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Razail White is a human historian, journalist, and archivist of the city of Liberta, the Kingdom of Koura, and the former Kingdom of Norvos. His goal is to attain knowledge of the world and to record the history of the city and nation that so graciously took him in.

Origin
Razail White's earliest memory is one of darkness and the sounds of screaming, fighting, and a person calling out to him to stay alive. Then he awoke in a field. The only thing to his name was a fractured mask that is seemingly perpetually attached to his face. And with that, he began wandering, seeking for a place to call home. After two days of walking, Razail found himself outside the gates of Liberta. There, he was warmly welcomed by Paulako Norekva. Paul showed off the many features of Liberta with its Moon Lake and grand walls. After a tour of the city, Razail was offered the chance to take up residence in the northern district. He accepted Paul's offer to moved into a pre-built residential building. Shortly after this, Razail officially took his position as a historian for Liberta and the Kingdom of Norvos. He would also later go on to take up a job as a lumberjack to better support Liberta.

Life In the City of Liberta
Once established, Razail took a few days to learn the layout of the city and personalize his home, At the same time he grew to know the people of the town like the Third Lord of Liberta, Jastlakiat Norekva and Artemis The Great. Razail would also spend more time around Paul, collecting resources for the infrastructure that was planned for North Liberta. After that, Razail would travel to Magna, Norvos, Yamindor, and Port Leon, making acquaintances and even trying vodka for the first time. He did not like the initial bitter taste but liked the feeling of drunkenness. Razail would also join the Magna Times right as they planned to come back after going out of business years prior.

A few weeks later, Razail would come across a wandering individual. Remembering Paul's generosity towards him when he arrived at the gates of Liberta, Razail would warmly welcome the stranger. The stranger introduced himself as DanTheMan8111, a foreigner to the world of Rathnir. This struck immediate kinship within Razail as he too had been a stranger to these lands. Like Paul had done to him, Razail showed Dan around the city. On this tour of Liberta, they met Jastlakiat Norekva who was glad to see another possible person to join Liberta. After the tour, Dan was given citizenship and a room in the Liberta Estate. And with that, Razail had not only helped support his city, but also gained a new friend.

North Liberta Meeting
A few months later, Liberta faced a problem. The city had just gone under a population boom and land expansion into an acacia biome. Subsequently, a new building style popped up which made these homes look out of place with the rest of Liberta. This left a question in the minds of the older citizens. Should these buildings be torn down and rebuilt using the spruce and sandstone style that most of Liberta used or should it be left the way it was and instead be made into its own district. There was poll that was held with the citizens and the overwhelming majority voted for the creation of a new district. Due to the fact that it was the northern most part of the city and locals referring to it as Northern Liberta, the new district was named North Liberta. The rest of the city would become the district of Liberta Proper.

The Liberta Historian Guild
In the summer of year 227 AJC, Razail had an idea come to mind. In his nine months of living in Liberta, he had been the only person to choose to be a historian. Keeping tabs on one city is enough of a job for one person. But to keep track of the history of the Kingdom of Norvos and all its cities? That is quite a handful. Knowing that he bit off more than he could chew, Razail went to Jastlakiat Norekva to officially request the creation of the Liberta Historian Guild. The guild's goal would be to start by recording the history and going-ons of Liberta. Hopefully, the guild would grow to incorporate the history of other cities and eventually the entirety of the Kingdom of Norvos. Jastlakiat would question Razail if the guild would use a building and, if so, where it would be located. Razail, who had thought this through, told the lord that he planned on using the planned library as the main headquarters of the guild. Seeming satisfied, Jastlakiat approved of Razail's request and the Liberta Historian Guild was born.

Life in Tehul, Settlement of Strength and Unity
It had been days since the refugees of Norvos left their homeland and cut ties with the Kingdom of Koura. Razail had not heard anything about them since the day they left. However, this worry would soon be put to ease as a letter was delivered to him. The message was from Dloop, a former leading figure of the Kingdom of Norvos and the current leader of the refugees. He would go on to announce that he and the others had found refuge in an abandoned dwarf town called Tehul. This city sat at the word's end and was a part of the Republic of Alamayn. Dloop would invite the recipients of the letter to come to Tehul. If they chose not to, the welcome would always remain open as a sign of fellowship. Razail was happy that his friends had found a new land that they could call home. A few days later, Razail set off to visit the people of Tehul. Once he had arrived there, Razail was promptly welcomed by another refugee and leading figure from Norvos, Waltah Norekva. Waltah gave a tour of the small town to Razail. And what a small town it was. There were three complete houses, a small dock, a main plaza, and a storage room carved out of a mountain that doubled as a wall. There were also strange tunnels that ran through the mountains with no clear purpose. Wishing to stay in touch with these Norvosi people who had moved as far north as they could, Razail built himself a home. He would stay and help out where he could for about a month before Razail eventually left to return to Liberta.

Life In the Kingdom of Norvos
Razail would see his first conflict within Norvos with the accusations of stealing land from a player named Raptor Di Italian't. Raptor was a minor noble in the Kingdom of Norvos who lived in the capital city of Port Leon. He claimed that they had unjustly claimed the island of Kadas as a part of the Norvosian kingdom. Jayant, the king of Norvos, refused to make any changes claiming that the island had been a part of Port Leon since its founding. While Raptor was outraged at Jayant's response, he would follow with no course of action.

Razail would go on to join the reformed Magna Times and report a few stories for the news station. There he met Shane Norekva, the boss of the Magna Times. This time, however, was short lived as other forces began to rise.

