Martialis

Male Human Druid 3

Slight, olive-skinned adolescent with green eyes and sandy-blonde hair that belies his Gaullish ancestry. 17 years old, but could easily pass as a young 15.

Apprenticed to a bricklayer in Ancyra by his parents at the age of 8, Martialis stubbornly refused to learn the craft, frequently slipping away from his master's shop into the wilds of Galatia. After a particularly long absence prompted a city-wide search effort, the boy was declared incorrigible and handed over to Armenian slave traders. Fortunately, and somewhat mysteriously, druids interceded on his behalf and raised him as one of their own, indoctrinating him into their peculiar strain of Celtic tradition.

Martialis became a model student of druidic teachings and was allowed to take part in sacred rites before his fifteenth birthday, despite the enormous disparity in age between himself and his teachers. It was perhaps in part because of this that he soon began to butt heads with the sect leadership. Recognizing the strength and sanctity in druidic ways, Martialis pressed the elders to fight back against the ebb of Gaullish identity from Galatia by taking a more active role in civic affairs and instructing additional initiates. They refused, and a gulf rapidly developed between the young man and the druids.

Knowing that openly sharing any druidic knowledge with the uninitiated would mean his death, Martialis withdrew to the forests of his youth, wandering thither and yon throughout Galatia until Lleryn’s arrival in Ancyra provided him with a way out. He obtained King Aflaq’s permission to leave Galatia by helping to dispatch the dreaded cwn wbyr and foiling Lugurix’s plans for starting a Gaullish uprising (in which Martialis himself might have been willing to take part, had he only known), and enrolled in the Chrysopolis Party as a way to reconnect with his roots through Lleryn’s teaching.

The boy is frequently moody and withdrawn, though at times tremendously gregarious. It’s tough to tell if this vacillation is due to his druid nature or the fact that he’s a teenager.

Has an annoying haircut, but most people don’t seem to hold it against him.

Languages: Greek, Galatian