| Ahm-Lin | |
|---|---|
| Culture |
Far West |
| Family |
Shoala (wife) |
| Book(s) | |
Ahm-Lin is a stonemason in the city of Linesh in the Alpiran Empire who also possesses the gift of the Blood Song.
Appearance and Personality[]
Ahm-Lin is short but well built with arms knotted with muscle. His face is angular with high cheekbones, almond shaped eyes, and a faint golden sheen.to his skin.
History[]
Ahm-Lin was born in the Far West, where Dark gifts are seen as a blessing. His talent comes to the attention of the ruling Merchant King, who brings him to the palace to learn from an old woman with the same gift. She taught him to control his Blood Song. Ahm-Lin enjoyed a comfortable life in the palace, acting as the King's truth-teller. But over the years he came to realise, that the Merchant King was far from benevolent and he himself was a prisoner. One day a Volarian woman, who resembles Elverah, came to court with a Blood Song of her own. She convinced him to lie to the Merchant King, and soon after the King is poisoned to death. The new Merchant King knew nothing of Ahm-Lin's gift, and he was allowed to just leave the realm. He travelled for the next twenty years, before settling down in Linesh as a stonemason, where he met his wife Shoala.
Blood Song[]
When Vaelin Al Sorna's regiment take over Linesh, as part of the Unified Realm's war to annex the northern Alpiran ports, Ahm-Lin's Blood Song calls to him. It causes Vaelin to go into shock, leaving him in a coma for five days. Once he recovers he goes to find Ahm-Lin, hoping to learn how to control his song. In his workshop, Ahm-Lin has a block of marble, that his song told him to obtain for him. Vaelin starts sculpting a face guided by his song.
Later, Ahm-Lin's workshop is burnt to the ground by a man seemingly possessed by the One Who Waits. Vaelin's statue is destroyed before it is finished. Ahm-Lin himself is badly hurt, but his life is saved by Sister Sherin.
At the end of the war, Vaelin puts Ahm-Lin, his wife, and Sherin on a ship, and they sail off towards the Far West.
Wolf's call[]
Ahm-Lin is in the Far West, living in stoned themed city while hosting and helping Sherin. When Vaelin is pursuing his quest given to him by the king, which is to find Sherin which the residents of all the Far West call Grace of Heaven, and the Jade Princess he and his company including Nortah, Elessa, Alum, Sehmon and more meet Ahm-Lin in his stone workshop. He greets Vaelin with a smile on his face, while telling him he had to send his wife back to Alpiria, because his blood song was telling him to do so. Unfortunately, he couldn't tell him anything more about Sherin other than that she escaped days ago with the Jade Princess in an unknown quest, which Vaelin already knew. Ahm-Lin eventually goes with them on the ongoing quest, guiding them by the help of his blood song.
Their way eventually part away after they found Sherin with the Princess in the hillock, nearing the Iron Steppe, because she sang a song to narcotize everyone to sleep but Vaelin, thus indicating she has a mission he has to carry out, nothing unknown in his previous life. Ahm-Lin is eventually present during the siege of Kešin-Ko. Kešin-Ko falls under the pressure of the Dark Knight Army. Vaelin and his company together with Sherin and Ahm-Lin escape the city through the old smuggling passage on boats, unfortunately leaving everything and everyone behind in the falling city, partly on behalf of Šo Caj's order. On they way, while sailing on a river, he sees Derka, his horse made it from the stables. Then he sees a Stahlhast's saddle on his horse, shortly a sound of a bow string. Ahm-Lin quickly reacts due to his blood song, jumping in front of Vaelin, while Elessa kills the Stahlhast warrior in the neck immediately.