Roland Arden

10 yrs Old

### Height

105cm in ch.3 Tall/ 183 in ch.47 185cm in ch71 190cm in ch83. 6'3 - 6'4 by word of god

## Relationships

### Family

Wentworth Arden (Father)
Tabitha Arden (Step-mother)
Francine Arden (Step-mother)
Reyner Arden (1st Brother)
Edwin Arden (2nd Brother)
Robert Arden (3rd Brother)
Sofia Arden (1st Sister)
Dianna Arden (2nd Sister)
Lucienne Arden (3rd Sister)

### Enemies

Theodore ValerianAbyss CultRoque thievesgoblinsbandits

## Social Status

### Occupation(s)

Runesmith (Primary)
Head/commander Knight (Secondary)
Adventurer (Secondary)

### Affiliation(s)

Arden House
Runic Emporium
Arthur's faction of Valerian house as Head Knight

## Appearance/Death

### Death

Hit by a Truck (1st Life)

**Roland Arden** is the main protagonist of *The Runesmith*.

He is the 4th and the youngest son of Arden House with his father being a Baron in the Kingdom of Caldris.

## Appearance

### Ten Years Old

He had an oval face with short, dark hair and green eyes. His eyebrows were neither thin nor bushy. He looked neither cute nor ugly, but rather average for his age.

### Twenty+ Years Old

He has become much taller, almost 6'4" in height, and his handsome appearance makes him resemble a knight or a nobleman.

## Journey

### Previous Life

In his previous life, Ronald Arden worked as a computer repairman. One rainy night, as he was heading home from work, a truck hit him and transported him to another world.

### Early Life

Ronald had a dull and lonely life. No one cared about him or paid attention to him. He was the fourth and youngest son of a noble family, but his mother was a mistress who was not allowed to live with him at the family estate. He had a low social status and no prospects. After it was discovered that Roland had the talent for magic to become a magician, his life somewhat turned around but his life it was still boring. He spent his days eating, training, reading books, and practicing his mana control, and learning how the leveling system worked in this world. However, when he turned 10 and got his class Mage he realized that he had no elemental affinities and could not advance as a mage. He also knew that his father would force him to join the army. He decided to escape from his family and find his own path. He was sent him to the City of Carwen to suffer by his father, because he wanted to become a runicsmith not a knight.(his father thought he would come crying back after 2 weeks tops) But this was when his real adventures began Roland journey.

### Life in the City of Carwen

Roland arrived in the City of Carwen, only to discover that his father had abandoned him. He had no decent place to stay, just a small old shack in the middle of the forest. With the little money he had saved up secretly, he registered as an adventurer and became a Bronze Ranked one. Using his powers he killed goblins(did goblin guests), leveled up, and obtained mana stones from them. He earned the nickname of Little Goblin Slayer among the adventurers of the City of Carwen. There, he also joined a party of three female adventurers: Rebecca, Sahildr, and Reyna. They had a lot of fun together adventuring and became best friends. Meanwhile, Roland continued his preparations to become a Runesmith, starting as a runic mana scribe.

After half a year, he went back to the old shack alone to retrieve the class stone he hid close by it, While there a watcher sent by his family tried to kill him luckily his party members followed and with their help they killed the fencer, and took his body to the dungeon. he had to leave his party because of an assassination attempt by a wannable knight Fencer (assassin) from his household. His friends gave him farewell gifts and cried a lot when he was out of sight. (before he left he got his second Tier 1 class from a class stone he hidden at the abounded shack his dad left him at, )

