First and foremost, we have to talk about Chaos Realm customs a bit before we get into Havik. Especially when it comes to children. Marriage is extremely uncommon in Chaos Realm as it’s seen as a form of order. Some people may in fact stick together as partners for life, but as far as an actual ceremony, there is no such thing. Most Chaos Realmers don’t like the feeling of being tied down to something or someone. This also translates into child rearing as well. Unlike other Realms, Chaos Realm contraceptives usually come in the form of elixirs made by clerics and can be hard to come by. Thus, a lot of women do end up becoming pregnant, but most don’t want the responsibility of a child (and some do, but we’ll get to those groups in a moment). So they abandon them or if they know a Rehtom or Rehtaf personally, they will directly give the child up to them. Some children die off and some are picked up by the aforementioned Rehtom/Rehtaf. Of course, as with anything, this isn’t always the case! Some will raise their own children and their own children alone, but it isn’t common. Most child raising responsibilities fall onto a Rehtom or Rehtaf, which leads me to my next point…

Now, what is a Rehtom/Rehtaf? As mentioned, not all Chaos Realmers despise the responsibility of child raising. Some enjoy it quite well, actually, and will take on this burden to raise future generations of Chaos Realmers. Literally “mother” and “father” in their native tongue, Rehtoms and Rehtafs are women and men who want to take on this role of being a child-raiser. They either find the children in the street or are gifted children to raise, and most can have a “litter” of children of varying ages upwards to twenty at a time! Once the child is old enough to fend for themselves, they usually part ways and go off into the world to be their own person. The child usually decides this for themselves and the Rehtom/Rehtaf don’t make them stay until a certain age like Earth Realmers do.

Havik was raised by a Rehtom in a litter of sixteen (by the time he parted from her). He doesn’t know who his birth parents are and, like most Chaos Realmers, doesn’t really care to know. (Although, in rare cases, this can cause inbreeding, but not often.) Since he was young, he had ideals of becoming a cleric of chaos and wanted to surpass the power and respect any other cleric before him had achieved. He had very high ambitions, but it’s what drove him forward all these years. He’s very skilled in his communication and use of the Tempest, far surpassing any cleric alive today.

The Tempest, as described in ancient Chaos Realm books, is an unseen force that surrounds the Realm. Long ago, the God of Chaos had unleashed the Tempest unto the Realm, which resulted in the Realm’s fragmented and almost decaying state. Clerics of chaos may learn how to commune with the Tempest and harness its power for chaos magic, with most Realmers not even able to sense it at all.

Because of the power Havik has gained from his years of cleric training and communing with the Tempest, he has gained the respect of nearly every Chaos Realmer. So much so that most see him as the overlord of their Realm, some even addressing him as “Lord Havik”. While he doesn’t “rule” in the normal sense, he will take charge to make sure his Realm is safe and remains in its chaotic state. He will take charge of small legions of men to fight off threats, such as the Seidans, and that’s about as far as his “ruling” goes. He’s not there to rule as a king, but to make sure chaos stays the way it should in their Realm. For that, too, he is also respected. The people know they can turn to him for any need. Many seek his favor but only few are close to him.

As far as his looks go, Havik had mutilated his face himself in a ritual of ascending as a cleric of chaos after his training. With his healing powers, he can reconstruct it, but only does so if he’s being deceptive or hiding in another Realm. In other Realms, Havik can “play nice” if it suits him, but most of the time he is idly exploring or looking to purposefully cause chaos in other places.

Some more general information about Havik: He is aromantic. (On that note, he is pansexual.) He does not experience these feelings and quite frankly finds them unnecessary. He also feels relationships are simply something requiring commitment, habitual behaviors, etc to a singular person–things he despises as they are just so…orderly. They go against chaotic ways of life and hold him down. He is also a sadomasochist because he, like all Chaosrealmers, enjoys combat and pain and death–giving and receiving–in a sexual situation or not.

With the talk of children, Havik probably (very likely) does have offspring of his own. But he doesn’t know how many, if any. If the mother were of ChaosRealm (being in his position, there is not a single person in the realm that lives there that doesn’t know of him), some may know his standing on not wanting to deal with children and choose not to approach him at all on the matter. If some do, he simply states he doesn’t care/isn’t going to raise it/etc and that’s that.