Elbreech Antrati

Overview
Elbreech Antrati is the first retinue of Valentine Marudas, along with being one of the first citizens of Crielia. Elbreech's creation was triggered by Valentine's excess magic when he opened a portal to come to Kylorne, which had caused a collection of souls to inhabit an ancient suit of armor abandoned on the Crielian shoreline in Lazzeatir.

Salvation from the Void
Darkness, pitch black, starry void.

He trudged along the desert of gray, barely able to even make out his hands in front of him. Is this the afterlife? He thought to himself.

Ahead of him loomed a spire of screeching flesh, its form stuck out like a sour thumb against the vastness of the dark desert. The moving tower seemed to have roots which anchor it into the ground, each trunk pulsating in some weird rhythm. Many sets of sapphire eyes gazed out from the soaring pillar, each scanning the landscape like searchlights, surveying its surroundings as if it was the overseer of this horrid realm. Multiple protrusions of limbs, ranging from tentacles the size of dark-oak trees to arms grasping for the air reached out from the main mass at seemingly random points.

Any normal person would be petrified at this sight, but perhaps due to some unknown nature of this world, he felt compelled to carry forward.

Then suddenly, light.

It was as if someone had shone a spotlight on him. Panic and fear raced past his thoughts; had one of the eyes seen him? No, the light that was blinding him was pure white, and left him feeling comforted and tranquil. He could feel his body getting lighter by the second, he could feel the light carrying him up, away from the endless abyss that was the desert.

Awakening
He woke up to the night sky, the ocean breeze, the baaing of sheep. His head throbbed with pain, and as he lifts up his hand, he froze. That was not his hand; it was an armored glove, yet he could feel through it as if it was his own skin. The headache intensified as emotions begin to rush into him, like gusts of wind. Happy moments blew by like a gentle spring breeze, anger and malice scorched his insides, melancholy chilled him to his core. He cried, overwhelmed by the feelings and memories manifesting around him; nostalgia of reuniting with old friends, grief of losing loved ones, comradery during adventures.

These memories. They were not his, yet they all felt so real, as if he had lived through all the different lifetimes and experienced them all. He wasn't even sure which ones were originally his anymore. And so, they sat on the soft sand and bawled.

New Demoniun
Fortunately, there was a settlement near where they had awoken. It was simply a humble hut along with a small farm, and in that hut was a man by the name of Valentine Marudas.

Valentine was very accepting of the suit of living armor. He quickly befriended them with stories of old, shared knowledge about the world, gave them a roof and bedding, even giving them their name of Elbreech Antrati. Over time, Elbreech became a close aide to Valentine, returning the favor by pledging their loyalty to this new nation that he had formed: Crielia.

Elbreech was responsible for many advancements in the nation. They dug quarries and mineshafts; they built houses and shops; they gathered various resources to farm such as sugarcane, cactus, and netherwart.

Trivia

 * Elbreech is inhabited by 7 different souls.
 * A blacksmith's apprentice.
 * A rich miser.
 * A hardworking miner.
 * A fallen adventurer.
 * An architect's wife.
 * A hermit cultist.