Eand Erlinglas

Grand Duke Eand Eilias Cathaoir Erlinglas is a Sealightian pilot, engineer, noble, and CEO. He is notable for being an early pioneer of redstone flight on Eldham and founding Erlinglas Aviation, a company that builds and flies redstone aircraft, as well as for founding and ruling the small island nation of the Unitary State of the Sealight Isle. He currently resides on the Sealight Isle.

Appearance
Eand has distinctive dark red hair, which is usually fairly messy due to his career as an engineer and aviator and his habit of going exploring. He is never seen without a mask, which is one of the few things he had when his memories first start. He has modified it several times, but the current version is made of steel with leather straps. The holes for his eyes are covered with lenses surrounded by brass. It is rather thin due to its weight, but it serves well as protection for his adventures. He also enjoys wearing his characteristic flight uniform whenever possible, even if he is at a very formal diplomatic event. It helps him retain his appearance as a man of the people, which is partially caused by his life as a lowly engineer.

Origin
No one is sure where Eand came from. The only thing that anyone knows is that he washed up on shore not far from Akirashalam in Aristios sometime in January 2022. He has stated that his original home most likely lies outside of Eldham.

Time in Aristios
Eand spent a fairly small amount of time in Akirashalam. He was given a small apartment there and mostly spent his time attempting to write a book, exploring, and antagonizing the Rats, as most people who have just been exposed to them tend to do. Eventually, he got bored of life there and moved on.

Time with the Swarm
Eand left Akirashalam to join the Swarm, a group of people essentially possessed and given a hive mind by an entity known as the Overmind. He spent several months there, but most of the people there were being seen less and less and it gradually disappeared, taking the Overmind's influence over Eand with it. The Swarm was recently reinstated but Eand has not renewed his loyalties to it. However, before the group was fully gone, he made what was most likely the most important discovery of his life. He managed to make a rudimentary redstone aircraft that would fly over the ocean for a ways, then stop when it hit a claim. This would define his later life.

Time in Morladron
Eand joined Morladron Mysterlu after discovering footage of Trelanganack Kowklopen using a redstone airplane to drop soldiers over the walls of Vermilion during the Great Sylvanian War. This design was called the Dynfighter and its technology helped Eand make bigger and bigger aircraft. The footage led to him joining the nation and he quickly set up a home in Porthnegys (now New Riverheim), the industrial capital. Eand considers Morladron to be his first true, permanent home in Eldham and will always remain loyal to it. However, trouble would shortly beset the nation.

The war continued onward, with Sylvania making several important victories. As this was happening, Eand continued to make more airplane designs, but none of them saw any action in the war as they did not offer much advantage over the already-established Dynfighters. Eand was standing on the roof of his apartment building in Porthnegys when the peace treaty was signed. It forced Morladron to cede much of its territory and sign a non-aggression pact with Sylvania. The terms were very harsh and were quickly broken by Sylvania.

After a few months of inactivity, a vote for the next Pennsevyk (President) of Morladron was held. However, the incumbent Pennsevyk, Breizhcoincoin and his second-in-command, Leonleuge, attempted to keep power, claiming that the vote was rigged in favor of Trelanganack and that they were running a shadow government. Chaos ensued, but peace talks were soon held. Eventually, it was determined that Breizh and Leon would step down and allow the elected Pennsevyk to take power. However, it did not last. Roughly a week later, Mesara (now Volksferrd), a town in southern Morladron, seceded under their leadership. Breizh and Leon quickly seized the weapons that were being stored there and proclaimed the independence of the Ocean Volks Union, supported and backed up by none other than Sylvania, which was breaking the part of the non-aggression pact that stated that neither nation should support rebel groups against the other. This led to a short conflict that didn't change that much. However, it did have more consequences.

