Kairn Calithil

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Kairn Calithil Maruthiran Coronation: 14th of the Grand Harvest, 1668. Predecessor: Title Created Heir: Kaz Ithelanen Born: 1st of the Snow Maiden, 1425. House: Ithelanen Father: Aenor Calithil Mother: Asteria Dellis

Kairn Calithil, also called The Usurper or the Bronze Tyrant, was a prominent Elven Statesman in the Dominion of Malin in the Seventeenth Century of the First Age. He led many successful campaigns during the Bronze Revolution, War for the Loftywoods, Third Atlas Coalition War, and the Amaethea War. He served as King of the Elves for a period of sixteen-years in the closing years of Atlas, just before the Vaeyl Cataclysm he disappeared with his newborn son Galar. He succeeded the High Prince Loriens Silma, and his successors were Abelas Caerme'onn, Renn Calithil, Awaiti Aureon and Kaz Ithelanen.

History

Early Life

Kairn Calithil was born in a village within Varendoz, Aeldin in 1425. Due to the death of his mother when he was 17 in 1442 in the midst of the Elven Pogroms of the era, he crossed the seas to Athera as a stowaway seeking new beginnings. He came into contact with a Heartlander merchant named John Anders, who offered to escort him to the new world in return for his indentured servitude. So he paid off his debt to Mr. Anders through years of loyal service and managed to arrive in the years predating the Horen Restoration. He tended to John Anders' records, being trained to read and write, and managed the aging merchants estate until his death in 1450.

During the Schism War, he wandered and took odd jobs as a mercenary before he stumbled across the settlement of Leyulin. In a raid performed by the Order of Saint Amyas he confronted the ringleader of the assembled knights and challenged him to a duel. Unknowingly, this was the future King Olivier de Savoie, the successor to King Andrik Vydra. The cadre of knights looked expectantly to Olivier for permission to execute him but the Savoyard Lord refused. They engaged in a bout where Kairn narrowly struck him to the ground after taking a nigh-fatal wound during the fighting. Olivier watched as the assembled Elves took flight and left the area to scurry and hide and took pity upon Kairn. He called for his surgeon to help Kairn recover and then departed the settlement afterwards making good on his vow to leave if he lost the fight.

Not long after his recovery Kairn would enlist in the Order of Sirame and reconnect with his lost father Aenor Calithil. Together they attempted to bring order and stability to the state of Laureh'lin through dignified military service. Tumultuous years would follow after the leaders of the order Bravepaw and Orlanden would depart the lands of Athera to go on an exodus. Soon afterwards, Andrik Vydra was slain by being dropped into a pit of acid, and assassination carried out by the Uradir Administration of Haelun'or. In quick succession the Elven States, all three of them, were annexed by the Kingdom of Oren as vassal states in response.

Early Career

Kairn was inducted into the Order of Sirame as an initiate under Bravepaw and Orlanden. Many of his peers in the order were known to have a distaste for the young elf, and as he rose through the ranks he found resistance in his subordinates. Once, he whipped his commanding officer, and he had a reputation for whipping disobedient civilians. Despite his problematic behavior, the Imperial Governor Tristin Tresery tolerated him and it could be said the two shared a mutual bond of friendship. Though Kairn was often whipped and punished by his commanding officer, Tristin, he was known to be among one of the better fighters in the order and was elected to Tristin's own personal guard. Participating in the order and assisting Tristin Tresery, while simultaneously learning from him and understanding the vitality of his position as a senior officer, he fought alongside his fellow Imperial Elves in Oren's war against the Dreadlands. During this time he would have his firstborn, Carellith, with his spouse at the time Flora. The two would part when she disappeared in the waning years of the war.

Tristin Tresery would come to appoint Kairn as Annilir, or Director, of the Sirame following the disappearance of Elvrohir Aureon his senior officer. Kairn's responsibilities were to keep the peace inside the city, to recruit for the Order of Sirame and sally them in times of war, and to report to Tristin and his council. After a long period of time, approximately sixteen-years, he retired from his position to marry and with his wife Arianna Calithil he had two children, Elenion and Hecate Calithil. Eventually the time would come where Kairn and many of his former subordinates such as Leo and Lavinia Aureon would begin to have small spats. The verbal feuding and escalation of violence would culminate in the fermentation of a bloody feud between the Calithils and Aureons. Concurrently, Kairn began to suffer from stress-related illness that would come to plague him for the rest of his life. Even the treatment of it at the hands of the skilled physician and shaman Thurak Yar could not cure it.

