Aeschraes

Biography
Aeschraes Aercargiad was born to Despexir Epistonicon of Cnidystus and Erigana in either Corcana or Thoraistos on the 14th of Urede 1168 IS, the same year as the Odrstund: Aeras' worst Gederða in known history, which is speculated to be the cause for both his mythical Magical ability and his sadistic personality. His tragic history started at the age of 10 when his mother, Erigana, died in childbirth while delivering a stillborn child. 3 years after the beforementioned death, his father murdered his best friend: his younger sister who was 10 at the time. The motive to this is unknown, though it is theorized that she was purged for being impure as she was delicate and had no Magical ability while the rest of her family did. What isn't unknown is that only 5 days after, Aeschraes battled and killed his own father.

After burning down his own childhood home following the death of his father, he ventured off to The Mayikprolollan and started his Magical education. While in The Mayikprolollan, Aeschraes was recognized as the 2nd most talented student that it had ever known due to his status as a genius and having a level of Magical ability that's been theorized to be impossible. According to many, The Mayikprolollan was also where Aeschraes had a paramour with Axiaothea and began his legendary rivalry with her. At the age of only 18, Aeschraes was known as a talented Legon in the Aversarian Empire. It is stated that he had a part in the Brauriri Massacre and the Legion Affair, though no details have been provided on these events.

The most influential event in Aeschraes' life (specifically what he had to do to end it) was when he launched a failed coup against Empress Axiaothea, and then his subsequent rebellion against her. As she had supposedly murdered the emperor, (her husband) usurped his throne, and then annihilated the Blood Senate, he opted to take power as she had made herself an extremely unpopular ruler. This launched off the Imperial Civil War, splitting the Aversarinas Aautokratia into his western half and Axiaothea's eastern half. Much of the devastation of the war was not wrought by soldiers and battles, but instead in the growing Magical arms race that the two had created. This race to annihilate the other with the most destructive Magic possible came to its climax with the re-discovery of the Sarradonian Self-Replicating Blood Magic.

After having rediscovered the Self-Replicating Blood Magic, Aeschraes also rediscovered The Bloodyard. He reactivated its facilities and sacrificed thousands of his slaves, servants, soldiers, and even his wife and 3 kids so that he may use its unique boost to sacrificial Magic generation to gather the massive amount of Magic required to cast the Self-Replicating Blood Magic before Axiaothea had the chance to. Following its casting, an enormous amount of people (primarily Magi) across Aversaria died, causing Frodbrokna and ending the world.

Though most of Aeschraes' allies and servants completely abandoned him following Frodbrokna, Demetros 'Iron-Spike' Detheniax swore fealty to him (and later became his right hand) in the early 1200's, which gave him a grasp on Opakhasia along with being able to use Demetros' threatening reputation of having leagues of assassins under his sway to intimidate the lords he still had control over into not rebelling against him and further fragmenting his realm. Another large part of his control over his ailing realm (specifically Opakhasia and Malcois) came from Karthyn Delenel alongside his protege, Gorassos 'Skull-Taker' Antilliac, who was able to terrify the citizens into obedience. After Demetros' death and Karthyn's supposed then actual death in The Vilnian Assault against Isacea, he lost control of Opakhasia and Malcois.

Aeschraes killed the wounded Isacea, though this was only after she and her Legio XXI 'Axiaothea' had slaughtered his entire inner circle who were holding the Oraispol Aautokrata together, leaving Etepeaza as the only land Aeschraes still had control over. His hold over Etepeaza also soon disappeared as Lycus Xenepheron, the governor of Etepeaza at the time, staged a coup against Aeschraes and usurped control of Western Etepaza. This final nail in the coffin left Aeschraes with only Eastern Etepeaza, which his control over also dwindled and finally left him with one singly county to call his own in 1254 IS.