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Eosin the Red ruled the kingdom of Vintria during the bloodiest era the kingdom had ever faced. He was not noble, nor just, or even kind; like most men called heroes, he only did what fate required of him.
Eosin began as a scout with Vintria’s army. Eventually, his resourcefulness earned him a promotion to captain of a ranger unit. During some seasonal skirmishes with the northern barbarian tribes he chanced upon a meeting that involved several Imperial Senators and one of the most powerful barbarian chiefs. Discovering treason, he returned to the capitol, Viandian and sought to warn his superiors. Like many plans of treason, this one also ran deep. He was taken by the Lord Marshall and was to be hung, escaping the noose only through the efforts of his men. Unsure of who to trust, he turned to the legions themselves, entering Viandian through the king’s gate two days later.
Eosin and his legions were unable to save the king but they did quell the rebellion in the capitol. Then he turned his attention on the barbarian tribes pillaging in the countryside. He spent nearly four months campaigning before bringing them to task. He retained command of the legions only by virtue of imminent crisis but by the time he returned to the capitol he also had the loyalty of Archbishop Taedrin, the highest rank clergyman in all of Vintria. Upon his return, the legions urged him to take the Iron Crown, as did several prominent senators who had been loyal to the previous king.
Eosin ruled well for the first few years of his reign, taking a wife and producing six children. It was during this time that Eosin began to consult with the kingdoms clergy and the mage known as Solomon. He had one other notable advisor during the early years, an exiled prince from the elvish land of Elenastra. These three advised him of the growing darkness to the east in a land called Khel. During the next decade of his reign, Eosin sought to prepare his land to face this blackness but senseless wars and weak rulers had gutted the Vintrian Empire. Eosin had to unify Vintria first.
First, he removed the senate that had placed him on the throne, and then began a campaign to cull out those who undermined his efforts. He reclaimed lost provinces and buffer states that had been granted independence centuries earlier. Eosin and his legions remained in the field for thirteen long years; those years earned him the appellation “Eosin the Red.”
In the winter of his twenty first year as king, Eosin the Red ran out of time. Word came to him from one of the mystical Celestine knights, the darkness was breaking free. Knowing that his kingdom and his family would perish in the conflict, Eosin summoned his knights from the First and Tenth Legions. 5,000 of Vintira’s elite fighting force marched into Khel and sought to buy their land and their people a few more years.
Description: Eosin is a warrior-king. He has a quiet air of command, rather than a demanding one. He is well developed but approaching his middle years. Eosin is usually found dressed in functional mail and plate, the breastplate decorated with the eagle of Vintria. He is never without his sword, Al’Arcrist [Flame in the night] in a shoulder scabbard. He has short graying brown hair and his eyes are startling clear blue. If any described him as handsome, it would be in a rugged way. During the later years of his reign, the weight of his struggle was reflected both as an intense focus and his surrender to a doom he could not avoid.
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Eosin the Red, human male, Woodsman 4/Fighter 4/ Noble 3
Str 14 (+2), Dex 13 (+1), Con 12 (+1), Int 16 (+3), Wis 15 (+2), Cha 17 (+3).
