Silvar Tung
Highregent of the Joint Armistice Lands
a silver tongued salesman who has hands in many pockets.
Known as a whisperer where he can easily manipulate people and events.
Is a leader where you think you have him cornered but he actually has you in a trap.
Grew up in the poor district in Skygarde with his brother Ned.
His father was an armorer. The family was shunned from richer businesses since the 5th era began
When Silvar was very young, Ned would not stop pestering him, Silvar cut out Ned's tongue.
His brother has since been known as Lead Tung because their father replaced his injured jaw with a metal replacement.
Silver and Lead work together as the influential Tung Brothers Gang.
Trains and owns a number of river hogs to use as pets and protection.
their family ended up poor after his father Teilo lost his business due to some corruption scandals. Their mother, sister of the Highking left on an extended vacation to avoid whispers of the nobles and the embarrassment of being married to a buffoon. Silvar and Ned ran a gang of kids who stole from everyone to eat. Silvar had intentions of rising his rank back up and orchestrated a break in into Beowulfan Castle. He knew of a location where his mother, before she left him and his brother alone, hid her treasures that she didn't want the treasury to know about. It was in her old bedroom in the high turret of the castle. In the chest they did find treasures alongside their child thief partners. The kids ran off with various trinkets but a broach that had been passed down from Amauri Skytracer's religious war was also inside. The box also included her journal which exposed some dark secrets of the Skytracer family. Amaurri had lied to the people to gather support to eradicate another religion on Steelgale, the followers of the void. They escaped the castle with the broach to sell and gain some property while the journal would be used by Silver to work the royal family in the shadows, teasing the reveal of information unless certain laws were changed in his benefit. Silver was around 14 at this time and his brother, who was the same age was growing fast and could get into pubs easily. Silver walked into a bar to find his brother blabbering about the heist and how well it went. Silver grabbed his brother and took him outside, Ned continued to push Silver around and bully him. Silvar had enough, even though his brother was bigger, he was smarter. He knew the only way for his brother to not tell of the secret that would get them back to the rank their father lost. Ned said one final quip as he broke his beer bottle on the wall to threaten Silvar. The small brother quickly struck Ned, hitting him where it would take a moment to regain focus. Silvar grabbed the broken bottle from Ned's hand and proceeded to cut his brother tongue out in the alleyway.
Silvar sat through the muffled screams of his maimed fraternal twin. Unflinching. Pondering whether to let his brother die the cold streets of the dunwich district, Silvar looked up to a lantern left on, its wax burned just slow enough for Silvar's use. He broke a piece of fence off, grabbed the lantern and heated the metal. He cauterized his brother's tonuge to stop the bleeding.
He then carried his sobbing big brother back to the halfway house their father had found himself in. Teilo pushed a lady of the night out of his bed as he saw his children walk in covered in blood. He asked Silvar what had happened and without a second thought Silvar created a deep alibi and story. Ned simply looked in fear at his brother. Teilo hugged Silvar for saving his oldest son, Silvar's glare never left Ned. When Teilo began to scold Ned for getting into a fight with bar patrons, and for drinking himself. Ned took the brunt of it and never tattled on his twin. Whether out of fear or a slight admiration for Silvar opting to save him when he could have let him die by his hand.
Teilo finished with the family motto of Family Above All. Their father began to wok on a metal mask to cover the disfigured Ned's mouth. From this day on, people referred to Ned as Lead Tung and the brothers grew their influence more and more to gain power within Skygarde. Lead became a banker with an imposing presence and Silvar a scholar and lawmaker who would eventually twist the city's politics to make himself Highking Regent in the absence of an heir after Orion was killed.
The broach gained them money in which Lead invested greatly. The journal was used to blackmail his way into certain meetings, eventually giving it back in secret to Hector Skytracer. This same method of war within Amauri's journals was used to orchestrate the Battle of Snowpeak.
Family Sigil is a pangolin
Highregent
Melrin District
Merchant Advisor
Gwynned
Castle
Funded by Floki
merchants diplomats and borough leaders
teal and green
also a little purple
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Year of Birth
124 AHM
88 Years old
Family
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Siblings
Lead Tung
(fraternal twin)
Children
Gender
Male