FEF9: Casslan Blackfield (Caellath)

Name: Casslan Blackfield
Class: Axe Knight -> General
Character Skill: Guard
Affinity: Ice
Personal Fault: Unfit: -1 to DMG while Guarding
Personal Skill: Dawn: +2 DEF if within 3 spaces of 3 allies.
Personal Skill: Struggle: +2 to AS when the foe's AS is higher.

Preferred stats: DEF, HP

Weapon Profs: Hack (C), Axes (D)

Level: 5
Total: 9

Progression spent: 330%

Stats:
HP: 20 (75%)
STR: 4 (40%)
MAG: 0 (0%)
SKL: 3 (55%)
LCK: 1 (10%)
DEF: 5+1 (45%)
RES: 0+1 (55%)
SPD: 2+2 (50%)

CON: 5
AID: 4
MOV: 4

Character Creation: +1 DEF, +1 RES, +2 SPD
Trainee class lvl2: +HP, +SKL, +DEF, +RES
Trainee class lvl3: +HP, +STR, +SPD
Trainee class lvl4: +HP, +SKL, +DEF, +SPD
Trainee class lvl5: +STR, +SKL, +DEF, +SPD
Promotion to Knight: +2 HP, +1 STR, +3 DEF, +4 CON/AID; 5 MOV; +5% STR
First class lvl2: +HP, +STR, +SKL, +RES, +SPD
First class lvl3: +SKL, +DEF, +RES, +SPD
First class lvl4: +HP, +SKL, +LCK, +RES, +SPD
First class lvl5: +HP, +SKL, +LCK, +SPD

Current Stats:

HP: 28 (75%)
STR: 8 (45%)
MAG: 0 (0%)
SKL: 10 (55%)
LCK: 3 (10%)
DEF: 13 (45%)
RES: 5 (55%)
SPD: 11 (50%)

CON: 9
AID: 8
MOV: 5

Inventory:
Name            Type () RNG MT WT CR Hit QL
Hatchet         Thrw (E)1-2 4  6  5  80  31/40 [E]
Vulnerary (2)

Battle Stats (Hatchet):
AT: 12
Hit: 101
AS: 11
Eva: 25
Crt: 10
DG: 3

Bio: Born in his family’s fortified manor overlooking the road between Rivertown and Magecrown in the country of Nelestia, Casslan Blackfield was burdened with duty out of the womb. Famous for neither wealth nor a claim to high nobility, the Blackfield household is renowned instead for a long story of producing their very own Blackguards: skilled knights and bodyguards exhaustively trained to protect and advise powerful spellcasters and figures of note. The family projects power indirectly, through the connections made by the loyal guards and confidants offered to those with ruthless ambition and potential. The title of Blackguard is an internal badge of honor but there are those that fail to obtain it; as fate would have it, Casslan was one of those.

Despite being born healthy and showing promise in his early years of training, Casslan was struck by bad health almost as if from a curse. Forced to stay indoors reading for long periods of time and suffering from health issues, it wasn't long before he gained the nickname of "Wraith" as a jab at his seclusion and pallor both. He persevered and trained to the best of his ability, but he failed to perform as he should and only disappointed himself and his instructors in a snowball that only further damaged his mental health.

He pushed his body, but it strained. He didn't perform during training, he was injured during a raid on bandits, he was beaten by his siblings during mock battles. The situation finally came to a head when a sparring session had to be interrupted by his father, Harald, after Casslan was wounded by his younger brother. By then his training was long overdue and the family considered him secondhand goods, unfit to be a Blackguard and unlikely to take an honorable position within the household. He was sent off to gain field experience as a lowly guard while the family decided his fate, be it exile or making him a mere servant.

His salvation came from his own stern father, who had enough connections abroad to not only send him over to Hestia, but also have him attached to the castle's guard, then as a bodyguard for Prince Aland. Harald Blackfield doesn't place much hope in his son; if he succeeds against all odds then there's benefits to reap, otherwise he'll die like a dog out of the man's sight. At the same time, though ruthlessly-minded his move was ultimately kind by the family's standards, as he has shielded his son from further abuses by the rest of the family and given the boy's intellect a chance to shine.

As for Casslan, he's become a very dark-humored soldier whose devotion to the Goddess is barely even there, bitter as he is at the cards fate has given him. He's been left with a grim determination to die, but only if he gets to die properly as a guardian so as to recover a measure of his lost honor. Despite the apparent callousness of his family, Casslan does not at all resent them. He has his education to thank for a sharp mind, and has reasoned his misfortune forced their hand. He was unfit. Now he continues to train, and he must try his best to die a worthy death and be buried in the state's ancestral graveyard; while not as a Blackguard, but at least as part of the family.