Yavan

**Yavan** is a Desert Elf Healer, known for his exceptional regenerative ability and knowledge of anatomy. He was previously feared as a pirate before becoming a mercenary and assassin for the Iron Hand in Brekos. While with the Iron Hand Yavan is betrayed by Iraïs and bound to the Dundaari Crystal in Kazmadan.

## Description

### Appearance

Yavan is a tall desert elf, standing at 6 foot 4 inches, with deep maroon leylines. Yavan used to grow out his hair, often putting it into long braids and cutting it when he died, as a marker to track time and as currency. Currently, Yavan keeps his hair short, believing himself permanently death-marked in his position in Kazmadan. He is muscular, and has multiple ear piercings.

Yavan has many scars from his deaths, including large scars on his torso where he partially regenerated around a spear, before having to rip it out, and also a tendril-like scar that forms a ring around his neck from his beheading. He also has many circular scars around his fingers where he has lost fingers before.

### Personality

Yavan gets annoyed when people try to seek him out for his healing ability, as he owes them nothing to use him for free. He has healed people in the past if they pay for it. As a pirate, Yavan has no qualms about stealing from people and using underhanded techniques to get what he wants. This continues to be true in his work as a mercenary and assassin, being able to kill people for the highest bidder. Yavan tends to not enjoy being around many people, fearful for being revealed and killed, and for their constant complaining.

He has a pretty grim outlook on life as he has seen the worst of it, and can't die from outside means, making life hard to find pursuits in. Because of this, Yavan has worked most professions in his life, good and bad. Yavan has pursued many revenge plots against people who have killed him or wronged him in the past, as betrayal is one of the things he hates the most.

## Background

### Early Life

Born to the ancient Skari Tribe of northwestern Solaris in the Wastes, Yavan has know a harsh life from very early on. The Skaris had been known to produce healers for generations, with Yavan being the last of them. Because of this, they have studied anatomy and healing for years, passing down this knowledge to Yavan. The Skaris broke apart due to civil war between tribes of the waste, forcing Yavan to flee with his father, Izucol southward toward the Innland. During their travels, Izucol and Yavan die due to dehydration, except Yavan is resurrected for the first time.

### Desert Pirates

When he awakes, he is surrounded by desert pirates, who are taking their stuff. Upon seeing his resurrection, they take him in, seeing his use as a Healer. Over the years, Yavan becomes close with the desert pirate leader, Rook, and learns swordsmanship with the scimitar, before leaving to find a new path. The pirates refuse to let him leave, including Rook, revealing his ulterior motives on becoming close with Yavan. Yavan gets angry, and kills many pirates, including Rook, before breaking away from the group.

### The Iron Hand

Arriving in Al Jede, Yavan steals to get by and gets noticed by The Iron Hand, who controls most of the territory on the streets. Yavan kills many of their assassins before they offer a parley, and take him to the Iron Hand leader, Iron Fist Iraïs, where he agrees to do business with them. Yavan carries out assassinations, and fights in many local warlord battles as a paid hand from the Iron Hand. Yavan becomes very close with Iraïs, and becomes his second in commands in a very short time.

Yavan receives a new mission to assassinate the most influential warlord of the area, Dren Mal, allowing the Iron Hand to gain power from the power vacuum it would leave. Yavan hesitates just before delivering the killing blow, as the local warlord is a former member of the Skari Tribe, and someone Yavan used to look up to. In this moment of hesitation, Yavan is disarmed, and stabbed through with a pike, to be put outside with the others. Yavan remains here for many years, trying to regenerate. A long time passes and the structure of power is changed as many local warlords are getting felled, and taken control over by the Solaris government.

Irais discovers Yavan on one of the pikes during the cleanup and takes him back in to care for him. During this time of healing, Yavan is largely unresponsive to his surroundings, and unbeknownst to him Irais makes a deal with the Solaris government to trade Yavan for the territory of all the warlords combined. Irais takes the deal and Yavan is taken to the newly constructed Grand Stellarium.

### Binding to the Dundaari Crystal

Yavan awakes in the Grand Stellarium, connected to the source of Solaris' power, the Dundaari Crystal, one of the rifts of the world. The remaining chunks of the crystal had been reduced to only a small portion, and Solaris had these last shards embedded in Yavan to grow and replicate within his body for endless crystals for power and development. The Crystal used to grow from the supply of Void Energy coming from the rift, but the rift has been waning, and with the shift to leeching off of Yavan's Energy (as a bound weaver it is directly tied to the Void) the Crystal remains not extinct. Yavan becomes distraught at his position, as he enjoys his freedom. He cuts his hair short to symbolize the permanent death of his life.

## Character Information

### Proficiencies

* Swordsmanship: Yavan learned to wield blades with the desert pirates, strongly preferring the curve of a scimitar over a longsword
* First Aid: Yavan can do basic first aid, as learned with the Skari Tribe
* Anatomy: Yavan has a strong understanded of anatomy, due to the centuries of Skari experiments and knowledge

### Abilities

* Healing: a strong and rarest type of healing, Yavan has the ability to heal himself passively and heal others actively