Benjamin

Species: Human

Blacksmith

SOM01 Storm Raiders/01, 3

Blacksmith, in town of Holdgate, on Kaldfell Peninsula. Originally from Arcadian Valley. Wife died there, and he left,with Abbey, when she was three years old. Too painful to stay is only explanation. Very secretive about his life there. Had been trained in the Academy, complimented by Adrien for his knowledge of magitech. Was born wealthy and powerful. His father was one of the most powerful men in the city. Benjamin’s admittance to the Academy was a lock. After graduation, he decided he wanted to give back to the city that had given his family so much. So, he became a Hunter(track down and punish unauthorized magic users.) Your mother had secretly been using magic since she was a young girl. It came as a surprise to her as much as anyone when she fell in love with a Hunter. She told him the truth about herself and her magic the night before the wedding, forcing him to choose between turning her in and accepting her for who she really was. It was a difficult decision, but your father loved her too much to turn away from her, and he went through with the wedding.

That was when Benjamin began to question his beliefs. How could he spend his days hunting unauthorized magic users and spend his nights sleeping with one? Then you came along and complicated things even further. As the daughter of two magic users, it seemed likely you would inherit a little of their abilities.

Benjamin began making plans to leave the city. He plotted in secret, knowing Chancellor Adrien wouldn’t allow a graduate of the Academy to run loose without his supervision. Still, somehow, the truth came out. The other Hunters, your father’s friends and co-workers, captured your mother and executed her. So, Benjamin took you and fled north. He had only the clothes on his back and a shocker.He showed up in Holdgate penniless and without a plan. Until he met me. He traded me this shocker for help in setting up his blacksmith shop. He’d learned many of the basic blacksmith skills when learning to craft magitech in the Academy, and the rest came easily to him. He’d learned the error of his ways, and he’d risked his life to take her away from that world

Uses fire magic, other physical magic. Father of Abbey, who helps him in the shop. Has home-schooled her to read and do numbers, and in his magic, which she uses only sparingly.(will separate her more from girls her age than she already is) The two are an efficient team at the forge and on projects. .

SOM01 Storm Raiders/06

Accused of killing Bronson, Magistrate's son, because his sword was found with the body.