Augustine Salvay

Augustine Salvay was is a Silvish Human that lived in Kumuar.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Augustine Salvay was born on the Crescent Isles during the fall of the Valdreach Imperial Republic. His father Jean Salvay would take his newborn son with him on a merchant fleet heading to Plagatea. He grew up with salt on his face and wind in his hair. Augustine and his father's journey would end at the age of 19 when his father died after a plague spread throughout the ship. His body was dumped off the coast of Syltor.
After the passing of his father he decided to return to his homeland. While he was away his cousin Breton Salvay founded the city of Kumaur and had declared independence from the now independent Kingdom of Aezenfjord. Breton had studied abroad in Viodoxa city and used what he learned to help start his city. After becoming Hanzerouenn of the Brouenhanzen of Kumuur. He along with Spike of Adytum the first Archon of Viodoxa, Richard of Shaloma first king of Shaloma and the Exiled refugees under Loic from Asahiri united there 4 peoples to form the First Archonate of Viodoxa. 
Spike and Loic were co-archons and this had a very negative effect with his former homeland in Haven. Before being exiled he was the Emperor of Haven. A coalition led by Aurora overthrew him and so he left to Cymru because of his good relationship with Valen McSpiegal. 
=== First Archonate of Viodoxa ===
Now that Viodoxa was a rising power in the East that quickly conquered the continent of Cymru. Aurora along with Uldarash started a series of raids and spying on Viodoxa. Starting the Loics war. Augustine just returning to find his homeland under attack joined the newly formed Viodoxan navy as a merchant marine and joined his cousins war effort to turn Kumaur into the staging ground for the invasion of Haven. 
As the Viodoxan navy approached the coast of Haven, a small collection of Aurora Carracks was all they could muster and were quickly routed. Augustine stayed moored of the coast north of the city of Sanctuary as the Viodoxan ground forces took the city. Then the host moved to the capital and took Hapatmitas. Ending the war and causing the unintentional collapse of Uldarash. The First Imperial Archonate of Viodoxa was announced and Loics home duchy of Paloro was annexed along with a large strip of the coastline into the new Empire. 
With the war won, Augustine returned home to Kumaur and finally settled down and made himself a home. He would partake in the bandit wars and witnessed the horrors of the Ferrymen kill an entire generation of nobility. He watched from the sidelines as the Archons turned on each other and found his homeland in open civil war on more than one occasion.
Silvay had once ruled the entire western half of Cymru before it was split in half by Breton Salvays exwife Valerie Hirisy who ruled in the south in her new province of Aussay while Breton stayed in the south in Silvay. Before the first Archonate collapsed Breton had declared loyalty to Loic but Valarie had declared for Valen. So she sent a force under her second in command Kedian McSpiegal and took Breton into custody and declared marshal law in Silvay and Ked became the military governor of Silvay. However Valen would soon die and now Valarie found she controlled two independent duchies. She united the kingdoms into the Preyella empire that lasted a few months before she "rejoined" into the Second Viodoxan Archonate. Breton was forgiven for his betrayal and was allowed to return as Hanzerouenn of Silvay, Valerie on the other had a taste of power and believed she should have been co-archon of Viodoxa with Richard. Instead Yazov of Akratia became the new co Archon. 
Augustine and Valarie never saw eye to eye. Augustine saw Valarie was vain, egoistical and scheming. Valarie saw Augustine as a boring nobody from a house of a traitorous ex husband. So he wasn't surprised when word came out that Yazov was a Bardonian spy( he was a double agent) Valarie decided to call on foreign support to overthrow the government. Her "supporters" weren't very loyal and the soon leaked what she was planning and she was exiled from Viodoxa.
=== Second Archonate of Viodoxa ===
Entropy blew up the moon that one time while Augustine messed with some entropy essence and was under her thrall along side several other Viodoxans that fought for her before she was killed in the void and freed from her powers , Stoney sent a hurricane and flooded Kumaur along with several other cities in the southern seas. He was taken to court in Yimmu-Audal and found guilty. In Kumaur a beautiful baby girl was born, her name was Hazel and she was a Silvish elf of the house McSpiegal a direct descendant of Valen McSpiegal. Augustine had grown a friendship with Valen before his passing and treated all of his house with respect. But there was something about thing young babe that reminded him so much a Valen. And it wasn't until later into her life that Augustine learned that she was indeed the reincarnation of Valen McSpiegal, his memories or very soul was inside Hazel but she was very much her own person and an anchor was used to fully allow Hazel to truly be herself instead of anew body for Valen. 
War was brewing and the enemies in the north lead by the Hands and Bardonians were preparing to bring war to the shores of Viodoxa. Loic returned alongside the now Eternal Archon Hazel McSpiegal and they led the international coalition against Bardonian in the 3rd coalition war. Augustine didn't participate directly in the war and helped in the home front, guarding the waters off the coast of Viodoxa. He didn't want to return to the waters around Syltor. He feared he would end up with a fate similar to his father's.
Valarie Hirisy seeing an opportunity should Viodoxa lose, joined Bardonia in the hopes they would back her right to the Archonate. She would die in the battle of New Dorrasterock at the hands of her old friend Danzig. The Coalition had won, Bardonian has been defeated and all its non-core territory's were free from its yolk. But the coalition soon collapsed and just like in their former lives, Hazel and Loic soon started to fight. It got so bad the Synkelots the reigning senate inside Viodoxa began the impeachment process for both Archons. 
Loic was quickly impeached but Hazel had other ideas, the Snykelots were reshuffled and pro Hazel politicians stopped the impeachment process and Hazel became the sole Archon of Viodoxa. Valen was once sole ruler aswell but that was because both Archons at the time Zelious and Spike named him Heir to their positions.
