Full Name: Roderic Alder Mayburry Montana

Nicknames/Aliases: Ifirit's Bane. Roderic the Betrayer, The Denier. The Devil Himself.

Age: 47

Gender: Male 

Primary: Defense

Professor of Defense & Tracking:

Secondaries: Shadow Step, Tracking.

  Description:  Montana's face holds the high cheekbones, and overall facial structure of a romanticized Native American brave, coupled with the arrangement of Western Europe. His hair held the same lightless quality his eyes did, both were pit black, save for the streak of stark white that was often tucked behind his ear. His hair, shoulder length in his youth, had grown down to his chest, a fancy he's allowed himself to take since his teaching career began. Bodily, he stood at 5'11, with a toned, muscular frame that didn't sacrifice mobility for mass. It, like his face was surprisingly youthful despite his advanced age, due to various healing therapies undergone at the end of the war. Most of his emotional expression is done with his eyes and eyebrows, leaving his mouth an even line. 


Personality: Montana's personality is largely subdued, but perhaps best described as a malevolent or benign eye, submerged in a thick, colorless liquid that one can just make out in the depths. A roiling thing that, on some occasions, breaches the surface to fix its gaze on the looker.
    
Skills: Montana first and foremost is an accomplished combatant in the traditional aspect of warfare, he is extensively trained and practiced in traditional firearms and melee armaments, and is a genius tier martial artist. Battlefield strategy, and small united management are both large parts is his skill set, with a minor in espionage. In the realm of magic, Montana's Defender skill is often used in an unorthodox fashion, with a heavy emphasis on nullification fields, along with several familial arts passed down on his mothers side. An innovator of the art, he uses it to control fights, and key points on a battlefield. His Shadowstepping ability, while honed, is not as refined as the professor who teaches it, and is usually used as a complimentary measure with his other skills and magic ability. Tracking, another familial art once, and perhaps still considered spiritual in nature, is the secondary skill he excels in. Tracking objects, and people has been tuned to a reflexive ability. Montana looks to expand this ability beyond the purely physical realm. Meeting this desire with varied success, he has yet to dissertain if it his magical ability, or trained ability to read people that has lead to these results. 

Weaknesses: Montana's demeanor, and reserved behaviour, could give off an air of mistrust that could be exploited.

  
  Brief History: His Fathers line line traces its origins to North American Indians, Montana, a given name was acquired over time. They were famed trackers, said to call upon the spirits to erect great walls to defend against the fire of civilization. His mothers side, of the Montbard line, were famed Defenders who aided in the rise of the Knights Templar, and eventually vanished into history after the Order's demise. Montana's noteworthy history starts during his career as a mercenary. He fought in various conflicts around the globe, ranging from the larger human wars, to pocket conflicts between powerful Mage groups and families. It was during this time he found employment during the Mage rebellion, where he fought alongside various members of the faculty. It was during this conflict he picked up some of the names that would follow him for the rest of his natural life. 

"The Storm twins were at least sensational, am I right? Two hard ass Valkyries who brought air and ice down onto the battlefield. Sensational. This other one they have? Let me tell you something, there's a lot of people who say he wasn't always on the right side of the war, and a lot of those same people are dead. Look him up, go on, try, you know what you're gonna find? Nothing. Riddle me that"- Illidal Aerorash, editor for The Sage Tablet. 

Other: Really good at darts. Avoids alcohol.