Rean "Ashen Awakener, Ashen Chevalier, Divine Blade of Ash" Schwarzer

About

Age: 17 (CS1), 18 (CS1, CS2, Northern War) , 19-20 (CS3, CS4, Reverie), 21 (AHSP),
23 (Kai)
Height: 173 cm (CS1, CS2), 178 cm(CS3)
Date of birth: May, S.1186
Hobbies: Fishing, Visiting Hot Springs
Likes: Tea, fishing, snowboarding, hot springs and his family

Rean is a young man with unkempt dark hair, usually with a blue tint, and fuchsia eyes. During his time at Thors, Rean wears the red Class VII uniform, using black trousers and a lavender tie. Rean's traveling clothes consist of a black shirt over a white vest, a large red jacket with a fleece lined collar, blue trousers with a stripe pattern across one leg and leather laced-up boots.

An older Rean wears a long white overcoat with belt-like attachments on the shoulders, a flared collar and a loosely worn purple belt. He also wears a black zipped shirt over a white buttoned shirt, black trousers and a red suspender belt for carrying his tachi.

Rean uses a tachi in battle. It is kept in a sheath which transitions from purple at one end to dark blue and a metal clasp at the other. The blade itself is single edged, with a decorated purple and gold woven handle and two tassels hanging from the end. There is a ring-like attachment on the side of the guard.

Kind, sociable, easygoing and modest to a fault, Rean is about as upright as they come. He is incredibly supportive, often helping people (friends or otherwise) with their various problems, sometimes going through extreme lengths to fulfill requests. He is a natural-born leader, often taking the initiative when the group faces a problem, relying on his good instincts and deductive reasoning skills to get through them.

However, despite putting on a confident front, Rean has a shockingly low amount of self-worth, often being harsh to himself and trying to spread credit to others mainly due to the fact he was adoptive and how other noble mistreat his adoptive father over it and how he end up lost control of himself due to his unknown power when he and Elise were younger. He is also unable to reconcile the love that his family has for him, often considering himself to be a burden, striving to one day "pay back his parents" for caring for them, unable to realize that his parents unconditionally love him.

He also has a tendency to put others over himself, often to his detriment.



He gains the ability to draw on a latent power, during which his hair turns white and his eyes red. At the end of Cold Steel I he becomes an "Awakener" (pilot) of a Divine Knight, known as The Ashen Knight, Valimar. In Cold Steel II he learns to control his power to some degree and grows as the awakener of Valimar, defeating the legendary demon End of Vermillion alongside Crow and Ordine, The Azure Knight. He soon learns that he is Osborne's son, however, and uses Valimar to work with the Iron Bloods, and becomes known throughout the empire as the hero who stopped the civil war and defends the newly gained territory of Crossbell from invaders, the Ashen Chevalier.


Baron Schwarzer took Rean into his household and raised the boy with his wife Lucia and their three-year-old daughter, Elise. Since Rean had no memory prior to his abandonment, he had no idea whether he was born a noble, commoner, or even an Erebonian to begin with. This sparked some controversy among the baron's fellow nobles and many rumors spread about Rean being his bastard son. Nevertheless, the Schwarzers remained a kind and supportive family throughout Rean's upbringing.

In S.1196, at the age of 9, Rean experienced a traumatic incident. As a monster approached his adoptive sister, he was overcome by an overwhelming anger. Some sort of power, referred to as his ogre power, overtook his consciousness and viciously murdered the beast. Rean began to fear himself. Though he was raised in a loving environment, he felt an immense amount of guilt towards his foster family for being a burden.

The following year, in S.1197, Yun Ka-fai takes Rean in as a pupil. Yun Ka-fai taught him the Eight Leaves One Blade school of swordsmanship in the hopes that Rean could eventually overcome his fear and master his power. Unfortunately, Rean was unable to do so and Yun Ka-Fai had to cut his training short, although he granted Rean the title of Beginner.

(Source: Kiseki Wiki)