Zachary - Hero Guide

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Zachary: wandering warrior, swordmaster extraordinaire and a figure of great note across Aurelica. Zachary’s relatively humble beginnings can be traced back to a tribe of “Snow Savages” living on the Titan Icelands steppes. A famine prompted Zachary to head for greener pastures at the age of 12, and his keen survival skills soon attracted the attention of Imperial recruiters, who made him a junior member of the Imperial Guard and then a commander, and contemporary of Thomas, on account of his many strategic insights. Zachary scandalously quit the Guard and left the Empire for reasons that, if known, are at the very least not common knowledge.

Zachary next turned up in the public eye fighting in the Bloody Arena of Crisas of all places, as the “red-headed warrior” who soon unseated the Arena’s reigning champion, “Helmar the Berserker”. Zachary’s next foray into controversy came two years later when he helped his friend and fellow gladiator Urzag, a slave of the Arena, to freedom.

Zachary turned up again eight months later as a captain in the Lasir Dukesguard. Zachary’s second stint in the army was also somewhat short lived. Zachary forged an unlikely friendship with Calienna, the Duke’s concubine, on a mission to escort her to the Imperial City and on account of which he found himself unexpectedly given the care of her daughter, Evelyn, just before the consort’s death under suspicious circumstances. Uncertain of who to trust amid his growing unease with the Imperial hierarchy, Zachary roamed the smaller cities on the outskirts of the Empire for a number of years with Evelyn, evading any attempts by the Imperial Guard to recapture the Duke’s daughter until the pair were finally granted a writ of safe passage by Emperor Leo I.

Zachary returned to the life of a wandering warrior after entrusting Evelyn into Yolanda’s care, but could never settle down in one place in or locate the savages from whom he had fled so many years ago. Although Zachary’s present life has made it all but impossible for him to marry, he is a surprisingly tender- hearted man, and has adopted a boy he found abandoned in the wilderness named “Elson”. The financial demands of his new ward has also forced Zachary to offer his services as probably the most expensive mercenary in all of Aurelica, but this is in no way to imply that he is driven by greed. As all Aurelica knows, Zachary is more than willing to defend someone against injustice with a token sum of gold and, much more importantly, fine liquor.