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''Cid in full armor and inspecting his spear Alluran's Reach.''
 
  
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'''Current Age: 39<br>'''
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'''Age at Death: 87<br>'''
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'''Class: Priest<br>'''  
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'''Class: Priest, Ambassador<br>'''  
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'''Weapon of Choice: Cid now keeps only his Gladius handy now that he follows the path of a Priest. However, he still keeps his long spear named "Alluran's Reach" tucked away. <br>'''
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'''Weapon of Choice: A simple dagger for personal protection.<br>'''
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'''Current Title: Head Priest of the Temple of the Trinity in Cutnipaniel<br>'''
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'''Titles Held Upon Death: Eccelsiarch of the Trinity of the Far East, Prime Minister of Soliferum, Ambassador of Soliferum<br>'''
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'''Titles Held: Baron of Irdalni, Haruspex Maximus of Alowca, Senator, Grand Justicar of Soliferum, Deputy Prime Minister to Prime Minister Conan (Soliferum), Count of Cutnipaniel'''
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'''Titles Held: Baron of Irdalni, Haruspex Maximus of Alowca, Senator of the Soliferum Senate, Grand Justicar of Soliferum, Deputy Prime Minister to Prime Minister Conan (Soliferum), Count of Cutnipaniel, Founder and Eccelsiarch of the Trinity of the Far East, Prime Minister of Soliferum, Ambassador of Soliferum, Duke of Osaliel '''<br>
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'''Religion: The Trinity of Khagister, Alluran, and Denarial.'''<br>
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'''Unique Items Held: Helm of Osaliel'''<br>
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'''Realms Served: Alowca, Soliferum'''<br>
  
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Cid, son of Kvasir, was always an outcast in the Clan. Terrible when it came to hunting and smaller than the other children he was often ridiculed. As he grew he kept mostly to himself finding happiness in the Odes of the Clan when they were told. When this knowledge alone wasn't enough he began to sneak out of the forest to a small cottage owned by a scholar on the outskirts of Makar. There he was trained in the arts of History, Writing, Painting, and Language. He studied under the scholar (who is believed to have hailed from a land much older than Atamara) until the age of 15 when his father found out what he was doing. Furious he forced the boy to return home and stay there under the constant watch of his Grandfather Jarl. Jarl wasn't fond of the boy and quickly grew tired of watching him sit in the corner of the room staring out the window. It was then Cid began receiving basic combat lessons (much to his dismay). Though he was slow to learn he soon became very skilled and even began to defeat the other stronger boys of the clan.
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=== Personal Heraldry ===
  
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When he came of age he decided quickly they he tired of his barbaric family and fled home one day when his Grandfather fell asleep watching him (an act that, unbeknownst to him, would lead to his exile from the Clan. While a seemingly small act, he had been treading on thin ice for sometime with his father). He made his way to the docks and purchased his own boat using gold he had taken from the family vault. For years he travelled the lands learning all he could and honing his combat skills. He began to develop ideals never taught to him by the Clan: Honor and Nobility. He had come far from the weak little viking outcast of his youth and became a strong-willed noble.
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Cid flew a variety of banners throughout his life and career as a noble leader of troops. Upon first arriving in Alowca, he flew a white banner with his personal coat of arms that depicted a golden shield bearing four images: three interlocking circles indicating the Trinity, a hand to show his pleadge of faith, a horse for his readiness to serve, and a shell to show the great travels he experience to reach Alowca. Upon taking up lordship of Irdalni, the white banner was bordered tan, to show his ties to the desert region. After the Great Exodus and his pledge to serve Soliferum, the edges were changed from tan to crimson to show the perilous journey he had taken to reach his new home.
  
