Ridder Family/Mathias
Having been raised by his aunt after both of his parents died; Mathias lived a very sheltered life. His aunt made sure of one things however while he was growing up and that was that he constantly practiced his swordplay. Mathias however preferred the spear, and as a child he would often sneak into the woods and pretend he was riding horse back with his spear extended routing every enemy he came past.
As he grew older he began to ride a real horse and practiced skewering straw dummy's with his spear. When he finally reached the age of 17 his aunt threw him out of the estate to fend for himself.
Mathias would serve Pian en Luries for 2 years before he would become infamous in the realm. With the breakout of the Verus Luria rebellion, Mathias would have his eyes opened to the inefficiency of his current country. Combined with the displeasure he had over his letters being ignored, and the general silence that had befallen the realm, he had begun to talk to the rebel leader, Duchess Katayanna of Poryatown. She would convince him to leave his realm behind and join her fleeing forces in the north. However during his journey to meet up with the rebels, Mathias would be captured by rouge agents and later released back in Askileon. He would then be convinced by Katayanna to work with agents in Pian who were also displeased with the current regime, and to make an attempt to overthrow her. Mathias of course had no intent to actually take the crown of Pian for his own, and left the realm shortly after initiating the rebellion for those remaining to fight it.
Mathias would then find himself in service of the Tyrant Edelstien fighting alongside Katayanna who would also now be under Edlestien's service. It would be a few more years before he would be called on again by Lady Katayanna to strike against an oppressive government. Mathias then working with his friend Yurok of Nebel would plan a successful rebellion in less than a day.
After the rebellion Mathias would go on to reform The Tyranny of Shadovar into the Kingdom of Shadovar with Mathias as the first king. He would appoint Katayanna to the position of Imperial Chancellor, but she was injured nearly immediately and was replaced by Sir Valdrix. During this time Marquis Yurok had begun to gather disapproval from his peers. After the rebellion he came off as a mercenary who would work for the highest bidder. The sad thing was that he never disagreed with this statement. This would be the first step towards the commotion to follow.
At the same time Duchess Katayanna was having problems with Marquis Edith who refused to follow her orders. Duchess Katayanna would eventually call for Edith to step down. The Imperial Chancellor Valdrix seeing this as a move for more power, and an unjust action banned Katayanna form the realm. Afterwords she immediately split off to form the Kingdom of D'Hara. Mathias at this point had had enough of the strife taking place in his realm, and called for Imperial Chancellor Valdrix to step down. With his refusal Emperor Mathias challenged Sir Valdrix to a duel to the death. The duel would end in a draw with Sir Valdrix the more injured, Mathias would take this as a victory in his own eyes, but this had been the last straw.
He would contact his old friend Katayanna and negotiate for his joining of her realm and with him the promise of many more to follow. Out of the deal he would secure himself the Ducal seat of Paisly. With this secured Mathias would leave Port Nebel, and Shadovar behind never to look back. Soon after his movement to D'Hara Duke Conrac of Port Nebel would also join D'Hara helping to secure D'Hara's future as lord of the Isles. The ensuing reunification war would follow suit, and end swiftly with D'Hara being victorious.
For the following months Mathias would venture the lands of the Western Mainland. Traveling from as far north as the Gretchew River to Evanburg. From these regions he would help to fund the Kingdoms many civil projects. Including everything from the healer's guild in Port Raviel to the first Way of the Dragon's Temple. His gold would also help to fund the armies being built within the realm.
On one of his return missions to D'Hara Mathias' ship would be attacked by pirates and he captured. During this time Mathias took as hit to the head which left him with a slight case of amnesia. The pirates would fool the knight into believing tha the was one of them, and he would continue to believe this until Dame Katrina would find him and capture him after a short fight. It would take months for Mathias to fully remember who he was, and to come to terms with his new alter-ego. Months would pass before Mathias was himself again. The constant threat of Alexander showing up again was always a worry but one he and his countrymen learned to live with.
However in an attempt to control his alter ego Mathias began to search for religion, and he found one, Sanguis Astroism. However join this religion would be the downfall of Mathias as it lead to further distrust of him from the Queen Katayanna who was a firm believer in The Way of the Dragons. However due to previous deals with Sir Mathias the Queen appointed him Duke of Paisly when they reclaimed it. However this would not last long for soon after Mathias was accused of treason and kicked out of D'Hara. This would not be the end of his tenure in the Isles however. Seeing as how an old friend soon contacted him after he joined the realm of Corsanctum.
The friend turned out to be the General of D'Hara Cenarious. Turns out by kicking Mathias out the Queen had lost all favor she had left with her subjects. They had begun calling her the Mad Queen and other names that shall not be mentioned. Well Cenarious contacted Mathias seeking aid in planning a rebellion against the Queen to which Mathias agreed. The rebellion would turn out to be successful and Mathias was welcomed back home.
