Post by Gharn Oghier on Aug 17, 2021 2:57:17 GMT
Gharn Oghier
Languages - High Jodish, Common, Low Jodish (Decent), High Brutic (Basic), Satar (Basic), Deep Sylvic (Basic)
Aliases - Grand Halach, Defender of The Juodan, High Warlord of Avaricia, Okur'nil Athi'nasu (Prince of Beasts)
Aliases - Grand Halach, Defender of The Juodan, High Warlord of Avaricia, Okur'nil Athi'nasu (Prince of Beasts)
Class(es) - Warrior/Shaman
Ability - Second Wind (Unnatural Endurance)
Race - Juodan (Apeling)
Gender - Male
Ability - Second Wind (Unnatural Endurance)
Race - Juodan (Apeling)
Gender - Male
Height - 6'0"
Weight - 230 lbs
Age - 38 years
Age - 38 years
(BELIEFS)
As a proud Juodan, he follows the traditions of his people. Giving reverence to the great all mother, Ashakhal Morghuln. Believed to be the mysterious flowing energy that binds all life together. This powerful spirit of life is who the Juodan tribes give reverence and pray to. A dark and temperamental, yet comforting goddess of life. But just as life is demanding, painful and difficult, so too is Ashakhal. Demanding regular blood sacrifices to fuel her immortality. In return for ritual blood to feed their goddesses power, she blesses them with a fertility, bountiful harvests, prosperity and protection from their enemies. This covenant between the Juodan and Ashakhal is bound in the blood of their race and their fate is therefore under the great mothers dominion. Allowing her to punish the whole of their people with disease, famine and misfortune when sacrifices are not done properly.
As a proud Juodan, he follows the traditions of his people. Giving reverence to the great all mother, Ashakhal Morghuln. Believed to be the mysterious flowing energy that binds all life together. This powerful spirit of life is who the Juodan tribes give reverence and pray to. A dark and temperamental, yet comforting goddess of life. But just as life is demanding, painful and difficult, so too is Ashakhal. Demanding regular blood sacrifices to fuel her immortality. In return for ritual blood to feed their goddesses power, she blesses them with a fertility, bountiful harvests, prosperity and protection from their enemies. This covenant between the Juodan and Ashakhal is bound in the blood of their race and their fate is therefore under the great mothers dominion. Allowing her to punish the whole of their people with disease, famine and misfortune when sacrifices are not done properly.
(PROFESSION)
Gharn is the leader of a tribal confederation within the northern avarician jungle. The Grand Halach, High Warlord of Avaricia and Defender of The Juodan. With 18,000 apeling warriors at his command, and all manner of war beasts to do his bidding.
(TEMPERAMENT)
Gharn is the leader of a tribal confederation within the northern avarician jungle. The Grand Halach, High Warlord of Avaricia and Defender of The Juodan. With 18,000 apeling warriors at his command, and all manner of war beasts to do his bidding.
(TEMPERAMENT)
Gharn is known far and wide for his impatience, yet as chieftain he is forced to learn is and learn it well. Being the son of Gra'Haru Oghier, the first chief to unite their tribes against the human threat to the north, he feels a heavy weight on his shoulders to live up to his fathers legacy. He views the culture and traditions of his people as sacred and any who threaten that are his enemy. While he is not above diplomacy, Gharn has learned that negotiation from a position of strength is required to achieve his goals. His family name demands the absolute respect of all under his rule and he seeks to ensure it remains that way. Rebellion is crushed with no mercy, invasion is countered with absolute ferocity. Allies are made with the subtlest of care and chosen wisely. Because of this, Gharn chooses his friends far more carefully then he does his enemies. In a fight he is known to be ruthless and without mercy, Gharn never fights fair and he never will, he fights to win and nothing more.
(FAMILIARS)
Tyrannous (Chained) - Taken as an egg and brutally trained to have absolute fear of its master. This T-Rex has yet to complete its soulbond with Gharn. However he keeps it chained and ready to be unleashed as a war beast on a rainy day. Nicknamed Yoteot, meaning war god in high jodish.
