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Some world history.
Though a bit more detailed than his basic bio, this history is by no means a complete series of events.
Viktor's tribe were one of those sealed into a timeless place when magic was suppressed. Three thousand years later, they returned exactly as they had been then, into a vastly changed world. They did not fit in well, fearing and being feared, coming into conflict with local settlements. Their tribal chief at the time (Viktor's uncle to be) planned to align them with the Black Crown, as their representative had promised Giants would be free under their regime and personal glory to the chief. To test them they were given the task of destroying a nearby city that was suspected of housing one of the Seals of Hell so it could be searched without interference. Alfhild Holston, Viktor's mother, went ahead to warn the people that lived there but was attacked by local Mages on sight.
Feda Gandamak, Viktor's father and a wandering adventurer, stepped in and listened to her. Not willing to evacuate and being a pragmatic fellow, he instead went out to meet the Giant battle force and successfully defeated them alongside Alfhild. His extreme passion about not harming the weak as well as impressive combat convinced the Giants to separate from the Black Crown and re-evaluate the modern world. Feda stayed with the tribe for a few weeks and made many friends that lasted a lifetime, taking several Giants with him on adventures. When Viktor was born a year later, the tiny half-Giant child was considered the ultimate evidence that humans, Mages and Giants could co-exist. Though still rocky, relations between the tribe and nearby humans improved considerably from the events and Viktor's presence.
Over the next three years, race relations continued to improve. The usually isolationist policies of Giant tribes from other races began to soften. At the time Viktor was the only half-Giant in the world and was considered politically important. Loved and cared for by his people, the pressure was lost on his young mind. Over the course of his three year life, he saw his father only a few times but Feda was still considered a hero to his tribe- he was never told tales of his downsides, only his courage and gentle nature. This lead to Viktor forming an incorrect mental image that one day would be his model for behaviour.
Shortly before he turned four Viktor was kidnapped alongside all his half-siblings, all of whom he was meeting for the first time. Held by the White Crown as part of a wide attempt to distract the heroic party disrupting their plans, he learned of his father's failings whilst there as attempts to convert the brood were made. When Feda lead the rescue attempt, all the children were ordered to be disposed of. It was only through the valiant efforts of the oldest sibling, Aharon Mattisoff, that they survived long enough to be saved. A life time of admiration for Aharon was formed by all of the Gandamak children.
At the end of that year, Viktor was present alongside his siblings to see off the heroic party before their fateful trip to the moon. He like the rest, was promised by Feda that when he came back he would be more present in their lives, having grown as a person over the events of the year.
Feda never came back, killed and soul incinerated destroying the Spirit Combustion Engine that powered the enemy fortress. Feda was now considered a world saving hero and a global icon, one of the eight that went to the moon and one of the seven that died there. His importance and the pressure to be an symbol began to be realised as he grew up, Viktor striving to be a person that followed the idealised example of his father he had believed in. Always struggling to reconcile his gentility with his Giant and Mage mingled violent tendencies, he began to grow hesitant and fearful of himself, always second guessing and taking his time before acting to prevent tarnishing his paragon status. Though a good person, he thought he was a terrible one pretending to be good. He kept his worries and fears to himself, afraid for the reputation he had to uphold. He saw his white hair as a symbol of pride, the strongest connection to his father and grew it out without having it cut once in his life.
Despite this, Viktor was largely happy. Attending the Maidstone Magic Academy at the age of eleven, he was one of the four incredibly talented youngsters that succeeded in the reaching the graduation criteria at age sixteen, the loosely associated group of friendly rivals known as the Whole World Quartet due to their differing geographical origins and vastly different personalities- Viktor the North's Winter Wind, the others East's Spring Flower, South's Summer Sun and West's Autumn Rain.
Hoping to one day become a professor at the academy, Viktor continued to work with them and the ISCC to gather experience and contribute to the work they did. He was vocally opposed to the emerging group the R.E:Generation (Real Equality Generation) who believed that the natural state was for humans to be subservient to Mages, that it was the only true way for them to co-exist.
