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Name: Nikang (the Vainglory)
Age: Early to mid-20's
Gender: Male
Nation of Origin: Sacaen Territories
Nation of Allegiance: None

Appearance/Description:
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Self-absorbed, self-interested and vainglorious to a fault, Nikang has swaggered from place to place taking full advantage of his blessings of survivable martial skill and passing attractiveness. Since striking out on his own, Nikang has fully adopted a motto of "Lover first, fighter second, winner always," and, despite his less-than-glamorous lifestyle as a bandit and some-time mercenary for hire, has happily taken to advancing said lifestyle along said motto. Beneath his arrogance and ego, there does exist a glimmer of good-heartedness and the more idealistic values of his people, but it is less interesting and less profitable than enjoying life, so Nikang often dismisses it.

Bio/Backstory: When Hero King Roy vanquished the Bern Empire's world-threatening assault and returned to Lycia to rebuild, his Sacaen allies also sought to rebuild their fractured and devastated homeland plains. Unlike the Hero King, however, the Sacaen's efforts resulted in no great empires, advances in power or study, or gains in health and sanctuary. For the remaining Sacaens, mere handfuls remaining of most of the Bern-smashed tribes and barely four times that left in the larger surviving tribes, there was only the steady decline of their ability to hold their land against the vagrant forces left over from the war.

Over one hundred years of prosperity and advancement in Lycia were paralleled by an equal number of years of poverty and constant skirmishing in Sacae. Most of the tribes did not survive the first few decades, while those that did desperately attempted to maintain their independence before strife and hostility forced them to merge into the Kutolah Tribe. The children of those who served alongside the Hero King begged Lycia for aid, but the Lycian forces' silence in the face of their plight was more answer than they could ever imagine. Left alone to face the ravages of a war long passed, the Kutolah eked out their survival by proving themselves to be the most dangerous, ruthless force in the Sacaen Plains.

Over time, the once-Kutolah Tribe, now-nameless, managed to secure various locations for splinter settlements to lay roots. Nikang was born to one such settlement, where as a young boy he was raised to speak to and care for and ride horses, and later, as a young man, to fight from horseback to defend the tribe's food and people. Despite this typical upbringing, Nikang quickly grew dissatisfied with his life and stole a horse and supplies to leave the settlement before his coming of age ceremony.

For years, Nikang simply wandered throughout the ravanged, bandit-laden Sacaen Plains, honing his ability to kill other people faster than they him and managing to survive day by day through his own banditry and murder. Though he kept from touching those who belonged to the tribe out of a faint sense of loyalty, in times of weakness, and times engulfed in the heat of battle, those lines of loyalty were blurred for the sake of living. Among the various bandits and scumlords of the plains, Nikang earned the infamous moniker, "the Vainglory" for his arrogance and boasts before duels and during raids with other like-minded forces.

When the first of the foolishly erected trade routes between Lycia and Etruria were established, Nikang was among those who gleefully plundered the poorly defended caravans and made off with their goods. For nearly a year, Nikang made off like a bandit with these raids, stowing away a good deal of money in a secret location, while blowing through the rest of it on booze and attractive men and women, until the Etrurian Massacre happened, drawing a horrific end to Nikang's fun and games.

In a rare display of unity and regard for their fellow men, several of the most prominent scumlords and bandit chiefs banded together and herded the fleeing Etrurians through Sacae to Bern. Nikang was among them, holding off several bands of Lycian Legionaires alongside the bandit hordes in order to buy time for the Etrurians to reach safety. For the Sacaens, both those of the tribes and those not, none had forgotten how the Lycians had seemingly abandoned their kin to the fate of desolation and banditry while the Lycian Empire grew strong and fat. Thus, to deny the Lycians the Etrurians was more vindication than benevolence, and one that all Sacaens delighted in taking.

These days, Nikang continues his skirmishes against the Lycians, though flaring tempers and accusations of slept-with-women threaten to chase him out of his current horde into new employment.