Akko Soleth

Akko Soleth, also known as Ankhitsu, was a Goblin scholar living in the city of Grisa (in the Uraki Imperium) who moved to the Vulperium in February of 2022. She’s written books, drawn many maps, and has since become both a City Planner for the capital city of Aroforn and a Government Minister during her time within the Vulperium.

Appearance
Akko Soleth is a short goblin with a multi-hued green skin covered in dark patches and black oil stains. She has short ashy brown hair and aureolin (yellow) eyes. Her main outfit is a reddish-brown travel poncho with slacks and workman's boots, but she is also known to dress in many other outfits due to her love of fashion. One of her more common outfits is a burgundy coat she wears for her job as Head Archivist of the library in Aroforn.

Personality
Though she once kept shyly to herself growing up, she tries to move past her old hesitancies and maintain a friendly air around others who cross her path. Her religious and cultural principles guide her to help others who need it even if it’s at the expense of herself. She also finds it hard to be shrewd in her dealings, although people often attribute that to her kind. With the wisdom gained on her travels she finds herself giving advice to others, meeting a situation with her own kind of wit, and writing many books supported by the cultural knowledge she has gained. The biggest drawback to her personality is that because of events in her past, in personal conflicts she’ll often be eager for battle or bloodshed even if peace remains an option, and because of her intense connections she creates with other people, she can drive herself into a passionate fury if she sees something she perceives as an injustice to a person. Though she also struggles to temper these reactions in her everyday work.

Her Faith
In keeping with her original tribe’s beliefs, she believed that spirits inhabit everything, from the plants, trees, rocks, to even mountains or a running river. It is these spirits that were to be respected as if one were a guest in their house as her tribe would forage and make its across the forests.

In a belief unique from but still playing into her people’s faith in nature, she has as a result of a revelation in her travels come to believe that the sun itself is the divine source of everything, giving daily worship and praise to it alongside incorporating it into each of her personal philosophies, even changing her original tribal family name to “Soleth” to reflect this belief.

Because of her now living in a majority-Vulpur city where other cultures used to be frowned upon, she keeps personal details on her faith to herself only.

Early Youth
Akko was born in the late years of Eldham's colonization to the Lebahki tribe of Jungle Goblins, located within the Phoros region. Different from the Rathnir goblins of other far-off cultures though, she was raised in a culture which lacked ideas of personal property, as life within the jungle meant that there was an abundance of food and goods to go around and to be shared willingly between members of the tribe. She was also raised in their religious tradition which worshipped the nature that sustained them, believing there to be spirits in every living object aswell that were to be respected. It was these values that were instilled within her as a young goblin growing up, but even though her people thrived off this lifestyle, they knew that the bounty of the jungles wasn't infinite and it was healthier for them to travel across their continent of Phoros to other jungle forest regions. Other jungle goblin tribes would also seasonally migrate into their own land aswell putting strain on the resources and their culture.

When she was about 12 years of age, her tribe would set off for one of these journeys, known to be dangerous for the many monsters or settled peoples who would see them as a threat. Their destination was the jungles of Pheonaria in the east but they first had to pass through the sandy dry plains of Azuma-Zi. The goblins sustained themselves with food from their storage and whatever they could scavenge along the way. So while she was on the desert plains, Akko took the initiative to head to what looked like a village destroyed in an old war with dilapidated wood houses. As she was searching a dusty cabinet in the kitchen of one of these homes, she heard the cracks and strains of wood and the second floor beams collapsed in on itself, blocking the doorway and exit to the building. Failing to find a way to escape and despite her calls for any kind of help, one unfortunate fact stuck in her head that had been hammered in for the past several months: The migration was one of the most important things to the tribe, and she would be left behind.

She was stuck in the wreckage for three days, surviving only off her ration packs of berries, bugs, & packed boar meat. Desperate and afraid, at noon of the third day there was the sound of an axe breaking down through the rubble as the sun shone in on the goblin. A gruff-looking human with cobalt blue hair had found her along with his looting party, as they had been trailing the trail of the other goblins for the scattered resources they were leaving behind in their camps. The blue-haired man, an ex-knight of the Auroran Order known by the name of Talin Feydh, brought the fearful & alone goblin Akko into his custody and became something of a father figure to her, training her to fight with a sword and help in the "jobs" his groups would undertake.

