Octieus Keriocs

Octieus

is a citizen of the Duchy of Ahalia, and resides in the City of Dinas, where he was one of its oldest citizens, having lived there when it was only a small village. Due to the wishes of the deceased Wambold, he took control over Dinas, reigning as its new mayor, and also serves the duchy as the Minister of Culture. However, despite these new responsibilities, he retains his status as a brewer.

Once, he commanded an elite force of tamed phantoms deemed as the Ahalian Airforce, who were wiped out by an unknown assailant, who had also fatally injured the former in the process.

He is a member of a race of humanoids whose name was ripped from both sound and texts.

Early Life
A native to the lands of Eldham, Octieus lived ignorant of the pioneers who sought to explore and settle in the lands he called home. Living most of his life within a hidden valley, while traversing through familiar territory, he came upon the ruins of a portal made of obsidian. Curious, he delved through, discovering the hellish lands of the Nether. Alarmed and afraid, he attempted to flee back into the portal from where he came, only to discover that a wall of lava, its source from an unreachable ceiling, blocked his way back home, burning the bridge of cobble and dirt made to reach it.

Forced to move forward, lest he die from the heat, he moved. For perhaps hours, or even days, he struggled through the lands of netherrack, soul sand, and past the immense lakes of lava, before finally stumbling through a forest of warped wood and grassy nether stone. After taking a breath, consuming most of his provisions he had taken, he discovered it, another portal. Frantic and ecstatic, he rushed to it, and dove through, glad to have reached an end to his hellish experience.

However, when he exited the portal, he found himself in a mysterious land, its formation unknown to him, something that shocked him, as he had believed he had already seen all the world had to offer. Nonetheless, he refused to allow the shock to prevent him from moving on, too try and find a way back to his home. Spending days and nights, trekking through fields of grass, and forests of dark oak, consuming fallen apples and potatoes, he came across a seemingly vast and endless nation called Uraka.

Chancing upon a woman who he would later learn to have been a highly-important individual named Alyssa, with her companion, the pair offered pity on the weary Octieus, giving him a stack of cooked cod, her companion, sixteen pieces of cooked steak, before waving him off, continuing on their way. Grateful, he ate his first full meal since his arrival to these foreign lands, before continuing on.

Days would pass before he discovered another civilization, a gathering place many called Spawn. There, while resting his aching feet, he was approached by a man named Wambold, who asked if he had a place he could call home. Thinking back to the home he could no longer return to, he shook his head. Holding a hand to the weary traveler, Wambold offered him one, in the Nation of Ahalia.

Shocked at the offer, he agreed to join, even if it meant he would have to eventually abandon it, should he discover a way back to his homeland. It would take several days before the two reached the gates of the nation's capital, JePola, the pair joined by two others, a humanoid duck named DaldorGamer, and a knight named PanictheSlavic. Given a tour of the city, they made an acquaintance in the king of the nation, and its founder, Theo Zevedeos.

Originally intended to be given temporary lodging in a dorm while new homes were built, they were assigned to the nearby village of Dinas, founded by Wambold. Given a new home of his own, Octieus would continue on and remain in the village from then on, even as it expanded and became a city of its own.