Character History
Animus' father was a member of the enigmatic Nitida-Nex elven
mercenary unit. While guarding a small town in the lands of
Lacostera the elf fell in love with one of it's inhabitants. The
pairing of a human woman and an elven man was quite uncommon, but not
unheard of, though their children rarely live simple lives.
Amongst humans, they mature both physically and mentally slower than
their kin, and faster when amongst elves. Animus lived with his
mother this way for 16 years (though strangers would think he was only
9) until his village was burned in the wake of one of the many wars that
ravaged the area. His father, being well aware of the war,
abandoned his unit to try and rescue the child and it's mother...but
could only save one.
Unconscious and injured, Animus was taken to his uncle, a political
leader in a nearby hidden elven village. He lived amongst them for
10 more years until finally, fed up with being shunned as brutish and
aloof by his "elegant and charismatic" elven peers, he fled in the back
of a dwarven trade wagon. They agreed to let him travel with them
as a tradesman, his keen attention to detail showing promise in the ways
of chainmail and armor detailing. After seeing many great cities
with them and making many more interesting acquaintances, him and a few
of his friends set up a permanent shop outside a town known as Hasgoth,
catering to the battle games that city was known for.
When he reached the age of 37 they created the battle games unit
Canis Ferox (Dogs of War) which for a short while was a large part of
Black Company's Outer Circle, a band of mercenaries who frequented the
battle games. As Hasgoth's economy declined they started working
with the Company and helped defend the nearby mining colony of Khazad-Dûm
on more than one occasion. After more close brush's with fate than
he'd like to count, he opted to accept an invitation to study at a
distant school of magic. Upon his return to the dead lands of
Hasgoth and the caverns of Khazad-Dûm,
his unit had disbanded. He waited a while, living as well as he
could off of the land, until Ventus hired him as a scout. They
later found Elindiel and Rogue whom Animus had once fought beside.
The four, with the help of Elebrim and Cloral founded Disciples of Ameth
and now work towards reuniting the scattered peoples of their fallen
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Fighting History
Animus began fighting as Phaige in early 2000 at Hasgoth located at
Eastern Illinois Universities North Quad. When Hasgoth dispersed
in late 2001, he and his friends started fighting in their back yards.
They called themselves the Dogs of War, basically because they liked the
way it sounded. Since the group worked more like a family of
guttersnipes than an elite military brigade, "Dogs" seemed appropriate.
When they found people fighting in Kiwanis Park a few months later, they
were quick to assemble and start fighting regularly. The persona
of Animus was born then and his player, Brandon, vows never to change
personas again...
His contributions to the group usually come in the way
crafts such as the "Über-Sashes" which
possess a unique theme to each member of the unit while retaining the
"Rune of Ameth" somewhere in the design. Most of the groups chain
armor is built, modified, or maintained by Animus and he tries to help
with foamsmithing wherever he can. As for the field, he relies on
short bursts of speed and flanking to take down as many enemy fighters
as he can before an inevitable and sometimes acrobatic death.
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