Maven Auryn

Maven Auryn

Maven Auryn is the High Chancellor of The Beastling States of Crystal Spires, a Hero from the Wars of Attrition, and Knight Templar of the Order of Idealists in Mystria he is one of the core members of the International Union of Equality and Freedom. Maven speaks dozens of languages and is well respected by the international community for being a peace loving and diplomatic leftist. He is a very knowledgeable in multiple fields due to his early life in the Forntian Cloisters where he refined his knowledge in the Arcane arts, History, Guerilla tactics, Nature and survival tactics, Psionics, Religion, and Knowledge of the Planes. His idealistic views have painted him as overtly naive and idealistic to a fault, but Maven is also ruthless with fascist leaders and has been marked as the Kingslayer due to the events that took place over the Wars of Attrition. He is well-regarded as a scholar of Law and is the most famous member of the Spirean High Council.

History

Maven Auryn's rise begins with the First War of Attrition. The War began after the recovery from the Times of Darkness while the Beastling States were recovering from the unbidden horde. The Human Kingdom under the reign of the Archon Messandre who saw this as an opportunity to take the unprotected lands to the east. Sometime during that time, he contracted the taint and became corrupted. It was then that the Archon ordered the purges. The Army of Human Power would enter a protectorate and murder every nonhuman within and declare it to be property of Altea and the Human Kingdom. It was from one of these protectorates that Maven Auryn survived where many did not. He was stabbed through the chest and left in a burning building and left to die in the protectorate. But the boy was a mage, and with the power of his healing and his Aegis he fled surrounded by the Corpses of his kind, his dead family riddled his mind and fled to the nearby Capital City of Caltris alone begging for aid. He collapsed in the city and was found by a templar who saw what looked no older than a boy of nine years of age in human years. Abandoned in the streets of Caltris, Maven's mind was unhinged from the violence he witnessed and was mute, he was clearly injured to the point of death and the Templars nursed him back to health. He was taken care of by Uncorruptibles when he finally regained the power of speech. He suffered from deep amnesia from the horrors and he took on the education under a priest of Fornt and became embroiled with Civil Service. During the end of the first War of Attrition, now a young adult Maven took apprenticeship in the High Council under High Chancellor Selanie as a clerical worker and then he took a job as the Minister of Interracial relations. Archon Messandre continued his march and with his General and in 5 years he seized much of the lands to the north into Dwarven territory, securing the roads into the Changeling empire, and he also managed to purge the City of Arden in the Beastling homeland.The tides changed however in the Battle of Margoth hills by the Falcone protectorate. Due to the innovation of Magitech there was a decisive beastling victory and the humans were forced back across their borders. For a year and a half there was no further conflict.

The Second War of Attrition began when Archon Messandre succeeded in assassinating High Chancellor Selanie of the Beastling States and seized the High Council and managed to execute 15 ministers and attempted to execute Maven unsuccessfully as Maven was a mage, and beastling mages are all but unheard of. Left for dead, Maven regained consciousness in the killing fields and watched as Archon Messandre tried to seize the Falcone protectorate of Tyrin. The tides changed however as Maven took flight and warned the Falcone protectorate of the oncoming siege and in the Battle of Battle of Welyon Valley there was another beastling victory.

For a year and a half there was no further conflict, and so the Beastlings elected their new High Chancellor Verys Altric, a Falcone warrior, and he happily led the rebuilt High Council with the hero Maven Auryn appointed as a Prosecutorial council in the High Court of Judges for one year provisional and then as a Judge and Councilman of Merlon. During this time of Beastling recovery the humans rebuilt their forces with racial recruiting. With the addition of the enslavement of captured POWs they had built an army that was much more powerful than the first. It was then that the new charge entered mostly unopposed while human occupation of the Northern Footlands began. This led to several more genocides by humans in the Beastling Homelands and the first attack upon the Changelings. With domination of the Southern Dwarven mines, the Humans cut off ore trade into the Beastling homelands and the Changeling homelands. For 2 years there was battle in the Changeling Empire, but the harsh terrain favored their army. The Human expansion to the Changeling territory ended.This changed the focus into expansion into the Beastling States, and Beastling resistance in the occupied territories were met with abject brutality. The Purges continued for another 2 years of occupation.

The Third War of Attrition began when Maven Auryn made the Declared Proposal for the Declared Charter of Protected Rights, and created the New Idealist Army. The New Idealist Army was made up of the Cloistered brothers of the Fornt church of Justice and a now powerful resistance leader, Maven Auryn, established an alliance with the Chosen in the Woodfolk Kingdom and was rejected aid by the Elves. With the unified army of Idealists, they were able to force the Archon's army back to its borders and end the purges. The Decisive battle being held by the Treican fields led to the forcing back of the Human Army. This lead to the signing of the Treaty of Merlon, a full free trade agreement and pact with the Treefolk and the Beastling Idealists. The pact led to 5 years of prosperity for the Beastling and Treefolk states. Then after the prosperity came the drought.

The Fourth War of Attrition began when the droughts led to a period of Elven economic collapse. The Treefolk had a full trade agreement with the Beastlings, and so aid was provided, but the Elves were not so fortunate. Forced by circumstance, the Elves moved their cities Eastward and crossed the border of the Changeling Empire. The Changelings announced that further incursion would be an act of war. The Idealist Army was requested to come to the aid of Changelings. To their surprise, The Idealists sided with the Elves and requested negotiations begin between the Elves and Changelings regarding disputed territories. During the negotiations there was a riot at the border which was known as the Flaxwood incident, and it led to armed incursions by the elves into changeling territory. The armies were met with fierce resistance and the Dragon Changelings of the North crushed the strike.The Elves then proposed an alliance with the Idealist Army, speaking with General Maven at Nilmarith in response to the decimation of the Elven city of Tuareg. Maven agreed to assist in return to returning Elves to their border, but on the condition that their Navy was pledged to defend the beastlings in the event of attack. The changelings were then forced back by the Idealist/Elven alliance. The Elves kept their word and did not attack the Changelings further. The rains returned a year later while the Beastlings helped rebuild the devastated Elven Cities. The drought over, peace returned.

