Airiox Sendaris

**Squad Captain Airiox Sendaris** is the current Ardoni champion and Elite Squad leader. He was formerly an apprentice under his predecessor Champion Tempest Sendaris, as well as his guardian Athena Nestoris. He was born in 111 AGW in the Ambrose Family Village in north Sendaria.

## Personality

Airiox is remarkably kind despite the intimidation techniques he is able to showcase from time to time. He is generally compassionate towards others and extremely protective of his friends and family. His strengths lie mostly in the physical realm and less with strategies and planning despite his educational brilliance. He is also devoted to nature and its conservation.

## Appearance

Airiox is of average height for Ardoni males (around six and a half feet) and has scarce markings in a splash pattern over his chest and no face markings. His markings are slightly varying shades of bright sky blue. His horns originally pointed straighter up when he was younger, but curved down behind his ears later on. He has whitish hair and intense blue eyes. He later wore an eye patch after losing one eye.

## Friends and Family

### Parents

Airiox was born to Ambrose Sendaris and Aylea Sendaris. They were originally quite overprotective of their son, but later established a more understanding relation, granting him more freedom of expression and movement.

## Story

### Early Life

Airiox was born to Ambrose Sendaris and his wife Aylea in the Ambrose Family Village, then known as the Amarin Family Village. The village was one of the larger ones in Sendaria and was home to a multitude of other families in the clan, and thus Airiox became well-known by most who lived at the village. He was born seven years following the birth of his sister Ayenna Sendaris, who went missing before he was born.

When Airiox reached the age of 6, which is below the age of self-care for Ardoni, the village was raided by the human warlord Freolf while a task force of several powerful Ardoni warriors was stationed at the village. The attack failed but the skirmish was fought for over three hours, during which Ambrose ordered Captain Athena Nestoris to take his son to Ataraxia. She agreed and set off immediately, slaying several humans on her way. She was then shot and Airiox was taken; the Masters' Council received a ransom note for Ambrose's son, which they prepared to pay before Athena saved the child and completed her task. As there was none of the Amarin Family in Ataraxia, Athena decided to take him to her house and care for him until his parents arrived.

His parents did not arrive for a long time, as they had been captured by Freolf and taken to a hideout. Since they did not return, Athena resigned from the armed forces and switched to caring for him full-time. During this time, Airiox was regaled with tales of Athena's military excursions to distant lands and fighting Voltaris, stories which would have a large impact on Airiox's ideology later. Since Athena was barely of parenting age, she was inexperienced and didn't trust herself with leaving him at home, so she took him with her wherever she went. One of the most common places she went was Galleous's blacksmith shop, and the old Sendaris came to know the little boy quite well.

When his parents returned many years later, Airiox had been attending a small academy for children, where he met a little girl, Kaela Nestoris, and they often played together. His parents were frequently called away to task force meetings, and since Athena had resigned from her post to heal from her injuries and take care of the boy, they entrusted him in her care. Athena proceeded to teach him fighting skills using a sword, her weapon of choice, and he became quite proficient with it, even at a young age.

Athena then took him on a training mission to hunt down two Voltaris refugees that had strayed into the Ataraxia area. Upon locating them, he found that one of them was a girl his age and the other was her older brother, apparently wounded from fighting. Unable to bring himself to kill her, he helped her up and promised to help heal her brother. Finding that the only cure for |Adraius's wound was the dewleaf plant which resided exclusively near Mount Velgrin, they began a journey there. They eventually fell in love, considering moving away together to a forest abode. Upon their arrival at Mount Velgrin, the two located the plant and successfully administered it, though they were then captured by Voltaris, who took Adara and her brother. Airiox wouldn't see her again until many years later; he was then broken out by Athena, who had tracked him. He never revealed his journey and relationship with Adara to anyone except Athena, who acknowledged it and proceeded to monitor him much more closely, even considering obstructing his inevitable path to the Champion order.

### Joining the Champion Force

With his opinion of Voltaris forever hardened by their harsh confiscation of Adara, he entered the apprenticeship of Athena, who rejoined the armed forces as a Champion Aide. She trained him hard and well and he emerged as an immensely strong and agile warrior. Accompanying him to the Stoneskin Cave, she tasked him with slaying a monster that had been terrorizing a small human village for some time. After completing the task with minimal wounds, he was attacked by Voltaris and saved narrowly by Champion Tempest Sendaris, who took him away to escape. Later he met Tempest's mentor Firenis Kaltaris, who helped increase Airiox's intellectual scale. Though Firenis was slain by Hallux Voltaris, Tempest and Aurora Nestoris were able to. After this, Airiox entered Tempest's apprenticeship.

### Conscription and Military Service

Following this, Airiox was conscripted into the Ataraxian defense force as a soldier but quickly rose to the title of Elite Squad Leader during the Second Great War.

### Further Missions

After the war was over, he returned to Ataraxia to find it in ruins. Discovering his childhood friend, Kaela Nestoris, at the site, he decided to make his way to Tempest's house at the Thundaerus Family Village in eastern Sendaria. [fill uh 2 stuff]

### Elite Squad

About a month later, he officially joined the Elite Task Force. On his first mission, he and Kaela attacked and broke an illegal trading joint, a success which impressed the Masters, though they were both sent to Hydraphel court for murder. They were later released from custody from Velgrin Hole.

Airiox returned to the Ambrose Family Village, as both his parents and Athena had relocated there. He married Kaela, an event that was celebrated as a symbol of change for the Ambrose Family as it broke their long tradition of intra-clan blood. He continued in the elite squads for multiple years, mostly targeting illegal trading areas and black market criminals.

Later, he was given command of his own squad, which included his comrades Solis Nestoris and Vereken Kaltaris, who had fought with him during the war, as well as Kaela. The strike team's purpose was to eliminate the warlord Freolf, who had previously burned the village that Airiox was born in. Freolf was much older now and thus couldn't fight, and once they arrived at his hideout, they decided to take him captive instead.

Following this excursion, Kaela gave birth to their first child, Lostris, the Ambrose Family's supposedly first inter-clan child. To further symbolize change, she was given a name beginning with "L" rather than the family's long tradition of giving "A" names. Lostris was initiated into the Sendaris clan, though her younger brother Stellen, born four years later, was initiated into the Nestoris clan. Airiox, who valued parental care after the amount of time that he had been away from his parents as a child, decided to temporarily resign from the elite squads in order to raise his children. Their third and fourth children, who were twins Melian Nestoris and Swiftbrook Sendaris, were born another four years later.