Kivan Myre

## Appearance

**Hair:** Deep brown

**Skin:** Tanned

**Eyes:** Black

**Height:** 6’4

**Body Type:** Muscular and strong

**Noticeable features:** He has a number of scars on his body.

## Personality

Kivan is a passionate man with a strong sense of morality. He is good-natured and honorable, and sticks true to his word. However, he is practical and aware that sometimes, morals are not the pathway to continued breathing. He is disciplined and follows his own compass strongly, even when it breaks the rules of others. However, Kivan is charitable and giving, and dislikes seeing others suffer needlessly.

## Abilities & Proficiencies

**Fighting Style:** As a Sword Dancer, Kivan uses many different styles of fighting. However he primarily uses Air and Water styles, and he wields a foreign curved saber.

**Weapon Proficiencies:** He is a Sword Dancer, and quite passably skilled in the use of a bow and arrow.

**Magic:** He has two magical skills; mastered Cryokinesis, and mid-level hydrokinesis..

**Other Skills:** He can draw and paint reasonably well, field dressing medicine, hunting, equestrianism

## History

Kivan was born the eldest son of Grand Prince Mykal, and his foreign paramour, Melora. He was legitimized soon after his birth, and by all save the Grand Princess, considered to practically be his true-born son, as his wife could not bear children. His childhood was happy and he was trained to inherit his father’s title. He trained in blades at a young age and discovered a natural talent for it. When he was 12, however, his position was shattered. The Grand Princess, true wife of his father, was pregnant. Reluctantly, Kivan and Melora were sent away, and they lived in a far off estate.

The child was born; a boy, given the name Roland. Kivan’s legitimacy remained, however, and that made them a danger. Melora whisked them away to the far south, to a distant relative’s small mercantile estate. Kivan continued to train fiercely in blades. When he was 17, he donned armor and he set out as a travelling knight. His anonymity and dragon-scale armor gave him the title of Dragonseed Knight. He went from teacher to teacher, and eventually, he earned a title of Sword Dancer, and his fame grew.

He travelled for another 7 years before his father passed away. Kivan travelled to the north and soon, he arrived. The Grand Princess a regent, his trueborn half brother sat where he ought to be. Quietly, he gathered forces and allegiances; his strength, and his skill, were much more attractive to the Northmen than a scheming woman and her sickly 12 year old son. In only a night, he retook what he felt was rightfully his, and slew his father’s wife. His half-brother, however, he spent three days deliberating on. He sent a decoy as an exile, and in the boy’s bedroom, held him as a poison worked into his heart, and killed him.

Kivan took the title of Grand Prince then, and ruled over his lands. Most of House Myre finally returned to Jaggerdale Citadel, their ancestral home, and peace settled in the Northlands. Even his mother returned, and married a local Northern merchant for love. Kivan rules honorably and justly; kind, yet stern. He punishes harshly when needed, little tolerant of cruelties and rebellion.