Vesper
Fighter Information
Name: Vesper Ardina
Ranks/Titles: Footman
Race: Human
Realm: Mittelmarch
Unit: None
Primary Fighting Style: Greatsword
Fighting Since: March, 2023
Events Attended
Olympics 2025, 2026
Gathering of the Clans 2023, 2024
Armageddon 2025
Heroes Forge 2025
Oktoberfest 2025
Mittelmarch WAR! 2023, 2024, 2025
Lore
Early Years
Born into a prominent merchant clan, Vesper’s life began quietly in the kingdom of Delte. Growing up in clan Kyria meant traveling with their family, learning of the outdoors, and training to become a warrior in the clan’s private guard.
Growing older and journeying to the farthest reaches of the land provided Vesper with an understanding of the harsh realities of life. Yet as the world revealed itself to them, Vesper always tried to leave it better than they found it.
Through this deep desire to brighten the world, they strayed from the path of a merchant guard and wandered into contact with the followers of Elysium. Elysium is a force, a presence, that all their followers attest. However, their nature remains hidden, giving the outside world no hint of their purpose. The only proof of their existence is the power that their followers possess and a drive to revitalize, invigorate, and energize all things. 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 their ears and woke them from their sleep, no one else seemed to have heard the resonating noise. Vesper’s soul, however, could not rest. The sounding of the horn could not be unheard, and sleep did not come easily after it. The very next morning, Vesper packed their belongings and left the homestead of Elysium, now searching for the source of the distant war-horn.
Mittelmarch
Throughout the journey, Vesper traveled through many lands, most familiar, some not. Over the months of searching, they never found another soul that had heard the beckoning call. One day, as they traveled through a dense wood, a great fog enveloped them. Unlike any kind of fog they had seen before, Vesper felt something change in the world. The air became different, colder than before, and the ground before them now seemed well-worn from countless feet. While they had been deep in the tangle of the Western Wood, now Vesper stumbled out of a strange and well-harvested tree-line, and a great castle could be seen in the distance. In this moment, Vesper realized that their connection to Elysium had been severed, and, to their despair, a battle raged in the plain before them.
Thus, Vesper Ardina arrived in the Land Between the Lands and found a place in the halls of Mittelmarch. As they has set out on this strange world, them has been quick to seek allies, quick to relearn their previous skills with the blade, and devoted to fulfilling Elysium’s task for them. For, in each waking moment, Vesper can still hear the ghostly poem whispered in their ear:
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.