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Introduction
Nicholas Augustus is a 21 year old wanderer from a faraway land. One day, he arrived upon the shores of Rathnir and stumbled upon the town of Portusburg, a rapidly growing town in the Kartek Diarchy. He was invited by its mayor, Wrog, and quickly made friends with many of the people living there.

A Citizen of Portusburg
Once introduced, Nicholas made a house in the inner part of Portusburg. He found work as a miner and spent his early days extracting ores and minerals from the earth. Later however, he opened a book store and began work on his series "The Thunder Knight" of which 2 volumes were created. Roughly 30 copies were sold, making a solid source of income during his early days. His book was eventually picked up by the legendary librarian RussianTanker. Later Nicholas entered the service of the Portusburg town guard, and when the captain of the guard left to join the neighboring town of Buktenbyen, Nicholas took charge in organizing the town guard and preparing for town guard elections.

Portusburg Crisis
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Due to his belief that Wrog was not the leader Portusburg deserved, Nicholas met with several other discontented citizens and began planning a coup against Wrog. He contacted and spoke to Sinnon, second in command to Wrog, who the conspirators felt was a much better leader. However before the coup could even happen, due to pressure from Buktenbyen and the Kartek government, Wrog abandoned the throne of Portusburg, sparking the Portusburg Crisis. When chaos broke out in the streets of Portusburg, Nicholas assumed command of the Portusburg town guard and quickly made his way to the throne room. When he arrived, the throne had been occupied by Foczo. While Nicholas first thought this was a power play, Foczo stated he only wanted to keep chaos from descending and invited Nicholas to stand beside him. As tensions began to escalate in the throne room, Nicholas decided to de-escalate the situation and join Foczo, telling the town guard to stand down. While most supported this decision, a few citizens promptly left. Some called to kill the traitors, but Nicholas personally made sure those who wanted to leave could do so in peace, by walking with them shield raised and ordering everyone not to resort to violence.

True to his word, when Kartek peacekeepers, mostly from Buktenbyen, arrived in the city, Foczo gave up the throne. The city was placed under marshal law, and Nicholas manned a checkpoint along a bridge, alerting citizens of what just happened and advising them to stay safely indoors, as well as dissuading any would be looters. When news that Wrog was coming to retake Portusburg reached Kartek, all forced were pulled back to Buktenbyen and thus Nicholas became a resident of a new town.

Nicholas was present at the first and second battle of Portusburg. While the second one was hardly a battle, he saw combat during the first battle and was able to acquire some valuable war loot. With Portusburg finally back in Kartek hands and renamed to Roseport, Nicholas was present at Sinnon's coronation and finally was able to hold elections for the town guard. He lost the election to the very capable Karma and after befriending the mayor of Golgograd, Nirauras Asezie, moved to Golgograd as his second in command. Despite this he still maintained many friendships with those in the other provinces of Kartek.

A Lord of Arxella
Shortly after this, one of leaders of the Kartek Diarchy died and the other one left, thus causing the dissolution of Kartek. Many of the former provinces formed into their own small kingdoms. Golgograd and the surrounding territory, became the 2nd Tzardom of Arxella, reviving the long dead kingdom. Nirauras became Tzar and Nicholas was elevated to a lord of Arxella and Nirauras' second in command. He helped recruit and grow the kingdom, build defenses around Golgograd, and advise Nirauras about policy decisions. Most notably, he represented Arxella at the Sparwood Summit, where he denounced the Kartek Caliphate and "West Arxella" which he did not recognize as a legitimate state, in front of over 50 Sparwood leaders, sparking an intensely heated debate. He was also responsible for bringing in the squatter town of Kraadvara into Arxella and built Greystone Castle as a last defensive stronghold for Arxella.

On November 20th, Tzar Nirauras formally abdicated his position and crowned Nicholas as the new Tzar of Arxella. He immediately forged close diplomatic ties with the neighboring kingdom of Rohel of whom many in the government and royal family were personal friends of his.

War against Kartek
When Kartek dissolved, much of the former kartek territory was annexed by Frosterium. A group known as the Kartek Liberation Front fought against this foreign occupation using guerilla tactics and after Frosterium collapsed (due to unrelated reasons) the group rebranded as the Kartek Caliphate. However, now their goal was to reform Kartek and they began attacking the smaller nations that had formed in the region. This period lacked many major engagements and was characterized by many small raids and skirmishes. Nicholas saw lots of combat during this time, most prominently during the defense of Moonburg when Kartek terrorists repeatedly attacked a peaceful religious ceremony. Eventually, the Caliphate grew in strength and Arxella was forced to surrender, however Nicholas continued a resistance based in Greystone Castle.

War in Uldarash
As Arxella was a protectorate of Escharia, it was dragged into the Uldarashi Civil War when Escharia joined on the side of Empress Caterina. Nicholas was present at the Battle of Terroja on November 18th where the outnumbered Uldarashi defenders were eventually defeated by the Auroran rebel army. He fought valiantly until he was forced into a graveyard during the fighting and pushed into an open grave where he was knocked unconscious until the battle was over.

Thankfully, Nicholas was not able to attend the disastrous loyalist counter-offensive several days later which was defeated on all fronts with heavy casualties. If present, Nicholas would almost certainly have been killed, wounded, or captured. With Arxella no longer a protectorate of Escharia, witnessing heavy defeats, and seeing major allies pulling out of the war, he decided his adventure on Uldarash had come to an end and returned to focus on internal matters within Arxella and Kartek.

War against the South
With the reformation of Kartek, many Southern Sparwood nations looked to the North in fear of the growing power and formed a coalition to invade and destroy Kartek. Although Nicholas was in a state of rebellion against Kartek, he realized that the Southern Imperialists were a greater existential threat and made a pact with Kartek to work together to protect their native lands from the invaders.

On 11/19, Nicholas joined a five man raiding party which went deep into enemy lines and was able to enter several Southern cities.