Regulus Mindegaus

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Regulus Mindegaus (known in-game as 5567) is a Ryzani-Atoan librarian, writer, former bandit, archaeologist, and paleoanthropologist. He is the founder of the Atopolis Library, the lead organizer of the Greatwhite Library, and the head of the paleoanthropology department in the Rathnir Paleontological Society. He currently resides in the Greatwhite Isles and leads the Intellectual Society of the Isles. However, he is also an avid supporter of human supremacy.

Appearance
At first glance, anyone would consider Regulus to be utterly unremarkable. His face had no notable features and he had dark brown eyes that were usually murky but started to almost sparkle when he is gambling his money or during a scientific breakthrough. Due to his utterly average build and height as well as having a flat nose and short ears, Regulus isn't considered particularly attractive nor nonattractive. His medium-length hazel hair stood out, however, and is usually curly and fairly unkempt. This, however, was countered by being concealed in a reddish-brown colored linen newsboy hat.

Regulus's attire fit more in line with the urban architecture of Atopolis but was neither extravagant or shabby, instead portraying an impression of averageness. His primary piece of clothing was a reddish-brown greca-styled overcoat that reached down to his ankles and had a set of three gray buttons running down the torso of his centre front. The inside of the coat was dark red, possibly symbolizing the colors of Ato. Under the coat, he wore a lighter gray, loose sack suit that featured a set of five buttons that traveled down the centre line into the hip and trousers that were the same color of the sack suit. The chain of his stopwatch stuck inside the suit pack spread across his waist. Underneath the suit, he typically wore a snow-white dress shirt with a black tie that hung down from an opulent stiff white collar. Regulus's linen hat was lightweight and had a button top accent in addition to a front button that snapped to visor. His shoes was plain and matched the color of his sack suit.

Regulus's olive skin, coupled with his hazel hair, predominantly made him seem as though he was the epitome of average. In fact, the complete devoid of bright color exhibited by Regulus' physical appearance gave him the impression of a sickly person of which all imagination had drained away.

After Regulus moved to the Greatwhite Isles, his reddish-brown color pallet was replaced by a more traditional gray and black color. This added more to Regulus's averageness as he continued to blend in with the urban atmosphere.

Personality
In his personal accounts, Regulus is described as someone with many complexes, both including superiority and inferiority complexes. He is shown comparing himself to those he cannot compete with while desiring to be above others. Despite this, he usually keeps to himself and instead records his thoughts and feelings onto journals and personal accounts. As a consequence, he misses the opportunities to develop relationships with others. Instead of people, he places his faith on numbers. This could be seen from how diligently he views certain people, especially those he killed during his early banditry expeditions, merely as beneficiaries. In his Bandit Journal, he states that he doesn't kill those of low class because he sympathizes with them, but because they have nothing to offer him. HIs faith is also displayed during his attitude on gambling. Often, he racks up debt due to his large spendings on the lottery and activities at the casino.

Regulus was most infamous for his intense racism against elves. However, instead of supporting elven genocide like his father, he advocates for human supremacy and subjugation of elves under human rule. During the construction of Atopolis Library, he would actively deny entrance to elven visitors and swore to never set foot in elven-majority towns. He justified his prejudice under what he deems as historical context that elves, especially Lhûren, invaded and colonized indigenous Rathnirian human populations. In The Natural Order of Rathnir, he often referred to elves as "demonic colonizer overlords" or "spawn of the devils".

For other non-human populations, excluding dwarves and catgirls in which he "holds in such high regard", he regards them as simply inferior. In The Natural Order of Rathnir, he claimed that the Assoti were cursed with being physical abominations because of their "lack of ambition". However, Regulus most indulges in Rathnir Supremacy and believes that those from Eldham, or what he refers to as the "orientals" are inherently inferior to those in Rathnir. He believes that Eldham "is a continent full of rat-worshippers and 3D-square fanatics".

However, in pursuit of archeological breakthroughs, Regulus is more than willing to abate his prejudices to further the world's research. This is evident to his participation in the Rathnir Paleontology Society and the Anthropology Guild, which are led mostly by elven scientists.

