Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-9062114-20140831060517/@comment-1359657-20140902051721

Name: Shaan

Race: Redguard

Hair Color: Blue-black, short

Eye Color: Blue

Apparel: Master Robe, full suit of Enchanted Elven Armor (Carry Weight boots, Fortify One-Handed gauntlets, Fortify Light Armor Gilded suit, Fortify Block shield), Circlet of Peerless Destruction

Weapon(s):  Black Ice Bow (Ebony Bow, frost enchantment), Thunderclub (Elven Mace, shock enchantment), Dawnbreaker

Major skills (3 at most): One-Handed, Destruction, Light Armor

Minor Skills (3 at most): Block, Destruction, Restoration

Power(s): Adrenaline Rush, The Steed Stone blessing. Uses Destruction spells and enchantment in conjunction with swords, shields, and light armor to best effect on the battlefield.

Bio: Cyrus' family originally hails from the city of Stros M'kai, where they were once caretakers of the great Orrery of Hammerfell and practitioners of magic despite the cultural prejudices that. However, during the Oblivion Crisis, one of his kin was Captain of the Blades serving under Grandmaster Jauffre. It is that brave man, killed in the Battle of Bruma, for whom Cyrus is named. 200 years later, his parents were refugees from Cyrodiil in the wake of the conquest by the Second Aldmeri Dominion, heading north to continue the battle against the treacherous Wood Elves, the arrogant High Elves, and the gullible Khajiit. In the wake of the signing of the White-Gold Concordat, the family were cut even more adrift, due to the ban on the worship of Talos, who as descendants of the Blades, Cyrus' family had revered for generations. They preserved the practice of secretly worshipping all Nine Divines until Ulfric Stormcloak's revolution began. Enraged at Ulfric's uprising provoking a stronger ban on Talos worship, Cyrus' mother Julia enlisted in the Imperial army, in an attempt to help foster a unified Skyrim as a place of power from which to strike back at the Thalmor. Sadly, she was slain, not by the Stormcloaks, but by the Aldmeri themselves, who discovered her Amulet of Talos during a fierce battle near Rorikstead and acted accordingly. Cyrus' father developed a bitter skooma addiction, eventually turning to crime in the city of Markarth to feed his ugly habit before being caught in the middle of a robbery and sentenced to spend his life toiling in Cidna Mine.

Cyrus grew up very much alone, and blaming the hated Dominion for every second of hardship and loneliness he endured. However, he held no love for High King Ulfric either, and so bowed out of the political landscape altogether. Follwing his family's original lineage of spellcasters, Cyrus disappeared into the College of Winterhold and absorbed all he could learn of Destruction, Restoration, and Enchanting. He eventually emerged a Master-Wizard, studying the arts of his parents and ancestors in the Blades to supplement his magical knowledge with martial prowess.

Now a spellwarrior and enchanter for hire, Cyrus travelled the land seeking a patron. He eventually did a service for the Daedric Prince Meridia, who granted him her artifact, Dawnbreaker, in place of his ancestral scimitar, which he had lost in a battle against a necromantic lich profaning her temple. He now serves as Meridia's champion, preserving the balance of life and death and slaying the hateful undead wherever he finds them. However, he still reveres Talos and the other Eight Divines as well, and bears an Amulet of Talos round his neck.