Sturmjhart Hawker

Sturmjhart Hawker, is a Genembio child soldier who grew up in the colder regions of the Onthukan continent in Eldham. He is one of a dozen survivors from a war in the continent of Onthukan who later joined a mercenary group, he would then leave the group in search of a new path and meet up with Paul. It was this meetup that they would form their own micronations before they went underground and slowly re-emerged due to the Iristor Comet expected to hit Eldham. He would follow Paul to Abexilas where he is now an Observer of Maris. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
A boy was born in a remote village in the continent of Onthukan. His mother abandoned him after the realization that his father Mathias Hawker, was a Genembio, a largely persecuted race. His mother shortly left after the boy's birth, never to be seen by him or his father ever again. Mathias, now left with shouldering the burden of childcare named the child Sturmjhart Hawker.
Life was not easy as the cold environment made crop yields unreliable forcing the villagers to fish and hunt for food. It was during these periods however that Sturmjhart would find the best moments of his life for he had time to spend with his father and learn skills his ex-militia father honed by himself. His life fulfilling and he had a figure to look up to. Until a band of mercenaries came.
The mercenaries, claiming to only be coming to trade for materials and leaving by dawn, drew their weapons in the dark of night, killing all those who were naive. Mathias and Sturmjhart woked and prepared the remaining villagers to fight off the mercenaries. It would however prove futile as all but a dozen now orphaned children were taken to become child soldiers of the mercenaries. Sturmjhart would be put through harsher training regiments as to prepare him for combat. Sturmjhart would not learn until later on but his father had actually willingly given up his life and begged for the soldiers to take Sturmjhart in to train him and prevent his death from a group known as the Fylou's Wrath from taking him.
=== Mercenary Career ===
After his training, he was forced into the infantry of the mercenaries, Sturmjhart would enter different battlefields. In every battle, he came back alive however in every one of them, he never came out unscathed. He would however find comfort and friends in the remaining surviving children who were assigned to the same regiment as him. Sturmjhart and his survivor comrades of Faylor, Garon, and Kiith would form a squad together and protect one another. One day Sturmjhart got attacked with a poison which nearly killed him if it were not for the combined efforts of the remaining child soldiers bringing him to the mercenary's medical bay where he was forced to equip a respirator device for the rest of his life. 
Every time he breathed through his respirator, he was reminded of the pain and suffering he went through that got him his respirator. He despised the reminders of his failings and inability to protect himself. He despised every moment of his existence. Then 4 men of the mercenary corps echelon entered his sickbay congratulating him on his achievements and discharging him from the mercenary corp. Shocked by the news, Sturmjhart would ask for confirmation twice before accepting his newfound reality. His accomplishments in battle and victories gained headwind in the leaders of the mercenaries and was given the choice to finally leave the corp.
Sturmjhart hesitated for a moment before he accepted the offer. The corp held no grudge and gave Sturmjhart the most advanced respirator that the mercenaries could field, survival food he found a new path, clothing, and his engraved weapons from battles as salutations for his service. For once in Sturmjhart's time in the corp, he felt compassion and gratitude from the group who put him in this very state. He would say his goodbyes to his former squad and friends before he left to find a new road ahead for himself.
=== New life ===
In his new life, he founded a small unofficial micro-nation of the Negura Enclave. There he and 4 other like-minded individuals from the mercenary corp created a living for themselves. They would watch nations of old and new emerge and fall apart as they continue to be engulfed in the cycle of destruction and renaissance. At some point in this period, Sturmjhart finally realized the cycle of life and death, the Lebivi Mortai in the words of Spirit Tongue. He grasped the concept and learned to watch and learn from mistakes made by those who were given a second chance and perished to ensure order and balance in his life.
He would use his memory of the Spirit Tongue to communicate with spirits to guide his way. Combined with his battle-hardened body and mind, he would claim the title of Observer, the one who watches and follows the whispers of the spirits. He would then start to use the advice of the spirits to improve Enclave leading it to become a rather prosperous town that was hidden away from the politics and intrusions of the outside world. 
However darkness would approach as the spirits would warn Sturmjhart about an impending event which would be unavoidable leading to him and his Enclave to pack up supplies and prepare for the worst. The Enclave and Paul's Republic would then go underground with other micro-nations as chaos further ensued the realms of Rathnir and Eldham until the he spirits prediction soon became reality. The spirits warning became a reality when the Iristor Comet came hurling towards the worlds. This led to the mass migration towards Abexilas of the Enclave's and their allies to prevent their untimely demise.This is where in-game lore begins
=== New Beginnings ===
When arriving to the new world, Sturmjhart found himself seperated with the group he came with by the migration. Because of this, he spent time to learn and understand the new environment he found himself in which appeared to be rather hospitable. He would wander for a while before meeting up with Paul. And once a majority of the group finally arrived, the setup what would become the basis of a new republic, the Republic of Maris.
== Appearence ==
Sturmjhart stands to be around 179 cm in armor however anything else about his body is unknown. Records of his childhood put his hair to be changing due to his shapeshifting abilities as a half-Genembio but the most common hair color he is seen with is black hair with strands of white. First-hand information from close friends of Sturmjhart says that after the poisoning attack on him, his face started becoming disfigured, and a large rash appeared at his throat.
When seen, Sturmjhart dons a dull silvery Sallet helm with heavy bronze-tinted armor plating due to his injuries. Under it all, he wears a trench coat with multiple pockets and packs with his bulky yet highly utilitarian respirator pack located at his back. His respirator is connected to his breathing mask by a large, copper-silver colored main tubing during normal sightings, and multiple smaller tubes which connect to the multiple breathing ports during wartime to prevent suffocation when one of his tubes is punctured or when he needs an emergency resupply of a specific breathing mix.
When not worried or needed for battle, however, it is common for him to transform into another creature. The creature he chooses to transform into does not have the negative traits of his main body however he can only be in his transformed state for less than 24 hours and is both mentally and physically draining on a half-Genembio. However common transformations he has been in include, a female version of himself, a half-dragon humanoid, a pure Genembio form, and rarely the body of his father.
As a Human-Genembio, he has both a heart and a rare case of 2 visible cores, this allows for a symbiotic relationship between the 2 life sources which makes Sturmjhart almost immortal as his heart produces the life force to keep both his cores running and the 2 cores constantly repairing and improving his heart. Doctors who have worked on Sturmjhart say the only way he could ever die is if his heart and cores are destroyed at the same time like the poison that nearly killed him when he was a mercenary.