Garen Stone

Garen Stone
The White-Hearted Warrior
"You might think me simple for this, but the truth is that Eorzea needs heroes now. More than ever, in fact. So if 'playing the hero' makes me a fool, then I guess I'm the dumbest one of the bunch."
OOC Character Information
Main Job(s):	• Warrior
Main Tradeskill:	• Goldsmith • Blacksmith • Armorer
Preferred Role:	Tank
Server:	Balmung
Status
Alignment:	Chaotic Good
Reputation:	Local
Occupation:	• Adventurer • Free Company commander
Education:	Basic. Literate but not much more.
Marital Status:	Married
Sexuality:	Heterosexual
Guardian:	Nymeia, the Spinner
Free Company
Fireborn <FRBN>
Items Carried
See: Current Inventory
Characteristics
Race:	Hyur
Clan:	Highlander
Age:	32 (appears 27) (7th Sun of the Fifth Astral Moon, 1545 6AE)
Height:	6 fulm, 8 ilm
Weight:	~285 ponze unarmored, almost 400 ponze in full kit.
Eyes:	Seafoam Green
Hair:	Ashen Brown
Complexion:	Tan from all the years spent under Thanalan's sun, though otherwise youthful.
Physical Build:	Mountainous
Notable Features:	Diagonal cut on his left cheekbone. If chest exposed, severe gash on left side of chest. Scar over right eye.

Attributes
	Strength	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		P.Defense	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Dexterity	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		M.Defense	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Martial Prowess	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Intelligence	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █
	Magic Affinity	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █		Luck	█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █

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Character

General

Garen Stone is best described in one word - boisterous. The man is loud and brash, always saying what's on his mind. His gigantic figure makes for quite an imposing personage, until one realizes he's basically a gigantic teddy bear with a heart two sizes too big for his job. If one is looking for a bodyguard or a brother in the drink, they'll find it in Garen. However, appearances are not always the entire story, and behind the energetic man lies a warrior who serves his land as faithfully as any other.

Appearance

Garen is absolutely enormous. The man is heavily built, clearly the type to favour physical training over any sort of mental exercise. At well over six fulm, he towers over even other highlanders, one of the tallest of his race. His skin is tanned - naturally so, a result of a lineage of the sand. His hair is a sandy brown color, and his eyes are slightly almond-shaped and thin, with a set of piercing green irises. He has a smaller facial scar across his left cheek, cutting into his skin without getting to bone. A new addition is a scar over his right eye, shallow but noticeable. His jaw is heavy and squared, usually with a bit of beard tuft around it.

Garen is rarely seen outside of armor. While his choice of equipment tends to vary, his most common armor is a custom snow white variant of the Warrior's Armor, complete with the requisite enchantments to help keep the Inner Beast at bay. This leathers and plate set is well-balanced and keeps Garen quick on his feet while still providing more than adequate defenses. It's made of dragon leathers and high mythrite plates, with comfortable linen trousers. After that, he wears a full plate made of high mythrite, a gift from his friend Z'attana Mitnu. This armor is completed with a set of chainmail under it, and a cotton doublet for reinforcement. He often carries a sword, shield, axe and two katars into battle and will switch equipment as necessary to fit the situation, though this does mean that a knocked-out Garen is rather hard to remove from the field!

Personality

Everything about Garen could be described as loud. The man wouldn't know subtlety if it chose to strike him in the back of the head. He laughs loud, drinks hard and throws himself into the field with only the most minor of regards - and only the presence of his young daughter in his mind keeps him that restrained. He's far from dumb, but also leaves intellectual pursuits to his better half, Liliana Stone. To Garen Stone, life is meant to be lived to the fullest, and every day is spent towards that endeavor.

Combat

General

Garen uses his large size and weight as an advantage in battle, while also being capable of significant combat adaptation. While using his axe, he tends towards recklessness and will extend further than usual into the field, chopping down foes with glee as he moves from target to target. At the moment, this is pretty much his primary combat method. He'll switch to a sword and shield if necessary, but is as likely to simply draw his sword and use both weapons in a chaotic but brutally effective dual wield. Power is the name of his game, and his sheer strength coupled with his remarkable resilience tends to ensure that he'll be standing when the enemy is not. Similarly, he'll gladly take damage for others, relying on his supernatural survivability to make sure that their whole team gets through. If he has to use his hands, he'll just pound people down with steel and leather, whatever he's wearing for the situation.

Garen's main weaknesses come in his lack of magical prowess and his emotions. He is a powerful physical force on the battlefield but his magic is the complete opposite. He can at most fire at most two healing spells, which have great strength but will exhaust him swiftly. His knowledge of other magics beyond the basic Teleport and Return are flimsy at best and not at all worthy of combat usage. His long range accuracy also suffers from a lack of practice; as such he's pretty awful with a gun or a bow. Finally, he has a strong emotional bond to most of his fellow combatants and will put himself at significant risk for their sake, even if it would ruin the strategy. Fortunately his wife is usually there to remind him of their places in battle and keep his blade pointed at the opponent.

Tendencies

Likes

• His family and free company
• A good meal and drink
• Training his body

Dislikes

• Paperwork
• Zis
• Garleans

Hobbies/Talents

• Garen crafts his own armor, and rather enjoys time in a forge.
• He's a surprisingly adept dancer, preferring a Limsan step dance he learned from Z'attana Mitnu.
• He's a very content parent, and considers time with his daughter Roysia to be his favorite pastime.

Other

• Garen is time displaced, and appears to be in his mid-20s when he was born over 30 years ago. He does bear the mark others do on the back of his neck.
• Due to either his presence at the Praetorium or his time displaced from Louisoux (he's not sure which), Garen has an Echo. His Echo's power is Remarkable Resilience and as such he is incredibly difficult to kill, surviving wounds that he really shouldn't - though they do often leave him bedridden for quite some time. The linguistics aspects he doesn't pick up on as much - he just thinks everyone's speaking the common tongue. He is, of course, immune to Primal tempering as well.
• Adding further, Garen actually has a Soul Crystal - a crystal of a young warrior. It's not the finest job crystal, but it was enough to teach Garen control of his inner rage and some of the basic techniques. As such, he is both a Paladin and a Warrior.

Relationships

Family

Liliana Stone - his mate and lover for years and between time. They know many every secret the other has to his, and have one child together...

Roysia Ashe-Stone - his three year old daughter, Garen considers Roysia the best part of his life and happily spoils the girl completely.

Friends

The Fireborn - Garen's free company, many of his dearest friends reside within the organization, and are as much family as friends.

Z'attana Mitnu - An old friend of Garen's, Garen considers himself a protectorate of the woman and tries his best to care for her. Keyword is tries. She's been missing lately though...

Zuzunzo Papanzo - An Ul'dahn brother if Garen has one. The young Lalafell was known to Garen before the Calamity, but it was after his return that he truly got to know the man. He treats Zuzu as a trusted confidant and though they don't speak frequently, Zuzu probably knows more about Garen than most in Fireborn do.

Altonio Salaphonte - Garen's most frequent training partner. The young man is strong (even if he doesn't know it) and Garen has been grooming that strength into a fist the gods would fear. He's every bit the idealistic warrior Garen would love to see himself as, and reminds him of his younger self more often than not.

Annotations

Garen is a fairly high-powered hero, adhering to my reading of the FFXIV lorebook as encouraging such. If you're interested in high-power style play, feel free to message me and ask questions.

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