Jecten Tliavan

Basic info
jecten is a 20 year old citizen of the astyllean empire, residing in the city of licéndasse, formerly yet more commonly known as bentonia. He is the current minister of conservation for the state of carn, yet unlike most carnians who arrived at the time he did, he isnt of  lardburgian origin, instead, his past and background are a mystery in to himself. He is human, yet almost always is seen wearing a fox suit that he had even before setting foot upon rathnir. Although he doesnt have any direct relatives in rathnir that he knows of, he got his surname from Atton Nullus Tliavan, also known as null12, and has a wolf companion and adoptive brother called Benton, who was with him since early days. Although not participating in most major events, he still plays a role in the empire at large as a senator, a role he has had for a few months now.

Pre-rathnir
Jectens past is a mystery, even to himself, his life before joining, his family, all of it but a blur in his mind. The earliest memories he knows are of an event known as the Hater War, here, although young and inexperienced, he was able to use his negotiation skills that he was developing and some expertise to lead his small and overlooked squad to victory. However, something felt wrong, this war in his mind, didnt even make any sense. Why was he fighting? Jecten pondered this thought for days, as on most nights, he kept having peculiar dreams, ones which he could somewhat have control of, but which seemed to follow the same pattern. In his dreams, he saw himself and 3 other people on a floating island in the middle of a seemingly endless void. The people with him varied from dream to dream, but the theme was still the same. His island wasnt the only one here, as 3 other islands were also present along all the cardinal directions, and on some occasions, on diagonals, with a larger island or a cluster of islands, depending on the dream in the dead centre of the space. The dream somehow required him to do what he could in order to make sure the occupants of the other islands wouldnt destroy the one bed on his island, otherwise, it would be all downhill from there. The fact he had some control over his dreams meant that he carried lessons learned from one dream over to the next, being better at defending his island and forcing most attackers back using projectiles he had only in those dreams. But sometimes, the enemy would slip past, and in this case, it would on most instances be game over for him. This dream kept being repeated on most nights, over and over and over again, until suddenly, it faded, and he ended up on another world, almost identical in appearance to earth, but smaller. Much, much smaller to be honest. It would be here where the bulk of his pre rathnir memories would occur, on this world known only as geo. It was on geo, that suddenly, a rivalry occurred between him and somebra, another person inhabiting geo, on the act of murdering a wolf belonging to Jecten. This rivalry turned bitter, with jecten thwarting somebras efforts of trapping another inhabitant by launching him (somebra) into a hole, and somebra making repeated attempts on hunting Jecten down on almost every occasion that he would see fit. Then there was the issue of zoomers, a group of people renowned for winning almost every war they fought against other groups, and the fact that the lifespan of geo was coming to a close. Suddenly, the world corrupted around him and vanished. This was normal for geo, as such an event had happened many times before, however, this time, it wasnt gonna be coming back, leaving jecten in an abyss, floating there so long he blacked out. After what was possibly weeks, maybe even months, Jecten woke up, in a different world

Early settlement
Jecten woke up in a forest, near water. He surveyed his surroundings and found out, this wasnt geo, the landscape was, unique. He found his way to a road and followed it, when a message greeted him saying “ welcome to eryrith, the capital of imperium”. He checked, and he wasnt in any of the other places he knew. He was in rathnir. From eryrith, he followed the road eastwards, skirting past the town of hiyokudo, which he saw with his own eyes, before heading north straight across a wooden bridge, well it was wooden, but someone had placed an excess of granite over it, before arriving in an abandoned village known as meydan. Heading east once more, he found a house and obtained some wheat from it, but the place showed signs of human tampering and had been raided earlier, and he was forced to move further east. Then, just after passing through the unfinished ruins of a castle, it started to rain, and he looked for shelter. It was there when he noticed a riverbend, across from the mountains, with a noticeable pit, he headed into this pit and discovered a vast cave system. One passage within this cave ended up doubling back before climbing in altitude and reaching an abrupt stop. It would be this passage where he would set up camp, as the rain continued, then thunder. It thundered hard, so hard he could hear multiple flashes in a short time. It was a good thing he was underground. When he surfaced, he decided to gather some resources that were needed. It was here when he found out that most places in the area were either abandoned, or in pretty bad shape. He thought of maybe seeing what he could do to fix the location up. When exploring around a nearby gateway, he found a wolf, minding his business and after checking with it, he decided to offer the wolf a bone, and he (the wolf) accepted. Jecten then took the wolf with him back to his cave and although being human, he could understand the language of wolves and communicate with them, and thus learned that the wolf was named Benton. It was this that he decided that now the name of his settlement would be called Bentonia. Over the next couple of days, 2 roads were built as well as a bridge. Bentonia, although a one man settlement, was starting to develop, as farms were set up underground as well as on the riverbank. Then news soon reached him, that he was squatting on lands belonging to the Empire Of Aldovir, and his choices were integration or eviction, and thus, he relented. Bentonia, was now aldoviri, and so was he, and there was now no turning back.

