Asamk

A portrait of Asamk

**Asamk Asagrim** (Born 22 December 169 TE, Rouan?) is an adventurer that resides in Sirradra and became a member of the Asagrim Clan after a tragedy in his childhood. After fighting the evil spirit that changed his life, he was cursed with immortality, which prompted him to search for a way to remove it.

## Appearance

Before his departure from Rouan, Asamk wore a black wool coat, brown snow boots, some brown leggings and grey gloves. He also got a scar on the left shoulder from his intense training in Rouan.

After his departure, he kept his grey gloves and brown leggings, but changed his coat to a lighter, yellow one and got new tawny, stitched leather boots.

## Personality

Asamk has always been a shy boy with little to dream about. In his old home, he was a little coward about going outside, and after his parents' death this intensified to the point he refused to travel anywhere other than his home area, besides not wanting to fight anything around him. When the hoard of wolves injured his grandfather, Asamk acted out of pure instinct to save him, but he was still afraid of dying in the act. When his grandfather died, he promised to himself he would train much harder to fight the next wave of beasts, but was still too coward to actually fight even a fox. When Asamk was taken to the training base, he started to become hopeless about the town's destiny, and when the Todesgeist hit Rouan, fate proved him right. He didn't even feel fortunate about surviving the bloody defeat, and instead thought it was a curse he was alive but others weren't. When he saw the wolf back at his old home, he got scared when he saw the wolf but later learned that his entire life changed in the blink of an eye, and that it was time for a change. This drove him to leave in search for a new home.

After his departure and subsequently adoption by the Asagrims, he lost many of his fears when he finally found his new home. But even after becoming an adventurer to overcome his coward personality, he never lost his shyness when talking to other people.

After he caught the curse of immortality, he lost motivation to keep living and killed more monsters ruthlessly. When he decided to search for a way of removing his immortality, he was once again fueled with motivation.

## Biography

### Prologue

Asamk is said to be born near a town named "Rouan" which hasn't been located in any maps yet. At some point, his parents died in a snow avalanche trying to get to the aforementioned town, and his grandfather had to take care of him. Because of what happened to his parents, he developed hodophobia, which is the fear to traveling to other places. Some years later, his grandfather started teaching him how to deal with wolves in the forest, but he was too scared of his job as he could also die. His grandfather gave up on teaching him how to use a weapon but feared he would have to deal with it later by himself. Time proved him right when a hoard of wolves approached their home and the grandfather intervened. He failed to deal with the wolves, which forced Asamk to grab a knife and stab as many wolves as he could, while fearing death. He ended up winning the fight but his grandfather couldn't make it, which shifted his personality to one of a coward.

As months passed, Asamk trained harder to fight the wolves, but he was too scared to act because he was a coward. A mysterious man entered the house and took Asamk to his base, where he trained the now teenager forcefully to become a warrior alongside other teens against the Todesgeist, a monster that was coming towards Rouan and was destroying everything in it's way. After two years, the Todesgeist hit the town and destroyed it, decimating it's people and making the teen warriors no match for the monster. Asamk somehow survives the wrecking and, in a snowfall, the boy went back to his old home which had been pillaged by bandits. A wolf entered the house and Asamk got frightened, but the canine didn't show evil intentions. The boy petted the wolf and it left. Asamk then noticed he had overcame his fear to traveling, and decided to leave his old home one last time, going north instead of south. After a few days and barely eating anything, the boy was weakened. An avalanche approached him, making him fall unconscious, believing he was about to die.

Surprisingly for him, he didn't meet his parents' same fate, as another person from afar found him quickly and took him to a shelter. When woke up, the foreigners presented themselves as the Asagrim Clan, a family in the world of Rathnir. At first, the boy felt insecure about the place, but after a few days in the house, he trusted them, and requested to join the family. They gladly accepted and adopted Asamk when he was 17 at the time. Over the years, he became an adventurer and vanquished most of his fears, thus entering a new stage in his life.

Many years later, he decided to summon the Todesgeist and defeat it once and for all. After reading tens of books about this spirit, he managed to get the necessary clues for its summoning ritual. He travelled many mountains and plains across the outside world and summoned it far away from his homeland. Thanks to his accumulated strength over the years, he managed to defeat it, but the spirit gave him the curse of immortality before being obliterated by Asamk's sword. When Asamk came back home, he realized he would keep exploring and going on adventures for nothing. Over the years, he entered an existential crisis, and longed for something to endure for eternity. He kept fighting dangerous menaces and repeatedly explored the world of Rathnir. With nothing else to enjoy him, he set out on a journey to search for a way to remove the curse he has been carrying.

## Trivia

* The name 'Asamk' is an abbreviation of '**A** **S**hy **A**nd **M**ysterious **K**id'
* The meaning for *Todesgeist* comes from the German language, and it means "Dead spirit".
	+ According to Asamk, the Todesgeist was a very rumored being in Rouan, but he wasn't really interested in knowing more about it. When the Todesgeist ravaged the town, Asamk saw "A frightening spirit of large proportions".
* Although the introduction says he was born in Rouan, it isn't explicitly confirmed whether he was born in the town or in his old home, which was near the town itself. Asamk stated he does not remember asking any of this to his parents or grandfather.