Artan

Born princess to an opposing kingdom of that to her now-friends, Artan was the legacy of a race of fire Gaolers, wiped nearly to extinction by their counterparts.. From the day she was born, Artan knew she had a job to do. And for almost as long, she knew that that job was not to rule her people. When she petitioned them, her parents agreed, and so the job went to the next in line; her younger brother.

Artan studied with her parent’s soldiers, and with the soldiers that came after them. And then, when those were lost as well, she studied with the soldiers after them. In the middle of a war, you lose a lot of soldiers. Artan learned all that she could. Forgotten fighting arts, defensive and offensive tactics, anything she could get her claws on. She rose to the rank of general, maturing past her juvinile years and taking charge, leading troops in the Great War against Kristallstadt, the City of Ice. She was their most ferocious general, always pushing herself beyond her means, pressing on when others would have backed away and regrouped. It was through her bullheaded commitment to her role that she found her life quickly spiraling out of control.

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