There are some men who are born to stand with kings. There are some who are born to stand against them.
Taranis Stormborne was born to be the storm that breaks empires.
He is the brother who takes the front line, who holds the shield, who rises when others fall.
He carries the old fire of the tribes the wild courage of a world that refuses to surrender.
He has walked through ages of blood and frost. He has seen kingdoms rise and collapse into dust. He has fought under a hundred banners, yet swears loyalty to none.
Because Taranis does not protect rulers.
He protects people.
Identity & Role
Archetype: The Blade / The Storm / The Protector
What he stands for: Courage, defiance, resistance
His purpose: To stand where others can’t
His burden: He feels every loss. Even after centuries, he remembers every face.
Taranis is not a hero — he is the cost of heroism.
Strengths
Unbreakable will
Fierce loyalty to those who can’t defend themselves
Instinctive battlefield intuition
The ability to endure and return when others would break
Wound
He can save many but never enough.
He carries grief the way others carry scars.
No matter what age he walks through, war finds him. Or, he is what war is searching for.
Whispers Across History
Taranis is never officially recorded but his shadow is.
There are stories of:
The lone warrior who held a bridge against an army and vanished into the woods.
The man in the Perry Woods who supplied gunpowder to rebels and walked away unseen.
The shieldwall breaker whose roar turned battles.
The wandering guardian who frees the enslaved and disappears before dawn.
The soldier who dies, and then is seen again years later unchanged.
Sometimes he is called a king.
Sometimes a demon.
Sometimes a ghost.
But he is always Stormborne.
How Others Speak of Him
“When the world is burning, look for the thunder.
He will be there.”
“He does not lead armies.
He ignites them.”
“If you hear the storm, it is already too late to run.”
This Is Only the Beginning
Taranis’s story is not told in a single lifetime.
or a single kingdom
or a single war.
His path crosses:
empires,
rebellions,
oceans,
and centuries.
But those stories are not kept here.
They are found in the fragments
the tales, the memories, the scars, the songs,
scattered across StormborneLore.
Piece by piece.
Age by age.
Storm by storm.
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