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[color=EC2600][b]Name:[/b][/color] Vyandar Urthac
[color=EC2600][b]Race:[/b][/color] Dragonborn
[color=EC2600][b]Age:[/b][/color] 41
[color=EC2600][b]Envoy of:[/b][/color] Anhur

[color=EC2600][b]Alignment:[/b][/color] Chaotic Neutral

[color=EC2600][b]Class:[/b][/color] Cleric

[color=EC2600][b]Description:[/b][/color]
Stands at approximately 6'6". Is wide-shouldered and well-muscled. Scars line his body and his face, and one of his horns is chipped off, most likely as a result of battle.

[color=EC2600][b]Skills:[/b][/color]
[b]Veteran Combatant:[/b] Vyandar has skills and physique honed by a lifetime of battle. He is adept with all common martial weapons, and is in peak physical shape. Additionally, he has experience with a variety of battlefield tactics, and very little surprises him in a conventional fight anymore. 

[b]Divine Magic:[/b] Being a priest of Anhur, Vyandar is blessed with the ability to cast a variety of divine spells. He specializes in enhancing the physical abilities of both himself and his allies, though he can also heal wounds and sap the strength of his foes if needed. Direct damage spells such as holy flames are also in Vyandar's repertoire, though he doesn't favor them, preferring to wade into melee with the effects of enhancement spells upon himself instead.

[b]Orator:[/b] As his mercenary company's sole clergyman, Vyandar was often called upon to deliver sermons and rites over the years, and became rather adept at public speaking as a result. After his ascension, Vyandar has taken to preaching in the street where he travels, seeking to exalt the necessity of conflict to all. He can also turn his gift of the gab towards other speaking pursuits such as debate or sophistry, but prefers to preach his patron god's dogma first and foremost.

[color=EC2600][b]Flaws:[/b][/color] 
[b]Brute:[/b] Subtlety is not in this dragonborn's nature. At all. While Anhur's tenets state that pitched conflict is not the sole battlefield available to mortals, Vyandar still dislikes measures such as diplomacy and stealth when open battle is a viable option. 

[b]Zealot:[/b] Having already been a man of faith before his exaltation, Vyandar is fanatically devoted to his patron deity. While he tolerates worshippers of other members of the Pantheon and even respects their priests, he is still liable to take any insults to Anhur or rejection of his dogma extremely poorly. In addition, his constant preaching and prayer can quickly grow tiresome to those who do not follow Anhur in every single aspect of their daily lives. 

[b]Wrathful:[/b] Quick to lose his cool. Vyandar has a bad tendency to develop tunnel vision on those who anger him, causing him to focus on the object of his wrath above all else, especially in a fight. 

[color=EC2600][b]Background:[/b][/color] 
Born in the frozen northern wastes of Malia, Vyandar of Clan Urthac found himself baptized in battle at a young age. At barely five years old, his village was raided by mercenaries paid off by a neighboring town that wanted the local fishing space completely uncontested. His family members were either slaughtered in the chaos or scattered to the winds, but Vyandar was abducted and taken in by the company after he showed an unusually spirited amount of resistance for a child, actually driving a knife into a sellsword's shin. 

The company chaplain, a cleric of Anhur, practically adopted Vyandar, seeing him as a worthy successor to the priesthood. Throughout his adolescence, Vyandar was immersed in both priestly and martial training. Though as an acolyte of Anhur, the two were practically the same at times. While at first, he resented his abductors and sought only to make them hurt during training, Vyandar eventually came around to his teacher's line of thinking that what happened to his village and his family was regrettable, but only natural. The coast around his birthplace couldn't support the needs of two towns, and so conflict was inevitable. If anything, it had been his own village's fault for not trying to be rid of their competition first. 

Vyandar eventually came of age to be both a full-fledged member of the mercenary company that took him in, as well as a cleric of Anhur, ordained in battle. He served for a decade in combat and as the company's secondary chaplain until his adoptive father and teacher fell in battle, causing Vyandar to take his place in full. The company took contracts both in Malia and in foreign lands where Malian mercenaries were in high demand, and Vyandar even served a tour of duty for the Twin Kingdoms against the Nuniel Empire at one point. 

However, it was on a job back in Malia where Vyandar fell, and subsequently ascended. The assignment was eerily similar to the one that had shaped his course in life decades ago: raid a village that was competing with their employers for hunting grounds in the nearby forest, and teach them a lesson. But it didn't pan out like it had thirty-six years ago: the target village had hired their own mercenaries to do the exact same thing, and both companies met in the middle. Having no knowledge of each other, both sides were caught off-guard, and the situation devolved into utter chaos as the two mercenary companies rushed each other in a disorganized, unplanned charge. 

The carnage was immense. By the time Vyandar succumbed to his numerous wounds, several arrows piercing his armor, the last thing he noticed was that both companies had wiped each other out nearly to a man. Despite being on the verge of death, he smiled. He would die honoring Anhur. What he didn't know, however, was that through his last hour of life, he had been chosen. 

When next he woke, the being that understood its host body's name to be Vyandar Urthac found his wounds miraculously healed, though the damage to his armor remained. Moreover, he had a mission to fulfill. Vyandar rose, callously brushing off the corpses of men he'd trained, fought beside, and feasted with for years, working out how long it would take to reach the nearest port that would sail him to the Twin Kingdoms. 


[color=EC2600][b]Gear:[/b][/color] 
[b]Holy Symbol:[/b] An iron catalyst crafted in the shape of Anhur's mark. Worn around Vyandar's neck beneath his armor at all times, and serves as his casting focus for divine magic.

[b]Full Plate:[/b] A suit of steel platemail, worn and dinged by decades of battle. Engraved across several parts of the armor are Anhur's mark, to represent devotion. 

[b]Sword and Shield:[/b] A large, dragonborn-sized steel longsword with an accompanying kite shield to match. 

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Voice claim: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCguWVVdXWw]Steve Blum[/url]

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