Arik the Blooming Blade

     Arik was a knight from the minor city Solida, once a member of the now defunct Knights of the Garden, a small but tightly-knit order, and the adopted son of it's leader, the High Curator, Tabitha Rosecrest. When Solida's elected council was overthrown by local aristocrats in a bloody coup, the still living Knights of the Garden were labeled traitors, and hunted by the new rulers of Solida. After many encounters with bounty hunters and aristocratic forces, eventually only Arik and his adopted mother Tabitha remained. Alas, his mother too, would die in battle, protecting her son when the two were ambushed. As she laid dying, she bid Arik to flee Solida, declaring the order destroyed. With no order to guide him, and no safety to be found in his homeland, Arik talked himself aboard a merchant vessel, and left Solida for good.

     After many months at sea, eventually Arik set foot in Terres de Sud. A newcomer to these unfamiliar lands, Arik will first seek to orient himself to the customs and culture of the land before deciding on his path.

     Knowing full and well his past titles and achievements mean nothing to the new faces he will meet; Arik intends to keep his past a secret, declaring himself a simple sell-sword to any who asks of his profession or past. As telling the truth would bring no benefits, and might only inspire the cut throats and mercenaries in these new lands to seek his for-now-unknown bounty. But, a close friend and confidant, might be trusted with the truth.

(Please be patient with me! I'm a 100% newbie! Not just to Bicolline but LARP in general.)