When he was nineteen, an entity was sent from the moon to investigate a premonition the survivor on the moon had. They, The Silver One (henceforth known as Silver), visited Maidenstone and Viktor was the one to show them around and sat in on the meeting with the heads of the departments. Silver quickly became friends with Viktor and when R.E:Generation began to undertake extremist action, he was one of the first recruits they requested join their special task force. He accepted after some small deliberation. Participating in many adventures with them over the following months, Viktor proved to be an average squad leader but an excellent recruiter. He made many friends and grew a little, especially admiring Silver. Things continually escalated until it became clear R.E:Generation was being used by a greater threat, a God freed now there was no Seal of Heaven. It wished to destabilize the world in order to take control of it- sadly the discovery was made too late, as they successfully revived a number of ancient powers.
During a great crisis with numerous grave situations occurring at once, Viktor was given control of a squad with the task of returning an escaped Titan to Hell, ejecting it from a Cloud Kingdom fortress. Due to his indecisive nature on the battlefield, it was a catastrophic failure. With he and his squad in trouble, he ate a fabled Sky Fruit that was used on Giants in the ancient past to accelerate their growth- unaware that they were meant to eat a single bite. Due to his mixed heritage, he was only temporarily turned into a Hekatonkheir, a fifty headed, hundred handed giant and drove him mad. Though he saved his squad, he was deeply ashamed of the failure and the descent into barbarism.
He cut his hair down and ran away to live in the wilderness, the pressure that had built up too much to handle. He slowly rebuilt himself from the ground up, living by his instincts like an animal. He was searched for, but it was a few months before he was found by sheer coincidence when the task force's missions brought them to the tundra he had take up residence in. Shocked by the near feral Viktor who refused any claim to worthiness to return, he ran from them again. When their missions brought them back to the area, they find a near death Viktor had attempted to fight off the same Titan he had failed to defeat before. During his near death experience, he felt yet another change in him. A relaxation of the weight he had placed on his own shoulders. Silver helped him accept that even when living by instinct alone he did the right thing, he was changed by his experiences, having become in his words 'the man he is when no is looking', a much more relaxed Viktor returned to the group- feeling confident he was not pretending to be a good man, but was one in reality. Though much less high strung and more prone to expressing himself, the sweet and sensitive side remained, finding a balance between instinct and over thinking.
Once again a part of the task force, his friends and family beside him, he accepted his heritage's influence on him and eventually gained of control over his Hekatonkheir transformation abilities. He played his part in returning peace to the world, now a more effective leader.
Though a bit more detailed than his basic bio, this history is by no means a complete series of events.
Viktor's tribe were one of those sealed into a timeless place when magic was suppressed. Three thousand years later, they returned exactly as they had been then, into a vastly changed world. They did not fit in well, fearing and being feared, coming into conflict with local settlements. Their tribal chief at the time (Viktor's uncle to be) planned to align them with the Black Crown, as their representative had promised Giants would be free under their regime and personal glory to the chief. To test them they were given the task of destroying a nearby city that was suspected of housing one of the Seals of Hell so it could be searched without interference. Alfhild Holston, Viktor's mother, went ahead to warn the people that lived there but was attacked by local Mages on sight.
Feda Gandamak, Viktor's father and a wandering adventurer, stepped in and listened to her. Not willing to evacuate and being a pragmatic fellow, he instead went out to meet the Giant battle force and successfully defeated them alongside Alfhild. His extreme passion about not harming the weak as well as impressive combat convinced the Giants to separate from the Black Crown and re-evaluate the modern world. Feda stayed with the tribe for a few weeks and made many friends that lasted a lifetime, taking several Giants with him on adventures. When Viktor was born a year later, the tiny half-Giant child was considered the ultimate evidence that humans, Mages and Giants could co-exist. Though still rocky, relations between the tribe and nearby humans improved considerably from the events and Viktor's presence.
Over the next three years, race relations continued to improve. The usually isolationist policies of Giant tribes from other races began to soften. At the time Viktor was the only half-Giant in the world and was considered politically important. Loved and cared for by his people, the pressure was lost on his young mind. Over the course of his three year life, he saw his father only a few times but Feda was still considered a hero to his tribe- he was never told tales of his downsides, only his courage and gentle nature. This lead to Viktor forming an incorrect mental image that one day would be his model for behaviour.
Shortly before he turned four Viktor was kidnapped alongside all his half-siblings, all of whom he was meeting for the first time. Held by the White Crown as part of a wide attempt to distract the heroic party disrupting their plans, he learned of his father's failings whilst there as attempts to convert the brood were made. When Feda lead the rescue attempt, all the children were ordered to be disposed of. It was only through the valiant efforts of the oldest sibling, Aharon Mattisoff, that they survived long enough to be saved. A life time of admiration for Aharon was formed by all of the Gandamak children.
