Berig | Created on Friday, 15 September 2006 23:15 |
Vaughn |
Full Name: Vaughn Kendari The seer's in many villages were unable to tell me what it was that was consuming my thoughts. My mind was filled with questions, constantly running through my mind when I came across Elysse in the halls of the LostKingdom clan. For the first time in many years, I felt at ease speaking with someone. She told me a story of her family and their battle against people possessed by jealousy. This began to trigger some memories in my own mind, a single name came to my lips...M'Keshic. While continuing to speak with her about her own people's plight, my memory suddenly rushed back to me... ....M'Keshic was an old man that had known me from a very young age. He saw something he had not seen in quite sometime, a heart not affected by greed or lust for power...but a desire to protect. We began training hard for the next 5 years in a variety of techniques. One day after finishing a quest for M'Keshic, I found my teacher sick on the ground. He was weak but spoke softly of a great darkness coming from the east. He reached for his staff to pull himself up, but he just fell to the ground again. With eyes closed to the light, he simply said, "They will need you in the east." With that my teacher passed away...I grabbed my rucksack and left my village, not sure where I was going. My mind filled with these memories and that was when I knew why I had come to these kingdom's...there was a darkness coming here and we needed to be prepared. The next few years, Elysse and I grew closer before eventually we were married in the 43rd year of King Yuri's reign. Now, my time was spent training and getting stronger. I returned to the K'urijma whom I had left around the 32nd year of King Yuri's reign while trying to find out more about myself. After returning, I was learning more about the Chagi and further strengthening myself for any future battles that may occur. Unfortunately, just prior to the K'urijma disbanding I left again unsure of my place and feeling as though I had much left to learn. I went on a trip from around the 50th until the 57th year of Yuri's reign. I spent my time in other lands learning more about myself in hopes of learning new ways of protection other than physical. This was when I started to learn about Treasure hunting, you see, Treasure hunting was a way to protect the relics of ages past and preserve the history of them so that others can study them and learn from them. When I returned I spoke with an old friend by the name of GreatValor, he trained me in the ways of treasure hunting and I came to my home in the Merchant Guild of Koguryo. From this point on I have strived to do whatever it takes to protect my family from those that would do them harm. Both the Merchant Guild and my wife, Elysse. I became a Guide of the Merchant Guild and besides various trips to Shilla to learn more about Treasure hunting or my trips to the mountains to learn more about my own inner self, I have been a Guide since Yuri 58. After my last trip to Shilla to study more treasure hunting techniques, I came home to find out that my old friend everclear was deciding to move on himself. So it was at this point that I was asked to make the sacrifice to protect my family from those that would do them harm as Elder of the Merchant Guild of Koguryo. Now, many people would believe that I joined the Merchant Guild in hopes of one day being Elder. But this is not the case, my own desires and goals have never included any amount of power or self-promotion of any kind. The only reason that I agreed to become a Guide or Elder is because at the time my Elder believed it to be in the best interest of the Guild for me to do so. My own goals have always been to only learn more about myself and learn as much as I could to be able to protect my loved ones in times that may call for it. For these reasons, at times I have been called upon to serve in a position of power by those that I care about. Thank you for taking the time to read my history. And I hope that you can help me further on my road of the eightfold path. For through inner learning, I believe, my outer self will be able to help others better. Vaughn Kendari Merchant Elder |