Kharn

Kharn

Kharn is a powerful mul slave gladiator owned by the Tyrian senator Lord Eramor of House Kantane.

Severely weakened by a great raid of desert bandits on House Kantane lands, Lord Eramor and his small private army have been enrolled into the King's First Guard Legion, Steel Legion, under Dragon Cohort, commanded by fearsome templar-tribune Karthen. Kharn has accompanied his master on this campaign as a bodyguard and elite compliment to the House Kantane army. Surviving elven ambushes, the attack of powerful air spirits, capture and escape from rogue Tyrian nobles, Kharn recently nearly killed the enemy commander, a powerful air cleric, and wounded him severely. For this he has been saluted by the tribune, and increased the standing of his noble army. Marching ever further into the Dragon's Swathe, Kharn is beset by the rigors of the desert, and a foot soldier in the tribune's unyielding pursuit of the bandit army and its air cleric.

Background

Kharn is the son of Eskaya, a dwarven slave-woman belonging to the Tyrian psionic academy called the School of Thought. Kharn's father, he later learned, is the templar Xesteres, who in years passed inflicted an abusive sexual relationship with Eskaya. A product of rape, Kharn was conceived by these two parents, and shares this fate with his mul brother Gerstahd. Kharn possesses a full dwarf half-brother named Altair. Raised by Xesteres after the templar had murdered their mother's husband, Altair was groomed for the templary, in which he now serves.

In early youth, the School of Thought sold Kharn and his brother to House Khantane, where he and his brother were to be trained and likely resold as finished gladiators when the time came. The majority of Kharn's gladiatorial training was given by the cruel taskmaster Gastin, as well as by the occasional lessons from the former arena champion Vorestes.

Current Military of House Kantane

Organized as a battalion, the House Kantane army has suffered severe losses in the current campaign. Lord Kantane personally accompanies his army.

Ideally comprised of slave-soldiers who were raised from extreme youth by the officers, and trained by the senior soldiers and officers. Nearly all of House Kantane’s common soldiers share this background. House Kantane prefers to free its well-performing soldiers, usually at least after twenty years of membership in one of the companies (beginning at around age 18 usually). However, this is not always the case. House Kantane has no chiefs, but promotion to color sergeant and even centurion is possible. The officers are usually professional soldiers of free or equestrian background, or are relations to the senatorial family, or of the family itself. The senator of course reserves the right to command his force personally. From time to time, templars come to train and indoctrinate noble family armies, and House Kantane is no exception.

First Company

Commander: Captain Malathus

Ensign: Lonius

Centurion (former Sgt.) Lavian

Slave-Soldiers: 15 + 24 from Third Company

Second Company (Archers)

Commander: Centurion Kralvis

Slave-Soldiers: 16

Third Company

destroyed, survivors folded to First Company

Veterans

Ensign Methro, freedman, retired

A former slave-soldier, intelligent, long-time battalion centurion, ensign for one year after 22 years of service as a slave soldier

Color Sergeant Dthanvren, freedman, retired

Sergeant Rangard, freedman, retired

Rangard is very wise and may possess hidden powers.

6 others

Gladiators of House Kantane

Kharn

Gerstahd, Kharn's powerful mul brother

Merkanor, a silent and dour dwarf who was until Gerstahd’s recent victories the senior gladiator of House Kantane

Arlmar, a human ex-thief who has been re-trained as a gladiator of limited ability

Sorkena, a female half-giant

Lenshkin, a half-elf with a pyschoportative ability to walk through walls (KIA in the Kantane arena beside Gerstahd)

Seela, a steely human woman (willfully escaped during the bandit army raid)

Hest, an evil human gladiator (tortured, executed)

Kaysore, an elf male, his arm was cut off by Gerstahd with Kharn's help when he escaped during the bandit army raid

(Kaysore, an elf who escaped during the elven raid on House Kantane when Tyr was attacked by Hamor’s raider army) (Esane, a human woman who escaped during the elven raid on House Kantane when Tyr was attacked by Hamor’s raider army)

Kharn, son of the human templar Xesteres and the female dwarf slave Eskaya of the School of Thought

Brief Background: Sold in extreme youth to House Kantane of Tyr with his brother Gerstahd. Trained by the ex-gladiator Gastin and at time the ex-gladiator mul champion Vorestes.

Father, Xesteres, Templar in the High Bureau of the King’s Administration Xesteres raped the dwarfess Eskaya, and produced from that union the muls Kharn and Gerstahd. Xesteres is still alive and is of some rank in the templary of Tyr. He finished raising Altair, who was the son of Eskaya and her dwarven slave-husband Esh’gethor, after Xesteres arranged for Esh’gethor’s execution.

Mother, Eskaya, common slave-servant at the psionic academy the School of the Thought in Tyr Born a slave of the senatorial house Dyan, and sold with her older sister Tharaya to the School of Thought, where they have remained ever since. Eskaya was raped by the one-time student of the School of Thought, Xesteres, who was attempting to harness the psionic arts. He did this over the course of several years, developing a cruel “relationship” with Eskaya. Eventually, her slave-husband Esh’gethor threatened to expose the templar’s sexual obsession with some of his more judgmental peers. In retaliation, Xesteres arranged for a mock escape attempt for Esh’gethor, which the dwarf husband took, but in which he was captured and executed. Xesteres’ relationship with Eskaya ended after this turn of events. Eskaya has received remedial psionic training while at the School of Thought, but is not a psionicist.

Brother, Gerstahd, brother mul gladiator [played by Link]

Half-Brother, Altair, dwarven son of Esh’gethor and Eskaya, a budding psionicist and junior templar centurion of Tyr [played by David]

Fame/Reputation in the City of Tyr

Victories at House Kantane with Gerstahd: +3

Loyalty to House Kantane: +1

Capture by Terathian and Escape: -2 and +3

Victory at the Battle of Black Hill: +3

Award of the Commander's Cup, Commander's Spear, and Order of the Dragon: +2

Slave: -2

Mul: -1

Total: 7