Bellator House

= Bellator Houses =

The Bellator house is an ancient noble family dating back to the Aesperium Niedea. today they own large swath of land in the Nieden continent between the nations of Lyras Solearii, Kingdom of Creed and the Simulami Empire. It's most well known member is the late Fabian Bellator who ran Nikephoros in the Kingdom of Creed. Other notable members of the house are "the Founder" Vollunt, Katia(Fabian's daughter) and Castrien Bellator.

Volunt Bellator
Volunt Bellator was born in the Village of Arce south of the city of Drakhasrei. His youth mainly involved working hard in the fields of his village, but seeing as he wanted a more adventurous lifestyle, he left the village in search for his calling. In this calling, he found himself at the city of Lileanen where he soon converted to Soleannen. Following his conversion to the religion, he went back to Drakhasrei and stayed there before adventuring once more into the lands.

Upon one of his many trips around Eschari, he stumbled upon the ruins of the city of Neurun. After looking over these ruins, he decided to rebuild the city and thus founded Amilais, this name in honor of the old city that used to be on the edge of the Sea of Pearls. With his reconstruction, he built up monuments of Solaris, rebuilt the docks of the city, and built the church of Amilais, which he became the minister of and became devoted to the Soleannenian goddess Sylene.

From there on he helped serve in the Allium-Coalition War against Bardonia, but due to his injuries he occurred at Dorrasterock, he was ordered to stay put. After the war however, he instead went on a hermetic life where soon he ended up in Viodoxa for a short time, where he had a son with one of the citizens. During the end of his journey, he found in a cave system the shrine of The Oracle of Drakhasrei. With the experience of the oracle, he left back to Amilais to build a new statue of Sylene and return ultimately as the city's ruler.

Later on, he temporarily left Amilais again to visit another noble named Cyrus, who adopted Volunt's son Chippo into his noble family. With this, Volunt became Lostesrei's duke as well. Afterwards, he soon went on many more adventures from the cities and towns for a long time. During the Imperium Period, Volunt helped in rebuilding Lileanen. Later on, Volunt asked one of the cardinals of the Soleannen faith for a place to found their noble house. The site they were given was the old city of Falconia, which was turned into Lyras Soleari.

Casterien Bellator
Castrien Bellator was born in the Village of Arce south of the city of Drakhasrei, similar to Volunt. As he wanted more than a simple life, Castrien signed himself up for an apprenticeship to become a traveling master builder. His travels would take him to western Escharia where Castrien would participate in several construction projects. During the renovation of the bridge in Lostesrei, he would meet and befriend the Leorik of Varmerion, Amir Averoii. Together they would participate in the rescue of Auria Aeszerii on the faithful night of her execution. This event rescue mission would cause a civil war in Escharia between the Crown and the Noble factions.

Afterward the war, Amir assigned Castrien in the rescue attempt of Encurion from the dungeons of Arce Chaureste and his escort to Karannatia. For his efforts he would be awarded the small desolate hamlet of Lokaith. The civil war, however, created a power vacuum that the neighboring counties used to partition the Siorvat of Escharia. This would lead Lokaith to be annexed by Simulami.

Fabian Bellator
Fabian Bellator was one of the sons of Niedene who became an important figure in the town of Nikephoros. Among his religious dedication and support, he became a beloved member of the town and a devout Soleannen believer.

His early childhood isn’t entirely known as, as a child, he was part of many refugees that were heading toward Niedene during the falling of Escharia. Unfortunately, during a storm, the ship that his parents manned was destroyed and ended up being wrecked near the town of Carvay. From this wreck, it took many years to return back to the homeland, to which Fabian settled into the town of Nikephoros.

As the years went on, Fabian was getting trained on by the town’s mayor, Caspian, who taught him how to govern and how to rule a town. This came into play later on when Caspian retired from the town, after a vote was held, and became a pirate. Fabian was then put in charge of running the town and with this began Nikepohoros roaring period as the city flourished.

During Nikephoros’s flourishing, Fabian become the ruler of the upper Duchy and oversaw its operations. Here, He gained relations with Vollunt during this period and they formed a brotherhood as well as Fabian acquired his priesthood. As his duty continued, he began to grow disdain with ruling the north and wished to change his ruling to those of Lostesrei. His wish came true when Vollunt stepped down and assigned Fabian as the new mayor. Once assigned, the capital city continued to flourish and grew extensively with its rich culture.

During this period however, a political crisis erupted in the city after the ruler Tobbrath resigned from the throne. In an attempt to find a suitable replacement, Veriss was chosen as the new ruler. In a few moments of her reign, Isaris Aesperii decided to set up a coup against her and tricked Fabian into joining it. The coup failed and led a guilt-ridden Fabian into exile, going to the state of Alda where he met Helena Amakiir, one of his closest friends. His time there was spent keeping Alda in good hands, but it didn’t last as several assassinations tore into the nation, leaving Fabian alone. With the state in disarray, Fabian fled from Alda and ironically went back to Nieden after hearing of the unrest happening over there.

His first actions being there were to assist in the trials of Lostesrei in the urgency of finding Isaris's bomber. At the final hearing, Veriss decided that Auria Aesperii was guilty of the bombing, and it caused significant outrage due to her royal blood. With this, it led Fabian and the other nobles to break Auria out of Lostesrei to prevent her execution. This led to a civil war and, after a national mobilization between the Crown and Noble faction, Fabian found himself leading the northern branch of the Noble Revolt. He planned on gathering the local nobles of northern Nieden to organize an army and prepare to lay siege to the only bastion the Crown had: Rayakara. All was set in place, except time had a different plan to win.

Internal unrest and external threats eroded the government to the point where the nation collapsed as a whole, only to be divided between the two major nations of Bardonia and Simulami. Majority of the land went to Bardonia as the Vassal state of the Kingdom of Nieden whereas the Simulamii side inherited the vassal states of the Kingdom of Creed and Lyras Soleari.

During this time, Fabian tried hard to keep his nation steady. With him becoming the mayor of Nikephoros and Nikephoros becoming Creed’s capital city, this steadiness that was so desired became achieved. However, he was still engaged in helping in other conflicts as his final fight was in the Dissolution of the Fallen Empire of Gertonia to dispose of Kaiser Jeremy. Once the Kaiser and Gertonia were gone, Fabian was at peace as he returned home to Nikephoros with olden bones and grudges settled. He now had a legacy to be proud of, to which he turned to his last labor.

He looked back at his life after his many dealings with the Aesperium Niedea, the Imperium, all the different Escharias, and now the Kingdom of Creed. He has served with duty and honor, and did his best, whether making allies or making many enemies, along the way. With the fall of Kaiser Jeremy of the Gertonian Empire, Fabian freed Nikephoros from the border wall that had trapped his hometown for so long. In his mind, he won and endured everything, but not without a consequence. His age was showing and his body was slowly withering away. Before his death, he made up his mind to commit to one last act.

From what can be found, he took an old ritual book, describing the original ascension site of Soleannen and the ritual needed to be done by the Niedenes of yore who then became spirits. It was found that Fabian left the city to the southern mountains. Volunt, who discovered this, went to find him. In the search, all that was found at the mountain was a cloak, a book, and a roaring fire. It was deduced he did the ritual to transcend to the luminarium. With his death, many grieved him and a funeral was held in Nikephoros with many coming to see the funeral and burial of Fabian. Afterwards, his daughter(at the time 24) took over his reign as the Bellator from there on and was remembered as the great Niedene he was and always will be.