Euphemios von Helvigson

Early Life
Euphemios is the son of Irulani King Bjorn "Ironhide" Helvigson and Crystal Helvigson, and the younger sibling to his sister, Jade Helvigson. From an early age, Euphemios displayed traits of heightened intelligence, as well as a crippling sense of dread and exisential fear. For the first few years of his life, he would cause mild instances of mischief. A child with an affinity for practicality and situational adaptability, Euphemios was known to handle generally tense situations with grace and efficiency where others failed or could never hope to have succeeded. Excelling in statecraft, military strategy and tactics, history and dabbling in languages, it was clear Euphemios was destined to govern a country rather than follow in his father's footsteps of pirating.

Euphemios was often left to his own devices, as his father was busy with helping stabilize and run the triarchal Kingdom of Irulan. To pass the time, he spent his days reading books from the then newly founded library of Irulan as well as interact with his cousins, Cornelius Godd-Fjell and Victoria Nevaris. The time he spent with the other royal children gave him ample opportunity to bond with the other kings and queens of Irulan, forming a close frienship with his uncle Alphdeim Nevaris. A good deal of time was also spent with Queen Wily Godd-Fjell, helping her and Cornelius rennovate Irulan's capital city of Cascade during the later years of his teens. After some time, he developed a very close, practically sibling-like relationship with Cornelius, Victoria and Jade. Together, they would embark on starting many projects to help Irulan and its functionality as an infant Kingdom.

Introduction to Temel Dizeler and Tutelage under Jade
Despite his successes and talents, Euphemios was an unordinarily depressed child. He confided to his older sister, Jade Helvigson, that he knew that there was nothing waiting for him after he would die, his essence returning to the void to be forgotten and abandoned. This was when Jade opened up to her brother what she had been experiencing; the passage of time itself. While she had stayed the same person, every so often she would receive visions about the various aspects of what makes up the universe. After a while, she told him, she had come to recognize what each part felt like, and how to find them in people. She had felt his presence for years, but could never be sure until he told her. Euphemios was a vessel of the Void, a vessel inhabited by the essence of the god Nihili. To Jade's knowledge, there had never been a vessel that does not contain the essence of the god of Space, Kehadiran. So him worrying about returning to nothing was not an unfounded childish worry; he would return to nothing, his memories and experiences never to join the others with the rest of Kehadiran.

Being told this, Euphemios reacted unusually; he looked up from the floor with a fire in his eyes and a look of determination. And with one sentence, he would seal his fate for the rest of his life: "I may return to nothing when I die, but I will not be dead so long as everyone remembers who I am and what I will do."

With that said, Jade agreed to teach Euphemios the ways of the universe, a religion that would later be titled Temel Dizeler. By this point, Jade had already begun to care for and educate their cousins, Cornelius and Victoria, Cornelius being the chosen vessel of Kehadiran himself. Jade herself was the chosen vessel of the god of Time, Ištrauka, meaning that she possessed a much more vast amount of knowledge and wisdom than any other human could even comprehend.

Life as a Prince of Irulan
With the issue of exisential dread being actively worked on, Euphemios began working on honing his skills to help improve the upkeep of Irulan, a by then newly independent Kingdom free of vassalship from the Uraki Imperium. As his father continued to be bogged down with his royal tasks, Euphemios began to independently work with the other royals on projects to help build up the Kingdom's infastructure and economy. Within the district of Wavegrad, the upper-class housing of Cascade, new buildings were being constrcuted. It was during the late hours of the nights that issues arose, demonic creatures known as phantoms harassing builders and citizens alike. Euphemios acted quickly, arming himself with a bow and arrows, climbing to the top of the finished rooves and shooting down any and all phantoms that attempted to pester the building team. He quickly gained the reputaion as Irulan's "Phantom Boy", and made it a regular habit to protect builders from phantoms during the moonlight hours.

Other projects include personally constructing a new series of roads to connect the northern-most towns to the rest of the Irulani highway. In conjunction with Geremi Hautmont and his sister Jade, the road was finished within a fortnight, all the towns and cities in Irulan entirely connected by established roads. These projects and acts of public service quickly gave Euphemios a reputation as a productive and helpful prince, always eager to assist and interact with both the common people of Irulan and strengthen family bonds between the three royal branches.

This reputation allowed Euphemios to be granted permission to take the old ruins of Strondor, an abandoned town in the north of Irulan, and rebuild it as his own personal holding. As a gesture of good faith and companionship, he grabbed Cornelius and asked him to co-found the town with him. Together, the princes worked on creating a great town for new citizens to settle and start lives.

One day, Euphemios was approached by Cornelius, by this point a close and trusted friend. Cornelius confided to Euphemios how he wanted to make his name known, wanting to garner a reputaion as widespread as his father, Dvusi Godd-Fjell. Euphemios, understanding that while all life is descended from Kehadiran's being, it does not mean each individual person granted life is known to the rest. His advice is the same as what he told himself; "Your final fate is sealed no matter what you do; but to be remembered by those still alive and changing the world, you have to make them remember you. Only then will your name carry the weight you desire, and the impact to affect history as it unfolds." Seeming content with the advice, Cornelius thanked Euphemios and set off to establish a reputation of his own.