Frentis

Frentis
Biographical information
Born	Varinshold, Asrael Unified Realm
Physical description
Gender	Male
Political information
Affiliation	Sixth Order of the Faith
Title(s)	Brother of the Sixth Order
Appearances information

Frentis was an orphan living on the streets who meet Vaelin and becomes inspired to join the Sixth Order.

Appearance and Personality

At the beginning, Frentis is a skeletally thin street urchin, dressed in rags with bare, mud-stained feet. But after joining the Order, he grows tall and broad shoulders. The blind enthusiasm and whining of his youth develops into a confidence in his own abilities, and he emerges as the leader of his novice group. After his ordeal with One Eye, he becomes less talkative and quicker to anger. The scars he suffers never fully heal. Frentis remains a believer in the Faith and their cause, even as some of his brothers slowly loose faith.

History

Blood Song

Frentis is an orphan and has lived a squalid life on the streets of Varinshold for years. He becomes a thrall of Hunsil, the leader of a group of child thieves. Each month he must give him five coppers, or risk a beating.

One day he is working the Summertide Fair, when he foolishly choses to pick the pocket of a novice brother of the Sixth Order, Vaelin al Sorna. Vaelin catches him, but rather than give him over to the Realm Guard, he demands that Frentis guide him to the gallows. Frentis shamelessly demands something in exchange, and gets a throwing knife and the promise of a lesson in return.

Frentis is behind on his payments to Hunsil, and fearing another beating, he tries to kill him with the throwing knife. Frentis hits him with a fine shot, but Hunsil survives the attack, though he loses his eye. Fearing for his life, Frentis flees Varinshold. Enthused by the legend that has built up about Vaelin and the Blackhawks, Frentis seeks refuge in the Sixth Order. With no one to vouch for him, Frentis nominates Vaelin to speak for him to the Aspect. Reluctantly, Vaelin agrees.

While Frentis waits for the next intake of recruits, he bunks with Vaelin’s group. At first the group are reluctant, but Frentis’s energy and blind enthusiasm soon wins them over. He also demonstrates an effortless ability to steal from other groups, which is tolerated within the Order. In time, Frentis joins his own group under Master Haunlin. Frentis proves to be an enthusiastic student, learning quickly and loving life in the Order, compared to his former life.

During the Test of the Wild, Frentis is snatched by Hunsil, now known as One Eye. One Eye takes him to some kind of abandoned temple to the mysterious and supposedly defunct Seventh Order of the Faith, the Order of the Dark. He tortures Frentis, tattooing his torso with scars. During the torture One Eye keeps repeating “The One Who Waits will destroy your precious Order”. However, Barkus, Vaelin, Nortah, Caenis and Dentos track him there, thanks to Scratch, the Volarian slave-hounds. The outlaw One-Eye makes a wall of fire using Dark power, but Caenis recognises it as fake, and leaps through the flame and kills him. The scars Frentis suffers never fully heal.

After Frentis graduates, he joins Vaelin and the others in the invasion by the Unified Realm of the Alpiran Empire. Frentis commands a company of the Wolf Runners. He is in the middle of the melee during the battle of the Bloody Hill, where Vaelin kills the Hope, the heir to the Empire.

Vaelin’s forces with Frentis are assigned to take and hold the key city of Linesh, which they succeed in doing. During the occupation, the Red Hand plague breaks out in the city, and Frentis is sent with a Meldenean captain to bring Sister Sherin with a cure. After Vaelin sabotage an Alpiran army approaching the city, the Alpiran’s seem to avoid Linesh, so Vaelin sends Frentis scouting towards Untesh to find out the state of the war. Frentis never returns. When Vaelin scouts Untesh himself, he finds the city fallen, with Frentis presumed dead or captured.

At the end of the story, Vaelin’s Blood Song gives him a vision that may indicate that Frentis is alive.