Aidan Starguard

Rosalind Songsteel (Aunt)

Felix Bishop-Songsteel (Great Uncle)

Zinnia Starguard (Sister)

Aidan Starguard is the son of Roland Songsteel and Lydia Starguard. He is the personal aide to Rosalind Songsteel and is being groomed to take over the Songsteel Trading Company as CEO. He also possesses basic sorcery powers through his father's bloodline.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Aidan is a young man who looks much like his father, Roland Songsteel, did at his age. He has curly blond hair and dark brown eyes. His skin is slightly tanned in colour and his nose is dotted with freckles. He stands taller than his father at 5'9'', making him the tallest in the Starguard family.

He often wears formal business attire, usually a Starguard or Songsteel blue coat over a golden waistcoat. He is almost always equipped with a wand tucked into his belt as his arcane focus. Outside of Kymal, his outfits are usually accented with small pieces of armouring and he carries a scimitar that Lum helped him train with.

### **Personality**

Much like his sister and his parents, Aidan has a cocky, self assured attitude. Though he is more approachable than the others, it is often said that Aidan inherited the personable nature of his aunt Rosalind, rather than the personality of either of his parents. Aidan can sometimes be reserved, preferring to watch and bide his time in conversations than rush in, an attitude carefully trained by Felix Bishop. Aidan listens to what Bishop says much more than his father or sister, much like his mother, and as such, presents a much more etiquette focused and polite personality than them. Aidan is also shown to be reasonable and a capable negotiator, able to arrange aid and tactics for the rescue and transport of Opus to Wildemount. This penchant for negotiation has led to Aidan being groomed as the next CEO of the Songsteel Trading Company.

His alignment is Chaotic Good and his birthday is Sydenstar 19th.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Aidan was born as the second child to Roland Songsteel and Lydia Starguard in 828 P.D. and grew up in Kymal alongside his sister Zinnia. At a young age, Aidan began exhibiting powers of storm sorcery much like the power that had laid dormant in his father until the Echoes Crisis. Due to the unpredictable nature of this power, Aidan grew up with a close eye kept on him by his father, his "grandfather" Felix Bishop and his guardian Lum.

### **Grey Frontier**

By 843 P.D. Aidan was an intern within the Songsteel Trading Company, often watching over meetings and learning how the business worked. When the company received word that their biggest investment, the Grey Valley Project and the town of Yana, were under threat from the powerful Defiant Legion, Aidan joined his parents, Lum and several others in gathering the company's military forces together and marching to the aid of Yana.

The group arrived after the Battle of Yana had already been fought and won, thanks to the leadership of the Sterling Rams and Aidan happily reunited with his sister, who had fought in the battle. He remained in Yana while the Songsteels hunted down all that remained of the Defiant Legion before leaving for Kymal again with them and his sister's new boyfriend Lucan Yaeldrin.

### **New Friends**

Aidan encountered Opus and Misha when they travelled through Kymal and stayed at the Songsteel estate. He quickly became friends with them both, to the point where Misha would later trust his word above any others when it came to vouching for allies down the road.

### **Fallen Citadel**

Aidan was contacted by Mallin Greenthorne when Misha requested that a Songsteel vouch for the man and his plan in getting Opus, now hunted by much of the world, to Wildemount. He appeared in a illusory form to give the young woman reassurance that she could trust the Songsteel men and that Opus would be safe. He also personally informed her the Zinnia and Lucan would be looking into exactly what had happened to Opus and the artifact that had caused the problems.

## **Relationships**

### **Roland Songsteel**

Aidan is close with his father, as the two have spent a lot of time learning to control their sorcerer powers together. Though he finds Roland's consistent use of sarcasm and wit tiring and unnecessary, Aidan loves his father and laments that they rarely find time together.

### **Lydia Starguard**

In personality, Aidan most resembles Lydia, showing far greater patience and diplomatic reactions than his father or sister. He lacks Lydia's anger and blood thirstiness, which both his parents agree is for the best.

### **Rosalind Songsteel**

Ironically, Aidan seems to spend more time in his aunt's company than his parents', serving as her personal aide at the Songsteel Trading Company and being personally trained by her to take over the company. He also tends to have a patient and diplomatic side more similar to hers than to either of his parents. Roland often jokingly teases Lydia about "cheating on him with Rose" and that it clearly is where Aidan came from.

### **Felix Bishop-Songsteel**

Aidan listens to Bishop in much the same way as his mother does, as a respected mentor. Unlike his parents, or his sister, Aidan sticks to Bishop's lessons and tries to emulate the man's respectful and professional attitudes, even if he cannot remain as detached as Bishop does. His insistence and eagerness to Bishop's lessons has led to Bishop helping him raise a white viper snake named "Frostbite".

### **Zinnia Starguard**

Aidan and Zinnia have a teasing relationship. They often get on one another's nerves and know exactly which strings to pull to get under the other's skin. Nevertheless they care deeply for one another, with Zinnia even going so far as to attack people who had bullied Aidan when they were younger, or Aidan using magic to electrocute a would be attacker to death to protect his sister.

### **Opus Gladberry**

Opus and Aidan have a friendly relationship, with Aidan being quick to embrace Opus when he arrived to the estate in Kymal. Aidan also had a crush on Opus' adoptive sister Katie when he first met her in Yana during the War of Defiance, Opus and Zinnia are fully aware of this and tease Aidan about it constantly.

### **Misha**

Misha first met Aidan on a visit to Kymal, and the two didn't really talk that much. Nonetheless, by the time Opus was being hunted by half the world, Misha trusted Aidan's word enough to agree to work with people he told her were trustworthy.