Title:           Ayokunle Ekwueme Zebra Male Spiritualist [Monk/Necromancer] Talent: +2 Stre
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First Edit:      Sunday 1st of September 2013 08:34:09 PM CDT
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Ayokunle Ekwueme
Zebra Male
Spiritualist [Monk/Necromancer]
Talent: +2 Strength of Ancients rolls
Lawful Neutral
 
Skills:
Heightened Senses [Racial]
Strength of Ancients [Multiclass]
Stances
Tumble
Misogi
 
Inventory:
Semi-elaborate Martial Arts Robe
Backpack of Holding [Bowls, Tea-Sets, Tea, Rice, Tent, Scrolls, Maps, a Compass, Rope, Spare
Robes]
100 bits
 
Traits:
Ayokunle is a Grand Master of Flowers, a Zebra monk who has mastered nearly the heights of
Zebraic martial arts, among the styles he mastered are Obsidian Shards of Infinity,
 
Kaledeoscopic Border of Logic, Charcoal March of Spiders, Prismatic Arrangement of Creation, and
 
even the necromantic style Citrine Poxes of Contagion. He was born in Prance, but his family
 
came from Aksum. He grew up speaking both Prench and Zebraic, as well as Equestrian as a trade
 
language. His father was a merchant and his mother was a missionary, so he recieved a first
 
class Celestian education at an upper class Prench school. His mother tended the poor in the
 
Zebra district of the town [which his family avoided due to affluence], while his father tended
 
various business arrangements, and helped set up markets peaceably in his native Aksum. Ayokunle
 
was bullied in school on account of his odd appearance, race, and strange customs. The worst was
 
a unicorn mage named Auguste De Franc, who would use telekinesis to give Ayokunle swirlies, or
 
stick him in a tree so he'd have to wait for someone to come get him [as he could not climb well
 
at the time].
 
One day while helping his mother give alms, he met an elderly zebra named Imamu Jengo. He was
 
mostly there just to be with his mother, because he had broken his front arm/leg the previous
 
week when trying to climb down a tree. So he spent the day talking with Imamu. The old zebra
 
would tell him stories of far off lands, and amazing creatures. And Ayokunle would tell Imamu of
 
his problems. The boy was captivated by stories of swordsmen with blades made of thought, and
 
ponies who punched through solid brick and wood with the greatest of ease. And after sizing the
 
boy up, Imamu agreed to teach young Ayo the secrets of "Ki", and Zebraic martial arts.  
 
So, as soon as he was healed he began his training. Learning the basics of breathing exercises,
 
exercise, and the like, before moving on to more advanced forms that formed the basics of karate
 
and judo. It was during this time that Ayokunle had awoken within him the urge to greatness.
 
That drive for self-perfection that would carry him the rest of his life. So he trained, and
 
trained, and avoided his bullies and De Franc as best he could. Exactly three months after he
 
had begun his training, Ayo came across Auguste De Franc picking on an earth pony mare, laughing
 
at her because she wasn't that strong, and couldn't use magic. Ayokunle stood up to his bully,
 
and left him hanging from the top of the flag pole. He got suspended for three days, but the
 
school never had a problem from De Franc again.
 
Ayo continued learning from Imamu, for years in fact, until he graduated college. It was then,
 
Ayo decided, he would go and learn from the old masters, and visit all these lands he had heard
 
of. As he was planning his trip however, Aksum revolutionaries killed the provincial governor,
 
causing the colony to spiral into civil war. As the son of a prestigious merchant, he was honor
 
bound and socially expected to go and help solve the problem. So, leaving his dreams behind for
 
the moment, he enlisted in the Prench Foreign Legion, and spent the next four years serving
 
under Lt. Alphonse De Le Monarchia, Duke of the Horned Valley. It was during this time he met
 
his future wife, Bright Morning, a Celestian nun working with the Legion's chaplain, a rather
 
elderly and fat earth pony named Clover Chester, with a heart as wide as his gullet.
 
When the war ended with a Prench victory, Ayo proposed, and spent the next five years setting up
 
Celestian churches throughout northern Aksum, while carefully avoiding the more traditionally
 
aligned southern jungles. Bright Morning was, it was later discovered, sterile, and furthermore
 
prone to disease in this tropical climate. Despite Ayo's insistence that she keep indoors, and
 
constant requests to move back home to Prance, she insisted she stay and spread the Faith to the
 
native zebra. It was during this time that Ayo had to leave, upon hearing word that his master
 
Imamu was growing ill in his old age, and would not last much longer. Ayo left for the north, to
 
Prance, the following day, to visit his master before he died. Imamu gave him many scrolls and
 
gifts from the homelands to take back with him, bid him to continue his training, and joined his
 
ancestors three weeks after Ayo arrived. Ayo left after the funeral and making sure Imamu's
 
affairs were in order [the old man, as he knew, had no family].
 
When he returned to Aksum he learned his wife, disregarding his advice, had left for the south
 
to bring the solar faith to the southern jungles. Ayokunle arrived too late to be of any help.
 
Bright Morning had been kidnapped by Nativists, and was being held captive deep in a swamp holy
 
to the Loa. Marching in alone, Ayokunle used what he had learned to easily dispatch the ill-
 
armed and underfed nativists, and rescued his bride Bright Morning, and begun back to the north
 
despite her protests. When they arrived back home they discovered she had contracted Black
 
Fever, and would not last much longer. Ayokunle stayed by her side for the next six months,
 
carefully helping her, and looking for some cure or fix. He briefly considered invoking the Loa,
 
but knew his devout wife would never live with herself if he went to "daemons" for help. And so
 
she passed in her sleep, and Ayo mourned her loss.
 
His love gone, and without an heir, Ayo decided to make good on his promise to Imamu. He headed
 
into the far great south, and finished his training under the arduous but good-humored Grand
 
Master Ascending Graces of Tribulation, an Aarthistivara and holy man, training at the Great
 
Temple of Renewed Harmony. It would be here that he would meet his best friend and long-time
 
companion, Kamaria Kagiso, an older donkey monk from out east. It would be with him that
 
Ayokunle would complete his training, going on his great journey to the east, to have the high
 
Grand Master Rising Ocean bless his ascension to the masters of the Zebraic Arts.
 
Travelling through hostile territory, Ayo and his good friend Kamaria passed through the Zebra
 
Lands, onwards through the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Gods [Pony-India], being diverted through the
 
Horse-Lord lands on account of Monsoons, and eventually meeting Rising Ocean, to receive his
 
blessing and his robes.
 
Now a Grand-Master, but still a young man at 32 [or the pony equivalent thereof], he has decided
 
to go out and see the world with fresh eyes, unburdened by past sorrows or promises. He is a
 
jolly, plain faced zebra, with an elaborate white robe and a long black mane. He enjoys rice and
 
tea [a relic of his travels], speaks Prench, Equestrian, and Zebraic, and enjoys exercise and
 
scholarly pursuits.