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==The Vile Captain Tokwan Vaunt of [[Goldenvale]]==
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::''"The king and his men stole the queen from her bed."''
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name=Tokwan Vaunt|
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==[[Viscount|Judge]] Vaunt of [[Goldenvale]]==
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::''"Is any of this at all legal?" - [[Drake Dragongrin]]''
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::''"Every time she opens her mouth, I'm afraid that I'm going to fall in."''
  
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==++The Book of Beasts++==
  
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===++The Book of Tokwan++===
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===The Grinning Fool from Calypsos Bay===
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++ Chapter One ++
 
  
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In the small settlement of Evenflow, just south of Frodredingham, there lived a small family, the wife and children of a fisherman. Their cozy home and plentiful garden belied a broken family, who's fissures ran so deeply, they seemed endless. The echoed shouts and shrill screams scattered the creatures of the night, though they were ignored by the other settlers, intimidated by the patriarch of this broken family, Cantor Faunt.
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''"This is a monument... To what I am capable of!"''
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He was a tyrannical man, violent and well aware of his hulking size and strength, made stronger by years of sea fairing. He was never a pleasant man in even his better days, but age had all but crippled his once perfect reaction time, leaving him useless on a boat in the violent ocean storms. He took this bitterness out on the only thing his strength could still overwhelm, his frightened and tired family. However, his rage and adoration alike was often targeted at his youngest son, Tenkin.
 
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A boy of emotional extremes, quiet and contemplative or vicious and intense; he was often a source of confusion for his family. The settlers often feared that he would be a monster just like his father. But, his mother knew that her son was noble soul. She planted within him the seeds of an honourable man, one who would reward good and judge evil. To balance this teetering weight of emotion, she gave the boy a kitten which he named Sneak-Thief. The two were inseparable, the best of friends and brothers. Tenkin's love for this tiny beast calmed the one within him. often spending thier time sitting at the edge of the very river that gave this settlement it's name, Tenkin would sail his wooden ships and Sneak-Thief would play the role of the Kraken, sinking them with a heavy paw. Tenkin was happy.
 
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One fateful night, Cantor returned home in a drunken fury. Doling out his punishment on Tenkin's mother and siblings, the boy had left for the riverside hours earlier. In an even greater rage over the boy's escape of his hand, Cantor hunted him down. Finding him at the river, Cantor struck Tenkin, only for Sneak-Thief to attack the boy's father. Throwing the beaten boy away, Cantor captured the cat and proceeded to drown it before the boy's eyes. For this, Tenkin broke his father's leg with a rock. in retaliation, Cantor attempted to strangle the boy. For this, Tenkin removed his father's thumb with his teeth.
 
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The first beating lasted a day. Tenkin was then chained up in the small storage room of the house and tortured daily. Cantor would often force the boy's siblings to initiate the daily beatings, and through it all, Tenkin informed them that one day, they would all die.
 
  
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"Your father is not an evil man, Tenny."
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''An'' assassin, mercenary and pirate, born and raised in the odd little hamlet of Evenflow, just south of Goldenvale Proper.  
  
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Bolstering his strength, Tenkin gazed to his mother through tired eyes. "He is weak. He needs to bind me to fight me." Tenkin's eyes darkened as he spoke, "He is afraid of me."
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''The'' village was thought to have been lost in an act of aggression by one of its own. However, the truth of the story is far more complex. The story of Tokwan Vaunt begins at the gates of the isolated village with a dying mother, her last wish and a silent newborn bearing a strange mutation. The village elder saw great potential in the child, especially after watching him spring about like a frog and began training him in the art of taking lives. Like many other children in the village, Tokwan's education weighed evenly between combat and social sciences. Never had he considered his daily regimen of battle formation and stealth assassination techniques to be strange, for it was all he knew. Never had he considered the possibility that his happy home was a secret training ground for child soldiers.
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"Don't say such things."
 
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"He will die. He will die and I will feel nothing."
 
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"Just run, Tenkin." His mother whispered, unlocking the shackles. Leading him to the edge of the settlement she sent him off into the unknown.
 