Political views
Regulus is a libertarian, as it could be seen in his written monologues about skepticism of authority and state power. Some of his spiels can be attributed to his thoughts on free association, freedom of choice, individualism and voluntary association. This trait of personality is also the source of his justification on his xenophobia on elves and his right to banditry. An excerpt in An Account on the Region of Ato:"'Pacificism is nice in theory, but not so easy when it gets others killed. Others one could have saved, had they acted. As mentioned, the same concept can be applied to the 'bravery' of battle. Would you fight to save something you love? Or would you let it die to some imaginary ideal? What would 'bravery' be then? I will once again bring up a question I had before the expedition. What matters more: their dignity or their ideals? What would they do? How far would they go? And more importantly, if they let everything die for their self gain, are they truly in the wrong? What would 'bravery' be then?'"

Youth
In 911 AJC, Mindegaus was born in Ryzan, during the internal turmoil of the Aurlûnoren-Ryzani Empire, to Metanela Mindegaus and Anastasia Mindegaus. Since the Aurlûnor Velande was an Elven-majority ruled nation and Ryzan was ruled mostly by humans, major racial disputes resulted as a consequences between the two nations. Regulus's father, Metanela Mindegaus, was a renowned archaeologist and historian who became wealthy from selling supplies to the Rathnir Paleontology Society. However, Regulus's parents would give into the rising anti-Elven sentiment and they started to develop blatant xenophobic traits against Aurlûnoren elves. This philosophy passed down to Regulus, even long after the union between Ryzan and Aurlûnor Velande collapsed.

Despite being mostly absent, Regulus idealized his father and took pride of being his son. At a young age, he attempted to copy his father's intellect and style of dress, which mostly included large overcoats and lavish suits, working to live up to the expectations that came with that in his mind. For a time, he achieved this, excelling in his studies while learning about unique cultures and their histories, while sharing his father's values, albeit how dramatic they may be. Later on, Regulus would condemn his father's values of ethnic genocide against elves.

However, he never got much recognition from his father, who was often in faraway lands and only communicated through letters. Without receiving praise, Regulus started to lose confidence in himself and suddenly found his peers becoming smarter and stronger than he was and, in general, being better at the things he used to be. But rather than prioritizing to get better at those things, he placed more importance on doing more outrageous and hedonistic things to maintain his pride and self-dignity. During this time, he started to develop an early gambling and theft addiction. At age 12, he would steal items from people's storages, sell them to the local auction house, and use that money at casinos or the lottery.

Eventually, Regulus realized that no matter what he does, he could never be his father and in his loneliness, he realized he was not anyone special. From then on, instead of focusing on getting better, he cursed his father and civilization as a whole. At age 14, he escaped into the wild.

Nomadic Adolescence
For several years, Regulus would be forced to hunt his own food, collect his own resources, and fend for himself. This new environment and set of responsibilities contrasted to his sheltered lifestyle during his youth. Despite this, Regulus had one goal: to escape from civilization. He would often attack merchants and hunters that stumbled upon Regulus's huts while moving place to place, wherever suited him. Eventually, he settled upon the plains of southern Syltör, where he would thrive for several weeks. He would stumble upon a cave with storages full of food, mining materials, and shulkers. Adamant to be isolated from civilization, he prepared to leave his settlement. However, before he could leave, he encountered a small group of human roadway workers known as Road Builders Inc. This group merely consisted of three members, who were paid by contractors. Initially violent at first, Regulus learned to trust them and was brought in as a fellow worker. For six months, they cleared out the ruins of a squatter town that infiltrated the land. During the same time, the road builders taught Regulus how to wield a weapon and often trained with a small knife. This active training inspired him to take up banditry. And by the end of 928 ACA, he stole some supplies including food and several notebooks, escaping from the settlement.

Eventually, hee started documenting his travels and exploration of ruins. Regulus would be instrumental in documenting the history of Farnau, where he would secretly reside until a group of Bardonians entered the city.

Indirect Involvement of the Battle of Centerville
As Bardonia expanded its empire, almost stretching to the entire continent of Syltör, a rise of anti-Bardonian sentiment had formed among the nations of Rathnir. The imperialistic nature of the Bardonian conquests developed hostilities with other continental superpowers, leading to the intervention of the Third Rathnir Coalition. By July 26th, 2021, the Allium-Coalition War was sparked. Coalition troops attacked Bardonian soldiers on open ground as migrants flooded into abandoned towns in Syltör and western Nieden. This had, for the third time, destroyed Regulus's immersion of seclusion and isolation from the outside world. As described by Regulus,"'I had stirred from my humble sleep to the sound of familiar voices... Once again, civilization had came to plague my wishes to just be left alone. A man, whom I now know as Alik Andreyvich, came to occupy New Farnau along with settlers from the east. I had put in great labor to hide from these settlers, escaping to nearby caves and valleys. With that great labor, a greater silence followed, spanning for almost an entire day... before it was interrupted by a myriad of explosions and battle cries. I could barely make out the words, 'Long Live Centerville' out of the entire dramatic scene. When the explosions stopped, I remember that was the time I came out of the cave. However, the settlers that arrived just several days earlier died and new foreigners took their place.'"This jumpstarted Regulus's aggressive return to civilization. Although the people of Centerville were mostly human, the brutality of this battle started to destroy Regulus's morals.

