Ornn Hrafn

= Ornn Ludwig =

Childhood
Ornn Ludwig is the biological son of SirSealX and Onixsapphire. He was born a year after the founding of Seal_Cove on the island of Stormgova in the year -1 SY. Formally, his name was "Ornn Hrafn". His parents felt that for him to have good understanding of the world, he would have to travel. And so, at the age of 5, they sent him to go on adventures around the world with Schmäggerd von Svarkor.

Ornn had the opportunity to learn about the world without being influenced by 'power hungry nations'. This gave him a balanced view on the world and the ability to could see through many lies and false promises.

Adventures and Legends
Eldham was coated with many truths and lies so Ornn decided to search for them. He would gain knowledge and would understand many different topics.

Ornn looked into architecture. He was taught by GreenLionII, one of his distant relatives. The two of them got on very well and Green Lion II was able to teach Ornn and grow closer .then he learnt about politics with a few busy diplomats and figured out a few strategies to control people. Ornn mastered combat and was taught by knights, bandits and mercenaries. This would give him the power to defend himself in many situations and learn the art of war.Finally, Ornn decided to live in the wilderness for a few years to learn how to survive.

One day, Ornn was visiting a town in Uraka where he was captured by a group of thieves. They took all his belongings and money, leaving Ornn with nothing. He wandered the streets of Urak as he was lost, without a home or shelter. During these dark times, he was forced to join a group of bandits, making him travel around the world with them. During their travels around Eldham, they would raid small towns and villages. Eventually, Ornn grew sick of this lifestyle and slipped away, hoping to forget about it and simply move on.

Ornn was left without shelter once again and had to resort to the only thing he mastered once more: Banditry. He put on a mask and wandered through COG, Mushroomicania and the Drakean Heartlands, stealing money and killing people. As Ornn's wealth grew, he gained a reputation and was known as the Shadow of Valresh. As time passed, he slowly stopped killing people as he found it to be wrong.

During this time, Ornn started to secretly doubt the Stormgovan Guardian and grew love for Soleviel. He kept notes in his diary where he confessed that Solaris was not real to him.

One day, Ornn got a contract in Garxeto where he would have to travel to Ravencrest in order to deliver important documents, which were classified. On his journey there, he ran into GreenLionII who he hadn't talked to in years. Green talked to him and convinced Ornn to return to Stormgova, his home. It was obvious that Ornn was struggling in the wilderness and needed a place to stay.

Return of Ornn
At the age of 16 in the year 15 SY, Ornn returned to Stormgova in order to meet up with GreenLionII again, but it was too late. A week before this, GreenLionII was murdered by bandits in Myrkira after a controversy

When Ornn returned, he went straight to New Jellhem and found upsidedownelf while wandering around the island, who was heartbroken to hear about the Lion's death.

Then he found his parents in his birth town - Seal Cove. After 11 years of traveling around Eldham and Rathnir I return home to Stormgova. I was welcomed by UpsideDownElf on the shores of Scardin where he told me the tragic news of GreenLionII's death. He was my friend, my inspiration and the one who invited me back to Stormgova. I walked across the beautiful Stormgovan roads to Seal Cove and met up with my parents, Seal and Onix who I have not seen for many years, but I heard stories and legends about them.

The Story Of Lady Notusa
There once was a woman in Southern Stormgova named Lady Notusa. She was born into a long lost noble house called house Notusa as she was one of the last members, but she married a Lord named Cadeyrn and had a child named Moon. Eventually Sir Cadeyrn died in battle and Lady Notusa had to raise the child by herself.

When Ornn returned he got into a romantic relationship with Lady Notusa and they were planning their wedding. During this time, Lady Notusa gave birth to 3 of Ornn's children. His Oldest son was Jacob Seal born two minutes before Janet Sapphire. The youngest child was a boy named Birgir Schmaggerd, however Lady Notusa died during childbirth. Due to this, Ornn blames Birgir for Lady Notusa's death and still has a grudge against him.

These children were generally kept a secret. Only Seal, Onix and Ituasmi knew about their existence. Eventually, Ornn decided that he wasn't ready to take care of children yet so they decided to send them to the University of Osundir to gain lots of knowledge and to follow in Ornn's footsteps.

The Fate of NewJellhem
Since GreenLion II disappeared, Ornn was placed in charge of New Jellhem and got to work straight away. He talked to the locals and took their advice for what to do, improving the roads and building new houses. After a few weeks of power, the people all loved him, until his focus began to shift towards himself. Ornn felt like royalty and put on lavish clothes to reflect that. Over time he began to boss people around. People who knew him before began to question his true intentions as he used to be humble and honest. Some argued that this new selfish behaviour was just a way for Ornn to deal with the loss of Green Lion and his sudden growth in power and responsibilities. During this time, Ornn began to look for a permanent home for his family and friends and began constructing Castle Hrafn (now Castle Ludwig). It would take him 2 years to finish this. It was his main focus for a while and therefore he deserted many of the other projects he worked on like roads and houses. Once the castle was done, Ornn felt exhausted and went on a journey around Rathnir to rest and reclaim his spirit.