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One day a great storm overcame his ship and all hands were lost to the fury of the sea. He washed up on shore in the Colonies where he was taken in by monks of the Trinity. There he found his faith in the Alowcan Trinity and a new home in the Theocracy of Alowca. He also met his scribe Tel, who would serve him all his life, in Alowca when he first came to the land. He served there for some time, fighting enemies, and later serving as the Baron of Irdalni. This honor came to him however at a trying time where barbarians began invading Alowca. He fought tirelessly and was awarded the position of Haruspex Maximus. Soon a vision came to his leader Always from the Goddess Denarial that they should leave Alowca to find a new land for their religion. Cid dreamt one night of the Gods and Goddess of the Trinity beckoning him to a new land and he decided to leave with him.
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The banner was eventually redesigned to show a sun behind the rings of the Trinity and the white changed to orange to show his loyalty to Soliferum. During his first term as Prime Minister, a crown was added atop the shield and the orange field was redone in royal purple. As he descended further into religious fanaticism he retired all of his banners and took to flying heavily stylized banners embroidered with scripture and images from the holy books of the Trinity. These banners were flown among his warriors outside battle and typically depicted the wording or story behind the battle chants and prayers used during a campaign by Cid and his forces.
  
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They landed in the Far East and he joined the Republic of Soliferum. After a time his comrades vanished and he was left only with his comrade NLaw. He assumed a leadership role in the smaller circle of Alowcans and began talking with leaders about establishing a New Alowca. Eventually Always returned to Alowca and Cid decided to stay in Soliferum working towards a New Alowca and serving the Republic. He was been granted the honor of the title of Senator and then won the election for Judge.
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=== Childhood and Teenage Years ===
  
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Soon after, however, he served time in a Nighthelm prison and was stripped of this title. This came almost within a day of his release from a Grand Lodge prison where he was held as a Prisoner of War.
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Cid, son of Kvasir, was always an outcast in the Clan after birth. He was slow to take learn the neccessary Viking skills of hunting and battle and was often ridiculed by the other children for being small and weak. While below average in physical activities, he showed considerable skill in reading and memorizing the Clan Odes. Beliving he would one day become a follower of the Vikings gods, he was tutored by the Clan's wisemen in the arts of History, Writing, Painting, and Language. After returning from several lengthy campaigns, his father discovered his son's intent to become a priest and demanded he abandon his lessons and train to be a true warrior. Under the tutelage of his grandfather, a Viking named Jarl, he slowly became a competant huntsman and warrior, though still far behind his peers.
  
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He has always tried to deny his heritage in an effort to distance himself from "those barbarians". However he was always known to get quite worked up in some situations, had a tendency to overdrink, and had a disliking for horses or any other mounts; qualities often found in O'Neils.
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=== Adult Life ===
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[[Image:Cid.JPG|frame|right|Long before joining the priesthood Cid inspects his spear, Alluran's Reach, before battle]]
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Not long after coming of age, Cid grew tired of being treated as the runt of the family and made plans to run away from home. Waiting for the day when most of the men in the family were out on a hunt, he made for the city of Makar and joined the crew of a trading vessel. His father, furious at his son's defiance, declared him an exile and outcast, something Cid would only learn of later, and threatened death upon him if he ever returned.
  
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As time passed however he distanced himself even more from his ancestory by taking a mount. The horse served him well during his mission to contact Alowcans living in Taith Aenil (A quest he failed multiple times due to being captured by enemy patrols in lands he had to pass through) and he later purchased the mare and built a stable for her next to his his small home in Osaliel, Soliferum.  
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For years he made his living working on trade ships and as a sell sword, learning the concepts of honor and nobility that were never taught by the Vikings of Makar. Embracing a new lifestyle more befitting of his personality, he eventually used the gold he had saved to purchase his own ship and became a travelling scholar of sorts.
  
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He spent most of his days when not in battle tending to the affairs of his office (or when not in any official position tending to affairs of his estate), spending time studying his faith, and training.
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His life on the sea ended the day he ran afoul a terrible storm and found himself shipwrecked on the shores of Alowca in the Colonies. Monks of the Trinity took him in and nursed him back to health, while teaching him their ways. Among these monks, Cid met and befriended the man who would eventually serve as his scribe and later a high ranking member of the Church of the Trinity, Tel of Alowca. After he regained his strength he pledged an oath to Alowca and served with distinction in Alowca. When barbarian hordes descended upon Alowca and threatened to destroy her, he received a vision from the Trinity that called him from the Colonies to a new home in the Far East.
  