Raptor Mount - Raised from and egg and trained with extreme care. Possessed by a lesser demonic Djinn and nicknamed Eshisto, or Blood Claw. It was the first creature Gharn ever soulbonded with. Intelligent and ferocious in the defense of its master. Often used by Gharn as mount in combat.
Strix (Giant Raven) - A four foot tall raven with serrated teeth and eyes as black as night. Their soul bond allowing him to see through its eyes and control its movements from the air. Surveying the land around him. Often used as a scout while traveling. Possessed by a lesser demonic cambion and nicknamed Hekatlekul meaning wind lord.
Panther - Gharns 3rd and final familiar, a simple black panther. Gharns favorite familiar, ever loyal and by his side at all times. Possessed by the spirit of a lesser demonic hellhound and nicknamed Layoua, or shadow in high jodish.
(KNOWN MAGIC)
Tyrannous (Chained) - Taken as an egg and brutally trained to have absolute fear of its master. This T-Rex has yet to complete its soulbond with Gharn. However he keeps it chained and ready to be unleashed as a war beast on a rainy day. Nicknamed Yoteot, meaning war god in high jodish.
Raptor Mount - Raised from and egg and trained with extreme care. Possessed by a lesser demonic Djinn and nicknamed Eshisto, or Blood Claw. It was the first creature Gharn ever soulbonded with. Intelligent and ferocious in the defense of its master. Often used by Gharn as mount in combat.
Strix (Giant Raven) - A four foot tall raven with serrated teeth and eyes as black as night. Their soul bond allowing him to see through its eyes and control its movements from the air. Surveying the land around him. Often used as a scout while traveling. Possessed by a lesser demonic cambion and nicknamed Hekatlekul meaning wind lord.
Panther - Gharns 3rd and final familiar, a simple black panther. Gharns favorite familiar, ever loyal and by his side at all times. Possessed by the spirit of a lesser demonic hellhound and nicknamed Layoua, or shadow in high jodish.
(KNOWN MAGIC)
Second Wind - All Juodan are gifted with the racial power of second wind. Part of their bestial heritage and deep instinct to survive whatever the cost. While most Juodan are incapable of tapping into this innate power. If a Juodan is on the edge of death and about to be defeated, those who are disciplined can unleash a second wind of in a fight. Granting them a temporary boost of stamina, agility, endurance and durability.
Shamanism - Gharn is one of the most skilled beast tamers his people have ever seen. Having established soulbonds with several familiars who act as his eyes and ears throughout his territory. Such soul bonds allow him to telepathically communicate with his familiars from any distance and see through their eyes, controlling them from a distance if needed.
Avarician Crown - An ancient and mysterious relic recovered by his father and passed down to Gharn when his father died in battle. Enchanted with the spirit of a powerful greater banshee. Both shielding his mind from the magical manipulation of others and allowing him to telepathically communicate with others within his line of sight. This telepathic power grants him limited, surface level insight into the minds of others. Allowing him to sense their motivations, emotions and determine truth from lies. However any minimal mental protection from magical influence will block this power from seeing into their mind.
Shamanism - Gharn is one of the most skilled beast tamers his people have ever seen. Having established soulbonds with several familiars who act as his eyes and ears throughout his territory. Such soul bonds allow him to telepathically communicate with his familiars from any distance and see through their eyes, controlling them from a distance if needed.
Avarician Crown - An ancient and mysterious relic recovered by his father and passed down to Gharn when his father died in battle. Enchanted with the spirit of a powerful greater banshee. Both shielding his mind from the magical manipulation of others and allowing him to telepathically communicate with others within his line of sight. This telepathic power grants him limited, surface level insight into the minds of others. Allowing him to sense their motivations, emotions and determine truth from lies. However any minimal mental protection from magical influence will block this power from seeing into their mind.
(EQUIPMENT)
High Steel Glaive - A gift from a satyr ambassador. Alchemically infused a hybrid compound of diamond dust and dragons blood. Allowing the blade to absorb the blood of others which strengthens and hardens it, while temporarily increasing its sharpness. Allowing it to cut through solid stone and metal with relative ease the more blood is infused within it. When in battle it has been known to slice through common iron and steel.
