Malaedar Kalegos

Malaedar Kalegos is a human alloran-daelyrian blacksmith and scholar living in Frostarch, Duskyon. He was born in the city of Ruma, Eldham and raised as a noble in the sister city Port Kalegos. After a devastating raid by pirates on the settlement he was forced to flee with his parents and younger sister presumably dying in the raid. This raid forced Malaedar to leave the city he and his family built up from nothing and off into the seas where he found him self coming to lands of Rathnir. Living as a vagrant, moving nation to nation, squatting in many great nations such as Tulipia and Fornost of Aurora, he eventually landed in the High Kingdom of Daelyria, Frostarch where he was welcomed in with open arms. Malaedar, now lives among the Daelyrian people and taking his intuitive nature and smithing skills to run his newly obtained shop and spends his free time helping the Daelyrians continue expanding and building their great nation.

Early Life
Malaedar, of the noble House of Kalegos was born in the City of Ruma to his parents Aulenior Kalegos and Ikapono Kalegos. There he would grow up in Ruma for a short time before the House of Kalegos would be tasked by the King of Ruma to build the city now known as the Port City of Kalegos.

In the early years of Port Kalegos, Malaedar would be taken under the wing of his friend and mentor Sir Thrallslayer. He would go on to learn many skills such as basic hunting, marksmanship, blacksmithing, and the lost house Kalegos art of Dragon Hunting. Under Thrallslayer's teachings he learned every skill he would ever need to track down dragons of all sorts within the Alloran regions, from sea serpents near the port to mountain Drakes and Wyverns. He and Thrallslayer were truly skilled Dragon Hunters and were able to generate many texts of the different species of Dragons.

One morning, "Mal" and Thrallslayer, had gone out to the deep Jungles bordering Port Kalegos in search for the rare Tanan Serpent. A Dragon serpent very that has been alleged to be a myth and one of the most dangerous of the Dragons surrounding the Alloran Kingdom as it has the abilities of a Cockatrice turning any victim to stone. So being the adventurous Dragon Hunters they were, they wanted to find this Dragon and study it for their texts and to prove that the beast exists. After much effort in and a few dead ends "Mal" and Thrallslayer were able to track the Tanan Serpent to a deep burrow that could possibly be the size of an entire city! Not much is known about the events of that day moving onwards, as far as the people of Kalegos know is that Malaedar returned home beaten and burned holding on to nothing but his quiver and wrapped around his hand, Thrallslayer's iconic Dragon tooth necklace. From that day forth Malaedar had become very introverted and a young man of few words.

Life in The Port City Kalegos
After that fateful day Thrallslayer was lost to the Tanan Serpent, Malaedar had not gone back to Dragon Hunting for months and would continue honing the other skills his mentor and dear friend had taught him. Life for him continued as mundane as it was for everyone else within the city. Port City had grown to become a prominent city within the Alloran region almost rivaling a nearby city known as Pumkinlandia, these two cities would compete with one another in trade due to each of their rapidly growing economies due to their ports, valuable locations being an almost checkpoint on the way to the heart of Allorah. In this booming period of time for the Kalegos's the house would go on to eventually become a well trusted house to the royal King and his prince brother Lord Peter and they would go on to provide the royal court with vital counseling and wisdom. Malaedar, learning the basics of royal politics and expanding his business knowledge due to the economic boom, became very busy in times ahead always having something to either craft or delegate within Port Kalegos

Malaedar was well known for his finetuned craftsmanship as a blacksmith and as a great soon to be City lord who had taken great care of his people regardless of his cold and silent tendencies that formed after Thrallslayer's tragic death. Many people among Port Kalegos had rumored that Mal would go on likely succeed the King and Prince of Ruma and subsequently The Alloran Kingdom due to his great leadership and house being more in tuned and favored by the public. In the years to come the Alloran Kingdom's might had begun to show signs of wavering with most of Allorahs armies often than not being sent off to supply the Zamotz Union with numbers for their wars. Along with its dwindling armies came with fear of the more frequent bandit attacks that have been terrorizing the roads between Ruma and Port Kalegos. These attacks were damaging the Kingdom's economy quite heavily with cutting off trade routes between Ruma and Port Kalegos, these bandits begun growing in numbers and for each and every attack they came more and more ferocious with some of these bandits being of all sorts of origins some being Druids of the Alloran Phantom Jungles and even some pirates that would arrive in larger numbers from places unknown to the kingdom.

The Alloran Kingdom at this point had been broken apart, being impossible for either of the cities of Allorah to contact one another for assistance. With the 3 cities cut off all forms of communication had become lost and House Kalegos practically filling in for "Royal Leadership" in the time they spent divided from Ruma. Malaedar, whom had become quite frustrated with the current distress the Kingdom had fallen into, started to train willing men, women, and young adults in the ways of the bow and the bare minimum he knew of swordsmanship in the hopes of preparing his people to hold off against the increasingly immanent thread of Pirates and Bandits. These skills will later serve the people of Kalegos well.... for a short time....

