Bora 'Norsam

Bora 'Norsam is a Sangheili treasure hunter and part-time archaeological security consultant. Born to a moderately wealthy merchant clan on the colony of Amaranthine Resplendence in the Covenant's Siakar Expanse, his post during the Covenant's reign was as Master of Relic Security in the Fleet of Concordant Purpose under the Ministry of Resolution. Acting as chief of security for military forces scouting out Forerunner sites, Bora's line of work made him well educated on Forerunner security systems and procedures for dealing with those systems, and served as an ample basis for his profession after the Covenant's collapse.

His participation in the Human-Covenant War was scarce. While he became of age early on in the war, he largely worked in exploratory fleets summoned to scout Forerunner relics in the fringes of the Covenant Empire far from the human sphere, dealing with various Covenant fringe elements, mainly Yonhet and Xar-Shaa, in the process. During this time, his team found evidence confirming the previously pseudo-mythical existence of the vanished alien civilization the Covenant called the Jehioi, who evidently disappeared some 40,000 years ago. It was only in the war's final years that Bora was involved in the human sphere at all, and even then he did not participate in the actual fighting, only leading excavation teams on Reach and Delta Halo.

In the post-war years, he makes a living as an explorer uncovering artifacts and selling them to various guilds and groups within the ex-Covenant colonial sphere, as well as providing security and his expertise for various archaeological groups -- both ex-Covenant and human. Though he is most often on the move, his place of residence is still his family's estate within the Kahrbann city-tower on his birth-world, which has since found itself within the post-Schism polity known as the Chikri-Merkaa Conflux. The Conflux is one of a ring of colonial entities affiliated with the Concord of Reconciliation, which suits Bora just fine -- though he prefers not to get caught in the ongoing civil wars whenever he can, his views most closely align with those of the Arbiter; for he finds continued war a pointless exercise, harbors no ill will toward humans, and his approach to the Forerunners (and even other vanished xeno-civilizations) has always been largely pragmatic despite him formerly harboring a casual adherence to the Covenant faith.