Seyche Ocarin

### Personality

A strong-willed assassin who will probably kill you if you breath too loudly. She's 'nice' to those she actually cares about. Luckily she can count those on one hand.

## Biography

#### Early Life

Born in a small house ju

st outside a village near the woods, Seyche is the only child of two otherwise ordinary Mevani parents. As with all Mevani girls at young age, Seyche learned to sing beautifully in hopes that one day, upon meeting her beloved, she would declare her love for him. Not completely feminine, however, her father often took her hunting, fishing, camping, swimming and diving, and taught her many skills that a typical girl would not learn -much to his wife's irritability. Always the curious and brash child, Seyche often got herself into trouble and odd situations that no typical child her age ever found themselves in. Fortunately, her father or mother, sometimes both, were often just nearby to swoop in and save her. While her mother was always concerned, her father was more amused than anything, and Seyche often found herself vying for their attention.

#### Musical Recital

Mevanis, while hermits who rarely leave their island to the outside world for reasons other than trade, have a reputation for the best music in all of Samarat. Folklore has it that it came from the original settlers who needed it to navigate and survive the harsh climates of the island. While the true answers are lost to time, music has nonetheless become ingrained in their culture, and rarely does a day on Mevan go by without the cheerful sound of music playing somewhere near, or far. As such, Seyche, like her mother before her, learned to sing beautifully and performed at a recital required of all Mevani girls at that age. However, since her time with Stormhammer, Seyche has not found any reason to share her ability with anyone other than a select few, and has all but stopped caring for Mevani customs and cultures.

#### Kidnapping and Stormhammer

On one day, just like any other, Seyche went on a fishing trip with her father just outside the island. After arrive at the fishing spot, a Stormhammer patrol boat neared them. As Mevan had no way of protecting itself or paying for Stormhammer's protective services, the elders cut a deal with the mercenaries that they could draft boys suited for war and wetwork. As such, Mevanis were not uncommon in Stormhammer's ranks, though they were mostly men. However, as Seyche's father defend her from harassment and refused to pay a tax to the mercenaries he strongly disliked, he was murdered and thrown into the ocean with little care. Seyche, with nowhere to run or hide, was promptly kidnapped by the two mercenaries so as not to leave any trace of what happened. The deal that had been struck with the elders was that Stormhammer would only draft boys once every several months and the girls were to remain untouched, though on this occasion, a girl had now gone missing. It wouldn't matter: Seyche and her father would be "lost at sea" and Stormhammer's hands would remain clean.

#### Recruitment, Training, and Officer Commission: Early to late teens

Seyche arrived at the same location all Stormhammer recruits and draftees arrive: The infamous Fort Ragnis in Pethros. Merely a young girl, no one had given much Seyche so much as a second look. Many of her instructors and students immediately counted her out in the beginning, certain that she wouldn't make it. This did not stop them from singling her out for no reason at all. Seyche was weak and small, and while everyone, sometimes even her own classmates, worked to push her out, something odd began to happen.

The once naïve and sweet only child of two normal parents stopped being naïve and sweet. As days and weeks and years of training wore on, Seyche not only outshined her classmates at every turn, but had become even more aggressive than they or the instructors were. While she never swore eternal revenge against Stormhammer for killing her father, Seyche nonetheless kept the mental of the image who stabbed him in the neck alive and fresh. While the other students saw Stormhammer as torturous and sometimes even slavery, Seyche took personal pride in it, having made her into a stronger woman than her parents or Mevan ever could -she would eventually use everything they taught her to kill that man, rise through the ranks, and take the organization for herself.

Having lost all but a small sense of humanity, Seyche had finally completed her training by the time she reached her later teens, effectively becoming one of the youngest soldiers in the organization, and one of the few women in an infantry role -though not yet an officer and in charge of a platoon. Under her first battalion, Seyche was able to track down the man who killed her father using unconventional means: She'd remembered the exact date and time of the incident, had obtained the records from deployment archives on who had been patrolling the waters that day, and narrowed it down to a few men, several of whom were either dead or somewhere else by now. However, to properly find him, Seyche abandoned her battalion and managed to find him on a ship just outside the Fort. She stole a small boat and used it to get close, but not so close that she'd be spotted. She dove underwater and swam to the ship, climbing aboard without anyone noticing. In a form of poetic justice, Seyche drove a knife into his neck and threw his body overboard. Despite killing the mercenary, Seyche didn't feel anything inside of her change: she was still who she was and the world kept turning.

Seyche's absence from the battalion had not gone unnoticed: when interrogated about it, she simply didn't answer. So far as they knew, Seyche had simply gone missing for a day or two. The man who interrogated her, however, did not seem to be angry with her and only made statements as to her whereabouts. The commander correctly deduced what she'd done based on her activities before vanishing: a female Mevani soldier with sharp green hair and eyes demanded the location of one particular soldier. When she was turned away, someone had broken into the archives and stolen a few things. Rather than reprimand her, Commander Yonotow offered her a spot in the upcoming officer selection course after her initial deployment, and then a position within his own legendary expeditionary battalion.

After finishing her first deployment with Stormhammer, Seyche reported for officer training, wherein she learned how to lead soldiers in battle. Although she was still brash and angry, Seyche learned some measure of patience and planning, eventually earning a reputation for herself: A small-framed Mevani woman, no older than 21, was now leading men into battle. Though she was not the only woman to do so, or even the first, Seyche's aggressiveness in training, planning, and combat was unparalleled.

