Legends of Belariath

Nylan

Nylan never did things the “right” way. It was always the easy way or the fun and challenging way. At least, thats how he was growing up. When fetching water he would always go to his favorite spot of the river. When fetching coal for his father in the shop for the family silver smithing buisness, Nylan took the long way. He was no less fast at these tasks, mind you. He just went out of his way to go where he wanted and had to rush back to make sure he wasn't late.

Once he picked up the silver-smithing art, though, that changed. He was 14 at the time, and learned patience the hard way, spending several days trying to rush through a craft that was meant to take only a few hours. Once he began to work on more complicated crafts, this lesson became even better learned.

He worked with his father for six years before his youthfull wanderlust got the best of him. He set off in search of a new home, somewhere where he could use his trade to get buy, possibly set up his own shop somewhere and settle down with a family. Far he traveled, crossing from one corner of the empire to the other. It was during this long trek that he came across the town of Nathalion. Here he chose to rest for a time, since he had paid 10 mehrials for the room that he took at the inn, and wasn't about to let a months rent go to waste.

This was nothing like home. Rapists were allowed to run free without consiquence. Indeed it was encouraged, if you had the strength to do it. Slavery and public sex...two more taboo's in his homeland, so ever present here in Nathalion. To start, he was aloof and skeptical...surely these people were merely drunk or otherwise without restraint. He would never fall into exhibitting himself in such a fassion.

That lasted about six hours. A little dryad gave him his first taste of public sex, followed by a human woman in the baths. Before long, Nylan didn't care who was watching, if he found a partner, he didn't care who saw. It seemed perfect...sex for nothing, what more could a young man want?

And then he realized he wanted more from life. He was becoming increasingly enamored of a young mermaid that he had slepted with several times. They began to spend more time together, and Nylan realized he was falling in love with her.

The day came when he found her raped and battered in the forest, and only a few days later, he himself was knocked out trying to defend her. She had been raped anyway, and he made up his mind that he would protect her no matter what the cost. Pain followed. She rejected his offer to collar her for protection, and accepted the collar of another. He proposed marriage, and was turned down. Nothing was working out. This wasn't how it was supposed to go. It wasn't until one of their more heated arguments that she actually admitted to loving him back.

Only a few days later, she struck him with something he had never even thought about...she had a fiancee. He was angry at first, since she was leaving to go back to the man. His anger left him when she promised to come back to him, no matter what, and admitted that she was only going back to gain some closure.

While she was away, he began taking steps to ensure that he would be able to better protect her in the future. He bought a weapon, and began to seek someone to give him training. His hope is that he can become strong enough that he can protect her and she will no longer need to be collared by someone to be protected.

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