Shen Dao's Footprints [History]

History: The Dao family is a wealthy and, no doubt, the greatest forge business in the sea of forges that’s called Ca-Elum. With their successive history of well-known smiths, such as the once greatest wielder of ALL weapons, and countless of Master Smiths under that name. The family is rather unrivaled in their creative ways of forging weapons these days, and not just by being smiths, but also by their usage of all the products. As mentioned before, one of Dao’s descendants was known as “Master of Arms”, a human who’d mastered the way of over 500 different weapons during his lifetime. A true legend, and from his offspring, the new prodigy was born.

Shen’s parents, his father - Juken Dao and his mother - Lian Dao, were obviously blessed by the birth of their present, youngest child out of 10. His spiky hair was visible already from birth, and from that little childhood of his, he’d always been in the shadows of his elder siblings. He didn’t fall much behind when it came to the teachings of forging and fighting, but his parents just seemed to prefer his elder siblings over himself. Thus, he was always the last to impress them, and the first to witness their applauds over a sibling. Even his insanely strange eye, which was a trait from his mother to his entire brethren, wasn’t much help. He always wondered how he should impress them, make them feel proud of his special character, make them feel proud of him and only him for once in his life. He didn’t doubt that they loved him, but being in the shadows of his brethren made him want to seek approval from them. Not just any silly, small clap on the shoulder; he wanted to make their eyes filled with tears of joy and pride. That was his plan, and the following days only increased his determination…

He'd been having strange nightmares in his childhood, which left him with very few fears in real life; all of his nightmares were about his death. Every time that a knife was stabbed through his chest or something like that, he woke up in the end. It wasn’t strange; all his brothers and sisters have been having these dreams, and they told him to be patient. They would all fade away by time, so they asked him to focus on other things such as his training; Shen was, despite lacking approval from his parents, a prodigy in weaponry. Not only was he a master skill in forging, but he was extraordinary good at wielding them as he appeared to be capable of wielding over 80 weapons with elegancy already. However, it didn’t appear as enough to outshine his brothers and sisters... no matter how much he did, nothing would happen. Nothing will happen; that’s the reason why he took his journey to Fiore, even without his parents’ or family’s notice.

He still thinks about them. He loves them. He didn’t want to leave them worrying, but he had to take this journey in order to make himself big. And when he ever visited them again, then he was prepared for their wide-opened mouths. And what guild would suit the adventurous, poor boy more than a guild of treasures that the eye has never seen, birds whose songs the ears have never heard, and with secrets that no heart has ever comprehended?


RP Samples/Topics:

Book of Fire, Volume 1:

Face Claim: Ren Tao - Shaman King