Solian has met up with Miss Aria Stellar and Mr Mardoni Valentino
He has traveled as an escort with them to Issust Hold as part of a caravan.

They have safely arrived all escorted, Solian would have needed to see his contact in bar to arrange for the delivery of the good he was escorting and Aria and Mardoni likely accompanied him for a drink and to familiarise themselves with the hold.

******What sort of game are they best suited for?

A game that can run into all sorts of situations.

******What is the characters greatest strength? Greatest weakness?

His arrogance, he believes he is an excellent diplomat, acrobat and fighter and so he is, right up until he isn't but he is also experienced enough not to totally shut down if he is shown something
better than he knows.

******How does the character react to tragedy?

With a sense of determination and hope, resigned to what he could not stop happening, he tries to make the best of the situation

******What is your characters greatest triumph? Greatest mistake?

Finally becoming Captain of a sailing ship with the full trust of his family. Allowing himself to become arrogant and think of others as beneath him, which he has mostly gotten himself out of .. now.

******What sort of person would this character call friend?

Someone who stands up for themself, is loyal and does the right thing at the time, no matter the cost.

******Does this character thrive in chaos or fight desperately to reclaim peace?

This character thrives in chaos even though he doesn't know it himself yet, peace is admirable but a tad boring.

******If circumstances didnt drive them to adventure what would they be doing otherwise?

Being a spoiled noble brat in charge of a Sailing ship and travelling to exotic lands.

Aside from the family estates the Rook family run a significant shipping company, that transported goods across the seas and this is where Solian was primarily involved in the family business. He was captain of the fleet and family ambassador to foreign lands and thus he engaged in sea travel where he was able to build business relationships with merchants in exotic places.

Solian spent a large part of his youth on the family ships and he was re-knowned for getting into all sorts of trouble, one target was the the wizard Orono that the family employed to assist the fleet with magic when needed. Solian would sneak into his rooms and look through his books, scrolls, notes and various implements, hoping to find fantastic magical devices. Well one day Solian managed to set Orono's room on fire with a wand he had found and due to his position Orono could do nothing but instruct the lad on how to use wands and other magical items he might run across, so as to prevent future disasters.

As Solian grew up his father had his armsmen instruct him in fighting techniques that would be most valid in a courtly situation, where he may not have much armour and thus he would need to rely on wit, movement and the capability to get himself out of sticky situations. He was taught the art of swashbuckling and oh how he swashed, he was very impressed with his fighting and agile movement capabilities. He strutted down the streets in all his finery and hand on the pommel of his sword. His father was also impressed and he saw how this young lad so full of gumption would also impress the
Nobility and thus he himself began teaching his son the courtly ways of diplomacy, bluff and intimidation as well as the ability to read your opponents intentions, all so that he would be able to get the best out of the families business dealings.

Solian spent his time aboard ship occupying himself with whatever as long as it did not involve actual work. He was quite dexterous so he was very capable aboard ship he was even able to climb the rigging in those rare times he felt contemplative of life's mysteries in a ridiculously high and dangerous spot such as the crows nest. As part of his plan to win the crew over he studied them and to his own suprise he found that there may be somethings that he could learn from them that would be useful and fun.

A swarthy fellow named Falim was practicing, what Solian assumed to be a dance, Solian asked the quartermaster Mr Kaapo Cademon why the man was allowed to practise dancing while on duty and he explained that he was practising fighting techniques and that taught other crewmen as part of his duties. Solian was entranced, he had always rated his fighting techniques as masterful but now his mind buzzed with thoughts of the the advantages he would have against opponents who had never beheld this hitherto unknown fighting style.

He summoned Falim to him and instructed the man that he would submit himself to be a student so he could learn Falims fighting style. Solian joined the classes seeing it as a point of favour for him in the eyes of his crew. He threw himself into the learning, only to discover that he did not know as much as he thought and he actually had to practice, he even allowed Falim to speak down to him about his progress. But eventually Solian hit upon the correct formula and his training had caught up with his natural ability and he became something truly graceful.

He found that his fraternising with the men had successfully endeared them to him and a few of the crew members advised him on how he could better his chances at winning a fight even with all his fancy dancing capabilities. They showed him how to fight dirty, how to trick an opponent into thinking you were engaging them in a straight up fight only to use some form of trickery, device or the surrounds to gain an advantage over them. Solian had beheld some truly amazing warriors and fantastical beasts in his time and if the time come that he would have to face one of these opponents he wanted to maximise his chances of staying alive after the encounter.

Finally Solian had been given his golden opportunity, the chance to run a large shipment as captain.

He said his good byes to his family and sailed of to his final crowning glory, which lasted only 5 days as his ship ran into a nasty storm and had to return back to port for repairs.

As they sailed into the port they found that it was deserted, no other ships or people. Solian lead a party around the village until he found a store of bodies in a warehouse guarded by a couple of mercenaries.

They gathered what they needed and made the repairs to the ship, while Solian interrogated the mercenaries. Through brutal torture he found out that they were in the employ of House Gado and that a conglomeration of Houses Gado, Lucent and Freit had attacked House Rooks Estates and the port. They had already taken the ships to be recommissioned as ships of the three treacherous Houses. He also found that his family had been captured and taken away as hostages of House Lucent, to make their claim on the Rook lands more legitimate.

Solian and his crew were all wanted men, none of them would be allowed to stay un-silenced. But the crew would never be in for a suicide mission and Solian knew he could not take on House Lucent by himself, so they searched the port for goods (The secret stash where precious gems and jewels, were kept was found and slipped into Solians pocket) and shipped back to sea and headed to a friendly port.

The journey was treacherous, it was the wrong season, but the crew were very good. They were blown off course into an area thy did not know and within sight of land they were wrecked on a shallow but concealed reef. Solian survived and was able to swim to shore, the surviving crew scavenged what they could and stayed together, after a few days they found a settlement. Luckily they were not too far away from their original destination and a Solian was able to make contact with a merchant he had profitable dealings with for over a decade. Solian found the remaining crew employ as he could not keep them with him. Solian traded his gems, jewels stash and a favour to the Merchant (Ikagi Subumoto) for a place in his family, so that Solian would have some legitimacy in this strange foreign land as he tried to make his fortune and rescue his family, how ever long it took.