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(WORK IN PROGRESS)

Name

Cerce Eugene Maria Danielson Tentones of Sarkom

Nick Name

Cerce (Cercey, Eugene)

Age

22

Race/Ethnicity

Sarkomic (He's white)

Profession

Jack-of-all-trades

Hobby/Hobbies

Writer, politician, miner, builder

Guild/Group

Formerly of the Lightbringers, Emperor of Cerantia

Background

Countless years ago, on an island far to the North and East of all known lands, man lived. Men fought each other for the most trivial things and the most petty of quarrels. Violence carried on, untill a unifying leader, Sarkora, brought together a large group of men under his banner. They called themselves Sarkomians, after the man they all fallowed and revered as a god. This band of rabble conquered the other peoplegroups and subjugated them under the Sarkomians, and treated them as slaves building the foundation for the first kingdom in the isle that had come to be known as Sarkom. When the slaves could no longer work, they were sacrificed in a lake of fire, or lava pit, to Sarkora. This also occured to small children and unfertile women. Sarkom considered men superior, as they contained the seed to life for all mankind.

Meanwhile, on an island not far south from there - within eyesight, even - another kingdom arrose, also bent on savagery, sacrifice, and slavery. They called themselves Teevahnans, after a demon that supposedly created the people on that island. To appease the demon, so that it would not destroy them for not recognizing it as their creator, they would drown slaves that were not fit to work, allong with small children and unfertile men. Teevahna considered women superior, due to the fact that they carried the burden of the child.

As commonly occurs between opposite views, these two upstarting civilizations (which were barely civilized enough to be considered as such) fought, endlessly and bloodilly. Hundreds of years went by, with neither country gaining a foothold in the ceaseless fighting. They grew to hate and loathe each other. Warriors died by the thousands as the milenia drew on, all over petty quarrels and differences.

Yet there was a third nation in all of this. The nation of Gahma, a peacefull nation which worshipped the One and the All, lived to the far east of these islands, beyond even a weeks travel by boat. These people had never known warfare, or even unrest. All lived together in harmony, and all seemed well.

However, Sarkom, searching for a new source of slave labor after ruthlessly exploiting their own native subjugates, sailed far and wide seeking new and easy lands to conquer. Teevahna, never to be outdone, did the same. By some trick of fate, both Teevahnan and Sarkomian forces landed on opposite sides of the island of Gahma. A fierce seccond-front war broke out over the new found lands, decimating a large section of Gahma with it.

Sarkom took hundreds of prisoners back to their kingdom after defeating the smaller Teevahnan forces, and demanded that Gahma surrender and submit to their demands. The great Gahman nation gave up withought further adue, seeking to save their kinsmen. Sarkora, who was still worshipped as a god (and seemed to be, as he had never died as of yet), wished to be appeased further, and demanded a sacrifice. The Sarkomian military was all too happy to provide, and killed every last prisoner in a massive sacrificial inferno.

Now, there was an agnostic young guard called Cerce Tentones of the Tentones clan of Sarkom. He had been stationed on guard of the prisoners of Gahma, and had learned the basics of Gahman language during his time there. A particular prisoner, who refused to say his name, told him daily of the All and the One, of the One's forgiveness, and of how the All (that is, the human race) is in essence good, but tainted by Blarma (a Gahman word thought to be 'Them', but not sure, as Gahma never said 'them', only 'us', as there never was any other peoplegroup besides Gahma that they new of), or evil, and how the One will send the Other to save the All from Blarma. Cerce came to convert to their beliefs, as he had seen the horrors of warfare and, unlike his bretheren, hated the mass bloodshed that took place for almost no reason.

When the order to execute the prisoners came, Cerce secretly released the man who told him of the One and the All. However, he was highly advanced in age, and told Cerce that he could no longer go on. "Spread the word," he said, "Stop this madness... I can no longer move, I am too old and tired... Only the kissing embrace of the One's flame awaits me..." At this, he screamed, and demanded to be thrown into the fire, not wishing to live in shame while his kinsmen died beside him. Cerce ran from Sarkom, stealing a boat, and traveled to Teevahna.

Now, Teevahna was still licking its wounds as it were from the beating its forces took at Gahma. Therefore, the head priests of the order of Teevahna were more than happy to accept a rebel Sarkomian, who could provide information. But when Cerce saw the mass drownings to Teevah, he was appalled all the more. Cerce was cast out from Teevahna, and sailed far west.

A great storm came to Cerce as he sailed. It lasted over four days and, when it cleared, he came upon a new land... "I will start a new civilization," said Cerce to himself, "One that is strong enough to fight, but wise enough for peace... One that fallows the One's morals of honesty and peace, yet judgement and chivalry... One called... Cerantia."

So begins Cerce's quest in Kiwike.