Galant Vozhdimov

## *Early Life*

He was born in Mt. Heaven-Pierce, the highest and coldest of mountains, where he was raised by his tribe of Frost Giants. This specific tribe was quite secluded from everyone else, as no other type Frost Giants, or beings for that matter, could sustain the horrid temperature and atmospheric pressure of the mountain. He grew up like any other Giant of his age, with a caring family, in a peaceful land. No other tribes meant no wars, no economy and no conflicts, absolute order and peace, where everyone took care for eachother.

That was until one day a blizzard struck, one unlike any they had ever seen. It shook the very base of the mountain and led to a giant avalanche that wiped out every single person in the tribe, or so it seemed… A month later, the snow thawed out and Galant awoke to see the desolate and mangled corpses of everyone he had ever known. Alone in an eternal field of cold white fog, he prayed to his tribe’s God Stotum, God of Chaos and Order. He prayed that he could escape his seemingly eternal peril. But no one answered, he heard no voice and saw no sign, until the wind started to change its course.

A wind so strong that it was almost as if a force was moving him. The wind eventually led him to a new tribe. When he arrived he noticed the giants here were different, most of them were filled with scars and owned tons of battle equipment. This shocked him, as he had never known what a war was. Until a neighbouring tribe attacked and massacred everyone there. They found him after the war was over and took him as a prisoner inside an ice cave. In there he had a cellmate, a woman named Fafni’ra. After months passed they became very acquainted with each other, as Galant learned she was from another tribe and had been a prisoner here her whole life. This was because she was taken as a child and she had a scar in her back because of it. She later showed him the star shaped scar that was left on her back by these Giants.

As the months went by Galant fell in love with her, which made him mad every time she would start ranting about escaping and going off on her own adventures, as he wanted her to be with him forever. But this wouldn’t come to pass, as she had planned out her escape, it was on the night of the following day, since the whole tribe was going to war, every single member of the military was required to go, meaning the cell would be unguarded and they could try to smash the ice with their horns. He faked feeling excited to escape and shook his feelings away, but at night, when everyone was asleep, he prayed to Stotum that she would be there forever. But no one answered, he heard no voice and saw no sign, until he woke up the next morning to a dark ice statue of Fafni’ra. He yelled and screamed and cried, but no one was there to hear him. Then when nightfall struck he bashed the statue against the cell bars, hoping it would break the statue, but it remained unscratched and broke him free from his imprisonment. And so he ran as far as he could until a slope that led him to the base of the mountain.

## *Recent Life*

At the base of the Mountain he found a strange kind of giants, these were small, fragile and had pointed ears, he later found out they were elves, who took him into their society, which was quite peaceful, as they were protected from foreigners by their use of magic. There he was introduced to what a government was, which made him very intrigued. He was used to the tribal kind of government, where a chief decided everything and no one could go against it. But as he was introduced to this new kind of government he became enthralled by it.

There was just one thing he couldn’t understand, there were laws in place and no one could break them, but what were the laws based on, he asked a scholar. The scholar told him that the Chief Justice made the laws based on, well,  justice and that he judged everyone based on this. Although the scholar gave a reasonable explanation, Galant still couldn’t grasp the concept, and so he asked every elf he found along the street, every time finding a different answer. Some elves argued it was the way you wanted to be treated, others said it was the balance that kept order among citizens. However he wasn’t satisfied with any of this, he had to find out what justice was and who would be a better candidate than the Chief Justice himself.

Galant arranged a meeting with him and after waiting what seemed like an eternity he finally was allowed into his office and asked: Mister Chief Justice, I’ve asked everyone in your village what justice is and no one has been able to give me a definitive answer, could you illuminate me on this subject?. The Chief answered with a smug smile on his face: I see, you’re quite intrigued by my job, and as such I’ll tell you the truth, the truth all elves are too scared to even mutter. Justice is Vengeance. If you vandalise, I’ll get you disfigured, if you steal, I’ll have you pay twice what you stole, and If you kill, I’ll have you killed. Galant, then inquired, but Chief, what if a God wrongs you. I’ll make sure he’s forgotten for as long as this peak has snow-replied the Judge. After hearing what the Chief had to say, he became greatly inspired and began to scheme, just like how his now frozen cellmate used to. Thus began his grand plot to claim vengeance upon Stotum, the God that (in his eyes) had driven his life out of the perfect paradise and into the agonising pits of chaos.

## *Present Life*

He now wanders across the Oraculous lands in search of a new kingdom to call home and new judgement to impart.

## Personality

He is a very ambitious and strategic person, who seeks to accomplish his vision. Galant aspires to embody the concept and symbol of justice, since he thinks the Gods have wronged him, and as such he has to take it into his own hands. This has led him to become highly critical about everyone around him, which has won him many enemies, although they too recognize that his criticisms aren’t vague and have some semblance of truth to themselves. Though through an outside perspective he might seem like an annoying cretin, he actually keeps his friends in very high regard, and does as much as he can to care for them and makes exceptions to his ideal of justice with them, as they make him remember what peace felt like.

### Goals and Motivations:

* Short Term: To gain political power and influence so he can start imposing justice.
* Long Term: To rid the world of Gods and take the judgement of the world into his own hands, so he can turn the land of Oracle into the Paradise he once lived in.