The Wandering Bandit
The Allium-Coalition War left many towns formerly under Bardonian rule vulnerable to bandit attacks. Like many other bandits, Regulus took advantage of the chaos in the northern continents to ambush travelers and plunder unguarded settlements. However, Regulus seem to have targeted elven cities and mostly robbed elven travelers. His skirmishes had apparently been recorded in a journal, which would shortly be destroyed.

At some point, Regulus traveled to Fornost to meet with a childhood friend, Gqlexy_. For several days, Regulus had supposedly harassed locals as well as made derogatory gestures at elven city-dwellers. His actions and comments were later condemned as racially charged and he was exiled from the city. During his exile, his belongings as well as a journal had been confiscated for further punishments of his actions. According to his personal accounts, he sent many letters of apologies to the Auroran government as well as a citizen named Aerith via Sinclair.

After being sentenced to exile from Fornost, Regulus disappeared from the public record. The next time he has been seen was several weeks later when Regulus encountered another wandering bandit named Welpish. According to witness reports, Regulus was seen entering the gates of Swal-Awz with a group of merchants. Instantly upon entering the city gates, he was apprehended by Welpish, threatened by a knife to the throat. Under knife-point, he was robbed of all materials. The party he was with was also ambushed and beaten severely. After this robbery, Regulus's diary was supposedly confiscated and destroyed. Later, Regulus was seen at a local protest to drive out bandits.

He once again disappeared from the public record until the first entries of Regulus's first public diary. According to his Bandit Journal, he traveled to Caylak, near Frosmyre. For several hours, he had terrorized the locals, torturing especially elven residents. News of a bandit attack spread to the Frosmyrian military faster than Regulus anticipated. Molotov, a Frosmyrian crime boss, quickly proceeded to the scene. Upon first sight of a "menacing, full-netherite bulky man", Regulus became frightened and attempted to escape. However, Molotov was much faster than he was, and Regulus was caught and beaten severely. Instead of killing him, Molotov spared his life and took him to the Frosmyre capital. He ordered Regulus to be nursed to full health and he was gifted with a Frosmyrian traditional emerald sword. Completely amazed by the sudden hospitality, Regulus thanked Molotov and vowed to never attack Sparwood again.

The professionalism of Molotov's criminal activities probably further spurred Regulus's banditry. In his journal, he documented many of his skirmishes, including the robberies of _MikeXD_ and Nopestar_. However, his path toward banditry took a turn when he was ambushed by the sentries of Konigsberg. Since he had no permanent location to store his stolen valuables, he carried all of his stuff in one giant backpack. However, during the skirmish in Konigsberg, Regulus was beaten severely, causing him to lose all of those valuables. Dejected by this loss, he realized that he had to return to civilization and become a citizen of a nation. Instead of turning to his homeland, Ryzan, he turned to the Pirate Empire of Tortuga. However, instead of moving to the capital, he was displaced to the newly founded province Ato.

Account on Early Ato
Regulus's arrival caught the attention of the Atoan government due to his reputation as a bandit. However, despite his notoriety, Shark Greatwhite, the ruler of Ato, accepted Regulus with open arms and offered safe refuge in Atopolis. Greatwhite immediately provided a tour around Atopolis and offered an apartment in the residential sector. This lifestyle completely contrasted to Regulus's previous nomadic lifestyle, which was promptly recorded in An Account on the Region of Ato:"'Many marvellous sites and unfamiliar sounds filled my days. I allowed myself to wish to enjoy the simple pleasure of walking through the city.'"He would then travel around Ato, recording his experiences in a diary. This diary would serve as an account of early Ato as a province of the Pirate Empire of Tortuga. During his travels, he recorded that he supposedly blended in with Atoan locals. He had attended political meetings, which involved secession from Tortuga, and studied local customs. After this trip, he seemed to completely reject his previous lifestyles and blended in with the locals of Atopolis. He deliberately hid the fact that he was ethnically Ryzani, although some noted his Syltörian facial features. He wore lavish reddish-brown suits, which probably accumulated to his poverty, as he had also inherited the economic disparities.

