Garz 'Urtelken

Garz 'Urtelken was a Sangheili male born on the Covenant world of Blessed Bounty. On entering military service, he would participate in multiple skirmishes and battles against pirates and raiders on the borders of covenant space, before being drawn into the war against Humanity. Fighting in some of the earliest conflict with the aliens, he would slowly rise through the ranks over the course of the war, before gaining the rank of Evocati. 
By 2551, Garz would leave military service, seeing it as a waste of his people's talents. Forming his own warrior guild under the banner "Fied's Blades", he would lead this mercenary group for the remaining months of the war, lending their blades to various planetary Governors. Ultimately, they would be approached by members of the Banished, who offered them a place in the larger organization as one of its many legions, and Garz the position of Warlord, to which the Evocati agreed. 
==Early Life==
Born in the 23rd Age of Doubt as the eldest son of Par 'Urtelkenee, a veteran of the Unggoy Rebellion and the Purification of Cherished Memory, much was expected of the young Garz from his family. Both his uncle and father would train the boy in various ways of combat, espousing the common idea that the Sangheili were the chosen warriors of the Forerunners themselves. On becoming of eligible age to begin training he would tutor under his uncle, learning countless forms of hand-to-hand combat and knowledge of weapons. 
==Covenant Military Service==
By 2510, Garz had entered the Covenant military within the fleet of Pious Absolution, under the service of the Ministry of Resolution. His first combat experiences tasked him with helping to root out a group of pirate enclaves, led by a Jiralhanae Chieftain that had been preying on a frontier colony. These battles would season to enough to where, by the beginning of the war against the species known as humanity, he was already an Officer.
=== Battle of Harvest ===
As with many young Sangheili males at the dawn of the 9th Age of Reclaimation, Garz was deployed to the human colony world known as Harvest, on the onset of the war in 2525. Over the following five years of combat for the planet, he would grow to grant his enemy a modicum of respect, though holding the "Demon" warriors in contempt. By 2531, he would be one of many covenant soldiers guarding the "Temple of Clairvoyance", recently discovered by Fieldmaster Re'gish Wamik. Having attempted to hold back the encrouching human presence in the area, they would be recalled back to the relic site.
Fearing the relic's capture by the Humans, covenant forces would be ordered to gather what they could of the relic, before destroying the site. While a main detachment defended the cartographer itself, Garz would be among several sent deeper into the facility to obtain any other relics. Coming across a reinforced security chamber, the team would use their Huragok assistant to unlock the room, believing it to contain a trove of relics. Instead the room only held a dozen large liquid-filled tanks, with aquatic-like alien lifeforms within. 
Due to a misunderstanding, the Huragok would activate a process that drained the tanks, and freed the specimens. Shortly after they would receive a call for reinforcements on the surface, as the human attack had begun in earnest. By the time Garz and his men reached the main temple area however, they would find dozens of their comrades slain, with the enemy falling back under the protection of their armored tanks. 
===Battle of Tronto-Five===
In 2538, Garz take part in the battle for the Human world of Tronto-Five. Entering into combat with a enemy frigate, Garz would lead a squadron of space banshees in defense of the Guardian's Journey, managing to cripple several point-defense guns ,before joining in the following boarding action to secure the vessel's navigation records. This tactic failed as the systems were found destroyed and data unrecoverable. Garz would later join in a ground assault on one of the larger humans settlements, attacking an ONI facility holding a forerunner relic within. Defeating the defenders, Garz and the remaining covenant soldiers would come under assault by what appeared to be one of Humanity's mythical Demons. Charging some of his warriors to continue on, Garz and the most skilled of his underlings would take on the Demon themselves. Battling the human, the Major would lose most of his brethren, but ultimately manage to wound the Demon enough to force to retreat with its own kin.
=== Military retirement and formation of the Blades ===
In 2552, shortly after the fall of the human fortress world of Reach, Garz would see the species as a non-threat. Assuming the war's end soon enough and the search for a new Halo to begin after, he 
=== Great Schism ===
=== Joining the Banished ===