Post by Maelthras on Aug 4, 2022 9:51:04 GMT -8
The Chronology of
Ovan Vindictious/Yoromitsu/Stormstrider
Birth
Ovan is born to Evangelyne Vindictious and Haseo Yoromitsu. His mother is the presiding Matriarch of the Vindictious family. She and her siblings are the clandestine organization behind the machinations of the Isle of A’zylra from their base of operations; the tavern known as Playground Asinine. Dealing in everything from thievery to prostitution and all the way up to assassination. However, they display an unlikely and hitherto unheard of loyalty to the crown of A’zyrla, Queen Rayne and her family.
His father, Haseo, born as the “Living Weapon” and raised to be a king-killer was freed of his mental and spiritual conditioning to become the head of the Queen’s secret guard, the Occultus Ensis. In this upbringing, Ovan who showed a natural talent for psionics at an early age is educated in the best scholams in the Isle including economics, political science, oratory, warfare and practical logistics. His father trained him in the ways of personal combat and his mother in the mystical and more subtle arts of social maneuvering and sabotage.
At age ten his sister, Mia is born but is quickly taken away by extended family and an education that will guarantee she never has to grow up among the kind of blood mist the family is prone to.
Divorce
Evangelyne rekindles a relationship with a dark elf half-god from her old life. The Vindictious family fractures, some dying in their passions but most just scattering to the wind. Haseo, furious at the betrayal of his wife, cripples the divine usurper of his family and permanently robs him of all his powers. In his melancholy his battle lust psychosis reclaims his mind and he goes missing, but tales persist of him over A’zylra, Rashmear, and later Vanderia of mass slaughters with only one pair of footprints walking away from the scene. Ovan is given the choice to join his cousins Vindcitious in their adventures or to become part of the scholam progenia and join the A’zylra guard. He chooses the former but ultimately one by one each of the young adventurers breaks off to pursue their own anomalous wiles and desires.
Enslaved
The last of their young and upstart adventuring band, Ovan and one of his cousins are ambushed during their travels, the assailants wanting to harvest their unique genetic materials including organs for the sake of restarting an assassin breeding program that had begun with their parents. His cousin is killed and Ovan, not regarded as a true Vindictious is sold to slavers off the Azure coast and is shipped east where he begins years of hard toil and abuse both physical and mental.
Blood
Ovan organizes a slave revolt which ultimately overthrows the Miraphen mercenary group and he makes a vow to never keep a slave nor suffer any to be kept. Taking a significant share of resources in the wake of the revolt.
During this conflict Ovan’s biological body finally reaches 18 solar years of age, and the genetic imprint left from his father’s lineage asserts itself. His mind splinters as a perverse and shadowed reflection of his inner self is manifested in the form of the Living Weapon, a daemon bonded to him in every fiber of flesh and soul, Crosis. At the peak of the maddening blood-time that was the revolt Crosis ultimately ripped himself from Ovan’s control, slaughtered hundreds indiscriminately before retreating to the plane of the Abyss, nearly killing his host.
Ovan, seeking answers and in need of a mental salve eventually returns to the remaining members of the Occultus Ensis most now long retired and scattered from A’zyrla. In each he is trained in certain aspects of clandestine warfare, arcane applications, and s refinement for open and covert killing. His “aunt” Katra and “uncle” Kaladrax invest in him the means and resources to continue his journey however he sees fit. Ultimately after four more years of training, he books passage far away from the continent that had shaped him.
Vanderia
Ovan meets Drizztren Darkrose, a Dark Elf Were-Cougar wounded by a silver arrow, heals her, and begins a relationship. Ultimately however, Ovan sacrifices himself during the battle with the original Shendelion tyrant. His essence and mind are preserved via seven phylacteries each scattered to various planes of reality but separated they begin to evolve into different individuals.
Eden and the Reverse Rebirth
The seven fragments known as Anima, Fulgrim, Nero, Kaliope, Feros, Kaltus, and the most important “eldest” of them; Abaddon eventually seek each other out and eventually discover the Eden Ritual, which will reconstitute Ovan but at a cost of a piece of each of their collective “souls”. Their collective experience, abilities, and training are distilled back into the extant experience that was the single individual known as “Ovan”. Ovan immediately takes control of the group reforming them into the “Fragment Organization”. Each is tasked with establishing or meshing into different societies to gather knowledge, resources, and power. Each becomes a notable person of power in a major field including the mercantile up to warfare, but never outright rulership or royalty.
Nameless
After a lifetime of collective learning, Ovan releases his fragmented personas from the compact of the Eden Ritual and they become free to grow as individuals apart from collective consciousness. Ovan himself becomes a wanderer, seeking only to understand life from a more experiential perspective. He searches for many things in his travels beyond simple purpose in a world he has learned he cannot alter: Drizztren, his father, his mother, his sister… anything to re-establish meaning in a body that was once destroyed and a mind forgotten.
Brothers At Odds
Many times in his life since his 18th birthday, Crosis had returned to cause havoc, challenge him, or some would argue… simply to distort his path towards corruption so that the two may once again embrace. Ovan eventually relents to spending time with his inverted self, and within the Abyss where time is utterly distorted he is subjected to both the deepest fathoms of suffering and equally lifted to the heights of pleasure in a tumultuous and seemingly endless test to break his sanity and allow Crosis and him to re-bond themselves permanently into the Living Weapon. Ovan comes out of this retaining his mind, memories, and desire to find a singular if simple spot in existence. Crosis, in his fury casts his order-bound self back into the material plan of reality, only to find that no time at all has passed.
From there, the story twists and turns depending on exactly which Fragment you are hearing it from, or which reality has asserted itself. But all agree, he sought only one consistent and permanent fixation in his existence… Drizztren Darkrose, the only one that made him feel human.
