ErnstVenIshtara

Biography
Ernst VenIshtara (Carnian: Ærnest Ven Ishtara), adopted by zhiuuuiihu VenIshtara was a Senator in the Kindom of Galadonn. He was born as Ernst Thalismann in the City of Atopolis from which he moved at the age of 16 to Not_Venice where he would reside for 2 years until he fled to Galadonn_City ( Galadonnia), when the continet of Sørligste was occupied by the Horde. Once the reconstruction of Lagos started Ernst moved once more, this time to the city of Hartend. After retiring to a small cottage in Imperavir he would flee to Nouksiher for Exile and eventually there die of a natural cause at the high age of 220.

He was a relaxed, reserved and helpful. Ernsts primarly place of residence was Hartend in Galadonn, which he was mayor of but he also owned many other places most notabilly: Urnu-Arrak, Galadonnia, Ytharash and Rodheros.

Early Life
Ernst does not have more than a few hazy memories of his childhood. All he knows is that his Father Remus Thalismann died when Ernst was about 3 years old and that he lived with his mother and siblings in a small apartment about a tavern. In his early teenage years he moved to the port town of Not_Venice, looking for a job in order to financially support his family. He mainly worked as a dock-worker and a large part of his salary back to Atopolis. When he heard the news of the horde approaching Not_Venice Ernst fled, leaving behind his family which he would never see again.

Arraving in Galadonn
After fleeing from Sorligste Ernst looked for refugee and fled to Galadonn. He sailed up aimless into the high ocean on a small boat Days after days he was looking for land and only escaped by a hair's breadth from pirates. But then finally he arrived in a lagoon, which would turn out to be Galadonn_City. Once he arrived he was welcomed by Cassius Potentia, the king of Galadonn who introduced Ernst to the nation. He quickly found many new friends in Lagos and would realize that he had finally found a new home to stay in.

Moving to Hartend
Or at least he thought so. In winter of 2022 the Galadonnian Capital of Lagos was being redesigned so Ernst became homeless and lost a lot of his valuables. In urgent need for a new home he approached King Cassius, who would offer him shelter in the small farming town of Hartend. When Ernest arrived there were only a hand full of houses and it was densely populated, not like Galadonn_City which was always overcrowded. As the Reconstruction project of Lagos turned out to take way, way longer than expected Ernst got himself comfortable in Hartend and explored it in all its facades. From the Evansylloan farm lands to the Great City walls to the underground. The more Ernst walked around the more he started to like Hartend and eventually fell in love with the town. He decided that even if Lagos was ever being reconstructed he would stay in Hartend and so Hartend would become his final destonation.

Political career
When the former Earl of Hartend passed away Ernst became vice-Earl of Hartend and later on Earl of Hartend. Under the Earl and Ernst as Vice-Earl Hartend had a golden age and became increasingly active, mostly though Ensts recruits. Therefore he was approached by the King of Galadonn Cass as well as the Senator of Recruitment Stoylen if he would like to become Senator of Recruitment and replace Stoylen who had plans to retire. After close consideration Ernst accepted the offer and thereby joined the High Government and started his political career becoming more and more influence within the Kingdom.

When the Former Count of Leodon, the Region Ernsts town Hartend was situated in, became inactive Ernst was offered to become the new Count. At first though he denied because he felt bad to replace his dear friend Licrovan. Afterwards he talked with Licrovan and he told Ernst that it was fine for him to replace Licrovan under certain conditions. As Count of Leodon Ernst would prove himself as organizer and manager. His achievements in Leodon for example: Securing the border with Carn (Licritia), annexing the neighboring state of Halidon, regaining control over Ythashrek, Establishing Leodon as a proper state for the first time, forging Leodon national identity as the Core state of Galadonn, improving relations between Carn and Leodon, providing for the Reconstruction of Lagos and helping in the organization of it, Reassigning Earls for Iercresse, Licritia and Galadonnia.