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At one point in his life, after purging monsters from Todpitz in a bid to gain the sympathy of the people there, he came under a mysterious illness contracted from the blood of one of the beasts he had slain. Recognizing the evil force that was draining him of life, he immediatly fled into the wilderness to begin a ritual of purification. After nearly a week he returned to Osaliel clean, but haunted.
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After leading a group of nobles to the Far East in what he would later call The Great Exodus, they swore allegiance to the Republic of Soliferum. With a plan to establish a new theocracy in the Far East, Cid pulled together the few Alowcan nobles that remained true to the cause and established a niche within Soliferum. While they served the realm faithfully, their goal for a new home of the faith never strayed far from their mind. As history would record it, Cid decent into religious fanaticism and the loss of several original nobles meant the they would never achieve their goal.
  
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One day when walking around the docks to talk to a merchant whom had sold his scribe palm trees for his home that supposedly came from Irdalni in Alowca he discovered that Alowca was doing fairly well. It had changed from what he knew it as, but it lived still. This, paired with the fact that it seemed that he and Brother NLaw (his Alowcan comrade in Soliferum) were alone in their ambitions to found a New Alowca angered and frustrated him. Immediately he began planning, trying desperately to find a way to fulfill his duties and bring The Trinity to the Far East.
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A major turning in his life came after a battle with a group of monsters on the outskirts of the region of Todtpiz. Wounded by one of the beast's claws, Cid found himself under the sway of a mysterious poison and, upon vanquishing the beasts, retreated into the woods in order to begin a series of purification rituals. When he returned he was found completely cured, but something haunted him still. Mere days later he would receive word that the Alowca he had left behind had fallen to corruption after barely surviving the war and had abandoned her faith in order to favor a perverted version of the Trinity. With all the events leading him down one specific path, Cid prepared to preserve the Trinity in the Far East once and for all.
  
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If Alowca was going to change and abandon him, he thought, than surely they werent to be trusted. It was then that the thoughts of many sleepless nights fortified themselves in his mind. He cast away the philosophies of Denarial's Way and embraced fully what he considered 'The Complete Trinity." Cid decided that if one did not embrace fully all of the deities of the Trinity than they skirted too close to heresy.  
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Using his influence as a landed noble, Cid constructed what was to become the very first temple of the Trinity of the Far East in Cutnipaniel. Embracing a new sect of the Trinity that focused on honoring all three gods, he began preaching the word and spreading the faith throughout Soliferum. Leaving the life of a warrior behind, Cid prepared to battle a different war against the enemies of his faith. In the end, it would be more brutal than any true war he would have ever fought. Almost losing his sight in one eye, a spiderweb of scars across his body, and broken bones that never healed quite straight; his endless crusade against evil would take a considerable physical toll on Cid.
  
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In his quest to found a temple dedicated to his Order of the Complete Trinity, Cid was granted the title of Count of Cutnipaniel, and moved his offices into the region. As one of his first acts he contacted the local masons and asked for an estimate on the construction of a temple. He was stunned by the incredible cost and knew that it would take time to gather as much gold as was required. It would take time, but it was something that had to be done.
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After serving briefly as the Prime Minister of Soliferum and attempting to end the war between his realm and the Grand Lodge of Lunaria (a decision that left him extraordinarily unpopular for a long period of time), he stepped away from politics. In his journal, now published under the title "Memoirs of the Ecclesiarch", he wrote while reflecting on the experience, "...twas a vile and treacherous maze. Around every corner I found only uglier and uglier faces as the lies piled up before me. I was exhausted and knew then the strength that better men must have to do this work. By the Trinity, I do not know if I could handle it again."
  
