Brandin of Renovamen

Brandin was born the youngest in a long line of heirs in a very Noble Family of Renovamen. He would never be the heir to his families fortune, and his siblings weren't willing to lend him any money or help in anyway, so he joined the Renovamen army and served seven years repelling savages known as Deserti to the east. This was not enough to fill the emptiness he felt inside, and how directionless he felt his life was. In many ways it contributed to making him feel even more empty inside. He'd killed hundreds of Deserti men, women, and children and it weighed on his consiousness for years even after he deserted the army and moved to Praedium. He considered himself a coward who committed atrocities in war in order to escape that fact.

When he first met Allanda, he was wallowing in self pity and engaging in self destructive behavior. He was drunk when he bought her at a brothel in Praedium and had her taken to an inn he was staying at and was taken aback by her age. Before she started to take off her clothes, he asked her how old she was, and she told him she was fifteen and began to hold back tears. She then went on to say she'd been doing this kind of work for a year since all her family had died or been sold as slaves as well. She never left because she didn't know what else she could do to survive.

Brand tells her to put her clothes back on, and gives her a knife. He gets himself together and takes Allanda away from the brothel to as far south as Praedium went, and killed anyone who tried to stop him. From then on Allanda had a friend and a protector, and Brand had a purpose.

This of course caused friction near the beginning of Dawn of Blood and Chaos when Cysero comes along and offers to fill the role of the protector and guardian. Brand doesn't trust him either due to his inherent nervous nature or because of jealousy, and tags along on this journey which did not call for him to be there. This marked the beginning of "The Dove, The Skull, and The Rumbler" storyline which played big part in the creation of the circumnstances necessary to destroy the gods and cause the apocalypse.