balienn

Coming from another Continent, Balien Steelguard begins his mission in a land unknown to him, a land that a while ago no one from the place he came from knew about. To make a reconnaissance, Balien Steelguard was ordered to come in dozens of ship groups composed of members of the great Steelguard family and due to a storm the Balien´s ship came to sink, leaving maybe only Balien alive. There were more than one ship, so it could be that other Steelguards was still alive. Without the guide who led the expedition and would make it possible for the group to return back because he did know the way back, Balien Steelguard begins his journey to survive in this new land, because returning to his home was not possible. The mission had failed and Balien was alone, but at least still alive.

The Steelguard family is the most powerful family on the Continent from which Balien came. A family made up of masters of the sword, this fame came from a few swordsmen from this family who stood out, making the Steelguard name feared and respected. The biggest reason for the rise of this family was a person called Lazekan Steelguard. The Lazekan Steelguard has the strength to frighten the entire enemy Empire, being ranked in the legendary rank. After him there's his son, Lavadan Steelguard, who would have the heroic rank, just one rank below the legendary, and his grandson, Erun Steelguard, who would surpass both. A few years passed and several other talents emerged in this family until Balien was born. Balien could not be compared to the geniuses who were born before him, but Balien would not be far behind many of his countrymen.

After the Steelguard family found out about the existence of a new Continent, the family's strategists requested more information about these lands. The mission entrusted to Balien and other Steelguards was only to make a reconnaissance, trying to find the existence of other peoples and find out the dangers of these hidden lands. The mission would take an average of 6 months to be completed before they could return home. But a mission that would take months turned out to be a mission that would take years. And now the Balien of the respectful Steelguard family would be the Balien of an unknown family on this Continent, a nobody. His mission now would be no longer to do just reconnaissance, but to grow his family name strong and make the fear the surname Steelguard gives on the other Continent to be the same in those other lands and also looking for other survivors of that storm.

Balien trained every day, only resting his body on the days he would dedicate himself to his studies, since he was 5 years old, the swordsmanship that the family's trainers taught him. And he continued training like this for a while until he entered the academy where nobles left their children to train in swordsmanship when he was 16. This was exactly what all Steelguards should do, begin training at the age of 5 and join the academy at the age of 16.

During several years, Balien studied an infinite number of books, till being able to call himself an ordinary member of the honorable Steelguard family. Balien would then have a deep theoretical knowledge and experience on swords because of the training. Unfortunately he lacked experience in wars and life-and-death battles. After all, who in their right mind would start a war or even threaten the life of a Steelguard in those lands?

After the shipwreck, Balien was eventually carried by the waves to Haense. In order to understand what had happened, Balien met some people who did not refuse to give information about the geography of Almaris and its geopolitics. After realizing that due to a shipwreck his countrymen had perished and after collecting some information with some soldiers of the Haense’s army, Balien was about to leave the place in order to collect information in other places that would serve to complete the mission given to him. And so he says his name to the one he was talking to, that’s how he discovers his comrade, Clearon Steelguard, was part of the Haense’s army at that time, and that’s when Balien Steelguard got to know the whereabouts of Clearon Steelguard, his compatriot, as he goes to the place Clearon was located on. Just because Clearon Steelguard was a soldier of Haense, Balien Steelguard was able to be guided to where Clearon was, at May's Alley X, one of the houses of Haense. At the time, Clearon was sleeping and could not see that his comrade was in Haense. Fortunately a soldier of Haense noticed that Balien was one of Clearon’s friends and led the way to the place where Clearon was resting. Now another one of the many shipwrecked Steelguards were gathered in Almaris in search of other Steelguards in order to survive together in this unknown land.