Ardiivy

Ardiivy De Triez is an Aurorian Pianist and Count of Harmony. He is know for creating music for all of rathnir while he is located in his own town in Aurora.

having a very lucid, healthy, and morally stable personality, he wants to be involved in politics of Uldarach, and put music in the front of the scenery.

Music
Ardiivy wrote his first piece on his first day in Fornost, called "the flooding of Fornost". Stan was the first one to ever hear the sound of it. Since then, he planned on creating more and more while building up his town, Harmony.

He then wrote "Glorious" when he had diplomatic issues with Uldarash's government, picturing the way he saw the future : full of glory.

To accumulate money quickly to try and buy his land from Uldarash and become independant, he started accepting demands of pieces. in that period of time, Ardiivy created a piece for the prince of Astoria, "Cursed gods", a piece that tell the story of Gods becoming human, getting in a war, fleeing from the continent to end up in rathnir and create Astoria.

Background
Ardiivy was born on July 1st of 2003 in Müviel. His mom "Aurélie De Triez" was his dad's "Dom Lafleen" (aka Dom of Müviel, a minor diplomat from a rich family) personal French teacher, who forced her to become his mistress. She was living in a small house payed by Dom, and ate with the money he gave her.

when she realised she was pregnant, Dom was in a diplomatic trip far away from Müviel. She gave birth by herself and raised the child for 4 years, teaching him the basics, aswell as french. One day, she heard that Dom was coming back from a 4 years diplomatic trip that ended up being a nightmare. He started coming more and more to see his mistress who secretly hid her child in the attic because Ardiivy and his mom would've been kicked out of the country if Dom ever found out about the illegitimate child. He then started coming every day, staying at nights sometime, being more and more abusive, while Ardiivy was getting hungrier. It couldn't last longer for Aurélie, who gave her child to the only person she could trust, Charles Calaroy, a violinist. Charles didn't wanted to raise a child, but she bribed him : "if you keep him hidden from his dad, I'll pay you". The violinist took the offer but gave the child to a nurse, saying it was his, not saying who was the mom, to keep the secret and to extend his dinasty. Meanwhile the amount of money Dom gave Aurélie was already bad before she started paying Charles, but now, it became catastrophic. She only ate when she had to, and started rationing water. She was scared of asking more money, because she thought she would've been beaten. But Charles wanted more, because he had to pay a nurse now, and Aurélie had to accept it, she had no other solution She started starving and sometimes she had to Charles with her body. Rumors spread around that she was a prostitute, so Dom kicked her out of the country, to keep his dignity intact, erasing every part of what she was. She came back to Triez, the underground city she lived all of her life being called "Princess of Triez", she got forced into marrying the prince, then died tragically when the city got engulfed in a earthquake.

Without any payment from Aurélie, Charles had to take back the child from the nurse, and now that he was "Ardiivy Calaroy, son of Charles Calaroy", Charles had no choice but to keep him. He lived in Charle's basement, where an old piano was laying there in a corner of the room. He had to sleep on a pile of old carpets, and eat on the same plate everyday, apice of bread, sometimes some cooked potatoes, and on rare occasions, he would receive cheese or fish. on the first day, he tried to play the piano. Charles came downstairs immediately and closed the piano on his fingers "don't touch it !". The scar of this moment is still visible on Ardiivy's hands. Charles started calling him "V". sometimes, V would hear Charles playing the violin, and sometimes, he would hear 4 of them playing at the same time. it was gold to V's ears.

Charles then started searching for a boss to take Ardiivy as an apprentice. Ardiivy struggled to find jobs and when he got them, he failed miserably and got fired from all of them. "he's too weak", "he is too clumsy", people would say. Charles got mad really fast, but he had to go soon to tour around Simulami with his violin quartet, so he found him a job easier than anyone he did until then, while requiring skills he acquired from all of them : taking care of the house. He would clean, polish, do the dishes, buy groceries, cook, open the windows every morning and close the shutters every night, all of this for 2 years and with the money Charles left behind.

