SpoilerAriunbold is a Xaela Au Ra, specifically of the Mierqid tribe. He lived a fairly mundane life among his tribe while young, until a chance encounter with a wanderer who happened to share his tribe's campsite one night.

The wanderer regaled them with tales of his journeys, describing the many exotic places he'd been to. Ariunbold was enchanted by the stories of all that was beyond the desert. Within the year he gathered his things and simply left one day, when the tribe was near the edge of the desert. He had decided that the Mierqid tribe didn't live, it simply persisted - an endless routine that had no purpose but to continue itself eternally.

Since then, he's wandered the world mostly aimlessly, simply going where the wind takes him. After a few years of this, he decided on a goal: he would see as much of the world as he could, learn of its peoples, its cultures, everything he could. When he felt as if he had seen enough, he would return him and tell his tribe of all that lay beyond their eternal routine, and convince them to abandon their routine and finally start really living.

That day, if it ever comes, is still far off.

Ariunbold came to Eorzea to continue this endless journey, as his travels in Othard had grown mundane, and he heard of the Domans' exodus across the sea, giving him the bright idea to follow them.





Non-Backstory Stuff:

- I'd consider Ariunbold to be a good person in general. He's not exactly some bigshot hero - he doesn't go looking for wrongs to right, and above all he's most concerned with his journey (though he finds Eorzea interesting enough he's in no hurry to leave). But if he sees someone in trouble right in front of him, he'll almost always intervene if he's able.

- He's a skilled fighter in general. He's lacking in formal training, but his journeys have taken him to dangerous places and forced him to contend with wild beasts and vicious bandits. Raw experience has resulted in a good deal of martial skill. He also has innate talent as a mage, but has never been trained, leaving him barely able to use any kind of magic.

- I haven't RPed him ever, so I'm not totally solid on how his personality would be, honestly. I see him as being somewhat stoic emotionally, not one to react too strongly to most things. Extremely curious, though.