Neon Belgrave

Neon Belgrave is a former Count, Grand Duke and leader of the fallen nation of Chevkri. He currently lives in Savernia and leads its military and governs the Hold of Holskír.

Early life
Neon is the oldest and first child of the four siblings. To the surprise of many, Neon was born into the chaotic lands of Kartek. He didn't stay for long though as his parents were always travelling from one place to another. His family never had a place to go to since his father a Chevkrian Noble married a woman of common origin. Only later the siblings would find out that this was not the true reason they were always on the run.

The mother of Neon was a being born out of chaos and had magical powers that no normal human could think of going against. She loved to use her own children as lab rats for her magical experiments which is why one of the sibling, Finn Belgrave, has a scar on his eye.

Shortly after Neon's coming of age the family boarded a ship towards Haven. Records of one surviving crew member describe what happened after the ship left the harbour.

"We were half a day away from Zhaitker-Klend the destination of this trip. It was a calm and clear morning, then the sun just about to rise. When suddenly after a scream from near the quarters were heard all over the ship. People were rushing over to help and look what was going on when out of nowhere a storm struck the ship. The Captain ordered all men on deck and we tried keeping the old ship afloat, but to no avail. A wave larger than anything I have ever seen ripped the ship apart, and everyone aboard was washed into the sea."

After the storm was over Neon woke up alone on a beach with no person or sign of civilization in sight.

Arrival in Chevkri
After walking for 7 days Neon without a trace of his family or where he even was, he stumbled upon the town Volksstadt. After arriving he collapsed on the border of the town. Here he was found by one of the cities inhabitants, Iron. Iron took the young man into his home gave him food and new clothes. He then brought him into the town and introduced him to guy named Pius. Pius was a very cheerful person, although a bit self centered. He was Neon's first friend and the guy who showed him everything around the area.

A few days later he was introduced to the Duke of the region and leader of the town, Duke Sabizos Alagadda Rothbreed. The very person who will have a massive impact on the young man's life.

After investing a lot of time and energy into the city like Pius did. Neon very quickly rose up to be a confident of the Duke. Due to internal struggles, the Duke pushed for Pius's application for Minister of Defence to be accepted. While it was clear that Pius would win, Neon also resolved himself to enter the stage of politics to help out. Very much to the surprise of everyone. He applied for the Minister of Immigration in which Neon had no competition and viewed as the most powerful position in the country if used correctly. And his prediction should be correct.

After officially being appointed as Minister and putting forth his first reform, Neon was made a noble in Chevkri as a Count. That was the birth hour of what will later be known as the Belgrave family. While his family certainly existed for a long time before him and was also Haven based, they never got any recognition or achieved anything noteworthy.

While doing a great job in recruiting new people to the country it was hard for him to add people immediately as the only city he was part of was Volksstadt. To further spread his influence and make better use of his skills for his country he proposed to the Duke and Apex for him to create a new town.

Founding of Anikas
Neon was travelling far and wide throughout his new home. Chevkri was a large country that had nearly every single biome in existence. Large deserts, swamps so deep you couldn't stand in them, forests with trees large enough to block out all the sun, Savanna with more animals than one could imagine and the most interesting out of them all the jungle.

When he started looking for a place to make his own, Neon didn't know what he was looking for but once he ventured into the deepest parts of the jungle he found it. We provide you with a short bit from Neon's diary about the time when he first found the place where his new town was supposed to stand in, not even months later.

"I travelled a day from Volksstadt to Schwanstein. I am a good friend of the Mayor there, so I was allowed to make a quick stop on my exploration down south. From there I continued on my journey by foot for about 4 days. Cutting through the thicket and killing every larger animal that I saw. Suddenly I found some sort of path, completely overgrown but still better than slashing through the jungle. It was old, not maintained and had holes everywhere. I tried following it to the best of my ability, when suddenly something massive came into view. It was a wall. It had a very odd composition of materials used for its buildings. As I approached the city, it was clear something was carved into the walls. Although worn down by the weather, I could still barely decipher it due to my mother teaching me old and very complicated languages. It seemed to be some sort of story, but the walls were too broken to completely decipher it. The only readable thing left was the name of the ruin I found, "Mahaiani"."

After finding the abandoned ruins of Mahaiani Neon quickly went back to Volksstadt grabbed his belongings and prepared for another trip down south. This time not to explore anymore but to build. He had a vision, an idea of what it could become. With this he established his claim to a city he would call Anikas, which would later gain the nickname of "The Dark Fort". After some time he finished the first parts of the city. He build a new wall, buildings for citizens, an amoury and so much more. The first citizen to join the newly founded town was an incredible individual named Xeno. The two of them became good friends and Xeno became one of the most trusted people for Neon to this day.

After loosing most of his family years prior Neon had lost all hopes of finding them. At that time arrived a new guy in Anikas. He was interested in brewing and seemed familiar. After a bit of talking the traveller who came into town to open up a brewery was his Cousin Beowulf an Kajnezit. Although cousins by blood their relation was much closer to that of brothers. And while gaining trust and friends in Chevkri's political sphere he gave Beo his chance to do the same.