One thing he never forgot about was the piano. everyday, he would go downstairs and look at it for hours. he had nothing else to do, knew no one, and only had this house. he was so scared of Charles finding out that he couldn't play on it. but everyday he would get closer to it, one time he even opened it, seeing the keys for the first time in ages. he closed it soon though, scared away by the feeling that Charles could be near, finding out about it and throwing him out.

One day, as he sat down next to it, he opened it again, and played a key, then another, then another. he tried to replicate the sounds of the music he heard Charles play a year ago. first, with the right hand, then, with both hands. he got so good at remembering those that he started playing them blindfolded. then he discovered transposing, and started playing it scale by scale, the same piece, over and over again. it wasn't a hard one, but it was the only one he ever knew.

Charles wasn't coming back, but Ardiivy was turning 12 soon and had to find something to get money. he couldn't do regular apprentice jobs because he was too weak for that, so he started stealing groceries. He didn't wanted to live in Charlie's house anymore. It felt too big for him, and the piano was falling appart. He couldn't stay there as taking care of the house would've been too much work and money for him. So, on that day, he left Müviel and travelled across the world. In this period of time, he stole from time to time to eat, and was pretty good at it, with his angelic fingers.

One day, he saw a piano sitting in a fancy house near Kush. He asked a servant if he could come in, but got violently rejected. His clothes were in shambles, his face was dirty, and he smelled like a dead rat. But he wanted to play, really bad. he missed it, the feeling of the keys. He was turning 14 soon, 2 years had passed and he needed to feel it again. He broke into the house and started playing. Soon the servants came in, and tried to get him away from the piano, but the noble came in at the same time. V was playing the only piece he ever knew. It was beautiful, and the modulations added a bit of "wow" effect that everybody in the room progressively got. once he was finished, Ardiivy fell from the chair, he was exhausted, he had the relief he wanted.

He woke up in a fancy room, that would later become his. The noble was so impressed he took him as a pianist for the meetings and parties he had every now and then. V got new clothes, new education and new life, thanks to his housemaster, Felix Nolmen. He learned the codes of aristocracy, although he was never considered a noble by Felix. He was more or less a dog to him, using him to entertain people, going on walks every now and then, and eating with him when he felt like it. But V didn't care about that. The great garden Felix had gave V a lot of inspiration, giving him a lot of ressource to compose songs. The first one were really bad, but as he progressed, he got more and more at ease with creating pieces. People were getting around V to watch him play and a local journalist even wrote an article about him. "The great attraction of Kush". V was living a life he never thought he would have.

The more popular V got, the more people started to ask for his scores, to be able to play or arrange it themselves. But V didn't knew how to write music. Felix decided to employ a pianist, to transcript what he was playing. His name was Khan, and From the first time he heard V playing, he fell in love with his creation process and his pure talent. From there, he started teaching him how to write music and how to harmonize things, although V also knew how to 'make things sound good'. He would work extra time to teach his student. The one thing V never wanted to do was to read others music sheets, to learn their scores.

One day, 4 years later, the house got raided by an unorganized group of bandits who burned the house down. They took Felix hostage and killed some of the servants. V took a sword, and tried to confront them, but got trapped in the storage room, and by the time he took the door down with an axe, the bandits had already been gone. there was nothing he could do. He found some food and a bed that were pretty much intact, and took them with him, as he walked to kush to find a new place to live. Once in kush, he talked to its leader 'Primidinas', who got him a plot to build a new house on. But V knew this wasn't what he wanted, as he took a boat to the Haven continent. He got to Uldarash, and once in there, he asked to know what was the powerhouse of this country. He had a plan. Ha wanted to do big, against the Barbaric people who murdered innocents aswell as burning Felix's house. He got told that Fornost was the biggest town, and that the kingdom of Aurora would probably fit his standards and ideology. He walked straight in that direction.

Trivia

 * 1) Ardiivy was approached by a head collectioner in Kush. he wanted Ardiivy's head in exchange for 2 diamond blocks. Ardiivy refused.
 * 2) One of Ardiivy's friend is Le_Grincheuxx, who 'hears voices in his head'. He is his right hand aswell when it comes to managing Harmony.
 * 3) Ardiivy has the title "Last prince of Triez", because his mom became the actual queen of Triez, who escaped because she wanted to see the outside. He also has noble roots in Müviel, that he doesn't know about.