Roan Landen

### Plot Role

A thief that unexpectedly decides to join the group. At first, he wanted more help to free his brother. Now he's around because he doesn't really have anything better to do.

### Personality

The snarkiest, sassiest thief you'll find across the world. Sometimes he cares, but really he doesn't.

## Biography

#### Early Life

Born in Delos to a young single mother, Roan spent his early years with his older brother Vasos and mother Imari. However, she died when he was at a young age and was inevitably raised by his brother. As Roan never met his father, he has no idea what he was like.

Roan and Vasos grew up travelling from city to city, finding whatever jobs they could to make ends meet. However, as Roan was still young at this time, he was prone to getting himself into trouble with the wrong crowd, eventually having to be bailed out by Vasos. After several years of nothing more than trouble and dead-end jobs, the brothers turned to petty crime.

#### Teenage and early adult years

Having finally turned to crime, Vasos and Roan began establishing a reputation as local thugs for hire. They would commit petty crimes for quick and easy money, often saving their bosses the trouble of having some idiots do their dirty work for them. However, one job included collecting some money from a nearby tavern owner and weapons mule by the name of Fourtney. When they broke into his establishment and were about to leave after stealing his money, they failed to detect a secret tunnel that led to the backroom. Instead of beating the two boys, Fourtney instead chose to correct their mistakes and unofficially adopt them, figuring that he couldn't let them stumble into a less well-meaning criminal's home some day.

Several years of working for Fourtney and his gang, it was time for Roan to earn his reputation as a professional thief. Fourtney's challenge for him was to steal something of great value from a competing crime lord's home without getting caught or hurt. Taking Vasos along with him, Roan succeeded in stealing the crime lord's stash of MacGuffins. However, this instigated an all-out turf war between competing criminal elements in the city, forcing the mayor to hire a battalion of Stormhammer's to police the city and restore order through force.

#### Stormhammer occupation of the city

When a Stormhammer expeditionary battalion stormed the city, they swiftly upheld the laws in place and all but eliminated all traces of criminal activities, forcing those remaining to work in the shadows and to completely mistrust each other due to suspicion of collaboration with the invaders. This quickly made Roan and Vasos targets in the weapons trafficking business, eventually being arrested by a Stormhammer officer by the name of Seyche.

During their incarceration, the brothers were separated. Roan was savagely beaten by another officer by the name of Jarita, who took pleasure in his pain. Seyche and Vasos stopped the savagery and escorted Roan out of the room, physically hurt and bloody. Learning the Vasos had struck a deal with Stormhammer to be an informant, Roan became bitter towards the organization that had just waltzed his way into his home and secretly joined an underground resistance movement against it.

Within months, all was quiet in the city. As opposed to when they entered the city, Stormhammer was a welcome sight. They were seen as peacemakers in Nirus by all except Roan. Unbeknownst to Vasos, though Roan was working with the resistance movement and was using his older to set a trap for the mercenaries. Still loyal to his brother, Roan never once revealed how he got his information on Stormhammer and managed to keep his identity as a snitch safe.

One night, several Stormhamemer platoons moved in on the docks to intercept weapons being smuggled in. Vasos had given them the information they needed to conduct the raid and seize the contraband. However, Roan had worked with Fourtney to set up an ambush disguised as a real smuggling operation. If Stormhammer investigated it, they were going to be ambushed. If they left it alone, then the rebels had a new set of weaponry to fight back with. On that night, Roan made it a point to watch the ambush go down and Stormhammer begin to pay.

However, he hadn't counted on Vasos being there with Seyche. When the gangs attacked the mercenaries, the older brother was caught in the middle. Roan entered the fighting to get Vasos out of there but was immediately found by Seyche. With Vasos wounded, Roan and Seyche pulled him out of the fighting as back up came and ended the ambush.

Roan was imprisoned in a holding cell until more information could be found about why he was there. He knew that it was a matter of time before one of the other prisoners told on him and was sent to prison. Or, they'd beat him again and get him to confess to his crimes. However, he was suddenly released by another officer who explained that someone already confessed to his crimes. When Roan and Seyche saw that Vasos had turned himself in to protect his younger brother, he was shocked and begged the guards to arrest him instead. But nothing happened and Vasos was taken away.

### Ambush on Stormhammer troops and Vasos' imprisonment

Roan's hatred for th mercenaries ensured that he'd turn on them. Roan resentfully waited for the right moment to seek his revenge, and found it when Vasos inadvertently told him of a raid Stormhammer was going to conduct on the port to seize a weapon shipment to help the criminals fight the mercenaries. Without wasting time, he informed one of the biggest gangs in Nirus about the raid, allowing them to prepare their ambush on the soldiers.

During the botched raid, Vasos was wounded but was saved by Roan and Seyche in the end. After analyzing the raid, Vasos and Seyche realized that Roan leaked the information about the raid to the criminals who ambushed them because of his presence there. As a result, Vasos took the fall for his younger brother and was sent off to the Throat before anyone could catch on.

## Magical Ability

* **Self-level Ability:** Can create illusions
* **World-level Ability: *None.***

## Quotes

* ""HAVE YOU SEEN MY BROTHER?" - Roan, Searching for his brother