[b]Name[/b]: Bayar "Birch" Burcak 

[b]Age[/b]: Bayar thinks he is 36 years old. He is not completely sure.

[b]Societal Role[/b]: Until recently, none (Convict.) However, in light of the recent 'troubles,' he has suddenly become somewhat useful. He has - thus far - made five successful runs into the Outerdark, the longest being a little longer than three months.

[b]Skills[/b]: What made Burcak different from most of the other repeat offender, lifelong convicts was his initiative inside. Over the course of seventeen years' incarceration spread over five convictions, he has taken full advantage of any of the (infrequent, meagre) programs offered to better himself. Thus far, he has been taught readin' and writin', metal fabrication, welding, small engine repair, 'lectronics, water treatment, sewin' and weaving, a little bit of history, woodworkin'... not to mention pouring over any book he could get his hands on, 'specially anything to do with the before. Prison provides for a lot of time. Time to reflect, time to make trouble, time to do a bunch of pull-ups. Time to make friends, or enemies. Birch made time for all of the above.  

[b]Bio[/b]: They don't really have a word for what Burcak is. He once heard someone call him an 'illegal.' Way he figures, that's about as close as anyone ever said. Burcak was born in the Outerdark. But every person who ever mattered in the Artifact, denies this as a possibility. Thing is, they've never been able to determine how he doesn't wear the Mark. Everyone has the Mark. Not Burcak. It doesn't help that he can't remember much from Outside, from home. He knows he was small when he came in, from out of the Dark. But whatever he is -- it has been a problem to anyone of authority ever since he could remember. School, work, lodging... all was ultimately barred to him for some reason or another. There had been others like him that he'd heard of, over the years. But none of them lasted. If they had, it would be an affront to the Elders, who maintain there is no way in, or out of the Artifact. Most disappeared. But Burcak had remained. Usually just long enough to get into some sort of trouble, by his own hand or via circumstance and his priors. For a time, he tried to convince himself that his past didn't exist. That he had been wrong. But with the recent 'troubles,' [i]They[/i] came to [i]Him[/i]. First time ever. 


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