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Arasaki Hitari Profile: Arasaki is generally thought introverted and brooding. He may even seem mysterious to those who doesn't know of his past. Quick to anger, but as quick to let it ebb away, he is considered erratic by those who doesn't know him, but he is also fiercely loyal to anyone who earns his hard-to-win friendship. A dark secret lies deep within the heart of Arasaki though, weighing down on him every single day of his life. His hatred for his real father, Arakasi Hitari, is burning him up from the inside, to such a degree that his fosterfather Alton R'nuri warned the Asha'man who brought Arasaki from his village that he should never let father and son meet. such a meeting might result in the death of one or both... Biography:
Only Desra and Alton knows who Arasaki's father is. They've told anyone who's asked that it was a passing nobleman who seduced her and made her with child. The man never came back again. The last part is true enough, but Arasaki Hitari, who was the inspiration for the childs unusual name, also better known as Arasaki Asha'man was no noble. He poised as one on all his visits, but the last one held experiences that forever drove him away from Far Ridge and the woman who loved him. Desra never got over him. She never took another husband, and died only eight years after her son was born, struck down by a vicious lung illness. She left her son almost nothing, except for his fathers true identity, told him with her dying breath. Alton took him in, treating him as the son he never had, just like he had done Arasaki's whole life. But in the boy grew a bitterness, a bitterness against the father that had left his mother alone, the father he accused of his mothers death. No matter what Alton did, the boy seemed to lapse into a brooding, dark depression. The only time he seemed happy was when Alton taught him the basic sword skills he could. But the boy swiftly proved to be a different fighter than Alton. Where the old innkeeper wielded his old twohanded sword, the boy quickly found a love for the sabre, and at his tenth birthday, Alton gifted him with a masterpice of a sword. It was long and slender, and made from the strongest steel. After t! he first few weeks, the boy was never seen without it. But noone made fun of him, even though the sword was still too big for him. He seemed so serious, wearing the sword as proudly as any knight. Time passed, and Arasaki grew. Soon he was as tall as most men, but graceful and delicate, looking almost frail. But Alton knew that his fostersons appearance was deceptive. He was as strong as most men, a trait he had inhereited from his father: Arakasi had looked frail too, but he had been one of the strongest men Alton had met. But one day, something strange happened. Arasaki found a hawk fledgling, bleeding to death, apparently dropped from it's nest.. The young boy had taken it inside, desperately trying to save it. And in the morning, the bird was healed, no trace of injury except a strange lethargy. In the days after, noone ever knew of the mystrious bout of sickness that had wracked the young boy. But soon, everything was back to normal, except for one thing. The hawk remained. Soon, the boy was never seen without the bird perched on his shoulder. And strange things started happening around him. Rocks mystriously fell from perches to crush a snake that tried to bite him, a collaping roof in an old hut landed on a precarious perch long enough for him to escape, and other strokes of luck. And after every thing, he fell strongly ill. One day, a stranger passed through Far Ridge. That in itself was not strange. The strange thing was that when he left, he brought Arasaki with him. There was much speculation about what had happened, but noone in Far Ridge, except Alton, knew what really happened... Arasaki was going to the Gey Tower to become Asha'man...
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