Dugall O'Bastnard

## Biography

The world is full of liars cheaters and downright terrible people. There was only one that treated me fairly.  He died.  Now I don’t trust or care about anyone but my siblings. RJ told us he died saving the harbinger of death.  He effectively saved the balance of heaven and hell.  Because of him the evil people stay in hell.

My siblings deserve better than their lot in life.  Disgusted by their own country. Hated by their mother. I am the oldest of the final litter. 3 litters 42 kids, they all happened close to each other.  My mother banished my father, she told us he died. We believed her.  My oldest sister Britináy knew he wasn’t dead. Knew and helped the lie.

My father was a ratfolk, my mother a human politician in the United Federations of Drevarieth, sadly mixing the races was not accepted at the time.  Once it got out their precious governor mixed the divorce ball started. She grew to resent her husband having several affairs.  All the children that had any rat-like features were treated like bastards and scum. 41 of 42 of them did in fact have rat-like features.  Britináy being the exception.  She also resented the others.  We were beaten, degraded, and used for our gifts.

I defended my younger siblings, doing so I was used in experiments.  I had runes placed on me; their original intent was to prevent Kitsune from transforming.  She was hoping they would cover up the rat-like features, but this of course didn’t work.  Since the runes where tattooed and magical in nature burn whenever the user casts magic.

He always enjoyed reading history.  The heroes in villains were always the same.  What was fun was being able to see the ending.  Even if it was ugly, he could skip ahead and see the outcome.  It’s about the journey not the ending.  This logic of his meant he was never bothered by spoiling the ending.

His belief is that without evil, good will become lazy which leads to it turning evil.  Balance is the key to life.  He believes in protecting those close to him over all others.  That’s his balance, others can die his team lives.

In his studies he reads of the resurrection scroll.  He found out about them in a moment of despair.  His mother had just gotten his strongest sibling killed. Sending him on a suicide mission.  Originally he thought of reviving him, but realized that as strong as he was he couldn’t save them.  Otherwise he would have sooner, what he needed was his father.  Ratticus was a legendary trickster, if anyone could pull off a 40 person rescue mission he could.

His research led to the discovery that the last scroll of resurrection was used about 100 years ago.  Inei, a sneaky bastard, used it to resurrect a hero by the name of Yoriichi who he believed could beat the Kitsune monster Masao.  In the end the scroll was wasted because he was killed in the battle to come. Which is why he chose to steal this scroll from Inei.

More research, and some luck later he cracked open the timeline itself.  Jumping back 100 years.  While slipping through the stream he noticed that the phrase timeline was some bullshit.  It was several time branches forming a tree, weaving, and twisting together.  He also heard a voice reciting a prophecy to him.

Some things are written in the stars, some in a book

It's hard to tell with a quick look

Try as you might fate finds a way

That doesn't mean you just look away

Don't fall too deep

All will only end when they weep

His adventure truly begins in the village of Fairfields.  He meets several people.  3 whom he knew from the history books and a bunch of losers who are forgotten to history.