After joining
jecten, upon joining, opted to become part of the state of carn, as that was where bentonia was located. He was thinking about doing things independently but, he decided against it. Even when he was a squatter, he had been disgusted at the state many of the settlements in the estarrian valley were in, and vowed to fix it, and over the next month and a bit, he made repairs to the walls of the castle, linked disconnected sections of river, and managed to get the first other people to join bentonia, all while his loyalty was tested. The first test came in late September, when it was revealed that grizagel had gone behind the empires back, that jecten decided to spy on the island nation and made detailed notes about everything he came across, before relaying said notes to the empire, and then, his loyalty was put under test when kerplis stated his disliking towards the name of bentonia, which Jecten shrugged off, and thus he continued to get bentonia built. It was at this time when he and null became close friends. Little did he know, just around the corner, an event was going on that would change everything

The grand gathering
in early-mid october, kerplis and his adopted son bowph announced their retirement from carn and the empire at large, and the choosing of the next caeron of carn, which was to be held 2 weeks down the line in rhell, during an event known as the grand gathering. Upon receiving news of this, Jecten and null decided to form a political party, with the policy to restore the carnian landscape and to put it back on the map. Originally, jecten was just planning to be steward, however, null swapped sides mid campaign to support drach, and when the time of the grand gathering was set, jecten realised that at that time he would normally be asleep and considered missing out, however, knowing that there would be no point missing out, he decided to skip some of his sleep to attend the event. However, due to a lack of equipment and major sleep deprivation, jecten ended up with just 1 vote during the grand gathering. Every other vote went to drach. However, the policies proposed by jecten, combined with null switching sides mid campaign, meant that drach was now putting forward many of jectens own policies, and towards the end of the grand gathering, he would employ him as minister of conservation, which jecten, who earlier promised to stay true like the sunrise and the wolfs howl, accepted. This event would not just mark a turning point for jecten, but for the state of carn itself

Afterwards
with the grand gathering over, jecten returned to finishing the walls, however, within a week of the grand gathering, he began to notice signs of the snlf in the area, and was put on high alert, especially in mid november, when a sign was found at  the coenia west gate, the same gate where he befriended benton just months earlier. While things were going down, the underground suddenly entered a period of rapid transformation into a multi layered city of stone passages, arches, stairways and tunnels. Things began to occur when suddenly, the battle of terroja broke out in the nearby Empire of Uldarash, which Jecten hoped to attend, only for the battle to conclude in a decisive victory before he was even given the chance, mainly due to something external barring him for an infuriatingly long time. Still, he continued work on bentonia, as well as doing what he could to support the empire, but then, the ultimate test would occur. One which would change his life forever

The alteniquian war
suddenly, the Empire Of Aldovir declared war on the union of solea audal, which subsequently dissolved, however, the southern half of it, Yimmu-Audal continued in with the war and began building a fort just outside praestinia, which Jecten decided to investigate. He perched himself on a decorative tree, facing the fort. Just a couple days prior, the carnians successfully raided the fort, and thus, its occupants were at high alert. Knowing that this was a warzone, jecten decided to fire a few arrows as warning shots. He was then confronted by an occupant of the fort, who asked him what nation he was a part of, to which Jecten responded with, “aldovir”, to which, said occupant returned to the fort and came out with 2 others, immediately firing upon jecten and chasing him into a tunnel where he was eliminated. He then returned twice to retrieve his items, the first time unsuccessfully but the second time he was successful in doing so, mainly by asking a citizen to be his bodyguard. After this, he reported the event, which would become known as the praestinia incident. Shortly afterwards, word came to him that a skirmish had broken out, which he attended, only to be fired upon and then momentarily leave, although every shot missed its mark, except one which wounded drach. After this, jecten continued the war effort, and began to make plans. It seemed like the centurionist forces that he was up against weren’t relenting and thus he planned to crush the Audaladae where they stood. Before he could do this, however, centurion of Yimmu-Audal was replaced by foxmunk as emperor, and peace talks were made, which although they conceded it as an aldoviri victory, annoyingly for Jecten, they only gained 2 cities from all this and Yimmu-Audal still kept their fort. He decided to voice his frustration towards a decision, stating that had he been present, he would have at least allowed fusinivir, which had formed during the war, to exist in its entirely and to claim the territory it wanted, however, his anger subsided upon being told that the 2 governments were working towards a union. A month of fighting had occurred and now, there was peace

Astyllea
A week after the end of the war, the 2 empires and their territories merged to become the empire of astyllea, which was met by fanfare. Jecten did what he could to grow bentonia, and it was at this moment when null asked jecten if he wanted to be adopted, to which Jecten accepted the offer. However, his time with benton had allowed both man and wolf to become such close friends, that jecten considered benton as a brother in every sense except biologically, and thus the adoption was made and an estate planned. A month later, an incident broke out at market55 and jecten while investigating, became part of the force trying to deal with 55tremine and his shady market practices, and thus had difficulties involving some wooden doors at the market basement, which despite 6 requests being made, wouldnt be opened. Added to this, he was chased by vexes and a ravager for almost no reason that day, but he was still able to get work done. Currently he still lives and works in the empire of astyllea and his city has been growing decently fast. However, recently, due to a request made by kerplis, he was forced to rename bentonia to something carnian, which, although slightly annoyed due to small inconsistencies with conventions, he eventually settled upon licéndasse, meaning wolf fort, as the new name for bentonia. He still has big plans for the city, the state of carn and astyllea as a whole, and whatever he is up to next, only time will tell.