### New job-life in Edelgard

He traveled to Edelgard, where he learned how to craft runic scrolls and sold them at the local auction house. He also continued to slay goblins. However, he was coerced into a contract by Marlo Grimboodle, who demanded exclusive access to his runic products. Later, he joined a group of steel adventurers to explore a nearby mine, where he fought his first Tier 3 monster: a giant beast. He kept honing his runic skills and worked as a runicsmith. At the age of 13, he lost his virginity to his first girlfriend. Soon after, his home was raided by Tier 2 thieves, one of whom he killed. He was angry at his boss for involving him in this trouble and accidentally discovered an abyss occult plot to assassinate his boss, by 2 Tier 3 assassins' Jezryna and Ozrelak. He managed to disable a sound/mind/runic device that was affecting his boss and boss's bodyguard, Zilyana, a Tier 3 fighter. She was able to fend off the Tier 3 assassins. As a reward for saving his life, his boss gave him a large sum of gold, nullified his contract, and handed him a device that concealed his identity, classes, and levels. He was wounded in the fight but healed by a tier 3 priest. He barely missed meeting his father, whom he hoped to hide from.

### Journey to Dragnis Island

He left the town for a new life in a brand new dungeon on Dragnis Island, near the remote city of Albrook. He took a train and joined a caravan, but he discovered that the caravan had slaves in it. He rescued them when they were attacked by bandits and goblins, but most of the caravan members died. He freed the slaves, two elves and a half-orc, and removed their slave collars. Then he went to kill the bandits who had raided a small farming village and saved a few survivors from the caravan. After that, they parted ways and he boarded a ship to Dragnis Island, where he started his new life.

### New life in Albrook

Reaching Dragnis Island, he landed at a port full of Dragon-kin (lizard people). There he obtained a new adventurer's card/ID and adopted the name Wayland. For some time, he explored the new dungeon to collect funds and then bought an old farmhouse with some vacant land around it. He began his new life as a runesmith. After advancing to Tier 2, he took his silver rank test and fought Armand to a draw or a win. He had to take another silver test where he to descend to the tenth floor. He saved Bernir from a rare boss golem on the tenth floor. As a reward for defeating the golem, he acquired Agni, his pet/doggo/wolf. He earned his silver rank and hired Bernir as his assistant. Later, he made a deal with the guild master to supply the adventurers' guild with runic items, runic scribe scrolls, explosions, runic weapons, and armor.

### Dungeon Noble party, and aftermath

He was chosen/bribed with runic knowledge from a dwarven runic master, to help guard a party of noble graduating students 2 female mages and 20 knights, really to guard the 2 female mages and 1 son of a count the other twenty were expendable, 1 of who was his half brother Robert Arden , he rescued/escorted/lead him and 1 of the female mages Lucille De Vere out from down under in the tunnels in the dungeon after they fell into a chasm, with angi and him. While in the tunnels he discovered a new mining site with rare ore and crystals. His brother found out about his identity after he rescued the female noble from a mine trap he had on his property that took off his helmet. he and his brother talked and he told him about the assassination attempt by the fencer. He got his brother to promise not to tell his father/family he's alive till he's ready. He also got Lucille who's a runic groupie to get him in touch with a runic researcher master Professor Arion.

### Life as Runicsmith in Albrook

After a while with his and Bernir shop expanding and needing more help he decided to hire Elodia the adventures guild main guild counter girl, whos a orphanage owner too and the seen as older sister to Armand and Lobelia. But Elodia and her sister mistook Roland as asking her out, shenanigans ensued. After a tough day at work she took it and became the shops 2nd employee. After a while pressure from the dwarven union the adventures guild was forced to end their partnership with roland then with the guild masters help he managed to get the location of the thieves guild market to buy ores from thieves merchants mainly Sheek , after he left the market place he was ambushed by Lobelia and her 2 friends he subdue them. then talked to and got her to help him more buy ore.

