Verigan Trimarch

Summary
Verigan Trimarch is Human male of alleged Bardonian descent. A book worm of high intellect, his mind has been destroyed by events that changed his view on life. Instead of picking up a book and studying it for its knowledge, he now reluctantly picks up the sword, destroying others in the name of Dandelism.

OOC: This is mainly a stitched together timeline of my activities in Rathnir, there are some areas that I had to leave out since there was no way to form a comprehensive story with them. Although the character existed during those times, I never really thought about turning it into a wiki. So here it is.

Beginnings in Kastollia
(Nothing here is final yet, just jotting down some of the main points before fleshing everything out)

Verigan lived a Nomadic lifestyle for much of his early life, preferring to travel with his friend Aurel and see Syltors beautiful landscapes. These times quickly came to an end.

Upon reaching the Baykonian province, Aurel and Verigan decided to set up camp at the Greypeak mountain close to Vel Deur and the Baykonian capital, Salameberg. Once there, they chanced to meet an ambitious man named Jayhawk alongside his two close advisors Erik and Slappy. The five men quickly became acquainted with eachother and Jayhawk convinced the pair of nomads to join his hamlet of Meteora, a city hidden on the Greypeak Mountain. Sensing an opportunity to make a home, they agreed and aided Jayhawk in building his city into a Fortress overlooking the plains below.

The Three Crowns War
When Meteora, under the banner of the union of Kastollia, declared independence from the Baykonian Commonwealth the humble settlement quickly turned into a place of war as the Kastollian troops prepared to march on Salameberg.

The battle was a massacre and Verigan, in attempt to rescue Jayhawk from the ensuing route, lost his arm in the fighting causing him to become disillusioned with his trust in the man he saw as a friend. Jayhawk would name Verigan his Grand Warden in order to focus on rebuilding Kastollias might once more. Verigan instead ran away in the middle of the night alongside four soldiers and set sail for the southern Rathniri state of Avaria eager to return to his nomadic lifestyle and discover secrets long thought lost.

The Eye of Harmony
Accompanied by Krimson, Athelyne and Manilus. Verigan would claim an abandoned town in the middle of the Velande desert and name it "Luxor". While mapping out walls and claims Krimson discovered a Pyramid buried in sand, it contained warped nether blocks and its walls were covered in blood and insane ramblings, this discovery peaked Verigan's interest and he ordered the area be excavated for further research.

Upon further investigation of the temple, several notes were found within it containing various pictures, any text within the collection of notes were written in an unknown language. Verigan would keep the book close and spend many weeks attempting to decipher it.

During one of several cave-ins at the site, Krimson was crushed by falling debris. Emotionally distraught by Krimson's death, Verigan, Manilus and Athelyne would cease their excavations into the Pyramid and would begin fishing as a pass-time. Verigan, having gone through the months of pain and misery had finally reached his breaking point and decided to try and decipher the notes one more time. After some time he managed to decipher one of the notes, a recipe to create an alloy named "Living Steel", it was an alloy that takes the shape of whatever its Master wanted but when it took a shape, it would not change. The steel would come at a price however, it needed to be imbued with souls.

Using this new-found knowledge he lured Manilus and Athelyne into the Temple and sealed the entrance behind them, as they slowly suffocated, their souls would leave their bodies and enter the Iron Ingots laying in the middle of the room. Afterwards, he heated the Iron until it became molten and uttered the incantation from the notes, the steaming molten Iron slowly crawled its way up onto his exposed Shoulder and took the form of the arm he lost in Salameberg. As Verigan flexed the new arm, it rippled as he began to hear the voices of Athelyne and Manilus tormenting him, slowly unhinging his mind with their screams and shouts.

(I still haven't written the book of notes since i'm lazy af)

Return to Kastollia/Varandoy
For the short time he lived in Luxor, alone and depressed, Verigan was constantly plagued with nightmares and panic attacks, always looking around the corner for the phantoms of Athelyne or Manilus to come after him. He considered the bundle of notes he had stashed inside his personal diary evil but couldn't bring himself to get rid of them. Verigan had gotten tired of his quickly deteriorating situation and decided to return to Kastollia in hopes of finding safety there.

Upon arriving, he was given an icy welcome. He had left them during their most dire hour and returned a few short days after they finally received independence, many people looked down on him but Jayhawk would keep him at his side as an Advisor who would be instrumental in uniting the future Varandoy-Aestyrian Kingdom and the planning of the Alamayn Civil War.

Jayhawk had promised Verigan his own princedom within Alamayn should he be able to achieve peace there, however members of the Varandoy-Aestyrian court quickly overruled that decision, seeing Verigan as untrustworthy and forced him out of the High Command completely. The unwelcoming vibes that his former home was giving him had taken a further hit on his mental sanity causing him to fall in and out of consciousness multiple times. This eventually resulted in his second departure from Kastollia (Now Varandoy-Aestyria), further disullusioned with the nation he helped create and its deception, he gathered his most treasured belongings and left Varandoy for the last time.

Travelling Alone
For weeks, Verigan roamed Rathnir. He lived off berries and slept in nomad camps, his soul completely shattered by the events that took place in Luxor and Varandoy. He saw himself as a man who could nothing but wrong, he could not trust the people who he thought were his friends and neither could he trust himself to get out of the rut he was in.

Verigan did not realise how far he had wandered until he reached Athazolant, The Red City of Athaz. As he roamed through its streets he entered it Libraries and browsed their large collection of books, suddenly remembering the bundle of notes he had stashed in his backpack. He frantically looked through the Library for something similar but found no such thing. Tired, he exited the Library and explored Athazolant some more, unknowingly entering the main temple where he met Athaz himself. Athaz and Verigan spoke for a time about the history of the city and Verigan told Athaz his story, Athaz had given him a tour of his personal Library (Thanks for that btw) but Verigan could not find what he was looking for. He thanked Athaz and left, his mind was more at ease after confessing the events that happened in Alamayn but the Luxor killings still plagued his mind.

As Verigan left the city he found newspapers on the ground detailing that the Bardonian Empire had returned.

Bardonia
Verigan mustered the strength to return north reinvigorated by the news of a revived Bardonia. On his way, he was stopped in Dorasterrock by followers of the Dandelist faith who preached and asked if he would like to join their faith, having read about them during his early days of roaming the Bardonian desolation (Post Coalition-war) he accepted their offer and was officially declared a follower of the faith of Dandelions.

He unlocked the door to a home he had purchased in Volkoregrod, and finally settled down as a fully fledged Bardonian Citizen. Even then, however his mind was still plagued by Athelyne and Manilus, this caused him to spend many nights in Taverns where he would drink copious amounts of Alcohol and would spend many hours praying to Dandelion shrines to wash his nightmares away. One night, before he entered a tavern, he was approached by members of the bandit group known as the "Dandelion Khanate" who were recruiting new Bandits to join their cause. Seeing no other option coupled with his newly found disgust for politics, hatred of the way his life was going, he accepted their offer, grabbed his equipment and followed them to their camp.