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Hamster Van Niemandsland is one of the few citizens of the Eisenlandian town Kaminhagen. He is currently the Minister of Resources and is on a short break as Vice-Mayor of Kaminhagen.

Appearance
He usually wears a painted wooden mask that resembles a hamster together with protective glasses to protect him from the flames in the smeltery. His mask covers his face most of the time, and it has become a habit. But when he doesn't cover his face, his mask and goggles usually reside on the side of his head. He wears a long beige jacket with a dirty white shirt beneath it. To protect him from the sand that blows through the desert, he has a red scarf that covers the lower part of his face. He wears simple brown trousers with walking boots, and a small backpack, in which resides a small plushie his wife gave him. Ever since he started training self-defense, he made the addition of metal shoulder blades and a belt under his jacket, which has his sword attached to it. He added the Eisenlandian flag to his outfit when he was elected a Minister. The hard work and the ashes made his dark brown hair look black. His eyes look empty and have the colour of dark stone. He is quite short in human standards. Underneath his mask, his face and neck have large burnmarks, caused by the incident of his wife's fiery death. His skin colour is browned by the sun, and dirty from the smog.

Biology
Nobody knows where he came from. Most people say he and his wife one day appeared out of the ground. Time didn't have any visible effect on them either, as if something cursed them to live for an eternity. He doesn't know where he came from either, and he classifies himself as a human, because other than not aging, there is nothing about him that makes him any different. His skin has been browned by the scorching sun in the desert, but on the right side of his face and neck he has a large burn mark that stretches over his eye. His hair has a dark brown colour and is semi-long and messy. You can only see the brown colour in the sun because his hair, clothes and skin are full of smog and ashes most of the time. He's about 177 cm tall, and hard work has made him strong and of great capability to handle people bigger than himself, despite his unintimidating look.

Personality
Before the death of his wife, he was happy and hard-working, willing to do whatever it took to make her happy. Ever since the incident in the smeltery he became depressed, and on the edge of madness he tried to resurrect her without success. Llyre es vel Volaerys helped distract his mind from her death, but he still grieves, and will, until the day he too dies, which may never come.

He is obsessed with everything that has to do with mechanics and technology. He likes to be on his own, working on one of his many projects. He has really strong morals, and firmly follows the rule of karma: "Give back 3 times what was given to you, whether it was positive or negative." One of the reasons he chose a hamster for his mask was because he's a massive hoarder and very cautious about when to use his good tools, which causes him to come across as a beginner, even though he has enough to live from.

He doesn't like change, and loves cookies, chocolate milk and coffee.

Even though he's involved in some minor politics he refuses to participate in elections of any kind. The idea that he has to vote for a friend, and not vote for another is to much for him. He doesnt like to do things that don't have any benefits for him either.

1) Beginning of an eternity
The Iron Country, Eisenland. A country that has never lost a war before. But even there not every day is sunshine. Even when you live in the scorching desert, where once the town of New Volotra used to lay. There was a large sand-storm, it had been raging for a few days. But this didn't stop the newly appointed Mayor of New Volotra, Egizzo, to start the demolition of the newly captured town. So he started, and after many days of work, the end of the demolition project was still not in sight, but something else was. 2 people came walking out of the sandstorm towards him. Their faces protected by masks, glasses and scarfs, their bodies wrapped in long jackets, aimlessly wandering around. A man and a woman with no memories. The few things they knew was that they were married, and only she knew her name. Egizzo called him Hamster Van Niemandsland, since they didn't know where they came from. Hamster and his loved one decided they would settle in what would be reformed to Kaminhagen. They started working, and after many weeks the first canals appeared between the dunes, and some time later, a building rose up, one that would cause the biggest loss in his life. The smeltery.

While still working on other projects, like the vault, and their home, Hamster and his wife decided to start working in the factory. They both had a burning passion for technology and mechanics, so it made sense. They began producing XP, to make a living out of it, and the glow coming from the ovens wasn't nearly as strong as their passion for working with them. But that same red glow, would be her end. On a rather dark day, another sand-storm was raging through Kaminhagen, so the two of them decided to stay in the smeltery, and while they were there, they decided to start extracting XP from the ovens to pass the time. She leaned a bit too far over, and fell in. Her screams echoed throughout the building, and Hamster desperately tried to save her, jumping for her, anything, but the other workers didn't allow him. He fought back in tears, and was so close to jumping after her, so close in fact that his mask came in contact with the fire and began to burn. The incident had left Hamster with a scar on his face and an even bigger scar on his soul. The thing they both loved, had taken her from him.