  
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++ Chapter Two ++
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''Tokwan's'' strange mutation lent to his skill as an assassin. His ability to leap from sight and blend into his surroundings earned him the codename of 'Phantasma', borrowed from a particular species of Poison Dart Frog. His saliva was extremely toxic, containing a type of poison that affected both the heart and mind. While immune to his own neurotoxin, it made him extremely dangerous to others, especially when coating the edge of his blades with his own spit.
  
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Eventually finding himself in the sprawling city of Dommere, Tenkin was alone, penniless and lost. But, his strength of will and spirit came to be recognized by a passerby, a captain of a hauling vessel who could smell the sea on Tenkin's soul. The captain approached the boy and tested his knowledge of ships. Finding it adequate for his use, this captain took Tenkin in, and gave him a new home. In truth, the dear captain sought someone that would follow his every order, be it benign or vicious.
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''Soon'' after his twentieth year of birth, Evenflow was burned to the ground by a mysterious mercenary force baring the colours of Blood Honey, a distant land on the Eastern Continent. In his travels, Tokwan eventually discovered the truth of his childhood home, and the Shadow War that was being waged using the forgotten children of Evenflow.
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Setting sail for Dommere, the ship followed the winding river into the vast Faraconian Sea, the very sea Tenkin's father once faired. He thought it would be bitter-sweet, yet in some way, it felt right. He believed it was forgiveness for a time, but came to understand that the feeling he'd come to know was a sort of vengeance. This would be his sea now, no longer his fathers. No longer the thing that his father valued more than him, or his family, or Tenkin's only true friend, the one taken from him. Tenkin had a new reason for living. It was revenge.
 
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In time they crossed a slender island North East of their entrance to the sea. The Captain had taken Tenkin under his wing and taught him the many features of the islands they would be visiting. Though this particular landmass was not one, it was however, one that should be mentioned out of pure interest. They called it Suicide Ilse. Indeed, as there were only three places to safely dock a ship even in the most skilled of commands, it would be suicide to even think it. The island was surrounded by shoal lines and cliffs that would tear a ship of any size to ribbons. Tenkin revelled in the destruction he saw. Destroyed wrecks and skeletal remains of ships long since forgotten, and stripped clean by the infamous pirates of the Faraconian waters
 
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'Pirates,' The boy fantasized, 'strong men capable of any feat, even stripping a dead ship trapped and ensnared by the deadliest of shores.' This was his first taste of what it meant to be a privateer.
 
  
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++ Chapter Three ++
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===The Soldier of Sorrow===
  
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A decade passed and Tenkin had grown into a fine young man. His knowledge and physical strength grew greatly over the years, compounded by new memories and experiences, but never once did he forget his wretched family and the weak villagers of Evenflow.
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One day, the story of Rucio Vistelli will be told.
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"Boy! Come 'ere." The captain called out to Tenkin, waving him to his table on the foremost deck of the hauling ship. Joining him, Tenkin stood at the old man's side. "You see this, boy?" The captain kept his sharp, yellowed eyes upon the calm waters. "This be a gift from Calypso. A calm before the great storm."
 
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"Speak a clear mind, old man." Tenkin narrowed his eyes, his disbelief of a god of any kind shorting his patience.
 
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"The lands, boy. They be in constant contention. Men become knights, and knights become king, but not by destiny. They fight and shed blood in all mannor a' ways. And the last one standin' becomes the new king. It's war, boy. It's the world we live in. Y'got a fine respect for war, don'tcha boy?"
 
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Tenkin remained silent for now, listening to the old man's stories of the Northlands, and Crystal Groves. Of the largest, and likely, the most prosperous of the kingdoms, Golden Vale. He planned to take Tenkin to see this place after their trip to the Vile Isle of Demonshorn.
 
  
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The Vile Isle of Demonshorn, a large island corrupted and twisted by dark magics and something known only as the Essence of Hate. It was there that the Story of Tenkin Faunt, the lost boy of Evenflow, became the Tale of Tokwan Vaunt, the Vile Captain of the Faraconian Sea.
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===The Proficinominent Poda===
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''"They stay in the kingdom because '''NOBODY''' knows who they are!"''
  
