Kim Astaseul

Nick Astaseul, also known as KimIsntHere in-game, is a (used to be) citizen and soldier in the United Provinces of Carvinia. Carvinia is one of the two nations he mains in along with the Archduchy of Borhammar. He has a house in Borhammar, and normally explores the nation's towns. Nick is the son of Fury Astaseul (furyachelfg) and Annt Havardr (anntruckle).

Beginning Lands
Nick woke up in the ocean. He felt himself drowning, and he panicked. He wasn't used to this. This certainly wasn't the sky. He tried flying out of the ocean, but he couldn't. So, with the last thing he thought about, he swam up. He got over the ocean waves, and saw something in the sky dying. A phantom. He panicked again, realizing that it was daytime. But he wasn't burning alive. He saw land nearby, and decided to go to the land.

Nick looked around, and noticed a plant. He’d seen a bunch of it before, but he forgot what it was called. Grass? Seeds? He searched his mind before he remembered. A flower. This seemed to be a lily of the valley flower, and it was glowing a bit bright. He didn’t remember flowers glowing, but maybe this one was special? He tried picking it up, but felt something push him gently away. He tried again, and got annoyed. So, he decided to grab it without trying to be careful.

And he felt the flower move a bit in his hand, as if it was trying to escape, but he kept it in his hand. He decided to try and keep it alive, but it stopped moving, and he realized he was now holding a pile of dust. He shrugged, and decided to keep going.

Exploration
Quickly enough, Nick soon decided to go travelling around, so he got some logs and turned them into wood. He started building, and soon enough, made himself a boat. Nick got into the boat, and with one look behind him, he sailed off. There were a lot of places he passed by, and he loved seeing the buildings and architecture that he saw. It amazed him, and hoped that he would perhaps find a small nation (or big, he didn't mind) that had these types of buildings. He got out of his daze, however, when he realized his boat had crashed. He tried getting back on, but realized that the boat no longer functioned. He sighed, and decided to start walking until he found some more materials to make a new boat.

He started getting tired, which was bad since he needed to eat. But he barely had any food on him too, making it a big concern for Nick. He saw a sign that was on the road, and read, "Sahra Porte". Nick frowned, knowing that he was now in a town, but didn't know what nation he was in. He went to explore around the town, and saw somebody. He wanted to try and avoid them, thinking that they would see Nick as something else other than an explorer. But Nick was seen, and he panicked.

Before he could run, the person went over to him, and introduced himself as Sxftblur, a citizen of the Kingdom of Councils, and asked if he wanted a small tour of the place. Nick hesitated before saying sure, and walked around the town with Blur. He liked the design of the place, and thought, I might as well stay here. But he didn't know if that was possible, so he didn't ask. He said thanks, and was expecting to be kicked out of the place, but Blur said, "You want to stay?" Nick shrugged, and accepted. Nick quickly became friends with Blur.

Nick stayed for around a week. In that time, he had just stayed near Blur, since he didn't know his way around to well, or just explored a bit more of the town. But after a week, he went missing for a while.

Teenage Years
Nick came back after almost a month of being missing, and appeared out of nowhere. He came upon Carvinia, a newly made nation from his friend, and decided to stay in Carvinia.

Carvinia started off for him as an adventure, as he would see the growth of the nation, and see how it gained more population in the nation. Once a while, when new players joined the nation, he sometimes gave them a tour around the nation, but most of the times preferred to keep to himself since he didn't really enjoy socializing with the new players. However, he was more used to socializing with those he mostly knew, but otherwise, was still difficult to have conversations with the new players. When he did have conversations with the new players, it would mostly be him just explaining how the town was, or on what he was doing.

Lasting Flower Curse
Nick was farming when he felt something pop up on his shoulder. He looked at it, and realized that flowers were growing on him. He didn't think it'd be too much of a bother, and thought that one of his friends gave him a potion that made flowers grow on him as a prank. Nick kept farming and decided that he'd ask his friend about it. He forgot about that though, and never asked his friend.

A week passed by, and Nick felt something poke him. He scoffed. Then he felt the poke again. He looked at his shoulder, and then let out a small scream. There were flowers on his arms, not just his shoulder. They were all roses, and he noticed that some of them had vines on them. then he realized that the vines had thorns on them. Huh, that's strange, Nick thought to himself. He didn't feel anything poke him again, so he decided that he wouldn't do anything. But as soon as he was about to keep doing what he was doing, he felt another poke. Nick didn't hesitate, and tried to take off the roses off of his arm.