Fall of Port Kalegos
Within months of the disconnect from Ruma due to the bandit threat, House Kalegos gathered together into the council hall to discuss what they were going to do about the ongoing catastrophe of a Kingdom that's basically in its grave. Malaedar's father Lord Ikapono Kalegos had declared that the people of Kalegos stay and stand together in Kalegos and make a push for Ruma and there they would become refugees until they can regain enough strength to return to Kalegos and wipe the bandit threat out along the way. One idea after another the room erupted into frustrated arguing, some saying that "it's too late were doomed" "Lets follow Lord Ikapono's Plan" "No we should leave to a new land" ..... "AHEM, I have an idea!" said one of the members of House Kalegos. The room falls silent focusing on one point across the room in a semi lit corner. There sat Malaedar looking quite annoyed with the level of distasteful arguing that broke out. "We have some of the most effcient burrowing contractions that we've been gifted by Cúamwan years ago, they used this to generate the old sewer systems of Ruma. Why don't we use that to burrow through the Western mountain sides to reach Pumkinlandia and regroup with them to push towards Ruma?" said Malaedar in a hopeful and upbeat voice. The council, in shock for this had been the first time in a long time they have seen Malaedar ever so energetic about anything, and of all times it would be in a time like this. Reluctantly the council had pondered the idea for a little bit eventually settling with Malaedar's proposition. They then proceeded to burrow through the mountains on the Western front of the city with Malaedar heading the venture. The venture into the mountain was slightly treacherous with the overshadowing threat of being collapsed in on by the mountain. Nevertheless they pressed of for 4 days through the mountain until they breached the barrier of the Eastern front of Pumpkinlandia's side of the Mountain.

As they broke through the mountain with hope and excitement, they were faced with pure horror and fear as for Pumpkinlandia had been sacked and obliterated with many citizens from the men to the women and children's heads planted on pikes layed all around the city streets and along the port. Devastated by the loss and waste of 4 days effort Malaedar and his crew begun their journey back home to Port Kalegos to report their sightings and return to the drawing board. Going back home had been a shorter journey now that their way had finally been cleared out for ease of travel cutting the trip back in half. Approaching the breach into Port Kalegos, scents of smoke and fire along with a foul smell that was quite familiar to Malaedar and his crew. They had returned home to nothing but a city full of ash and flames, burned bodies littering the ground, and cages along the port. The once grand Port City of Kalegos had fallen to Pirates and Bandits, the same Pirates and Bandits that raided Pumpkinlandia, and left Kalegos city to rot away. The devestated burrowing crew among the ruins searched for their loved ones only to find nothing but unrecognizable husks of their fellow citizens. The only indications of any survivors were the cages that outlined the port where few signs of struggle were found. Malaedar couldn'd find anything that would indicate any of the bodies were any House Kalegos members or if they had been taken therefore to his knowledge he is the last remaining member of the House Kalegos a once great Noble house one of Dragon Hunting decent. He and the burrowing crew held a small funeral for the denizens of the city and took one of Kalegos's last remaining salvageable ships and agreed to sail off into the ocean together to find a new home and hopefully find more Kalegos Citizens along the way.

The Final Stretch
After months of sailing around Eldham, Malaedar grew increasingly horrified of the idea that his family had been utterly mutilated and defiled while he was burrowing forcing him into an immediate state of depression. The time on the sea did not do him well, leaving him with his thoughts and the sound of the ocean the only thing speaking into his ear. The rest of the crew slowly one by one would leave the small ship around Eldham moving into other nations and kingdoms trying to start new lives leaving Malaedar behind on his own. Malaedar would sail for a few months more, sailing into the never-ending ocean eventually landing in the lands of Rathnir. Here he would go on living as a Nomad moving city to city living in cities like Fornost, Tulipia, Nowa Jagoda, and Certaria, but would meet with a man named Spoken Kaerfels who would give him an opportunity to live among the Second High Kingdom of Daelyria and the Daelyrian (Cultural Group) people.The Daelyrian people showed Malaedar great appretation and care for their people and here Malaedar lives spending his time learning the Daelyrian (language) and Draconism Religion which would spark his interest again in Dragon Hunting. He now lives his life in Daelyria as a Blacksmith/Scholar among the Daelyrians as on of them. Each and every day he still thinks about that day he realized his family was gone but now he fights on in his own way in honor of his now fallen House and hopes to one day return to Kalegos and rebuild his once great home....but under the Daelyrian banner!