Odart Worden

On the whole Odart is happy and relatively healthy. He is free from major sickness but does frequently have stiff knees from his many years at the alter, this causes him issues to move around in the early morning. Odarts vision and hearing are not what they used to be he has recently taken to wearing bifocals but is in denial about his hearing.

Odart wears the garb of a Tarn acolyte- his robes are white with orange trim and appear too grandiose for the modest architecture of his church, Odart him self finds them ill-fitting and prone to chafing. He also wears the tasseled and woven headband of a church leader, this is his original one and has seen many years of love.

Originally Odart's church was a bustling hub of community with several members of the congregation helping to aide its operations. Among the corrugating was his wife Marta Worden and his son Thoma Worden who lived in modest home above the church and fulfilled their respective roles, Marta as a Lector and Thoma as a Lectren, at this point Odart was a humble cleric. The family lived in relative peace until Thoma was was arrested on suspicions of sorcery after accusations by his then best friend Sloan Du Mar and sent off to the Brotherhood of Tarn for confession. This caused a permenent fracture is Odarts faith and relations with those around him, as he couldn't reconcile with a church that would not stand for him and prevent his son from bing taken. He became devoted to finding the whereabouts of his son and threw himself into his studies at the cost of alienating Marta and isolating others from his church.

Odart believed that the only way to save his son (and his son's immortal soul) was to work within the Titles within the Worship of Tarn in order to become an aquittor and absolve him of his accusation. Odart slaved away at this endeavour for twelve years managing to become an acolyte but making no progress on his true goal. In this time Marta died of illness and Odart began to question the will of Tarn, the Cosmic Weaver falling into a deep depression. To become an Aquittor one must be ordained by a minimum of four high acolytes- a process designed to be nigh impossible. Odart was able to be ordained by only one, but stuck with no way to advance and the hope of his son’s survival lessening everyday, Odart considered leaving the church altogether.

One night he had a dream of his son happy as a child despite bHe accepted the rank of acolyte and forced himself to re-intergrate people into his church. Finally laying his hopes of reuniting his family to rest in the persuit of peace for himself.

Odart clings to his grief behind closed doors. Outwardly he is an optimistic person who’s wears his kindness like a badge of honor, always willling to listen to his flock members. But in private he drinks to forget often drinking himself into a stupor, he leaves Thoma’s room intact as a shrine and never goes in. He also goes out of his way to avoid Sloan Du Mar as he resents him for reporting his son for sorcery and becomes  snarky if forced to interact with him for a longer period of time.

Odart also possesses immense shame as it was he and Marta who reported Eustace Du Mar for sorcery orphaning the young Sloan.