At the end of that year, Viktor was present alongside his siblings to see off the heroic party before their fateful trip to the moon. He like the rest, was promised by Feda that when he came back he would be more present in their lives, having grown as a person over the events of the year.
Feda never came back, killed and soul incinerated destroying the Spirit Combustion Engine that powered the enemy fortress. Feda was now considered a world saving hero and a global icon, one of the eight that went to the moon and one of the seven that died there. His importance and the pressure to be an symbol began to be realised as he grew up, Viktor striving to be a person that followed the idealised example of his father he had believed in. Always struggling to reconcile his gentility with his Giant and Mage mingled violent tendencies, he began to grow hesitant and fearful of himself, always second guessing and taking his time before acting to prevent tarnishing his paragon status. Though a good person, he thought he was a terrible one pretending to be good. He kept his worries and fears to himself, afraid for the reputation he had to uphold. He saw his white hair as a symbol of pride, the strongest connection to his father and grew it out without having it cut once in his life.
Despite this, Viktor was largely happy. Attending the Maidstone Magic Academy at the age of eleven, he was one of the four incredibly talented youngsters that succeeded in the reaching the graduation criteria at age sixteen, the loosely associated group of friendly rivals known as the Whole World Quartet due to their differing geographical origins and vastly different personalities- Viktor the North's Winter Wind, the others East's Spring Flower, South's Summer Sun and West's Autumn Rain.
Hoping to one day become a professor at the academy, Viktor continued to work with them and the ISCC to gather experience and contribute to the work they did. He was vocally opposed to the emerging group the R.E:Generation (Real Equality Generation) who believed that the natural state was for humans to be subservient to Mages, that it was the only true way for them to co-exist.
When he was nineteen, an entity was sent from the moon to investigate a premonition the survivor on the moon had. They, The Silver One (henceforth known as Silver), visited Maidenstone and Viktor was the one to show them around and sat in on the meeting with the heads of the departments. Silver quickly became friends with Viktor and when R.E:Generation began to undertake extremist action, he was one of the first recruits they requested join their special task force. He accepted after some small deliberation. Participating in many adventures with them over the following months, Viktor proved to be an average squad leader but an excellent recruiter. He made many friends and grew a little, especially admiring Silver. Things continually escalated until it became clear R.E:Generation was being used by a greater threat, a God freed now there was no Seal of Heaven. It wished to destabilize the world in order to take control of it- sadly the discovery was made too late, as they successfully revived a number of ancient powers.
During a great crisis with numerous grave situations occurring at once, Viktor was given control of a squad with the task of returning an escaped Titan to Hell, ejecting it from a Cloud Kingdom fortress. Due to his indecisive nature on the battlefield, it was a catastrophic failure. With he and his squad in trouble, he ate a fabled Sky Fruit that was used on Giants in the ancient past to accelerate their growth- unaware that they were meant to eat a single bite. Due to his mixed heritage, he was only temporarily turned into a Hekatonkheir, a fifty headed, hundred handed giant and drove him mad. Though he saved his squad, he was deeply ashamed of the failure and the descent into barbarism.
He cut his hair down and ran away to live in the wilderness, the pressure that had built up too much to handle. He slowly rebuilt himself from the ground up, living by his instincts like an animal. He was searched for, but it was a few months before he was found by sheer coincidence when the task force's missions brought them to the tundra he had take up residence in. Shocked by the near feral Viktor who refused any claim to worthiness to return, he ran from them again. When their missions brought them back to the area, they find a near death Viktor had attempted to fight off the same Titan he had failed to defeat before. During his near death experience, he felt yet another change in him. A relaxation of the weight he had placed on his own shoulders. Silver helped him accept that even when living by instinct alone he did the right thing, he was changed by his experiences, having become in his words 'the man he is when no is looking', a much more relaxed Viktor returned to the group- feeling confident he was not pretending to be a good man, but was one in reality. Though much less high strung and more prone to expressing himself, the sweet and sensitive side remained, finding a balance between instinct and over thinking.
Once again a part of the task force, his friends and family beside him, he accepted his heritage's influence on him and eventually gained of control over his Hekatonkheir transformation abilities. He played his part in returning peace to the world, now a more effective leader.