Silvered Steel Falchion - Strapped to his waist and typically only used against monstrous foes weakened by silver. A common steel blade with a coated silver edge and occasionally doused in the serpents venom when facing enemies of exceptional skill.
Silvered Steel Falchion - Strapped to his waist and typically only used against monstrous foes weakened by silver. A common steel blade with a coated silver edge and occasionally doused in the serpents venom when facing enemies of exceptional skill.
Steel Plate Armor - Forged by dark elves and received through trade, but made specifically to fit him perfectly.
Blade of Ashakhal - A sacrificial 10 inch mithril dagger. A dwarven relic of the ruins of Khoran but long used for traditional blood sacrifices. Encrusted with diamonds on the hilt, this blade has shed more innocent blood then any other weapon he owns.
Blade of Ashakhal - A sacrificial 10 inch mithril dagger. A dwarven relic of the ruins of Khoran but long used for traditional blood sacrifices. Encrusted with diamonds on the hilt, this blade has shed more innocent blood then any other weapon he owns.
(BACKGROUND)
Born to the Okatli tribe of the northwestern avaracian jungle, as son of a lesser chieftain. His childhood was one of constant danger. As raids by neighboring apeling tribes had become common place, for slave labor, food and wealth. It wasn't until Gharn turned six years old, that his tribe made contact with humans to the north. Trading spices and lumber for iron and steel armor and weaponry. Allowing his father Gra'haru Oghier to dominate the neighboring tribes and incorporate them into his army.
One by one his father Gra'haru pressured over forty tribes into joining his confederacy. Their steel far surpassing the bow and spears of their brethren. Gharn respected his father, but like all Juodan, family was more then blood. His tribe was family and with the incorporation of tens of thousands more of their kind, they became his family as well.
At the age of ten, the shamanic Ak'hali priesthood discovered his talent for beast taming. Naming him the Okur'nil Athi'nasu. The prince of beasts, a sacred title given to only the most skilled and powerful of young shamans, with the greatest potential for mastery. As he mastered his skill in beast taming, he learned strategy and combat from his father and three brothers.
At the age of fifteen, he discovered the humans betrayal. Trespassing in the jungle and stealing over thirty acres of fresh lumber. Little did they know, this was the sight of a sacred spring, a natural temple to their goddess Ashakhal. Such an act of destruction was unlawful and punishable by death. He remembers the day his father and one thousand warriors marched out to avenge the desecration of their sacred homeland... None of them ever returned. The army obliterated by the more advanced and better trained legions of the kingdom.
As was tradition, three days of mourning was called to perform the proper death rites for their fallen warriors. Gharn was heartbroken, but after the days of mourning were completed, he would ride out to met the human army. Calling upon the tribes of his father confederacy to fulfill their oaths of vengeance against his fathers enemies. Gharn was impatient then, but he was no fool. His father had rushed into battle without understanding their enemy. Gharn would never make that mistake. With over ten thousand warriors at his back, armed with iron and steel, he set out to burn, raid and pillage the unsuspecting city of Charne. The wealth obtained that day was more then his father had ever achieved.
A peace was established between the kingdom and the new tribal confederacy of avaricia. To this day, both humans and apeling continue to trade along the edges of the jungle with great suspicion. As he returned home, the thousand elders of the forty tribes of avaricia took him on a journey to the ruins of Faenous. Gharn ascended to the top of the ancient temple of Ashakhal Morghuln. There the thousand elders bowed in reverence to the one who avenged their people and their goddess. The Ak'hali Feathered Priests took the crown of his father and sactified Gharn as the 2nd Grand Halach, Defender of the Juodan and High Warlord of Avaricia.
Gharn quickly established himself as a mighty conqueror. Winning several battles against the sun elves to the west and nomadic monling tribes of the south. Expanding his domain out to the ruins of Khoran and the river lands to the west for its rich farmland. And as as far south as the sacred cities of Tasai and Saksura. Overtime his people established trade routes with the Drayke across the sea in Haven, even the Satyr of Mistwood. With the southern monling tribes forced into vassels to pay tribute to the high ranking Ak'hali Feathered Priesthood.
