Zehn Tristan

Full Name: Zehn Tristan

Age: 25

Race: Human

Birthplace: Westphalia

Status: Active

Appearance

Zehn is a knight. He typically wears his Trinity Knight armor, though it isn't a full body issue. It's more of a traditional piece, for it doesn't even offer any sort of added protection to the ki fighter. His hair is a dark azure, and his eyes a piercing red, odd colors but ones that have lived within the Tristan bloodline for some time now. He can be a charismatic young man, though for the most part he's well composed and not prone to recklessness.

Powers

Zehn's primary fighting style always includes his lance. He has expert control and usage over any type of spear, and his ki seems specifically geared towards the destruction of the undead, and of unholy-based creatures and opponents. Likewise, his spiritual energies are well nigh difficult to affect, making his body especially resistant to effects he would not wish upon it.

Biography

The Tristan family can trace its roots back to the early days of Westphalia's founding. However, they were not warriors but blacksmiths. Living in the city of Vi Castis, the Tristans have been renowned blacksmiths since those days. Taking the precious ores garnered from the mines, they fashioned many of the best weapons in their country in those times.

Many generations after their attentions shifted. An undead assault upon the city of Vi Castis rendered most of the family either dead or taken away to be ravaged into one of the undead ranks. By then they had proliferated and prospered, the Tristans, and had been large in number up at the mining city. The attack had been massive, and the undead had succeeded in slaughtering most of the civilians in Vi Castis before finally being driven back. By then, only a single member of the family and his wife survived. Zahen Tristan donated all of his amassed fortune to the restoration of Vi Castis, which helped it greatly, and immediately turned to a military career.

Since then the Tristan family has served in Westphalia's military. Some of them have joined the Trinity Knights, while others pursued the magical arts and joined the Templar of Sorrow instead. The youngest of these, of course, is Zehn Tristan.

Given the family's new militaristic approach, Zehn has trained since he was a boy. His chosen weapon was the spear, and his father trained him diligently each day with it. At the same time he was trained in the manipulation and building up of his ki, for Zehn showed good aptitude in that area. By the age of sixteen, the young man had finally joined the Trinity Knights.

At such a young age, Knights usually aren't sent into hostile territory. Their main prerogative is to protect the people of Westphalia from external and internal attacks after all. Police, in a way. However, during a routine patrol of the Westphalian borders, a missive was received from the Drovinian Reaches. A Templar raiding party had been suffering heavy losses from undead raiders and needed help immediately. Zehn's squadron was sent to the Reaches.

What followed was a long and bloody battle. In it, Zehn upheld the Tristan name, fighting valiantly and cleaving through hordes of undead. His ki seemed specifically geared towards the slaying of the vile creatures, and eventually the battle was won. Recognizing his potential, his superiors often sent Zehn on these raiding parties to stymie and push back the undead borders along with the usual contingent of Templar and Knights. He was continually in one fight after the other, whether it was protecting the borders, and the towns around this area, of Westphalia or doing battle in the Reaches.

Throughout these campaigns, and all of these battles, Zehn has made his way to being captain of his own contingent of Trinity knights. Entrusted with leading his men for the safety of his country, the valiant knight strives to do his duty, and to continually slay the eternal enemies of humanity with utter fervor.