Ovan Vindictious/Yoromitsu/Stormstrider
Birth
Ovan is born to Evangelyne Vindictious and Haseo Yoromitsu. His mother is the presiding Matriarch of the Vindictious family. She and her siblings are the clandestine organization behind the machinations of the Isle of A’zylra from their base of operations; the tavern known as Playground Asinine. Dealing in everything from thievery to prostitution and all the way up to assassination. However, they display an unlikely and hitherto unheard of loyalty to the crown of A’zyrla, Queen Rayne and her family.
His father, Haseo, born as the “Living Weapon” and raised to be a king-killer was freed of his mental and spiritual conditioning to become the head of the Queen’s secret guard, the Occultus Ensis. In this upbringing, Ovan who showed a natural talent for psionics at an early age is educated in the best scholams in the Isle including economics, political science, oratory, warfare and practical logistics. His father trained him in the ways of personal combat and his mother in the mystical and more subtle arts of social maneuvering and sabotage.
At age ten his sister, Mia is born but is quickly taken away by extended family and an education that will guarantee she never has to grow up among the kind of blood mist the family is prone to.
Divorce
Evangelyne rekindles a relationship with a dark elf half-god from her old life. The Vindictious family fractures, some dying in their passions but most just scattering to the wind. Haseo, furious at the betrayal of his wife, cripples the divine usurper of his family and permanently robs him of all his powers. In his melancholy his battle lust psychosis reclaims his mind and he goes missing, but tales persist of him over A’zylra, Rashmear, and later Vanderia of mass slaughters with only one pair of footprints walking away from the scene. Ovan is given the choice to join his cousins Vindcitious in their adventures or to become part of the scholam progenia and join the A’zylra guard. He chooses the former but ultimately one by one each of the young adventurers breaks off to pursue their own anomalous wiles and desires.
Enslaved
The last of their young and upstart adventuring band, Ovan and one of his cousins are ambushed during their travels, the assailants wanting to harvest their unique genetic materials including organs for the sake of restarting an assassin breeding program that had begun with their parents. His cousin is killed and Ovan, not regarded as a true Vindictious is sold to slavers off the Azure coast and is shipped east where he begins years of hard toil and abuse both physical and mental.
Blood
Ovan organizes a slave revolt which ultimately overthrows the Miraphen mercenary group and he makes a vow to never keep a slave nor suffer any to be kept. Taking a significant share of resources in the wake of the revolt.
During this conflict Ovan’s biological body finally reaches 18 solar years of age, and the genetic imprint left from his father’s lineage asserts itself. His mind splinters as a perverse and shadowed reflection of his inner self is manifested in the form of the Living Weapon, a daemon bonded to him in every fiber of flesh and soul, Crosis. At the peak of the maddening blood-time that was the revolt Crosis ultimately ripped himself from Ovan’s control, slaughtered hundreds indiscriminately before retreating to the plane of the Abyss, nearly killing his host.
Ovan, seeking answers and in need of a mental salve eventually returns to the remaining members of the Occultus Ensis most now long retired and scattered from A’zyrla. In each he is trained in certain aspects of clandestine warfare, arcane applications, and s refinement for open and covert killing. His “aunt” Katra and “uncle” Kaladrax invest in him the means and resources to continue his journey however he sees fit. Ultimately after four more years of training, he books passage far away from the continent that had shaped him.
Vanderia
Ovan meets Drizztren Darkrose, a Dark Elf Were-Cougar wounded by a silver arrow, heals her, and begins a relationship. Ultimately however, Ovan sacrifices himself during the battle with the original Shendelion tyrant. His essence and mind are preserved via seven phylacteries each scattered to various planes of reality but separated they begin to evolve into different individuals.
Eden and the Reverse Rebirth
The seven fragments known as Anima, Fulgrim, Nero, Kaliope, Feros, Kaltus, and the most important “eldest” of them; Abaddon eventually seek each other out and eventually discover the Eden Ritual, which will reconstitute Ovan but at a cost of a piece of each of their collective “souls”. Their collective experience, abilities, and training are distilled back into the extant experience that was the single individual known as “Ovan”. Ovan immediately takes control of the group reforming them into the “Fragment Organization”. Each is tasked with establishing or meshing into different societies to gather knowledge, resources, and power. Each becomes a notable person of power in a major field including the mercantile up to warfare, but never outright rulership or royalty.
Nameless
After a lifetime of collective learning, Ovan releases his fragmented personas from the compact of the Eden Ritual and they become free to grow as individuals apart from collective consciousness. Ovan himself becomes a wanderer, seeking only to understand life from a more experiential perspective. He searches for many things in his travels beyond simple purpose in a world he has learned he cannot alter: Drizztren, his father, his mother, his sister… anything to re-establish meaning in a body that was once destroyed and a mind forgotten.
Brothers At Odds
Many times in his life since his 18th birthday, Crosis had returned to cause havoc, challenge him, or some would argue… simply to distort his path towards corruption so that the two may once again embrace. Ovan eventually relents to spending time with his inverted self, and within the Abyss where time is utterly distorted he is subjected to both the deepest fathoms of suffering and equally lifted to the heights of pleasure in a tumultuous and seemingly endless test to break his sanity and allow Crosis and him to re-bond themselves permanently into the Living Weapon. Ovan comes out of this retaining his mind, memories, and desire to find a singular if simple spot in existence. Crosis, in his fury casts his order-bound self back into the material plan of reality, only to find that no time at all has passed.
From there, the story twists and turns depending on exactly which Fragment you are hearing it from, or which reality has asserted itself. But all agree, he sought only one consistent and permanent fixation in his existence… Drizztren Darkrose, the only one that made him feel human.
