Rōnin

Much of Rōnin's backstory is forgotten, but there are still remnants left. As a young ogre, Rōnin's went about a normal life; but when he was traveling with his family, his parents were killed by humans. He was taken in by a mysterious creature, now believed to be a Moonchild. Since that incident he's killed countless humans during the conflicts between ogres and humans.

(After the conflict he decided to leave, and made his way to where he is now.)

### Newfound Ability

Soon he was forced to adapt to this life style. But time went by when not much happened; other than the earlier mentioned magic. Except a while later it started getting weirder, it was a if he were two people, merged into one. And indeed this was true, he had the physical features of a completely different person, though preserving his old mind.

Later he'd have dreams where a Oni masked figure in purple, would chase him. But later one night, a dream occurred; he was in an all white area, and upon looking down at his hands, and touching his face, he realized that he was now the figure that once chased him. And more time after that, in the real world, during a full moon In the middle of the night, the Purple Oni mask from his dreams appeared on his face, and after about an hour was gone as quickly as it came. And later later while thinking about the incident he thought, 'could I purposely activate this?'. And in this moment, he closed his eyes, and just thought of it. To his surprise it appeared, and after another couple hours, he started to not want it anymore; and just like that it was gone. But during that time he learned he couldn't physically take it off. He'd always been given glares since arriving. Was it because he was taller, bigger; was it because he had horns? Was it because his skin wasn't the same color? He didn't know, all he knew was, he was different. Though they were generally nice, it didn't feel right. Some he felt, were actually genuinely nice, he appreciated this, because many of the inhabitants were from this land, and he wasn't.

#### The Ritual

A citizen name Freya talked to him, and in some time, she spoke of a "Moon Ritual" this consisted of a transformation of a creature to a "Moon Child". He learned more about it when, she asked him if he wanted to participate, he didn't think about it for much, but he agreed. Later...Freya was going to start the ritual when, a Sunborn (from the same town), Libinha, declared us to stop, or he'd stop us. But Freya refused saying, "this is how I expand my race". So Libinha attacked with his sword, and after some exchanging of sword swipes, relatively soon it was clear he was losing. And as he ran through the fields from Freya; Rōnin grabbed an arrow he had gotten from an ancient undead archer. He aligned it in his bow, and pulled back...And, *fwip*, It launched with immense speed, and pierced his back. As Freya and Rōnin looked at Libinha on the ground, they realized he was on the brink of death. Rōnin had a thought, maybe they could save him, by doing the ritual on him as well. So as Libinha pleaded to stop, and to kill him, Freya dragged him to the ritual circle...Rōnin recited some words instructed by Freya. Then, he was blinded, and as he looked down at his hands, his skin was like Freya's; a Black-blue, with a slight purple tint. Though this event did not mean an end to his earlier mentioned incidents, in fact more new things started happening.

## Parting from Society

Soon Rōnin started to lose interest in talking to other people more and more. And eventually got tired of socializing with people all together. He left his home he'd lived in for so long, and without a goodbye. Then he became a nomad, with the intentions of finding a peaceful place to settle. But there were challenges and benefits to being a nomad, and still couldn't call anywhere his permanent home. He became very dull, and was aging, he had no defined personality. He found that life was very boring, he hadn't seen anyone in years, (yes, years) but he knew still some of the current and recent events. Him being unalike many people led to him disliking socializing, and interactions with others. And from the little he knew, no one seemed to notice his departure. It is still to be determined whether he lives a lonely life away from society, or he lives his life in peace with others.

To be continued...