Voltimand Feldman

**Voltimand Feldman** was a Sol-born human who was born in Belmont, Scotlandia. He was renowned for giving birth to Vladimir Feldman and owned and managed his own blacksmithing company in the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotlandia after he left his home young.

## Personal Life

### Childhood and Early Work

Voltimand was born in Belmont, Scotlandia in southwest Scotlandia. His father, Rolan Feldman, worked as a blacksmith below their loft house in the densely populated city. His mother, Maira Elliotsman, lived as a housewife of Rolan until she lost her life while giving childbirth in 979 CE to what would have been Voltimand's sister, who also died soon after. With no knowledge of how to raise a baby, Rolan was left alone to raise Voltimand to take over his job.

By the age of two, Voltimand had survived and began watching his father work in the shop. One day while Rolan was crafting a sword, Voltimand grabbed two small stones from a pile outside the blacksmith shop and hit them together, creating a spark. Only a few years later, he managed to get ahold of a hammer his father had left lying around and mocked what his father was doing. Because he lacked knowledge on blacksmithing, Voltimand smashed his left hand's little and ring finger, permanently destroying them.

Voltimand's mischief caught up to him at the age of seven, when Rolan caught him swiping apples from passersby's baskets. As punishment, Rolan forced his son to sleep not return home for six weeks until he had learned his lesson. During this time, Voltimand continued to steal and slept in a back alleyway near the blacksmith shop. Once he returned home, his father acted as though nothing had happened at all.

While strolling the local area, he swiped a bottle of hard liquor from a beggar and took a sip. He enjoyed the feeling the alcohol had given him and returned home to look through their house for more. To no surprise, he found a large stash and began regularly drinking it behind his father's back. Not long after, Rolan put him to work in the shop as a sweeper.

Almost ten years after the loss of his mother, Rolan married a new woman named Jolinae Girol to keep him happy. In disapproval, however, Voltimand acted out and continuously antagonized Jolinae and her son for their obnoxious attitude and unattractive appearance. Less than a year later, Jolinae births his sister and demands Voltimand find himself a new place to stay. As he did previously, Voltimand slept in the alleyway near the shop and stole from passersby to stay alive.

In 989 - only five months after he was removed from the family - Voltimand was reinvited to their house by Rolan under the condition that he would work as an official blacksmith in the shop. He agreed and began building weapons for clients He also constructed a small knife for himself from scrap.

Rolan left Voltimand in charge of the blacksmith one day in 991 while he was off buying more materials from the Belmont Port. while he was gone, Voltimand wanted to see what would happen when he stoked the fire under the smelter to extreme lengths. once the fire grew too large, it ignited a wooden beam holding the upper levels of the house on fire and began to spread. Fortunately, Rolan was close by and was able to put the fire out in due time. As a result, Rolan closed the shop for several months to allow the building to be repaired.

Voltimand ran away from Belmont soon after he overheard a conversation between Rolan and Jolinae, in which they discussed sending him to the Scottish Army for training. Unwilling to devote his life to death on a battlefield, he set forth toward Glasgow, Scotlandia in hopes that he would find a smithing job. Once he reached the city and found that no one would hire him, he laid claim to an abandoned shop and began building weaponry and tools. His skills ripened and he became a versatile smith, even going as far as building shields for the Scottish Army.

### Early Love

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After a busy month of shield building and sword smithing, Voltimand travelled to a bar near his shop and drank away his boredom. After a few drinks, he noticed a small-built woman, named Julia Ammoria, near the front of the bar and walked over to introduce himself. When she replied back, he challenged her to a drinking game. She accepted and they began drinking as much as they could. After nearly three bottles of hard liquor, he passed out and deteriorated from alcohol poisoning.

Although he was admitted to the Glasgow Royal Sick House, the caretakers refused to treat him as they knew he had ingested too much alcohol to survive. After several months of loose care and visits from Julia, he recovered and left the sick house. Flattered by her persistence, Voltimand and Julia begin regularly seeing one another whenever they had the chance, even going as far as to regularly hook up.

