stay in. Many weeks into his stay, Omaren had to a heist for Jakun in orde to be allowed to stay. (Check out that story here: Heist Pt.1). A few weeks after that, during the following summer of 368, he was approched by Benars Trayel, an alchemist who had heard about him from the heist. After hearing Omaren's predicament, he proposed to recruit him into a mercenary guild in Arros. Omaren, seeing that he had ran out of options and leads to find his brother, relunctantly accepted. He traveled to the Kingdom of Gysia, in Arros.

Becoming a mercenary

After meeting Benars's adoptive son Calydan at the former's home near the city of Gandasi, he attended a firemage school in the city of Casqal for 6 months, leaving for the city of Morrat in spring 269, where he was accepted in the Guild of Fethir. Using that membership, he tried going back to A'anora but the city was blockaded by the fleet of the Merchant Republic of Arba and he was refused entry. He had no choice but to go back to Arros.

Settling in Gysia

He moved in permanantly with Benars and Calydan in the early summer of 369, as he waited for Benars to arrange for him to be admitted to The Mage Academy of Palynor, which would give him the credentials nessessary to pass the blocade. He spent a few months getting familiar with Gysia, learning a bit of the Gysian language, traveling to the city with Calydan, who he became friends with.

Meeting Melwyn

Then, in the fall of 369, Melwyn arrived at the house, and after hearing the things he had gone through, Omaren decided to try and help him in the absence of Makhlem, his mentor. He saw it as a way to try and redeem himself regarding his brother and soon they became great friends. He helped him with archery, and gave him tips on how to better control his magic abilities. Since Calydan and Melwyn's friendship started off badly and remains rocky, Omaren serves as a kind of bridge between them and became the heart of the group.

Omaren is a member of the Guild of Fethir, a fairly large Mercenary Guild based in the City of Kus'Qari and operating in most of south-west and central Arros. He joined in the spring of 369, and was asigned to the Chapter in the city of Moratt, the same one as where Makhlem worked and would bring Melwyn to a few months later.   However, since Omaren doesn't live in that city, he doesn't participate in most of their missions. In fact, Omaren suspects that that the guild keeps him in the chapter simply because he's their only Firemage, and those are rare in general. Even so, he appreciates it as the mission he does go on help him earn a decent living. Nonetheless, he remains commited on his goal of getting the right credentials to pass the M.R.A's blocade around A'anora, which means training in Palynor's Mage Academy

Omaren has some repressed trauma steming from the night his village was attacked and his parents were killed by soldiers from both the Merchant republic of Arba, and the Shield of Saol, an anti-mage mercenary compagny. Since then, he's refused to talk about it and gets frustrated when people try to talk to him about it. For a long time (many months) after that night, he had trouble admitting that his parents were dead.

Likes:

• Archery
• Hunting
• Tlakualas (spicy meat)
• Mangos (fresh or grilled)
• Ajax (as pets)
• Xocolatl (Mahadorian Chocolate)

Dislikes:

• Staying inside
• Cold weather
• Fish (and other sea food)

Virtues and Flaws

Virtues:

• Quick to action
• Physicaly strong/Capable
• Well trained in Magic and archery
• Caring about others

Flaws:

• Can be impulsive
• Generaly impatient
• Likes to party a bit too much

Omaren deeply believes in the Ak'aaran pantheon, specificly in Esh'Kai, the goddess of fire, who's symbol is an Ajax bird. As a Firemage himself, Omaren prays to her regulary for protection, strenght and guidance on a small altar he keeps near his bed. He also occasionaly prays to Xaakum, the Ak'aaran god of the hunt, wildlife and war, for additional strenght when needed. Lastly, he also prays Itzaca, Ak'aaran god of creation for the same things, but only sparingly, as it is not good to abuse of his favours, according to Ak'aarans.

Omaren doesn't like showing negative emotions around people, nor does he like talking about his problems, as he feels like he shouldn't burden others around him with his own problems. His extensive training helped him somewhat curb his impulsive nature and keep a cool head in dangerous/critital situations. It also gave him a lot of confidence his his abilities, magic or otherwise.   Omaren is also very layed back with the people he knows well. He often jokes around and even sometimes pulls pranks, mainly on Melwyn, as Calydan thinks its "immature". He also likes to talk with new people he meets when going in the city. In fact, more than once, Omaren came back to the house late at night or even early in the morning after spending the evening in the city. He's become famous in some of the city's pubs and brothels, where he has quite a few friends as a result.

While Omaren is perfectly able to hold a conversation in Esnian with Melwyn and Calydan, he does have a distinct and noticable Ak'aaran accent while talking. He may also stutter or hesitate on some words when he's talking faster while frutrated or exited. He also switches to Ak'aaran in those situation, especialy when swearing.