The Bronze Rebellion

In the waning years of the first Dominion of Malin, the feud between the Aureons and Calithils escalated and reached a feverish pitch upon the selection of Aenor Calithil, Kairn's father, as the High Prince of United Elvendom. The Dominion of Malin under the second-term of Tristin Tresery had been absolved of their feudal allegiance to the Fifth Empire. Kairn's wife Arianna had committed suicide during this time and he had disappeared from the public eye - perceived to be dead as well. Upon the coronation of the High Prince Aenor, High Prince Native of the Princedom of Malinor appeared and bequeathed unto him the Falchion of Malin. However, within the intermittent years the Aureon Manor burned down mysteriously following the assassination of Lyndrael Torena - although there was no evidence, the Aureons believed it was the work of a vengeful Kairn who had attributed Arianna's suicide as being the result of a plot by their family to harass his. Not long after, the High Prince Aenor had resigned under mysterious circumstances and signed the Dominion of Malin back under Oren as a major province. This caused a flurry of commotion among his subjects as his successor Awaiti Aureon came to be elected the new High Princess of the Dominion of Malin. Not long thereafter, the Prince Antonious Horen - a servant of Aurelius Horen, the King of Renatus in the fragmented domain that was once the Holy Orenian Empire - released them from their oath under pain of death and refused further aid from the humans to the elves.

Guyden Aureon had been horribly maimed during the assault and tried to question Kairn using a Truth Stone, a bauble he had purchased from the Dwarves. A runesmithing device that could supposedly divulge whether or not an individual was lying upon mere contact with their skin. The test had failed, and Kairn was not lying when queried about whether or not he committed the act - he did not recall it. Guyden persisted that Kairn must have committed the deed and tensions escalated. Kairn was banished from the Dominion of Malin henceforth by Leo Aureon and not long thereafter settled a parcel of land by the docks leading to the Dominion that he would come to name the Shining Princedom of Leyulin, in mockery of what he perceived to be the ill-earned titles of a dominion that had scorned him.

Kairn blitzed the city multiple times and him and his merry band of Bronze militia men put pressure on the capital with multiple scornful, ominous declarations of war. Many meetings were held between him and Awaiti that did not reach any sort of accord. In this time, the men Belestram Sylvaeri and Khaine Csarathaire rose in the hierarchy of the rebels forces - Kairn valued Belestram for his diplomatic counsel, and Khaine for his aggressive foreign policy. The three men came to have a bond not unlike brotherhood, they were thick as thieves - each however, had a different vision for the elves. Kairn envisioned an empire not unlike Oren that sprawled across much of the known world. Khaine envisioned a return to tradition, life in the woods and the primacy of Mali'ame (Wood Elf) traditions. Belestram proclaimed he desired peace, yet there lingered doubts in Kairn's mind about that. Kairn endeavored to trust Belestram like a brother but often perceived him to act according to self-interest in asserting his claim as the grandson of Eleron Sylvaeri, and in secret he loathed the idea of having a Sylvaeri in power given the tumultuous history of the Fall of Malinor and the exile of the High Prince Eleron Sylvaeri - and his subsequent killing by the loyal Imperial bannermen of the Second Empire not too long thereafter.

Eventually in the Treaty of [name], it was settled in the Halfling village that there would be a peace upon arrival to Atlas. The Shining Princedom and the Dominion of Malin subsequently joined together to form the reformed Dominion of Malin. Kairn, Khaine, and Belestram were made Princes to the chagrin of the Old Guard, and eventually Belestram would refer to them three as being the Triumvirate or Bronze Princes.