### Albrook new owner, the Noble arrivers. roland 20 years old

Arthur Valerian the son of the Duke was chosen to be the new ruler of Albrook city, he arrived and after his knight escort of 50 knights and 1 T3 Knight commander left he was left with only 2 trainy knights and 1 maid,. When Arthur first arrived he did a big long flowery speech in front of a big crowd that didnt stir the crowd, afterwards he sent Mary his maid on a scout/spy mission to find out about the city and its big players, after she came back they looked threw all his gifts he got from big merchants and others and found the runic golem toy he got from roland that caught his eye he played with it for an hour. Roland while mining the new spot he realized that it was connected to another dungeon a high ranker dungeon he started to use it to power grind his levels. After he got up from 1 of his expenidations to the mining spot he found out about the new noble and then he watched his speech and then sent him his gift. During this time Elodia who's now Roland girlfriend/lover Orphanage got an eviction notice from the building owner/city with a false building inspection report. After a couple days after Roland sent his gift, he got a notice from the former mayor now butler to arthur to visit arthur, roland dressed up in a nice clothing made by elodia, he got alot of looks from women/girls in the city. When they talked Roland behaved funny/weird so arthur didn't force/get him to sign a contract making roland his runesmith,(they also coundnt see rolands levels because of his device) arthur did fix Elodia orphanage problem for roland. Afterwords roland told elodia his real name and story, she already knew he was a noble or a son of rich merchant.

### Gold rank test Roland

Roland decide to take his gold rank test after putting it off for awhile, it was an escort mission where he caught up with 2 old friends who were still low levels, from the mining fiasco when he was still a steel rank, and he had a guild lady who was with him to evaluate him on his results of the test, how he behaved so forth. With his advance runuc sensors he manage to dect a number of ambushes by varios monsters groups, so the journey was pretty safe. They the convoy came upon a small town having a festival a day or 2 way from their main destination, it turned out to be a massive illusion by technology similar to runic tech/magic. Because roland wears his helmet and armor he was too heavy to move so the occultist left him alone, he manage to debug the runic illusion, and free himself and then awake most of the other adventures by destroying the main occult receiver that was clouding everyone's mind. With the combat experience of the adventures and the weakness of the occultist they perfumed a massive suicide technique that transformed themselves into a T3 monster/occult demon, with that the adventures were at a massive disadvantage most of the merchants and alot of the adventures ran for it but a t3 church lady was in hiding as the guild kady, Loreena , she came out to battle it but she was still wounded from the occult worms/larvae so she was weak but luckily with rolands help they manage to defeat the T3 Demon. Loreena Afterwards from her wounds she fell face first into the ground but got right up again, she offered to reward roland for his help but all he wanted was a gold rank test pass and not to mention his name anywhere about this incident. The remaining convoy member's and adventures went on their way to Reeka port city, while on their way they got stopped by some knights the adventures choose roland as their leader to do the talking, but they got interrupted by a church knights order who had Loreena's grandfather with them a T4 who talked to roland and knew his dad and thanked him for saving his granddaughter, Afterwards he left and took the city knight with him. Roland made it to the port city of Reeka and got his gold rank and paid for passage back home on a ship. The ship turned out to be the same ship he first got to dragnis island.

### Escaping port city Reeka

The occult group activated their Larva which turned all their victims into monsters which turned into a huge battle in the city,. Roland with some adventure friends and the ship captain and her sisters, made a break for it in the tunnels in the thieves guild which was a short cut to the docks the main thieves guild market place was deserted with loot/coins so forth on the ground, roland sensing something was wrong manage to convince the group something was wrong made a run for it with stone/rock walls made by rolands magic behind them but high T2 monsters were chasing them , and roland sensed a t3 occult member somewhere in the tunnels. They manage to make it to the docks area and their ship while still being chased by the monsters. During this they saw a church airship having a battle up in the skies above the city with a flying occult monster/creature. With rolands chest ray and his wind magic the heavily damage ship manage to make it to the sea then to a port close to albrook.

