Ciprilu

Ciprilu (ciprilu28) is a Politician, Lord, Soldier and Businessman from the Kingdom of Sanctuary and the Kingdom of Alda. Ciprilu currently lives between his houses in Traveller's Pass, Kala, Kal-Thax, Sagan Tosu and Haleos. In Sanctuary, Ciprilu is the Duke of the Duchy of Reverence, in the North of the nation. Ciprilu is also the Founder, Count and Daimyo of the fortress town of Traveller's Pass, the Duchy's Capital. In Alda, he is the Vice-Duke of the Duchy of Westmarch and Co-Founder of its Capital City of Kala.

Early Life
Ciprilu was born in Kal-Thax, where he is orginally from. His parents left the town when he was very young and was looked over by the people of the town as he learned to grow up by himself in his parents' old home in the outskirts of Kal-Thax. He befriended the Count of Kal-Thax and Duke of Sanctified (Refuge at the time) FlintTheDwarf and they worked on project to build a bridge across two points of Kal-Thax. Ciprilu set up his small shop next to his house and sold ores that he found in his private mine as well as other items. One day, his shop was attacked by a small group of bandits, Ciprilu came out to defend it but was overwhelmed. One of the bandits struck his sword, slashing Ciprilu's eye, causing him to lose it. After this attack, Ciprilu then enlisted himself into the Sanctuary and Uldarash military to train, swearing to destroy the bandits.

The Founding of Traveller's Pass
When he concluded that he was old enough to set out on his own journey, Ciprilu left the town of Kal-Thax for the first time. While exploring his home nation, Ciprilu decided that he would create a fortress town. He asked the Queen of the Kingdom of Sanctuary, Queen ScotchKnight, for permission to build his fortress town along Sanctuary Loyalty Road. He called it Traveller's Pass with its purpose to create a place where travellers going along the Loyalty Road pass protected and have a place for them to buy food as well as rest. On top of this, the fortress could be used by the Sanctuary Military at any point in time if they required an outpost in the North.

Ciprilu built a long cobblestone wall which would surround the town and then went on to create the Town Hall, houses and other buildings. After successfully building the fortress town, he appointed himself Daimyo of Traveller's Pass. With the town now established and recognised by the Sanctuary State, Ciprilu became a Count and was now involved in governmental affairs.

Isentou-Uldarashi War
After he founded Traveller's Pass, life for Ciprilu was rather peaceful. He had created a growing, strong community and the town was expanding nicely. Although, after a month after Traveller's Pass was built, the Isentou-Uldarashi War broke out just South of the fortress town. Ciprilu was forced to close the Western Gate for the first time and the Guard of the Fortress were on standby. Luckily, the war never escalated into a battle were Ciprilu was involved in and life continued as it was. Along with the rest of the Lords of Sanctuary, Ciprilu discussed the future of Isentou but a conclusion was never drawn until weeks later and the city of Isentou remained a ghost-town with its citizens evacuating after the end of the war. During the discussion, Ciprilu proposed a plan along with Duke Perry, founder of Traveller's Pass' sister town, Traveler's Watch. The plan was to take Isentou under the two's wing and create a third 'Traveller' city which connected the sister towns. But, the proposition was rejected by the rest of the council and the plan would be that Duke Thomas of Refuge (who was the Duke of Sacred at the time) would take over the town as its new Count.

Discovery of his Heritage
After the war and after properly establishing his town, Ciprilu wanted explore further, explore outside of Sanctuary. He requested GameOnFinn a tour of the neighbouring country of Alfheim. Along this tour, Ciprilu was presented with the town of Sagan Tosu. The town's beauty and architecture greatly appealed to Ciprilu, he was given a tour of the town by the Shogun himself. After the tour, Ciprilu continued to look around a bit more by himself. He stumbled across a house with a sign above the door where the words 'House Cipri' was written. Of course, Ciprilu was extremely curious by this so decided to enter the house in search of more information. The house was a wreck. It was worn-down, dirty and abandoned. He found a desk and inside its drawer was a book. Ciprilu opened the book. It seemed almost like a scrapbook, with many images and notes in them, a journal perhaps. Indeed it was a journal, but not any journal. It was the journal of his father. The journal explained everything about Ciprilu's parents. They were from Sagan Tosu, from Alfheim and had fled to Sanctuary during a non-specified war shortly before Ciprilu's birth. His parents quickly befriended the dwarves and lived in their town of Kal-Thax. After stating that Ciprilu was born, the journal's pages were empty. On the other side of the room was a complete set of samurai armour on stand; it had belonged to his father's. Ciprilu then wore it for himself, in honour of his lost family.

Venturing into Diplomacy
After experiencing and being intrigued by culture outside of Sanctuary, Ciprilu wanted to venture into diplomacy. He sent an application to be a diplomat for the Second Empire of Uldarash and waited for it to be reviewed. In the meantime, Ciprilu set up a new house and office in his parents' old house in Sagan Tosu, a place to work and stay if he had business in Alfheim. He waited a month but the response for the diplomat application never came so he gave up hopes about being one.

The Return of the Duchy of Reverence
On the 3rd February 2022, the Council of Sanctuary announced that the Duchies of the nation were to be remade and relocated. Before this announcement, Ciprilu's town, Traveller's Pass, was found in the Duchy of Refuge along with his hometown of Kal-Thax. But now, Refuge was split into two; the Duchy of Sanctified and the Duchy of Reverence, with the name Refuge to be moved to a Southern Duchy. With Traveller's Pass now being the largest settlement in Reverence, it was automatically made the Capital of the Duchy. These new changes increased the amount of Duchies in Sanctuary from 4 to 7, meaning that there were open positions, The Duke of Reverence being one of them. Ciprilu saw this as a massive opportunity to climb the ranks and become a Duke, he was already the Count of the biggest settlement in the Duchy so he thought his chances were high. The next day he submitted his application and was interviewed for an hour, now all that was left to do was wait.

Duke Ciprilu
Ciprilu waited a week for his application and interview to be reviewed and on the 9th February 2022, he received the great news that he was accepted to be the Duke of Reverence. Ciprilu was elated, swearing that he'll try his best and won't let the Kingdom down. He now served in the Sanctuary High Council and had ultimate power, second only to the Queen.

Resignation of Duke Perry of Asylum
A few days earlier Ciprilu became a Duke, his very good friend Perry, who was also the Governor of Ciprilu's Town sister town Traveler's Watch, resigned from all positions he held in Sanctuary. Perry was sick of the corruption of Uldarash and wanted to leave the Empire for good. Ciprilu begged Perry not to leave, vowing that together they could help make Sanctuary a better place, but his mind was already made up. Despite this, Ciprilu also sympathised with Perry, he had also experienced mistreatment and unfairness throughout Sanctuary and Uldarash but it wasn't enough to make him leave. Perry told Ciprilu that he had eyes on the lands of the Kingdom of Alda and had already discussed with their leader, Uneasy, about creating a new province. Perry didn't want to leave his friend behind and Ciprilu didn't want to part ways either, so Ciprilu gained a dual-citizenship and went along with him.

A New Land, Welcome to Alda
Ciprilu and Perry travelled for an hour, from Sanctuary to Alda in the North. The Kingdom of Alda was made up of refugees from Uldarash, mostly from Savernia. They, similarly to Ciprilu and Perry, they had also been mistreated or even exiled from the Empire. Perry was assigned a large plot of land in the South-East of Alda to create his province; he called it Westmarch. Ciprilu, being Perry's right-hand-man, was given the rank of Vice-Duke of Westmarch. He also set up a house in Alda's Capital City of Haleos, near the plaza.