Lúka en Olea

= Luka vάn Gallisti = (The user, DarthEggo, originally joined Stoneworks on 7/4/22, but left for awhile and rejoined on 2/24/23)

(DISCLAIMER: This character's views are extremely biased towards East/Imperial/Otto's Aristios. This does not reflect my actual ooc views, and is a result of how he was raised rather than objective fact)

Early Life
Luka was born to a somewhat poor family in what was then called Kattegat, later renamed to Zaropolis. He grew up during the Kingdom of Aristios, a time when Aristios was but a shadow of its former self. When he was young, about the age of 7, he would wander the streets alone. His parents didn't particularly care, and neither were home most of the day, only returning to feed their son and sleep. On the streets, he encountered old men, more impoverished than he, as they were without a home. Some of these men, for a coin, would tell Luka grand stories about the glory days. They wove vast tales of Aristii power, a day when their people were the giants of the north. A nation that was respected and even feared. A military of might and terror. A place to live where there was food on the table for even the poorest citizens, every day. These old men spoke of the Empire of Aristios.

Were these claims entirely accurate, or were they exaggerated? It doesn't really matter. Luka was enthralled. His mind soared with the imagination found only in a youth of his age. He imagined himself a royal, an advisor to the great Kratoras of yore, a great soldier winning an epic battle, and occasionally he himself in the throne. He knew within himself that he would never ascend to such a level, but it was fun to imagine nonetheless.

As he grew up, his wild imagination transformed into an obsession with the old Aristii culture, especially with the language High Aristii, which didn't exist in the modern day save for a few texts. There were no public libraries in Kattegat, so he always kept a jar in his house which he filled over time, which he would use to purchase books about the old Aristii cultures. Occasionally, he would get tired of waiting, and just steal the books, especially the High Aristii books, as they were extremely expensive. Sadly, you cannot make money off of knowledge of culture, so he prepared himself for a career as a stonemason, much as his father. However, his future would be shaken up when he was 19, with the return of Otto Olea and the advent of the rebellion.

The Rebellion
One of the Kratoras of the ancient empire Luka had such an obsession with had returned to Aristios. At the time, Aristios didn't even exist; it was under the rule of a foreign nation, a fact that infuriated Luka. So, when Aristii partisans gathered in the city square in Kattegat to organize a march to Akirashalam, the capital of the rebellion, Luka eagerly joined in. Many of these partisans were young men like Luka, who had their minds filled with visions of glory and might.

When they arrived at Akirashalam however, Luka himself was declared unfit to fight. He was trained as a stone mason, not a soldier. So, while he was not among the ranks of men fighting in Perdin, he stayed with the rebellion, as a simple laborer to mine stone and netherrack for the defense of the city. It seemed this would be his profession for life, which he was fine with, until he got the honor to personally meet Otto en Olea.