Harbinger of winter. Shepherd of souls. Defender of the wild.
All of these terms can describe Peyton Frost, but none of them truly encapsulate who he is. For Peyton is a fey, and not even his name is his true one. However, it is enough to justify his presence in the party he is with, to fight for a justice long stifled in a place corrupted by evil.
He doesn't fight for king or country, he fights for the land itself.
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The fey are fond of solving problems in unusual ways, and one of those solutions involve inducing a fresh start. Sometimes, they even impose such a fate upon one of their own kind.
That was how he found himself being jolted awake, lying on the side of a road with nary a memory in his mind. He doesn't know who he is, what he is, or how he came to be there. Not even his given name is something that he remembers, so he has chosen that of Peyton Frost instead. Peyton, for the atonement he must now seek out in payment of what he has done, and Frost, for the eternal rime that clutches at his heart.
All he knows he is a warrior, someone who has become the darkness that common people fear. Now, he must fight that darkness inside of himself and which blankets the land, as he knows it better than anyone else.
The journey so far has not only been one to purge the evil that has corrupted nature itself, but one of self discovery. Peyton didn't even know he was a fey until he was told so. He didn't know who he should protect until instincts guided him to protect those who couldn't protect themselves. As for those who were long gone, then at least he could shelter their souls in himself.
For Peyton Frost is a hexblood, one born of the fey. He has yet to know who had transformed him into what he is now, but that is an ongoing mystery he will relentless pursue until he finds the truth, no matter how painful it might be. It has irrevocably changed him in more ways as well; he has become a blood hunter. Drawing upon his own life force to imbue his naginata with the elemental nature of ice, death is his trade, and fighting is his specialty.
Both of these aspects intertwine to make him an echo knight. However, his echo is not of himself, but the soul that he harbors within his empty heart. He gives them the opportunity to enact upon the material world while they are with him, and perhaps to even resolve any unfinished business they have remaining before they must pass on.
Peyton Frost is a relentless force of nature. He is a glacier of a man, stoic and methodical. But he is also adamant for better or worse, for nothing will deter him from doing what he believes is right.
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