Biography
Birth and Childhood
Born in the Kravamma Province of FauriDaru during the time of Malisyk Control
Rarely ever saw his father, who worked in the sunmetal mines. His mother taught him some reading, though he didn't take well to it. He can barely read and write beyond city signage.
His abusive father drank himself to death. He didn't pay much mind to Snowmane while home, but would often become a physical drunk and would torment his older siblings. One stands up to him and he kills them, and when the Malisyk Justicar arrives there is a small trial in the home and the Justicar decides the son was in the wrong.
Adolescence
In his teens, fell in love with one of his friends, but when his friend decided to become a guard he pushed Snowmane away and pretended it never happened. Snowmane didn't realize it was love until later.
His older sister is betrothed, and his mother uses the money to move them to the city where her husband is.
His elder siblings gradually leave home until he is alone. They all send letters, though one by one the letter stop coming and his mother grieves their likely death. Only two older sisters -- one in an arranged marriage and the other a trader who moved south and occasionally sends home money.
He learns domestic magic to take care of his mother. He better learns to read at this time because she has some illegal spellbooks.
His mother sells five years of his life to an abyssal barge, where he doesn't see the sun except in glimpses but becomes a great abyssal sailor.
While on the ship, he falls in love with a crewmate. They keep their relationship covert, though the captain does eventually find out and tells them to keep it quiet or they will end up dead.
While at a Faecha-controlled port they're used to, they go to a speakeasy. The place is raided and burned down by the Malisyk, and his lover ends up dead within.
Early Adulthood
He serves the rest of his contract with despondence until one day the crew is given an impossible contract to cross through the fossil sea's Diapsid breeding grounds during breeding season, and are beset by a huge Glaciar-Backed Diapsid. They try to escape it by coming up in a Grotto, only to realize they are in its nest. Their ship is destroyed and they escape into the nearby tunnels. The handful of survivors reconnect and make for the surface, but the journey takes over a month before they get back to civilization. Before the first mate or captain dies, they tell Snowmane about the borrowry loan and give him the information to collect it.
Back in civilization, they report back to the shipping yard and collect the borrowry, collecting enough to purchase a small craft. They elect to go back and salvage from the grotto once the summer comes and the diapsid leave the grotto, and make enough money to fund a voyage ambitious enough to slay ol behule, behead him, and take the head back to the city for the reward.
With the reward, they are able to get a larger ship to finish salvaging the grotto. A band of pirates tails them in an attempt to find it, but Snowmane, who by this time is quite proficient with magic, is able to out-maneuver and sink them.
Wealthy from salvage and known locally as folk heroes, Snowmane begins running guns up from the Aempian Insurgency back home and selling them to insurgent gangs in Fauri, weakening the Malisyk's grasp over it. He also attacks and pirates Malisyk ships, then uses the submersible effect to go out on deck and salvage them from the sea floor.
During one of his runs he comes across an Aempian vessel getting attacked by the Shejlt Navy and Malisyk Raiders, and helps sink both parties and help the hobbling vessel back to its port. While there, they plead with him to stay and help hold Mothelkhan against Lord Moltinalto
Eventually he relents and agrees to help, because to so will help his homeland. The resultant battle lasts days and ends tragically, with Snowmane turning into a monolith during his fight with Maltinalto and dies sitting at the top of the temple, surrounded by the statues and tombs of this crew and the soldiers who died protecting it.
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