Emhyr Solsteel

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Captain E.S.

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### Biography

Emhyr Solsteel is a Sun Seeker Miqo'te, and as of the year 1577 (First year of the Seventh astral era) is employed in service to Kan-E-Senna as a Twin Adders Captain and Madam Marigold of The Wayfarers Rest as a private contractor. He spends his days training recruits, handling paperwork, attending meetings and seeing to diplomacy.

Solsteel has been a member of the Gridanian Twin Adders for approximately twenty years, making him a career soldier, he has served in several conflicts across the Eorzean continent including the ending years of the Dragonsong War in Coerthas as a volunteer and also the First Garlean Conflict.

### Early Life

Emhyr Solsteel was born to the Sun Seeker Miqo'te Y-tribe in La Noscea, Vylbrand in 1537. It was here, amongst the tribe that he spent his first four to six years of his life until one fateful journey to Limsa Lominsa where he was seperated from his parents during a riot, the status of Emhyrs biological parents are unknown.

Emhyr was rescued by a merchant duo from Gridania, and promptly adopted. It was here, in the City State of Gridania that he grew up. Living in a moderately well off household, Emhyr was given the opportunity to persue many various hobbies and tasks, one of which, he became extremely talented in.

Before long, Emhyr became proficient in archery, providing for his family by hunting and gathering in the forests of the Black Shroud. In 1552 Emhyr tried his hand at adventuring for the first few years of his adulthood, spending time with the infamous gambler Kukunji Tatanji and Emhyr's mentor, Avinne Estrelaint.

Three years later in 1555, Emhyr signed up to the Gridanian armed forces, employed in the Gods Quiver.

### Military Career

Emhyr began his promising career in the military as part of the God's Quiver, serving as a guard of towns and the expansive forests surrounding Gridania and her regions. He signed up with many of his friends and they all served together amicably, albeit a little restless, keen to see some 'real action.'

The first two years were spent as a guard in the God's Quiver. In 1560, Emhyr was promoted to Sergeant First Class when he took part in the defence of a village from a Ixali attack, showing bravery and confidence, he roused the spirits of his comrades. With the combined strength of both the God's Quiver and the Wood Wailers, Emhyr was able to repel the attack before a contingent of Twin Adders could be dispatched.

Seeking more daring adventures, Emhyr and his friends took interest in the plight of the Ishgardian people up north. All agreeing that they were going to be hailed as heroes and great ballads would be sung in their honour, they all signed up for service in the 1st Gridanian Volunteer Division and were deployed to Ishgard promptly to serve in the Dragonsong War.

### The Dragonsong War

Assigned to Halone's Outlook, a makeshift fortress in the Western Coerthas Highlands, it wasn't long until Emhyr had his first real taste of combat and it was no where near the glorious adventure he had imagined, it was the frightful reality of war.

Steeling himself, Emhyr clutched his bow and fought in the defence of Halone's Outlook. Whilst the Ishgardians had sustained several casualties they managed to repel the forces of Dravania and fight another day.

Halone's Outlook was attacked time and time again by the heretics, each time being repelled until one fateful day in 1561 where the fortress was attacked on the flank by a surprise force, the Ishgardian flank, sustaining heavy casualties were thrown into disarray and panicked when their commanding officer was slain.

Emhyr, taking control of a heavy balistae to hold off the Dravanians, shouted commands to the rest of his comrades, calming them and giving them time to plan a retreat as he held the line. It was here that Emhyr would face, and defeat, his first dragon.

It stared him in the eyes, its cold unflinching stare piecing into Emhyrs soul as it breathed hellfire down on the front lines. He knew that he had to slay the dragon to give his allies time to escape, so he swung the balistae around and prepared himself for the battle to come. A long and brutal fight ensued, resulting in the loss of Halone's Outlook, but thanks to Emhyrs quick thinking and performance under pressure, a significant portion of the Ishgardian forces managed to escape to a better position.

For his service in this event, Emhyr was promoted to Chief Sergeant, and given control of his own unit. His unit eventually became to be known as 'Bad Company' as Emhyr tended to be assigned misfits and troublemakers from other units as a test. This name soon became an endearing term, as Emhyr's style of leadership consisted of mutual respect, kindness and an expectation that all members do their duty with utmost commitment.

