Ard Avondale

An Introduction to Ard:
Ard Avondale is a faunish Man of middle age and rusty hair and horns who lived in Syltor acting in many high positions for Both the Andorian and then Later 4th Bardonian Empire. Throughout most of his life he has lived in one city, his own Nothrook located in the realm of Avondale.

His story started when the Andorian Emperor Lucius Von Savras granted him land to form his own province within the empire to build a great fortress to protect the nation in the event of hostile invaders. But he would go on to do so much more than simply build a fortress. he would revive a dead culture and restore its last surviving member to glory, would protect the empire from several coups and times of turmoil at one point returning Lucius to his throne without him even knowing in one chaotic incident and surviving faithfully in the highest councils of two empires in several positions almost serving in every archon position of the 3rd Empire of Andorn and acting as the emperors hand during the 4th Empire of Bardonia and grand architect. This brief history will highlight specific events during his life mentioned in that intro and many more in what can be best assembled as a chronological order. some events may be remembered differently by other people involved in these tales but this telling is as Ard remembers it, not as definitive fact.

His realm Avondale:
Ard would create and grow his own province within the empire of Andorn which itself has a history as varied and fruitful as his own, it rested on the largest mountain in syltor and one of the largest in Rathnir and featured a giant fortress and keep for which the land was granted and for a short time a grand party hall called snow stone Hall which keeping in line with the theme of Avondale was the grandest and largest in all of syltor to go along with his fortress and mountain.

Through the expansion of his province he came into ownership of a ruined city called Hinomir, one of the larger settlements inhabited by the people of Wivamovia. but now it lay dormant and empty. upon his purchase of the land from a differnt province in the empire he sought out the last Wivamovian living in Andorn to grant him lordship over the city to act as a loyal vassal to his own city Nothrook. after much chaos which will be talked about later it was so and this decision to restore the Wivamovians would lead to there ultimate return with there own nation.

Avondale also acted as a anchor point for Andorn with its resistance to coups alloying Andorn to weather many times of political instability.

Ard the statesman:
Ard's standing with the emperor rose very quickly after his appointment of avondale and soon he had a chance to prove his mettle. Capna and Jingo Von Hannover had plotted lucius' removal from the throne to install themselves as the new rulers of andorn and as Jingo was the named heir and Capna was a seasoned Archon, one of the highest positions in the empire. They wrote a document accusing the kaiser of several charges and justifications to remove him and signed this with other archons and notable members of lucius's court such as duel, anouther archon and Sk and Brainstorm. The plot was mistakenly struck down when lucius announced that he would be reforming the empire which was the primary justification of the coup. Lucius was aware of *A* plot forming but not its scope or severity. panicked by this announcement capna launched the coup and despite his announcement lucius stepped down.

A few hours later the message arrived to Orilin and to 2 province leaders, Ard and A'Krey Teor. A'Krey Teor was also a archon who they had left outside of the plot and the province leader which controlled the capital and largest city Orilin, outraged by this action Ard and A'Krey Teor fought a war not of swords but of words and convinced all but Capna and Jingo to rescind the signatures and join the growing outrage of this motion. Eventually more and more provinces opposed the act and Capna conceded with lucius being restored to his throne without his knowledge of any of the events as he was in his room sorrowful of the previous acts.

For there actions Lucius rose lagg to the position of High Archon and Ard to the position of Archon. throughout his many years serving andorn he changed many roles but always stayed reliable and loyal to the Kiaser.

Eventually Bardonia rose again and Andorn voted to rejoin this new empire, Lucius brought his court to the new empires expanded bureaucracy but elevated Ard and later others to the Imperial court as his hand and then later Architect of the empire. where he served until he faced his first bought of illness which would plague him on and off going forward. After this point he did once again serve as archon in Andorn court for the new Kiaser Oranje Von Savras until her attempted deposition by the son of Jingo Bingo during a similar coup which ended with the fracturing of Andorn.

Ard the builder:
During his life he constructed many great things from a grand party hall to the fortress he promised lucius both being some of the largest and grandest in the continent at the time. He also built many houses for his town and industrial effects with large farms in both nothrook and hinomir. His most infamous work however was his landscaping with him completely changing the faces and sizes of the mountains he resided on, changing them over lengthy projects to better suite his works ending with a completely reformed mountain. many in wivamovia were unhappy with this.

Ard the Villain:
With a story and life as complicated and expansive as this one of course Ard made enemies and mistakes. The wviamovians consider Ard a traitorous liar after he refused to keep to an agreement which would see him transfer his lands to them instead of his heir. And of course all those coups and plots he stopped and the serving of his kaiser and emperors faithfully and while Ard doesnt even hesitate to question these slights there is one that keeps him up at night. During Bingos attempted take over of andorn backed by the hands Oranje announced the break up of Andorn and without any support for Bardonia who would see him under bingos boot he took matters into his own hands. Alongside Ryzan he approached Queen Butterscotch of Uldarash, Bardonias ancient and notorious enemies and asked for backing. To convince them it would be possible he betrayed all of bardonias military secrets to them which revealed to the world that bardonia was nothing but large but still only a shadow on the wall.

Soon after the northwest corner of the former Andorn empire was claimed by one of the Uldarashi states and it is greatly disputed whether or not Ard involving Uldarash into what was ultimately Andorns affairs despite it being broken up at the time being responsible for them making the claim.

Ard the Hero:
Ard fought in a few battles for Andorn and Bardonia but more despite all of those battles his greatest feat of combat was to trick Capna into a ingenious trap along side duel and what would become the other knights of andorn. Using his presence as bait capna was lured into the city and directed by Ard a trap was sprung where capna who was far more skilled than Ard and would kill him 10 out of 10 fights every time was felled, he had all of his gear stripped from him including a stolen sword and a set of mythical netherite armour which Ard returned to the rightful owners a uldarashi lord which is how Ard gained the good reputation to form a relationship in good standing with uldarash and later with butterscotch which if you read other parts of this tale will be relevant.

Ard The tired sick man:
After all these great feats and successes and failures he was tired, and in his fatigue a mystery illness has taken grasp of him, maybe this time for good. but the end of that part of his story is not quite over yet.