Aram Arnassus

**Aram Arnassus** is the Chief Commissioner and founder of the InterDimensional Police and one of the few remaining anarjians in the Universe, a fact he guards viciously. Many official documents list him as an unknown race of elf. He is well known on the interdimensional circuit for being fierce, stern and lacking patience but overall he is seen as extremely justice oriented and efficient. He firmly believes that "the law should only serve justice and not the other way around. If laws begin to interfere with justice in any way, we are failing.". Among his own station, he is beloved.

## Early Life

Aram was born in the anarjian village of Arnassus on Bron to a young mother, Sira. His father, along with his grandfather, disappeared during the massive storm that consumed the thobaani people 6 months before his birth. He was raised by his paternal grandmother and mother predominantly, but in true anarjian philosophy, spent a great deal of time with his community as well and later, with a younger half-sister named Anera.<br> From an early age, Aram found himself curious about other cultures and their discoveries and technology that most anarjian rejected as "fancy and unnecessary.". His mother and grandmother would complain that his "head was in the clouds, that I didn't think about real life enough. They'd spent a week cutting down all the wood they'd need for a year and thought I was lazy for suggesting we only stockpile for the season." Aram insists that while "anarjian women are tough as nails and born pragmatist," that they were also "wonderful and very loving. [My mother and grandmother] taught me all I needed to know about kindness and our obligation to our fellow people. If someone needed help, we'd just do it. There was no question about it.". When Aram was 17, however, he became bored and irritated with their simple way of life and began to explore the surrounding territory, eventually extensively mapping out much of the main continent and naming several landmarks. On his way he met a young Andromeda Evanthe, who would become his first love and oldest friend. Upon his return home, his people were "less than impressed with what might have been the invention of cartography. I remember my uncle saying, 'hell, why do we need to name the river? It's right there!'.".

## Career and the IDP

Eventually he and Andromeda made the decision to travel and found themselves living on Mawae which had become a rather large (for the time) hub for species from all over the Universe. Aram got a job as a guard in WÃ¡nmÄï¿½i and Andromeda began studying other languages and cultures. The two eventually split, for the first time, though remained friends. Disillusioned suddenly in WÃ¡nmÄï¿½i politics when they voted to cast out a child named Edom, Aram quit his job and went to Burim to look for work. Upon meeting a fellow Bronian, Dame Edie and a local who became a good friend, Bones Malone, Aram formed the idea to create the IDP. It started sloppily as an organization running out of either Bones' mothers' basement or Aram's own apartment and they had great difficulty finding work, spending a great deal of their time, according to Bones "trying to not get drunk, just in case, but often failing. Hey, we were practically kids! Except for Dame, you know, but he had his own problems." Eventually, business picked up as the local PD was unable to deal with the more supernatural criminals that had been immigrating to Mawae, and they managed to rent a small headquarters downtown. Their first big break lead them face to face with The Circle, a massive criminal syndicate with more power than they could possibly know. This unfortunately ended with their headquarters being destroyed, killing Bones in the process. Aram, furious and grieving, only redoubled his efforts and so the IDP grew until it became the formidable organization it is today.

Most of the IDP's early hiccups involved Dr. Kirschner, a monsterous scientist who was obsessed with the ancient races of Bron, specifically anarjians. Over his career, he hunted, researched and killed hundreds if not thousands of those who remained after the plague, and Aram made it his mission in life to stop him. This led to several very close calls as Aram refused to stay behind and let others deal with him - he was only captured once but received a nasty scar on his head where Kirschner reportedly attempted to attach recording equipment. To his dismay, Kirschner has continuously avoided arrest and capture and he remains Aram's greatest enemy. He spends a great deal of his free time attempting to track down any other anarjian, those with anarjian blood or rumored anarjian in hopes to warn them about Kirschner or the other various threats that exist to their species. This is a lonely job, however, since he asks for little to no help in an attempt to keep his race secret (Dame Edie, the lone exception). Over the course of this project, he has discovered only 7 others, not including his own children.

As the IDP grew, Aram began to take a more commanding role and eventually became Chief Commissioner. He focused less on manpower and more on recruiting specialized officers and began to focus on larger issues such as war lords, violent super villains and those who violated national or international laws, as well as continuing his emphasis on organized crime. The IDP is now a massive network and exists in many corners of the Universe. Aram still at the helm of the official HQ which is situated on Krisa, in The Commonwealth.

## Personal Life

### Relationships and Marriage

Aram admits himself he typically has a bad romantic track record and many journalists and even friends conclude it's due to his intense workload.<br> Aram married Andromeda Evanthe, his oldest and closest friend, while they were still very young and living on Mawae. They intended to start a family of their own, but after two miscarriages (likely due to their respective species) the stress overwhelmed the situation and they divorced. They remained close friends however, and continued to visit one another constantly. Over their lives, they have continuously reconciled though each attempt to have a child has been unsuccessful and lead to more heartache and breakups.<br> Aram at one point married an elven woman named Enyo who worked as a researcher at a large pharmaceutical company. They were married 4 years and had a son named Iah.<br> A few years after one of his breakups with Andromeda, Aram met and fell in love with a human named Mana Singh while at a fundraising event he "honestly didn't want to be at to begin with.". The two eventually married and had 3 children. After living fairly happily for more than a decade, problems began to arise, namely Aram's workaholic attitude and Mana's flirtations with other men. After being married 17 years, Charity filed for divorce and custody. Aram, not wanting to lose access to his children but knowing he was still in high demand at work agreed to all her terms with the stipulation that he was allowed to see or visit his children as often as possible. She eventually agreed and Aram found himself living in a small bachelor apartment for the better part of the next year.

### Family

With his first wife Enyo, Arnassus had a son named Iah. Iah came into Aram's care after the divorce and they were exceptionally close until Iah went to join the military. After weeks of not hearing from him, Aram launched a formal investigation finding that he never arrived at the military base. For 20 years he continued the investigation, only to be completely heartbroken, finding his son's mangled body in an abandoned Kirschner lab.<br> Mana and him had 3 children, a boy Hesse and twin girls Ceres and Eigyr. Aram is especially close to his daughters, doting on them endlessly but tends to have a strained relationship with his son, who by all accounts, is a bit of a "hellraiser". Having been spoiled a great deal by his mother, Hesse finds himself in trouble at school a great deal and ignores Aram's insistence on discipline. For a long time after the divorce, the 3 children lived with their mother. Sadly, in massive terrorist attack on The Commonwealth, Mana and her new boyfriend were killed while the children were safe at school and so Aram came to care for them.<br> Shortly after this, Andromeda came to visit him seeking his legal expertise and the two rekindled their romance once more. To their complete surprise, she once again discovered she was pregnant and despite their initial concerns, she gave birth to a very healthy and beautiful baby girl, Aiode, who Hesse adores. Hesse, his oldest living child at 19, was recently engaged to a fellow mercenary who calls herself "The Black Widow" (Mina) he'd only known a few weeks. Despite Aram's initial irritation and concern, Mina and him get along fairly well.<br> Despite his fierce loyalty to the IDP at any cost, he will always drop everything to protect his children. He's been accused of being a control freak since the death of Iah because his paranoia that Kirschner will hurt or kill his other children weighs heavily on his mind at all times.

## Noteable

Aram collects swords and is an avid sword master, considered in swordsmanship circles to be one of the best. He is also a powerful summoner, a trick he learned while in Wanmei but doesn't often publicly demonstrate.