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[b]Name:[/b] Arno Arrotyr
[b]Age:[/b] 26
[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Race:[/b] Harvin
[b]Element:[/b] Wind
[b]Home:[/b] Omphalos Island is a massive island higher up in the atmosphere, one of the highest in the territory. Despite this, the island is a popular crossroads, placed right between the frontier islands and the inner islands in the mid-south region. Travelers often stop there for rest, repairs and supplies. Mercenary groups often place their base of operations here, and explorers often meet here. Being so high up, it is expected that the island is cold, but the island rests above a natural anomaly. Hot air rises from the depths directly below it, and by the time the air reaches the island, it has cooled to a comfortable temperature. Omphalos is famously known for being neutral ground, a haven for outcasts, mercenaries, explorers, researchers, librarians, and more. The altitude gives the island a natural defensive advantage, the amount of militia the island can raise, and the amount of ships always present there gives any potential attacker pause. The island itself is star shaped, with four points. Each point being primarily docks, shipyards, airfields and engineering districts where inventors conduct experiments with new technologies. The center of the island is the main population center of the island, with residential districts, markets, libraries, taverns and halls for groups. The center of the island has several lakes, full of creatures small and big. Surrounding these lakes are parks, letting the populace relax from the busy of the markets and docks.
[b]Dream:[/b] Arno dreams to be a respected skyfarer, an explorer who has seen the depths of the planet, the stars beyond the skies, and the lands behind the storms. While he admits these dreams to others, he has one goal he will never admit. He has a question to ask, and nobody knows the answer to it, he hopes to find the answer.

[b]Gimmicks:[/b] Arno is a fairly inexperienced combatant, his most impressive skill being that he's able to fast draw his pistol, making him likely to get a first shot off. After that, his inexperience shows. However, fighting on the ground isn't what he excels at. Arno is a natural pilot. Flying his custom built airship fighter, he can dodge, weave and fly circles around most things that fly in the air. 

[b]Inventory:[/b] Arno carries a short falchion sword, despite being very inexperienced with swords, he carries it just in case. He also has the pistol his parents built, [url=https://i.imgur.com/zySuV98.png]The Talon[/url]. A triple barreled handgun that holds more like a carbine in a Harvin's hands. The pistol has a bayonet attached to the barrel that swings out when the user is in close quarters. The Talon is a masterfully crafted weapon, steel, dark ironwood, emblazoned with brass, the gun is heavy, sturdy and reliable. The barrel has been decorated with the head of a dragon, giving it an intimidating appearance. Arno keeps it on a holster strapped to his thigh, when he's flying his plane however, he takes the holster off and either leaves it strapped to the side of the cockpit, or onto his flight vest. 

[hider=The Akula]Arno's airship fighter, the [url=https://i.imgur.com/Cy1MbRd.png]Akula CI-4G[/url], is a single seat, twin boom, triple engine, dihedral sweptback wing, three-surface-aircraft "interceptor". Designed and constructed by Arno, his father, and a few close family friends. The Akula is the cutting edge of airship development, a prototype, an experiment, but to Arno, she is something else entirely.

The Akula is armed with two highly advanced semi-automatic 30mm cannons, giving it incredible firepower for its relatively small size. The two cannons, mounted in the two nacelles, are connected through a complex convergence system, allowing the pilot to manually set the weapon convergence mid flight without too much trouble. The ammunition for the weapon system itself is all custom made, meaning the rounds used is incredibly rare, and tailored specifically to this airship. The cannon shells most commonly loaded into the Akula's magazines are an even mix of Armor Piercing Incindiary Tracer and High Explosive Incindiary Tracer, though more specilized ammunition exists at the Akula's home.

The all metal construction of the plane gives it impressive durability and structural integrity, and while all the surface area contributes to drag, it's twin engines, coupled with the third auxiliary engine for boost makes this one of the fastest airships around. The cockpit is incredibly complex, with dozens of dials, markings, levers, switches, a throttle stick, joystick, foot pedals and wheels, the plane is practically unflyable to anyone who hasn't spent months training for it. The amount of controls, coupled with the amount of control surfaces on the plane itself, makes it fly like a wild animal. It has incredible maneuverability, and an inexperienced pilot will quickly get disoriented by his own maneuvers if they're not used to the speed of the airship. Somewhat surprisingly, the cockpit and airship is built around having a Harvin pilot. The seat is small and the cockpit itself is scaled accordingly, making it extremely difficult for anyone of any other race to even get into the airship. 

The airship itself is painted in hues of white, skyblue and greys, giving it decent camouflage on a good, sunny day. The vertical stabilizers have the [url=https://i.imgur.com/Yl5uxDO.png]symbol of a manta ray on a star[/url], and the nose of the Akula has a mouth filled with sharp teeth painted on it, with two black beady eyes right above the mouth. [/hider]

[b]Appearance:[/b] Arno is a Harvin. He's short, physically weak, looks like a child and he hates it. He works towards moving his appearance away from the typical Harvin, and his efforts have shown results to those who pay attention. Despite being an average Harvin height, he's physically more able than the typical Harvin, he looks more mature, looking like a young teenager rather than a child, and he sports an easy to maintain lampshade pyramid mustache. Arno keeps his black hair short, only two or three inches long, foregoing the more fancy longer hair styles that higher class people wear. His hair is unkept, unstyled, and wild, but when he puts on his leather pilots helmet, it doesn't get in the way and that's what matters to him. His mustache is however, well groomed, maintained, and what he spends his mornings on. He grew one, without a beard after finding out that he grew a poor beard, in order to make himself look more mature. It helps only a little. 

