Sibir Tavaran

### Alias(es)

He that was chosen by the Gods; The King of Bastia, the Supreme Imperator, Emperor of Mankind and Liege of LightSibir the Swift

The Sunshine Swordsman

The Tavaran Son

Brat

The Usurper

Kinslayer

Prince

Lion

### Family

Cregan Tavaran ✝ (Grandfather), Aegis Tavaran ✝ (Father), Sera Tavaran ✝ (Mother), Serena Tavaran ✝ (Sister)

### Lover(s)

Nayana Carmilla Sabot ✝

Kayi Kleefield (Missing)

Runa Jordlösa

### Race

Human, Bastian

Sibir Tavaran was the son of Aegis Tavaran, and later the King of Bastia during the Bastian Civil War. Distrusted by his father and sent away at the age of 5, Sibir was personally trained by Ser Eywin, Ezekiel Talvi and Severa Hart for several years. The Tavaran son gained a large amount of fame for winning the Tournament of Tiberius and nearly a dozen subsequent tournaments, as well as his efficiency with the blade and enchanting magic. Sibir later would murder his father, and attempt to have his sister murdered, in a bloody coup known as the Second Son's Coup.

## Appearance

Sibir is a handsome man of average height with beaten gold hair, sharp features and weathered hazel eyes. He's fit, with strong shoulders and symmetrical proportions, and he smiles often. It's often said that he resembles the kings from storybooks.

Sibir smells of lavender and fine smoke. He often carries a sabre named King's Vigilance, as well as **Orenmir**, an enchanted antique, ornate shimmering rapier that sharpens and repairs itself. Sibir often keeps throwing knives on his person and a stiletto in his boot. Sibir is seldom seen without his rings, including Saadiq Al-Ahad's opal pinkie ring, and often wears religious amulets, typically preferring symbols of Ragnar and Elun.

Sibir's coat of arms depicts his family crest of a lion against the setting sun, standing opposite of a raven gripping a scroll.

## Biography

Sibir was born in 911AT, 3 years to the day after the final Great Demon Hunt, led by his grandfather Cregan Tavaran. His mother had trouble bearing children, failing to conceive for the first year of her marriage to Aegis, and their first pregnancy ending in miscarriage. Sibir was a healthy boy, birthed with no problem. Only a year later, his mother gave birth to his sister Serena.

As a child, Sibir cried often and lied incessantly. Although he was popular amongst the other children in the Keep, Sibir often earned the disapproval of his father, who considered Sibir unruly and careless. Rumors were whispered that his father suspected Sibir's father was actually Terros Tavaran, who his mother was originally betrothed to. In 915AT, Sera Tavaran died in miscarriage. Shortly after Sibir's 5th birthday, Aegis announced that Sibir abdicated his claim to the throne and took a sacred oath to dedicate his life to the Kingdoms of Bastia. He was sent to the East Gate, to squire with his cousin Galor Tavaran under Ser Eywin and learn what the commander had to teach him.

Sibir spent the next 6 years with Eywin, joining patrols into the Steppes and seeing much of the Menneskers first hand. Although Eywin was most known for acts of selfless heroism during the Demon Invasion, his time as the Constable had turned him sour and his time at the Gate and had made him immoral. He and Sibir grew very close, forming a close mentorship that would last the rest of Eywin's life.

A few days after Sibir turned 12, he returned home to Chalgrove and began training under Severa Hart. In many ways, Severa refined everything Eywin had taught Sibir. Eywin had taught Sibir of grime and grit, Severa taught him of ideals and justice. For years, they trained closely. Mornings spent sparring with Severa and evenings spent tutoring under the court wizard with his students. Sibir grew close with the daughter of his father's steward, Carmilla Sabot. The budding romance was met with wide disapproval, although Sibir would often sneak off to see her. Sibir was particularly well regarded during this time as a promising knight-to-be. Despite numerous disputes with his father, Sibir was officially knighted by his father on his 16th birthday. Around this period, Carmilla was murdered brutally by a group of knights. Sibir killed them all, eventually discovering his sister had ordered Carmilla's death. Against his father's wishes, Sibir competed in and later won the Tournament of Tiberius.

Tensions growing, he was sent to ward with the Sins. Taken under the Sin of Wrath's wing, he was trained alongside Corrin, and aided them in many missions, eventually working almost as a handler, aiding their missions and working in an official capacity on their behalf. By the time, Sibir was 18, the Wildfire War had begun and he was named Captain of the Order.

Shortly into the war, Serena was captured by the Walckens of Barnstaple and held hostage, demanding lower taxes and Serena's hand in marriage. Pressured by his father to handle the incident decisively and quietly, Sibir contracted the infamous Black Sun mercenaries and led them to sack Barnstaple. Sibir ordered the death of the Walckens, only the children being spared and sent to orphanages. Shortly thereafter, Sibir led the Black Sun into an ambush, destroying the mercenaries and assigning the extinct company the blame of the death and destruction of Barnstaple.

