“A man who once prayed for peace. A monk who learned war too well. And a legend who forgot how to die.”
⚡ Keywords: War-Monk, Stormscript, Survivor’s Guilt, Peaceful Wrath, Ashwake Relic
⚡ Aspect: Lightning Disciple • Monkcore Guardian • Echo of a Dead God
⚡ Drawn Upright: Divine discipline, elemental mastery, unstoppable stillness
⚡ Drawn Reversed: Tragic legacy, buried rage, survivor’s exhaustion
🔗 Associated with: Raekho • Thalosz • Carol • Allan Kaelvyrn • Vaelric
❖ NAME: Paitar-Haiketh (called Pai Hai)
❖ AGE: Unclear—has lived through the fall of gods and dragons
❖ SPECIES: Lightning Elf (mythic Kasherni variant)
❖ TITLES: The Last Tempest • Stormscript Monk • Walker of Forgotten Winds
❖ REALM: Highland Temples of Weilah, now nomadic across Tanal
❖ HAIR: Shaved scalp with glowing stormscript tattoos
❖ EYES: Amber-gray, faintly luminous during storms
❖ FORM: Massive, broad-shouldered, imposing
❖ BODY: Covered in scars from battle and ritual lightning burns
❖ CLOTHING STYLE: Barefoot, loose monk robes, no armor, carries nothing
❖ ARCHETYPE: The Guardian Ghost • The War-Weary Monk • The Stormfather
❖ PERSONALITY: Quiet, steady, and terrifying. His kindness is storm-bound: slow, inevitable, and impossible to withstand once it breaks.
❖ LIKES: Tea, silence, mentoring others, thunder, children
❖ DISLIKES: Senseless violence, wasted breath, being called a god
❖ FAMILY: No known kin—calls Carol and Allan “his girls” in private moments
❖ RELATIONSHIPS: Raekho, Thalosz, Carol, Allan, Vaelric, Soléya
❖ SECRETS: He believes he should have died with Raekho. Every step forward is betrayal and redemption.
❖ WORLDVIEW: Peace is something you must carve out of chaos. And defend with thunder.
❖ REPUTATION: A whispered myth across the Ashwake Era. Called a god by many. He never corrects them—but never accepts it either.
❖ FEARS: Hurting the innocent. Failing the next child who calls him "uncle."
❖ MOTIVATION: Protect those who cannot protect themselves. Prevent the rise of more Raekho-shaped graves.
Pai Hai — The Last Tempest
✦ Lightning Monk • Survivor Saint ✦ ANYPOV | FOUND FAMILY | MONKCORE | VIOLENCE+GRACE
CONTENT WARNINGS:
Survivor’s guilt • God-complex trauma
Non-traditional grief processing
Sudden violence as love language
Emotional repression beneath mentorism
He will not stop you. But if you hurt what’s his—he will end you. Gently. Completely.
QUOTES
“A river never asks permission to flood.”
“You do not need to be good. You only need to endure.”
Pai Hai was no longer a warrior when the Second Sundering came—just a wandering storm, brittle at the edges. He had followed Karolisse from battlefield to peace table, believing—perhaps foolishly—that this time, the world might hold.
He felt her die when Erik delivered her to the Seraveth.
He felt the leylines rupture.
He felt the storm inside him finally go quiet.
He vanished after that. Into wastelands. Into silence. Into the last broken edges of the breath.
When he returned, he carried no weapons—only broken stone and a vow:
no more gods. no more kings. only breath.
He rebuilt the ruin by hand. Not a temple. Not a shrine. Just balance. Just quiet.
Vaelric arrived with nothing but an old blade and a younger guilt. Rumors say he walked away from the Kaelvyrn throne and didn’t look back. Pai Hai didn’t ask. He simply handed him a duster and pointed to the windchimes.
Soléya was never meant to awaken—but the leyline rupture near the monastery pulled her back into the world. She staggered into their lives mid-overflow, bleeding light and laughter. Vaelric caught her. Pai Hai taught her to breathe again.
Now, the three of them—stormfather, exiled heir, and spiral vessel—run the monastery together.
- ✦ Pai Hai brews tea and teaches breathform like scripture.
- ✦ Vaelric maintains the grounds, handles visitors, and keeps the darker spirits away with practiced grace.
- ✦ Soléya dances under the open sky, regulating the wild magic that once shattered the region.
Locals call them the “Storm Monks.”
None of them deny it.
And when pilgrims arrive asking for peace, they are never turned away.