

Using a rudimentary description of his appearance, the military police profile him with the moniker "The Scarred Man", shorthand "Scar", due to the large X-shaped scar across his forehead, however, having hidden his right arm and red eyes, he manages to avoid being identified as an Ishvalan refugee and a user of alchemy. Among his victims was Brigadier General Basque Grand, a veteran of the Ishvalan War who was renowned for his expertise in hand-to-hand combat and military alchemy. Having discovered the power of the tattoo on his new right arm, he begins assassinating State Alchemists, slaying five in Central City and five more in different places around the country before making his way back east. From that moment, the young man swore to survive only for the sake of vengeance on the Amestrians and the State Alchemists who had taken everything from him and wandered off.Ī few years after the war, the young man reemerges on his path of blood. Fleeing into the desert, where the sight of Ishval's total devastation awaited him, the young man screamed in agony. Seeing Amestrians as the enemy, he killed the Rockbells his atrocity was watched by his fellow Ishvalans, who were horrified that someone saved by kind-hearted doctors would murder them. Discovering that his entire family had died and his brother's telltale arm attached to him instead, the young man flew into a blind rage of anguish. The young man awoke some time later in an emergency clinic set up and maintained by married doctors Yuriy and Sarah Rockbell, who had applied emergency surgery and bandages to heal the man's injuries. Scar awakens to the sight of his new arm, and a new horror.


In a hasty rescue attempt, his older brother used the power of the arrays he had engineered to transfer his own right arm to the young man's body at the cost of his own life. Caught in one of Kimblee's signature explosions, the young man was mortally injured, bleeding profusely from a wound on his face and the loss of his right arm. Unfortunately, no sooner had he handed over the notes than the group came under attack by the Red Lotus Alchemist Solf J. His brother, afraid that his discoveries would die with him if he were killed while fleeing, entrusted his notebook of discoveries to the young man in the hopes that a warrior monk would have a higher chance of survival than himself. When the combat began escalating in the Kanda district, the young man and his family made preparations to evacuate the region. Though his brother tried to explain his research pursued the fusion of alchemy and alkahestry in an attempt to foster understandings between different groups of people and bring Ishval into the modern age, the young man grew ever angrier that his brother would waste time on such insubstantial endeavors while people were dying and hatred was soaking into their homeland - even more so when his older brother went so far as to tattoo the results of his research onto his arms. His indignation reached a head when he discovered that his older brother had taken up the study of Amestris' craft of alchemy - a practice forbidden by the teachings of Ishvala.

Manga and 2009 anime Ishval Civil War Īs a young warrior monk living in the Kanda region of Ishval during the Ishval Civil War, the man who would later be known as "Scar" personally opposed the assimilation of his homeland into greater Amestris and found his distrust of the central government cemented by the military atrocities that erupted around him each day.
