Spencer Hogerzien

Spencer Krohsnæli Hogerzien (Born Unknown Date, 22 Years Ago) is an Xokriian official, he is also the mayor & founder of the city of Ottirnalia. Hogerzien is also a key-figure in the reformation of ancient Helosian paganism.
Born in Gegangör, As'ro-Pothriki Commonwealth, Hogerzien was the son of a mixed Helosian-Ålrukanisi'öii Father, Johannes Hogerzien, and a Mixed Helosian-As'rian mother, Veletas Grentorki. Hogerzien spent his early life travelling across the continent of Halinn as his father was a wandering-trader. This was until his family moved back to the town of Gegangör when Hogerzien was 12 years old. At 16 years old Hogerzien left As'ro-Pothriki to become a Merchant Marine, where he sailed with the Southern Merchant Fleet for 3 1/2 years.
At age 20 Hogerzien received a vision which told him to return to Gegangör. Upon returning to Gegangör Hogerzien found the As'ro-Pothriki Commonwealth in shambles. Hogerzien quickly worked to support the rise of Xokrii Eternum, the successor state to the As'ro-Pothriki Commonwealth. In return for his contributions, and with a need for new leadership Hogerzien was sent by the leader of Xokrii, Aegeus, to take over and create a new city upon the ruins of an recently abandoned town. Upon establishing control over the town and surrounding lands for Xokrii and quickly (upon the guidance on new visions) sent word across Halinn for ethnic Helosian people to come to the newly claimed lands. Over the span of 2 months over 80,000 ethnic Helosians arrived into the city (now named Ottirnalia). As of current, Hogerzien is working to expand the city of Ottirnalia.
== Early Life ==
==== Childhood and Education ====
Spencer Hogerzien was born sometime 22 years ago in the city of Gegangör, within the As'ro-Pothriki Commonwealth. He was born the youngest of 5 siblings to a Helosian-Ålrukanisi'öii father and a Helosian-As'rian mother. Hogerziens father, Johannes, was a skilled traveling merchant, for this reason Hogerzien rarely saw his father in childhood and his family frequently moved all over Abexilas. His mother, Veletas, was a stay-at-home mother. Despite this his mother frequently was not present in his life and throughout his early life he frequently was forced to rely on himself. Hogerzien was homeschooled much of his early life, he was an extremely gifted child whom was able to solve complex high-level math equations and he showed exceptional skills in reading & writing. 
At age 9, Mitchell, his older brother pushed Hogerzien off a bed while the two were play-fighting. Hogerzien landed on his head and received a significant head injury. From this point forward Hogerzien's parents noticed a change in the young boy. He had lost much of his childhood memories and he began to be indifferent to other people, especially his family members. Despite this Hogerzien began to self-teach himself, he frequently spent the little money he gained from allowance along with stolen money to purchase books. He became obsessed with the history of Helos, despite the idea of Helosian culture dying out over generations and syncretizing with other cultures. He became fluent in five languages at this time, Helosian, As'rian, Pothriki, Travelers Tongue, and Ålrukananii. 
==== Early Life in Gegangör ====
At age 12, Hogerzien and his family resettled down in the city of Gegangör, where Hogerzien would spend the next 4 years of his life. He officially began to attend private royal education despite not being nobility. It was around this time Hogerzien reported having strange dreams about ancient spirits talking to him. His parents dismissed these claims as his imagination. Hogerzien graduated one year earlier then expected from royal education, at the age of 16. 
Soon after graduating, and against his parents ambitions for their son to become a bureaucrat, Hogerzien left home to sign up to the Grand Merchant Fleet Academy in Rozakkora. This would be the last time Hogerzien directly interacted with his family. Hogerzien graduated five months later from the academy and signed up to the Southern Abexilas Trading Guild. 
==== Merchant Marine ====
Under the Southern Abexilas Trading Guild (SATG) Hogerzien was paid 10,000 dollars a year. Hogerzien was a crew member on a As'rian registered galley and served as the crews head of security. With this position Hogerzien became an expert on swordsmanship, armor usage, and anti-piracy tactics. Despite this Hogerzien was never able to test his skills and his ship rarely sailed through dangerous waters, and his ship was never personally boarded or targeted by Pirates. 
During the second year of his merchant marining career Hogerzien fell in love with a 22 year old Kartek woman and after a six month relationship he unintentionally impregnated her. Being only 18 years old, and without a planned out future Hogerzien decided to instead abandon the woman. He never heard from the woman or about the child again, and there are no historical records recounting this event, however it is believed the woman kept the child.
==== New Visions ====
After three and half years of serving the SATG, and having been promoted to a leadership position, Hogerzien once again began to receive visions similar to those that he saw in his childhood. In these visions Hogerzien saw many things and was told many things. Among them he saw the destruction of As'ro-Pothriki Commonwealth, the rise of a new state. And the death of his entire family, and the burning of his families house. This prompted Hogerzien to quit his position in the guild and immediately return home to Gegangör. 
Upon returning home Hogerzien had found that all his visions were true. His family was dead along with 4/5ths of the former population of the As'ro-Pothriki Commonwealth. The country was gone and its new leader Aegeus had consolidated power under the new Xokrii Eternum. 
