Rado Alveras

(WIP)

Rado Alveras is the current Grand Vizier of Ardat

Early Life
Rado was born to a relatively impoverished family in the then-obscure village of Astar Tisu. His father, Tijuano, hunted spiders for a living. His mother, Xala, was a brewer. At a young age, Rado would start learning from his father how to capture arthropods and produce their venom as well as other goods. Rado did not seem to be very good at this, but he still learned eagerly from his father. Since hunting required time away from home, he barely learned any brewing from his mother, and to this day he seems to be clueless on what brewing even is.

When he was 5 years old, his father took him on a big hunting trip north of Astar Tisu, into the red and hazy wilderness of the mesa. While grabbing water, he saw a figure in the distance. Stepping closer, he saw that it was a middle aged human male. The man started walking towards Rado, and fear swelling up in him, Rado dashed to the camp where his father was. He alerted his father of the old man, and his father immediately grabbed his dagger and confronted the man. His dad successfully chased him off, and told Rado about rogues and bandits who sometimes attack you just because they think you have money. Rado would try to remember this.

After that, Rado and his family would lead a peaceful life, if not a comfortable and luxorious one. Unfortunately, tragedy would strike just a year later.

One day, on a hunting trip, Rado and his found a cavern full of cave spiders. Feeling confident, Rado very foolishly ran into the cave to see how many spiders there were. His father shouted at him to stop and ran in with him. Although lamiatrophus vision was slightly better in the dark, Tijuano still could not see the ground very well and tripped on a rock. This provoked the horde of spiders, and they promptly surrounded Tijuano. He realized that they were not ordinary cave spiders, but the yellow stripped cave spiders of death. Their poison slowly and painfully killed their victims over months.

Rado realized his massive mistake and ran to help his father. Together they fought off the horde and managed to kill many of them, and once an opening was clear, they hastily ran out of the cave. They started walking home, jittered but relieved. But then, Tijuano noticed a swelling lesion on his right arm. He was bitten.

They tried to hurry back home and find some herbal remedies, but Tijuano was growing weaker by the day. Soon, they had to stop for a while because he was bedridden. He was in extreme pain all day and every day. Finally, he asked his son to put him out of his misery. Rado refused but his father insisted. He grabbed the axe and prepared to give his father a clean death. Before he swung, his father gave him his last words: "Though the kingdoms and cities built on the sands shall be swept away, the souls of those who lived and loved here will remain. Always remember that, son." And with that, Rado reluctantly decapitated his father, and spent the rest of the day crying and mourning by his side.

Rado carried the corpse of his father back home, and he and his mother buried him at the base of a cliff. Xala spent months mourning for her now-dead husband. Due to her grief, she had a hard time running the brewing business, and Rado didn't seem to experienced enough to help her.

Eventually, Xala found condolence in the traditional religion of Ardat, Daini. This was the first time Rado heard of the religion, but he would soon grow interested. The faith taught of the loving embrace of Ardat Lili upon death, something that greatly comforted Rado and his mother. Soon, they started practicing meditative and prayer rituals.

When Rado was 8 years old, his mother would reveal that she was becoming a Daini priestess, and that they would be living in the Monastery of Infinite Pleasure. Rado imagined that it was an isolated place in the middle of the desert, but he was very surprised to see that he would be living in the capital of Ardat!