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After a great deal of time saving the gold needed for the construction of the temple Cid finally received words from the Bank of Osaliel that he had achieved the needed sum. Eager to begin he immediately sent word to the builders in Cutnipaniel and made his way back home. Once he arrived he oversaw the final details of the construction and the Temple of the Trinity was complete. Packing away his spear (but keeping his gladius handy in case it was ever needed) he prepared to begin a life dedicated to spreading and preserving his fate. Tel, his loyal scribe and friend that was with him through it all joined him in the temple hoping to continue his duties.
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For next several years, Cid waged his own personal holy war against the enemies of his faith and the Trinity soon flourished throughout Soliferum. Some critics of the faith spoke out against his frequent peasant uprisings that led to mass executions of so called heretics and unbelievers, but in the end the Trinity had established itself as the primary faith of Soliferum.
  
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While he spends a great deal of him time in the Cutnipaniel temple when not traveling, he still maintains his home in Osaliel which is built in a Alowcan style and is decorated with tropical plants imported from the region of Irdalni. Over the years it would become a sort of hideaway where he could go to study or meditate away from the world.
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Despite vowing to never enter politics again, Cid was forced to reenter the political arena during the Last Age of Soliferum. As the realm spiraled out of control thanks to the betrayal of the previous Prime Minister, Conan, he stepped up to take the reins and served as the Minister of Justice until being elected Prime Minister of Soliferum once more. With the realm's fate certain, he negotiated a cease fire and ended the war through a cease fire treaty.
  
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''"I have placed my life in the open arms of Denarial, blinded myself so that I may see what Alluran will show me, and I have let my hands go slack so that Khagister may create with them." - Cid on his faith in the Trinity.''
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With the wounds of his life catching up to him, Cid found that he had nearly reached an end. As far as most nobles knew, Cid had no family and no heir. However, in his youth he had married a woman and fathered a child. Fearing for the child's safety due to the many personal enemies he had gained, he sent the boy away to live with a rich noble family and his line had been preserved through them. With his last night quickly approaching, Cid sought out his great, great grandson and revealed his true heritage. It would be the last act of his life.
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=== The Death of Cid O'Neil ===
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Ecclesiarch and Prime Minister of Soliferum Cid O'Neil is believed to have succumbed to old age and died on the same day Osaliel was captured by the enemy forces that had been legally occupying the city as per the terms of the treaty he had negotiated. For days, rumors of his death had circulated throughout the former lands of Soliferum, though his body had not been found.
  
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Sometime after his death, his great, great grandson marched in Osaliel at the head of a procession that carried a body in a wagon covered by the flag bearing the symbol of the Trinity and bouquets of white flowers. As he passed through the streets of the city and approached the ruined temple in Osaliel, it became apparent that it was the body of the former Ecclesiarch. After a full service, he was interred in the temple's tomb.
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===''''Cid's Birds''''===
 
  
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Many years ago, when Cid still resided in the Colonies, he was captured by barbarians and thrown into a prison with a solid door and only a small hole in the wall to look out upon the fields. Eager to get a message back to Alowca he used what little food he was granted to attract a small bird. He took the bird in when it arrived and attached a small message to its leg. Then, he set it free and prayed it would find its way.
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After the Trinity fell from favor and all but vanished from the lands, the faith's former temples and shrines were either left to rot or converted to other uses. The true location of the final resting place of the Ecclesairch, as a result, is lost to time.
  
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A day later he awoke to the sound of chirping in his cell. When he opened his eyes the bird had returned and had a small piece of parchment tied to his leg. Upon removal he discovered that it was a response! For the duration of his stay the small bird stayed with him and kept him company. Small enough to fit inside both his hands and with feathers of black (save for a line of yellow leading down from its head to the back), it was released with him.
 
  
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Over the years before his move to the Far East he collected more of the strange species of bird. Their intelligence and reliability shocked Cid and he figured they had to be of the divine. When he finally moved to the Far East he took the birds with him. Now, whenever he travels about at least one bird stays with him while the others remain behind at his home. Quicker than a human messenger they are his method of choice for sending brief communications.
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''"I have placed my life in the open arms of Denarial, blinded myself so that I may see what Alluran will show me, and I have let my hands go slack so that Khagister may create with them." - Cid on his faith in the Trinity.''

