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For the Skyfather! As... as soon as someone explains to me what's going on. I'm sorry, I'm confused."
Name: Ratan Korrapati
Class: Mage Trainee (Dark Magic)
Age: 17
Character Specific Skill: Guard
Affinity:
Personal Fault: Constantly Baffled: +2 to silence duration.
Personal Skill: Balar's Flippancy: When at or below 50% HP, +2 RES.
Preferred stats: MAG, SKL
Weapon profs: Dark (E)
Level: 1 (0/100)
Total Level: 1
Progression spent: 330%
HP: 17 (100%)
STR: 2 (0%)
MAG: 5 (40%)
SKL: 4 (40%)
CON: 5 (2 added)
AID: 2
LCK: 2 (20%)
DEF: 0 (30%)
RES: 5 (2 added) (70%)
SPD: 4 (30%)
MOV: 4
Bio:
To most Kozantikhoni missionaries, the Pahravanit Empire has a rightfully-acquired reputation as utter suicide -- they are hostile to Arvadan, to Kozantikhon, and to everything Kozantikhon stands for, as well as eagerly hunting down anyone who dare not believe in their god-king religion. No sane missionary would attempt to spread the faith in Pahravanit, considering the abundance of convertable Arvadans and the danger. One priest by the name of Asal Balar, however, was not a sane missionary at all; the man had such an utter contempt for any sort of obstacle, caution, or danger that he made it a quest to put one over on those king-worshipping heathens, no matter how big and scary they tried to puff themselves up to be. So he crossed the Bloodpeaks, alone, and ended up in rural Pahravanit, where he came across a tiny little hamlet. Evidently satisfied with this find, he settled down there and got to work on converting the local populace.
Were it anywhere else in the empire, not only would Balar have likely not succeeded, he would have probably have found himself a little on the dead side. But because the hamlet was so small and so far away from the dealings of the godkings, even the Skyfather seemed a closer and more personal god, especially with the firebrand missionary extolling his virtues and his prayers. Over the years, the hamlet became a little middle-of-nowhere refuge of the Skyfather in Pahravanit. Balar formed an especially strong bond with one of the growing children, Ratan Korrapati, as he instilled in the boy an incredibly fervent zeal for the Kozantikhoni religion. He even taught the boy his signature methods of laughing off magic (in the name of the Skyfather)! And considering Ratan was already learning traditional dark magic from his literal father, this resulted in a very magically-educated boy.
It had been a couple of months since Ratan had turned 17 (only around five months ago) when disaster struck. A passing group of raiders, looking to ruin some Arvadan day, spotted the hamlet's crosses and various heretic paraphernalia.
In the ensuing fire, the people were scattered, including Balar and Ratan, whose anti-magic training greatly aided their chance of escaping unharmed, and the two of them made clear for the Bloodpeaks the way Balar had come in. But while Balar remembered the way back, Ratan didn't and had to follow his mentor carefully... and considering Balar isn't the kind of person to stop and wait, Ratan rapidly got separated. It was almost by miracle that he managed to stumble his way into the borders of Arvadan and survive, but now alone his chances didn't look very good.
(If Prologue:) Ratan had something of a lucky break: after a couple of weeks of barely surviving and wandering, he was discovered by a visiting Kozantikhoni High Priest... of course, if he hadn't shortly proved himself to be an oddly devout worshipper of the Skyfather, he wouldn't have survived. But he DID prove himself to be devout, and the High Priest's curiosity was stoked. He was brought back to Kozantikhon, and his sheer piety as well as his exotic nature saw him as something of a curiosity among the Holy King's conclave. Eventually his confused fame got to the point where the Holy King sent him over to the Arvadan court because having a fervently Skyfather-worshipping Pahranavitite around by the royals of an anti-Pahravanit country would be A. according to the High Priest who found him, "absolutely damned hilarious" and B. more importantly, would make Kozantikhon look very good, humiliate the Pahravanit by having someone so publicly denounce their god-king system, and would make Arvadan look quite good themselves in the process. That's how he ended up by Titon's side, and why the still somewhat-baffled Ratan is now a retainer.
(If Chapter 1:) Even Ratan isn't entirely sure how he's managed to stay alive in the wilds of the Arvadan Empire for so long, whether it be dumb luck, aid from the Skyfather (as Ratan would like to believe), or simply survival skills sharpened by necessity. Nonetheless, the Skyfather-worshipping Pahravanitite is still attempting to keep alive as he wanders through a forest now, tattered, scared out of his mind, of exactly the wrong skin color in Arvada, and clutching his cross protectively.
Bio TL;DR: Crazy and ballsy Kozantikhoni missionary makes his way over the Bloodpeaks, converts an out-of-the-way hamlet to the Skyfather's faith, becomes a mentor to Ratan (my character), who learns RES techniques from the missionary and shaman-y techniques from his own father. Then Pahravanit raiders heading out to ruin some Arvadans notice the Skyfather stuff, and missionary and Ratan run like hell back over the Bloodpeaks, where they are separated and Ratan barely makes it back alive. If Prologue, he is discovered by a visiting Kozantikhoni High Priest, who takes him in from curiosity and the boy's piety, becomes a spectacle for the Kozantikhoni, sent over to the court because having a Pahravanitite so brazenly and publicly denouncing their god-kings and everything makes the Pahravanit look
really really bad, and makes the Kozantikhoni look really good. If Chapter 1, he has been wandering and wandering in the Arvadan wilderness forever and is barely alive... but in the end IS alive.
Bio TL;DR TL;DR: Pahravanitite shaman (kind of), but extremely heretical-to-Pahravanit and pious Skyfather-worshipper who escaped getting wrecked over the bloodpeaks but ended up alone in the process. Either sent to the court to make the Pahravanit Empire look hilariously bad or is still wandering.
Build-wise, he's basically meant to be the RES equivalent of Alex, eventually using summons to further tank hits and fight mages.