<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">A man never tells.</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div align="center">Game Of Thrones (Season 2) Soundtrack | 05 | Valar Morghulis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdEAGlh0yLE#ws)</div></div></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7e/AodhBanner.png)<br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;">Click for character sheet (http://plothook.net/RPG/profiler/view.php?id=10936)</span></span></div></div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">AÖDH LOWE</span><br/>'eɪ.ɔːd 'lɑːoʊ<br/>Ay-od Lah-oh</span></div><hr/><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;">A Man Possessed</span></span></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>T</strong></span>he crack of splintering wood. The thunder of falling mortar. The smell of smoke. The sight of burning faces.<br/><br/>  These are the things that greeted Aodh to the world. These are the visions that haunt his sleeping mind.<br/><br/>  What these visions represent, no one says, or knows. When Aodh was sent to the Order, it was at the behest of his cabal; his mind, they said, had fractured, and it was only a matter of time before nature would cull what was no longer strong.<br/><br/><br/>  But what the Order found was not a madman, but a savant; driven to the edge of sanity by his maxims, Aodh found solace only in the rules that existence played by-- cruel rules, no doubt, but rules nonetheless. Though seen as unstable, his reserved nature and vague words made him more of an enigma than an evident danger, and so he was tolerated- praised, even, when the situation allowed it. His broken, Tao-esque observations, despite being arcane even to the magus, began to find its way into the journals of students and teachers alike.<br/><br/>  What they had found was a man who understood the natural laws of the world so thoroughly, that he could exploit its very fabric, a thing he called Bending. To most, he appeared no different to Druids; but to his kind, he was an ahborrence. Yes, he <em>revered</em> nature, but it was the reverence of a man possessed, not the loving kinship of a man close to the roots of the world. It became clear to those administrating the Order that Aodh would find no sanctuary in a new cabal, and so he was kept seperate from his own. Worse still, stories of his madness spread amongst the other members, inciting apprehension and distrust with those he would call his peers even as they peppered their papers with his words. It was with some trepidation, then, that he was finally relegated to the Order's taskmasters for service.<br/><br/>  It was not an act done without contention, both from those overseeing the assignments, and from Aodh himself.<br/><br/>  But he was eventually spurred to accept.<br/> </span><br/><hr/><div style="text-align: right;">Partner: Healergirl (?)<br/>Animal Companion details on character sheet.</div>