#ged from earthsea. and young dalinar from the stormlight archive. my beloveds…

[soloavengers]

Sparrow was born outside the two nations we know, he showed great promise in magic, and was raised by his mentor. When he was yet a child, Sparrow got too proud of his abilities and went too far in an attempt to show off to his fellow young sorcerers, summoning a beast, he grew up chasing it until finally he defeated it. Not without getting scarred physically and emotionally.

He’d spent years traveling and using a limited amount of his skill to help, the skills of a sorcerer from his land is a lot different than of those we see in Vermund and Battahl. Sparrow perfected a spell that kept the brine at bay, and with it he had managed to sail away from the island he grew up in and to Vermund.

Becoming the Arisen terrified him, for surely he would need to summon all his strength to defeat the Dragon, and who knows what would happen then? The Dragon and Drakes had only bothered his homeland in ancient times, and are almost revered now for their intelligence and use of magic. Enough of Sparrow’s pride remains that he believes his magic can rival that of the Dragon’s, but not its brute strength.

His new journey is a second chance, a chance to learn and grow out of his timidness as a magic user, he decided that perhaps he would not make the same mistake from his youth if he strictly kept to the skills of the mages and sorcerers of Vermund and Battahl.

When it was time to summon his loyal pawn, he willed into this world an already existing pawn, seeking one who deserved a second chance, one of brute force —

Came Thorne, who was abandoned by his former Arisen in the rift who knows how long ago. Thorne’s creator had lost a brother who helped him seize a throne, an obedient brother who cared for little but the thrill of battle. Thorne is much the same, and he helped the Arisen seize more land, especially after he caught the Dragonsplague, especially upon transforming. The havoc he caused weakened a large kingdom up for the Arisen’s taking.

He doesn’t remember these events, and believes his former master had simply gotten busy and forgot about him. (He was abandoned because the Arisen believed Thorne grown powerful enough to consider killing him for the throne.) However he isn’t as nonchalant about all the bloodshed the Arisen had made him spread, and so he’s almost as watchful of his own power as Sparrow.