Now able to focus on the war effort proper, Sibir joined Elan the Golden Spur and his cousin, Galor the Gallant, in leading the rallied armies to defend against Saadiq's Great Force. Galor died shortly before the third year of the war, and Eywin lost an arm aiding Sibir in the defense of Calabaria. A brutal campaign ensued, most of the major battles occurring in the Steppes mountain. The war ended with the Battle of the Pass, where Elan and Sibir, although routed and cut off from the rest of the Bastian forces, led a small resistance against the encroaching invaders. Inspite of the odds, they fought for two days straight and the battle effectively ended with Sibir personally killed the Sultan Saadiq El-ahad, Returning home with Elan, they were greeted as heroes.

In 935AT, Aegis was murdered by Sibir in secret. It was reported that Aegis had fallen to Ilstarian assassins and that Serena had been flung from the balcony into the lake below Miserth Keep. Eustace Sabot, his father's stewart and apparent regent, relieved Sibir of his oaths and allowed him to ascend the throne.

## Personality

Sibir Tavaran is a man torn, torn between the joys of battle and the joys of excess, torn between responsible rule and ego, torn between dreams of glory and a desire to fraternize. At a glimpse, Sibir is surprisingly personable. Although the highest of royalty and a man with a legendary reputation for battle, Sibir seems to genuinely love people. He's the type to remember names and birthdays, pick up on cues of what someone likes and to be incredibly carefree when it comes to spending time with commoners. A man of immense generosity, the majority of his underlings have grown to genuinely love their king on a personal level, while his tenacity and prowess has kept their respect. Sibir firmly believes in a world of equality, abhorring slavery and having immediately created strict worker rights laws upon being crowned.

On the off hand, Sibir is immensely ruthless. Years dedicated to learning every aspect of combat has shaped the King into someone who is willing to do whatever he views necessary to deal with any obstacles. Vengeful and a bit paranoid, Sibir certainly has a penchant for extreme brutality. While not irrational, Sibir is often fine disregarding most moral objections when obtaining vengeance or accomplishing a goal. While most of Chalgrove enjoy Sibir's presence, most of the upper echelons of the city know how the man's entire aura seems to shift when displeased. The life the King's led has weighted him with a, some would say excessive, love for drink and women. While he maintains a strict training regiment with several of the most elite officers in the Army, it's uncommon for night to fall and Sibir not to have a drink in hand.

While he was not trained to rule a country, Sibir has done surprisingly well. The King has some cunning and enough intellect to listen to his several advisors when it comes to making and executing decisions.

## Powers and Abilities

**Enchanting:** An expert enchanter, Sibir pioneered a method of rapidly enchanting objects without using a gemstone to bind the enchantment. Under nominal enchanting, the user's magic consumes a rare gem to bind the enchantment to the object, making the effect permanent. Sibir can enchant objects freely, without using any gems. The drawback is the effects are very temporary, usually lasting less than a minute. Sibir's enchantment can vary widely in effect, from increasing the density of an object to the point of being nearly unbreakable to increasing the weight of an object tenfold. Sibir is also immensely skilled at proper enchanting and owns 4 rings that he personally crafted to serve as conduits for his mage.

**Light Manipulation:** Sibir's most widely known ability, he is capable of creating, manipulating and displacing light as he wills. The application of this ability is extremely versatile, he can compel the sun to shine with extreme intensity, cause existing torches to dim until their light cause no illumination, displace the light around himself to make him see like he's somewhere else, manifest light from his body, someone else’s body or from thin air. He can create rays of light intense enough to burn through flesh and scorch steel. Lastly, Sibir is capable of briefly melding into pure light. While melded into the light, time slows to a halt and he is intangible. Sibir can not harm affect his surroundings in this form, so it's mostly used as a form of teleportation.

**Telepathy:** Sibir is capable of reading minds, projecting his thoughts, creating mental links between allies and projecting minor mental suggestions to others. Sibir is efficient at using this ability on large groups of people, issuing complex orders to men under his command or subconsciously planting feelings of worship on crowds of onlookers during speeches.

**Healing Factor:** Sibir possesses a constant, vigilant healing factor granted by his pinkie ring. Cuts heal in a few seconds while broken bones take a minute. Diseases fail him, and alcohol only affects him should he choose to allow it. With focus and at the cost of great energy, Sibir can create a small aura of a few hundred yards, granting all those within it his same healing. Sibir is incapable of choosing who benefits from this aura and who does not.

**Smoke Manipulation:** Sibir can generate and manipulate smoke.

**Spells:** Sibir is a talented mage and knows a variety of minor mage. Some offensive, some utility. He can amplify the sound of his voice, create an invisible servant that does simple tasks for him, heal minor wounds, create a small elemental attack, repair simple tears or breaks in objects.

## Skills

* read/write/speak High and Low Bastian. can rudimentary speak Steppetongue
* fencing, knife throwing, horse riding
* well versed in bastian history
* strategy, chess, cards
* stealth, falconry, hunting, rockclimbing
* singing
* persuasion, interrogation, intimidation

## Miscellaneous

* Sibir owns a number of cats that are allowed free reign of the lower levels of the Miserth Keep. His favorite is an old fat cat named Bismarck.
* Sibir's owned a number of horses. Including a Bastian stallion of pearlescent white that died during the Bastian Civil War named Glory, a smaller horse bred from the Steppes named Rembrandt and a mountain of a horse named Adder that serves as his current mount.
* Sibir has a phobia of death and of frogs.
* Sibir's favorite food is roasted mutton.