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Eirich, The Absent Father
Name: Eirich Arathion
Birth trial: Cylus 17, 673
Trial of death: Ashan 89, 714
Race: Aukari
Skills: Combat: Unarmed (Expert), Discipline (Expert), Meditation (Expert), Intelligence (Master), Detection (Expert), Deception (Master), Seduction (Competent)
Relationship to PC: Father
Status: Approved & Dead
History: Eirich was raised like many other Aukaris. He entered education at five arcs old and completed it at eighteen whereby he received the rune of Barer of Flames. Eirich had shown prowess in information retention and recall. Anything said to him, anything he had read or seen, he would be able to remember with great precision which he further worked on and improved over his life. This ability pushed Eirich in two decisive directions. One, he was in the Aukarian library all the time. He revelled in the information he could glean from the books and journals, locking it in his brain. Two, the path to spycraft was almost a given. It wasn't that long after his graduation that he began receiving his missions.
Eventually, he was posted in Rharne. Given his past and his abilities, he managed to secure a position in the Merchant's Library of the city. Over the arcs, Eirich created a name for himself as the reserved but highly reliable and knowledgeable member of staff. During his tenure in Rharne, Eirich was then approached by one of Purveyor's minions. This was before the fateful fight between Purveyor, Purveryor and Rharne. Eirich was told of a new mission within the territory. Under the illusion that Fladrun himself was mobilizing to move against Rharne and the Immortal of Lightning, the man joined the cause and became involved in what became known as the Underchildren experiment. Along with other man subscribed to this action, he was tasked with impregnating one woman and making sure she had delivered the baby safely. It did not matter to Purveryor how this was done. Given Eirich's position in the library, he was able to pick an easier target - a wife of a gemstone trader. She was unhappy in her marriage due to lack of children's and husband's frequent travels. Of course, the Aukarian spy exploited that. Over short but very intense and secretive courting period, the woman found out she was pregnant. She was ecstatic, and she also had no further need for Eirich, choosing to preserve her marriage over an affair. Not that Eirich pressured her otherwise or minded. After all, she had also served her purpose.
However, it was before the child was born that Eirich found out that Faldrun was never planning to invade Rharne. Purveyor drove this independently, out of spite. Eirich had been manipulated. Anger was the closest emotion he could experience. Rage would have caused him to burn the city down himself. He was humiliated. In an act of rebellion, Eirich had decided to never let Purveyor get the child he helped create. He held little feelings for the mother or the girl that ended up being born. To him it was a matter of principle. Purveyor had used him to his own ends, exploiting Eirich's belief and loyalty. Therefore, Purveyor was a traitor in his eyes. Eirich could not take the man one on one, but he could perhaps hinder the activities. So over the following arcs before the collection of Underchildren was meant to happen, Eirich spent his time finding out as much as he could about the Underchildren, keeping a coded journal that recorded all that he had found even though that which he had found was minimal. His mind was the safest place to keep this information, call it premonition, Eirich had a need to put this particular topic in writing.
In that time, he also put in place a plan of how and where the child would be hidden. He staked out a remote shack in the woods south of the city of Rharne. It was a home to a local herbalist - a well established, quick thinking and sharp woman but unfortunately not immune to the craft of deception that Eirich lived and breathed. She was still one of the hardest targets to convince of the story he came up with - there was a child of fire in the city of Rharne, unloved by her parents and in danger of death. Would this old woman take this poor soul under her wing and prove that blood did not determine actions? Eirich would never find out nor did he care, why the woman agreed to it at the end. But she did and that was his job done. He watched from the shadows that day when the Mistral's apothecary collected the child from the streets and spirited her away.
Not long after, Eirich met his end when he openly rebelled against Purveyor. That was the only day Eirich ever felt free erupting in beautiful blaze of anger and rage. Arcs of suppressed feelings flamed around him even as he fought knowing he was going to die. The library staff alerted authorities of his disappearance and a missing report was filed. They even put up flyers for Eirich but no one would ever find him. Eventually, they would just commemorate him with a small portrait of people of honour displayed in the library.