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But that is a story for another time.
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''Few'' remember the stage magician known as the Proficinominent Poda, primarily because he was quite simply, awful. His fame arose from the attention he received through his often failed magic tricks. The laughter that would bellow from circus tents and taverns could be heard Kingdom wide.
  
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===Lou's Biography===
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''There'' is a story however, of a brilliant trick that only Poda could perform. This trick was regularly overlooked by his crowd as they were usually already in hysterics from his 'Detonating Chicken' act. The story goes, that a young boy watched as Poda turned a simple flower into stone, then iron, then burned it away in the palm of his hand. Such a tiny trick compared to his often grandiose failures. The boy approached Poda after his act one night and confronted him about the trick, knowing that the magician was better than he always let on. Poda told the boy that when a joke is good, the room is split between those who laugh and those who don't. But, when a joke is a true groaner, everyone joins against the joke itself. It was a vague answer at best, but the boy felt he understood.
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''The'' truth is that Poda was a master of Alteration Magic, capable of transmutating certain objects, manipulating their properties, to create entirely new constructs. Turning the flower to stone, then iron, then causing it to combust in his palm was only scratching the surface of his power. But, Poda is a soft, aloof man of simple pleasures. Chocolate over gold and a hug over crowds of cheers. The Proficinoment Poda, the greatest worst magician of all time.
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===The Mad Lizard of Mortrigog===
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One day, the story of Zaza will be told.
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==Character Gallery==
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[[File:TokwanVaunt.jpeg|thumb|none| 200px|''Tokwan Vaunt'']]
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[[File:Poda.jpeg|thumb|none| 200px|''Poda'']]
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==Lou's Biography==
  
 
Joining Amtgard in early 2012, recruited by [[Nexus Crow]] and [[Nydgenga Dawnbreaker]], Lou appeared first as a masked ninja under the name of Dakhir Nahasaan. After some time of sporadic appearances, Lou got his crap together and now attends as frequently as he can.
 
Joining Amtgard in early 2012, recruited by [[Nexus Crow]] and [[Nydgenga Dawnbreaker]], Lou appeared first as a masked ninja under the name of Dakhir Nahasaan. After some time of sporadic appearances, Lou got his crap together and now attends as frequently as he can.
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Never satisfied with a single persona for too long, Lou often creates entirely new characters on the spot to supplant his nearly manic creative process. Over the years, through writing (both published and unpublished stories), Role Playing and story driven games, he has created a wealth of characters that have lived entire lifetimes. Generations of characters have come and gone and though very few will remain to see new eras, it is Rucio Vist, a character designed to be Lou's direct emulation, that has stood the test of time.
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===[[Belted Family]]===
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{{FalQuinn belted family}}
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===Notable Accomplishments===
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* Is a jerk.
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* Is a decent Fundraiser.
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* Cofounded the [[Dusk Raiders]] fighting company.
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* Guildmaster of Assassins  2013-08 - 2014-08
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* Second Kingdom Prime Minister elected via Kingdom-wide vote in [[Goldenvale]] 2013-12 - 2014-05
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* Was the reason for the entirety of the Kingdom of Goldenvale receiving the non-noble title of "the Tokwan Vaunt".
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* [[Baron]] — given by [[King]] [[Akrith]] on 27 May 2014
  
 
===More Information===
 
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Latest revision as of 16:03, 20 March 2016

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Tokwan Vaunt
Home Park Goldenvale
Kingdom Goldenvale
Year Started 2012
Noble Title Viscount
Belt Status Man-at-Arms


Judge Vaunt of Goldenvale

"Is any of this at all legal?" - Drake Dragongrin
"Every time she opens her mouth, I'm afraid that I'm going to fall in."

++The Book of Beasts++

The Grinning Fool from Calypsos Bay

"This is a monument... To what I am capable of!"

An assassin, mercenary and pirate, born and raised in the odd little hamlet of Evenflow, just south of Goldenvale Proper.

