Orion of Raviarc

" 'Peasants love me! And I love peasants! But peasants should know their place -- under us.' "

Info
Orion is a RP character played by Spitfire starting on the 1st of January after playing his first character Noah Dantark.

Appearance
Orion has red eyes, his eyes never turned the neon green of a Viridians. He has dark red hair, another difference from most Viridians. A crown usually sits upon his head symbolizing that he is the Hand of Altain; the leader of the Altain people.

Origins
As a young Fortunan from Kaisara child Orion had a good upbringing, he got good education and public speaking skills. However at the age of 11 a young Orion found himself behind a house in a fight against a fellow class mate. As the fight continued Orion began to find himself losing, blow after blow hit him until he pulled a knife on his class mate. Luckily his class mate escaped major harm from the weapon but enough was inflicted for there to be questioning of the nature of the wounds. Feeling guilty, Orion confessed to his parents, who promptly berated him of his actions. Becoming angry Orion pushed his father away. His father, an old man, stumbled backwards into the nearby river. Being unable to swim Orion and his mother watched him drown. Orion ran away from Kaisara not stopping until he reached Bødur, a area he had only learned about in books. There he was adopted by Vincent von Mapel married to Mel O'Valmen. His mother, after seeing the death of her husband went insane.

Neighbours reported this as the last time they saw the woman.

New Altaroth
Orion met another newcomer to Bodur shortly after the events of his childhood. Noah Dantark, hailing from the then Bardonian, land of Ryzan. The two quickly became fast friends. And so, when Noah died in a duel with Kaiserin Lytra, he fell into a short madness. Orion inherited New Altaroth from his dead blood-brother. Even though he considered New Altaroth to be his home now, he never felt at ease there. This was Noah's town, not his. He spent around 4 months at New Altaroth, in which time he participated in the Viodoxan civil war, but he soon went on a holiday, finding his Baronship to be a cause of much stress. He left New Altaroth in the care of his only son, Alpha von Mapel O'Valmen (now deceased). He journeyed towards Fortuna as he was still of Fortunan faith. Arriving home at New Altaroth he soon found himself once again stressed. He soon gave New Altaroth away to Old Altaroths (Altaroth) joint Baron with him. Purr von Mapel, his son in-law. New Altaroth was soon incorporated into Ryoujing, the town of is brother in-law, Ryou, as it's port, with a few monuments to remember its history.

Civil War
As tensions were rising in Cymru, with the return of Loic. Tensions rose further when the Third Archonate of Viodoxa was proclaimed. Orion, at this point still in control of New Altaroth opted to join the Hazelites as did most of Silvay. But after a series of decisions and thoughts switched sides to join the Loicists. He frequently regretted this decision after, and to a lesser extent in, the war. With Silvay being inside of the Third Archonate this led to his excitement from the place which included exilement from New Altaroth, though it has to be noted that good relations were kept at this point. The first siege rolled around on the 2nd of January (irl) but sadly a day prior (irl) news of his mentor, friend, and blood kin, Noah Dantark reached his ears. Sadly his friend had died quickly due to an infection from a bullet wound. The bullet in question came from Kaiserin Lytra who both had a long standing presentment due to their past in Lothrin. They had decided to end the rivalry with a duel held outside of the lighthouse of Lothrin. Later the same day, news of his son, Alpha von Mapels death also came. A fall from one of the many hills of New Altaroth. The news could not have come worse as the battle was one day later.

In the battle itself, he broke down in tears at the fact that he had lost everything. After, his mental health deteriorating, he did not take part in next siege or anything after.

Viridian
His mother, Mel, had many partners and one was Mokatios. After a period of time they met through the family. With Mokatios leading the TNVO, he invited Orion to visit the land.

Orion soon fell in love with the islands and the culture. He found it a welcome retreat from the IAU and the reminders of his loss there. He found himself visiting his homeland less and less. He made the TNVO, specifically Agnarian his new home.

During this period, Orion married a fellow Viodoxan, named Gus. And although there marriage was a happy one, there soon arose a disagreement over a game of checkers. Sadly, Gus demanded a duel to decide the true winner. A date was set, a location decided, and the day came. The duel was fought, and Orion emerged victorious and there is now no doubt that he won the checkers match. The duel was held in the streets of Rican, a town of Shaloma, itself a province of the IAU.

While there, Orion took part in the Viridian Embrace but the ceremony was interrupted when the elixir was knocked out of his hand, only halfway drunk. The perpetrator is unknown, but the effects can be seen as Orion is without the characteristic dark green hair that all Viridians possess. Instead his natural flame-red hair darkened significantly.

Mokatios sadly soon died after.

Agnarian soon left the union due to a number of things. Again, Orion was glad to leave the land and the memories behind.

Dreondor
Agnarian, after leaving it's union with the TNVO, joined another in the form of Dreondor. Orion joined Dreondor with Agnarian. However, while Dreondor was a good idea, it was plagued with problems. An good use of the phrase "good idea, base execution", would have been appropriate. One of the problems in Orions eyes was that it was a democracy. This meant that the common people, the peasants, were allowed to rule. Such a system could only end in disaster.

Then, Orion recieved news of his fathers death. After the loss of Vincent's county he simply lost the will to live. He died peacefully on his bed. But to Orion it was the next in a long string of bad news. His mental health still had not fully recovered but this drove him to almost insanity.

Orions role in Dreondor was small, him being a vice-minister did not grant him a lot of power into the inner workings of the government. But it was clear for all to see that Dreondor was set to fail. Orion grew friendly with Russic during this period after his being voted out of his position and Gulag becoming King of Dreondor. Orion believed that although there were many reasons for this to happen, which he acknowledged, the main reason which was that he had talked to Uneasy, King of Alda, about a possible merger. This was told to Gulag almost instantly; the next day Russic was out of position and talks of exilement. Orion sympathized with Russic. His stance on the subject was further driven to Russic's side when Gulag declared himself King of Dreondor. Although Orion was a firm believer in monarchies he believed this was just a power play made by Gulag. He later grew to respect Gulag during Caeli, his opinion on peasants lined up nicely with his own.

Dreondor inevitably failed when Uzi, now Oda, campaigned for a free Agnarian. He argued that Agnarians were under represented in the higher government. The Dreondor government agreed, a reason for this was that Agnarians were the perpetrators of the raids on Alda, resulting in the Alda-Dreondor war. The country split in two with Agnarian in the north and Caeli in the south.