Name: Carthos

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Carthos was found in the woods outside a village called Cordeon, situated in the nation of Hest; in the far land of Ecadra. The villagers raised him up in the ways of a hunter, and he came to be accepted as one of the better hunters in the region. He loved his home and his surrogate family, and was happy making his contributions to the village's stores through his trade.

Then one day he returned from a several day hunting excursion to find that Cordeon had been burned to the ground, and it's furres slain or kidnapped. Grief stricken, he stayed only long enough to bury the dead before setting out to find out the perpetrators of this heinous crime. It didn't take much searching to discover that a band of mercenaries had been in the vicinity, extorting "taxes" from small villages and committing acts of wantonness and cruelty wherever they went. A bit more inquiry led him to discover the mercenaries were in the employ of the Nuranians, residents of the nearby city-state of Nuran. 

Since it had come under the kilmship of Vargnash Califur several years past, the self-dubbed Kilmate of Nuran had spread it's malevolent fingers across Hest; absorbing or destroying any smaller cities and villages who stood in their way. The Nuranians' strategy was simple- overwhelm small, defenseless villages with military force; then press the unwilling villagers into service as soldiers or slaves to serve the ever expanding Kilmate. It is said that Vargnash himself enjoys hearing the pleas of helpless peasants merely so he can laugh as they are thrown into the dungeons of Nuran to rot, or worse yet, tortured for his sadistic pleasure. A Canine, he sees his race as superior to all others and nearly all of Nuran's already limited Feline and Equine population has been "purged" by his regime.

Carthos knew that he could not merely waltz into Nuran and slay the furre responsible for the destruction of his and many other villages. So he set out to find a legend to help him with his task of vengeance. To the north of Hest soared a range of ice-capped mountains- the Crags of Kheleborn; and local legend held that a mysterious city of great lizardlike beings lived there, hidden from all others by the blinding snows and icy cliffs. Carthos provisioned himself, stole an Ostrix from a Nuranian outpost, and set off for the Kheleborn range. The furres of Hest never saw him again, and most believe he died seeking the lost city.

In actuality, after two years of searching, he found that city and the creatures that lived there; the Drakari. An ancient race of dragons, they welcomed him and listened to his plea for help to destroy the Nuranian Kilmate. Mgini, the oldest of the wise lizards, told him that he was not yet ready for this task. Against Carthos' protests, the Drakari elders opened a gateway in the aether and sent him through it. When he awoke, he was naked but for a sapphire dragon pendant; and he was in Furcadia.

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