Mike Herion

Mikkus Vaelon Herion, born 430, is a knight of the Realm, formerly a member of the Paragon's Order at the start of the story. Mike is well-known throughout Shadowsong as a brave, handsome and muscular soldier with a strong personality who has achieved a lot through his career including supporting many charitable causes. Despite his heroic and influential persona, below the surface Mike is incredibly self-serving, going as far as to abandon his wife and child when he believed it would be in his best interest to move from Esa to Central Eldrin.

History
Mikkus was born in 430 and throughout his childhood was incredibly tall and muscular, through being at a height of just 6'4 in adulthood. He was raised in Northwestern Esa but trained predominantly through his childhood in Dragonshore and areas of Southern Eldrin. At the age of 15 he was accepted onto the elite guard training course of Bluehaven University, one of the youngest ever to achieve this. He complete this training at the top of his class at age 18, and shortly after the War of the Second Age began.

Over the course of this, Herion proved himself to be an incredibly powerful leader and soldier in the battlefield, leading numerous campaigns and famously slaying Serfaeus El'Razen, the right hand of the leader of the Arbiters at the time, in single combat. Herion also fought at the final battle of this war. As a result of his actions, Herion was enlisted in The Paragon's Order by Darrell Lockhart.

Mike Herion quickly became a household name as one of the heroes of the second age, and married to _, shortly after her inductance into the Paragon's Order. For a long time, the two decided that their duty came before fathering any children.

In 464, Herion and fellow paragon _ Rezia were taunting a young Dante Sovolder and his friend Reed Pastell by Rod's River. As a result of this taunting, Dante tried to challenge the two of them, but when Rezia approached Dante to accept, Pastell intervened, leading to Herion stabbing him through the chest and face, before dumping his body into the river. These actions led to an undying grudge of Herion by Dante.

During the story events, following the death of Orion, shortly after Uhan Sovolder took the position of leader of the Vanguards and Rainen Taberham the leader of Bite of Winter, Herion decided that the Vanguards had no chance in the wars to come. That night he told his wife that he was leaving to make a name for himself in Eldrin, leaving her with his newly born son.

Herion quickly gained influence in Central Eldrin and rose to become one of Ven's knights of the Realm.

In the final storming of Eldrin, Uhan Aovolder separates himself to find Mike Herion. He enters his now-destroyed grand foyer to his house, where the two of them battle. Mike all but defeats Uhan in combat, severely wounding him, breaking most of the bones in his face, but in an unrestrained desire to get revenge, Uhan kills Herion with his side dagger.