Yaro is a young man of the Rus. He is of average build and height with blond hair and blue eyes. Barely able to grow a beard but for all his youth an excellent archer.

He wears studded leather armor and carries a long sword but his primary weapon is his bow.

He has been to Constantinople and even to the lands of the Tatar in the east as well as Persia. He was taken captive by the Djinni Vikhor several weeks ago while traveling through the Carpathian mountains heading west into the lands of the Germans.