The Fifth war of Attrition began when after 20 years of occupation by the Human Republic, the Dwarves had finally broken the Human hold upon their Ore and in the Sacking of Deylor, the Dwarves sacked the occupied city and reestablished the City of Dorgon. The Thane and his numerous Royal Guard broke the hold that Humans had over the Ore Trade and declared war on the humans, and embargoed all ore to the Human lands leading to the Metal Strikes in Drakenspire. The Archon Messandre, tired of the Dwarven resistance made an alliance with the Changelings and began the assault on Terradin. The Dwarves appealed to the Elves who called the Idealists. The Idealist Maven Auryn slew Human General Trayor Maston, and the Dwarven Kingdom was liberated. The Dwarves, indebted to the Idealists, decided to allow open trade and their relationship became much warmer. The High Chancellor made a free trade agreement with the Dwarves and they cooperated the ore and tech trade with the Treaty of Harmony. The Archon did not intend to let this stand, and the Changelings had been crossed too many times by the Idealists and so the assassination of Maven Auryn was called for, but the uneasy peace lasted for a year.

The Sixth war of attrition began with the death of High Chancellor Verys Altric after he was finally at the end of his term as High Chancellor. The Human Power Army was almost completely pushed back when Marja Ventuk, a Mermaid, won the High Council election by a landslide. During the celebrations Maven Auryn and his good friend Falton Eylis were both promoted to Judges in the High Council. Maven stayed busy leading the Idealist Army and pushed back the remnants of the human incursions to their rightful borders when an attempted assassination nearly claimed his life and sent a shattered fragment of glass into his eye leaving permanent injury. He could still see, but found himself in the treefolk kingdom receiving treatment there While Eylis led the idealists in his place. It was then in the battle of Cooran that the Order of the Flame finally was called in and the Beastling charge was ended. There was a tense stalemate and the Knights held the border. It was during this time that the Changelings were betrayed by the Archon again and they declared a truce with the idealists.

The Seventh and Final War of Attrition was held when a Coup happened in Altea forcing the Tyrant Archon Messandre to head away from the Capital as he sought refuge in the forests by Mordovia. Maven, fully recovered from his injuries discovered that there was to be a trap in Restonshire Keep and an attempt upon the life of the High Chancellor. So he flew to Mordovia to meet Eylis there in time to warn him of the trap and he and Eylis both headed to the location of the Archon finding him far gone from the corruption. They fought the Archon together but Eylis was knocked out by a powerful attack from the Archon leaving Maven to face him by himself. In single combat Maven fought the Archon and with the power of his magic and his monstrous strength, Maven fought for his life against Archon Messandre and almost lost as the Archon poisoned his sword with Lyre's edge, attempting to finish Maven once and for all when Maven grappled the sword from the Archon's hand and the Archon drew his own blood. The Lyre's edge poison meant a death sentence. Rather than have him suffer a horrific death due to Lyre's Edge Poison, Maven dealt a death blow to his opponent and the wars of Attrition were finally over. During the times of rebuilding High Chancellor Marja Ventuk helped mend the relations with the humans and also with the changelings. The Peace had truly begun, and Maven Auryn, the new Hero of the Revolution was given the title of Knight Templar to the Temple of Fornt, to which he refused. The years that followed he and Eylis, both judges and now masters of peace were both nominated as High Chancellor as Marja Ventuk decided to step down. Maven was overwhelmingly voted the position of High Chancellor due to his reputation of being a maverick, compassionate lawmaker, and a fair law enforcer.

Reasoned Beings and Yesopalitha

Reasoned beings are endowed with reason and conscience, should act kindly towards one another in a spirit of goodness, and promote the furtherance of goodness and happiness for all sentient beings.-An Excerpt from The Forntian Code

Maven Auryn is a devout Forntian and adheres to the code with great fervor. Maven believes in the potential good for sapient beings so strongly that when he discovered several unbidden who contained a conscience he protected them from harm at great risk to himself, because collaborating or shielding an unbidden was considered an act of High Treason at the time. When his connection to the unbidden was discovered he was tried and found guilty for Treason in the High Court of Caltris, he was to be sentenced to execution which was quite nearly carried out when he summoned an emergency tribunal and was able to make a precedent that unbidden are reasoned beings therefore protected by the court of Caltris. This was a legal loophole which would have nullified the legality of the previous case of treason. His case on record succeeded, but the High Council regardless of the legal implications behind his success, intended to proceed with his execution arguing that the judgement had already been issued and that new precedents do not apply to old cases. He, recognizing the injustice of the system and the desire of the High Council to keep the findings quiet, was forced to flee and escape from the Grand Prison of Caltris. Maven was forced to go into hiding in Sylandral at the Treefolk Kingdom where rumors of his death at the hand of his beloved niece spread from the High Council. Maven resurfaced long after as the rightful High Chancellor and regained his position by election and his first act when he regained the position of High Chancellor was to grant the unbidden amnesty in the Beastling States, and also with the goal of building Yesopalitha The Ideal True Homeland of the Unbidden.