Rako

Rako is a Fire Wolvian who was one of Discordia's major generals in the Chaos Event. She stole a Eternal Flame from the Grey Salamanders and used it go great length, since the Discordia Crisis she retires herself to the wasteland and cooks for the Kitsune Trio Discordia, Harmonia Frostburn & Iolia Nolock Cryptic.

## Background

Rako was born on Midnight, in the north during one of the hottest summers. She was seen as weak, physically and for being kind by her pack, often treated badly by her peers. Never liking the people she called her 'friends', she decided to strike out on her own, leaving her pack.

Going at her own training to be stronger she eventually met Discordia when she invaded midnight. Enthralled by her before even being affected by her paint she helped guide her around Midnight to add packs to her army. Eventually departing with her to conquer Avernus. She fought against Father Alfrao at the Grey Cathedral pillaging an ember of the Eternal Flame. She practiced on expanding her repertoire of fire techniques with some of the salamanders. She remained with Discordia even after the conclusion of the Discordia Crisis and having the paint washed off. Staying with her in the Trio Temple in the Wasteland with Harmonia & Iolia.

She took up cooking as a hobby as she wanted to help Discordia, didn't trust Harmonia for being blind and Iolia wasn't around enough. Eventually she found a passion for it and started exploring more recipes and styles, taking the occasional holiday beyond the wasteland to further train in her culinary talents. Inspired by Discordia seeking redemption, She returned to Avernus wanting to return the Eternal Ember she had taken years prior, instead she was taken to Pyrous Mountian and trained as an Ash Walker. Feeling she had found her own inner peace and felt she gained enough strength declined to become a Priest and departed the monastery as a Monk.

Returning to the Wasteland she encountered Dusk Cryptic a few times who gave her a task to help other wolvians. Realizing that her deity wanted to work through Rako, did as commanded, even though she didn’t know why she was chosen to serve. On these requests she would travel to Midnight or other parts of the world and lent herself to helping other wolvians that she felt had been mistreated like she was as a kid, or look down on. Trying to build them up and help them find a place to fit in she bought them back to the Wasteland and established a pack, where wolvians could embrace who they wanted to be.

## Personality

Rako is noted as boisterous, exuberant, and unorthodox. Though she responds best to competition and is not afraid to ask for assistance. Rako is aware of her faults and admits she acts strong to mask her embarrassment and frustration about them.

Growing up as someone who suffered years of hatred and social isolation has influenced Rako's character in a number of ways: she is heedless to formality and social standings, addressing certain people with nicknames instead of proper titles, even with wolvian basic social structure would never regard a leader as Alpha, after spending some time as an Ash Walker, she outgrown this trait; She has a very perverted side that sometimes goes too far in conversations. Despite her quirks and the criticism they earn her, Rako boasts a personality to seek people to her, and confined in friendship and loyalty through acts of genuine kindness that could change a person's world view and thus built meaningful relationships that she lacked in early life. Rako deeply cherishes these bonds and will go to great lengths to protect them.

Another of Rako's prominent traits from a young age is her desire for acknowledgement; Therefore, she dreamed of one day being chosen by Dusk to learn Solar Manipulation, the epitome of acknowledgement and respect she feels a Wolvian can achieve. Knowing her dream is seemingly impossible path, Rako developed her own path of giving everything her all, not slacking and being honest. This life-long philosophy serves as the cornerstone of Rako's great self-confidence; she believes she can accomplish any goal with enough hard work and perseverance, no matter what. Over time, her goal grew from a desire for the acknowledgement of others to a desire to help and protect the people close to her. Her belief in hard work and perseverance made her detest shortcuts to achieving. As shown when Dusk gave Rako all her deity abilites for an evening, alough she enjoyed it she didn't know if she had truly earnt this and quickly searched for another deity to help change back.

## Abilities

### Fire Matter Manipulation

While growing up on Midnight, Rako showed no extraordinary skill in fire manipulation. In her teen years, however, her ability began to develop significantly under self tutelage rebuilding her technique from the ground up, most noticeably during the last years before the Discordia Crisis. She became able to fight on par with much more experienced Wolvians, showing himself to be a late bloomer. When she joined the Ash Walkers she continuously refining her skills, rapidly reaching the point of becoming a fire master in terms of Matter Manipulation.

#### Flame Control

When she helped sack Avernus she discovered that despite that part of Eternal Flame being Divine magic that takes someone like the cleric she took it from years to master, her manipulation allows her a greater degree of control over the raw elemental of fire, using this knowledge she has learnt how to control types of fires mixed with other types of mana while it's difficult for many other mages. Studying under the Ash Walkers and being friends with Harmonia Rako can identify other types of mana being mixed with flames and knows perfectly well how each should behave with flame.

#### Heat Control

Training as a chief and studying with the salamanders, Rako gained precise understanding of heat. Commonly used in her cooking Rako can also manifest her control to warm herself up while walking around the wasteland in T-Shirt and shorts, or vent heat whilst wandering through the deserts in Tierra Del Leon.

#### Other Elements

Currently Rako doesn't appear to have any additional MM (Matter Manipulation)s, however with her Flame and Heat Control she has a very good understanding how her flames can be combine with other elements. With air she can't produce lightning like Wolvians near the isle of flight, but knows winds are a powerful when interacting with flames, commonly she is able jets of flame to launch herself through the air and fly (or controlled falling as she calls it) for long periods of time due to doing bursts instead of constant streams; With water Rako knows that her flames can be doused but in turn she can heat up fluids to create steam or even sputtering scalds of water; Finally with earth, rock can provide strong resistance to flames but when super-heated begin to melt and can produce magma that like water she can cause to sputter or splash on foes.

### Indomitable

Rako's unstoppable determination and strength of will make her an extremely formidable opponent. This makes her able to function while tolerating massive amounts of physical pain. Such as standing in boiling mud while fighting the nameless Wolvian.

## Equipment

### Eternal Flame Ember

The Eternal Flame was a flame created by Yuelia. Rako kept a part of the flame she took from Avernus in a lantern. The flame was able to burn through anything, but could never grow in size or spread. Rako eventually gave up her ember to Tamara when she needed help to restore the flame on Kilm to prevent Sayf from breaking free agian.

### Feli-Metal Frypan

Rako is primarily an unarmed fighter using her matter manipulation in battle. However when she needs to take up arms she wields a seemingly cast-iron pan that she bought from a Kito'an merchant in Buckwood. Apart from cooking up a storm, she uses the frying pan as a bludgeoning weapon, shield from arrows, reflecting or blocking attacks and even to shield her from the rain as a drying pan in some instances.