Gael Martinez

ORIGINS
Gael Alejandro Castillo-Martinez was born on January 27th, 1260 to Alfonso X, King of Castile and one of Her Majesty's ladies-in-waiting, Isolde Martinez. Out of kindness and pity, Queen Violant allowed the bastard child to remain living at the castle with his mother and father. In his youth, Gael was a bright and joyous child with his father's dark hair and his mother's youthful curls. Alfonso visited Gael often as a child, where he would play him music, read him stories, and teach him about the stars. This amount of family-time spent was unheard of among royals, and for Gael to be a bastard-child receiving a majority of the King's attention-- quickly, those who knew of Gael knew he was the King's favorite.
Gael shared his life among eleven other siblings, but only one was he closest too: Sancho, his brother merely two years his senior. Sancho and Gael were the best of friends and the worst of enemies, often spinning games into competition. When Sancho won, the castle celebrated, and when Gael won, much of the castle who disapproved of his existence never failed to remind him of such. Still, King Alfonso never turned his eye from his Solis-- a childhood nickname for Gael, meaning Sun; a play on words. Alfonso was viewed by many of his noble subjects as soft, lacking the firmness to rule and the singleness of purpose requited for a ruler to devote himself to an organization. His love for Gael didn't make it easier, but Alfonso never wavered.
After the death of Gael's eldest brother Ferdinand, next in line for the throne would be Sancho. Alfonso preferred to leave the throne to his grandsons, if not Gael, but Sancho had the support of the nobility. A bitter civil war broke out resulting in King Alfonso being forced to accept Sancho as his heir instead of his dearest Solis; and then, only three cities remained faithful to him. When Alfonso died in 1284, he left a will, by which he excluded Sancho.
10 days after the death of their father, Sancho ordered the assassination of his brother Gael; removing Gael from remaining as an obstacle in his brother's future.

AFTERLIFE
April 14th, 1284 marked the day Gael died. He left the mortal world and found himself in the Maker's Golden City. Yet, in Heaven itself, he felt a disconnect. An unhappiness with tyranny and hubris. So he chose to leave. In 1450 he fell.

THE FALL
And with that, Gael was  banished from Heaven. A pair of Potestas tore the wings from Gael's back, stripping him of some of his holy abilities as an angel, and cast him to the Earth. The rush of the fall brought back memories of Gael's former life. The image of his grisly murder burned in his mind, a story of brotherhood and betrayal his heart ached to tell as his bloodstained body turned up to face the sky. White spots decorated a velvet dark curtain above, and tears floated from his eyes as he could finally see the stars again. The music his father played rang in his ears and he could smell his mother's favorite bread curl through his nose.

REBIRTH
Gael reeled and plunged into the trees at the edge of the clearing, soon finding himself in Thebes, Egypt. There he meets a goddess among men named Nefertiti, who holds an army of followers despite her lack of true station.

PRESENT
Now in search of solidarity, Gael finds himself in the northwestern side of the United States. While hoping to find someplace to call a more permanent home, he discovers something unexpected. An opportunity.

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