Character 100-ish 129: King Qewir
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I lied when I said I'd done the last of the historical figures. I completely forgot about Qewir. So much so that he only ended up in the box at all a couple of weeks ago. Sorry Qewir D:
They hadn't really invented bling yet. Circle of gold was pretty ostentatious a thousand years ago.
NAME King Qewir
WHO IS THIS PERSON Originally advisor to King Yan, Raykin's first king about 1000 years ago, until he killed Yan and crowned himself as the second king.
GENDER Male
AGE deceased; age 80 or so I think
BRIEF BIO Like everyone back then, Qewir grew up in a desert family much like the ones that still live around the desert now. When his family heard of the brand new thing called a town that had sprouted up on the river, they decided to see if civilisation was for them. They integrated into the growing town and built themselves houses. Qewir himself made sure to meet the self-proclaimed king with the yrae feather, and quickly started making himself indispensable with new ideas and leadership. Within a few years he'd become King Yan's chief adviser and closest friend.
But a lot of Qewir's suggestions Yan either ignored or took too literally. By the time they were both in their 40s, Qewir finally was able to see past his friendship and realised just how corrupt and tyrannical Yan had become. He tried to tone Yan down and make him see reason, but more and more he found his advice being completely ignored. After much debating with himself, he finally decided the only way out was to remove Yan once and for all. He killed the tyrant king overnight and banished his family and all his supporters (there weren't many) to the desert. Qewir took his crown and the yrae feather, pretending to the rest of the city that it was lost, and made himself the new king of the renamed Raykin.
Several years later, Noku, Yan's son, came back to Ni-Yana to try and ask for admittance back into the city, but Qewir turned him away, figuring he still sympathised with his father. Yeah. Qewir was far from perfect. After three attempts, Noku finally gave up and went back to live in the desert with the other sympathisers, but Qewir wasn't so sure he was gone for good. Sure enough, he came back as a young man at the head of a small army, and the desert people and riverfolk had their first war, with Qewir on the winning side, but just barely. He moved the city downstream and founded Ni-Qewira, where he ruled as a much more benevolent king than Yan ever had, still not perfect but compared to the only other king they'd known he was an angel.
When Qewir was an old man, Noku came back into his office to try, or so Qewir thought, to once more gain access to his civilisation. Only it wasn't Noku, but Yan back from the dead. Sort of. Knowing Qewir must have kept the yrae feather, even though he hadn't used it all these years, and had come back to get it. Qewir, of course, died that day, when Yan stopped his heart with the yrae feather.
Also somewhere in there he got a wife and kids but damn this is a long profile for a guy who died a thousand years ago and hasn't come back from the dead.
CHARACTER Qewir was partly torn between wanting power, either in the form of the crown or the yrae feather, and wanting to help his people. He tried to do the best by them as an advisor and then subsequently as a king, but often his own desire to just look good in front of them or to keep his crown got in the way. All this is forgotten by history, though, and really all he's remembered for now is killing the world's first tyrant.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Nolryn is Qewir's descendant, with manymany greats in there.
I know an awful lot about the guy for having never written him.
They hadn't really invented bling yet. Circle of gold was pretty ostentatious a thousand years ago.
NAME King Qewir
WHO IS THIS PERSON Originally advisor to King Yan, Raykin's first king about 1000 years ago, until he killed Yan and crowned himself as the second king.
GENDER Male
AGE deceased; age 80 or so I think
BRIEF BIO Like everyone back then, Qewir grew up in a desert family much like the ones that still live around the desert now. When his family heard of the brand new thing called a town that had sprouted up on the river, they decided to see if civilisation was for them. They integrated into the growing town and built themselves houses. Qewir himself made sure to meet the self-proclaimed king with the yrae feather, and quickly started making himself indispensable with new ideas and leadership. Within a few years he'd become King Yan's chief adviser and closest friend.
But a lot of Qewir's suggestions Yan either ignored or took too literally. By the time they were both in their 40s, Qewir finally was able to see past his friendship and realised just how corrupt and tyrannical Yan had become. He tried to tone Yan down and make him see reason, but more and more he found his advice being completely ignored. After much debating with himself, he finally decided the only way out was to remove Yan once and for all. He killed the tyrant king overnight and banished his family and all his supporters (there weren't many) to the desert. Qewir took his crown and the yrae feather, pretending to the rest of the city that it was lost, and made himself the new king of the renamed Raykin.
Several years later, Noku, Yan's son, came back to Ni-Yana to try and ask for admittance back into the city, but Qewir turned him away, figuring he still sympathised with his father. Yeah. Qewir was far from perfect. After three attempts, Noku finally gave up and went back to live in the desert with the other sympathisers, but Qewir wasn't so sure he was gone for good. Sure enough, he came back as a young man at the head of a small army, and the desert people and riverfolk had their first war, with Qewir on the winning side, but just barely. He moved the city downstream and founded Ni-Qewira, where he ruled as a much more benevolent king than Yan ever had, still not perfect but compared to the only other king they'd known he was an angel.
When Qewir was an old man, Noku came back into his office to try, or so Qewir thought, to once more gain access to his civilisation. Only it wasn't Noku, but Yan back from the dead. Sort of. Knowing Qewir must have kept the yrae feather, even though he hadn't used it all these years, and had come back to get it. Qewir, of course, died that day, when Yan stopped his heart with the yrae feather.
Also somewhere in there he got a wife and kids but damn this is a long profile for a guy who died a thousand years ago and hasn't come back from the dead.
CHARACTER Qewir was partly torn between wanting power, either in the form of the crown or the yrae feather, and wanting to help his people. He tried to do the best by them as an advisor and then subsequently as a king, but often his own desire to just look good in front of them or to keep his crown got in the way. All this is forgotten by history, though, and really all he's remembered for now is killing the world's first tyrant.
POINTS OF INTEREST
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Date: 2014-09-15 01:12 pm (UTC)He has a good backstory. The founding of a nation and the start of an undead tyrant has to have a lot of colourful backstory to it.
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Date: 2014-09-16 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-16 08:03 am (UTC)Hurry up and get to Yan~ :>
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Date: 2014-09-16 08:41 am (UTC)Yan is closer than you might think! I (almost) can't wait. But I've waited this long, so. Soon, my precioussss.