The village was thought to have been lost in an act of aggression by one of its own. However, the truth of the story is far more complex. The story of Tokwan Vaunt begins at the gates of the isolated village with a dying mother, her last wish and a silent newborn bearing a strange mutation. The village elder saw great potential in the child, especially after watching him spring about like a frog and began training him in the art of taking lives. Like many other children in the village, Tokwan's education weighed evenly between combat and social sciences. Never had he considered his daily regimen of battle formation and stealth assassination techniques to be strange, for it was all he knew. Never had he considered the possibility that his happy home was a secret training ground for child soldiers.

Tokwan's strange mutation lent to his skill as an assassin. His ability to leap from sight and blend into his surroundings earned him the codename of 'Phantasma', borrowed from a particular species of Poison Dart Frog. His saliva was extremely toxic, containing a type of poison that affected both the heart and mind. While immune to his own neurotoxin, it made him extremely dangerous to others, especially when coating the edge of his blades with his own spit.

Soon after his twentieth year of birth, Evenflow was burned to the ground by a mysterious mercenary force baring the colours of Blood Honey, a distant land on the Eastern Continent. In his travels, Tokwan eventually discovered the truth of his childhood home, and the Shadow War that was being waged using the forgotten children of Evenflow.

The Soldier of Sorrow

One day, the story of Rucio Vistelli will be told.

The Proficinominent Poda

"They stay in the kingdom because NOBODY knows who they are!"

Few remember the stage magician known as the Proficinominent Poda, primarily because he was quite simply, awful. His fame arose from the attention he received through his often failed magic tricks. The laughter that would bellow from circus tents and taverns could be heard Kingdom wide.

There is a story however, of a brilliant trick that only Poda could perform. This trick was regularly overlooked by his crowd as they were usually already in hysterics from his 'Detonating Chicken' act. The story goes, that a young boy watched as Poda turned a simple flower into stone, then iron, then burned it away in the palm of his hand. Such a tiny trick compared to his often grandiose failures. The boy approached Poda after his act one night and confronted him about the trick, knowing that the magician was better than he always let on. Poda told the boy that when a joke is good, the room is split between those who laugh and those who don't. But, when a joke is a true groaner, everyone joins against the joke itself. It was a vague answer at best, but the boy felt he understood.

The truth is that Poda was a master of Alteration Magic, capable of transmutating certain objects, manipulating their properties, to create entirely new constructs. Turning the flower to stone, then iron, then causing it to combust in his palm was only scratching the surface of his power. But, Poda is a soft, aloof man of simple pleasures. Chocolate over gold and a hug over crowds of cheers. The Proficinoment Poda, the greatest worst magician of all time.

The Mad Lizard of Mortrigog

One day, the story of Zaza will be told.

Character Gallery

Tokwan Vaunt
Poda

Lou's Biography

Joining Amtgard in early 2012, recruited by Nexus Crow and Nydgenga Dawnbreaker, Lou appeared first as a masked ninja under the name of Dakhir Nahasaan. After some time of sporadic appearances, Lou got his crap together and now attends as frequently as he can.

Never satisfied with a single persona for too long, Lou often creates entirely new characters on the spot to supplant his nearly manic creative process. Over the years, through writing (both published and unpublished stories), Role Playing and story driven games, he has created a wealth of characters that have lived entire lifetimes. Generations of characters have come and gone and though very few will remain to see new eras, it is Rucio Vist, a character designed to be Lou's direct emulation, that has stood the test of time.

Belted Family


Notable Accomplishments

  • Is a jerk.
  • Is a decent Fundraiser.
  • Cofounded the Dusk Raiders fighting company.
  • Guildmaster of Assassins 2013-08 - 2014-08
  • Second Kingdom Prime Minister elected via Kingdom-wide vote in Goldenvale 2013-12 - 2014-05
  • Was the reason for the entirety of the Kingdom of Goldenvale receiving the non-noble title of "the Tokwan Vaunt".
  • Baron — given by King Akrith on 27 May 2014

More Information

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