Bozjan✦Born

The storm's son

There's truth in the thunder, love in the lightning
The feeling is frightening, yet isn't it exciting?

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PRONOUNS He/him | TIME ZONE Eastern
LOCATION Crystal // Coeurl

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Intro

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Hello all! I don’t really have a set moniker to go by, so you’re welcome to call me by my character’s name. I’ll also respond to Meallan, Porcelain Boss, or even just a “hey nerd.”I run in EST, and tend to give my availability based on that. I prefer Discord roleplay, but will 100% schedule in-game interactions if so desired.I am a chronic game/dungeon master, so I am entirely open to crafting long-term stories with your character, or doing involved dice-rolling scenes. Whatever floats our goats. However, this also means that I can and will withhold information if I want to surprise you later. Be prepared.

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⤈ Personality ⤈

Ildan is outwardly a very serious and dedicated person, his face rarely ever showing emotion. He is fairly quiet unless addressed or expected to converse, in which case he tends to be eloquent and careful with his words. With those he trusts, however, Ildan’s formal demeanor relaxes, revealing a habit of lightly teasing his friends and family, and a much more colourful vocabulary than should be used in public. But in either facade, Ildan is protective of those he loves, and is quick both to advise those in need or chastise those who overstep their bounds.

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⤈ Story ⤈

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⤈ Youth ⤈

Ildan was born in the late spring of 1563 of the Sixth Astral Era to two officers of a Bozjan resistance cell, known as the Slomljeni Ocnjaci, in hiding from the Garlean occupation forces. His father—Lieutenant Commander Harvan Akanote, a Helion hrothgar—was beyond proud to have a boy to call his own, while Ildan’s mother—Lieutenant Commander S’amareilla Akanote, a Seeker of the Sun miqo’te—seemed glad but worried for the boy’s future. And given their life as guerillas, this was a fair worry. Indeed, within a year and a half of his birth, Ildan’s mother went missing while on an espionage mission for the cell, shortly after which his aunt—Commander S’kari Thalemeris, S’amareilla’s sister—resigned her post and fled the nation. This left Harvan to raise Ildan himself, along with assuming the rank of Commander himself.

The next nine years saw Ildan grow up in constant exposure to war. He was trained in combat from the age of four, both with weaponry and martial arts, and showed promise in utilizing his chakra to empower himself. Between this training and the threat of being discovered by Garleans, lldan as a youth was quiet, focused, and dedicated to being useful to those around him. This meant learning to make and repair arms and armament in the forge and to go hunting for food. It also meant that Ildan took his first life at the age of 8 by means of a hunting knife into a Garlean soldier’s throat, an event which left a permanent mark on his psyche. Three more enemy soldiers would fall by Ildan’s hand before the age of 10, by which time he had made peace with both death and killing, for good or ill.In 1562 of the Sixth Astral Era, this way of life was disrupted when Harvan returned from a mission with intel hinting at disaster soon to befall Bozja. Most of the guerrillas refused to abandon their home nation, and though lldan himself didn’t want to leave his homeland, Harvan was completely sure that if they stayed, they would die. So Ildan, his father, and a few loyal members of the group packed their things and fled over the Jade Sea to Thavnair. There they found S’kari—who had built a life as a doctor for refugees and poor townsfolk—and settled in together. A month later, they received word of the Bozjan Incident, and that the Slomljeni Ocnjaci who had remained in Bozja were wiped out by the destruction of their home. Grieved but all the more determined for their cause, Ildan and his aunt stood by Harvan as the hrothgar reformed his soldiers into a mercenary company called the Domovina Ocnjaci, the “Homeland Fangs”. So transitioned Ildan’s life from a refugee to a sellsword.

