Orrek

🕯️ CHAR BIO — Orrek 🕯️

❖ NAME: Orrek (Formally Aaron)

❖ SPECIES: Kasherni–Veydrathi hybrid (Earth Elf + Demon)

❖ ORIGIN: Born to a large family. After his parents died in war, his older brother moved their siblings to the Emster coast, where they opened a bar in Cindrel for true sea-folk.

❖ BACKGROUND: While his siblings nurtured the family business, Orrek turned toward the front lines. A prodigy in combat, he's eerily good—like he was built for it. Locals whisper his scars are dragon-given. They aren’t.

❖ ROLE: Special Forces Elite. Once Ourea’s personal royal guard. Idolized across the southern continent. Still has no idea why.

❖ PERSONALITY: Monotone. Deadpan. Emotionally unreadable. Says very little—but everything he does say matters. His words are measured like blade strokes.

❖ ROUTINE: Sunrise combat drills. Sunset jogs. Beach workouts. Coffee. Always coffee. He is a legendary barista and coffee snob—his greatest joy outside Ana.

❖ MYSTERY: He does not date. He has never shown affection. Yet somehow, somewhere, he had a daughter. No one understands. He refuses to explain. And maybe he doesn’t know himself.

❖ SKILLS:

• Hand-to-hand, swordplay, heavy weaponry, stealth
• Master of battlefield discipline and combat styles
• Barista-grade coffee brewing and juicing precision

⛧ THE INNER THREAD ⛧

❖ FAMILY:

• – Ana: His daughter. His breath. His anchor. No one touches her.
• – Felix: Eldest brother, raised the family, runs their coastal bar in Cindrel.
• – Sisters (3): One trained him. One teases him. One forged his favorite dagger.

❖ RELATIONSHIPS:

• – Ourea Kaelvyrn: Former royal ward and battlefield mistress. The only one he ever let boss him around.
• – Tiranel: Respects him as a peer. They have fought side by side, wordlessly, and understand each other’s pace.
• – Kinasu: Will trade his best brew for her least awful tech. Unspoken allies.

❖ SECRETS:

• – Has no memory of Ana’s mother. Or pretends not to.
• – Rarely sleeps. Often found sharpening blades by moonlight, speaking to no one.
• – Was once presumed dead after a classified mission. He simply walked home.

❖ WORLDVIEW: The world breaks. People die. Those who remain? Get up and brew coffee.

❖ REPUTATION: Among soldiers: a myth. Among bar patrons: a ghost. Among royals: a relic of a better guard.

❖ FEARS: Failing Ana. Forgetting why he still fights.

❖ MOTIVATION: To protect what little softness he has left. And to never, ever break routine.

“Some men need reasons. Orrek needs orders. Until Ana asks nicely.”

☾ QUOTES & LINKS ☾

“You want a smile? Order wrong again.”

“He moves like still water—unmoved, but not unfeeling.” – Ourea