Sol Kazan
"I love it when they run."
A Disgraced Blade
A dark knight with a well-earned, malevolent reputation. As a House Kazan noble, Sol endured rigorous training and lessons in warfare, religion, and history. Like his father, Sol was being brought up to become a knight of the Order of Yuna, a holy order of paladins in service to the Twin of Dawn. Certain events led to Sol abandoning his faith, turning to Luna, disgracing his noble family, and rejecting the knightly order, forming a ruthless band of mercenaries known as the Bloodguard, of which he remains one of the founding members. Since then, he has traveled the surface and underground of Sol, the continent he shares a name with, finding himself in the service of various kings, despots, tyrants, and criminals.Physical Description
Specialized Equipment
Oblivion
Sol's sword is a black greatsword called Oblivion. The blade bursts into flames upon him speaking the command word, incendia. Oblivion is an ornate sword inlaid with rubies and gold, and it is said to be blessed with the unholy spirit of Luna.Mental characteristics
Personal history
Born to a noble house in the great city of Veros, Sol grew up in a family of knights and soldiers. His father is Sir Aloysius, a famed knight of the Order of Yuna. Growing up competing with his brothers for his father's approval, Sol had a fiery drive to hone his combat prowess to become the best knight he could be, earn the approval of his father, and not live in the shadows of his siblings. During Sol's early years in the order, he rose through the ranks of knighthood alongside Icarus Dawnguard, son of Sir Orcus, the Grandmaster of the Order of Yuna. Both young men of the noble class and of aasimar stock, it was natural they would have a sense of competition. However, Sol took this to the next level. Desperate to prove himself superior to Icarus, who had a lesser standing in terms of noble pedigree but seemed to gain more approval of the various knight-commanders of the order than Sol managed to accrue for himself, he felt resentment and bitterness.
As this was ongoing, Sol was arranged to marry a princess of the city, Sarah of House Leroux. While the union was arranged, the two fell in love with each other. Sol was able to look past his apparent shortcomings and feelings of doubt and just feel comfortable around her. Their bond was one that enabled the young knight not to always feel as though he had to become something else but to feel that he was already a person worthy of affection and love. Even if he was passed over by his elder brother or perhaps his rival Icarus, he could find happiness in the future he would have with Sarah. However, this was not to be; on a night that would set the trajectory for the rest of Sol's life, he was set to meet his love a fortnight before their wedding ceremony on an island off the coast of Veros. A common romantic sanctuary for lovers, legal and illicit alike, Sol awaited his bride-to-be, who would come to him on a wooden float laden with roses atop the crystal blue waters of Veros to spend the night under the stars together. While he saw the float and the bed flowers, resting atop it was the body of his betrothed, pale and dead. Her face was stained with tears, and her silk dress was stained with her blood. Sol looked in horror to see Sarah of House Leroux was dead. Despite all his efforts, he was never able to find out who or what caused this, and it was ruled a tragic suicide.
After the tragedy, Sol tried to find redemption in the church he grew up in. He called to Yuna day and night, begging the Twin of Dawn to give him a sign, something to explain why the love of his life, the one he lived for, was taken from him with no explanation, no reason. He felt he was never given an answer. As he absorbed the reality that fate had been utterly cruel to him without a cause, he fell into despair. He turned to drink, closed himself off from his family, and spent his days gambling his family's fortune away or losing himself in self-destructive behavior. His father, Aloysius, tried desperately to save his son from himself, trying to return him to the honorable path of knighthood, to remember his place as a noble who could not let such a tragedy stop him from living and succeeding. None of these efforts bore fruit. In fact, his resentment and hatred allowed him to turn away from Yuna and seek answers from Luna. The Twin of Dusk soothed him with the temptation of madness, the bleak promises that the cruelty of mortal life truly lies in its meaninglessness, that his suffering wasn't the result of his own sins or that of his betrothed but merely the whim of the gods who misled his people, his holy order. Sol decided his days of merely punishing himself either by the whip or by his own self-destructive behavior were over. His nights of begging the Twin of Dawn for an explanation were over. He accepted this was the hand he was dealt, and so he sought to make those he hated suffer just as he had suffered. That was the closest thing to justice he could imagine.
Sol went on to butcher his own brother, Peredur, and join forces with Orcus Dawnguard, the tyrannical grandmaster of the Order of Yuna. In this, he allied himself with the grandmaster against his father and worked to disgrace and ruin his family name, getting his father banished from the order and sowing seeds of discord and hatred throughout the orderly band of paladins in service to Luna. There are conflicting reports about how this all turned out. But in the end, he found himself away from the Order of Yuna and on his own, sustaining himself either through extortion or service to lords and criminals who paid enough coin to get him to spill blood on their behalf. During his revelries, he met another kindred spirit, Hellfire, a tiefling mage from the Svaelyn Isles who specialized in destruction magic. She considered him something like an experiment to see how far she could enable a mortal and mold them into something atrocious. She encouraged every depravity and supported Sol through every act of mayhem, of inhuman violence. Together, they formed the Bloodguard, a malevolent band of mercenaries with no limits or moral boundaries concerning the jobs they would take on. The party served as a refuge for outcasts of all kinds — a veritable found family of misfits, criminals, outlaws, and rejects.
From here, stories differ on what became of Sol. Some say he and the Bloodguard ventured to the Underdark to find their fortune and found themselves caught up in a struggle with adventurers, falling by the hand of a former rival. Others say the Bloodguard can still be found on the surface, continuing to pursue their own ambitions at the expense of those around them. In any case, Sol has earned his reputation as an oathbreaker without remorse, a cruel outlaw who ruined his own family name out of spite, and a fearsome warrior in service to the Twin of Dusk.
Social
Religious Views
While he grew up following Yuna, Sol turned to Luna as he became an adult. Abandoning his faith in the Twin of Dawn, Sol came to pursue the tenets of his new god — chaos, disorder, hatred, and strife. While he doesn't find comfort or hope in Luna in the traditional sense, he finds some level of comforting madness in the perceived reality that the world, its pain, and its cruelties are all meaningless.
Social Aptitude
Sol can be very charming and persuasive when he needs to be. In rare moments of downtime, when he's not involved in a mission or a battle, he can show signs of being somewhat likable. When he drinks, he doesn't know how or when to stop and tends to fall into a stupor, unable to socially function. He's no stranger to blacking out from a night of alcohol abuse.
Alignment
Chaotic Evil
Species
Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Age
25
Date of Birth
8th of Sun's End
Children
Pronouns
He/him
Sex
Male
Gender
Man
Eyes
Golden amber
Hair
Very long, wavy, red like fire
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Light
Height
6'1"
Weight
227 lbs
Belief/Deity
Luna (Ten Divines), formerly Yuna
Aligned Organization
Other Affiliations