Vash

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**Vash** is an Earth Genasi barbarian associated with The Fellow Fellows party.

## History

Vash Panika, real name Onyx Levann, was born along the coast to a family of monster hunters. Born to a human father, and a genasi mother, Vash was born to be bred as a strong hunter, being described as “ A necessary evil” by his family. Ever since he could hold a sword, Vash began to train to kill monsters of all kinds by his father, Isin, and his uncles, Boltash and Culad, by focusing any anger in his body to push past his normal limits. But as a child, Vash was mostly a good child, only training to make his family happy, not fully understanding what he was doing. Over the next few years, Isin had two more children, both with different mates. Pheza Vash’s sister and a Tiefling, and Alvalor, Vash’s brother and a Half-elf. By the time he was 12, he went on his first hunt with his Isin, a dire wolf. During this hunt, Vash awakened his limited ability to summon the spirits of his family for protecting allies. Over the next 6 years, several events that would shape Vash’s future took place.

At age 14, Vash began to learn the art of being a shipwright after he and Culad hunted a pack of Kuo-Toa. Age 15, Vash and his father hunted a “dangerous” dragonborn in a nearby village, which he succeeded in after finding him in a tavern drinking his sorrows away.. This interaction set forth Vash questioning whether what his family was right or not. At age 18, while in his local village, Vash overheard rumors of a rabid were-bear on the outskirts/forest of town. Intrigued about the possible threat, Vash set out to the forest around the village. Searching the surrounding area revealed a small, poorly made hut blocked by some foliage and a tall, hairy humanoid. And it noticed Vash. A chase ensued with Vash slowly gaining, and eventually tackling the were-bear. Only it wasn’t a were-bear, but an older bear shifter man. Several thoughts flew through Vash’s head, questioning whether he should kill the shifter or not. In the moment that Vash hesitated, the shifter slipped out of his grasp and attacked Vash. While still being a skilled combatant, Vash still was young and lacked experience, and this difference gave the shifter the victory. On his back, Vash embraced his fate, and waited for death to come. Except it never did. The shifter held his claws to the young genasis throat and told him to leave. And so Vash left, defeated but with newly found interest in the shifter. And so, a week later Vash returned, this time with a different goal in mind.

This time around, Vash simply asked for the shifters name. “Cliff,” the shifter responded. Vash apologized for his disturbance, and left for home. And over the next half a year, Vash returned to Cliff’s hut, always saying its to insure that he wasn’t doing anything harmful to the village, but in reality, Vash was curious. Had been taught that anyone with monstrous blood is evil. And yet, he had his life spared when. It was confusing. So Vash kept returning, helping Cliff to make his hut sturdier, bringing food, or simply just talking with the shifter. Cliff spoke little of his past, and when asked about why he lived outside town, he always responded with “People don’t like what they don’t understand.”. It didn’t take a genius to put two and two together, so Vash left it be for the most part. Over time, the two started to bond, going from enemies, to acquaintances, and to friends. It was during this time that Vash started to stop hunting humanoid “monsters” like the rest of his family. They were people, why should they be killed for simply existing? For this half a year, Vash slowly started to enjoy combat less, and the simpler things more in life. It was peaceful.

This didn’t last for long. Vash’s frequent trips did not go unnoticed by most of his family. Alvalor slowly began to pick up on some of Vash’s new habits, and what they meant. So when he noticed Vash leaving on another “trip to the village” he snuck out and followed him. He repeated this over the course of a few weeks, until one day, he ran ahead of Vash to the hut. When Vash arrived that morning, instead of being greeted by Cliff, he saw Cliff, dead and slumped against the wall with Alvalor standing above him, hammer coated in blood. Silence filled the small hut, as Vash processed what he was looking at. Within the next instant, Vash drew his great sword and started attacking his brother. The fight was brutal, both combatants putting everything into it. In the end, both Vash and Alvalor took substantial damage, Vash gaining a crack-like scar around his left eye from a lucky strike from Alvalor, who had part of his arm nearly cut off, but by the end of it, Vash stood over his brother, pointing his blade at his throat. Vash barked at Alvalor, yelling in frustration and sorrow, telling him to leave and tell his family to not follow him unless they wish to lose their life, and preceding to knock the half-elf out. After that, he buried Cliff next to the little hut in the woods, took some basic supplies from said hut, and began to walk. He walked for as long as he could until he reached a larger city, and collapsed at a nearby inn. And for the next 10 years, Vash worked at a local dock as a shipwright, honing his skills and eventually adopted the name Vash (I just wrote his name as Vash the whole time for simplicity's sake, but until now he went by Onyx) to separate himself from his old life. Over that time, Vash took on the odd adventuring job to keep his combat skills sharp, and to enjoy the world for what it was.

## Relationships

Levann Family:

* Isin : Human Barbarian, Zealot. Isin took the “necessary evil” of breeding with different races to breed stronger hunters.
* Boltash: Human Fighter, Battle Master
* Culad: Human Ranger, Monster Hunter
* Opal: Earth Genasi, No Class, Vash’s mother
* Pheza: Tiefling Warlock, Pact of the Blade Fiend Pact
* Alvalor: Half-Elf Paladin, Oath of Vengeance
* Several cousins Vash never interacted with much

The Fellow Fellows Party:

* Yinric
* Zoey
* Ektarious
* Mallen
* Omen
* Oriz

## Trivia

* might not literally be a furry
* vash "the rock" literally-a-rock
* scratch the first trivia, is literally a furry
* is also wide putin