Edward Karlin

Edward Gold Karlin is a human residing in the Kaptaniet of Kamtargaa and currently works at the Kamtargari pub as a brewer. After running away due to a major accident he caused, he wandered around for a while, trying to find someplace to settle and start over. He eventually settled in Kamtargaa, a small and quiet place to practice alchemy.
== Family and Origin ==
Edward's mother, Mary Karlin originally lived in the Valdic Union, but immigrated to Ashkavar during the freezing of Rathnir. There, she met Edward's father, Ben Arrigan, and started a potions business together. Their shop earned modest success, enough to sustain a modest life. They eventually had 3 children, James, Patrick and Edward, who were raised in the potions business, and helped run the shop.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Edward got along with his brothers fairly well, although he preferred read than play. He was extremely interested in chemistry, and was looking into it as a future career. He was friendly with his mother but close to his father, who was a great source of inspiration for his basis of ethics and knowledge. He wasn't very known in town, as he wasn't very social, but had a few close friends. At the age of 14, he started to work in the shop. 
He liked to experiment in his free time, making potpourris of weird ingredient. As nobody was willing to test them, he just used them on himself, which led to quite a lot of injuries. Nobody was particularly concerned, as it wasn't hurting anybody else.
=== The Incident ===
Just after turning 17, he started fiddling with pyrotechnics and making non-destructive bombs that could do much more than just fireworks. One day, he stumbled upon a way to catalyze the explosion of a bomb by mixing in a certain compound, which theoretically could strengthen the blast by 2.5 times it's normal strength. However unbeknownst to him, this compound turned the bomb destructive and extremely reactive to heat.
It was during an extremely hot summer that fateful day. He was storing the mixture overnight to test in the morning in a regular container in the basement. This was a fatal mistake, as the intense heat was overbearing the mixture and at midnight, while everybody was asleep, it spontaneously combusted, The blast took out the entire basement and first floor, causing the building to collapse. James was severely injured, and Patrick was instantly killed. Edward himself was moderately injured. Their parents survived with little to no injuries. Edward realizing what had happened and horrified at what he had done, ran away in the chaos.
In the aftermath, their potions shop was in ruins. The police was unable to trace the explosion to Edward's compound, and deduced that it was caused by a gas leak. James was hospitalized and recovered. Edward was presumed to have been vaporized by the explosion. Patrick and Edward's deaths was greatly mourned by his family. 
=== Life in the streets ===
After running away, he knew he couldn't return to his family.
Category:Ashkavari