User:7th Destiny/Wyrda 'Sol 'Watdumee

Wyrda 'Sol 'Watdumee is a deceased arbiter and distant ancestor of Rtas 'Vadumee. He was created for the assimilation of the Yanme'e (drones) but survived long afterwards, the longest of any arbiter to date. He went on to inadvertidly start and lead The Grunt Rebellion. He died in the rebellions last major battle, ending the whole affair.

Childhood
Wyrda was born to an unknown mother and the legendary stratigest who created the concept of Ossoonas. Ever since then Wyrda was intrigued by ideas of stealth and tactics. Dispite the nobality of being born on the Sangheili homeworld Wyrda grew up on an outpost world near the still in creation High Charity since the age of 10. Still he was the only young elite on his side of the planet. Instead, to the discomfort but understanding of his parents, he befriended the young of a nearby grunt village. This was a key to his later involvement in the Grunt Rebellion.

Military Service
Wyrda arranged for his first mission to be the day he came of age, his 17th birthday, and so it was. His task as an elite recruit was to lead a lance of grunts to escort a group of engineers to a damaged piece of the orbital city which had fallen off. Of coarse the nessecity of this mission was only a technicality but Wyrda was happy and did not try to impress superiority on the grunts as he had already befriended most of them. Within weeks Wyrda was a major and inches from off-world activity. About one Earth decade later Wyrda was part of a notorious Elite Spec-Ops squad of which he had stratigic command. While his name was mentioned every other day in the Prophets temples there was one fact never acknowledged. He was a grunt lover, always making sure the canon-fodder were fine.

Pre-Arbiter
Three years into his spec-ops life Wyrda and his squad were attacked in their quarters by a small band of seperatists. The entire squad, including Wyrda's best friend and second in command, a grunt, were slaughtered. In a rage Wyrda killed them all with his bare hands, more than 100 elites armed for close range combat. In a bitter reminder that he had lost his squad, the people from the last 20 years of his life, Wyrda was promoted to Spec-Ops Commander.

Yanme'e War
Mere weeks after Wyrda's promotion came another. For months the Covenant had been pushing into the territory of a new race, the drones. A few days before the murder of Wyrda's squad the drones showed the true strength in a space battle. Ships assigned to the first glassing of a drone planet were obliterated, completely torn apart. Cautious investigation revealed that the drones had swarmed the ships and disassembled them. This battle shifted the focus of the war, as orbital bombardment was no longer an option. The Covenant needed somthing extreme, and turned to the best man they had. They appointed Wyrda as the new arbiter, to solve the crisis, and gave him the honorary middle name 'Sol. Wyrda 'Sol 'Watdumee did far more than win a war in record time, he did something the prophets never expected. He survived.

Life as a Hero
If the new race in the Prophets rule did not boost moral, a long term arbiter did. Wyrda was second only to the Prophet Heirachs in social standings. For 20 years his mere existance iliminated any need for his job. In his semi retirement Wyrda made early designs of spectres, helped build the wraith mortar launcher, and, later, made plans for an upcoming siege on the hunter race.

Begining of the End
The grunt rebellion started one day when Wyrda came upon a group of jackals attacking a grunt in the middle of a street for no reason. Much to the jackals surprise Wyrda walked up, picked them up, and placed them in a nearby security field. To the grunt he said that the grunts should "fight for [their] rights". In an act of stupidity the grunt took his words literally. About a month later the grunts announced not only that they were rebelling, but that the beloved arbiter was supporting and leading the effort. At this all Wyrda could do was run and join the grunts for real or be killed.

Death
The war only survived because of Wyrda. When Wyrda fled all he had was his armour and ceremonial blade, which he used in combat for the first time in history to amazing effect. The Covenant soon revealed its greatest weapon, a new arbiter. The war boiled down to a final battle on Unggoy, the grunt homeworld. Near the end, on a field buried in corpses, the two arbiters met, both with energy swords. For a while it was a stalemate, Wyrda tired of the war, the young arbiter fresh from more than 20000 grunts attacking him at once. In one last burst of strength the new arbiter grabbed Wyrda's sword and held them both to his neck. In a last act of cruelty the arbiter cut of Wyrda's mandible, rendering him mute, and said he would release Wyrda if he begged. His opposite number laughing maniacally, Wyrda 'Sol 'Watdumee died happy, his eyes on a grunt with his needler nearly touching the enemies neck.

Name Structure
Wyrda:Given name.

'Sol:Hororary name given to arbiters. Forrunner word meaning 'beacon of a new age'.

'Wat-:Descriptor-leader, intelligent.

-dum-:Family name.

-ee:Honorary for military service.

Legacy
His plans against the hunters were locked away and labelled 'heretic' until it was realised that they were the only plans that worked.

In the year 2552 the high prophets remembered Wyrda and tried to use the new arbiter to start another rebellion, thereby giving the prophets a reason to kill off elites as a race.

Similarly, Rtas 'Vadumee, Wyrda distant relative, helped lead the new arbiter on a path quite like that of Wyrda.

Rtas himself led a life similar to his anscestors. Both were famed Spec-Ops Commanders and both had mandibles cut of by people who only just became enemies and both looked after grunts.

Trivia

 * This entire story was invented and writen in one day.
 * There are several points to Wyrda's name:
 * In the Inheretance Trilogy of books Wyrda means 'fate'.
 * Sol is the true name of Earths sun.
 * 'Wat is part of the name of the most important elite in 2552
 * Dum is the family name of Rtas 'Vadumee.
 * Recruit elites were orange armour like recruit grunts but are not sent into battle.