Six months after their last hookup, Julia had realized she had gotten pregnant and swore that she will never see Voltimand again, leaving him in anger. Voltimand did everything in his power to find and apologize to her for his wrong actions. Going as far as the Glasgow Port, the two ran from one another for several days and nights. Once they quit running, Voltimand and Julia talked and agreed to wed if, and only if, the child survived one year. Once they agreed, Julia moved into the blacksmith shop with Voltimand and they awaited the child to be born.

### Children and Marriage

On November 18th, 994, their child was born within the confines of their blacksmith shop. Voltimand and Julia named their first son Vladimir Feldman. over the course of the next coming year, they prioritized keeping Vladimir alive and in good health to ensure that they could wed on its birthday. However, Voltimand decided to conscribe into the 2nd Scottish Cavalry Division, which ran through his hometown of Belmont.

The closer to Vladimir's birthday grew, the more time they devoted to the wedding. Soon after Voltimand returned home, just before the wedding, Julia becomes pregnant with another child and disrupts plans they had initially had for a large wedding.

Voltimand and Julia change their wedding plans to a private ceremony in the Holy Church of Saint Martin outside of the High Castle of Scotlandia. Aside from the two of them and their son, Rolan and Julia's mother are the only people to attend. Shortly after the wedding, Rolan commended Voltimand for his success and proclaimed that he was proud of him.

On September 26th, 995, Julia gives birth to Nikola Feldman in their home. Now raising two young children while working in the blacksmith shop, Voltimand thought about rejoining the military to calm himself like he had before. He hired a housewife to assist Julia in raising the children.

Upon returning home from the military again, Voltimand came to find that the housewife he hired abandoned Julia. He exclaimed that he will not leave again and got Julia pregnant once again. Instead of leaving like he had before, he stayed back and helped raise his sons to good health.

### Military Service

Voltimand became a cavalryman for the 2nd Scottish Cavalry Division and was posted along the Russian Line. His barracks was located inside of his hometown of Belmont, so he took it upon himself to regularly visit his family. While on a routine visit, Rolan explains that Hilor is his half-brother and was the result of a hook up that happened soon after his mother passed. Although angry, Voltimand continued to bond with Hirol and grew closer every visit.

Due to his infrequent posting appearances and poor performance, the Scottish Cavalry Guild saw him unfit to work at that moment and removed him from the post. As opposed to arresting him, they let him off with a warning and promised to fill his workload until he could do his cavalryman position.

Voltimand rejoined the 2nd Scottish Cavalry Division after the birth of his second son. Filled with a fogged brain, he expressed an even worse work ethic and continued to use his time as an excuse to see his family. At the end of 996, he defected from the 2nd Scottish Cavalry Division without warning and returned to his home in Glasgow, moving his family with him in fear of what might happen to them.

### Later Life and Death

After returning home to find that the housewife he had hired deserted Julia, Voltimand took it upon himself to find her. He searched local bars that might have had a connection to the family of the woman but came up empty handed. He found the housewife walking down the Essex Street. Unrelenting, Voltimand kidnapped the woman and dragged her to a nearby ally and demanded that she pay back her lost labor. The housewife did as such, but he stabbed her with his knife and left her for dead, robbing her of all of her belongings.

Clouded by his misjudgment, Voltimand has trouble upholding his daily blacksmithing bill and hired his half-brother, Hilor to assist him. Rolan was too old to assist with the blacksmithing but did offer to assist in the dealing of his sold items. Soon after, the family of the housewife was looking for the killer and a pricy bounty was placed upon his head by the Scottish Army for defecting.

In 997, Julia gave birth to their third child, which they named Bogdan. Having grown crowded, Rolan and Jolinae moved out of the blacksmith shop into their own house on the other side of town. Hilor remained at the blacksmith shop to assist the family.

### Death

Hilor began acting strange around Voltimand after the price on his head was increased. In addition, the murder of the housewife was connected to him, and the bounty was altered to dead or alive and farther increased the price. One night, he was stabbed by Hilor using his own personal knife. Once dead, Hilor took him to the local army encampment and turned in the bounty. His body was buried in a mass grave outside of the city.