Azrael Starscale

**Azrael Starscale** is a well built Sarian male among the first landing parties of the Vermillion Estucheon. It is unclear if he himself is a part of the organization but he certainly works with them.

## Appearance

A tall muscular Sarian looks quite imposing standing as an easy seven and a half feet tall. He has a masculine face that often wears a stoic look but on occasion a friendly smile is quite disarming to others. Perhaps that is actually confidence behind the smile, sometimes it is hard to tell. Azrael is a powerful looking warrior to be sure, but make no mistake there is an arcane intelligence behind those blue eyes of his. He has very impressive sapphire to white colored horns, they are shaped in a aerodynamic manner that keeps them from being too much of a hassle.

His body is quite large and muscular like most of his race and warrior caste. While he is not necessarily the strongest, fastest or heartiest physically speaking it would be difficult to tell that. From an educated guess he looks to weigh somewhere around three hundred and thirty pounds and that is mostly muscle. Covering his body is a nice set of travelers clothes with a lot of blue and gray accents. There is also a light chain shirt that is well crafted, should anyone ask Azrael had co-crafted the set himself. Before unlocking his potential as a spell-sword he had been an armor smiths apprentice. Between a craft that is physically demanding and a warriors training it is easy to see where his large build come from.

## History

### Early Life

#### Living among the Outskirts

Azrael and his family lived in the outskirts of the City Hyul. Life out there was quite challenging, especially for those with young children. All the same his parents did their best to raise him and raise him well among the pillars. Ever since being a small child Azrael was a bit different than the other Warrior Caste born. He had a spark of intelligence that fit in with the Scholar caste but the strength of a warrior.

Sadly Azrael was only with his birth parents for a short five years, the city itself had its own dangers. One of the most prominent dangers of it was that there were consistent kidnappings among the city. While Azrael was young there was a particularly bad spree of them, investigations led to the discovery of a bold slaving group being behind it. Sadly that revelation would only come seven years after Azrael had been kidnapped.

#### Dark Times

Azrael had been snatched from a loving home when he was five years old. The kidnapper brought him along with a few other very young Sarian children to a ship with markings of an ally country. It was of course a ruse as the slavers would change the countries colors once they left port and the city was behind them. That made tracking them quite the nightmare, making it easy for them to get away with these kidnappings for a while. Among the Sarians captured were four young within a few years in age to one another. The eldest, Ramuul, was about thirteen and quickly became the "big brother" for all the other Sarian children captured.

They were shuttled off to a work camp towards the north, where they would be put to various means of work. Azrael, Ramuul and Aelixa were teamed together for most of their work. Primarily the three of them would be put to the mines for demanding physical labor at first. When they proved to be very good at handling the physically taxing demands of long shifts, little food, and poor sleeping conditions their job was swapped to what they called 'meat shields'. During slaving raids they would be used as the initial foot soldiers to hit a town. Always only armed with low quality clubs and rags the 'meat shields' had a very short life span. Sarians in particular were very difficult to make do this thanks to their strict adherence to the Pillars. Despite this they would find ways to twist, manipulate or force even the proud Sarians to this task.

#### A New Hope

Azrael was stuck in a bad situation for seven years. Many of the other non-Sarian slaves broke by then or died, but Azrael was cut from a different cloth as were his "brother" and "sister". What the slavers hadn't realized about Sarians was their inherit fearlessness, especially Ramuul's who was especially charismatic and deceptive. They had planned an escape of some sort, but getting only the three of them wasn't enough, no they wanted all of the slaves to be freed. It was such an alien thought to Azrael to be free once more what would he even do. Find his parents more than likely, and visit his brother and sisters families as well. While Ramuul was the face, Azrael was the brains which left the agility to Aelixa. All of them had their roles to fill and jobs to perform if they were to do this right. Azrael's primary role was to ensure that the flow of information between all of the groups was managed and to command. He knew that it would be very difficult to pull off especially as he was only a thirteen year old the other slaves might not consider him a viable leader. Thankfully Ramuul would be there to hand out the orders and directions as he was much bigger, older and honestly had a presence that people wanted to follow. For Aelixa she would have the most dangerous job, at least at first. Securing the keys for many of the shackles would not have been something either of the boys could do with as clumsy as they were.

All the pieces were in place and the escape was going quite to plan, almost too smoothly. Azrael noticed this and was in the process of changing around some of the battle plans. The leader of the slavers was a brutish man that did what he wanted to who he wanted, Azrael truly hated that man. He was the opposite of all the Pillars and it really painted his perception of things pretty clearly. Despite this, Azrael and the others knew they were no match for this man in combat or his right hand man for that matter. They were planned to be gone during the escape, off to one of the cities for purchasing some items. Unfortunately while Azrael was quite clever no plan would have prepared them for the sniper shot that killed Ramuul. This act put the escaped slaves in a mixed bag of more revolting and fierce fighting, while some turn coated and sided with the slavers in a meek attempt to has a lesser punishment.

The death of Ramuul put Aelixa in a frenzy, she had been younger than Ramuul but older than Azrael and Azrael knew the two had feelings for one another. The rage she felt overwrote the plan Azrael had laid out. Charging out to find the sniper she disregarded all of the other fighting. Azrael didn't want her to die in vain as well, he charged out after her trying to catch up. Several more shots rang out from the cliffside, Azrael could only grit his teeth knowing that was the second in command with his magic. By the time he had caught up Aelixa was nearing death, the second in command toyed with her a bit. Azrael was smart, but he was also foolish at times. He charged the man and tried his best to defend Aelixa but the size difference was too severe. It seemed that their escape wouldn't happen after all until a miracle happened. A Sarian strike force had tracked the slavers and were in the area searching for their camp, the loud sounds of battle caught their attention and they were able to route remaining slavers, though the Commander would never be found. Ramuul was dead and Aelixa ended up in a coma, but Azrael made sure that the strike force knew that the two of them were credited for this escape attempt. He was satisfied enough to be going home again.