== Return to Gegangör ==
==== Growing Influence ====
Upon his return to Gegangör, and by the orders of the spirits he had been envisioning, Hogerzien began to put his best effort into helping restabilize the country. It was here he learned what happened to As'ro-Pothriki and how Xokrii had arose. While numerous problems had led to its downfall such as famine & disease. The main issue was raids conducted by local natives. Even though Hogerzien didn't have significant military experience his combat training, leadership experience, and royal education allowed him to be allowed an command position in the Xokrii military. 
Hogerzien gained significant recognition from the countries leader Aegeus after 700 soldiers under Hogerzien's command raided and destroyed a local village where a tribunal of native raiders had convened. After positioning his troops around the camp Hogerzien ordered them to rush the village. Caught of guard the over 900 tribal raiders within the village rushed to position themselves on the nearby hill. Hogerzien having seen this would happen through his visions had positioned 50 archers on the hill which rained hell upon the tribals as they attempted to climb it. They tribals were then forced back to the village where they were then encircled and cut down, along with their families. By the end of the night Hogerzien had murdered around 2,500 tribals (including the tribal tribunal) with only 90 casualties under his name. 
This battle gave Hogerzien fame and he quickly became a trusted member of Xokrii society in the eyes of Aegeus. 
==== Aegeus' Order ====
Aegeus during this time was in need of manpower and leadership which could properly recolonize the now abandoned and destroyed towns across Xokrii. And with most the tribal raiders leadership now caught and killed, the towns in eastern Xokrii could be reconquered. Among those was an now abandoned city built upon a dwarven mine in the snowy hills of Northeastern Xokrii.
Hogerzien, now being a trusted official within Aegeus's eyes was ordered to drop his military leadership position and initiate a reconquest of the abandoned city and the precious mines which lay below them. Hogerzien, now a loyal servant of Aegeus, followed through with the leaders plans. Hogerzien alongside 1233 Pothriki & As'rian settlers marched east to restore the former town.
== Ottirnalia ==
==== Abandoned City ====
Upon his arrival to the abandoned town Hogerzien immediately called for the settlers to begin cleaning up the town. After being burnt to the ground in areas, damaged in others, and trashed the former town was practically inhabitable. After a two week cleanup the town was sufficiently cleaned up, it was around this time that Hogerzien ordered the settlers to reestablish control over the towns mines. The mines which were of dwarven origin had two entrances, one going to y level -17 and the other -54. These mines were precisely dug out hundreds of years ago as two massive holes about 200ft in length and 150ft in width, going down almost 2000 feet. This made it extremely dangerous to enter with the previous staircase being destroyed. this forced the settlers to use latter's to enter and exit and pully systems to withdraw minerals and ores from the mine. However once the settlers properly established this system mining could begin immediately. These two holes and mines within them would prove to be the main industry of the coming city for centuries to come. Despite this around 24 settlers died in the creation of the new pully system.
Around a month after the mines were opened it was becoming more and more apparent that the small amount of manpower Hogerzien had would not suffice for the construction of a new city upon which was shown to him in visions. Eventually his visions gave him an answer to solve this problem (Xokrii couldn't spare manpower for Hogerzien). In his visions he imagined a large urban and industrialized super-city with a central walled off arcology. A city powered by lava and filled with Helosians. His visions then showed him 80,000 Helosians migrating to the city, ramping up construction, and him meeting with a new council of advisors which helped him construct this idea.
==== Founding of Ottirnalia ====
After receiving these visions Hogerzien spread word across Abexilas calling for all ethnic-Helosians to come to his new city, to form a new life, he guaranteed future compensations, housing, food, and work. Out of the 1.3 Million Helosians all across the world 80,000 responded to the message and gave up their old lives, believing Hogerzien to 'The Incarnate' the religious prophet of ancient Helosian Paganism.
While Hogerzien now had the manpower he required he was also significantly overwhelmed. This migration heavily strained the food supply with Xokrii, and without being able to grow a significant amount of crops within the city for the foreseeable future Hogerzien was forced to overmine in order to sell raw iron, gold, raw copper, and other minerals in order to buy wheat and other food sources in order to prop up his people. 
By this point new construction had begun across the area with new houses and apartment complexes being constructed alongside new roads. Alongside this many improvements could be made upon the city. For example one man whom had kept schematics of old Helosian technological and mechanical developments was able to give the ability to Helosian construction workers to create water elevator's allowing for proper access to enter and exit the mines. This development made the mining industry in the city hundreds of times more effective, safe, and quick.
With a proper city now forming Hogerzien officially declared the name for the new city, he called it 'Ottirnalia' in honor of the ancient Helosian god-spirit Ottlir. 
==== The 'Spire' ====
With the creation of the water elevator and expansion of the mining industry, building materials such and steel and stone and deep slate were becoming more and more available. This gave one of the new Helosian settlers, an expert architect, and idea. In the past the idea of creating a arcology was prevalent in Helosian society, this was first envisioned in the creation of Valstand within the Kingdom of Helos just 500 years before. This architect however thought of creating a layered city, similar to that which he has seen in his visions. For this reason Hogerzien ordered the main focus of this new city to be focused on creating this new project, nicknamed the Spire. A layered city which was self-sufficient, could create its own energy, harness the power of the earth, and contain 500,000 people within just a few chunks. Thus the Spire project began. 
Today Hogerzien, the Architect, and the Helosian People are working on the Spire as their main focus. Hogerzien is waiting for more visions & he is working to try and better Xokrii and Ottirnalia. (Ongoing Character Development)
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