Orien Vendhrir

Orien Vendhrir is an aasimar warlock.

Born in the year 42 A.E., Orien grew up in the city of Dorial, the capitol of the Citlalic Kingdom, where he studied in the Great Halls under the care of some of the best arcane scholars. His celestial heritage was no secret - he was guided, studied, and helped along his journey as he grew in strength. He was predicted to be a great man one day, a leader that would guide the seven kingdoms to an age of peace and prosperity. But their attention, though positive, was overbearing and despised by Orien; he wanted to be free. Several times he managed to sneak out of the Great Halls, but his freedom was short-lived, rarely making it out of the city of Dorial.

On one of those rare occasions that he made it out past the city walls, he was swarmed by a pack of shadow hounds; it was only by pure luck that one of his mentors found him before he was ripped apart. That night, he had his first dream from Tezcatlipotl, a being from the Shadowlands that offered him the promise of freedom in exchange for freedom of his own. At first, Orien refused, but as the mages' restrictions grew and the dreams persisted, he eventually agreed, desperate to be rid of his celestial burden. And from there, he was twisted. At Tezcatlipotl's request, he threw himself back into his studies, training under the scholars at day and his new master at night.

In the year 17 A.E., Orien fled the Great Halls for the last time. Few attempts at a recall were made by his former mentors, and he wandered alone through the seven kingdoms, growing in knowledge and strength. And then, seventeen years later, Orien returned home to the city of Dorial on the night before the winter's solstice. There, he slaughtered his mentors and set fire to the First Temple of the Great Halls, thereby completing the ritual set to him by Tezcatlipotl and releasing the Blight into the world, giving way to the Hundred Year Blackness.

The birth of the Blight consumed Orien's soul; he was assumed dead after it was sealed away at the beginning of the Pyrrhic Age.