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Alcuinas Alban (ingame: SeemsVeryLegit) is a human from the village of Redding under Seaside in the Seahaven Union, on the furthest southeast corner of Plagos. For this village, fishing and mining were the main sources of income and food, but following the Roman-Seaside War, had left the village ravaged. With nothing left in the village Alcuinas left for the main city in the province, Seaside. Initially on his lonesome in the city after a short introduction by St.Acol, then leader of the city, began to tinker with the redstone mined from under the city. These experiments were responsible for him being approached by a prince of Baronov, Shwointshounburg to join a recent university project. Taking up the new University of Baronov as the Head Scientist, he began to make plans to expand the University and his new redstone contraptions.

Childhood
To help support his village of Redding, Alcuinas helped his father, a local fisherman as most in the village were. When he grew tired of fishing, he began to turn his attention to the mines under the Shattered Sea to help supplement his family. During times of stress or family arguments, Alcuinas would hide in the mines under the village, causing him to be somewhat unsociable and awkward, preferring to stay quiet. It wasn't until he had turned the age of 17 had anything of notice occurred to the village, following the Roman-Seaside War. Being destroyed in the onslaught of the war, Alcuinas had been hiding in the mines to avoid a recent argument, and was spared.

Going To the Big City
With his village gone, and the war raging, Alcuinas journeyed to the capital of the territory, Seaside. Constructing a raft out of the wreckage left from the battle, he sailed northward to the main city. His time at sea left him more reserved and worn, but had left him somewhat more independent. Arriving to Seaside itself had led him to meet the mayor of Seaside, St.Acol - who gave him an apartment and basic supplies to help Alcuinas adjust to the new city life.

Gears and Clockwork
Despite being the newest arrival to Seaside, nothing of note changed. Alcuinas noticed himself sometimes being the sole individual around, a result of the prior leading to most of the population being away, or in hiding. Taking up mining once more and heading into the underground, Alcuinas continued to work as he once had almost without change. It wasn't until he came across a red ore named redstone that caught his attention. Prior involvement with it was with his father when they needed to arm their explosives, and what few lamps they owned. With no one around and seemingly stacks of the material and iron to work with, he began to tinker. A prototype of a flying machine using redstone as the core component was in the works when he submitted it's blueprint to a passing noble to prove a point in an argument he held with him on the usefulness of redstone.

Seemingly satisfied with the blueprint, weeks passed until eventually the same noble returned with an offer for Alcuinas - a place as a researcher for an University of Baronov (11/12/21). With nothing of particular note occurring in Seaside and Acol himself being quiet, he seized the chance and left for the neighboring state in the union. Upon the annoucement of the University of Baronov, Alcuinas had begun to showcase various redstone contraptions he had designed - particularly the original flying machine model as well as a hypothetical submarine, a possible redstone reactor to power a new lighting project for the union, amongst other minor projects. It was around this time CaptainNorth370, the King of Baronov began to commission a new prototype for the flying machine, for an unstated purpose (Seaside Civil War).

Uldarash Civil War
While not prominent in the Uldarash Civil War, Alcuinas was tasked to venture into the rebelling states of The Republic of Alfheim and Montroig as a war correspondent. Managing to acquire citizenship in the state of Alfheim, Alcuinas was able to gain testimony regarding the opinions and cause of the Civil War from the Loyalist side, including opinions of then leader Ashley (Alfheim) and Qwaser (Loyalist Empress). (These documents were lost upon the declaration of the Seaside Civil War in which most documents were stolen by the Acolytes under St. Acol).

Civil War
The political situation of Seaside-Baronov had begun to boil over, as Jaxfon, the former King of Seaside had officially given the title to St.Acol - someone whom the politicians of Baronov had begun to take a dislike to. After showcasing and producing more redstone contraptions through the University for Baronov, Alcuinas was invited to Operation Valkyrie, a coup plan to remove St.Acol for someone more favorable for the union. Declining the offer to be made King of a declining Seaside, and helping to chose the new candidate, Nick07, the coup was set and war was declared against Acol's Seaside. A component of Loyalist Seaside, the side still loyal to the Seaside-Baronov union, Alcuinas had acted as the head of the research division, building and planning new machines to combat the designs stolen by the Acolytes at the start of the Seaside Civil War - but saw little if no combat at all.

Independence
Following the Seaside Civil War ending, both Seaside and Baronov found themselves weaker and poorer then before the war. Theocrat St. Acol was thrown from the nation and had retreated to Lunaris (unknown at the time) but the damage had been done, leading to many former members of Seaside resigning and leaving. Tired from the strain of the war and the knowledge his technology was used for unjust purposes, Alcuinas felt disgust for the union he had sided with and desired to leave what he viewed as "imperialist" tendencies. In a joint agreement with close-friend Shwointshounburg, proposed an indepedent nation arising from the University of Baronov - the aptly named Universal Institutive Authority. Upon gaining land from the nation of Najer through a legal dispute, began plans to migrate the university away from Baronov.

Horizons
Despite this newly attempted nation being a source of excitement for Alcuinas and Shwointshounburg, it was short-lived. Further Shattered Sea/Plagos conflicts had arisen, and the nation had been suffering from lack of international recognition and loss of population - mostly due to its nature as a university. Unable to recruit new members into the UIA had begun to have second thoughts about this action. Declaring independence against Baronov had soured relations, and Seaside his old nation was in ruins. Following an accident with Shwointshounburg in which the latter was lost due to [REDACTED] On the backfoot following the loss, he announced the closure of the UIA, but leaft the archives intact for future generations to discover. Remembering his old citizenship to Alfheim, and his trek through Uldarash leading him to wander through a nation known as Paloro, he began to make plans to head westward to the continent of Haven.