Jocky Chan

Legend

“The Axe-Dancing Tailor boy, who also use needle and thread for deadly dance. Had at the Battle of Weeping Plains his most grand dance ever.”

Skjald El Mary

 

History

Fourth Age

Born the eldest son of the court tailor in the Naldar Clan of Quasaki. Jocky grew up with a splendid view from the upper part of their castle, set high atop the northern side of the Friona Falls. He did find needles and thread boring, but, according to family traditions, he did become their 26th tailor.

However, he also loved watching the soldiers and nobles practice, and as he grew, he began to study the martial arts as well. And, he told me, it was a mere coincidence that he developed his ‘Thread & Needle’ combat style. He was sewing a robe for the prince when a fly kept annoying him. Finally, he darted his needle at it and yanked it back with the thread. 4th flip of the hand, and the fly was impaled. He spent the next 3 years practicing, formalising, refining, and Crafting finding the right thread and needles.

In 1179, their prince held a grand feast as he turned 25, and Jocky asked if he could perform ‘A Tailors Dance’ to honour his prince. Curious about what a young tailor could possibly show, he was granted the request. I’ve been told that at first some of the nobles were jestingly mocked, as Naldar does best. But as the dance unfolded and Jocky speared lumps of bread and chicken legs, swinging them to his prince’s plate, he yanked the needles out for a drop. Jests and grins turned into clapping and cheering.

The martial arts elders were impressed, the noblemen stunned, and his parents proud. At the age of 13, Jocky became the youngest royal bodyguard ever to have been at a Naldar court.

Skjald Vinotis

 

Jocky spent the next 25 years protecting his prince, then king. But when his master grasped for supreme rulership over all of Naldar in 1204, several other Clans attacked and razed their castle. Jocky managed to escape to Lioni, where he spent some years sewing for Lionel, but got bored of seeing his work disappear in the coffers of the Kinoblin. Junks. So, in 1209, when the Ye Olde Zephyrs Smidhr Lord Nam visited Island of Piecao Jocky became friends with him and got intrigued about their Horde. Leaving the other Naldar behind, he promised to come back when their time was right and left with Lord Nam.

There he somewhat turned away from his ‘Tailor Dancing’, as several of the monsters and foes he began to encounter needed more than a small numbing sting. But a single hard limb-cutting or body-splitting blow. So Lord Nam made him a special halberd and began to practice, let’s call it ‘Axe-dancing’ instead.

Skjald Yell'a'Beard

 

In 1210, he passed their warrior test, and within a few years, he was a full-fledged Jarl with his own household between the temple of Kanziganthir and the cliff mansion of Tuuna. There he spent the next 40 years honing his ‘Axe Dance’ with Myth, Baldur and several other great warriors.

Skjald Sigurd

 

In 1250, he became the Hordes. Stallari As the former one, The Pilgrim travelled to Grimsborg to become Enforcer of the High King.

Jocky Chan held this title until 1263, when he resigned and left for Gaslug where he heard some of his former friends had created the settlement of Berserk Maimers studying nature and how to ‘Dance with Spirits’.

Skjald Ulrich

 

Organisation

It’s said Jocky was at Naldar Island taking care of some personal and clan business when The Great Invasion hit the island. Taking quite a lot of Kinoblin and Pigryn heads, as if his ‘Axe Dance’ was tailor made to cleave their skulls.

He entered the fray at Battle of Weeping Plains and performed outstandingly. Since the Cleansing Crusade he has travelled the roads of every island with a child’s chart, seemingly looking for someone.

Skjald Vinotis

 

Special

He can go into some sort of perceptive trance when fighting, allowing him to sense all nearby enemies.

Skjald Valgrif