During this time, he had supposedly made acquaintance with Elzaress, who would declare a coup several years after.

Beginnings at Archaeology
As Regulus continued to stay in Ato, he indulged into the concepts of 'civilization' that he once rejected during his adolescence. Unintentionally, he started matching the lifestyle of his father and joined the Rathnir Paleontology Society. He would start a research project on the history, cultural significance, and economical production value of wheat. This project, in addition to the research on Farnau, earned him small amounts of fame among the society.

Banditry Expeditions
About a year after he settled in Atopolis, he accumulated massive amounts of debt and poverty, due to his crippling gambling addiction in addition to costs associated with the Paleontology Society. As a result, he had once again turned to banditry. Instead of traveling as a nomad, he had one permanent place to store his stolen valuables. He started launching banditry expeditions through cities in Sørligste, Alteniquia, and Cymru.

In his first expedition, he traveled to Terroja in the Republic of Montroig and terrorized the locals. He had never hurt anyone, however, but rather stole a horse - and left afterwards. This was probably the first and only successful banditry expedition. After his success in Terroja, he launched six more banditry expeditions in Urnu-Arrak, Carvay, Viodoxa, and Fornost. The three expeditions in Carvay were unsuccessful as Regulus was so touched by the hospitality of the locals that he ended up fishing with them. In Urnu-Arrak, he was chased across the city by sentries in full netherite armor. The incident was repeated in Viodoxa City. In his expedition in Fornost, he never intended to attack the city, but rather to deliver a letter of apology to Aerith Sinclair for the events during his youth. Even still, he was chased out of the city by Fornost sentries in netherite armor. These expeditions drove him deeper to poverty than his mass gambling spending ever could. Desperate, he resorted to sacking Atopolis, the city in which he resides. However, even still, he was immediately caught by Tw'e'rkish red-handed and his final banditry attempt foiled.

Regulus was arrested and pled guilty in an Atoan court of law. On September 5th, 2021 (IRL Calendar), he was sentenced to two years of exile but was spared from being kill-on-sight from Atoan territory.

His final statements after being charged:"'You know what fuck my life bro. The only success I had as a bandit in the past two weeks is stealing a horse from a sentry in Terroja. For the past week, I have been fucked all over Rathnir. I was sentenced to KOS in Fornost a month ago [by trying] to deliver a letter... in the city. I was almost beaten to death and robbed of all valuables, including my good armor and sword. I traveled several times to Carvay intending to bandit them, but the people were so nice I ended up fishing with them. I tried going to Viodoxa and stealing shit from them but I was chased down by a guy in full fucking netherite and I was almost beaten to death. With iron armor and a wooden sword, I traveled up to Urnu-Arrak and tried demanding money. I was chased down by another guy in full netherite. I tried going at him with just my wooden sword - I was almost beaten to death. I have traveled to so many places in Rathnir, just to find empty towns. All I ever depended on was my ugly ass apartment. And after I try to bandit once again, I failed... once again. Bro I literally have nothing.""I am homeless, sad, and hungry. I need emotional support. I officially have the worst luck in all of Rathnir history. If there is a therapist... I will gladly offer up my service - and probably try to steal [their] shit too.'"

Exile
For the first six months of exile, Regulus camped at the mountains near Atopolis in a dirt hut, begging for food and money from Atoan travelers and Tortugan merchants. At some point, mercenaries from the Brotherhood of Ulfaeng took pity on him and gave him bread. He spent this three months secretly smuggling his diaries in Atopolis to accumulate wealth. However, he supposedly became paranoid of being caught and later sufficed to selling his diaries to passing travelers. However, even in exile, Regulus still had responsibilities he aimed to uphold, mostly associated to the Rathnir Paleontology Society. With the knowledge of archaeology from his youth in Ryzan that he had initially tried to suppress, he gathered his few supplies and went out on a personal archaeology project. Through his insight, he was led to believe that there was at least something in the mountains he camped at. In a later statement, he claimed that he made this realization from the "strange activity from my stolen Terroja horse". He had set up a tent and after a two-week excavation, he discovered the first fossil of the Homo athielensis. He later designated this region as a dig site, under the permission of the Paleontology Society. Through this discovery, he was able to accumulate at least some bit of wealth. During the same time, Ato, Severos, and Norvos, established the Grand Sorligste Federation.