With Morladron weak and split, Sylvania began to invade its land. Sylvanian soldiers were soon marching into Porthnegys, to the dismay of Eand. They seized the city and forced all Morladronians out, renaming it to New Riverheim. Eand was forced to leave and he believes that it is during this time that he lost his cat, Steven. At first, he didn't have anywhere to go, sheltering in Samora for a short time. However, Trelanganack soon set up a resistance movement, allowing him to move into a small town called Pringleton. There in Pringleton Eand was able to set up an airfield that allowed him to fly people to neighboring Reiectus, an island town that was then part of Falholt. It was here that he was able to found his company, Erlinglas Aviation, and start profiting off of his hobby of making airplanes. However, it soon became clear that the resistance movement wasn't getting anywhere, and the town was abandoned, with most Morladronians sailing away on the H.M.S. Bucksmart. Eand was left behind.

Time in Dun Machaire
During the time that Eand lived in Porthnegys, he was also administering a small town called Dun Machaire in the frontier region of Druk Yul, far to the north. It did not gain many citizens. Eventually, during a time of turmoil, the region attempted to secede and become the Shire. Druk Yul threatened war and the leader quickly backed down, forcing Eand to cede Dun Machaire to Cofko. He burned the town and did his best to demolish the buildings before he did this, but it was quickly repaired. He also assisted the mayor of the neighboring town in blowing it up, which was very successful. Emerald Bay remains a crater with ruins all around, including an underground meth lab that nobody was aware of.

Time in Santos
After Eand left Pringleton, he migrated to New Novice in Santos. He spent some time there and even set up a headquarters for Erlinglas Aviation. It seemed like the perfect peaceful place for him. Eand had known of Michael Imperium, the leader of the city-state, before due to them both being citizens of Morladron. However, after a few months, Sylvania appeared once again. They called in debts owed by Michael and essentially took over New Novice and the rest of Santos, repeating their earlier move in Morladron and forcing all the citizens to leave. Eand attempted to regain citizenship in the town by lying and promising loyalty to KonigLexaine, but this was denied due to his previous citizenship in Morladron. He claimed that this was just racism, and the Sylvanian agreed that it was.

Time in the Sealight Isle
During his time in New Novice, Eand continued his habit of being in two towns at once. He discovered a small island off the coast of North Volonte, not far from where Pringleton was. He quickly claimed it and established the Unitary State of the Sealight Isle, putting himself in power as the Grand Duke. He built up the infrastructure on the island, such as a lighthouse and an airport for Air Leifmyrr (part of Erlinglas Aviation). As of November 2023, he remains in power there and partakes in the geopolitics of the tiny islands of the Diana Sea. He does not like doing this, since the other nations are very petty to each other, but he does it anyway.

Erlinglas Aviation
Eand primarily makes money from his company, Erlinglas Aviation. It is split into two parts: the Erlinglas Aircraft Company, which designs airplanes, and Air Leifmyrr, which operates regional flights in Eastern Eldham. The company has roughly five employees, but none are particularly active besides Eand, so he does most of the work in both parts of the company. The inventory of Air Leifmyrr includes aircraft ranging from tiny fighters that can hold two to six people to closed-cabin propeller airliners to repurposed patrol zeppelins. All of them actually move. None of them have jet engines, which are believed to be impossible in Eldham (OOC: no aircraft that could not have been built in 1935 are designed in order to stay within Stoneworks' time period). The aircraft are primarily tourist attractions, since there are much faster and more practical ways to travel and they now cannot be used in war due to new international agreements.

Hobbies
Eand has always had a habit of going out and wandering when he gets bored. He will go over land, but he also loves to fly using his airplanes, swim underwater with respiration and depth strider, or even wander the abandoned mining tunnels that crisscross Eldham. Of course, this can get dangerous with concealed vertical shafts, but he doesn't really mind. He used to spend time in the Nether but now tries to avoid it out of fear of losing valuable items. Eand is not a very good fighter but has a hidden talent for archery, which he has used on several occasions. On one of these, someone attempted to steal his plane, so he bailed out over the ocean and shot the would-be hijacker. He also once shot and killed someone who was attempting to shoot him down as he was flying a surveillance flight over occupied Porthnegys. Eand was, at one point, a mediocre ice-boat racer and managed to get fourth place in the second or third Eldham Grand Prix of Nations (run by Formula Eldham).