Birth trial: Cylus 17, 673
Trial of death: Ashan 89, 714
Race: Aukari
Skills: Combat: Unarmed (Expert), Discipline (Expert), Meditation (Expert), Intelligence (Master), Detection (Expert), Deception (Master), Seduction (Competent)
Relationship to PC: Father
Status: Approved & Dead
History: Eirich was raised like many other Aukaris. He entered education at five arcs old and completed it at eighteen whereby he received the rune of Barer of Flames. Eirich had shown prowess in information retention and recall. Anything said to him, anything he had read or seen, he would be able to remember with great precision which he further worked on and improved over his life. This ability pushed Eirich in two decisive directions. One, he was in the Aukarian library all the time. He revelled in the information he could glean from the books and journals, locking it in his brain. Two, the path to spycraft was almost a given. It wasn't that long after his graduation that he began receiving his missions.
Eventually, he was posted in Rharne. Given his past and his abilities, he managed to secure a position in the Merchant's Library of the city. Over the arcs, Eirich created a name for himself as the reserved but highly reliable and knowledgeable member of staff. During his tenure in Rharne, Eirich was then approached by one of Purveyor's minions. This was before the fateful fight between Purveyor, Purveryor and Rharne. Eirich was told of a new mission within the territory. Under the illusion that Fladrun himself was mobilizing to move against Rharne and the Immortal of Lightning, the man joined the cause and became involved in what became known as the Underchildren experiment. Along with other man subscribed to this action, he was tasked with impregnating one woman and making sure she had delivered the baby safely. It did not matter to Purveryor how this was done. Given Eirich's position in the library, he was able to pick an easier target - a wife of a gemstone trader. She was unhappy in her marriage due to lack of children's and husband's frequent travels. Of course, the Aukarian spy exploited that. Over short but very intense and secretive courting period, the woman found out she was pregnant. She was ecstatic, and she also had no further need for Eirich, choosing to preserve her marriage over an affair. Not that Eirich pressured her otherwise or minded. After all, she had also served her purpose.
However, it was before the child was born that Eirich found out that Faldrun was never planning to invade Rharne. Purveyor drove this independently, out of spite. Eirich had been manipulated. Anger was the closest emotion he could experience. Rage would have caused him to burn the city down himself. He was humiliated. In an act of rebellion, Eirich had decided to never let Purveyor get the child he helped create. He held little feelings for the mother or the girl that ended up being born. To him it was a matter of principle. Purveyor had used him to his own ends, exploiting Eirich's belief and loyalty. Therefore, Purveyor was a traitor in his eyes. Eirich could not take the man one on one, but he could perhaps hinder the activities. So over the following arcs before the collection of Underchildren was meant to happen, Eirich spent his time finding out as much as he could about the Underchildren, keeping a coded journal that recorded all that he had found even though that which he had found was minimal. His mind was the safest place to keep this information, call it premonition, Eirich had a need to put this particular topic in writing.
In that time, he also put in place a plan of how and where the child would be hidden. He staked out a remote shack in the woods south of the city of Rharne. It was a home to a local herbalist - a well established, quick thinking and sharp woman but unfortunately not immune to the craft of deception that Eirich lived and breathed. She was still one of the hardest targets to convince of the story he came up with - there was a child of fire in the city of Rharne, unloved by her parents and in danger of death. Would this old woman take this poor soul under her wing and prove that blood did not determine actions? Eirich would never find out nor did he care, why the woman agreed to it at the end. But she did and that was his job done. He watched from the shadows that day when the Mistral's apothecary collected the child from the streets and spirited her away.
Not long after, Eirich met his end when he openly rebelled against Purveyor. That was the only day Eirich ever felt free erupting in beautiful blaze of anger and rage. Arcs of suppressed feelings flamed around him even as he fought knowing he was going to die. The library staff alerted authorities of his disappearance and a missing report was filed. They even put up flyers for Eirich but no one would ever find him. Eventually, they would just commemorate him with a small portrait of people of honour displayed in the library.
