Mordred Ravenholme

Even from a young age, Mordred Ravenholme was the sort of person to jump to the aid of any who needed it. Born to a merchant's wife who lived in a small farming village a little way from Sharlayan City, Mordred grew up half in the village and half travelling with his father, and taking a great deal of joy in living two lives. It was while he was on one of his many excursions to the wealthy city-state of Ul’Dah that Mordred was treated to a trip to the colosseum, where in which he became fascinated with the art of the sword, and worked hard to become adept enough to defend others.

### Relationship with Morgana Browne

* Known since childhood
* Wolf incident
* Gifts from afar

## An Extract from "Scholar on Call for a Scholar"

*A roleplay involving Morgana, Mis'to and Kieo*

> Morgana took a deep breath and began to tell her tale.
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> "His name was Mordred... Mordred Ravenholme. I... I'd known him for a long time. We met not long after I moved back to the Motherland, one of the few kids that were about the same age as me. He was much more.... outdoorsy than me, which was good. It got me, who can be something of a bookworm, outside. We both were accepted to the Studium, and both studied different things. He was such a good friend, always there for me... and that is all I ever thought of him as, until he left for Eorzea. He wanted to study the ways of the blade in Ul'Dah, having been inspired by one of the trips he took with his father. I on the other hand was helping my own father at the clinic, and sometimes my mother at the school. I felt like I had my duty, and I was happy.... but... he confessed his feelings for me and.... he kissed me the night before he set sail... and, when he was gone, I knew I missed him, and not just as a friend anymore. It was only a few months later that I, with quite a lot of encouragement, decided to follow in his footsteps, learn more of my art, make some of my own stories and find him, and be happy.
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> "And find him I did. He travelled alongside myself and my friends for a while before he eventually proposed to me. He knew that having a ceremony at The Sanctum of the Twelve was something I had always had my heart set on. My parents were bonded there, you see, and have always been happy; I wanted that too. Given how things were, we made preparations as fast as we could. The ceremony was beautiful and the two of us could not be happier."
> She sighed heavily.
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> "But suddenly things changed. He became secretive without warning. Hiding letters he got tossing them to the fire before I could even ask. And then... I woke up to a message, telling me he couldn't tell me where he was going or how long he would be gone, but he would do everything in his power to come back to me. His ring was with the note. I.... Safe to say I was in a state for days... weeks after... worrying about him.
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> "And then, one afternoon while I was sat in the Rising Stones, a message came through on Thancred's link pearl. "I'm not going to make it back. Make sure you tell her I love her." It was then that Thancred told me what he knew; that Mordred's mother and father had been captured by the Garleans while they had been travelling. His father was a merchant you see... and would often head to places like Radz-at-Han for the exotics that they sold. A friend of theirs saw what happened and got the letters to Mordred, giving him all the information he could as to where they had been taken. He intended to rescue them, but Thancred said that he had wanted to go alone, that he didn't want to risk me getting hurt, and he knew if he told me that I would want to go."
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> She paused a moment, curling in as if she was fighting tears.
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> "Thancred said the last things he heard were gunshots, and the sound of the linkpearl being crushed underfoot... and the connection was dead. Though he thought there was a chance that they lived, he said he doubted it... It... We... we were not even bonded for a year."
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