He used the money earned from the discovery of H. athielensis to prepare a travel expedition in the nearby Regalia Desert. He believed that a travelog on this region would earn him "great sums of money". Unbeknownst to him, however, his travelog would be the first Atoan account of Regalia right after the annexation of the region from the Grand Sorligste Federation. It also served as a first-hand account of the Great Eclipse.

Construction of Atopolis Library
The exile was lifted in 938 ACA and his crime was apparently forgotten. Regulus immediately proposed to build a library at the center of Atopolis. During his exile, however, a small library was already built near the residential sector. Faced with compromise and improvisation, Regulus took over this library and started funding massive refinements, with the little money he earned selling his journals. After a year of construction, the library was built, amassing 20-30 written books.

During the same time, the Grand Sorligste Federation was at conflict with a rebel nation called Leveros. As a result of the war, heavy taxes were levied on the citizens of Atopolis. The taxes caused many citizens to migrate elsewhere, dwindling the population of the city substantially. The city's mayor, Shark Greatwhite, even resigned from his position and migrated east into OBlock. The absence of Greatwhite had already damaged business for the library considerably as Regulus no longer had government support. The library had visitors merely three times a day, at most. Of course, it did not help that Regulus actively turned away elven visitors, making sure they feel unwelcome in Atopolis. However, as the political climate between Leveros and the GSF rose, Regulus started losing interest in maintaining the library. He felt that it would be best to migrate and find business elsewhere. As a consequence, he tore down the library, taking all the books available.

Lunaris
Due to the geopolitical conflict between the Empire of Leveros and the Grand Jarldom of Frostmarch, Regulus fled from Atopolis and migrated to the Kingdom of Lunaris as a refugee. His status was then verified by Jarl Temsyod, the Frostmarchian ambassador to Lunaris. Upon entrance, Regulus was ushered into an inn, where he would sojourn in for a month. During the first week of his stay, he analyzed samples of gravel and dirt leftover from an excavation of H. erectus from the Aurlûnor Velande that was delivered to him during the migration to Lunaris. Through assistance from Lunarian anthropologists, the DNA analysis showed that there seemed to be a link between humans and elves with the H. erectus as its closest ancestor. According to the Natural Order of Rathnir, this analysis spiraled Regulus into a state of depression. He was disgusted that even biologically, humans were connected to the elves, in which he describes as "an atrocity... that humans succumbed to the diabolical hands of the elves". He considered destroying evidence of this link but he realized that by doing so "he would have done such a disservice to the anthropology world". He instead spent the next three weeks into a state of "melancholy", jeering at moon elf pedestrians and drinking himself into a state of incoordination.

Iabet
After a month of staying in the capital of Lunaris, which by then was changed to the name of Nox Aerterna, an advertisement slipped under the door of his inn. This advertisement promoted immigration to the city of Iabet. Iabet was populated by the Assoti, located in the jungles on the border of Nieden and Sparwood just west from Lunaris. Seeking for a new sight of scenery, he packed his items and traveled to Iabet. Initially terrified at first, the Assoti seemed to pacify Regulus from his depression. This was mainly due to the Gaians' culture of pacifism. This motivated him to return to his work on anthropology. However, instead of going back to research on the H. erectus, he started a line of research on the hominids associated with the genus Pumilo. For almost a year, he stayed in Iabet, participating in local affairs and working toward research on the Pumilo genus.

Journals/Diaries

 * Bandit Journal (published on August 22nd, 2021)
 * This was a mostly non-lore diary, written before the creation of the character Regulus Mindegaus. However, early mentions of the name "Regulus" did                    appear in this diary and the journal itself was signed with "Regulus."
 * An Account on the Region of Ato (published on August 30th, 2021)
 * Regulus's first travelogue - as well as the documentations of his early political views especially in current events.
 * Bandit's Diary (published on September 5th, 2021)
 * This documents much of the failures of Regulus's banditry expeditions - leading to his desperation of success that resorted to robbing his own city. This ultimately led to his exile, which concluded the diary.
 * Trip to Soumere (published in early-October of 2021)
 * This serves as the first Atoan written account on Regalia Desert after its annexation. Regalia had previously been named Soumere in earlier historical sources, leading to some confusion from Regulus. This diary also serves as a written account of the Great Eclipse.
 * The Natural Order of Rathnir (published on April 9th, 2022)
 * This treatise advocated for human supremacy and subjugation of elves under human rule.