Zayne Greywolfe

“Fiery brilliance of a thousand suns”

Growing up

An orphan in his own right since the tender age of 8 in the harshest areas of Gyr Abania as Garlemald enclosed around the land. Growing up in an orphanage with too little amenities with too many mouths to feed was a problem, so he learned on his own to fend for himself. Knowing the world out there was not a kind one but to greet it with a smile, even if it meant beating bandits or monsters to a pulp just to survive.As he grew, the cheerfully bright and optimistic highlander youth saw everything as ‘do unto others as you would unto them’; even when it was a matter of accepting a service while being paid for something: Coin controlled a lot of things. And needing more money as he embraced his teens became increasingly apparent as many more children were brought upon the Orphanages’ door.He told the old caretaker he would set off in like of a profession to accrue money to send back and help children like him, thus leading him to Ul’dah in his late teen years. Coming upon the ‘tradition’ of the Coliseum fights for riches and ‘glory’. Upon winning his first handful of matches while using his fists, he was spotted and taken under the wing of an older male Monk, having seen his intense fiery aether, or lack of control of said aether in order to better harness it. The Monk Master seeing a spark of Rhalgr’s destructive force in the youth.Zayne had taken what money he could to send back home while departing with the man to learn of the old ways of Rhalgr’s teachings, and in doing so, found his aether to burn bright as subsequent light itself. But along the way and the years, he still upheld the oath he made to take care of the kids he had left behind back home with his coliseum earnings but soon reached an impasse: to keep training or use the power of the fist for the use of others he cared for dearly.He did in the end, let his teacher go and went back to the inevitable cage of bloodsport for Ul’dah’s entertainment but if it meant he could feed those who weren’t as well off as him, he’d do it in a heartbeat.