Khyan - Nykara
Details
Full Name: Vinicius Nykara Khyan
Race: Human (Dryadalis Quartum - Paternal grandmother was a Platinum Elf)
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 141 lbs
Birthdate: 1st of Sundered Rise/1st of Searing, 103 Steel
Birthplace: Sorokyne District, The Kingdom of Solunarium
Profession: Servus
Housing: Quartered in the home of Cetus Argenti
Partners: N/A
Titles: N/A
Factions: Solunarian Immaculist
Fluencies: Vastian & Vallenor
Conversationals: Common
Ineptitudes: None
Appearance
With dark features typical of the Vastian population, Khyan is a slightly built youth with elfin features that subtly betray the influence of an Elven grandparent on his father’s side.
Personality
Khyan was raised with a great deal of privilege which he no longer enjoys due to the machinations of a rival family that led to the downfall of his once esteemed house. His recent fall from grace has placed a boy who once lived like a prince into the lot of a slave. He is struggling to adapt to his new normal, knowing that his present position is a result of deception rather than Solunarian justice.
History
Gens Nykara has been a prominent line amongst the Vastii since the tribe first settled in the Atraxian Desert. They are one of the few families that can boast noble lineage both before and after the Varværyn Epoch, having betrayed the Caelian Kings to save their genteel skins at the culling commanded by the Founders. As such, many notable figures throughout Solunarian history, from Legates to Consuls, have been members of Gens Nykara.
The family of Khyos Nykara was a portrait of the modern Vastian gentry. Khyos, the paterfamilias, was fortunate enough to have been born half-Elven with a Starborn mother- a particular blessing in the eyes of the patrician class. With all the privilege Khyos was afforded, he became very outspoken with his views. At first, upon assuming his position in the Senatus Minor he was seen as a fringe radical figure, but eventually gained enough support enough to stand as its Consul. Like much of the human nobility, the Nykara favoured the royal branch of Phaedryn over its haughtier counterparts and Khyos was particularly prolix on the matter- ultimately drawing the ire of the reigning royals.
Khyan was born the first son and heir to the half-Elven Senator Khyos Nykara and his human wife, Nayiri Vinicia Nykara. Khyan’s youth was one of great privilege and comfort, dwelling in one of the finest estates in the Sorokyne District with additional properties in the Sanctine District of the Umbrium as well as a villa in Tertium. Like his father, Khyan was rather strident with his views and something of a hot-head, but he was more concerned with parties than politics to the great vexation of his senatorial father.
Khyan was that vexing sort of adolescent for whom everything came too easily. He was filthy rich, the son of a prominent politician, he went seamlessly from cute kid to attractive youth with no awkward stage, and things came annoyingly easy to him. He could juggle his indulgent leisure life with his education sans issue- naturally excelling in both his martial training and his studies at the Academia Arcanum with very little effort. In the latter he specialised in Semblance, but took a marked interest in Animism, which he was only beginning to explore in depth by the middle of 122 Steel.
Shortly after beginning his second term as Consul, a Senator from the rival House of Argenti took the floor of the Senate to publicly accuse Khyos of conspiring against the Royal House and fomenting revolution. Given his many public critiques of the reigning Solar Sovereign, it was a difficult position to refute. Senator Argenti brought his case to The Collegium Magistratuum and, given the gravity of the charges, it was taken to their High Court at the Palatium Furiarum. With the Princeps Praetor himself presiding over the court, Khyos’ conviction was almost a forgone conclusion, as the House of Naxos was among those Khyos frequently criticised. His critiques proved valid, it seemed, as the Praetor’s obvious bias clearly influenced his decision to convict.
Khyos was immediately stripped of his position in the Senate and it was declared that his branch of Gens Nykara would be stripped of their Patrician title. A cousin of his house would assume his erstwhile seat in the Senatus Minor, while an emergency vote would name Senator Argenti the new provisional Consul to finish out Khyos’ term. In gratitude for bringing the case to the attention of the Court, the Crown yielded up its right of Lex Agni to House Argenti. Khyos, his wife Nayiri and his son Khyan were collared as slaves to serve Gens Argenti. Cetus Argenti, son of the newly raised Consul, contrived to bring Khyan in to serve his household. They had grown up together and had a furtive friendship, which Cetus sought to honour by protecting Khyan from the greater humiliation and suffering he’d have experienced serving in Consul Argenti’s domus.