### Leader of 'Bad Company'

Given command of a unit, Emhyr was tasked with several military operations across Coerthas and a few in Dravania. Leadership would always test the unit by putting them in the most uncofortable or undesirable of positions, however despite this, Emhyr always managed to pull the group together and push forwards to victory.

Bad Company quickly stopped being assosciated with being lay abouts and misfits and became synonomous with hard work and victory. Notable members of the Company included the trouble maker; Ryhme Tia, The fiesty hothead: Babaji Dabalji, and the flamboyant archer, Florentel Arscelin.

Bad Company fought until 1563 where there was a major offensive by the Dravanian Hoarde against Ishgard. The company was at the forefront of the battle fighting alongside the Ishgardian Holy Order and the 1st Gridanian Volunteer Division. It was here that Bad Company pushed forward too hard without support of other units, resulting in an ambush and broken ranks of the entire company.

Over the course of the battle, the company was destroyed and the 1st Gridanians were decimated, in a phyric victory for the Ishgardian forces.

### Involvement in the First Garlean War

With the 1st Gridanian Volunteer Division sorely beaten by the continued efforts of the Dravanian Hoarde, the Gridanian Twin Adders decided to recall all active duty members for reassignment to battlefields across Eorzea.

The Garlean Empire had swung south from Garlemald and wraught destruction upon any nation that stood in its way, however it was not prepared for the might of the Eorzean Alliance. Gaius Van Baelsar pitted his great fleet against the combined peoples of Limsa Lominsa, Gridania and Ul'dah, to Emhyrs surprise, the great dragon Midgardsomr even entered the fray, destroying the Garlean flagship at the Battle for Mor Dhona.

Emhyr had been involved in several clashes east of Eorzea, though the Alliance made several large scale pushes early on it was clear that the Garlean Empire had a significant advantage. The Eorzean Alliance made a tactical retreat, opting to defend its borders instead of meeting the enemy in the field, for the liberation of other nations from the clutches of the Empire had to wait.

It wasn't long before the Empire had cut large swathes through Eorzean territory, its great magitek armies amassed to lay siege to Ul'dah, the jewel of the desert. The Garlean Empire also met significant resistance by sea in their attempt to attack Limsa Lominsa, however their death blow was to be at the Battle of Carteneau, for if the Empire had managed to take Mor Dhona, they would open up a gateway to the three city states.

Both the Garleans and the Eorzean Alliance marched on Carteneau to set up defences, to await what was to come, in his service to the Alliance, Emhyr was field promoted to Lieutenant during the battle in 1565.

He was there the day that Dalamud broke apart and the Dreadwyrm Bahamut burst forth to lay waste to both armies, Garlean or Eorzean. There was only panic as both sides broke and ran for their lives, Emhyr had managed to take cover and eventually make it back through the fire and destruction to the Eorzean HQ, where he found the leaders of the three city states alive and well, much to his relief.

Louisoix and the Scions of the Seventh Dawn managed to seal away Bahamut, at the price of the Archons life, saving all of Eorzea and perhaps the world in the process. Emhyr accompanied Kan-E-Senna on her forrays onto the battlefield in search for those to heal and to recover Louisoix's staff, Tupsimatsi.

### Post War

Following the First Garlean War, Emhyr returned to Gridania and served with capacity on various Twin Adders operations and Military campaigns before moving on to serve as a representative for various Free Companies, one such being the Golden Sands Trading Company and the other being the Wayfarers Circle.

### Golden Sands Trading Caravan

In 1571 Emhyr joined on to a Ul'dahn Trading Company known as the Golden Sands, run by Merchant Prince Goro Al'Doro.

During this time, Emhyr was promoted to head of security in the Golden Sands and oversaw several operations in keeping goods safe from bandits on the road. This is also where Emhyr met Eraeina Ashbringer who was a fellow co-worker at the time. It was also during this time that Emhyr managed to forge a friendship with I'ziah Zupso who had been operating as a personal bodyguard to Goro Al'Doro.

Emhyr had worked for the Golden Sands for 5 years until his resignation in 1576 when the Merchant Prince retired from his position as head of the business.

### The Wayfarers Circle

In 1576 Emhyr was looking for a new Free Company to work with, and through a recommendation from a courier named Farren Streiss discovered the Ishgard based company called the Wayfarers Circle.

Emhyr pledged his support to Madam Hale Marigold of the Wayfarers and was onboarded initially as an advisor to the Alliance, though with later developments Emhyr's position would change to mercenary work.