Vasos Landen

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## Biography

### Early life and childhood

Born in the far off city of Delos, Vasos is the unintended first child of a woman named Imari and a man of unknown origins. As such, he never had much of a home or a family outside of Roan after he was born. Although the brothers had a home for the early years of their lives, their mother died a few years after Roan was born, forcing Vasos to look out for him and depend on the generosity of strangers. Their father had disappeared just before Roan was born, forcing Vasos to take care of his younger brother by any means necessary. This translated to working odd and humiliating jobs like sweeping floors for scraps of food and barely any money, to delivering packages around town, forcing him to return late at night. This was the first step towards the brothers' life of crime

As Roan grew older and more independent, probably because he recognized Vasos' irritability and wanted to ease it, he too jumped into a life of crime. Not long after that, they began moving from city to city after their faces became familiar to the guards in each one, travelling the world and meeting different people. It would be through their homelessness and their abilities to survive off the land that would turn Vasos and Roan into capable criminals at an early age.

### Teens and early adulthood

At some point, Vasos and Roan ended up in the city of Nirus, where they continue their careers. As Nirus was ridden with gangs and corruption, it became easy to fit in. Vasos quickly made a name for himself as a thief-for-hire, doing the dirty work of anyone who paid him good money or simply challenged his abilities. This, however, made him a target of those he'd stolen from but he'd managed to dodge them where they appeared. One day, however, when he and Roan broke into Fourtney's tavern, they were caught by the owner. Though he had deep ties to criminal gangs and city councilmen alike and could've killed them without a problem, Fourtney instead took the two youngsters under his wing and began teaching them to improve their craft. They would, however, work for him and do menial labor all around his establishment during the day time.

Several years later, Vasos accompanied Roan to steal something from a big-name crime lord as part of his initiation into becoming a fully capable thief. This had the unintended consequence of starting an entire war in Nirus, which forced the mayor to call in Stormhammer to bring in order to the chaos.

### Working with Stormhammer and arrest

Ever the clever criminal Vasos could read the writing on the wall, despite his slight illiteracy: Stormhammer was stepping into town and bringing asses to meet their boots. While he, Fourtney, and Roan ceased their criminal dealings, it was only a matter of time before their establishment was raided by a platoon led by an angry green-haired Mevani named Seyche. While Fourtney was on a trip out of town that day, the brothers were arrested when weapons that were smuggled into town were found in storage.

In the holding cells, Vasos proposed a deal to Seyche: To avoid prison time for him and his brother, he would use his criminal connections to help Stormhammer bring peace to the town. Over the months, Vasos became invaluable to the effort, providing useful information and providing evidence of illegal activities. Nirus had become a quiet city that loved Stormhammer's presence more and more, considering them heroes. During this time, Vasos became closer to Seyche, with the two often trusting each other in high-risk situations and operations where teamwork was key. Their chemistry on the field together was phenomenal and each knew what the other was thinking without ever having to utter a word. Vasos took bold risks for her and brought tangible results, which she respected and then used to destroy gangsters, smugglers, and corrupt elders alike.

On their first operation together, Vasos went undercover and facilitated a meeting between various gang leaders and the mayor in an effort to push Stormhammer out of the city. He'd taken care of all the details including the meeting place and hiding Seyche in the same room as them to prove that he wasn't lying. During the meeting, Vasos organized everyone and began coming up with a plan, presumably to buy time for Seyche to bring in her troops. He was arrested with everyone else during the raid to keep up the charades but was released afterwards to continue his work.

He and Seyche celebrated by breaking into Fourtney's tavern and drinking his whiskey. Without realizing it, Vasos flirted and was making her drop her guard and share more about herself than she did with anyone. Seyche shared about how her father was murdered and dumped in the ocean in front of her as a child, and then kidnapped. Vasos countered that his own father was a thug who left him and Roan in early childhood. They share a kiss in that tavern. Inadvertently however, Vasos asked what Seyche had done in terms of reconnecting with her mother, but she became angry at him, telling him that he had no business telling her what to do. Seyche drunkenly mocked by asking if he wanted some kind of future with her. Vasos answered that he did.

