Bakos Family/Enzeru
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Early Life
Particularly fond of his older brother, Sonma, Enzeru has always put his standards to that higher of what his brother's were. He wanted to show that he could be just as good as his big brother, and everyone around him noticed :P
Enzeru had always found that besides going to his brother to talk about his problems, he would always isolate himself into his room and would write long essays on how his life was going and how he felt. His mother would always find time to read them as Enzeru was enjoying the realm of dreams and slumber. Amazed at what she found, Hotaru decided to get Enzeru into a school so then he could learn more on how to further expand his literary mind.
When Enzeru heard of what his mother did for him, the initial emotion was excitement and grateful. Now he could further improve his skills as a scribe, but most of all...learn more of the world. He couldn't wait to start packing. So that night he packed his travel pack and was ready to go. But Hotaru told him that he would have to wait 'til the morning.
Life as a Scholar
After Enzeru had left the Antozan Academy, he had a determination to show off his skills as a scribe within the military.
He first told his parents of his decision to enlist in the army. Hotaru was shocked at first, but supported him with his decision. His father, Toren, felt a little different to the decision.
Toren wanted to at least see one of his sons join him in the family business as a merchant. Naturally he allowed Sonma to enlist in the army since he was the eldest and had shown potential to give honor to the Bakos name. And seeing how Enzeru was doing so well in calligraphy and mathematics in the academy, he thought that Enzeru could be useful as a bookkeeper.
So, Toren had carried on into a huge discussion with Enzeru about how he should change his mind, but he could not, Enzeru made the decision to follow in his brother's footsteps and would not hear of anything different.
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Within the first few months, Enzeru had shown excellent performance within the scribe department. He was about to be placed as head of the department himself, he was transferred to the traders guild...
Fronen Experience
Enzeru has been serving the realm of Fronen for quite some time. When he first got there, he had a feeling that this could be a place of possibilities as long as he did his best. That proved to be a statement taken to heart. Within a month, after tough discussions, he was appointed as the Baron of Qual; a mountainous region that is known for their fine ale and training grounds.
After a month or so serving under the military, he went into his studies and saw that Fronen's lands were struggling to keep up to the demands of the people. So, he decided to turn away from the life of a warrior to that of a pencil-pushing bureaucrat. He quickly got into the lifestyle of a paper-pusher fairly well. It definitely got him some points up in the council...it resulted with Enzeru becoming Duke of Fronen's largest city, Mhed.
As his work became more known to the people, Enzeru tried his luck with a bureaucrat's dream career...Grand Justiciar. He spent hours on end trying to get his speech just right, but then felt confident that it would win the hearts of the people. Then...on the edge of his seat, one of Enzeru's scribe's came bursting into his main sleeping quarters and gave him a letter. Enzeru quickly read it and said that he was now declared the new Grand Justiciar of Fronen...
Now, about 4 or so months later...he is still in office, and can be seen within the cities of Fronen with his scribes maintaining the towns and keeping the people happy.
Religious Tranformation
After his brothers death, Enzeru has had some difficult time trying to release the anger and sadness within his burdened soul. When he was in the Antoza Commonwealth, he had always went to the local temples to attend some of the sermons that were being preached...hoping to find peace within the priest's words. Unfortunately, he couldn't, all those visits ended up with Enzeru returning to his sleeping quarters and shedding tears for his younger brother.
After Enzeru couldn't find peace within the people of the Far East, he wanted to start anew at a new destination. With his arrival to Beluaterra, he was fascinated in one particular realm, Fronen. He couldn't explain it, but he just felt this is where we could find tranquility.
As he worked through the ranks, Enzeru was able to be the lord to a mountainous region, Qual. This is where everything changed for him. One day, as Enzeru was training within the mountains, he had received word that their was a priest within his region. He was eager to see who this priest was.
Trying to get himself semi-presentable, Enzeru was able to see who this priest was. The man called himself Roland Ocum, priest of the Path of the Great Dragon. He had come to request if it was alright for him to establish a temple within the walls of Qual. Enzeru allowed for such action and was wanting to know more about this Path. Roland told him to meet him as well as some of the other priests within the temple and he shall know all that he wanted to.
Later on, Enzeru entered the temple and at the end towards the altar, there stood Sir Roland and the other priests. Enzeru approached them and stood patiently as the priests gave him an overview of what the Path had taught. Several hours later, Enzeru had left the temple with a new found hope.
"Yes brother, this is how I shall honor your name. The Dragon shall watch over you and I vow to make sure to never let anyone else suffer the same fate..."
Madness
After being given the honor of the position of Prime Minister of Fronen, Enzeru found that there were some problems through his eyes.
Looking through the realm diplomacies and military records, Enzeru found that he was in a bind. He made an attempt to try and redirect his realm from helping the War in the South from spending a week travelling and sending men to there deaths, he was planning on having Fronen push to get Enweil out of the war.
Unfortunately that was not the case. His friend and Minister of Defense, Grimbaldus, after seeing that Avalon shown no respect to the Avalon-Fronen Peace Treaty (still under debate) called for a mobilization of troops for possible involvement with Avalon. Sadly enough, the Minister of Finances, Sir Apothes, took his message out of proportions and then led to a civil war amongst the Fronen High Council. After many days of debate, Grimbaldus Sterksain and Krider Hawkestone stepped down from their respectable positions. With them under the radar from the new Grand Justiciar, Alexius, they planned a rebellion to overthrow the tainted conservatives of Fronen. As this went underway, Enzeru surreptitiously aided the rebels. And with his stepping down from Prime Minister, the rebels won. In order to make sure that the rebellion was successful, Enzeru also performed a deed that people will forever hate him for...Stripping Apothes of his position as Minister of Finances, and exiled the three Dukes..as a precautionary step to insure that they would not secede.
