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===Erend===

An alcoholic Oseram mercenary who put his warhammer to good use helping Avad take the throne. After that, Avad sent him on a diplomatic mission to the Nora, partly to protect the other ambassadors and partly because he knew Erend's forthright, plain-speaking ways would appeal to the barbarians more than a Carja's fancy eddy-cated talk. On the trip, Erend met Aloy and tried to chat her up, after which they became detective buddies in Meridian. His character arc is about overcoming the death of his sister/military leader to take her place in the Vanguard and start getting over his inferiority complex. He's justifiably pissy with Aloy in the second game because she ran off to keep saving the world without saying goodbye, but they reconcile and he gets a Focus of his own, which lets him discover heavy metal, to his joy and everyone else's horror.