Icarus Skystrider

"I cannot see what your destiny holds, only that it begins in a land far to the south of our home"

 * 1) Deep within the Shivering Mountains only the toughest and most grizzled of beings can survive. That is where the Skystrider clan made their home. A close group of suspicious goliaths, the Skystriders were very introverted and spent their time meandering the summits of mountains, hunting, worshipping spirits, throwing rocks for sport and generally keeping to themselves even though they lived with Imperial borders. Icarus was born merely two decades prior to the Empire's raid on Vir-Mateen. Born large, even by goliath standards they knew he would be special. The day he was born the clan shaman said his destiny would hold much adventure. Though as he grew he became increasingly different from his already distant kin.Icarus.jpg Being people of the sky the Skystriders worshipped wisdom and philosophy and the harsh solitude of their snowy peaks and caves.  Icarus seemed more attuned to the stone and the earth, and made strength and endurance his idols instead of philosophy and superstition. He was forced to study with the clan shaman and learn the ways of the elements. Instead of forcing upon him doctrine of which he had not the ear for, the shaman helped him embrace his calling to the earth and harness his potential, and become and earthstrength warden. Once discovered that he was not being taught the norm of the tribe, the shaman began to be questioned. Before suspicions became to venomous, and to save the shamans reputation, Icarus made the decision to leave his clan. Just before he left the shaman told him to search in the Earthstone Pillars and there he would fulfill his destiny. Acting the loner he always was, Icarus left his frozen home and departed to the Pillars southeast of Vir-Mateen. Shortly after his arrival there, he was attacked by yetis, and was aided by a group of adventurers, Fawks, Sangdor, and Adeya. Wondering if this was a sign of what to do, he cautiously agreed to follow them, only to be magically whisked away to Vir-Mateen against hiswill while the city was under attack. Not making any moves to choose sides, only to defend himself and his ‘friends’ he slaughtered a group of Imperial raiders and was sealed in the temple of Kord, where he is very confused, but for the the second time in his life, not alone.