Latest revision as of 22:31, 20 April 2013

Cid; son of Kvasir

Age at Death: 87
 Class: Priest, Ambassador
 Weapon of Choice: A simple dagger for personal protection.
 Titles Held Upon Death: Eccelsiarch of the Trinity of the Far East, Prime Minister of Soliferum, Ambassador of Soliferum
 Titles Held: Baron of Irdalni, Haruspex Maximus of Alowca, Senator of the Soliferum Senate, Grand Justicar of Soliferum, Deputy Prime Minister to Prime Minister Conan (Soliferum), Count of Cutnipaniel, Founder and Eccelsiarch of the Trinity of the Far East, Prime Minister of Soliferum, Ambassador of Soliferum, Duke of Osaliel
Religion: The Trinity of Khagister, Alluran, and Denarial.
Unique Items Held: Helm of Osaliel
Realms Served: Alowca, Soliferum

Personal Heraldry

Cid flew a variety of banners throughout his life and career as a noble leader of troops. Upon first arriving in Alowca, he flew a white banner with his personal coat of arms that depicted a golden shield bearing four images: three interlocking circles indicating the Trinity, a hand to show his pleadge of faith, a horse for his readiness to serve, and a shell to show the great travels he experience to reach Alowca. Upon taking up lordship of Irdalni, the white banner was bordered tan, to show his ties to the desert region. After the Great Exodus and his pledge to serve Soliferum, the edges were changed from tan to crimson to show the perilous journey he had taken to reach his new home.

The banner was eventually redesigned to show a sun behind the rings of the Trinity and the white changed to orange to show his loyalty to Soliferum. During his first term as Prime Minister, a crown was added atop the shield and the orange field was redone in royal purple. As he descended further into religious fanaticism he retired all of his banners and took to flying heavily stylized banners embroidered with scripture and images from the holy books of the Trinity. These banners were flown among his warriors outside battle and typically depicted the wording or story behind the battle chants and prayers used during a campaign by Cid and his forces.

Childhood and Teenage Years

Cid, son of Kvasir, was always an outcast in the Clan after birth. He was slow to take learn the neccessary Viking skills of hunting and battle and was often ridiculed by the other children for being small and weak. While below average in physical activities, he showed considerable skill in reading and memorizing the Clan Odes. Beliving he would one day become a follower of the Vikings gods, he was tutored by the Clan's wisemen in the arts of History, Writing, Painting, and Language. After returning from several lengthy campaigns, his father discovered his son's intent to become a priest and demanded he abandon his lessons and train to be a true warrior. Under the tutelage of his grandfather, a Viking named Jarl, he slowly became a competant huntsman and warrior, though still far behind his peers.

Adult Life

Long before joining the priesthood Cid inspects his spear, Alluran's Reach, before battle

Not long after coming of age, Cid grew tired of being treated as the runt of the family and made plans to run away from home. Waiting for the day when most of the men in the family were out on a hunt, he made for the city of Makar and joined the crew of a trading vessel. His father, furious at his son's defiance, declared him an exile and outcast, something Cid would only learn of later, and threatened death upon him if he ever returned.

For years he made his living working on trade ships and as a sell sword, learning the concepts of honor and nobility that were never taught by the Vikings of Makar. Embracing a new lifestyle more befitting of his personality, he eventually used the gold he had saved to purchase his own ship and became a travelling scholar of sorts.

His life on the sea ended the day he ran afoul a terrible storm and found himself shipwrecked on the shores of Alowca in the Colonies. Monks of the Trinity took him in and nursed him back to health, while teaching him their ways. Among these monks, Cid met and befriended the man who would eventually serve as his scribe and later a high ranking member of the Church of the Trinity, Tel of Alowca. After he regained his strength he pledged an oath to Alowca and served with distinction in Alowca. When barbarian hordes descended upon Alowca and threatened to destroy her, he received a vision from the Trinity that called him from the Colonies to a new home in the Far East.