From that moment on, he didn't trust technology made by others anymore. He decided he would make everything he used himself. He knew that if he made something, it wouldn't hurt anyone, unless he wanted it to. He took her burned body out of the oven, and put it in a bottle. Seeing her like that, he fell into a deep depression. It was around the same time he appointed himself as Vice-Mayor. His experiments and inventions started to become a bit questionable, people began to realise that he was sharing the same fate as the famous but fallen hero of Eisenland, Industro, and he ended up breaking his roof to build a large telescope. Their house that was once filled with exotic plants, started to overgrow, and his attic became his scientific playground. He washed her body and replaced her unrepairable parts with copper ones and her eyes with pearls. Her hair had become white, like the moonlight, from being kept in a bottle. All of his attempts were written down in his journal, "The fall of Icarus", which is now in possesion of LIyre es vel Volaerys. People quickly realised he was trying to bring her back. His behaviour varied from being extremely sad, to angry at the world and on the brink of insanity. At one point, he decided it would be best if he joined a religion, and he ended up going with Gisdalfgoda. He had heard of gods, and the fact that they granted miracles, but after doing his best to please these so called "gods" he didn't truly believe in, nothing happened. Looking at it now, he realised it was because he never believed in gods. How can someone be more powerful than humans? He didn't like the idea of being controlled, that there were things that were meant to happen.

He was grieving, and it would never go away.

During the Viodoxan Cival War, his mind was distracted from her death. He didn't have time to think, he was busy building a wall, making jam in his recently built factory, and preparing to die in the fight, because he knew he wouldn't die of old age. It was something both Hamsters and his wife had always kept to themselves. They could get sick, wounded or killed. But they didn't age. So living the monotone life he did, he realised he would have to live for an eternity without her. During the protection of Maxstadt, the capital of Eisenland, he met LIyre es el Volaerys, a man with wings. He had some strong political connections, and he sometimes seemed to be somewhat insane. He had large black wings, and he covered his face with a mask that resembled a wolf. Talking to him on those walls, almost getting shot down by him, he realised some things. There will always be pain. And pain doesn't go away. It will always stay there. But you can learn how to use it. Make it a drive. A force of energy, to keep you going. And that's when he handed over one of his most dearest possesions. His journal.

And even more important was what was in the book.

The book said her name.

Her name, was destiny.

2) Power
Quite some time had passed since the last interesting thing had happened in his life. Eisenland had grown, but so had Kaminhagen. He had won the elections for minister of economy, which is rather impressive when you know that everyone else was in a singular party. Him winning meant that he was able to begin his second period as minister. In Kaminhagen some new projects were started, he was now an xp-producer for Ryan's armour company, and he had started the construction of a building that would house the bees and everything needed to brew. And this building would indirectly be the cause of something bad or good, that depends on how you think of him.

While he was continuing the slow process of mining stones and other valuable resources he felt something. He felt his heart beating a little bit stronger than it usually did. He didn't think much of it, and continued. But as he got deeper, Hamster realised his heart wasn't beating harder, small shocks were vibrating through the entire space, like one of a larger being. As he wandered through the mine he felt the hearbeat stronger in some places, so he decided to mine in that direction. While mining in the direction of the heartbeat, not only did the heartbeat become stronger, it became hearable. The strangest was that at some times he blacked out. And as he came closer, it became more regular. He blacked out, and came back, at the same spot, but often at a different one, not knowing what happened. Until he hit a hollow wall. Dark bricks reached out to both sides. He swinged his pick and entered a long hallway.

A dark hallway stetched out in front of him, with at the end, a large wood door. There seemed to be a soft light coming from under the door, it almost seemed as if it was pulsating. He walked towards it, the black-outs now becoming even more regular and longer, on his clock he saw that he had passed 5 hours down there, while he only remember 5 minutes of them. He finally reached the door. The heartbeat and light now almost becoming unbareable.

He opened the door, ....                         .... and yet again, lost his memories just like the first time, the only things he remember were direct memories of Destiny.

In the split second before he passed out, he saw a large circular room. The light and heartbeat seemed to come from the big white orb in the center of the room. It was held captive, orange tubes leading in and out of it, buzzing, as if the were extracting it's resources.