### Back home at Albrook, lich Saga

After getting back home roland got Elodia and other checked up at the local church with Sister Kassia to see if any larva was inside their heads they caught 1 inside of 1 of Lobelia friends, Roland made a deal with Arthur to make a runic devices with Devine runes to check on people at checkpoints to see if they have any larva in their heads. He also gave some to Lobelia to give to the thieves guild. After that roland went back to his mining and grinding spot to continue what he was doing, during this a lich in the other dungeon was using rolands kills to gain exp/levels and after roland left the lich manage to get into the C Rank dungeon from the hole in the wall between the 2 dungeons. Roland went back up and helped Elodia to help 3 kids at the orphanage get their classes. During this break the lich was killing monsters and adventures and making them in skeletons, after awhile of adventures going missing at the chasm area a group of gold/silver adventures were sent to investigate the area, where they got stuck between 2 large mob groups of skeletons and the T3 lich, lobelia convinced the group to jump down remembering roland survived jumping down years ago and luckily roland was back inside doing a mining/grinding expedition again and he saw a t2 skeleton were it shouldn't be killed it and looked up and saw the group falling/jumping down, roland used his earth magic to catch the group and they started to run for it. He used his golems to slow down the lich and to warn people inside of it, and to evacuate the dungeon,. He used secret tunnels inside of the dungeon to out run the T3 Lich , roland and Armanda stayed behind to escort out various stranglers including dwarven miners, during which they fought the tier 3 lich and majorly wounded it but it survived with the help of it summoned minions. After this Arthur/the adventure guild master called in for help with a plat adventures team to help kill it, but the Lich regained its health and did a dungeon break with its minions at the front, the adventures and city soldiers guarding the entrance to the dungeon were forced retreated to the city. While they were fortifying the city and waiting for the plat team. Roland was tricking with his runes to make a holy ray-runic weapons and traps. The lich ordered the attacked on the city with its minions and its t3 captains and rolands home/shop itself with the other half of its army/swarm. Roland mange to defeat the t3 lich afterwards the plat team finally came. Roland was forced to tell arthur about the B rank dungeon and the mining spot. Arthur hired the plat team to check out the new dungeon and they deterred its a B TIER. Roland took them to its spot connecting the two dungeons. where roland was still grinding and mining. while they were exploring the dungeon.

