Asher+Rhyne


 * The Questions**

Full name of Character: Asher Rhyne

Reason, meaning or purpose behind the name: No reason other than his mother liked the name

Nickname: Ash

Reason for nickname: Its faster than saying Asher

Race: One Quarter Dragon / Three Quarters Human

Occupation/class: Middle

Social class: Hunting / Fishing **Physical Appearance:** Age: sixty eight

How old they appear: seventeen

Eye Color: Light teal Dragon

Glasses or contacts? No need for them

Hair color length and style: Shoulder length straight light blonde

Weight and height: 160lb 5’11”

Type of body (build): Tall, lean, and toned

Skin tone and type (i.e., harry, slimy, scaly, oily, fair, burns easily): On the paler side but perfect complection. His skin looks soft but is really hard to damage (hard but not impossible

Shape of face: Thin square jaw

Distinguishing marks (dimples, moles, scars, birthmarks, etc.): His dragon eyes

Predominant feature: His upper body strength

Is s/he healthy? He is in perfect health

Do they look healthy? Why/why not? He looks perfectly healthy and fine **Favorites:** Char’s favorite color: The same blue as the sea of stars

Least favorite, why? Grey because it is bleak and boring

Music? Doesn’t care much for music...too busy with other things

Food: The wild turkeys on the island that he rarely ever gets because he is one of the are few to brave the forest for food

Literature: The legend of the twins (Mythology is a favorite subject)

Mode of transport: Running (being a descendant of madam cho he is faster than most people) **Personality:** Are they a daredevil or cautious? Daredevil he likes to push his limits to see what will survive

Do they act the same alone as when with someone? Pretty Much

Greatest Strength: His ability to think through tough situation

Greatest Weakness: The fear of losing his father

Biggest Vulnerability: His greatest fear **Background:** Hometown: Je song (Just and Island not a village per say)

Type of childhood: Physically he is still a child (17 years old) Mentally he has been alive 68 years not a very typical child hood

First Memory: Sitting with his mother while she sang him to sleep

Most important child hood event that still effects him/her: When his mom died

Why? He was young when she died and it was very sudden it affected him greatly

Education: The people on the island learn from elders and he is considered an elder because he is 68

Religion: Non religious as of now

Finances: enough to survive and be happy **Family:** Mother: kamala

Relationship with her: She died when he was young but their relationship was very good

Father: Destin

Relationship with him: He loves his father more than anything else and wants to keep him safe in his old age

Siblings, How many, relationship with each: no siblings

Other extended family: Madam cho tha guardian of the east

Close? Why or why not: Never met not close

**Character Backstory:** The Life and Times of Asher Rhyne

To learn about who Asher is, we must first learn about his family ties. Asher’s mother Kamala was born in Xandi-Lat: The village at the bottom of the Great Library. Living as close the the Great Library as she did and being related to the guardian of the east Madam Cho, Kamala was an amazing scholar. Kamala spent a lot of time in the great library reading what ever she could get her hands on. She also had other interests other than learning. One of Kamala’s favorite things to do was interior decoration and the showed in both her apartment and the apartments of her friends and family. All-in-all she had a pretty normal life.

Asher’s Father Destin was a different story. His life was not so normal, but he liked it that way. Destin was an wanderer, spending most of his life living on a boat with his family traveling all over the world. Unlike Kamala, he gained his knowledge of the world through his travels. Destin was born in the western side of the world and traveled from place to place with his parents until their travels took them to the south. The chaos in the south showed his parents the dangers of the world. Still wanting to travel and see the world Destin’s parents took him to the safety of the east.

Destin was young when he made it to the east only about sixteen years old, but his parent had always treated him like he was an adult and he had been independent for a few years. Destin’s parents decided to settle down in the east. Destin being young still wanted to see more of the world. So he set off with a certain place in mind: Xandi-Lat. Destin had heard that it was a beautiful place and wanted to find out for himself. It took him a few days to get through the surrounding land of Ringence but he made it to village. It was there that he met Kamala.

Kamala had been very busy that morning running errand and had gone to the market to get some food for her dinner that night. Destin went to the market to stock up on food for his travels. He had only planned to stay in Xandi-Lat for a few days, just long enough to get up to the great library and back. He and Kamala met by accident. He was rushing to get to the library and knocked both her and her basket of food over. While he helped her pick up her things they started talking and Kamala said that she would help him get up to the library. It was on that trip of the mountain that they both knew that they had found their match.

They fell in love very fast and their courtship was quick: only lasting about a few months. They got married and moved into a small house on the tiny island of Je Song. Kamala Liked the quietness of the island and Destin liked that they lived so close to the water. After a few years of marriage Destin and Kamala knew that they wanted a child. After a few tries without much success they had just about given up, but one day after a few mornings of feeling sick, kamala felt that something was off. She was pregnant with a daughter who would die soon after birth. The death devastated the couple, but it didn’t keep them from trying. After a few more years they were graced with a beautiful baby boy. They named him Asher.

Asher grew up sheltered. His mother was afraid of losing him the same way she had lost her daughter. Both Destin and Kamala mutually decided that they would never tell Asher about their daughter. Destin didn’t feel that Asher shouldn’t be sheltered, rather he be taught to protect himself and keep him self safe. This led to a lot of fighting between Destin and Kamala. However with Asher being as young as he was at the time, they mutually decided to put off the decision until he was older. As the years went on Asher grew a strong attachment to this mother. He loved her more than anything else in the world. Asher spent all of his time by her side, and Kamala was more than happy with it. She loved him more than life itself. She would read to him, tell him stories of Xandi-Lat, play with him, sing him to sleep at night. Kamala was Asher’s only friend.

Sadly when Asher was only about three years old, Kamala got sick. It was nothing more than a cold at first, but as time went on, Kamala and Destin knew it was something more serious. Kamala was dying, however this fact was kept secret from Asher. He didn’t know how serious it was until it was too late. Kamala died quietly at night. Asher was five. He was devastated. His mother, his best friend, the person he loved the most, was gone. It took Asher years to cope with the death of his mother.

Asher wasn’t the only one who lost Kamala that night. Destin lost the love of his life, and he was destroyed. It was then that he decided to train Asher in Archery and hand to hand combat. He’d already lost a daughter and his wife, there was no way he wanted to lose his son as well. Asher took to his training amazingly fast. It was a distraction to both him and Destin from the pain of their loss. After a few years Asher was an expert archer and amazing at hand to hand combat. Destin stopped worrying about Asher. He knew he could handle himself, however it made Destin nervous every time Asher got sick.

As the years continued, Asher and Destin fell into a routine. Destin would go out in his boat everyday and fish for food that they would eat for dinner while Asher would go into the small village on the other side of Je Song to buy the rest of the food they would need. Asher spent a lot of time in the village. Je Song was inhabited mostly with relatives of Madam Cho. They were a kind people who became a sort of family to him. One night however another tragedy happened. An assassin came to the island, killing anyone he found to be related to Madam Cho while they were sleeping.

When Asher went to town the next day, it was quiet. With most islander’s being related to Madam Cho, there weren’t many people left. Those who were left were in a state of shock to find so many people dead. Nobody knew what to do. Soon people who were left gathered all the dead and sent the dead off to sea, to float forever in the boats they had spent every day in. It was from that day on that everything changed. Asher’s dad had gone missing, People’s personalities had changed. Asher needed to do something. And so he set off in search of answers.