Role

Chapter 1

A Seantryn whelp like most minotaurs, Vyke grappled with loneliness for most
of his existance. Shunned by most thanks to the hideous origins of the
minotaur and the incomprehensibility of their speech, he worked as a laborer,
doing what minotaur do best - hard physical work. Day after day, paycheck
after squandered paycheck - for it is barely enough to sustain the appetites
of a bull - he was endlessly bored, and most importantly, alone. So, he joined
the Seantryn Guard.

They shunned him there, too. Hazing was severe, as it was for most minotaur -
Seantryn being a town for minotaur did not mean it was a town that was
particularly fond of them. Keeping his head down and his arm strong to the
guardsman's halberds and their training gave him something to do, but it
wasn't until he met Her that he finally felt some kind of flame in his heart.

A human from one of the Empire's ships in drydock, she enchanted him on sight
- severe, strong, mocking of the Seantryn guard at their practice. She'd come
while the 'Sworn Sanguine' was in repair after an engagement with the
'Phoenix's Keening', and out of boredom was ridiculing the poor form and lax
training of the Seantryn guardsmen. Every word drove him to rage and superior
focus. He needed to impress this beautiful stranger. Soon, she was gone, and
he couldn't tell whether he had, and that infuriated him.

So much so that when the ship was gone, he joined the true warrior's guild
with his meagre training. He had discovered that when she was leaving, she
had dropped one of her gold rings on the floor - so wealthy she didn't miss
it, apparantly. For a remembrance, he set it as his nose ring. He was going to
find her. He would join the Empire to find her. Someone like that would surely
be strong enough to bear being the partner of a minotaur, whether she
consented or not. She would regret ignoring him.

He wasn't sure whether it was to kill her or to worship her, but Vyke would
FIND HER. And when he would learn of the Burning Heart, he would pray to this
divinity for aid in his obsession.