VERDITE: my muse's ethnicity/family history. HEMATITE: how squeamish my muse is.
VERDITE: Ooh, this is neat! Okay, so like quite a few sin’dorei (if not all) that are RP’d, he used to be a quel’dorei before things went south and they split. His father, and his grandfather and so on, were the same. Aran’s dad was actually a mercenary in the same band as Zanteron, and the pair were quite close before he met Aran’s mom, prompting him to lead a bit more of a...calm lifestyle. Calm and safe.
Thus, Sunforge Steel came into being. :) The business fared well for a good long while, until Arandoros was old enough to be put in charge. And he was, following Aelanden (his father) had a heart attack and it was inherited.
HEMATITE: Not particularly? I mean, it depends on the situation, in a way. If he was dressed up nice and not at all expecting to see blood or gore or the like? He’d be quite a bit less okay with it. But being in armor and in a warzone makes things easier to handle and compartmentalize.
@zanteron for mention. @duskwrath, thanks for the ask!