After about 3 months of rough travelling, Ornn returned to Stormgova to find his mother and father missing. He searched everywhere for them but without any luck. While he was gone, the Imperare made NewJellhem the new capital and Ornn knew he had a lot of work to do.

About a week after New Jellhem became the capital, Ornn started working on several large projects as citizens started to flood into the city requiring many new houses to also be built. Ornn spent the next year relentlessly working on the capital, building a Cathedral, The Simulami Capital Building and The Maestro Palace. During this time, the town of Visfrietje, creatively named Idunno merged with the capital, doubling the size of NewJellhem.

One day, Ornn travelled to Seal_Cove to talk to his mother, but she was nowhere to be found. He gathered a team and they searched the entirety of Stormgova looking for Onix without any luck. After several months of searching, the group gave up and assumed the worst.

Ornn's Confession: The era of Solaris
After spending a long time searching for his mother, Ornn stood at the top of his castle and looked back at his life and thought about everything. He thought about the universe, he thought about Stormgova and the Simulami Empire, he thought about god. He realised that the Stormgovan Guardian is only one of many, which probably means that it is simply made up. He looked at his friends in the Empire and read even more books on Soleviel, finding his passion for Solaris once again. Eventually, Ornn came to the conclusion that it is the one religion that has meaning. With his mother gone, Ornn was free to reject the guardian and so he did.

The next day, Ornn went to Soleum and got baptised, denouncing the guardian of Stormgova and encouraging the rest of the island to convert with him: officially ending the Guardian's era.

He decided to rework how New Jellhem was run and introduced a new election system where he would always keep a portion of the power, but officially the mayor of the town would be the "Valekt". The first election was held, but as this was a new system, Ornn organised a small council, known as the "High Stormgovan Society" consisting of 5 members to vote for the Valekt. Of course, Ornn ended up winning the vote and became the first Valekt of Stormgova. With this he also introduced a permanent title called "Streysman" which would make his family in charge of NewJellhem for many years after his death acting as a sort of lord.

At this point of his life, Ornn was 22 and had a lot ahead of him. One day when Maximelian II and Robb Ludwig were visiting New Jellhem, they decided that adopting Ornn would be for the better because he was hard working and was quickly being overwhelmed, so they decided to put Ornn under their wing and take care of him. Ornn updated his name from "Ornn Hrafn" to Ornn Ludwig and changed the name of his castle from "Castle Hrafn" to "Castle Ludwig" ready for a new life of honour, faith and patriotism.

Ludwigisation
Ornn Ludwig, now the royal regent assistant, became obsessed with making the city as large as possible and in a week the population of New Jellhem almost doubled as Ornn increased recruitment, becoming the Tabellar of Stormgova in the process. As the new people grew, there were new towns in Stormgova such as Hasan, Zandai and Freholm,. Over the next 5 years, the city grew rapidly to become one of the largest on Eldham as a whole.

One day, Ornn visited the city of Freholm and came across Melody and her wife, Rin Rostraya. Melody was troubled because her parents died previously, but she was a great warrior and was able to defeat Robb Ludwig in a fight. after seeing this, Ornn invited the two of them to be his guests in the castle. There were talks of Ornn adopting Melody, but it never got official. Melody brought a gift to New Jellhem, a young warrior named Abyss.

Abyss lived in a slightly dethatched part of the castle and stayed there after Melody and Rin left. Soon, Abyss became very close with the Ludwigs and was considered a family friend. At this point, Ornn thought it would be a good idea to adopt Abyss himself. He was 27 and Abyss was 17, but officially a Ludwig.

A few months later, Ornn visited Carthus and found a young boy named Otto. He became close with Otto because after a battle they spent a lot of time fishing and working on several small projects.

The Fire Festiva l
In the year 28 SY, Ornn decided to take it up on himself to end the guardian's reign of terror. He wrote a book confessing how he really feels about the guardian and decided that burning the large temple in New Jellhem would be the best way forward. He worked closely with Victoria Maestro and Abyss Ludwig, gathering a group of dedicated Soleviel followers with torches outside the temple.

"The Guardian is dead!" Ornn shouted as he lit gunpowder on the northern wall of the temple. He raised his Halberd and the people of New Jellhem cheered, rushing in to burn important books and artefacts of the guardian.

As the fire ate the building, Ornn stood on a balcony waving the Soleviel flag at those who saw him.

The next day, these actions were shunned by many visitors such as Hielkuh Harold Ironhide, Krisa Corvinius and his own father and Patriarch, Maximelian Ludwig II. Ornn stood at that very same balcony all day, chanting hymns and saying prayers. At one point he came face to face with Hielkuh and they almost got in a fight over the meaning of religious freedom. Ornn argued that the guardian was never real while Hielkuh was disappointed at the state of the capital's religious policies. They were pushed apart by Krisa.

The fires in the temple would eventually die out, but the backlash from getting rid of a famous worship site kept haunting Ornn to the point where he regretted it.