Myastan Balasar

Balasar, or bal as he's known, Minister of Security, Military General, and member of the collegia in the most Serene Republic of Kush, came from humble beginnings, living in a small but beautiful tavern named the eagle's nest, run by his friend gh0st and with the assistance of his other close freind Moose VI, the three of them lived peacefully on Eldham and were happy. This did not last forever unfortunately, as gh0st grew burnt out and retired from his service as a bartender, and Moose travelled across the seas to Rathnir, where he would join the most serene republic of Kush as a member of the collegia. Bal, without anywhere left to go, followed his friend Moose to Rathnir, and found himself a humble wooden house in the Pirate Dominion of Tortuga, where he lived humbly, practiced his swordsmanship and went mining and sold his findings to acquire wealth. Despite finding the people of Tortuga very friendly, he struggled to feel at one with them, and so decided to rejoin his friend Moose, and became a citizen of the most Serene Republic of Kush. From there, he gained renown amongst his fellow Kushites for the swordsmanship he learned in Tortuga, and by working as an alchemist producing potions for a war for the KoC defending against the oppressive forces of Huitca who were attempting to conquer them, the Doge of Kush at the time, Pirimidinas (aka Vik) invited him to become a member of the ministry of security. He accepted this, and not long after qualified to become a member of the collegia.

Creation
Balasar was not born, but created by the Myastan clan, an ancient civilisation to live thousands of years ago in a small valley, watched over by the wise elder Myastan Akra, but when the clan was threatened by a foul plague corrupting the crop which sent them into famine, she realised they were doomed to extinction, and so she performed a ritual sacrifice, of a young boy who was willing to give his life to continue the name of his pride and his clan. His name was Myastan Balasar, and when Akra gave him as an offering to the first cactus, it generously breathed life into a new body, which had been sculpted from ice by the talented Myastan Perra, shortly before her own passing that same morning from hunger, and imbued it with the personality and ambition of Balasar. This ritual proved too much for Akra, as she too passed, the clan had nothing left but a promise of the continuation of their proud name, and so the clan and the valley went extinct. Thousands of years later, the first cactus raised the ice body from beneath the soil, and gave it life, it walked away with no knowledge other than its name, its insticnts, and a number of secrets about its past, locked away until they were ready to be uncovered.

Early life and introduction to piracy
When bal first walked away from his birthplace, he had no clear sense of where to go, so he simply walked. He found his way to a ship, anchored not far out from a beach. He swam over to it and boarded, having went to the lower decks, he was looking around, when he heard others boarding, so he hid and stowed away. After a few days being silent, there was a disturbance, he peeked to the outside through a small window, and saw another vessel, which had taken a beating from something, and another coming from the opposite side, this one was much bigger and had cannons. It started to fire on the vessel bal had boarded, so he ran out from under the hold, and ran past the men on board, who were screaming at each other but saw him and were confused. He jumped into the sea and swam to the larger vessel, climbed aboard, and found his way to the black powder store on the bottom deck. He grabbed a lantern and threw it at a crate, which caught fire, causing the ship to go up in a ball of flames and sink, bal only barely making it off in time. He returned to the ship he came from, as it's crew looted the smaller unarmed vessel. He then found out that the vessel he was on was a pirate vessel, the vessel they pirated was a merchant vessel, and the ship that attacked was a naval vessel, who attempted to rescue the merchant vessel. The pirate crew thought better of casting him to the sharks and instead chose to take him on as another member of their crew, as he seemed both useful and impressionable. He spent a number of years with this crew, before deciding to abandon them for the time being, being generally burnt out from Piracy, and so he spent a number of years trying to relax, and so he found his way to a small, humble tavern in Eldham, where he proceeded to spend some years of his life. Nowadays, having spent time away from the life of a pirate, he now occasionally sets sail, shakes off his titles and responsibilities as the Kushite general, with intent on finding some loot.

In the forge
There is not much to be said about bal's few years in the forge, he lived with his two close friends, as described previously, in a bar run by gh0st alongside Moose, where they lived peacefully and completely isolated from the rest of Eldham and it's politics, until they dispersed when gh0st retired, and Moose and bal left to Rathnir.

Settler in Tortuga
When bal first came to Rathnir, he built a small wooden house next to a river in the region of Nonami, which was a part of the Free States of Tortuga, now known as the Pirate Dominion of Tortuga. They were welcoming to him and let him in as one of their own. Similarly to his life in the forge, he then lived in relative isolation from politics, and so he spent his time mining, farming, and practicing his swordsmanship. Despite the initial welcome he received into Tortuga, he felt disconnected, having never properly engaged with them, and so he went out in search of his good friend, Moose VI.

Travelling the seas to the Kushite icebergs
Bal was successful in making contact with moose quickly after going in search of him. He found him quite promptly by looking for sellers of coal blocks, as he knew Moose was one of the finest coal miners in all of Rathnir and Eldham, and so Moose invited him to come and live with him in the Most Serene Republic of Kush. He travelled west by boat to the capital of Kush, and was welcomed in as a new citizen. Not long after, he qualified to become a member of the collegio, the wealthier, governing class of Kush. He gained renown among his fellow Kushites for his swordsmanship, and was made minister of Security and general of the military. He starting hosting military trainings for the people of Kush, and continues to to this day. It was some time later after establishing himself as a part of Kush and a sense of pride in that, when he decided to join the religion of Eddyism, founded by Starshot Patache, a religion which worshipped cactus, in particular the first cactus, around which Kush was built, and that made him realise, that was where he was born, the millenia had drastically changed the landscape, but the first cactus had remained, and it spoke to him when he converted, and his life suddenly felt more whole. Bal also owns a town, known as Collister, which despite being ready for it and being a very beautiful piece of work has not yet recieved any real citizens, but he intends to make it the centre of the new Myastan clan, which was the purpose of his creation thousands of years ago.

The formation of U.K.A.I.N.

Being an established leader of Kush’s military, bal was contacted early on by a person who went by masonic, along with the other major leaders of the nation. Masonic came from a neighbouring country of Kidania, and came to Kush asking for a potential alliance. Later on, two other Kidanians, copper and bonggo, both approached Cavid Prickly, the leader of Kush at that time, and a discussion ensued involving the Kushite Kabinet. They presented evidence to us of masonic’s true purpose, and that he had radical plans involving global takeover, which was laughed at by the Kushites, who agreed there and then to help the newly formed Republic of Kidania, of which masonic would not be a part of, to eliminate them before they could take off, and so an alliance was made.

Later on, before any proper planning of a battle, another nation was enlisted into this alliance, the United Provinces of Carvinia, who had been enemies of Kidania in the past, but in events that would be more detailed in a Carvinian/Kidanian written article, they resolved their differences and united against the globalist menace. The war was not a bloody one, the enemy hired mercenaries, who ran when they saw the size and strength of our armies, they had abandoned the war and surrendered not long after. The international bonds formed by this conflict were enough to unite us all, and so we agreed to a major alliance: the United Kushite Alliance of Independent Nations, or UKAIN, which at the time of writing is well organised, and has already gained some international attention.