Arthur

## History

Arthur grew up in the Roslyn County of Inverden in a small village named Rosmandy. The village lived and thrived on producing wine and horse ranchers. This small village was not very large at only a few hundred people. Arthur's mother was one of the villages tavern maids, serving drinks and food for workers who had finished their days hard work. Arthur was raised in this environment, and even as a child he took up to helping his mother in her work as many children would do with their fathers. Arthur may not have had a proper father, but the Innkeeper Edward did always treat the lad like one of his own, so he always looked up to the man as a good father figure to listen to and inspire him.

This town did not get too many travelers to it aside from merchants from Roslyn who came to buy the Wine to bring back to the city, and from the rare Marquise or Baron showing up to the town to purchase horses for his knights. So, when a travelling minstrel came to town, of course it was a different experience. This traveler named Samuel of Ten Strings spun a tale of how he was travelling the lands gathering folk tales of all the different areas he visited, planning on creating a book from all the stories. He told tales of noble heroes and horrific monsters of the night, all to the strings of a masterfully made Lyre. The still young Arthur grew to love the music more than the stories and was given a proposition from the bard that he wouldn't mind staying an extra month to teach the lad the basics of how to play one, if he'd tell stories of the bard to every Noble who came to town, so that they could hear of him to patronize his work. Arthur had eagerly agreed to this deal and learned the Lyre, becoming the towns sole musician.

Arthur continued to grow up, serving as both a waiter and the musician for the tavern. The towns lord, Dane Mathias Hilgrid would even patronize the young teen to play for his residence whenever he was hosting other Danes or Marquise from other towns. Arthur spent his earnings on finding whatever he could about making music with the lyre from the few travelers came to town. This lifestyle continue for a few years a Arthur grew up. Eventually, his mother passed away leading to several months of sorrow. Still, Edward kept watch over the young man letting him work at the tavern still even without his mother around anymore.

Arthur's simple life continued as it would as he was growing closer and closer to manhood. He came to fancy a Eliza, a local rancher lass, who worked for her own father on a family horse ranch. He wrote up his own music pieces just for her and hoped to win her favor and acceptance before finally going to her father to ask for her hand. Their romantic little trist went farther than he initially intended when they ended up in bed together in secret. This became a night of discovery for Arthur, in many ways. In addition to his discovery of passion with Eliza, he sadly came to discover his heritage and power. It was the night of his first transformation into his Fanglord form, a tiger-like form that one could easily mistake for the transformation of a weretiger. This sudden transformation set off screams and panic from his would-be lover, and a few from himself as well. This led to the discovery of a dangerous monster in the stable, that no doubt had taken advantage of the rancher's daughter, causing the town to come up in arms. In this Arthur discovered his power, as flames erupted from his hands causing the building to start on fire. Terrified, Arthur fled being chased by a mob of the villages few guards and Dane Mathias. Despite the night time, Arthur could see perfectly fine, and he felt so much faster, it wasn't out long before he out ran the mob.

Arthur came to a question of his existence now; He was now a strange fiery magical monster cat that had no hope of being able to return home without being killed as a monster that tried to set the town on fire, even if it wasn't intentional. His magic was strange and erupted at times inconvenient. With no where to go, Arthur fled south east, as a strange cat monster, perhaps he could simply disguise himself as a catfolk and try to find a new life. It was a better alternative to dying. As such, he fled until he got to La Belle Fores where he spent what little money he had to hire a smuggler to get him into Akere.

In Aber, Arthur had to learn to not only fit in to this strange new culture to him, but also to control his magic. Eventually, he got a gig training to be a Mercenary among others, and they had the resources to help teach him to control his flames to not burn everything on accident. Spending the first couple years of his manhood training, he finally got a grasp of the basics of his magic and how to call it on demand and suppress it so he didn't cause horrible disasters with his fire. Arthur now seeks to return to Inverden under his new guise as a Arke'tei and become an adventurer, doing something good for the kingdom so that he can make up for the problems he has caused with his transformation in the first place.

## Appearance

Appearing much as a bi-pedal tiger, Arthur passes himself off as an Arke'tei Catfolk. Due to the more primal look of the Arke'tei versus the Miqo'tei, his disguise does cause many to associate the more violent tendancies of Arke'tei to him. His orange and black fur covering most of his body adds a layer of padding making him appear thicker than he actually is.

He typically wears a set of clothes fit for a traveller always on the road, with a Haramaki plate tucked under the outfit to provide a small amount of protection.

## Physical Description

### Hair

Orange

Arthur is a rather gentle soul, preferring peace whenever possible. He is actually very conflict adverse and would prefer to back down from an argument that looks like it could spiral into actual violence. Despite this compassionate side, he is also a bit mischievous enjoying a little misdirection or making people think something, only to shortly after let them know what actually happened. This playful mischief side enjoys messing with people. As a person, Arthur loves mischief, but he hates Drama. He hates people actually fighting and being terrible upset with each other and dislikes the notion of fighting being a fun pass-time.

Still, he can't help but feel a bit of awe and elation whenever he is able to use his magic successfully to defend himself or his allies. That moment of elation is usually followed by sorrowful dread as his fears that he is becoming more and more a monster who enjoys violent bloodlust overplay in his mind.

## Loves

Beef Stew, Music, Roslyn Wine, and the feeling of elation that comes with having done a truly good deed for someone who needs it.

## Fears

That people discover his true shapeshifter heritage and see him as a monster to be hunted.

Also boats. Boats are awful and no sane person would ever get on one.

Seriously, Fuck Boats.

## Hobbies

Arthur holds a few hobbies. He does quite enjoy reading old fairy tales and fables. This interest also expands to castles. He saw one once when he was younger before he became a run away fugitive as a young adult, finding the size and awe of a castle amazing.

## Family

The closest thing Arthur currently has to family would be the Innkeeper Edward in Rosmandy.

## Aspirations

Arthur hopes to better learn how to control his magics and more importantly, his strange new tiger form.