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Name: Vyn’Lendal Loth’Lorain

Nickname: Lendal

Age: 23

Race: Shape-Shifter

Height: 6’ 3"

Weight: 190

Hair Color: Blonde

Eye Color: Silver-Green

Occupation: Thief/Mage

Birthplace: OakStone (human city)

Vyn’Lendal was born looking quite normal. With blonde hair and shiny green eyes. He was the pride of his mother a young woman named Kilagra Loth’Lorain who had settled in the city of OakStone after her banishment from the caravan of her father for being with child out of wedlock. Kilagra did the only thing she could to survive in this strange land. She danced and worked for the money to support both herself and her infant son. Kilagra worked hard dancing in the taverns of good folk in the evenings and on street corners for coin in the daytime. Lendal grew up a happy child with the love and support of his mother who longed for the love of her life Lendal’s father to return and take them away. Kilagra would tell stories of his father to Lendal, of how he came to her one day while they were out traveling, of how this beautiful man named Vyn had come to her and began courting and romancing her. And of how much happiness Vyn had brought her in the short time they were together.

Shortly after Lendal’s 7^th birthday his mother discovered quite shockingly that Lendal had the ability to shapechange into different animals, this discovery came about when she came home from dancing in the streets one day to discover she had two identical cats laying by the hearth. And when they looked up one of them began to change back into Lendal himself. They talked about this ability and of the other abilities Lendal had manifested recently the ability to talk to the animals around town and the ability to be other people as well. She asked him to keep this a secret for the time being as it may disturb the other town-folk, he agreed and life continued this way for a while longer.

One night Kilagra had attracted the attentions of one of the city guards named Bronk. Bronk accosted Kilagra later that night after her performance, they began to fight as Kilagra wanted nothing from him but Bronk wanted something from her and didn’t care if she wanted it or not. During the fight Kilagra scratched Bronk along the left eye and cheek of his face trying to get away from him, Bronk lost control of himself and shook her so hard it snapped her neck before realizing what he had done. Bronk was convicted of murder and hanged a few weeks later.

Lendal stayed with the good folk of the tavern Boars Nest as they had been friend to both himself and his mother. But things were hard for them and soon he left fearing he was a burden to them. Lendal took to the streets of OakStone, helping himself to what he needed as life dictated.

Lendal became a very skilled little thief. Helping himself to what ever was around that he needed, but never taking more than that. He didn’t like to steal but needed to survive. His ability to shapeshift into other animals and then into people helped him a great deal as did his ability to talk to the animals around town. This continued until he was about 13 years old when he inadvertanly picked the pocket of a robed man traveling through the city. Apparently the coin purse was tied to his belt in a way that Lendal didn’t see in time to cut. Lendal was arrested and sentenced to prison for his crimes.

On the way to the prison Lendal escaped by turning himself into a ferret and slipped out of the bars and into the forest. Lendal knew he could never go back to OakStone. But he had never been out into the forest nor had he any knowledge of how to survive in the wild, so he began to follow the road that leads, he hoped, to a new city and new possibilities.

Along the way Lendal was afraid that at anytime the guards would come back for him and take him to prison so when ever he heard people or horses on the road he would duck into the forest and hide till they past or until he was able to discern that they were not guards. Lendal traveled like this for a couple days eating the berries and nuts that the animals around here said were safe to eat. They also told him of the streams and rivers that were near the road as he came near them.

One day as he was walking down the road he heard horses coming up form behind him fast. Lendal quickly darted into the forest near the road and hide quietly waiting and watching for them to pass. What he say startled him to no end for they were not men on horseback but in fact they were half-horse men (centaurs). This both scared and intrigued him.

So Lendal turned himself into a hawk and followed them from on high. Watching them to both see what they were as well as what they did all the while thinking they might be like him. But then never changed into anything else.

For days they traveled and soon they came to a village surrounded by tall wooden battlements and as Lendal landed on the battlements he discovered that the people of this village were all like the half-horse men he had been following. Lendal watched these strange people live there lives similar to the people if OakStone but with varying degrees of simple amazement that allowed for one that was part horse to live like what he believed was normal people. He didn’t notice one of the townsfolk watching him.

Charas was the shaman of the centaur tribe he was a handsome and muscular figure with chiseled features and a proud dark mane, and having an affinity for animals from birth he new there was something wrong about the hawk that landed on a battlement and watched the people instead of looking for something to hunt. Lendal was a master at shape shifting into animals and such but wasn’t as good at acting like the animal he was at the time.

Charas began an intricate chant that called forth the powers of true vision and was startled to discover that the hawk was indeed a young shape shifter. Charas began another chant and called forth the vines and branches of the nearby trees to bind the young shifter and bring him safely to the ground. Lendal was terrified that he was going to die in this strange land were the plants themselves attacked him but he was brought to the ground at the hooves of a handsome centaur who introduced himself as Charas. Charas talked to the young boy informing him that he would not be harmed here and that he could find safety here if he chose to. Lendal thought quickly and told the centaur that he would do anything as long as the trees could not slay him. Charas laughed and bid the trees to release him. They did and Lendal was free and on his feet but felt drawn to this creature who had just saved him.

Lendal agreed to stay if Charas would help him to understand who and what he was. Charas saw within Lendal the gifts of magic that even he had never known existed but for some reason it was bound from Lendal by a spell stronger than any Charas had ever seen before. Charas went and spoke with Serasan the chieftain of the centaur tribe how was also Charas’s mate. They agreed that this young boy was in need of their help. So the two centaurs took Lendal into there charge teaching him the ways of the forest and the laws of the land. Lendal also continued his other skills al the while thinking that this new life of his may not last, and that he may have to return to the old ways to survive.

But alas that did not happen for Serasan and Charas not only brought him in to their homes but into their hearts and the tribe as well. As he grew up with them they initiated him in the ways of manhood and the ways of the tribe. They taught him the ways of barter and trade, of how to survive in any situation, and they showed him the fatherly love he never had as a child. Lendal grew into a fine young man.

Shortly after Lendals 23^rd birthday Charas awoke violently one night with a vision that rocked him to his marrow. After which he would not say what the vision was only that Lendal needed to prepare himself, for his destiny was at hand.

And so Charas instructed Lendal to journey westward towards the setting sun and that on this journey he would find his destiny. So after sorrowful goodbyes Lendal set off to find that destiny.

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