=== Early career ===
Augustine stayed out of politics as much as possible, very few knew him outside of Kumaur let alone Silvay. But times were changing. Spike the first Archon returned and started essentially a bloodless civil war known as the Reformist movement. Spike made his case to Hazel. Hazel informed Spike of what had actually happened during his time away and asked Spike if Loic was behind his attempt to remove her from power. When he confirmed her suspicions Hazel gave the full story of how Loic acted and his attempts to under mine Hazel at every turn. Spike agreed that Loic had gone to far.
Breton had long been a know friend of Loic and his son and daughter were no exceptions. Lucid Salvay and Emma Wicholas(adopted daughter of Breton) declared their support for the Reformists but knew they were truly supporting Loic. They soon declared openly their loyalties and we're declared rebels. Breton had grown tired of the power struggles happening between the Archons and always found him and his family in the middle of both sides and Silvay was suffering everytime. Kumaur was a shell of its former self, the mainland was depopulated and Breton had lost hope in continuing his rule as Hanzerouenn.
As his cousin and the only Salvay not declared a renegade he asked Augustine to become the new Hanzerouenn of Silvay and rule Kumaur as he once did. Augustine was a political outsider and had no real political experience and Breton knew this but he had no other choice. And so faced with the possible future of his homeland at stake Augustine Salvay became officially the second Hanzerouenn of Silvay(Ked doesn't count). His family was in support of Loic but Augustine's long standing friendship with Valen made him side with Hazel. With Spike coming to an agreement with Hazel the Reformist movement has been stopped and Loic and those loyal to him were exiled.
Silvay was now ruled by Augustine who soon found the province was in even more desperate times than he thought. With Hazels support and Danzig being sent by the central government in Viodoxa to become the regent Hanzerouenn. Augustine began the slow and arduous task of rebuilding his homeland from the ground up. Several squatter encampments has sprung up across mainland Silvay and Augustine began getting into contact with every single one. One was a religious order that was left to its own. Several were abandoned and left to rot. But the town of Port Ferrington had been recently founded on an island in the far south that once was abandoned but was now actively rebuilding. its leader Sardina was the first town to join Augustine's efforts to rebuild the province. 
Soon after a large fleet of ships that started its voyage in Eldham arrived at Silvay's shores. Lead by Havi Asagrim he had brought his people to find a new homeland and at every port they stopped at took on more refugees. Of the fleet there were several different groups that arrived, of note was Havi and his Asagrim clansmen. Cherno, his brother and his Bordur kin. And a religious order lead by the Monk Tarkus. Cherno and his brother would found settlements on the western coast of Silvay, Tarkus would found a monastery in the northern western coast of Silvay. And Havi and his clansmen would join Augustine in Kumaur. 
Augustine and Havi soon became friends and eventually blood brothers. Such was the trust that Havi had in Augustine that when he laid with a woman not his wife, he had spent a single night with bore him a child. Havi in his shame asked Augustine to take the babe and raise it as his own. Augustine would name the child William and he would become a Salvay and his heir. Augustine was finally starting to settle into his role as Hanzerouenn. The province was seeing progress and he had friends he could count on. However all good times end and that end started with a border dispute with their southern neighbor.
=== Libertalia Incident ===
After Valarie Hirisy was exiled the land formerly known as Aussay was split between the provinces of Augmentum Terra under Lord Astronomous and Libertalia under Lord Bean Reccowan. Libertalia under Bean formed a deep rivalry with Silvay. He lead the efforts to impeach Loic and viewed Augustine's cousin and the House of Salvay as Traitors. Silvay was also the largest province at the time and seemed to resent us for our sprawling untouched wilderness. It started first when the settlement of Hattersburg when treated by Breton as just squatters they quickly turned to Libertalia who quickly took them into their province along with some surrounding territory.
Soon the town of The_Banni was founded on the border of Libertalia and Silvay. Mostly inside Silvay it was agreed by the current Minister of Law Lord Astronomous that the land was in fact inside Libertalia. When shown a map of the region he could not point to the exact location of the city and confused Hattersburg and The_Banni. But this had all occurred right before Augustine's appointment as Hanzerouenn and was unaware of Libertalia's encroachments in the south.
Meanwhile Viodoxa had recently joined in a union between Yimmu-Audal, Escharia and Viodoxa called Demumain. Demumain was the largest empire in Rathnir history and had large colonies in Eldham. The Viodoxan effort to colonize was lead by several Silvish explorers and the colonies were distinctly Silvish. However a local mercanacy group had recently conquered a neighboring nation and we're distinctly anti-rathnir colonialism. They started by declaring war on Demumain, and started by attacking the Silvish colony of Ahalia. The Goons or Goonguard as they would later be known took advantage of the long logistics of reinforcing the colonies and attacked in two devastating battles that ended not only with the destruction of Ahalia and all the settlements inside it. But it also lead to a collapse of Demumain that had been fighting amongst themselves over whether to protect some Viodoxan colonies. 
Viodoxa had also been fighting an internal battle, the province of Libertalia had no obligations under its vasseldom to support the central government. It wasn't even allowed to tax the region. Archonness Hazel gave demands to Bean to give war material only to be reminded she didnt have the right to demand anything. Libertalia choose to be isolationist and eventually cut itself completely from the rest of the archonate. Then whispers of rebellion began to be spread amongst the barons of Libertalia. The cities of Hattersburg and The_Banni soon got into contact with Augustine about what was happening inside Libertalia.