Archer

Lord Arklin (or Archer, as most people know him) was a friend, lover, and neighbour of Fire.

Childhood
When King Nax discovered the affair his wife Roen was having with his army commander, Brocker, he was outraged. As part of his retribution, he took a prisoner from his palace dungeons, an archer named Jod, and sent him to rape Brocker’s wife Aliss. She was left pregnant and gave birth to a son, Arklin, nine months later.

Despite the boy not being his, Brocker loved and raised him as a son. Cansrel, the king's monster advisor and owner of the neighbouring estate, had a daughter, Fire, around Arklin's age. As her father was often away at court, Brocker also took her into his care, and over time she formed a close friendship with Arklin.

Even at a young age, Arklin showed a strong talent for archery (possibly something he inherited from his birth father). Fire nicknamed him “Archer” for it. The name firmly stuck, and soon everyone called him by it, even Brocker. At some point during Archer's childhood, his mother Aliss died of a sickness.

During their teenage years, Fire and Archer's relationship became a romantic one. Archer would often climb the tree outside her bedroom window at night, to avoid Cansrel's guards knowing about their meetings. Cansrel himself accepted the relationship easily, seeing it as inevitable given their closeness.