Life in Uraka
After months on the road travelling through the old ruins and ancient cities of Eldham, Akko, with her bag of books strung over her back, came upon the Guarati forest. An ancient jungle known to her people that was on the outskirts of the territory of Urak, the core region and capitol of the Uraki Imperium. Hoping to visit the city center to trade and learn more on the goblins who were able to have founded such a powerful settlement, she stumbled and spotted a young woman tending to some flowers on a riverbed near the approach to the city. As Akko called out to her for directions, the young girl introduced herself as Lumi, princess of Alania, the heartland principality which contained the larger suburbs of the Urak islands. Akko was stunned that someone so young could be leading a region of so large a size and influence by just herself (though the blow was lessened by them being near the same height) but she would soon come to learn all she would want about Uraki politics as she was invited to settle down in Alania within Lumi’s town in the region known as Grisa, which had been suffering for some time from population loss that had left the streets empty save for a few remaining citizens and foreign travelers passing through on their way to the trade and military hubs in Urak proper. Seeing an opportunity to get to work on writing her books and committing to her research in comfort in the beautiful garden city, she agreed to settle into a small home on the western river of Grisa, purchased with a few of her bags of gold she had saved.

Within time she became fascinated with the lore of the region she had made her home and focused herself to studying the forests and ancient culture of the Gurakan people who used to live in the ruins to the west of Alania. The Gurakans were a prominent civilization from the early Eldham colonial period that was eventually destroyed in an ancient war, with the depopulated region falling under Barbossa and then Uraka. As her studies and collections of artifacts grew, she became unhappy with the small scope of her home and set to using the materials and construction knowledge she had accrued from her travels to build a bigger estate on the river in the style of the surrounding Grisan buildings.

Though this house was a pleasant upgrade, Akko still saw the canal infrastructure in that part of the city as rotting and in dissaray, and so after asking for permission from the Princess for it to be rebuilt, she would over her next months within the city design a small waterfront district in Western Grisa with new shops, a houseboat, and a new bridge crossing the great river and leading westwards into the yet unsettled jungle forest.

The then principality of Osria, neighbor to Alania, would later gain an imperial lease over the empty forests in Guraka. Akko tried to negotiate and provide input for the two heartland regions but the stage was eventually set for Osria to take dominance within the region, and so as a result Akko found herself as a citizen providing assistance to both lands.

Guraka stagnated under Osria for a month until it was given a new owner and renamed to Guratzo, with the primary settlement being the newly constructed city of Kushintium, whose policy was to set on fire as much of the jungle as possible in order to make way for houses for Uraki citizens moving in. Akko considered the Uraki colonization of the region to be mismanaged with no thought given to the historical and natural character of the region, the leaders' only focus given to quickly and cheaply-built modern houses. She provided city and regional development plans to the leaders of the region in it's infancy and tried to call for the creation of nature and forest reserves, but the colony city ignored these calls and continued in it's actions with the city leader claiming to have a personal vendetta against trees, treating them as pests in the way of his town's growth.

She still tried to keep up her good intentions as she helped build roads through the jungles to connect these new colonies and provide them with her research on the people's who lived there in the past, but she was ultimately disheartened as part of what she saw as her land was devastated as if someone carved that piece of the earth out with a knife.

Adding to her dissapointment would also be international events, as though she retained pride in her local city, she became dissapointed with her nation's government which ironically resided mostly in the city directly neighboring her own (and whose emperor she often saw walking outside her house). The primary reason for her dissapointment was her nation's ambition in declaring a globally unpopular imperialist war against the nations of the northeast, with the leaders wanting to claim new lands and focus on conquest instead of focusing on actually developing the depopulated provinces of the vast empire and rebuilding it's dying cities, a problem which persisted not only in the empire's far off vassals but even in what was claimed as the nation's imperial heartland, her city of Grisa suffering greatly from lack of new blood and struggling to keep up with the costs of land upkeep. Not only that, but entire neighborhoods were declared abandoned, infrastructure was falling apart, and the region had become plagued with bandits and crop thieves that attacked the ourtskirts often while the military did nothing to help, instead parading in "enemy" cities in far-off wars.

With her frustration with the nation coming to a head, she made plans to emigrate away from Uraka and move her large inventory of supplies obtained from her expeditions to a new country. Before moving on, she wrote drafts of a book titled "The Chronicles of Grisa" with information from the few events she could find in the dusty annals of the city's archives.