User:Zatias/Background

Zatias Slyfeine was the only child of Lady Cylissia and Sir Rovnberg, born in Southern San d'Oria exactly seventeen years before the Great War. She was a girl of few words and so had few friends. Kiir Zephpire was her best friend, whom she saved when they were both thirteen. They had ran off from school as usual and were attacked by an Orcish Grunt in East Ronfaure. Kiir was attacked and wounded first, which left Zatias with the option to either leave him and escape or stay and fight to the death. She chose to fight, and this decision decided her path of destiny. After being slammed into the stream of Ronfaure, she discovered a Rusty Greatsword, which she used to slay the Orc. Though she had never picked up a weapon in her life, she wielded the blade as though she had done so for years. On this day, she saved Kiir's life and her own, and chose the path of war to lead her life.

Early in the conflict between the Allied Forces of Altana and Beastmen, Zatias's house was burned to the ground in an irrational rage strike by the Orcs. Her mother was killed in the blaze, burned alive as a bloody conflict waged outside. On this day Zatias took several lives, and the kingdom was able to drive the Orcs out. The damage had been done, however, and Zatias remained hateful of the beastmen. She plotted on this day that when she died, she would die on the frontlines of battle, fighting for the lives lost due to the Orcs' lust for conquest and battle.

"I have taken many lives, the blood of hundreds staining my greatsword. However, I have saved many more lives than that in the process. Am I a killer? Or am I a savior?"- Slyfeine, 18 years of age.