Wind Jackal

https://minotar.net/helm/Wind_Jackal/100.png Jackal didn't remember much of his early years in life, if slaving in a mine could be called that. He fully expected to live a short life, then die working in the mine, in terrible conditions. But one day, Cavilon led him to a tunnel leafing out of the mine. Shocked, Jackal went about his job, but when a guard started beating him, he lashed out, beating the guard to death with his sharp pick.

That decided things for him. Jackal gathered up as many slaves as he could, and escaped through the tunnel, ending upon a jungle. Many slaves succumbed to hunger, disease, and creatures that first night, but those that survived were determined to be free. They eventually settled a fair distance away, and started a peaceful life. Too much so, in fact.

Jackal worried and fretted that they'd be discovered and attacked by their old masters. He would set up some stores of food and crude weapons and hide them around the small village, in case of any attack. The village elders, previously the older and more experienced of the slaves, at first agreed with his measures... then it became a chore to them. They began to regard Jackal as eccentric at best, or mad at worst.

The elders ordered Jackal away from the village. Jackal reluctantly left, and from loneliness, befriended a monkey naming bit John, training it to throw fruit down from high trees to him. One day, a month or so after his banishment, he saw black smoke in the sky. Worried, Jackal headed towards it and found his old village in flames, most of the ex-slaves killed, with the slavers (for it was them) cornering the last of the living ones. Jackal managed to knock out a slaver with a log of firewood, hitting him in the head from behind, then stole his armor and weapons.

Now suitably armed and slightly disguised, he wandered through the village, taking lone slavers by surprise, before coming upon a group of armed ex-slaves fighting the last of the slavers. Jackal charged in from behind and helped finish off the slavers. Taking charge, he gathered the survivors, and following the slavers' feet prints, discovered their sky ship. Swarming it, the ex-slaves overwhelmed and killed the guards left behind on the ship, before stealing the ship.

Several near- crashes later, they had gotten the hang of the ship. They proceeded to become the slaving companies worst nightmare, looting and raiding them mercilessly. Several years passed in this fashion, but then Jackal's crew attempted a mutiny. They killed John the monkey, and when Jackal confronted them on it, Amira, his trusted first-mate admitted her doing, having organized the whole mutiny. A fight ensued, with Jackal breaking free, wounded, but very much alive. He made his way to the ship's hold, setting alight the ship's ammunition as he went, killing several of his traitorous crew members on the way, before the last one doing severe damage. The ship doomed, Jackal leaped from the ship, using a parachute cloak. Amera does the same, but only they survive, and the gliding cloaks take them seperate ways.

Jackal ended up crashing in Sun Wukong V's tree at Redwall, ripping the parachute cloak beyond repair, and soon joined the Quillborn, where he served faithfully for many years. He even was discovered to be related to one of the other knights, and was acknowledged as a Beoulve. He was the Lone Knight of Redwall for a while, but thanks to a merger of Quillborn with Alyrah, Redwall once more was a bustling city. Jackal was weakened by his long solitude, and spent much time training to regain some of his strength and agility of his youth, but he eventually perished from a fall.