<div class="floatleft">(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/268/b/b/oucaste__king_by_kaoimhin7-d2zg693.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Basics</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Name:</strong>King Haidar of the Rampage<br/><strong>Age:</strong>27<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Hetero<br/><strong>Role:</strong>King of Nydewia<br/><strong>Player:</strong>Rhaegar14<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Look</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Height:</strong>6'10"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>270 lbs.<br/><strong>Hair:</strong>Long, Unkempt, Black.<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Green.<br/><strong>Skin:</strong>Dark Tan.<br/><strong>Anything else:</strong>Black, tribal tattoos cover every inch of his body from the neck down. They are symbols of strength, power, and royalty, and Nydewian kings are typically decorated in this fashion. He is covered in thick, corded muscle.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The story</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Likes:</strong>Any variety of fighting or riding, feasts, excessive drinking, music, partying, good company (subjective), good cheer, women of all sorts, raiding and pillaging, horses, well-crafted weapons, honor (though it doesn't always translate perfectly).<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong>His responsibilities (particularly diplomacy), weaklings, cowards, men who have no honor, men who are not warriors, "civilized" living, dress codes.<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Haidar is an interesting individual. On the surface, he is everything one would expect a Nydewian king to be; loud, crude, bloodthirsty, lecherous, and prone to over-indulgence. The personification of everything that Nydewia is and everything that the other nations expect from his people. But in spite of his culture and the way of life that he loves so, Haidar knows it cannot last. The legendary horselords were of an age past; his people must evolve or die at the hands of those who do. Theirs shall always be the ways of horse and warrior, but it cannot always be the way of the nomad, or they shall be conquered and left with no ways at all.<br/><br/>Despite how he loathes it, Haidar is a fair king to his people. While he is not always the one garrisoned in one of the three castles, he ensures that the individual there is a male noble and head of his household; someone with actual power, not a figurehead. In negotiations, he is shrewd and relentless; he will not accept inequitable terms.<br/><br/>Haidar's anger is strong and not easily quelled. Among his people, his rage is well-known and his battle-fury is legendary. It is said that when his fury is on him in full, he feels no pain and ignores wounds that would kill normal men. While these tales are exaggerated, they are based in truth.<br/><strong>Habits:</strong>Haidar is always dressed in full battle regalia; a leather tunic with bronze rings sewn into the chest, boiled leather bracers, white breeches, and boots of the same leather. While he usually carries all of his weapons on his person, he absolutely never goes anywhere without his trusty falchion; he has created problems in the past at diplomatic meetings when guards tried to confiscate it. He snores loudly.<br/><strong>Skills:</strong>Mastery of sword, bow, spear/trident, knife, and handaxe, battle-fury, expert horseman and breeder, throws amazing feasts. An amateur poet, oddly enough.<br/><strong>History:</strong>Haidar was born as the first son of the last Nydewian king, and was raised with the intent of following in his father's footsteps. His father was the well-known king who raised the three castles in Nydewia, and it was from his father that he learned that the nomadic lifestyle of their people could not last forever. When his father died of a weak heart, Haidar assumed the throne without a hitch at the age of twenty-one. He earned recognition in battle against the Aserits, but in the last few months has ordered skirmishes with the rival kingdom to cease upon pain of death. With the battles between Theiri and Aserit escalating, Haidar knows that the cultured people of Theiri will need Nydewia to have a chance of defeating Aserit militarily, so for now he is biding his time to see the terms they will offer him. He has yet to marry and has no legitimate heirs.