The roses weren't coming off though, and Nick felt as if they were connected to his body. He felt a burning feeling when he tried taking them off, and stopped tugging on it. He didn't want to hurt himself. Nick decided that he would have to leave them on him, not being able to do anything. He then saw something shining, a light blue colour. He frowned, realizing that it was a flower. It seemed to not be connected to the vines. He took it off, and saw that it became a small light blue flower to a sword. Nick looked around again, wondering where the sword had came from or who had given it to him. He looked at it again: It was a light blue sword with vines that had thorn and roses on it. It was small, but not too small for it to fit in his hand. It was a perfect size for him, and he probably would've been able to fight with it. Then he saw something fall out of the sword; a small paper that was connected to it. He picked it up, and read the paper: Vines of the Rose - Human Cursed by the Flowers

Nick didn't understand what the description meant. He decided not to think much of it, since he thought it was a funny joke. But he kept asking himself, Why did that blue flower become a sword? It made no sense for him, and why it was there in the first place. It seemed so weird on how it transformed. Wait...could I also transform it back into a flower?, Nick thought to himself. He didn't see why he couldn't try it out at all. He grabbed hold of the sword, and closed his eyes. He mumbled, "Turn into a flower..." He repeated it, and then felt something; a soft touch of a stem. He opened his eyes and saw that the sword had converted back into a flower. He was then able to recognize flower type: A light blue orchid.

Nick put it in his pocket as carefully as he could, and decided that he'd figure out what to do with it when he was able to. Perhaps he could bring it into a fight, or a war. He didn't know what he could do.

Carvinia-Kidania Annexation War POV | January 20, 2022
Nick was talking with other citizens of Carvinia, and they were talking about random topics. Nick wouldn’t remember what they were talking about later on, but he knew it was dumb. So, they were talking and chatting when Nick saw them.

Nick saw them approaching him, and he recognized one of them. Masonic was there with somebody else Nick didn’t know, but he knew that Masonic had come by Carvinia two times, probably to check it out. But here he was with a stone sword. The other person next to him was holding a tool- maybe an axe? Nick didn't know what to do, so he said the first thing he could think of, “There’s… two people here with weapons.”

Nick backed away, and they walked closer. He didn’t know what to make of them, but then one stopped and said, “Surrender to Kidania.” Nick would’ve told them to back off, but he didn’t have a weapon. Only a shovel. Nick scoffed, and then reported back to those he was talking to, “They’re saying ‘Surrender to Kidania’. Uhm, they don’t have much armor though.” He saw Phenix and Quinn come from Carven, and both had iron (or was it diamond?) swords. The two people from Kidania looked behind themselves, and walked past Phenix and Quinn to go to Carven. Nick frowned, and the three went to chase them back.

They “met” at the government building, where there were 4 more people. And again, one of them said, “Surrender to Kidania.” So, the only logical response Quinn said was, “Why would we surrender?” They didn’t respond. Nick looked at Quinn’s house, and said to Quinn, “In your house. Now!” Nick didn’t know if they’d be able to get into the house without letting them enter, but they managed.

So from there, they kept the attackers as close as they could, while the others got weapons and armor. Phenix asked them, “Why do you want our city in the first place?” Blur had also then said, “Do you want this to happen?” That gave them a couple of minutes to pause.

“Look, if you refuse to surrender, we’re going to burn the place to the ground,” one of them said. Nick frowned, and probably would’ve said something, but he held back. From there, Blur came out of his hiding spot with armor and tools with Lettuce - the military general - and began attacking them. They managed to kill most of them, but two escaped. They decided to hang out in Carvinia and went to protect the borders of the nation.

Nick felt as if he fell asleep, because when he finally remembered what had happened after that, there was the Peace Conference happening. Nick joined in, and realized it was loud, so he thought, I might sleep during this. And he kinda did. When he woke up, he heard Lettuce saying, “Blur, come with me.” They left, and Nick realized that the conference was still in chaos. He decided to try and help, but since it was not helpful, he decided to stop. Lettuce and Blur came back, and Nick didn’t want to deal with this anymore, so he decided to say, “I’m gonna go leave.” And he did. For the rest of the night, he didn’t bother to hear what had happened until the next day.