Kanu

Backstory

Kanu was a sellsword in the lowland wars, hired by petty lords to spill blood for copper and grudges. When his company was slaughtered in an ambush, he alone survived—not through valor, but through running. That shame drove him into the wilderness, where he wandered for years, taking work as a caravan guard and tomb raider, always moving, never staying. He stumbled into the Obsidian Temple seeking shelter from a storm, expecting ruins and salvage. Instead, he found Vess, and for the first time in his life, someone who saw him not as a weapon but as worth teaching. The wanderer has become the student—uncertain, skeptical, but desperate to understand the old magic that might be the only thing standing between the temple and oblivion.