Ornn Hrafn

= Ornn Ludwig =

Childhood
Ornn Ludwig is the son of SirSealX and Onixsapphire. He was born a year after the founding of Seal_Cove on the island of Stormgova. Formally, his name was "Ornn Hrafn". His parents felt that for him to have good understanding of the world, he would have to travel. And so, at the age of 5, they sent him to go on adventures around the world with Schmäggerd von Svarkor.

Ornn had the opportunity to learn about the world without being influenced by power hungry nations. This gave him a balanced view on the world and the ability to could see through many lies and false promises.

Adventures and Legends
Eldham was coated with many truths and lies so Ornn decided to search for them. He would gain knowledge and would understand many different topics.

First, Ornn looked into architecture. He was taught by GreenLionII, one of his distant relatives. The two of them got on very well and Green Lion II was able to teach Ornn and grow closer.Second, Ornn learnt about politics [MORE INFORMATION]

Third, Ornn mastered combat and was taught by knights, bandits and mercenaries. This would give him the power to defend himself in many situations.

Finally, Ornn decided to live in the wilderness for a few years to learn how to survive.

One day, Ornn was visiting a town in Uraka where he was captured by a group of thieves. They took all his belongings and money, leaving Ornn with nothing. He wandered the streets of Urak as he was lost, without a home or shelter. During these dark times, he was forced to join a group of bandits, making him travel around the world with them. During their travels around Eldham, they would raid small towns and villages. Eventually, Ornn grew sick of this lifestyle and slipped away.

Ornn was left without shelter once again and had to resort to the only thing he mastered once more: Banditry. He put on a mask and wandered through Cog, Zhon and the Drakes, stealing money and killing people. As Ornn's wealth grew, he gained a reputation and was known as the Shadow of Valresh. As time passed, he slowly stopped killing people as he found it to be wrong.

One day, Ornn got a contract in Garxeto where he would have to travel to Ravencrest in order to deliver important documents, which were classified. On his journey there, he ran into GreenLionII who he hadn't talked to in years. Green talked to him and convinced Ornn to return to Stormgova, his home. It was obvious that Ornn was struggling in the wilderness and needed a place to stay.

Return of Ornn
At the age of 18, Ornn returned to Stormgova in order to meet up with GreenLionII again, but it was too late. A week before this, GreenLionII was murdered by bandits in Myrkira.

When Ornn returned, he went straight to New Jellhem and found upsidedownelf while wandering around the island, who was heartbroken to hear about the Lion's death.

Then he found his parents in his birth town - Seal Cove. After 13 years of traveling around Eldham and Rathnir I return home to Stormgova. I was welcomed by UpsideDownElf on the shores of Scardin where he told me the tragic news of GreenLionII's death. He was my friend, my inspiration and the one who invited me back to Stormgova. I walked across the beautiful Stormgovan roads to Seal Cove and met up with my parents, Seal and Onix who I have not seen for many years, but I heard stories and legends about them.

The Fate of NewJellhem
Since GreenLion disappeared, Ornn was placed in charge of New Jellhem and got to work straight away. He talked to the locals and took their advice for what to do, improving the roads and building new houses. After a few weeks of power, the people all loved him, until his focus began to shift towards himself. Ornn felt like royalty and put on lavish clothes to reflect that. Over time he began to boss people around. People who knew him before began to question his true intentions as he used to be humble and honest. Some argued that this new selfish behaviour was just a way for Ornn to deal with the loss of Green Lion and his sudden growth in power and responsibilities. During this time, Ornn began to look for a permanent home for his family and friends and began constructing Castle Hrafn (now Castle Ludwig). It would take him 2 years to finish this. It was his main focus for a while and therefore he deserted many of the other projects he worked on like roads and houses. Once the castle was done, Ornn felt exhausted and went on a journey around Rathnir to rest and reclaim his spirit.

After about 3 months of rough travelling, Ornn returned to Stormgova to find his mother and father missing. He searched everywhere for them but without any luck. While he was gone, the Imperare made NewJellhem the new capital and Ornn knew he had a lot of work to do.

About a week after New Jellhem became the capital, Ornn started working on several large projects as citizens started to flood into the city requiring many new houses to also be built. Ornn spent the next year relentlessly working on the capital, building a Cathedral, The Simulami Capital Building and The Maestro Palace. During this time, the town of Visfrietje, creatively named Idunno merged with the capital.

One day, Ornn travelled to Seal_Cove to talk to his mother, but she was nowhere to be found. He gathered a team and they searched the entirety of Stormgova looking for Onix without any luck. After several months of searching, the group gave up and assumed the worst.

Ornn's Confession: The era of Solaris
After spending a long time searching for his mother, Ornn stood at the top of his castle and looked back at his life and thought about everything. He thought about the universe, he thought about Stormgova and the Simulami Empire, he thought about god. He realised that the Stormgovan Guardian is only one of many, which probably means that it is simply made up. He looked at his friends in the Empire and read books on Soleviel. Eventually, Ornn came to the conclusion that it is the one religion that has meaning.

The next day, Ornn went to Soleum and got baptised, denouncing the guardian of Stormgova and encouraging the rest of the island to convert with him: officially ending the Guardian's era.

He decided to rework how New Jellhem was run and introduced a new election system where he would always keep a portion of the power, but officially the mayor of the town would be the "Valekt". The first election was held, but as this was a new system, Ornn organised a small council, known as the "High Stormgovan Society" consisting of 5 members to vote for the Valekt. Of course, Ornn ended up winning the vote and became the first Valekt of Stormgova.

At this point of his life, Ornn was 22 and had a lot ahead of him. One day when Maximelian II and Robb Ludwig were visiting New Jellhem, they decided that adopting Ornn would be for the better because he was hard working and was quickly being overwhelmed, so they decided to put Ornn under their wing and take care of him. Ornn updated his name from "Ornn Hrafn" to Ornn Ludwig and changed the name of his castle from "Castle Hrafn" to "Castle Ludwig"

Ornn Ludwig, now the royal regent assistant, became obsessed with making the city as large as possible and in a week the population of New Jellhem almost doubled as Ornn increased recruitment, becoming the Tabellar of Stormgova in the process. As the new people grew, there were new towns in Stormgova such as Hasan, WarriorCraft and Freholm. Over the next 5 years, the city grew rapidly to become one of the largest on Eldham as a whole.

One day, Ornn visited the city of Freholm and came across Melody and Rin Rostraya. Melody was troubled because her parents died previously, but she was a great warrior and was able to defeat Robb Ludwig in a fight. After seeing that, Ornn sat down on a bench with Melody and offered to adopt her. She accepted and became Melody Ludwig