Approved BT Bio for Rhidon Dareshal - CCd by WK

[Arath Faringal]

DM Handle:  AshamanFan

Contact Info: chamberlain58@charter.net

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Character Name: Rhidon (RY-dun) Dareshal (DAR-esh-all)

 

Nationality: Cairhienin

 

Age: 47

 

Physical Characteristic: His eyes are a shade of dark brown, the right eye being slightly lighter in hue than the left. His hair is mostly black yet graying, it is shorter around an area where he was wounded during the Aiel war and would not properly re-grow. He has the characteristic shortness of stature common of Cairhienin being, by our measurements, five feet and five inches in height. He is slender, with very little fat on his body.

 

Physical Description: He has hands that seem too large for his body. He has a limp in his left leg that hinders his mobility. His face is unmarred by scars or blemishes, yet his nose is bent and lumpy, in such a way as to be indicative of having been broken at least once. He bears one long scar across his torso where an Aiel spear cut him. His hands are calloused from working long hours on the docks where the barges settled.

 

Personal History:

       Rhidon was born the son of a farmer who lived with his wife and children on a small farm in western Cairhien near Andor. He had two sisters, Anna and Jehra. Ann was two years his junior and of generally cheery disposition constantly seeking Rhidon's approval and lending a hand to her brother when he seemed to need help, and always there with a listening ear when he was angry or frustrated. Jehra was three years older than he and would constantly forsake her chores leaving them for Rhidon to labor over. Rhidon constantly told his parents of his sister's misconduct yet they never believed their daughter would ignore their commands. In reality she left to flirt with the boys that lived in the village half a mile to the north, enjoying herself, which caused Rhidon to resent her. He grew to love his parents' workhorse, and animals in general, as he saw working with them a way to relieve himself of the day's stress.

      However one day as Rhidon was working the fields to finish his own chores, because Jehra yet again neglected hers so he had to do them, he heard Anna screaming. He hurriedly dropped his tools and ran back to his house to witness everything he knew go up in flames. He ran into the house, trying to find Anna, yet he could not bear the smoke and was forced to depart. He sat outside his home, sobbing in despair, when Jehra burst from their home covered in soot. She told him that Anna had been behind her; she had heard Anna yelp but was too afraid to stop. Rhidon, infuriated that Jehra had lived while the sweet caring girl he had loved so had to die, exploded. He shouted at her and rained blows down upon her, screaming "You light-blinded coward! You goat-brained lightskirt!" and the like until she broke free of him. She fled with all haste toward Andor as Rhidon threw stones at her.

      Not daring to try and salvage anything from his home Rhidon traveled to the village Jehra had oft visited. He entered the sole inn beseeching the innkeeper to sleep in the hayloft, when he saw a gleeman going by the name Caballein (being a simple farm boy Rhidon did not know the meaning of the phrase). He approached the gleeman and asked if he would take him as an apprentice; the point got across if he stumbled in his speech, excited as he was to actually meet a gleeman. Although he declined the boy, Caballein did agree to take him to someone in the city of Cairhien who would watch after him. True to his word within the month Rhidon was living in Cairhien, apprenticed to a dockworker.

      For the next decade or so Rhidon worked hard, learning the nuances of the docks and of Cairhien itself. Soon he was so accustomed to city life he could barely remember anything of farming, tracking or any such things. He enjoyed his life, working through the days hauling cargo while spending his nights listening to music in taverns. He dabbled in political matters, as is generally true of Cairhienin; he learned the ways of Da'es Daemar and was ever ready to spread rumors of some lord or lady. His luck turned for the worse when one such lady learned that he had begun a rumor about her bedding several lords and she hired men to have him beat.  As he headed away from his place of work two men suddenly grabbed him while a third hit him repeatedly with an iron rod. His left kneecap was shattered, causing him to limp after his recovery.  Two months after the incident, as he hobbled painfully down the road, he had the fortune to have a chance meeting with a beautiful woman he would go on to marry.

      His life had finally seemed to improve when King Laman cut down Avendoreldera and the Aiel invaded Cairhien. Rhidon and his wife, who was now heavy with child, fled the city toward Tar Valon. As they began to cross the River Gaelin his wife stumbled falling to cold wet stones. Rhidon rushed to help her up, when a swell knocked her off of her precarious perch and she tumbled into the water. She was quickly carried away and none ever heard of her again. Stricken with grief he went to Tar Valon, bemoaning the misfortune to lose the two women he had ever loved in any way, where he drank himself into depression and sat out the remainder of the war.

      Eventually he returned to Cairhien, and resumed working on the docks, yet he now spent every night alone, weeping for his lost love. He went through life empty for twenty years, with no purpose or desire. Yet when the Dragon Reborn conquered Cairhien yet felt as if he had the chance to try and make something of himself, in some way. His new purpose became clear when word of the amnesty, of the Black Tower, reached his ear. Although he had no family no friends and nothing to carry on his legacy, he could yet try and make his mark on the world. He again had the chance to do something important with his life, before he died. He went to a small village two leagues west of Cairhien, where he eventually met recruiters from the Tower. He went to be tested, to see if he could learn. So he came to be, a newly raised Soldier, ready to make a difference before he died.

 

Extra Note - Meant to add that the parents burned along with Anna, and that during the latter parts of the siege of Tar Valon he, in his depression, felt no purpose or value in life,  so he requested that he fight alongside his fellow Cairhienin. During a skirmish he and his unit were beset upon by a small band of Aiel. One of them swept at him yet he, in his unfamiliar armor and with his lack of skill, stumbled as he tried to back away. the spear aimed at his heart instead gashed his stomach when the others he fought with cut the Aiel down in a concerted effort.

[Taymist]

Looks fine. CCd.