Editing Asep Muhammad Ridwan (section)

== Biography ==

=== Life on Earth ===
Asep grew up as an orphan in Bandung after his mother died during childbirth and his father passed away when Asep was eight. He turned to street brawling and gang life to survive, occasionally driving an ''angkot'' (public transport minivan) to pay his school tuition. After a massive street fight against a rival gang leader named Tajud—which left his friend Agung crippled, his friend Rendy deceased, and several others harmed—Asep was arrested and served a two-year prison sentence. 

=== Arrival in Ardenia ===
Immediately after his release from prison, Asep visited his parents' graves at a public cemetery. Upon leaving, he experienced a spatial transition and found himself stranded in a vast grassland in the Kingdom of Ardenia. With no money or resources, he spent his first months performing manual labor, eventually finding employment as a peat cutter in Erja Village.

=== Joining Castalia ===
While working in Erja, Asep was confronted by the bounty hunters [[Stark]], [[Karl]], and [[Bob]], who mistook him for a dangerous rogue sorcerer named [[Borwe]] due to a vague wanted poster. Asep easily subdued the trio bare-handed and subsequently offered to help them capture the real Borwe in exchange for a share of the bounty. 

After successfully tracking down and defeating Borwe, Asep accompanied the group to the trade hub of Loriana. There, he met the boisterous mercenary Sylvanne, who recruited him into the Castalia Mercenary Company by promising to help resolve the regional tobacco shortage caused by the Albion blockade.

=== The Battle of Silvercreek ===
Asep assisted Castalia and [[Princess Adreana]] in exposing the treachery of Lord Commander William of the [[Avalon Knights]]. During the conflict, Asep and Karl got themselves intentionally arrested to serve as an inside extraction and distraction unit. After the battle was won, Asep officially joined Castalia's ranks as a regular mercenary.

=== The Liberation of Roake ===
Following the escalation of the Eclipse Cult's activities under Solus, Asep was tasked with a stealth infiltration of the Roake mining complex due to his unique physiological trait of having no Lumite in his blood, making him invisible to the cult's magical wards. Working alongside the local resistance led by Adeline and Idia, Asep neutralized several cult "Thralls." 

He eventually encountered High Overseer [[Estella Aria]], who became infatuated with his genetic profile as an otherworlder. Asep bypassed her spatial defense barriers using a combination of a magnesium flashbang and a modified unstable "Portable Heater" prototype, burying her under building debris and securing the team's escape.

=== Infiltration of the Deep Sanctum ===
Using his stealth capabilities, Asep successfully infiltrated the Deep Sanctum beneath the Roake mines. He assassinated the Cult's Hierarch, Solus, with a hidden blade coated in a potent alchemical neurotoxin and deployed a suppression device to destabilize the cult's artificial crystal heart, effectively breaking the backbone of the Eclipse Cult.