Ernst also managed a lot of towns within Galadonn in the past:


 * Hartend, Galadonnia, Ythashrek, Guslandia, Iercresse, Licritia, Galadonns Sanctuary (Leodon)
 * Hiyokudo, Kriopolis, Sakura, Hichi, Taladhurach (Adavia)

Time in Audal
Besides the phagosian sea (mostly Martana or Zarnu-Audal) and Galadonn, Ernst also spend a lot of his time in Audal bc he did not become mayor of Hartend right away.

Vulpex
In the State of Audal in Yimmu-Audal, which Galadonn was a vassal of a lot of mayor positions were available and so he applied for one and was accepted. This would be the small isle of Vulpex. Ernst started to invite his friends mostly from Galadonn over to Vulpex and he build together with his father Zhhuiii on the island. After some time Ernst came on the idea of making Vulpex join Galadonn, because it was close to it and the citizens, which he brought in were all Galadonnis. This was of course unacceptable for Talor and a long dispute began. Eventually it would stay Talor but Ernst would sell it to his father Zhuiii for 200k. While this just seemed like a small incident on an island it would only be the beginning for Ernsts madness. (Later on when Yimmu-Audal collapsed Zhuii would eventually join Galadonn with Vulpex)

Rodheros-Kalasirol
In the 2nd Great Altiniquian War, Ernst was reported to be involved in a coup attempt in the Sironian cities of Kalsirol and Rodheros. The exact details are unknown but rumors suggest, that he had before completely unknown deep ties to the Jeghosian Sky Seer Nigxl and either convinced him to processed with the coup or maybe even installed Nigxl in Sironia as an agent in order to coup eventually. Those Accusations are on the basis that at the failed coup of Kalasirol Ernst was spotted escaping the town along side some galadonni guards. Furthermore some theories say Ernst saved Nigxl from Kalasirol and gave him shelter in the underground of Hartend. This is based of the fact that no corpse of Nigxl was ever found although he clearly was shot in the heart with an arrow.

Aufei
The next town he would acquire was Aufei. This time he wanted to take a different approach and not invite his friends from Galadonn. Suddenly though he got recruits for Galadonn which wondered if there was any desert town to join and so Ernst took the opportunity and started the Aufei community which exists to this day. This Aufei community though lacked any connection to the rest of audal and felt more galadonni even if this time not intended by Ernst as he was a great fan of Audal. After the Drach war Ernst fell sick for a while and when he returned his good friend bongo had bought Hartend, the city he desired for so long for him. He was willingly to give the town to him but asked if he could have Aufei in return. This was a demand Ernst just couldn’t deny as Bongo just fulfilled Ernsts biggest dream of owning Hartend. Therefore Aufei got to be owned by Bongo. Thereby departing even further from Audal culture wise.

Disputes with Audal
Over time Ernst and his friend Bongo got fed up with the government of Audal, as it did not help them in anyway but still prohibited from doing all kinds of cool things. Furthermore the government was quite arrogant towards them.

Besides the town of Aufei Ernsts family would acquire also the town of Daslhe-Lum, Hasskatend, Kerdal-Eldal, Edal-Duali and the Carnain allies of Ernst got the ownership of Iverthirak and Liraxak citadel during the war. Many people accuse Ernst of having this planned as some kind of conspiracy, while in fact he only contributed to the acquiring of Aufei and Kordal-Eldal, while the rest of town mayors were assigned without any influence of Ernst.