### Arthurs brothers/news spread/B TIER Dungeon

News about the new dungeon and mining spot got leaked, Arthur's brothers 3 of them sent him multiply separate letters/offers/ to come under their own control. To control the gold mine that is a B Tier Dungeon. During this time roland grinded his last couple of levels to level175 the max level he can get at t2. And people found out about the way/shortcut to the B tier dungeon threw a lava lake. Roland tried his first take on T3 trial and failed he went and asked arthur to borrow some books from arthurs library he got the military books read them, was original just gonna ask mary, retook the t3 test spent years in the trial(in his mind/trail world test) and manage to get his new class a Runic overlord. Afterwards roland was very clingy to elodia. During this time arthurss plat team left the city for a unsaid reason. A platoon/company of knights sent by Theodore Valerian arthur's brother arrived at the city with the t3 knight Emmerson ordering a high t2 level 150 Lieutenant knight unnamed ( Theodore Valerian knight), with a squad of 15 knights to rolands shop who then pouched elodia in her face after being informed roland was not at the shop and nearly killed agni after agni defended elodia, roland response was to kill the high t2 knight and then kill the next highest rank knight and then most of the others fled after the mage they had with them realized roland was a noble and a t3 mage so they messed up and ran for it. Afterwards roland put on his armor and had a duel with Emmerson the t3 knight after claiming he was arthurs head knight he beat him once, his aura/skill was on a cooldown the t3 knight then dishonored the duel and restarted the fight but roland had an ace up his sleeve and beat up the knight like a rag doll, and captured him and the other demoralized knights who had witnessed the fight. Afterwards he became arthurs real head knight and he finally told arthur his real name. Then the plat team came back the next day. Arthur talked to his older brother and got a ransom of 1,500 gold coins(unknown size big or small, gold coins) for the knights roland captured. but arthurs brother was mad because wayland(roland) never went to a knight academy and he thought another brother was backing Arthur up, hidden in the shadows. During the exchange for the gold coins and the knight prisoners' roland group was out number 6 to 13 but Alphonse group was scared/wary of roland when he used a simple magic spell to check out the chest that had the coins. Roland got runic Devine scrolls/weapons to power level Mary, Loreena and Armand to T3. Roland started to make the city of Albrook into a runic city by using the power of the dungeon and his wind turbines, Started to lay pipes/wires and making street lights too help with crime and to help with people walking home at night. Angi made it to T3 , and a new dwarf runic master craftswomen Brylvia came to the city, arthur and roland made a deal/contract with her to help out with the city. Bernir had a baby boy with his wife Dyana,. Roland with being a T3 and his new suit decide to explore the B tier dungeon will getting treasures and power leveling he came across a party of plat's and their hire getting swarmed by t3 monsters after activating a trap,, the plat leader decide to throw their hire at the monsters to buy them time, but roland and agni rescued him, afterwards the plat team decide to kill them and waited for them at the stairs leading up but roland came and asked for their surrender twice they said no so roland killed them, roland escorted the gnome to the mining site where the plat team arthur hired were guarding so roland left Rastix Zelbebanin a T3 master alchemist there with them. During this time the head of The Abyss Cult of Dragis island was ordered by the main cult to investigate/find out what happened with the occult tower that roland deactivate it, and their plans got messed up. She the leader was given/sent the 2 T3's who attacked/almost killed roland in Edelgard City to find out the person/persons behind it. After the dungeon fight roland and arthur decide to clean up the city of its worst criminals elements roland captured 1 of the big crime bosses and his right hand man. He then met the other crime bosses to make a deal while there he met Isis who he realized was the hidden crime boss of albrook he made a separate deal with her. his and arthur deals with other crime bosses dealt with whats allowed and whats not allowed in the city. Roland attempted to propose marriage to Elodia but got interrupted by Rastix and Bernir fighting, The duties of head knight/city runesmith and other duties was starting to get overwelling/stressful for Roland. After the criminals trail of the 2 crime bosses, roland finally proposed to elodia. After his wedding to elodia his house and party of his wedding was attack by the occults members. Rolands wedding party was put under some kind of sleep spell but roland unspelled it awake, woke most of the t3's at his party who rescued the other party members they then fought and bought time for non combatants and non-t3 to leave, rolands party started to get the upper hand so the leader t3 in the occult members did a forbidden spell and turned them into a t4 evolving monster, roland/angi and bernir tho did alot of damage to it and church members and paladins came and finished it off the t4 monster. bernir lost an arm/hand for the fight. Loreena was 1 of the 6 t3 paladins who came/was tracking the t3 acult members. Isis came after the fight and killed/defeat a head of 1 of the t3 accult members who stayed hidden during the fight. Sister Kassia healed roland for hours after the fight, the paladins agreed with rolands terms to make Albrook into a holy city for training against the monsters in the B dungeon the city was prefect training grounds for the church,.

Isgard (city) //Xandar’s Institute of Wizardry Saga/journey,.

After the fight Bernir had his arm lost to get a new hand/arm roland talked to Professor Arion about phantom mana (after being informed T3 healers are funky/weird bunches) who said he might be able to help but roland needs to come to the academy roland talked to arthur who said its ok but he wont give him an letter for the airship but he did give him the gold for his journey. First to isgard city where they are airships then to Xandar... Roland traveled in expensive carriages that had powerful beastspulling it and magically coating that helps prevent monsters from seeing the carriages, with a high profile/rich merchant Cedric (merchant) and his 2 plat bodyguards. They even traveled at night time. Roland only stayed in isgard for a little while less than a day then boarded the airship. But because he wasnt a normal bodyguard for the merchant he was put in a lower sleeping area with the lower bodyguards' while there a group of mercenaries (including a t3)(from the Obsidian Brotherhood) started messing with a female porter/Lunya, roland saved her from them and threated the merc's, afterwards all the merc's and other adventures/bodyguards were scared of this high Tier mage, who could go off. He subdued the t3 merc with magic and scared the rest with it. Afterwards he landed followed the merchant for awhile but told to buzz off so he went and wandered in the city...