Now...after being banned from the realm, and almost on the vurge of death with his duel with his friend, Gilead Draconic...Enzeru now finds his way to receive his long awaited justice that the people of Fronen have wanted.
Darkness
After reaching checkpoint after checkpoint, Enzeru was close to being free from Fronen. Sadly though, he was finally captured in Jyl. Now he is within Fronen prison awaiting his utter demise...
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~As he waits...he writes to Alexius DeSyrr, Grand Justiciar, requesting for a final time, that after he is condemned and executed...that his body be cremated and his remains sent to his cousin, Hei Bakos, in Sirion, East Continent.~
Escape
As Enzeru is being escorted towards the carriage that was to bring him to his death, many of the soldiers gave mixed expressions towards him. Some gave him faces of disgust, similar to the face given to traitors and enemy prisoners, whereas others lowered their heads, giving Enzeru signs that they still remained loyal to him. He lowered his head in approval, but his escorts pushed him harshly into the carriage.
Making his way down the streets of Fronen, the commoners were looking towards their former Prime Minister with the same mixed feelings as the guards did. Although those that found disgust in him actually started chucking rotten tomatoes and other foods at him. One in particular, threw a rotten tomato; one that was bigger than most, smacked Enzeru square in the face. Enzeru just accepted the torment, knowing that his deed was treasonous and deserved to be put to death. Enzeru sat down and whilst looking down at the floor of the carriage noticed that there was a knife within one of the vegetables. He picked up said tomato and took a bite out of it, to make it appear to the guards like nothing unusual was happening. The two guards watching him in curiosity, but then went back to their own discussion. Enzeru then started to cut away at his bindings. First the ankles and then the wrists. Just as Enzeru was finishing up with his wrists, he started to laugh, and the guards looked at him and were asking what was so funny.
"I'm going to have to thank that kind gentlemen for this. For you guys, I wish you the best of luck."
The guards then stood up and drew their weapons. One of them had their sword to Enzeru's neck and the other on standby. Enzeru, with quick speed and elegance, dropped to the ground, and with the knife he used, drove it into the guards kidney. The guard dropped his sword and took hold of his wound. The second guard then began to shout that Enzeru was making his escape, however, just as he started to scream his name, Enzeru jumped into the air, and as he passed by the guard, drop-kicked him; sending the poor guy to the ground.
Other guards made their way to catch Enzeru, but were having a hard time catching up to him. While weaving through the crowd, Enzeru found the man that gave him the knife. He stopped and patted the guy on the shoulder. "Thank you good sir, I owe you my life." Enzeru said, however it was cut short when some guards made their way towards the two. Enzeru then hopped up onto top of one of the nearby pillars and began to make his way to the shoreline. The guards noticed the man Enzeru talked to, and were under the impression that he aided in the escape. So they drew their swords and pointed them towards the man. Out of nowhere, 5 daggers made their way into the guards shoulders, causing them to drop to the ground in pain. The man turned around and saw that it was Enzeru that took them down. Just he was waving his hand out, Enzeru already left.
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Vlaanderen
Enzeru finally made it towards the Vlaanderen boarder. He was excited to see that many of his fellow followers had already taken up residence there. Unfortunately, after those few months within the realm, Enzeru found it somewhat boring and decided to head out towards the Colonies, after hearing that his friend, Gin, had a brother there that was in need of someone of Enzeru's skills. He then gave his regards to the realm and headed towards the closest port.
As nightfall made its way across Beluaterra, Enzeru finally made it to the docks. There happened to be a merchant ship getting ready to depart. Enzeru hurried over to the captain to see if he can tag along with the crew.
"Well I don't see why not? Any reason why you want to leave this area?"
"Not really....I'm actually going to visit a friends relative. From what I've heard he is in need of my skills."
"I see. Well just hop on and enjoy the ride, bahahahaha."
Enzeru bowed to the captain and made his way up to the deck of the ship. Looking towards the port, Enzeru gave thanks to the wonderful times within Fronnen, and the ship began to sail off...
"Good bye, my dear friends. I shall never forget you!" And Enzeru sat back and made his way towards the Colonies, hoping for a fresh start...
Buro Routine of Colonies
After a few months within Alowca, Enzeru was finding that continuing to do piles of paperwork in an area that appeared to be going nowhere was starting to look a bit dull. Interestingly enough, one night, he was walking down the streets of Irdalni, when he decided to go and have a drink at the local tavern. He wasn't usually one to drink that much, just sell it, however, over the period of time in Alowca, his taste for it was growing ever so more. He then sat back in his chair and listened to some of the local troops that were enjoying themselves that night. Their stories of what the battlefield was like was starting to get intriguing for Enzeru. It has been so long for him to hold a sword, and he started to think that the feeling of being noble and helping the realm out was the driving force to have him fall back into the ranks of his fellow comrades.
So he decided that he would go on and follow the foot-steps of his cousins and get some experience on the South-East Islands. Before doing so, he wanted to make sure that he went out with somewhat of a bang. The day of his departure, he made sure that all of Alowca's ale was stored onto his ship. When the preparations were met, he took off. And he then looked back to the island, finding that Kitsuka, his superior officer, was coming out making curses at him for his "treachery." Then he made his way to the horizon and off to Taselak...
Position's Held:
- Baron of Qual
- Duke of Mhed
- Grand Justiciar of Fronen
- Prime Minister of Fronen
- Second Steward of the Path of the Great Dragon (Fronen)
- Head of the Fronen Department of Bureaucrats
- (My favorite one) Greatest Traitor to Fronen