#### Insurgency in the Kitane Chain and the Landen Brothers.

Several years and a number of combat deployments later, in a small city on the Kitane Chain, two brothers were up to no good. A seemingly harmless action by Roan and Vasos kicked off a violent gang war in the port city of Nirus. When innocent people got caught in the middle the mayor had no choice but hiring Stormhammer to secure the city and restore order. Seyche's battalion, an expeditionary force made for quick and rapid deployment to anywhere in the world, answered the call to action. Unfortunately for the mayor, Commander Yonotow's method for stopping the violence included ended political corruption in the city and returning the power to a well-trained and disciplined local force.

As such, Seyche's company was directed to investigate the mayor by collecting evidence. Seyche, one of the lieutenants competing to become company captain, made a deal with a local low-life thug to help with the process. In exchange for information on local criminal elements, the thug would receive leniency and would be kept out of prison. Vasos, the thug in question, infiltrated the mayor's inner circle and several criminal gangs to collect information on them, becoming the liaison between each of them. With his history as a criminal with the uncanny ability to get anyone to trust him, Vasos became indispensable to Seyche's efforts, contributing greatly to cleaning up Nirus and growing closer together. However, not all things were going well: Roan, the younger Landen brother, was mistreated and badly beaten by Seyche's friend Jarita during the interrogation that recruited Vasos. Despite caring for his little brother, Vasos carried him out of the room and ordered him to not do anything to undermine his deal with Stormhammer. This angered Roan to the point of siding with Fourtney and his insurgency.

Seyche and Vasos' first operation together was an undercover meet set up by the latter. Various leaders of multiple groups together with the mayor to discuss booting out Stormhammer, which was now targeting everyone -city and law officials included. They were cleaning house top to bottom. As Vasos calmed the room down and led the meeting, Seyche obtained enough evidence of a conspiracy against her organization and commanded her platoon to arrest everyone. The operation took down the mayor, several gang leaders, and Vasos by virtue of being in the room. After being released as part of the deal with Seyche, as if he were never arrested, she and Vasos became close friends due to the riskiness of the operation. Celebrating with drinks in a tavern later that week, they shared their life stories together and as fate would have it, their first kiss. Seyche didn't realize until it happened, but for the first time in years, she felt something for someone else, as if what Vasos did and his well-being suddenly mattered to her. As they argued about her future in her line of work, Vasos accidentally professed having feelings for her.

Within months, the city quieted down and the streets were safe to walk again. What had been a terrifying Stormhammer presence became a welcome sight for most people. Seyche and Vasos had become almost inseparable and even the best of friends. Secretly, they married and he'd given her a curved knife with the word 'Scandal' carved near the base of it as a wedding gift. As a team, they directed Stormhammer to wherever it needed to go to stamp out any insurgency or criminal activity.

However, on one raid, three Stormhammer platoons, based on false information fed to Vasos were ambushed. Vasos was gravely injured but was saved by Seyche and Roan, the latter of whom had no reason being there. An investigation by Commander Yonotow leads him to believe that there is a mole in the company Seyche worked in, but she denies it. Seyche accepts full responsibility for the dramatic failure and promises to look into the situation using Vasos, but is instead relieved of duty -shocking her. Having never really failed on a level that mattered before, Seyche sought out Vasos for comfort and they quickly determine that Roan was the mole in Stormhammer. To protect him, Seyche hunts for him quickly but is horrified to learn that a fellow platoon officer from her company -lieutenant Lhey- arrested Roan. Realizing he's going to be sent to The Throat for his crimes, Seyche asks Lhey to let him go, but he doesn't comply, reminding her that she's been relieved of duty. However, before Roan could be taken out and transported, the company captain enters the holding cells and releases Roan. He reveals that Vasos confessed to leading Stormhammer into the ambush when he'd been found out by the criminal gangs. Seyche knew he was lying: Vasos' cover had never been compromised and he never did anything stupid or risky, much less make enemies out of mercenaries and the woman he loved. As he's being taken away by cart, Seyche exits the holding cells and only catches a glimpse of it rolling away.

#### Leaving Stormhammer and Feminism

After leaving Stormhammer, Seyche embraced Feminism. Despite genuinely hating Roan, Seyche agreed to Roan's plan of hiring the Order of Athanos, a cult formed mostly of ex-mercenaries and thugs seeking redemption, to break into The Throat and rescuing Vasos. Additionally they would hire a man named Christian Wolf, more famously known as the Nomad of Legend -The only man to ever successfully breakout of The Throat. Roan would finance the operation by stealing and collecting different items to trade to the Lady Mother, the only person who knew where the Nomad was. Seyche contacted the Order and some Stormhammer guards who had the most recent information on The Throat.

Their prices were steep, however, and Seyche took up assassin work to cover the costs. This took her around the world again, this time doing the exact opposite of what she did for Stormhammer. While Roan collected trinkets and things to finally meet the Nomad, Seyche killed important people for large sums of money. Most of her targets were high ranking military officers or some kind of pompous noble and her clients paid well enough.

Eventually, Roan ran into Scholtz and Max, and eventually dragged Seyche on the adventure. He had procured the money needed to hire the Nomad with the Lady Mother setting the meet. Seyche was able to pay the Order as well before going on said adventure, setting up the Raid to free Vasos. On the outside, she and Roan knew each other as friends. However, their history had gone deeper than a simple assassin-for-protection.

## Magical Ability

* **Self-level ability:** Create and control gusts of wind
* **World-level ability: None**

## Quotes

* "She pretends to like Scholtz but doesn't." - Roan Landen
* “How many Northerners have you even met?” Roan questioned her curiously. Seyche shrugged and said, "Just the one."
* OCARINUUU