Once Galadonn decided to leave Yimmu-Audal the concept for Aufei to be a by Galadonnia people inhabited town, while being a part of Audal did not work out anymore. With most of the builds in Aufei being made by Galadonnis and the close proximity to Galadonn Bongo and Ernst wanted to departure with the town from Audal and join Galadonn now that Audal and Galadonn would go split ways. To make the Audal government more likely to accept the deal Bongo and Ernst represented the facts of them owning in total 7 towns in Audal and offered to give 5 of those back to audal for free and only taking the 2 near the border: Aufei and Ivethiarak. This offer was denied by the government official void which would beg to Ernst and Bongo saying how sad he would be if they would to leave Aufei until they finally agreed to not succeed but instead to sell all the 5 chief controlled towns back to the Audal government. The Audal government though immediately lowered the starting price of 1.5m after one day to 1m. Than after even further negotiation agreements to 900k, 800k and eventually 750k which would be the final price. So after renegotiating the price several times the deal was changed to only include Aufei. The Audal government now started to buy the 4 other Chief towns first in the east trough Ernst who asked his family members to transfer the towns to him one after another. The fort of Edal-Dubai would be given back for free as Ernst only hold on to it for void originally, the town of Kendal-Edal and Dalshe-Lum was bought for the cheap price of 100k. The towns of Hasskatend never was bought by Audal. Eventually after Audal did not pay the money for Aufei 2 weeks after the final price of 750k was settled Bongo and Ernst received and offer of a Carnian to buy the town for 750k Ernst and Bongo accepted it and on the same day the town was sold.

With this only the town of Hasskatend was left in Ernsts hands in Audal. With that he tried to land scam on an alt account and thereby got 100k of the Emperor of Yimmu-Audal, Trev. For the night Ernst allowed one of his friends to continue with the land scamming. This though would turn out quite bad as this friend messed up the perms while land scamming and eventually got claim coupled by the person he wanted to land scam. Thereby Ernst had lost all towns in Audal.

All of this made the Audal people and government dislike Bongo and Ernst a lot while Ernst and Bongo also disliked Audal a lot from than on. Especially the change of mood by voido_o from begging them to sell it to letting them wait, making fun of them and accusing them of having planned a rebellion since the start.

Ederai-Elnam
As Ernst was now already known for having claims out of no where under his control, friends of him asked if he could organize a claim for them outside of their nation to proxy war. Ernst took the challenge and also came to just be approached on his alt account, where he had lost Hasskatend, by a member of the Audal government who offered him a town position the town of Ederai-Elam. Still angry with Audal Ernst accepted this offer and after a few days the ownership was transferred to him and he and his friend started to prepare the claim for war until it finally was cancelled. Now there was no use anymore for the town and out of grudge against Audal he sold it to Audal enemy Voidfish.

Siege of Urnu-Arrak
After the war YA collapsed and eventually Audal underwent a coup by MST who had taken the claim of Urnu-Arrak from Ratt forcefully and declared himself the new rightful ruler of Audal. Ernst helped MST in the start but later on realized that the coup of MST was unjustified, weak and had low popular support and meant dependence on Theitonikos. Therefore Ernst decided to coup MST in Urnu-Arrak and siege the town as well as the fort south and the town of Urnu_Oyori. Ernst would than go on to crown himself as Emperor of Urnu-Arrak and declared the Ernstits Warlord State of Yimmu-Audal, later renamed to Administration of Urnu-Arrak. He would than try to sell it to Audal which did not have sufficient funds and therefore he eventually sold it for 7.5m to Annienkos. And Urnu_Oyori for 2 more millions. Afterwards Ernst would retire fully from Audal politics.

Retirement
Eventually Ernst would retire in the City „Imperavir“ of his dear friend Stoylen. After he helped Adavia and Carn to gain independence, he fled into exile to the hamlet of „Noukisher“. Here he would spend his last days of his life. Collecting books about the history of the continent and frequently being visited by old and new friends. Only Several days after Ernst celebrated his 220th birthday, Futuregnome of Ytharash found Ernst dead in his rocker chair, his eyes closed, a book on his lap and With a smile on his face. Ernst died peacefully of old age.

Desendence
Ernst had a huge family. On the one hand he became part of the Ven Ishtara family when he was adopted by zhuiii on the other hand he joined the Chief family when marrying his first spouse Vonestly. After opposing Galadonn he was expelled from the Ven Ishtara Family and thereby lost the title, from than on he only was known as Chief Ernst. Later on he also married Sunnier of Kaeru and Shuy Catte. Ernst would have a lot of children. Some of them adopted. His first Child Chief Eric would take on Ernsts inheritance and bring it into the new world when having to flee to Abexillia.