Alpha

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The Sheikah, Alpha

Alpha is a mysterious Sheikah, one who knows few people and trusts an even smaller number. Regardless of this fact, he appears to have friends in very, very high places...though the same could be said of his enemies.

History

The story of Alpha's life is something that is in continuing revelation. It is a mystery to many, though bits and pieces are constantly falling into place for those who pay attention and manage to grasp all the clues left both by the Sheikah and those associated with him.

This section will detail a vast majority of what has been revealed so far (please keep in mind that most of this is actually not known by characters, only by RPers OOC).

Early Years

Alpha began life under the name of Keyru Varaudo, a child in the mostly Sheikah village of Sereta, a settlement located deep within the Ruto Mountain Range, even deeper than New Peaktop. His life was relatively normal (as normal as that of a Sheikah can be, of course) for his first seven years. He played with his the many kids of the village, especially his best friend Shada, and led a peaceful life during this time.

When Keyru was seven, Zaris, the Golden Sheikah, came to Sereta Village intending to take Keyru as his apprentice. However, a dangerous Sheikah tribe of assassins, known as the Hakiems Tribe, invaded the town during his stay, intending only to kill Zaris. But when some of their numbers were killed in the process, the radically vengeful Hakiems destroyed the entire town. Zaris escaped with Keyru, and the boy spent the next ten years fleeing the Hakiems with his new master and learning the skills of battle.

Traveling with Zaris

Ten years were spent traveling with Master Zaris, and during this time Keyru not only gained his new name of Alpha but a great deal of skill in battle. The two were constantly on the run from the Hakiems Tribe, often eluding them only after slaying a few more of their members, which in turn infuriated the Hakiems even more and caused them to pursue the pair even more ferociously. This spiral of hatred and death escalated during the entirety of Alpha's time with Zaris and even after that time had come to an end. Trained in the Rohtra Hiran style, Alpha slowly began to realize his affinity for the element of Lightning and the power that Rohtric, deity of storms and thunder, allowed him to possess.

But as one might expect after reading portions of that last paragraph, Alpha's time with Zaris eventually came to an end. During one of the duo's many battles with the Hakiems, Alpha was exposed to a terrible fact by Karunik, the leader of the Hakiems: Zaris had known that the Hakiems were chasing him during the time when he'd come to Sereta, and had gone into Alpha’s town with the complete knowledge that they would most likely attack. After the fight was over, Alpha confronted his master, and Zaris confirmed that Karunik's words were true. Enraged by the sense of betrayal that this knowledge spawned, Alpha left Master Zaris that night to pursue his own path.

However, in keeping with the rules of the Rohtra Hiran style of fighting, Alpha refused to refer to himself by his birth-given name of Keyru Varaudo (according to this style, one loses their original name at the beginning of their training, and may only retrieve it when their master acknowledges that they have become a master of the Rohtra Hiran style of fighting).

The Dark Years

As one might infer from the title, these years were filled with fear and darkness for the young Sheikah, as he struggled after departing from his master and tried to find his own way through the world. As might also be inferred, the name is a parody of "the Dark Ages", which these seven years do have one striking similarity to: nobody knows for sure what has happened during this time. The events have not been fully revealed concerning this phase of Alpha's life, but it is known that during this time he took on the job of an assassin, under the employ of criminal mastermind Gorodo, a human whose size belied the cold and calculating mind he held. The Sheikah's skill quickly proved invaluable to members of the criminal underground, and he soon earned for himself the title of Wraith.

As Wraith, Alpha took part in and won a competition known as the Demon Tournament. In the process he was required to defeat another assassin, Alik, an event which would come back to haunt the young mage multiple times. As events unfolded, the Sheikah eventually became aware of a being referred to thus far only as The Master or Him, who was overlooking the endeavors of all the criminal overlords, Gorodo included. At one point, this Master became the one who gave Alpha his cursed scar.

One year after becoming an assassin, Alpha chose to retire from this job for some unknown reason, leaving behind all articles of this lifestyle, including the Staff Brenyuu, which had become one of his prized possessions. During this year he had managed to reach an impressive kill rate: over 5000 deaths in a single year, and all of them targets picked out specifically by the Sheikah rather than simply assigned or offered him. His departure was a grave loss for the criminal underground, but few were stupid enough to consider questioning his choice...and those that were so foolhardy as to do so quickly lost what little brainmatter they had.

The six years from this point to the time he returned to Hyrule remain unknown to anyone and everyone.

Return to Hyrule

After running for years from some unknown forces (as apparently the Hakiems had either lost track of or interest in him), Alpha managed to hear a rumor that led him to believe Master Zaris was in Hyrule once again. For some reason Alpha felt compelled to track him down; presumably the main reason was the cursed scar that he had gained at some point during the Dark Years. And so, knowing full well that he would likely once again become a target of the Hakiems should he follow the same rumor that the assassin tribe had undoubtedly heard as well, Alpha secured passage back to Hyrule. In a week he

The Current Battles

Yet the Sheikah's life was not about to take a turn for the better, for as he had suspected would happen, the Hakiems quickly learned that he had arrived in Hyrule, likely searching for their quarry as well. They made sure to watch him at all hours, never touching him in the hopes that Master Zaris would make contact with him...and this is indeed what happened, though the manner in which this contact was made was such that neither Alpha nor the Hakiems realized it until Zaris had long since departed from the area.