Sketches: Aari Falconer

Weekly drawing of the same character you've probably come to expect. Despite his unadvertised political weight, Rivek is far from wealthy. As not-really-a-citizen, he gets paid two-thirds of what average soldiers do, and sometimes nothing at all (but he does get free room and board). Therefore, he has a hobby for some extra income by exploiting a talent which runs in his family (magic lets you get away with things)- archery.

To enter tournaments un-noticed, Rivek doesn't shave for a few days, takes on a fake accent, adopts a different costume with foreign colors, and bandages his most notable trait - the scar over his right eye. Instead, he tells everyone he lost it in a bar fight because people tend to respect that. Thus, to everyone else, Aari Falconer is a little-discussed but well-respected archer who has never gone home from a tournament empty-handed... he's smart enough not to take first every time. People in the limelight attract too much attention. He also uses this name to book rooms at inns and sign checks he never intends to pay back.

Aari is his initials, "Ailinar Ailinar Rivek Ildorus."


If I had to compare Rivek's personality-looks-nationality-religion with anything real, I'd say he was part Japanese, and part Jewish. Yes, two of my favorite things.