Solmund Whyte

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Strategy Cleric for Harbingers of Dawn
Gender	Male
Race	Hyur
Clan	Highlander
Citizenship	Ul'Dah
Guardian	Nald'thal
Nameday	5th Astral Moon 22 (Age: 30)
Marital Status	Widowed
Occupation	Merchant; Investigator; Gambler

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Appearance

Height: 6'7"

Build: Modern Bara

Complexion: Richly tanned, with no tattoos or visible scars.

Hair: Light ash brown undercut, and tied in the back.

Eyes: Blue-Green; Turquoise

Clothing: Tends to wear blues, whites, and golds.

Family

The Vyce's were an Ala Mighan merchant family in trade with Ul'Dah and Limsa Lominsa prior to the Garlean take-over. Thoreaux's immediate family was in the earliest wave of refugees to leave Ala Mhigo.

Thoreaux's father; Herriod, chose to evacuate his family to Limsa Lominsa via the shrewd conclusion that they would find better quality of life there. He left behind generations of wealth in Ala Mhigo, and in paranoia suggested other Ala Mighans travel to Gridania and Ul'Dah, where they found little sanctuary. Retribution caught up to him years later, and he was found beaten and tied to a keystone under the fishing docks with Rhalgr's seal carved into his chest. In life, he was a gold merchant by trade, but raised to fight as a Monk.

Herriod's wife; Leilane, was a Sharlayan Astrologian who facilitated Herriod's opulence through divination. It was she who deemed which markets would be most fruitful, and she who may have been to blame for his actions during the migration. As a Sharlayan scholar, Leilane never made efforts to reveal the nature of her magic to even her children. After Herriod's death, Leilane remarried to a pirate captain after less than a year of mourning, and left her children to their own devices.

Thoreaux has a sister living in Ul'Dah as a Sultansworn.

Magic

Thoreaux initially grew up with the physical combat and fitness training of a Pugilist at the behest of his father, but by his mother's blood was never satisfied entirely by pursuits of strength and speed. A hunger for knowledge of the intricacies of magic raged within him, but Herriod would not permit his only son to break tradition. For him, Ala Migho's heritage came before all else. It was after Herriod's murder that Thoreaux joined the Arcanist guild, and dedicated himself almost entirely to the study of arcanimal mathematica. Eventually, he would be deemed adequately skilled enough by the Guildmaster to begin his own path. With this freedom, he chose to travel; filling tomes with every sigil and formulae he came across and amassing an enormous quantity of spells from an array of cultures. This led him to become a spell merchant, and took him to Ul'Dah to sell his ware where he met his late husband.

Marriage

In 1570 of the Sixth Astral Era, Solmund and the Limsan scholar Thoreaux Vyce were married after a three-year affair. They lived together in Solmund's estate for about a year before the war with the Garlean Empire began to crescendo. Amid the rising fears their relationship strained, circumstances arose that uncovered serial infidelities on Solmund's part. This led to separation. In 1572, the lesser moon Dalamud began its descent to the planet's surface, promising ultimate destruction. Thoreaux, under the state of mind that death was coming, traveled to Southern Thanalan to forgive Solmund in person. As he entered desert valley, Dalamud shattered by the rage of the elder primal Bahamut, and shards of the moon were thrown far. One such shard chanced to collide in Thoreaux's path; killing him, along with his travel companions.