Kaelen Thornveil

Race: Myrrak (Desert-Forged Humans)
Region: The Kingdom of Draymar, Southern Varethas
Origin: The Scorched Barrens of Myrrh’Tal
Titles: The Ashborn Nomad, Keeper of the Sand Oath, The Blade of the Dunes

Height: 6'3" (191 cm)
Hair Color: Charcoal black streaked with sun-bleached copper
Eye Color: Amber-gold with a faint inner glow
Body Build: Muscular, weathered, with the lean endurance of a desert wanderer
Age: 32 years

Born amidst the ashen storms and sun-scorched canyons of Myrrh’Tal, Kaelen Thornveil is a son of dust and defiance, a warrior molded by the brutal lands of the Desert-Forged Myrrak. Among his people, survival is both creed and curse. They are the remnants of a once-great empire swallowed by the sands after the War of the Glass Sun, when the sky itself burned and turned their seas into salt.

Kaelen was raised within the Thornveil Caravan, a nomadic band bound by blood oaths and the old Sand Laws. From youth, he learned the code of endurance, to yield is to die; to burn is to endure. His body bears ritual scars of molten ash inked into his skin, each marking a trial survived. These glowing runes shimmer faintly in moonlight, symbols of both pain and pride among the Myrrak.

Trained as a Sandblade, Kaelen mastered the dual art of sword and storm. The Myrrak channel latent heat from their arid homeland into Solar Veins, pathways beneath the skin that ignite their strikes with radiant energy. In Kaelen, this manifests as Ashlight Combat, a fusion of martial skill and blazing aura that can melt steel and blind foes in bursts of incandescent fury.

But beneath the hardened exterior lies a man haunted by loss. During a fateful raid by the Virellan Seers, Kaelen’s caravan was slaughtered, and the Oathstone of Thornveil, a relic said to contain the soul-memories of his ancestors, was stolen. Consumed by vengeance yet bound by the code of balance, Kaelen wanders the shifting dunes seeking redemption, answers, and perhaps a reason to forgive.

His journey crosses the borders of Draymar into the fractured world beyond, where whispers of the Echo Realms and the Aelenth Prophecy intertwine. Though distrustful of magic, Kaelen finds himself drawn toward Sylwen Aelthoris and the strange resonance their shards awaken in his blood.

Stoic, loyal, and dangerously pragmatic, Kaelen Thornveil is a man of burning conviction, the embodiment of the Myrrak creed:
“We do not fear the sun. We become it.”