Oelun Batbayar

Clan Chieftain Oelun Batbayar (a.k.a. Oela)

His great-grandfather founded a clan with ambitions to rival the oldest and greatest names in dwarven history - and died a mere decade later. His grandfather brought the clan glory and honour, making the family name a privilege to bear - and drank his last years away, penniless and broken. His father brought shame on them all with his very birth - a frail man of fragile temperament, who died falling down a flight of stairs. With a crippled mother, Oelun, last surviving child of the Batbayars, was abandoned to a monastery. He trained for two full decades, taking his natural skill with his fists and becoming a master of his form, immovable as a mountain. After a tryst with a fellow monk led to his expulsion from the monastery, he began a life as an itinerant healer, brawling to make ends meet, ever in pursuit of self-understanding, and the greater foe.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

A lightweight wrestler, by dwarven standards. Thick forearms, well-muscled shoulders, and a toned stomach. His legs are lithe, their flexibility and mobility enabling his absolute stability in a fight.

Body Features

Oelun stands a little short, especially for a dwarf of human ancestry. Perhaps his difficult birth has a hand in it, but his legs don't quite straighten fully; like the lifetime horseman his great-grandfather was, he stands bow-legged - always prepared.

Facial Features

His topknot remains black, but his beard and moustache have turned abnormally grey, adding centuries to his appearance. His eyes are clear, always searching for the next opponent, never resting on one foe for too long.

Identifying Characteristics

Oelun has many identifying scars he leaves open to the air; a jagged cut down the left arm marking a fall during his balance trials, a burn mark on his back below the right shoulder-blade where he didn't quite move fast enough to avoid a thrust torch, and a chest scar marking a spear-thrust taken during his final defence trial, tattoed over with a broken anvil, symbol of clan Ganbold.

Physical quirks

A tattoo marks each life Oelun feels he could have saved, and failed to do so. The anvil on his chest marks the life of his father, whom he could have loved, supported, and worked to help. His back has two, one a monk graduation torc for the life of a student of the monastery lost while he spent the day in the arms of his love, and the other a four-fingered hand, for the life of a peasant farmer girl lost to infection under his care, while he lacked the medical skill to save her. He bears one more on his left ankle, a cartwheel with broken spokes, for a travelling merchant lost to banditry under his protection.

Apparel & Accessories

Oelun carries the torcs of his most prized victories on his belt and forearms, each simple metal disc a marker of a treasured achievement. Each one of these badges has a tale to it.

Mental characteristics

Sexuality

The monastery left little room for sexual adventures, but Oelun has through experience become accustomed to his heterosexuality.

Morality & Philosophy

Equilibrar Se taught him to value Honesty and pursue Self-Perfection. His parents taught him to show Compassion and Empathy. His culture taught him to uphold Honour, be loyal to Clan and Family, seek Strength and find Determination. A good friend, a priestess of Kuenzana, taught him to strive for Balance, and believe that anyone can achieve Redemption.

Taboos

Lying.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Equilibrar Se was his home for decades, but he was banished after a tryst with a fellow monk. He took the fall, and his lover remained at the monastery while he took up the mantle of a wandering disciple, earning the moniker 'the Grey Wanderer' for his hair.

Family Ties

His mother, Erdene, still lives, and the two get along well. He visits her when he can, and she gets by, caring for orphans in their small village near Nanris.

Religious Views

While heavily influenced by the teachings of Kuenzana, both through the devout among the monks of Equilibrar Se and his parents, it was a friend of his, whom he travelled with extensively before his peaceful passing a year hence, that introduced him to his true faith - Kuvhurika, the Lady of Death. Oelun strives to avoid killing wherever possible, and when it is necessary, to do so mercifully and swiftly. Respect for the dead is vital to his core, as he remembers the fates of those he loves lost without bodies to revere and sustain their memories - in the minds of those around him, they slip away. His deepest desire is to look upon her and return to the world of the living. In the meantime, living life to its fullest extent is his foremost goal - and aiding others to do the same, unburdened by worries and cares that would drag them down.

Social Aptitude

Oelun is a career counsellor and stalwart friend, but he's far from an eloquent speaker. Heartfelt words of wisdom and aid he can do, but a flowery address? Beyond his talents.

Wealth & Financial state

The wealth of the Batbayars and Clan Ganbold were lost in the deep mines with his siblings, or drunk away by his grandfather. Once prosperous and opulent, the family and clan now languish near-penniless.

Buff, rough'n'ready itinerant healer, brawls to make ends meet, with a heart of gold encased in black iron. Trained as a monk for two decades, and left once he discovered his true calling - helping people recover hope in their own heart.

Character Location

Rosstonas

Current Location

Rosstonas

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Alignment

Lawful Good

Honorary & Occupational Titles

The Grey Wanderer, Chieftain of Clan Ganbold, and Wandering Disciple of Equilibrar Se.

Age

53

Date of Birth

12-2-4154

Birthplace

Nanris

Parents

Nergui Batbayer

Erdene Batbayer

Current Residence

Nomadic

Gender

Male

Eyes

Pale Yellow

Hair

Black (beard is grey)

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Tanned/light brown

Height

4ft 8in

Weight

160lb

Quotes & Catchphrases

You must carry hope in your heart; no-one can carry it for you.

Known Languages

Common, Dwarvish.