Apex Elections
Chevkri's ruler William Rothbreed grew tired of his position and wanted to retire. This sparked tension inside the country with two sides battling for power. The faction of Sabizos Alagadda Rothbreed and that of a group mostly centered around the religion of Lunaism and people originating from the region it was popular in.

Needless to say Neon was part of Duke Sabizos's faction and supported his actions in the best of his abilities. While Sabizos deepened and made new connections outside Chevkri, Neon as the one who recruited all of Chevkri's most reliable and skilled people or at least had good connections to them strengthened their power on the inside.

Due to Sabizos seeing himself not neutral enough he looked for a person from his faction who could replace his father on the throne of Chevkri. While three people claimed the new title for themselves the only person who could realistically win is the one with the Duke's backing. After learning the Sabizos would not step up himself Neon did so in his place as he believed he would be the best choice for the country.

After gaining the backing of the nearly all the people who were allowed to vote on will become the next Apex. Neon won the election by a landslide. From then on started his reign as Apex of Chevkri.

He strived for major reforms which at first were very well liked by the people but he took it some a step too far which resulted in people voicing their concern. The people in question were those who lost the faction battle to Neon's and Sabizos's faction for the throne. With just a handful of people they caused the entirety of Uldarash to believe Chevkri was unstable while nothing more happened than a few discord messages being exchanged. It was a back and forth that had been going on for quite a long time at this point. The unrest caused for the new Apex to dive further into his work and neglect his family, friends and own town.

Alice's Death
Alice was the daughter of a local noble who met Neon on a Ball held in Rexhold, Chevkris capital. After finishing up on his city and a grand mansion in it he proposed her. They got married and had three Children together, Mary, Nova and Sen. Each of the children grew up to be a highly respectable and skilled person in their field of expertise. It would not be an exxageration to say Alice was the world for Neon.

He who now had to rule a country had less and less time for the family, the town and his friends who refused to participate in politics. Alice stayed at home most of the time due to her social anxiety.

Neon was working in an office in Schwanstein, which he traveled to that day, when out of nowhere the door to his office was slammed open. Bursting inside like a tornado came his good friends Robbo the Gobbo and Twente Tukker. They rushed towards his desk practically dragging him out of his chair telling him he needs to go back to Anikas as fast as he could. Fear, anger and sadness were plastered all over their faces. Neon still didn't know what was going on and asked what had happened. "Its about Alice", Robbo said. "You would want to go back home as fast as possible. We already wasted enough time coming to get you", added Twente.

Robbo was barely able to finish his sentence when Neon already ran out of the door rushing for the fastest horse in town. He travelled as fast as he could without rest nor break. Once he reached the mansion he could see his brother Xaro standing in front of the entrance to the mansion.

Xaro was probably the best doctor in all of Rathnir and Eldham, making himself a name in researching nearly every medical field there is. He only recently learned that his brothers were alive and that Neon's wife was sick for quite some time so he made his way from Eldham all over back to Haven. If he could not save her no one could.

Neon continued rush towards the door and while passing Xaro he only got a little shaking of his head as the first of greeting between the two brothers after years not seeing each other. But that didn't matter as both knew the really important thing was not their relationship or how their reunion would go but what would unfold in the next few minutes behind these very doors.

He ran through the hall towards the bedroom. He could hear crying and saw that the door was left half open he pushed the double winged door completely open with all the strength he could still muster. Next to the bed were he and his wife would sleep for months, no years, since their wedding, were their children. They were squatting down on the side of the bed or just rightout sit on the wooden floor. Mary and Nova tried acting strong to their younger brothers. Zascu who spent the most time with Alice and hold her hand the entire time turned to his father. Trying to smile while tears run down his face: "She will feel better from now on Dad, don't worry."

Not even an hour later Neon without warning announced his retirement from the position of Apex.

The circumstances of death to this day are not clear. Although Xaro's hypothesis is that she was poisened by the faction, that spread the false rumors and lies to destabilize the country.

After her burial he tore down the entire mansion and build a castle entirely in black on its spot. Despite being the Grand Duke of Suedlande he closed himself inside the castle and didn't come out once.

Feeling responsible for the loss of his big brother Xaro took over all the responsibilities that Neon would have to take on normally.

Migration to Savernia
A few years after Alice's death Neon came back out of the castle. Just to see the country he worked so hard for to seemingly be in shambles. Provincial disputes and hate between different regions or towns that would likely never be repaired again.

He tried to save some parts of that country he wasted years on building up and got exiled for it along with old friends of his. With the only ones being spared were Mary and Nova.

Neon and his closest friends migrated into Savernia who accepted them with open arms. While the whole town of Schwanstein after some continuing fighting migrated into the the Imperial Archonal Union of Viodoxa and Tovarisha.

Shortly afterwards the death of Chevkri was announced the very country they sacrificed everything for. The Country his wife died on.