<div class="floatright"> (http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh549/Holodancer/Hyb0r1a/rev_Zd2GjS8_zpsdc4efb80.jpg)</div><del><strong>Character Name</strong>: Bhalar Ahran</del><br/><strong>Player</strong>: RevAtArms<br/><strong>Country of Origin</strong>:  Hyrkanian<br/><strong>Deity(s)</strong>:  N/A (Ancestor Worship, though in his current situation, exactly how worshipful Bhalar is I have not yet decided.)<br/><strong>Sexual Orientation</strong>: Bisexual (Hetero preference)<br/><br/><strong>Age</strong>: 26<br/><strong>Height</strong>: 6'0"<br/><strong>Weight</strong>: 185 lbs<br/><strong>Eyes</strong>: Black<br/><strong>Hair</strong>: Black<br/><strong>Distinguishing Features/Markings/Scars/Tattoos</strong>:<br/>Steppe-style mustache, several scars on his chest, left arm.  His right thumb has a worn-in indent from the thumb ring he uses to draw his bow.<br/><br/><strong>Class/Skill Background</strong>:  Light Cavalry/Horse Archer -- specialize in riding, acrobatics, wilderness survival.<br/><strong>Weapons Specialties</strong>:  Archery.  Also skilled with swords (sabres) and lances.<br/><br/><strong>Weapons</strong>:  Hyrkanian recurve bow, sabre.<br/><br/><strong>Armor</strong>:  Boiled leather lamellar chest-piece, leather bracers and pointed steel helmet with chainmail aventail and cloth veil.<br/><br/><strong>Equipment/Supplies</strong>:  Belt-knife, hatchet, skin of<em>kumis</em>(fermented mare's milk), needle and harsh thread for sewing leather, trail rations, bag of steel arrowheads, some twine, whetstone.<br/><br/><strong>Personality Traits</strong>:  Bhalar Ahran is a cold, hard bastard of a man...which doesn't stop him from possessing an intense and singular personal charisma.  He is ascerbic, sarcastic, and a bit rude...but is also ferocious in defense of what he sees as his 'obligations' -- primarily people he likes, for whatever reason.<br/><strong>Racial Animosities</strong>:  It's fair to say that Bhalar dislikes everyone equally.<br/><strong>Phobias</strong>:  Mild fear of snakes.  (Player too, so please be scarce on serpenty pictures, thanks!)<br/><br/><strong>Bio &amp; Notes</strong>: A child of the steppes through and through, Bhalar's clan was a victim of clan warfare.  Left for dead on a battlefield, it was luck alone that allowed him to survive.  He came away from that battlefield with a youth's bow -- a one-man bow in the Hyrkanian parlance -- and little else.  He's kept himself alive with that bow and a knife, first as a bandit and then as a mercenary.  His skill with the bow is puissant and he could ride long before he could walk.<br/><br/>He has been through a lot in his time, always struggling to survive and often only scraping through by the proverbial skin of his teeth...but he has always managed.  He has never been a slave, though he has been a thief...though that only when he is truly desperate.  His innate agility and balance make him a naturally talented cat burglar, but he considers it beneath him...and is always self-amused by that fact, because killing others for their belongings is a cultural norm for his people.  For his part, his roguish (if foreign) good looks and quick wits have served him almost as well as the cold-blooded culture he hails from.