Raiden Hiroki

Raiden is a calm smith and paladin that tends to end up rapidly changing moods as he tends to enjoy fighting.

He refers to a group known as "The White Circle" a group of adamant paladins who fight the monsterkin and help to cleanse those who are demon possessed. He can usually be found in his smithy or at the local tavern. He does venture out to gather raw materials himself some times so if you can not found him in either place he is most likely exploring.

**Family**

Raiden is the adopted son of Jewel and is happy to follow her about when he gets the chance. His birth mother is the 9 tailed Wolf/elf Shaman Lumina and he has recently found her again.

**IC telling of his background**

"Many moons ago I was just a kit new to this world and cursed from birth... My mother... Is of the wolf tribe unbeknownst to my father's tribe as she is able to create illusions that made her look like one of our own... When the tribe found out she was exiled and my name became a stain on my family I was left alone in the wilderness and forged my own way from a very young age. Eventually I was found by a paladin of a long ago order. I was starving dehydrated and unmoving. I am told the only thing he could make out I had said that alerted him to the life still in me was -Móðir er það þú?- I was told this years later when I had learned enough common that I could speak more fluently. The words are from my native language they mean -mother is that you.- I was young and delirious at the time of him finding me and the only thing that had kept me going was finding my mother. The Order took me in and I was given the job of helping their smith after I showed an afinity for fire magic. Things were going smoothly but we were on the frontier of Draxington. one of the lines of defense between malm and the monster hordes. One night a group of monsters braved the White walls of our fort and in the chaos I had grabbed a sword and took to charge into the horde, unbridled rage pouring off of me as I watched my comrades fall one by one. Nothing prepared the monsters for a primal force to strike at them undeterred by his wounds.. I woke a week later in the hospital ward the only one there with me was my forgemaster worried over his young pupil. When I was healed and fully rested the council called me into  their chambers and judged my actions during the battle calling me reckless to have even attempted such a thing. They however did not condemn me to the endless march, instead they praised me as, though reckless, my unwavering conviction gave new life to our forces and brought on our victory. I was then placed in a new house to train with the sword. I still worked the forge but my master was quickly seeing me surpass him as I began to forge with my own fire. Time passed on I rose up the ranks of the Order through trial and combat until one night the moment all frontier forts fear came. The alarm sounded in the middle of the night, the air was thick with smoke and the screams of men falling before they could get to their armor. We were caught unaware by a horde of monsters... The white walls of my order fell that day and the remains of our circle scatter broken to the four corners of malm.... I wondered for a time defending those in need until I came upon Lescia vilage. There I started my new life and soon heard tales of a deployment of Union Members. I was curious and wondered into the shifting sands in search of them. I spoke with a few of the members and even the Chieftain herself a couple of times. She told me their mission and I was enthralled with it I strove for the day I could take up my sword for a just cause and well the union seemed like a good fit for that. We seek to heal this world and all it's inhabitants with as little bloodshed as possible, but sometimes you have to spill blood to end a war and we are at war. So now my blade and my hammer are in the service of the Union. I am tool and weapon, shield and sword, friend and brother. I fight to heal these lands from the damages of time."