Castro Bardak

History
Early in life Castro found he was adept at using the Acier magic and very technologically gifted, his parents delighted in this and quickly sent him off to join the Heavy branch of the royal army. He serves for several years as a mechanic constantly yearning for a mech of his very own so he could do his family and his lord proud.

Then one day after a routine training expedition he slipped on a rocky shelf and fell into a crevasse that infact turned out to be the hull of a starships escape pod, badly injuring him. Alone and wounded he explored the almost pitch dark rooms quietly praying that he would live through this horrible nightmare, finally stumling to a stop in a room that felt different to the others, as if more alive somehow. Almost as if on queue he accidentally laid his bloody hand down on the dna recognition plate that opened the smoked glass pod beside him. The nanites in his blood got to work and the pod hissed as air rushed into the previously sealed tube. Once Castro looked inside he knew that his life would never be the same, for inside was the prototype XM-19-YV, "The Screaming Wraith."

Jet black and almost demonic in appearance the Wraith seemed as if a wolf in its den in the dark place, however Castro knew that the only way he was going to escape this tomb alive would be to pilot it. Placing his hand upon the chest plate his magic opened the suit, its interior a yawning darkness that seemed almost hungry. Pushing back his fear he stepped into the mech and it sealed upon him, imprinting itself upon him and he upon it until there was no doubt that they were made for eachother. Castro escaped the dark old tomb that day and was forever changed because of what he experienced there. The other men make sure he is out of ear shot before pondering if the change in him was for the good.

After ataining his exo-suit he quickly became known as a decisive, vicious squad leader who, after a particularly bloody but incredibly important mission in which he was the only survivor he was granted a dukedom by the King and gained great standing amongst the royal court.

He then spent many years with his elite exo team fighing a bloody, vicious war with the Vikings to the north, only briefly hearing of the death of the King and almost nothing of the war of the siblings Lord Bardak slowly came to revere the new Queen as he holds the belief that he and his men only survived due to the meager supplys brought in from time to time from the south.