Kespien Zsasz

*"The blood on my hands is merely proof of my ambition."*

**Kespien Zsasz** is an advisor to the Dark Lord, specializing in not only diplomatic ties, but also personally advising the Dark Lord. He has the title of **Envoy and Advisor to the Dark Lord,** properly building connections between The Empire and other places, as well as closely advising the Dark Lord on all matters.

## Appearance

Kespien is a strange look individual. Typically, people notice one of two things about him. His scars or his eyes. His scars cover a good portion of his face, the flesh having been cut deep. His left eye is, well, a gem, which serves no purpose other than filling an empty socket. It tends to unnerve people. He has brown hair with a brown eye to match it. Kespien wears a multitude of outfits, typically minding the occasion, but he usually wears a sort of traveler garb, cloth clothes with a hood as well. He almost always wears chainmail underneath his shirt, just in case. He always always carries a bag with him when he goes out, typically filled with items he needs and a large amount of currency. Kespien has a slave brand on the back of his right shoulder.

## Personality

A calculating individual, Kespien is not one to beat around the bush. He is a mostly serious individual, but he certainly isn't emotionless. He shows a lot more emotion when he's not putting on a public face, but considering his lack of friends and people close to him, he is typically shown as a serious individual. Very slow to anger, but when angry, he is usually swift and final in his reply. He is passionate about his goals, and will do just about anything to achieve it. When he's not "being public" and is with friends, or his lover, he is a bit awkward and even a little nervous.

## Background

Kespien was born into an unfortunate life. Born a slave in the Ketha Lowlands, he never had much of a choice. He didn't know his parents in any way, and was raised as a slave. Aram, an empire built on slave labor and trade, he was born in the worst place to grow up. Growing up, he had been raised for the mines, chipping away at the earth for precious metals. Life was hard, brutal. It was a constant fight for survival. But he had pushed through for 14 long years of survival before what one can only call a miracle.

He had been bought by a different slaver and was to be was to be sent to coliseum, to be used for fighting. But he never got there. The convoy and cart were overtaken by a band of rebels, and he was... liberated. Kespien didn't know anything or anyone outside of the slave mines. His life was that of working for a master, afraid of the whip and lash, working harder and harder. Everything was... new. He was confused. Scared.

After he had been freed, he traveled the world, learning how life worked and explored. He knew how cruel the world could be and he wanted, needed, to see the beauty and kindness it could offer. He more or less taught himself everything, learning how to read and write, reading the history of the world and exploring places.

After a few years of what one could call self searching, he had figured out what he needed to do. He had heard talk of a group of people who were bent on resurrecting the second Dark Lord and he knew what he had to do.

## Powers and abilities

Kespien is not particularly fluent in magic, per se, but he keeps a talisman on him at all times, hung right around his neck. It is meant to keep him safe, and safe it keeps him. Whenever Kespien is in danger, or he needs it to be summoned, the talisman calls upon an ancient knight to protect him. It seems to be a spirit, almost, phasing into existence in front of him when he summons it.

The Talisman Knight itself is massive, towering at about 8 feet tall. It wears armor covering every inch of its body, as well as a large shield and a huge sword. The shield itself has horn on it, from an unknown creature, used to pierce armor or stab people, if need be. The Talisman Knight has magic itself. It has the ability to fly, spirit wings out of the back. The shield it carries and armor it wears seems to be more or less resistant to most forms of basic magic, and more or less invulnerable to small arms.

When it "dies", it doesn't permanently die and can come back in some time.

## Trivia

* He keeps active notes on the agents of the Dark Lord, writing down most everything he finds out about them. Maybe not wise if someone found his journal, but still.
* Kespien is plagued by PTSD. What little sleep he gets is haunted by terrible nightmares.
* Kespien is absolutely terrified of small spaces. If he were to get trapped in a small space, he'd likely have a panic attack.
* His eye a carved shard of Etherium. It's a metal typically found in the mountains down south, a sort of magic infused rock. It's typically used for magic gems. His eye has very little to no magic in it, but it does glow in the dark.

## Quotes

*"The day I set my flag down, it'll be over my body or over a world I believe in."*

*"You are stepping over the line, Mr. Cromwell. Do **not** test me, because you will fail."*

'