Ned Stryer/History

## Background

### Early Life:

Ned was born as first son and second born of the Stryer Family. His Family held the noble title of Baron—their ancestor who fought the demons in the great desert and received the magical sword Blood Tears. When their ancestor presented sword the king gave them lands and baron title together with the duty of watching over Blood Tears. Since then Blood Tears has become the symbol of Stryer Family. In his childhood, Ned was a happy kid having a loving family and relitable luxury. From those days Ned aimed to be a great knight worthy of his father's title and ancestral duty. However, two great tragedies ruined his life first being a storm that sunk the ship that his mother and sister on supposedly killing them both, and the second His father was tricked by his friend Priest Oldin of Temple of the Light giving of his possessions and noble title(therefore Blood Tears) then killed by Oldin's servants twin knights leaving Ned with no one and nothing in this world.

Soon after losing everything to the dungeon bubble burst Ned approached by Jinryang of the East Master of the Dragon-King Style Martial Art and 9th ranking Tartarus Worshipper. Jinryang told Ned if he prove himself useful to him he will help Ned to get his revenge. Ned accepts Jinryangs offer and becomes his disciple and a Tartarus worshiper. Ned spends rest of his childhood and teen years practicing Dragon-King Stlye and Serving his Master. Despite swallowing the marked bug Ned never uses bug's demonic power and gain all his power and skills with hardwork alone.

### Infiltration of 3rd Parish:

Some time before Raid of the Tomb of Fallen Princess Ned given the mission of infiltrate the Temple of Light's 3rd Parish as a slave and join the raid to steal the dragon heart. Despite being extremely loyal to his master ned refuses to become a slave to the organization that he blames for all his suffering at first but eventually accepts when his master explains that sending him as a knight or priest is too risky since the last agents that send as priests are caught and executed. After becoming a slave for the temple Ned works as a official inquisition agent. He works directly for Senior Inquisitor Mathias Grimer, the top ranking Tartarus worshiper in the 3rd parish. During his time as inquisition agent Ned orchastrated events to Sahak to shine for his so called ability to detect Tartarus Worshipers making Lucius the holy one extra careless about Tartarus worshipers among their ranks.

## Original Timeline

### Tomb Of The Fallen Princess Raid:

After the raid party reaches the boss room of the dungeon Tartarus worshipers start their plan and sabotage the raid and let Ned steal dragon Heart from the boss room. Ned became successful with his mission but after seeing that Tartarus worshiper who to receive the heart and remove his slave mark was the Silver Knight Pollux Hugo Ned quickly realized that he was betrayed by his master and Tartarus Worshipers and escape with Dragon Heart. After barely escaping with his life, both Temple of Light and Tartarus worshipers goes after him to receive the heart, With no way asorb dragon heart's power by himself Ned has no other choice but to run and goes Canyon of Oblivion one of most dangerous places on earth and home of one of 8 hardest quest in the world. his fellow direct disciple and son of his master Jingang Caught him take to heart brink him to edge of death and leave him to die.

### Training Zephyr:

After his fight with Jingang, Ned hid in a cave wallowing in regret. The only thing keeping him alive was his fixation on survival and revenge. One day, a temple slave called Zephyr, found Ned by accident. With Ned injured, and Zephyr a rookie, neither of them could’ve escaped the canyon. Thus Ned began teaching the Dragon king style to Zephyr, taking him as his first and only disciple. In the year that passed, Ned proved to be a harsh, but effective teacher as Zephyr’s skills grew to be close to Ned’s. The latter also told Zephyr of his history with the Tartarus worshippers, and the events that led to him being trapped in the canyon.

Ned’s plan to escape considered both his physical state, as well as how much stronger Zephyr needed to become. However the two of them were forced to leave early upon being discovered by Ondur, a monster who was the lord of the canyon. In the end Ned sacrificed himself, surrendering his revenge so that Zephyr could escape. Upon escaping the canyon Zephyr vowed to repay Ned by taking revenge in his place. In the end, despite his death, Ned had left something behind. A disciple who sought to avenge him.

## 2nd Timeline

Ned’s life in the second timeline started out like the first, and he infiltrated the third parish as a slave. But one day he observed a fight between Zephyr and Sahak. The fight greatly intrigued him as not only did Zephyr soundly defeat Sahak, but he also used the dragon-king style,

Feeling suspicious, Ned decided to test Zephyr by pitting Sahak against him. To do so he gave Sahak a Shoggoth and an Ocarina of Hypnos, telling him to kill Zephyr. A few days later he confronted Zephyr using the latter’s fight with Sahak as a pretext. But before the could come to blows, a nun named Anna Primrose stopped them using the power of the slave-mark.

A few days later, Ned forged a letter from the head of the hunting team to lure Zephyr towards his rematch with Sahak. In the end Sahak was killed, and Zephyr destroyed the Shoggoth. Following this, Ned confronted Zephyr and had a match with him. With this match, Ned determined Zephyr was indeed a true master of the Dragon king style and questioned the latter’s identity. Zephyr told Ned that he was Jinryang’s Shadow disciple, and was sent as a backup in case Ned failed. He also revealed that he had knowledge concerning Blood Tears.

Surprised, Ned demanded answers concerning the sword. But Zephyr claimed he would tell Ned when the latter could be trusted. Subsequently, Ned brought Zephyr into the raid party as a Tartarus Worshipper. They then began two weeks of training to prepare for the raid. During this time, Ned kept an eye on Zephyr, suspecting that he wanted to usurp him.