The Dominion Reformation Era

Kairn remained the incumbent Prince of War and eventually adopted the title Annilir of the Virarim instead. The High Princess Awaiti remained the incumbent High Princess during the Crusade Crisis, in which the Kingdom of Renatus-Marna had declared a crusade and taken action against the Dominion of Malin just as it exited a period of civil war. Belestram and Kairn would go on to forge an alliance with the Renatians, and then the conflict seemed to come to an end. During this time the Kingdom of Norland (to be expanded)

Fermenting Doubts

A longstanding figure of some repute in the Dominion of Malin, Tristin Tresery eventually abdicated his position as High Prince as the nation prospered. Having fought in conflicts like the Dukes' War, Third Rurikid Uprising, the Krajian Rebellion, and the War of Orcish Submission he had watched his Elven brothers and sisters perish in the field by the dozens. As time progressed, he developed a heart condition, impairing his ability to fight. Eventually, there were a number of disagreements between Kairn and the Aureons, namely bickering between them and his wife Arianna Calithil. There were no lasting resolutions to these conflicts which often culminated in law-breaking activities from both sides.

• An Aureon had broken into the couple's house and stolen Arianna's diary. They refused to turn it back over and when confronted fled.
• Another younger Aureon disrespected and swore out Arianna and in Kairn's perception acted disrespectfully while hinting violence towards her.
• Longstanding feuds between Kairn and the couple Leo and Lavinia Aureon, namely instigated by Kairn attempting to kill a half-breed who was apart of their clan for supposedly murdering Lyndrael Torena.
• There was petty squabbling and consistent slander towards both Kairn and Arianna throughout their time in the city.

Eventually, the two Elves gave up their property in the city and stayed in the country full-time to raise their children Hecate and Elenion Calithil, before his wife perished under mysterious circumstances and he disappeared after being whipped outside his farmstead by Artimec Caerme'onn for seemingly instigating the Aureons.

The Axios Elven Schism; Bronze Rebellion Era

After Arianna's suicide Kairn grew emboldened by the death of his wife. Briefly returning to public life after the coronation of his father High Prince Aenor Calithil, he became El'Annir of the Order of Sirame once again, before suffering a terrible wound to the head during a raid that almost took his life. Due to his injuries, he was honorably discharged and taken care of by the best medical practitioners in the city for quite awhile while he recovered. However, after High Prince Aenor attempted to re-vassalize the ailing Dominion of Malin under the Holy Orenian Empire, he was consequently pressed out of government and departed from the city. Enraged, Kairn bid his time and planned revenge on the Aureon Clan.

Issue

Name	Notes	Status
Carellith Calithil	The firstborn daughter of Kairn by a woman named Flora, and a Druid. She took her life with her own hands.	Dead
Hecate	The second born daughter of Kairn by Arianna Calithil, she is a Druid of the Mother Circle who had an estranged relationship from her father.	Alive
Elenion "Eli" Calithil	The firstborn son of Kairn by Arianna Calithil, and a tailor of some renown who also served as a Royal Scribe and Virarim Guardsman in the Dominion of Malin.	Alive
Galar "Gaz" Calithil	The son of Kairn by Celia Lun, and missing from the crib one night—either taken by his mother, or his father were he to be alive.	Alive
Cassius "Kaz" Calithil	The adopted son liberated by Kairn from slavery in the Iron Uzg, and his eventual successor to the Monarchy due to his affinity for politics, strategy and battle.	Alive, missing.
Vulen "Sen" Calithil	Kairn's son and heir to the Keep of Camlannen - killed extrajudicially within the Princedom of Elvenesse.	Dead
Avaeramos "Aeve" Calithil	Kairn's son through adoption, and also his beneficiary due to his combat prowess and warfare acuity.	Alive

Personality

brief description of figures personality

Notable Feats

• Rebellious Bronze Lord of the Old Dominion

Prince Kairn of New Leyulin successfully rebelled alongside his two compatriots Prince Belestram and Prince Khaine, which brought the Dominion of Malin at the time ruled by High Princess Awaiti to the table and after three failed meetings, led to attempted reforms in government and the gradual replacement of the old bureaucrats and leaders with figures such as Lady Steward Kalina Lander, Lord Treasurer Azoth Hawksong, and the three Princes themselves being installed as prominent members of government and her new council.

Random Tidbits

• Did you know that Kairn's father was the High Prince Aenor Calithil?
• Kairn is the first adopted clan member to become the Chieftain of Clan Ithelanen despite sharing no blood with any of the clan members but his biological son.
• On a different note, did you know: how the Empire of Man triumphed in the short-lived Staunton Uprising?
• He also helped form Renelia

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