Vesper

Mittelmarch Season Opener 2024.

Fighter Information

Name: Vesper Ardina
Actual Name: Richard Shirley
Ranks/Titles: None
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Realm: Mittelmarch
Unit: None
Primary Fighting Style: Preference for two-handed swords but is currently trying out all fighting styles
Fighting Since: March, 2023

GotC 2023. Photo Credit: Ematai

Events Attended

Gathering of the Clans 2023
Mittelmarch WAR! 2023

Lore

Early Years

  Vesper was born into the merchant clan of Kyria and was raised around the kingdom of Nautak. Growing up in a merchant clan meant traveling with his family, learning of the outdoors, and training to become a lieutenant in the clan’s private guard. Journeying to the farthest reaches of the land provided Vesper with an understanding of the harsh realities of life. As the world revealed itself to him, Vesper always tried to brighten it, however he could. Through this deep desire to brighten the world, he came into contact with the followers of Elysium. Elysium is a force, a presence, that all their followers attest. However, their nature remains hidden, and their power unknown. The only proof of their existence is the power that their followers possess and a drive to bring all things to harmony. Vesper recognized kindred spirits amongst the followers of Elysium, and so learned from them the binding of wounds and the restoring of the soul from corruption.

The Call

  One dark night, as winter crept towards spring, Vesper awoke to the sound of a great war-horn. Though the call rang through his ears and woke him from his sleep, no one else seemed to have heard the resonating noise. The very next morning, Vesper packed his belongings and left the homestead of Elysium, now searching for the source of the distant war-horn.

Mittelmarch

  Vesper traveled through many lands, most familiar, some not. Throughout the months of searching, he never found another soul that had heard the beckoning call. One day, as he traveled through a dense wood, a great fog enveloped him. Unlike any kind of fog he had seen before, Vesper felt something change in the world. The air became different, colder than before, and the ground before him now seemed well-worn from countless feet. While he had been deep in the Western Wood, now Vesper stumbled out of a strange tree-line, and a great castle could be seen in the distance. In this moment, Vesper realized that his connection to Elysium had been severed, and, to his despair, a battle raged in the plain before him.

  Thus, Vesper Ardina arrived in the Land Between the Lands and found a place in the halls of Mittelmarch. He now seeks to bring harmony to this new land, to reconnect with Elysium, and to master the art of combat. Through it all, a simple verse dances through his head:
  Elysium walks with the warriors
  She waits in the halls of the slain
  Forever searching for the worthy
  For those who fought through the pain