Jarack Linzar

As the eldest son in his family, Jarack has always had much pressure on him to succeed. Jarack had always been unhappy with his family’s situation in life and sought to restore their honor and wealth.

In order to try and restore some wealth to his family, Jarack worked in mines looking for gold and gems. His searches yielded nothing but callouses and muscles.

When good fortune would not find him, Jarack instead turned to blood-sport in order to bring his family some money. These were not honorable battles but fights to the death conducted in the coliseum of Arcadia. Winning did bring money but it also brought shame. The son of a nobleman fighting to the death against commoners for money was not an honorable thing. Despite this, Jarack still believed that having money was the first step to being respected again so he continued to fight for his family.

From fighting in the pits, receiving many hits, and being exposed to lots of blood from lots of different people, Jarack became wracked by a slew of diseases. Most of them minor but a couple terminal. Jarack’s right eye is nearly blind, he has much nerve damage in several parts of his body, has arthritis, and now bleeds regularly from his nose.

After a particularly brutal bout in the pits, Jarack had a revelation. His life was coming to an end from all of the wounds and diseases he had gotten from fighting. He would have no life of his own. No wife, no children. All he could do was live for his family and due to his numerous injuries, his days in the pits seemed to be over. He needed a new way of bringing honor and wealth to his family.

Jarack moved himself back to Helios, pledged himself to the throne, and now serves House Kelwynd as an envoy to Lancret. His has become extremely spartan. The pay is much better than in the fighting pits but he now keeps even less of the money for himself than he did before. He wakes up, serves, and goes to bed.

House Linzar has yet to get back to the way it was before, but thanks to Jarack’s sacrifice to his family, it is now on the right track.