For fashion, he wears very little in the way of casual clothing. His wardrobe consists of primarily engineer's long sleeve overalls, shirts, pants, and his flight suit. His flight suit is by far his most expensive outfit, consisting of many parts when he goes out flying. He wears a black slightly baggy cargo style pants with brown leather boots that goes over the pant legs midway to his calves. A white short sleeved shirt and over that, a brown leather jacket that is incredibly warm, a cross between a fencing style and a bomber style leather jacket, with the zipper on the left side. For his hands, Arno has leather pilot gauntlets, and he has a leather helmet for his head. The helmet has buckles to secure his goggles and oxygen mask in place while in flight. On top of all of this, he wears a g-suit, a custom made suit that goes over his legs and torso like overalls, and is filled with empty bladders. When plugged into his airship cockpit, the bladders will fill with compressed air, combating the g-forces that will make Arno black out when he does high-g maneuvers. Finally he has a light flight vest with several pouches, this vest also contains his oxygen tank for his mask. When going out, he will leave most of this behind in the cockpit, only taking his pants, boots, shirt and jacket out to public areas.

[b]Personality:[/b] Arno is an easily irritated, quick to speak up, and very expressive with his vocabulary. When he gets angry, he would have been intimidating, if he were normal sized. Instead he's half the size of a human adult and seeing this tiny person shouting curses and hexes is humorous to some, much to Arno's further irritation. Despite being so quick to say what's on his mind, he is naturally curious, and will actually shut up and listen if someone is educating him about something, he has a respect for knowledge of every kind and he shows it. Despite being a little bit of a jerk, his true self is revealed when he's with his airship, the Akula. He gently cleans it, barrels, air intakes, exhaust ports, and engine nozzles, when he's maintaining it he's quiet and focused, much calmer and much quieter, almost like he doesn't want to disturb the airship. He treats his airship with the upmost respect, and expects everyone else to treat it the same way he does. 

[b]Background:[/b] Arno was born on Omphalos Isle to a family of engineers and workers. His mother designed airships and his father constructed weapons, with his uncles and aunts int the same business. Arno had a brother and two sisters, and they all stuck together. Together, they played on the airship docks, go to know explorers and mercenaries, they explored their island carelessly. After all, if they were together, they were invincible. Then the eldest sister disappeared, after two weeks of searching, the people of the island gave up, and Arno stayed in his room. For three years he wallowed in his sorrow, often looking out his window and seeing the birds flying by.

Then one morning he felt a touch on his hand, he sensed a familiarity, and opened his eyes. His room was empty, but his window was open. There on the window sill was a large bird, hawkish, with piercing eyes. He knew this bird, the king of birds on Omphalos, a predator that hunted even monsters. For it to grace him with its presence was humbling, exciting, awe inspiring. Feelings other than sadness, sorrow and worthlessness. It stared into Arno's eyes and shrieked, then flew off. Arno smiled for a short moment, but thought nothing of it. The next morning, he felt it again, then four of the birds were on his window sill. The one from yesterday, and three smaller ones. There was a fresh fish on his sill, and they ate the fish. The largest bird left, then two others having had their fill followed. The last, had no fish, and there was none left. The smallest bird looked at the fish bones, nipping at whatever scraps was left. Arno went downstairs and grabbed a piece of meat from his family kitchen, then fed it to the fourth bird. It took the meat and ate it quickly, offering Arno a scream as repayment. He watched as the smallest bird took off after the largest.

Then Arno was struck by inspiration. He cleaned up their mess on his window sill, grabbed his paper and pens, and sketched. At first he drew them, the birds. He always wondered how they flew, and he studied their flight and their wings. He sketched existing airship designs and worked to understand how the air flowed around the birds, and around the airships. For the first time in three years he left the home and gathered materials, he constructed a basic wind tunnel and went to work. He made small scale airships of existing design, small scale birds, and studied the air flow. He looked at more experimental designs and tested those, then tested his own designs. He wanted to fly, not how everyone else flew, floating on airships of wood and balloons. He wanted to [i]fly[/i]. Like the birds of prey that graced him with their presence, he wanted to soar through the sky like a predator. His airship had to be fast. It had to be maneuverable, strong, with a bite that surprised its foes. He settled on a design that he had never seen before, that nobody had ever seen before, and got to work. He gathered the attention of his father, mother, siblings, uncles, aunts and friends of the family. He took an empty hanger and turned it into his workshop, building the first generation of his airship. The prototype CI-1. For the next decade he would work tirelessly, constructing more prototypes, more chassis, changing what wasn't working and improving what was. His tests revealed a host of problems, when turning too harshly he would faint, and Arno had to figure out why. With the aid of a doctor, they solved the problem. As Arno in his airship climbed to higher and higher altitudes, higher than any airship had ever gone before, the temperature froze the control surfaces and the air was getting too thin for Arno to breathe. With the help of his mother and siblings they solved that. During a flight endurance test, Arno looked to the horizon and wondered what was beyond it, what was beyond what he could see in the sky? And below in the depths? When Arno wasn't eating, sleeping or relieving himself he was working on his airship, now dubbed the Akula.

During the eighth flight endurance test, the first long distance flight for the Akula model CI-4G, he was captured by military forces and sent to Ziggurat. They confiscated his helmet, flight vest, and airship, locking Arno into a cell.

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