On one raid, however, Vasos led Seyche and her entire company of soldiers to stop the last attempt by a big time gang to bring in weapons through the docks. This turned out to be an ambush by Roan working with the resistance, however, as the company was caught unprepared for a fight. But in the thick of the fighting, Vasos was wounded and dragged out of the fighting by Roan and Seyche, the latter confused by the former's presence, as he had no knowledge of it. As it turned out, Roan overheard the plan from Vasos and Seyche, and informed Fourtney, who managed to plan the ambush. As such, Roan was imprisoned but Fourtney was nowhere to be found. When Vasos and Seyche figure out what happened, Seyche demanded Roan's release but Lhey rebuffed her as she was relieved of duty by Commander Yonotow. Using the distraction, Vasos confessed to setting up the ambush against Stormhammer when he was discovered as the mole for Stormhammer and was arrested in his younger brother's place. For the crime, he was taken to The Throat: the most impenetrable prison in the world.

### The Throat

When Vasos arrived at The Throat, things became very real for him: he was no longer dealing with normal street thugs or corrupt politicians, he was dealing with the worst human beings and monsters to ever wander Samarat. But Vasos was always good at adapting to new situations and knew the only way that someone like him, a professional thief, could earn some respect was that he needed to obtain things that were nearly impossible to get -but refused to steal from other inmates unless it was to amuse someone.

On one occasion, Vasos stole a prison guard's key to his own cell. Using it, he snuck out of his cell and stole food from the mess hall and used it to buy protection from one of the tougher gangs. Little did anyone know that he also stole a small pocket knife as well for his own defense.

On another occasion, Vasos even managed to lift a guard's money pouch and tossed into the middle of the yard, causing everyone to scramble over it.

It wasn't all fun and games, however. Vasos got into a number of fights with a number of psychopaths. Oftentimes to the death, he did whatever it took to win those fights and come out alive, even if it meant getting hurt or seriously injured. Other times, the guards took great pleasure in abusing the prisoners and making them do humiliating things. It wasn't uncommon for Vasos to sneak out in the dead of night when everyone was asleep and slit someone's throat in their sleep to avoid a fight he knew he couldn't win.

At some point during the four years he spent there, oddly, Vasos became proficient at cutting hair, and was generally everyone's friend with the intention of serving his sentence. His thieving services were open to everyone.

When Lhey expedited his sentence and added an execution, Vasos was moved to the lowest bowels of the Throat, reserved for the worst of the worst prisoners, unsure of what was going on. After a few months, war had seemingly broken out on the island, but in the lower levels, all he could hear were faint noises of war. Unexpectedly, however, Sciben's personal guards transferred Vasos to a secret room that was magically protected and only the warden knew about. Vasos had only seen him a handful of times, but knew that no matter how desperate things ever got, he would never run afoul of the guard to the point of being brought to Sciben,

It didn't take long for him to figure out that he was the object of the battle: a replacement Vasos, more than likely a shapeshifter, took his place. It would be a matter of time before he was found. After Roan, Janosik, and Vaena broke him out of the cell, they saved Seyche from Jarita and escaped on a massive boat to the world beyond.

### Goldwood Towers

Having reconnected with Seyche and Roan, as well as meeting a number of new friends, Vasos found nothing better to do than to go on an adventure. Using the initial time to catch up with his younger brother and his wife, Vasos resolved to live a less criminal life than the one he'd led up to this moment. But to his surprise, much had changed with the both of them: Roan had become more mature and capable, and Seyche was more aggressive yet empathetic..

After Seyche knocks out Hunter Champion and they argue, Vasos finds out about Kahrin. He convinces Seyche that they will find the young girl and make Lhey pay for what he did. Recognizing that they both had trauma to deal with since he was arrested, the two became a team again. Probably to Scholtz's frustration.

## Quotes

* "What is time with friends except time?"