After leading a group of nobles to the Far East in what he would later call The Great Exodus, they swore allegiance to the Republic of Soliferum. With a plan to establish a new theocracy in the Far East, Cid pulled together the few Alowcan nobles that remained true to the cause and established a niche within Soliferum. While they served the realm faithfully, their goal for a new home of the faith never strayed far from their mind. As history would record it, Cid decent into religious fanaticism and the loss of several original nobles meant the they would never achieve their goal.

A major turning in his life came after a battle with a group of monsters on the outskirts of the region of Todtpiz. Wounded by one of the beast's claws, Cid found himself under the sway of a mysterious poison and, upon vanquishing the beasts, retreated into the woods in order to begin a series of purification rituals. When he returned he was found completely cured, but something haunted him still. Mere days later he would receive word that the Alowca he had left behind had fallen to corruption after barely surviving the war and had abandoned her faith in order to favor a perverted version of the Trinity. With all the events leading him down one specific path, Cid prepared to preserve the Trinity in the Far East once and for all.

Using his influence as a landed noble, Cid constructed what was to become the very first temple of the Trinity of the Far East in Cutnipaniel. Embracing a new sect of the Trinity that focused on honoring all three gods, he began preaching the word and spreading the faith throughout Soliferum. Leaving the life of a warrior behind, Cid prepared to battle a different war against the enemies of his faith. In the end, it would be more brutal than any true war he would have ever fought. Almost losing his sight in one eye, a spiderweb of scars across his body, and broken bones that never healed quite straight; his endless crusade against evil would take a considerable physical toll on Cid.

After serving briefly as the Prime Minister of Soliferum and attempting to end the war between his realm and the Grand Lodge of Lunaria (a decision that left him extraordinarily unpopular for a long period of time), he stepped away from politics. In his journal, now published under the title "Memoirs of the Ecclesiarch", he wrote while reflecting on the experience, "...twas a vile and treacherous maze. Around every corner I found only uglier and uglier faces as the lies piled up before me. I was exhausted and knew then the strength that better men must have to do this work. By the Trinity, I do not know if I could handle it again."

For next several years, Cid waged his own personal holy war against the enemies of his faith and the Trinity soon flourished throughout Soliferum. Some critics of the faith spoke out against his frequent peasant uprisings that led to mass executions of so called heretics and unbelievers, but in the end the Trinity had established itself as the primary faith of Soliferum.

Despite vowing to never enter politics again, Cid was forced to reenter the political arena during the Last Age of Soliferum. As the realm spiraled out of control thanks to the betrayal of the previous Prime Minister, Conan, he stepped up to take the reins and served as the Minister of Justice until being elected Prime Minister of Soliferum once more. With the realm's fate certain, he negotiated a cease fire and ended the war through a cease fire treaty.

With the wounds of his life catching up to him, Cid found that he had nearly reached an end. As far as most nobles knew, Cid had no family and no heir. However, in his youth he had married a woman and fathered a child. Fearing for the child's safety due to the many personal enemies he had gained, he sent the boy away to live with a rich noble family and his line had been preserved through them. With his last night quickly approaching, Cid sought out his great, great grandson and revealed his true heritage. It would be the last act of his life.

The Death of Cid O'Neil

Ecclesiarch and Prime Minister of Soliferum Cid O'Neil is believed to have succumbed to old age and died on the same day Osaliel was captured by the enemy forces that had been legally occupying the city as per the terms of the treaty he had negotiated. For days, rumors of his death had circulated throughout the former lands of Soliferum, though his body had not been found.

Sometime after his death, his great, great grandson marched in Osaliel at the head of a procession that carried a body in a wagon covered by the flag bearing the symbol of the Trinity and bouquets of white flowers. As he passed through the streets of the city and approached the ruined temple in Osaliel, it became apparent that it was the body of the former Ecclesiarch. After a full service, he was interred in the temple's tomb.

After the Trinity fell from favor and all but vanished from the lands, the faith's former temples and shrines were either left to rot or converted to other uses. The true location of the final resting place of the Ecclesairch, as a result, is lost to time.


"I have placed my life in the open arms of Denarial, blinded myself so that I may see what Alluran will show me, and I have let my hands go slack so that Khagister may create with them." - Cid on his faith in the Trinity.

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