Hunt Valier | Taknier

Name: Hunt Valier
Face Claim: Matt Dallas
Age: 22
Birth Season: Winter
Physical Description: Hunt is 6" tall with black hair and pale eyes, sometimes blue, sometimes hazel grey. His lighter eyes make him stand out from other Taknier, due in part to being marked by a disease he survived when he was young. He does his best to look well put together, but as a soldier, it's clear he has better things to worry about that grooming. Hunt has a lot of minor scars and like all Taknieri, the ability to alter his skin color

Family: Pending

Rank: Exile
Occupation: Manthiran Army Captain
Home: Manthir
Combat Experience: From a very young age, he wanted to be a soldier, and in Taknier, this is beyond encouraged. He's most skilled with a blade, his precision and agility, and experience second to none. He also skilled with a bow. With almost any other weapon, he knows how to hold it, but doesn't profess much skill. In Taknier, swordmanship is an art as well as a combat skill. Hunt turned his abilities to becoming a professional (and sometimes underground) duelist.
Education: His education was extensive like any nobleman, leaning heavily on the arts of war and foreign relations. While he was trained in various arts, it is clear he had a love for swordsmanship over all else. He speaks Imperial and Taknieri and knows some Lutrian.
Magic: TBD

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Personality:
Aloof would be one word for the foreign soldier's personality. He has a quiet sureness about him, however and is serious more often than he is not. Hunt has a clam and comforting aura about him. He doesn't speak up often, though he is hardly shy. Hunt is quite opinionated and passionately so, considering he joined a fight for a kingdom that isn't even his.

He is known to be quite reckless, especially when it comes to the safety of his fellow soldiers. It can be difficult to get him to open up and he has very few friends, though

Living as an exile in Manthir can be difficult, being a foreign officer means he faces more scrutiny. He's comfortable having eyes on him, but prefers not to be the center of attention.

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History:

More pending once Taknier is released!

He's pretty tight lipped about it, but it's clear from the way he speaks, carries himself, and holds a sword that he used to be Taknieri nobility of some kind. One very, very invested in combat.

Although he doesn't speak about it, he used to be a duelist. A rather famous one. It was an occupation highly frowned upon by his family, of course - noblemen were expected to know how to fight, but not to risk their lives over pointless displays of skill for the entertainment of others. Which was why he took part in secret and under the moniker of the Silver Ghost. He started in the underground, more or less illegal, circuit, but quickly proved his skill and earned sponsorships to compete officially and against named and ranked swordsmen.

Hunt was a close friend to the some of the Princes, having gone through school with them (like many) and was particularly close to the First Prince. When his friend and his brother were slain by unknown assassins, Hunt started asking a lot of questions. Apparently too many and too publicly, because soon enough, he found himself exiled, stripped of his family name and rank and forced to leave his homeland.

He is not alone in a recent wave of many new exiles, forced to leave for various reasons, but all of them for speaking up against what the government has told them to be true. Like many, he took a new last name to show his enduring support of his homeland. Many, like Hunt, take a variation on the name of the Imperial family.

Since then, he has traveled to Manthir in response to their unanswered call for aid at their northern border, hoping to put his skills to good use and to forget about his past. He was quickly made a captain for his skill and battle knowledge.

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OOC INFO
Census Code: Hunt Valier | male | 23 | winter | exile | Manthiran Army Captain | Matt Dallas
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