The Death of Norvos And the Birth of Koura
The nation of Leveros. A distant neighboring country to Norvos, only separated by a small stretch of land owned by the pirate nation of Tortuga. The people of Leveros had once been old Norvosian people who had left their cities to rot and waste away. They left their homelands and moved, creating the nation of Leveros. As time passed, the people began to inhabit the forgotten cities, building them from the ground up. This was the new Norvos Kingdom. As time passed, no conflict arose that would ruinationship between Leveros and Norvos. This would be how it was until Leveros suddenly decided to return to their old homes. Without warning, Leveros would demand that Norvos hand over Port Leon and Norvos as it apparently belonged to them. Norvos attempted negotiations and diplomacy but the blood lusting Leveros would have none of it. Soon, war was both sides. Norvos rallied  and began to prepare defenses. Razail helped with the building of sweet berry traps a few others like Lead and IbisPaint. However, Razail was not there during the battle as he was visiting a library for information that might help with winning the war. Sadly, the war would be short lived as Norvos lost the battle. Having spent a large amount of money recruiting mercenaries and buying gear, Norvos lacked the money to continue fighting. The mercenaries were of no help and Norvos was forced to give up their eastern cities and collapse. While Leveros took over the eastern side of Norvos, the western cities (Yamindor, Liberta, and Magna) conversed with the leaders of Leveros and became the vassal nation of Koura.

Life In the Kingdom of Koura
The fall of Norvos hit Razail like a train. This country, his first love, was gone in the blink of an eye. There were so many things he could've accomplished. So many stories that had yet to be recorded. But that was all nearly impossible. Most residents of Port Leon and Norvos had fled and scattered, disappearing without a trace. Those who lived in the western cities were suddenly told that the western cities were spared thanks to the quick thinking of an individual named Tios Norekva. He had negotiated with the emperor of Leveros, Salen de Consau II. Tios told Salen that the western cities would unite into a vassal nation for Leveros. In return, Leveros would leave them be and not destroy the cities. Salen accepted this deal and the Kingdom of Koura was born.

This was an opportunity. A chance to record history without the taint of opinions or time. While Norvos would always be Razail's first love, he decided to dedicate his life towards the recording of Koura's history completely and without bias. Hopefully this would allow time to pass and wounds to heal. Then and only then, when the time was right, would he strike. He would bring about a new age for Norvos. A New Norvos.

The Denizen's Alliance Party
Unfortunately, Razail would have to wait for that day. But signs of Norvos rising again soon showed themselves to Razail. Two people approached Razail one hot sunny day, as he chopped the trees in Liberta. One of them stepped forward and would introduce themselves as ForeignLeaf and Zydv. They had been citizens of Norvos for a longer time than Razail had and came to him today with a proposition. They had formed a new political party of sorts that they called Denizen's Alliance Party. Their goal was to better the lives of the people while simultaneously trying to revolt against Leveros and introduce democracy into Koura. Razail liked the sound of becoming an independent nation once more but thought their ways of approaching the problem was too rash and quick. As a bonus, if this political party went anywhere, Razail would have a front row seat to the story that would unfold. The party offered Razail power in their party as one of the first members. Now they were practically asking for him to turn this into something that would be etched into the history books, Razail thought. With that bit of information, Razail agreed to join and the Denizen's Alliance Party gained its third member. After pleasantries and information were exchanged, the group would go on to talk about how they would achieve democracy within Koura. This was so that way they would assume positions of power and possibly then revolt against Leveros. Razail told Foreign and Zydv that the approach seemed too harsh and rather than protesting, they should gain positions of power with the favor of King Tios. Then, once secured power, they could influence the people and the king to turn to democracy. Foreign agreed with that proposition. Zydv would take that further and suggest keeping Tios in a higher position while they acted from secondary positions. This consideration was considered as a possibility. Shortly thereafter, the members would go their separate ways as to not draw suspicion.

After a falling out with the other members of the party, Razail would revoke his support for the party. This would be the death of the Denizen's Alliance Party. Two members using the third, only to be killed by gods and the third declaring the party's death.

The Koura Historian Guild
After this chance meeting, Razail would begin his work on recording and updating the history books. It quickly became a burden and made Razail think about the Liberta Historian Guild. It would be nice if he had other people with him so he could focus on the history regarding Koura and divide the duties of recording the history of Koura's cities on other people. Then it clicked. Razail quickly renamed the Liberta Historian Guild to the Koura Historian Guild. Quickly, Razail messaged ForeignLeaf and Zydv, asking a few questions before ultimately recruiting them to the guild.

To discover the guild members writing prowess, Razail gave them a simple task. They were to write the story of their lives. It could be written in any fashion that they liked and could be as simple or complicated as they saw fit. He would give them a week's time to complete it. This would have been plenty of time for any guild average historian member. If this simple task could not be met, then the guild was doomed to fail.

Months would pass without a word from either ForeignLeaf or Zydv. After some inquiry, Razail learned that ForeignLeaf had renounced his ties to the guild. He had tried to do the same for Zydv but Zydv would not renounce the guild for it was in his best interest to stay in the guild for political reasons. They would later travel to other lands to extract precious minerals but were quickly eviscerated by foreign gods. This information made Razail's blood boil. Not only had he trusted them enough to allow them to record history, but they had also used him as a means to gain political power. Razail would issue a decree, declaring the revoked memberships of these traitors. Broken with rage, Razail would begin to wander the sands of the desert. He had no direction, no motivation. It seemed that he, a foreigner to this world, would be the one who cared about their history the most. History was going to die with him.

More time had passed before the next event would happen involving the Historian Guild. Razail had been spending some time in Magna when he overheard a poem being recited.

Quotes
"My beloved Norvos, you turn your face for the sake of the people. But I dearly hope to see the radiance of your face on a new day."

-Razail White