Yssen Van

Yssen Van
He grins. "There once was a little boy and a little girl..."
Gender	Male
Race	Elezen
Clan	Duskwight
Citizenship	None
Age	27
Birthplace	Unknown
Guardian	Oschon, the Wanderer
Nameday	Unknown
Occupation	Bandit, Black Marketeer, Gambler
Pronunciation	Eesin Vaughn

Yssen Van is a particularly elusive, razor tongued, Duskwight rogue. He delights in drinking, stealing, swindling, gambling, and (as he puts it) games of all kinds. To most he is mysterious, to some he is kind, to others cold, violently opposed to a few, and to the rest he seems completely indifferent. The only constant seems to be that there is no constant. This, coupled with the fact that he is notoriously deceptive and secretive, leads people to think that his motives are questionable at best, and downright sinister at worst. That seems to be just how he likes it. One fact is certain. There is something hidden behind his yellow-gold eyes and devil may care grin.

History

There are very few confirmed details about Yssen Van's past. It is known that he was active as a thief in Ul'dah about nine years before the Dalamud Impact Event, and that he joined the mercenary company Shimmer Song at some point in the year leading up to the impact. He was even a member of the Immortal Flames for a time. He resigned his commission in particularly spectacular fashion, however. Something about him violently disagreeing with some decision some Immortal Flame officers made. Post impact, he seems to fallen back on the thieving and banditry for which he and his kind are known. He also seems to have become more and more reclusive and withdrawn in the years since the impact. Very few have met with him in person, even those that have claimed to carry out raids on his behalf say he only communicates in missives or through his adopted daughter, Hope. The fact that a Vengeance Order for the murder of an Ul'dahn merchant known as Radill remains active is the most commonly accepted reason for his staying away from the world. Yssen's current whereabouts are unknown, and the raids he has planned and executed have been all over Eorzea.

Family

Yssen's parentage is unknown. He IS known to have one sibling, Ysa Van. He has also adopted a young Midlander girl called Hope as his daughter and protege.

Ysa Van: - Yssen's twin sister, and a now known member of a group of assassins known as the Seven Devils. Specifically, she is the Fifth Devil and known by the code name "The Razor." Her relationship with her brother can at best be called volatile, and at worst completely homicidal. Some moment in the past put the two twins at each other's throats. While the nature of what happened is unclear, the results are that Ysa seems to doggedly pursue her brother, leaving a bloody train in her wake. Their last confrontation, which began with her murder of a Mineral Concern dancer, supposedly ended with Yssen being critically injured and near death weeks before Dalamud's impact. Ysa has not been seen in five cycles.

Vengeance Order for Ysa Van

Hope Van: - A young Midlander girl, and Yssen's adopted daughter and protege. She was rescued by Yssen from a cruel Ul'dahn merchant when she was nine years old days before the impact. For the past five years she has traveled with and studied under Yssen, becoming quite an accomplished martial artist and thief at the tender age of fourteen. The purpose of her training remains unknown to her, and she is often sent out into the field on tasks she does not fully understand. Despite this she is fiercely loyal to Yssen, and looks to him as a father. Often a bit obnoxious, sarcastic, and a tad over enthusiastic, she none the less seems to have a fair amount of potential.

Appearance

Height: - Tall for an Elezen

Weight: - Slim and Wiry

Skin: - Blue

Hair: - Indigo

Eyes: - Golden

Distinguishing Features: - At some point in the past five years Yssen began wearing an eyepatch over his left eye. His right hand and arm are laced with criss-crossed spiral scar that starts at his knuckles and ends just past his shoulder. He has a black, Duskwight tatoo on his left eye that is still visible despite the eyepatch. His back also has several long scars, similar to whip or lash marks.

Likes

• Gambling
• Women
• Drinking
• Mischief
• Grinning

Dislikes

• Authority
• Most Wildwoods
• Zealots
• Arrogance
• Chains

Aliases

The Bandit King, The Lord of Plunder, Raveger of Cassiopeia, Walker of Horizon's Edge, Toppler of Tranquil

Relationships

(Note - I, Yssen's player, have created this wiki as a bit of an experiment. This section, and the following Rumors section are meant to be open to public editing. Feel free to post a rumor or your character's known relationship to Yssen. Please try to be concise.)

Rumors

(Note - I am going to repeat what I said above here a bit. Post whatever rumors you overhear, or would like spread to the public here. Please be concise and remember there is no guarantee that anything posted here is actually true. It is rumor. It might be true, it might not, but it will all be fun to play with.)

"I heard that the real Yssen died years ago and that the man walking around now is just his body possessed by a rogue fire elemental."

"Don't trust him. He's from Ishgard, and is spying on us for the Holy See."

"Ishgard? That's ridiculous, and the truth is much more sinister. He is a spy alright, a Garlean spy. One of the ones sent by the Wolf to subvert a City State just like Ala Mihgo."

"He and I have business to settle..." - Deirdre Ta'ea