Editing Temujin The Big (section)

=History=

Temujin is a Haltan native, the big brother to his sisters Temulin and Temuge. This probably explains a lot about his personality. Like all Haltans, he was drafted into military service and ended up in the commandos, where his talent for physicality served him very well as an advance scout for his unit. In all likelihood, he would have served out his term and retired gracefully, had he not run afoul of a particularly formidable Linowan strike team. From the moment the enemy team leader revealed himself as an Exalted sorcerer, Temujin knew that his squad's situation was grim and their continued survival unlikely. Therefore, he did the only responsible thing - he used himself as a decoy to draw the sorcerer's attention while his subordinates fled to get help. He ran and fled, surpassing his own limits of speed and athletic prowess. It was almost good enough. But as the sorcerer's Flying Guillotine wrapped around his neck, he heard a resounding voice in his head and felt a fire ignite in his soul, and the magical razor-sharp chains splintered off the invulnerable flesh of a freshly-minted Solar Exalt. With the balance of power shifted formly in his favor, it didn't take long for Temujin to dispatch the Linowan sorcerer and the rest of his team. As he stood over their cooling bodies, however, he noticed one of his squadmates watching him, the purple-gold of his anima reflected in her terrified eyes. It was then that Temujin realised that even though he had won in a military sense, he had lost in every other way that mattered - to his friends, he was dead, replaced by a terrible, shining Anathema.

With a heavy heart, he forced himself to flee into the jungles, not caring where he went as long as it was away. As luck would have it, he encountered and rescued a wounded baby claw strider, who instantly bonded to him as he nursed it back to health. Temujin found the creature cute, and with the aid of the Sun, he managed to win its loyalty, and even gave her a name; Chloe, the Claw Strider. Man and beast left the jungles of the East behind them, riding down the river provinces and westward through the Southeastern savannahs, until the skyline ofone of the South's cities looms in the distance...