Hugo Airgead

Early life
Born to Cornelius and Deirdre Airgead of the prominent Airgeda mercantile family in the independent port town of Geadbaile, of which his family is the namesake, Hugo grew up in the sheltered islands between Eldham and Rathnir. At the age of 6, he began his formal education with the private tutors of the town, who, in order to shape him to be the perfect heir to the throne of Geadbaile, taught him the ins and outs of commerce, finance, history, government, philosophy, and the sciences.

11 years later, at the age of 17, the Airgead family began observing the increasingly large amount of ships coming from Rathnir to Eldham and, more indicative of the lucrative opportunities, vice versa. As such, Hugo, with the blessing of his parents, began preparing a ship, the Everliving Glory for a voyage to Northern Eldham with the goal of setting up another trading post and furthering the fortune of the Airgeads. And so, two years later, at the age of 19, Hugo bid his family and hometown farewell as he and his crew set out to explore and profit from the new world of Eldham.

Four months into the journey, just mere miles from the northern reaches of Eldham, the ship was struck by a storm of horrible proportions and, after the mast collapsed and severely damaged the hull, the vessel began taking on water, forcing the crew to abandon ship. So he and his crew, totaling 168 men, rowed away on a few of the ship's whaling boat with one week's worth of provisions and hopes of reaching land. Their wish would soon be granted as they made landfall on an island in the very northern reaches of the Katolian Sea, where they set up a camp in a cave and the disused system of mines that accompanied it.

Katolis
Soon after the establishment of their camp, the crew settled in for the long haul, building out several wooden structures, a basic cobblestone seawall, and even a small tavern built into a small indent on the side of a cliff. Life was good and the crew began making plans to settle down and call the island home. That is, until the bandit attacks began. A small group of bandits began attacking the island, obviously targeting their extensive treasury intended for the creation of a colony, but not realizing said treasury had gone down with the ship and laid far off the coast of Eldham. These attacks, however, were repelled shortly thereafter with the formation of a militia from the crew's marine compliment.

As the years went by and the crew's position on the island grew more comfortable, the focus of the men, particularly those in the militia, began to move away from survival and increasingly toward internal matters.