The Dorians - Ajax's History
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The Dorrians.
Ages ago, there were a race of warriors Known as the Dorrians. It was never known how they came to be, but legend has it that their kind started from a great mercenary king whose name is now lost with the sands of time. Fables tell that their leader, settled into the small fertile valley cradled on three sides by great peaks, with but one way in or out after he had seen enough bloodshed and battle. He claimed this land and named it Dorr after his wife whom was also a mercenary of some repute. As nature would have it, they began to flourish, far enough away from the battles and politics of the surrounding kingdoms and their presence were for the most part, unnoticed by anyone. As the numbers of children they had increased, the martial knowledge of the king and queen was also passed down, and refined.
Generations of them grew to be fearsome warriors, and on many occasions they would use their skills to defend Dorr, now a flourishing realm, from marauding monsters and stray armies that were unlucky enough to travel into their valley. Often outnumbered, the victories of the Dorrians became to number that of the stars in the evening sky. It was only a matter of time that folk of other realms would learn of their people, for their skill at arms was formidable. Bards would tell tales of the warriors of Dorr and soon, the Dorrians became as myths, living in the world of man a beast. The mercenary king, who had founded the realm, had passed on and Dorr had been ruled fairly and justly by the strongest warrior of each generation.
However, as with all times of prosperity, this one was also not to last.
The Blade Kin.
It is not known how the first Blades of Power came into the possession of the Dorrians and their realm. Some have speculated that they were mined from the mountains and found inside a cavern that had never been seen by mortal eyes. Others say they came to Dorr in a fireball that fell from the sky. No one really knows for certain.
What is known, is that when the Dorrians found out the nature of the blades, they trained specific members of their kind whom showed exceptional potential, to wield each blade. Great ceremonies took place as each of the blades was joined with their selected wielder. These would be the elite, the guardians of their realm, and became known as the Blade Kin of Dorr.
However, among so many great warriors, tensions began to arise over who would be chosen to posses the blades. For the first time since its inception, fighting began to take place amongst the brothers and sisters of Dorr. As the blood of their kind, was shed by their own, each of the blades was taken and guarded, and used against other houses and families. War had broken out within Dorr, and no one was unmarked for destruction.
In time, the great houses and families of proud and noble warriors, crumbled into dust, destroyed by opposing Blade Kin who wielded powers greater then the mortal defenders could survive. Soon, only 12 Blade Kin remained, scattered now amongst the realms, leaving the ashes of Dorr far behind. Bringing with them only memories of the death, destruction, their chosen Blade of Power, and knowledge of years of refined techniques of martial combat.
Ajax of the Blade.
Ajax was one of the first initial Dorrians to be selected to bond with the mysterious weapons of his people. His family had chosen him to be joined with Callafax at a very early age and be the guardian of his family's home.
Although, he was not the first to go through the joining ceremony, he was one of the first to discover many of the attributes of the blades. Ajax had been trained for many years in the dojo and classrooms of his home in tactics, and practices of the martial arts, including hand-to-hand combat, all manner of melee weapons, missile-ranged weapons, and physical mastery of his body.
Originally opposing the warring actions of his people against one another, he soon found himself in the throws of the battles when his house was all but wiped out by an opposing house led by an evil Blade Kin. In vengeance of his family’s death, he hunted down the Blade Kin whom had ordered the attack on his house and killed him in an epic battle along with every member of his house, obliterating them from history forever. In doing this, he became the first Blade Kin to actually manage to destroy another Blade Kin in combat and soon became the most hunted man in Dorr
He has worked as a mercenary, a strategist, a field general and an elite body guard for several noble kings and queens. In each position he has served, he has gained much knowledge of many of the different races of the different realms, and has battled them enough to know their strengths and weaknesses. Though he will be the first to admit that he never stops learning in the ways of warfare and combat, he has seen and done many great deeds including fighting in the Trojan War, battling for and against the gods, and has also hunted and killed 7 of the original Blade Kin. His actual age is unknown, and even he will admit he does not know for sure, but speculation has suggested he may be as old as 900 years. The memories of his people and the civilization of Dorr are all but a white washed memory for him, and if asked can tell only bits and fragmented pieces of his past for that is all he can recall with any clarity.
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