Race: human
DoB: 9th Zi'da, 699
Title: Hunter, member of The Alchemist's Guild
Skills: Alchemy: Competent, Blades: Competent, Hunting: Expert, Ranged Combat: Competent, Strength: Expert, Unarmed Combat: Expert
Rikar is a giant of a man with a booming voice, and a ready smile. Standing at 6'5" with broad shoulders, some find him intimidating. He is loud, outgoing, and has a thing for the ladies. When he is working, he is all work. And when he is off work, he is all play. Rikar loves a good drink, and a good fight. He loves a good challenge even more.
He is a highly skilled hunter who makes the most of every kill he makes. Any alchemical ingredients a kill might offer goes to the guild. The meat and furs/hides are sold as well unless he needs them for himself. Any trophies a kill provides are kept for himself unless they can be used in alchemy.
In addition to hunting, Rikar is one of the guild members who helps to provide security for the Guild. Sometimes this takes the form of guarding valuable ingredients or protecting Tovar in a potentially risky trade negotiation (one with unknown or potentially hostile trading partners). Other times, he will go out with hunters or gatherers and protect them while they are working.
As a young child, Rikar saw alchemy save his father's life in the form of alchemic treated leather armor that saved his life while on a hunt. Since then he has had an interest in alchemy and he firmly believes in the philosophy of the guild. But since his family fell on hard times shortly after the incident that sparked his interest in alchemy and alchemy can be an expensive endeavor, he had little opportunity to pursue his interest. In addition to that, his father was a domineering man who believed that the life of a hunter was superior to all others. Rikar wanted to earn his father's approval, so he chose to hide his interest in alchemy and devote himself to becoming the best hunter that he could be. When he learned of the guild, he saw a way that he could do both. He joined the guild as a member who would provide alchemical ingredients to the guild and further the spread of alchemy by making it easier to obtain the necessary ingredients. Since he joined the guild, he has been taking lessons from Markel, and pursuing his interest in alchemy as well as providing alchemic ingredients to the guild.
Rikar's morals are...fluid in a sense. Friendship and loyalty are extremely important to him. He will not deal in illegal ingredients himself, nor will he help someone obtain them if he knows that they are illegal going into it. But if he is protecting a guild member that he is friends with and learns after the fact that they were dealing in illegal ingredients, he might or might not report them to the guild leader; it depends on how strong the friendship is. Likewise, if he learns that a friend is dealing with illegal ingredients while he is helping them, he will not abandon them during the hunt since that might put them in danger. If their friendship is strong enough, he will keep their secret, and might even help them if someone stumbles into them while they have the illegal ingredient. But should this happen, he will not help them gather ingredients again.
Credit: Seira Shiryu
