Xivern

Xivern's adventuring outfit

Xivern is a knight with royal guard level training from his home kingdom within the Aolen Realm. He hails from western most continent of Dygris, the western most continent. Not much is known about his heritage. However, he insists he is from a kingdom in the cold, wintry north. To prove so, he has symbol of their deity on his hip, the time gear. Imbued with holy, ice magic to help guide him on his journey. He is a member of the Kyvog Guild which specialized within military prowess. It is here he learned the ways of knighthood, returning to his home kingdom, joining the military ranks. After many years of vigorous training, he ascended the ranks and joined the elite knight squad, "Azure Wynd". This group was in-charge of protecting the king and upper nobles. Their insignia is still etched into his shoulder pad. This is the extent of the information Xivern is willing to share with others. Whenever the topic is brought up, he insists the group was disbanded and he no longer serves the kingdom. He currently works as a mercenary for hire across the realm of Aolen.

During his adventures, Xivern has met many different people and has been able to explore a large amount of his home continent. Once reaching the east cost, he decided to travel across the sea and got to the capital city of Yingtide on the East Continent. He has spent very little time within the city but feels pretty at home there. It is very clean and has tons of new magic structures to help people get around to the different shops. Xivern spent most of his time within the taverns and trading halls looking for new job listings for mercenaries. He had a few small jobs but was itching for a big one. After a few days of looking, he found a listing that stood out. It was one for security personnel on one of the outer planes of the realm. Since he just arrived to the city, this would be a great chance to see what the higher level magic users can do. So he accepted the job and went to find the requester. Once there, he was with several other mercenaries as well as some magic scholars. Everyone seemed eager to see this distant plane. The requester was a weird looking tiefling that went by the name Hymus. With introductions aside, Hymus described the job, opened up a portal, and took everyone still interested to the plane of Growth. Xivern eagerly walked his way through.

## Entry into Growth

Once stepping through the portal, Xivern is met with a cast of friendly faces, welcoming him to the land of Growth. It is here is begins to make friends with some the masqueraders, meeting people from all sorts of races outside what he has seen back home. Including angels, satyrs, elementals, moths, kitsune, and many more! There were also many familiar looking races such as human, elves, aasimar and aarakocra. There wasn't much down time with the ball beginning nearly as soon as we arrived. This led to very little time to get the lay of the land, however, Xivern was confident in his combat and military prowess to help if anything arose. Most of the night went off without issue, and once the games were concluded, dinner was about the be served. At the head table, was Hymus, about to give their speech as the food was being served. Thanking us for joining them, Hymus called for a toast. As we raised our glasses, thats when everything went bad. As we raised our glasses, Hymus's friendly eyes and warm smile turned into that of chaos. Their eyes widening with excitement and their cheers turning into a deep cackle as they pull a lever on the nearby wall. There is a moment of silence where everything erupted. The time gear on Xivern's side begins to glow with its holy energy. Before Xivern had time to react, he was encased in a heavenly shell as the ball room detonated. Causing such an intense blast the everything was vaporized instantly and which sent him soaring into the horizon, deep within the plane of Growth.

After some time has passed, Xivern awakes an unfamiliar desert region. It is very spare and arid with little moisture and vegetation. About a week goes by and Xivern is at his limit, his resources are low and his stamina has faded. He mustered all the strength he had to keep going but eventually succumbed to exhaustion and lost consciousness. Fortunate for him, he was spotted by a caravan that retrieved his body for proper burial. Upon reaching Xivern however, they realized he was still alive and quickly took him back to their main outpost. As time moves on, Xivern finds himself in the care of the medical professionals of the Orrekiv Trading Co. After several weeks of recovering, Xivern has regained enough strength to start paying off his debt to the kind people who saved him. He offered to work as security for their caravans through the desert and help sell supplies, despite that not being his strong suit. This is where he stayed for the next month, working as security and helping caravans cross the arid deserve the major cities nearby. In his free time, he offers to train new recruits in the way of the Azure Wynd to help better defend themselves.

Once Xivern was more familiar with the area, he saw how beautiful this land was. It was a mining town that sold its ores and magical items to the neighboring cities in exchange for large amounts of food and luxury items. As Xivern became more familiar with the trading company's Guild Master, he learned that there was a planned extension of the company into some northern territory. This was the first time the company was able to expand. It had trading caravans all over the continent but this was their first time venturing into a new business field. When the caravan traders found Xivern, he was nearby to a massive pool of water within a cavern close the surface of the sand. The Guild Master is confident that with proper irrigation and tending, this water could become a thriving oasis and tourist attraction. After much debate the Guild Master thought it fit that Xivern help start up this new operation. Officially dawning him as the new captain of this sector and giving him access to the tools of making this new land, a thriving oasis. With experiencing the near death drought of the desert, Xivern was eager and honored to have this chance to help make a safe-haven for those traveling the desert.

## Shops

Orrekiv Trading Co trading stall within the main shopping district on Firecat Alley, stall 205. The trading company prides itself on their ability to have a variety of goods. The main stay of their goods is gold. While also selling froglights, sugarcane, cactus, honey, honeycomb, and enchanted books.