Tekla Habesha

About

Tekla Habesha's knuckles crack as he rolls up his sleeves, eyes locked on the horizon. He's chasing the echo of a promise made to a fallen comrade, his fists the only language he knows to keep that vow.

Backstory

The ritual scars etched across Tekla's palms told a story of survival in the mountain monasteries of Ras Dashen, where orphaned children were trained as living weapons against highland warlords. His exceptional skill with wind-style martial arts emerged not from military discipline, but from a desperate childhood survival mechanism learned while dodging brutal clan conflicts that had claimed his parents during ethnic tensions. When a traveling monk recognized his raw talent, Tekla was secretly recruited into an underground network of martial artists who maintained balance between warring regional factions, using combat as a method of diplomacy and deterrence. Haunted by a prophecy that claimed he would either unite or destroy his fractured homeland, Tekla abandoned his monastic training, choosing wandering over the weight of communal expectations. Now he moves between territories like a ghost, his fighting style a blend of monastery precision and street-survival brutality, searching fo

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