Name: Geldryn Maldegor (Godswatch Geldryn of House Maldegor)
Gender: Male.
Race: Human.
Patron deity: the Patriarch.
Nation of origin and information: Pythus, a city-state in the western reaches of the Alliance, and to date the Alliance's most densely populated area, a beacon of commerce across the western coast and a city of great cultural wealth, a result of its convoluted past. The birthplace and namesake of the Empire of Pythus, the city stood at the center of the west's political theater as the seat of the Emperor's reign, hosting the entirety of the Imperial court and a great share of its bureaucracy.
For nearly five centuries the Empire expanded and thrived, engulfing most of the regions that now encompass the alliance, from its start as a humble city-state among many in the west to the sole hegemony in the known world, a city of unparalleled culture and wealth. Alas, prosperity never lasts long across the echoes of history, and tragedy is quick to strike. Ever increasing financial burdens in maintaining the Empire's unity and the spread of a new faith across the Empire's many provinces, culminating in a string of incompetent and short-reigned Emperors, engulfed the Empire in a civil war.
Ruled by mages for centuries, the Empire fell into anarchy as mobs and slaves overpowered their former overlords across the farther provinces, slowly pushing its borders back as local leaders emerged and the Empire found itself too stretched, and its allies to few, to contain the growing schism. Slowly yet surely, as the faith solidified in the origins of the Holy Trinity and individual kingdoms carved their way through the provinces of yore, the Empire was reduced but to a fraction of its former self.
Though the nobility and the Emperor still entertained the notion of Imperial restoration, with several unsuccessful attempts, the kingdoms and principalities, united by their common belief in the Holy Trinity, ultimately proved insurmountable; after two centuries of steady stagnation, countless holy wars and the spread of the faith in Pythus itself, the Imperial court was at last deposed by its own citizens, and the Empire dismantled, a mere figurehead of the dynasty remaining in the throne, an Emperor no longer.
Whereas local nobles managed to secure power and hold the city together, painstakingly bringing the city into the Alliance after many concessions, the Imperial house itself had been reduced to handful, aided by a concerted invasion by its former component states, a hybrid mockery of the city's culture and that of the barbarians that had once lived in their respective provinces.
Nowadays, the city stands, a decadent hive where nobles conspire and untold merchants ply their trade. Heretics, demons and cultists of things far more terrible hide amid the city, in sharp contrast to the old Imperial palace district, replaced with a temple district, full of a decadence of its own, amid which stands the great cathedral, a constant reminder of which none may stand against the Holy Trinity and their representatives, whether they be mage, Emperor or unholy aberration.
Physical appearance: a brown-eyed caucasian man in his early 30s, of average build; his brown hair is neatly swept backwards and a well trimmed beard adorns his face. He dresses rather oddly for a former Godswatch, as though he were always expecting an assassin to appear and try to dispose of him.
Backstory: born the second child to the city's ruling dynasty, where succession crisis always end in bloodshed and the death of a fifth of the city's nobility Geldryn was bound to end up as the former Capital's Godshear, taken under the Church's tutelage from a young age so as to avoid potential complications in the event of an earlier succession. Alas, for one such an influential family, no monastery would do. Spending his early years under the tutelage of private tutors and the former Godshear, he'd then join the Church and slowly rise to the position, which he did with surprisingly ease, as he was found to be the more competent of the four brothers, by far.
A well learned and charismatic man, even called a genius by his instructors, despite his relatively young age for the position, and prodigal ease with holy magic, it was, alas, none of these traits that led to his appointment to the Inquisition. His notable political maneuvering had led him to a position of particular influence within the city and the Church, his official rank notwithstanding, solidifying Geldryn's name as a threat to the current succession, who feared a coup might be in the making.
Added to rumors of a conspiracy against the Ruling Council, whether truthful or lies spread by his rivals, in a region all too bitter about their current position in the Alliance, that made his continued assignment in the city was a politically tenuous situation, and yet left no legitimate reason for his removal. The answer the Church's upper echelons and his family came up with was but one, neutralizing Geldryn by reassigning him to a prestigious position in the eastern border, in the newly created Inquisition, where he could pose them no threat.
Well-versed in the holy arts, though not a paladin, with their gathered influence it was easy enough to force him a honorary paladin-hood and see him off the Alliance's core regions; denying one such a position would, after all, be met with great suspicion by the public and his peers.
Do you wish to be the High Inquisitor? No.
High Inquisitor: Terenos.
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