⤈ Adolescence ⤈

For the next three years, Ildan served as a member of the Domovina Ocnjaci. His training was changed from general combat skills to specifically bodyguard techniques, keeping the legacy of Bozjan gunbreakers alive while also ensuring he’d be more capable of fighting in populated areas. S’kari also took great pleasure in ensuring her nephew grew his domestic skills—especially in traditional Bozjan cooking, tea and coffee making—and gave him stringent tactical and language lessons to grow his mental faculties and turn him into an officer-in-training. It was also during this time that Ildan was gifted a gryphon cub to be his lifelong mount and partner; the lad chose the name Mraggi for his steed. And during all this time, the Ocnjaci went from battlefield to battlefield, oversea and overland, fighting and killing all the way. In fact, Ildan lost track of how many lives he took before the age of 13.Eventually, however, Ildan was removed from that lifestyle. Harvan brought the boy to Ishgard while the Ocnjaci were under contract to aid in the realm’s protection, and took Ildan to the house of Zerlina Cia and Amaya Advarithi. Ildan was hired on by the two as a live-in bodyguard for their daughter, Vidhi Etoile Cia Advarithi, after which Harvan and the Ocnjaci took to the field with even more rigour. Hurt at being left behind, but understanding the rationale, Ildan threw himself fully into his role as a bodyguard. He didn’t like his principal at first, finding her annoyingly perceptive and stubbornly friendly, but eventually he softened to her, and became as much her confidant as her employee. This stretch of time also saw Ildan further his education under the wings of several private tutors who were teaching Vidhi, including the strict but fair Tori Banta, and due to Vidhi’s parents’ own training and advice for the boy.By the time he was 18, Ildan was an exemplary warrior, tactician, bodyguard, and lover of literature. This period also saw him begin adopting some elements of chivalry into his behaviour; a bodyguard in Ishgard couldn’t behave like a refugee, after all.However, this life too came to an end. Zerlina and Amaya left Vidhi in Ildan’s care to aid Archon Louisoix in the fight against Garlemald, and both they and the Ocnjaci were at Carteneau when the Red Moon fell. And sure enough, when Harvan returned with a battered and bloodied Ocnjaci, he informed Ildan and Vidhi that the latter’s parents were MIA, presumed dead. This left a 19 year old Ildan in charge of the 14-year-old Vidhi. Fully dedicated to her protection now, and knowing that they had no way of remaining in Ishgard without losing their way of life, Ildan and Vi chose instead to take to adventuring. He may have stopped being her official bodyguard by this point, but nonetheless, he was determined to protect her, and as they traveled through Eorzea, Ildan found himself being more and more attached to her, even if he couldn’t put his finger on why. He also began discovering a strange power that he had lacked before the Calamity; occasionally, when touching an object or standing in certain places, Ildan would have brief visions of past events. He mostly shook these off, but between those events and the growing ease at which he could fight, Ildan felt that yet more change was inevitable. Thankfully, despite all the changes and wandering, the two always had a home with Tori, who made sure the pair always had a room available under her roof.Eventually, though the adventuring lifestyle remained theirs for four years—earning coin as sellswords and through Vi’s performing talents—Ildan was drafted into the Dragoon Corps at the age of 23. Loath though he was to leave her, becoming a wanted man in Ishgard for draft-dodging would make their lives worse, so Ildan accepted the summons and bade Vi a goodbye with a promise to return to her once he was knighted. Back in Ishgard, he trained alongside Raiko Dal as part of a contingent of foreign or low-class conscripts—the Black Fangs, as they were called—until he received a letter from Gridania partway through training: Vidhi was missing, presumed kidnapped by Garleans. Enraged and in a panic, Ildan was permitted to leave early after enduring a test of his skills, and receiving an impromptu knighthood from Lord Cirros Archion. For the better part of the next six months, Ildan searched frantically for his lost principal until he was given an anonymous letter telling him to go to the Sylphlands. There, he found a catatonic Vidhi, and took her away with him to Ishgard, where his new knighthood could be put to use.

⤈ Adulthood ⤈

Now 24 years old, Ildan and Raiko used their knightly income to rent a small house in Coerthas, taking turns caring for Vi and handling their duties. During this time, Ildan finally had a label to put on his feelings for her: love. Thus he swore to himself to be all the stronger for her, all the more capable. After all, he was now a knight and a bodyguard, so it was his duty to keep her from all harm, especially from whichever Imperials had taken her in the first place.When Vi eventually returned to awareness—frailer, susceptible to aether sickness, but more magically powerful than before—Ildan made sure to care for her well. He regretted not being able to help the Eorzean Alliance fight the Garlean threat as the Seventh Astral Era dawned, but his place was at Vidhi’s side.That year of quietude in Coerthas was ended as the Dragonsong War took a turn for the worse. However, rather than be drafted into the frontlines as he’d expected to be, Ildan found his door knocked on by an Ala Mhigan by the name of Beau Dawnstrider. She needed his speararm, it seemed, as word had reached her of his combat prowess, early knighthood, and prior exploits. After much debating, Ildan and Vi set off with Beau to aid her in her adventures. Such sights and tasks they faced, Ildan would never have dreamed; their travels sent them across Eorzea, to the Far East, across the seas, into the heart of Garlemald, and to places far stranger. By the time their adventures were over, Ildan considered Beau to be an older sister, and he carried himself with a confidence found in those who could triumph over any adversity.It was on those travels that Ildan and Vidhi admitted their feelings for one another; or rather, Ildan confessed his and found them reciprocated. By the end of their journey, they were inseparable lovers, and having survived the Final Days, they sought a quieter life together. Between Ildan’s salary, a newfound stipend from Vidhi’s noble family in Thavnair, and other lines of income less clear-cut, the two not only bought and refurbished a home in Ishgard, but also one in Ul’dah. In these, they built a home for their adopted daughter—Akane Kilala—and began being able to provide a safe space for their various friends and peers they’d met and continued to make, such as Usagi Cruex, and many others. And in his 28th year of life, Ildan asked Vidhi to marry him. She agreed, and after their ceremony in Thavnair, they opened a small teashop in Ul’dah and tried to become normal people.But normalcy refused to be had, and soon enough, the pair headed out to Tural with Beau and other members of the family in tow. And even though this continent of unknowns could involve challenges unknown, Ildan knows that with Vidhi at his side, neither hell nor high water would stop them from coming home safe and sound.

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