Terngorn Euphratuman

== Overview ==
Terngorn Euphratuman was a male member of House Euphratuman who most notably served as Noble Treasurer of the Capital from 299 AG until the Council Magnus' disintegration in 310 AG. During his time as treasurer, he used his position to favour House Grenthyx in siphoning funds to sympathetic establishments acting under a guide to hide their monetary support and political aid of the Grenthyxes. Atop this, and as a critical component in House Euphratuman's economic flank to restore House Grenthyx's rule of the Continent, Terngorn presided over a plan to effectively sway the Treasuricus bank towards the Grenthyx Dynasty in the form of rewarding its influential stockholders to voice their support for House Grenthyx. Among all this, he was known to have met with extremely mysterious people and held a considerable amount of power, highly suggesting an involvmenet with the Unidentified Presence. In effect, Terngorn's actions added a great deal of influence to House Grenthyx, assisting in Jaekob Grenthyx's eventual ascension to King in 310 AG. For this, Terngorn was awarded the position of Noble Treasurer of the Continent by now King Jaekob. 
== Appearance ==
Terngorn stood at 6 feet and 4 inches tall, affording him a striking presence along with his distinct Skjermarki appearance. Thanks to this, he often stood out, looking strikingly different to the Dubravi people. He typically wore long, trailing robes and scarves, and had brown, greying hair. 
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Tergorn was born to a modest Skjermarki family close by to Diesdiara in Dubravier, Bolassoa. He was a reserved child, seldom saying much. He had no siblings, but his parents were keen to leave Terngorn to develop on his own devices. At some point in his early 20s, Terngorn was able to work with House Amdhnell in the city of Diesdiara. There, he worked with the House in matters of commerce and organisation - more for experience rather than anything else. However, his ethic attracted the attention of many. 
=== Meeting Shiezara III Euphratuman ===
While working in Diesdiara, Terngorn came into came with a travelling Shiezara III Euphratuman, who was the administrator of Oppidan Shipwrights at the time, overseeing the acquisition of ethically dubious goods from the city's ports from time to time. Terngorn, keen to inspect the port one day in 270 AG, met the older Euphratuman and the two conversed, with Terngorn finding Shiezara's heritage most interesting. The two admired qualities in each-other and agreed to stay together for the night to discuss further. By the morning, they had decided that Terngorn was to respectfully leave his position in Diesdiara and join Shiezara in the Capital. They would marry later that same year.
=== Infiltration of the Treasuricus ===
As soon as he entered the Capital, he began to make friends with the nobility who had shares in the Treasuricus, the largest bank in The Continent. Adjusting to his newly inserted position in the hierarchy of the Continent as a stakeholder in the bank, he began to accrue a shrewd perception, a reputation laced with a great amount of fear. Utilising this, he began to influence the opinions of those nobility with shares, who in turn represented the leanings the bank itself, whose services were used across the Continent. At some point during this time, Terngorn was known to have somehow made contact with the elusive Unidentified Presence. Many speculated that his newfound ability to influence the agenda of the Continent was highly conducive to his involvement with the presence. By the time former resident of Euphratuman Place, Forkoux Fyth, visited on the occasion of his 100th birthday, his reputation and standing with respect to the aristocratic reigns of the Capital was complete. Both Forkoux and Terngorn detested one-another, with Terngorn seeing the Fyth as taking his lines of enquiry beyond what was good for him, a meddler and a fool.
As the years progressed, Terngorn established himself and House Euphratuman ever deeper into the reigns of capital society. One of his methods in gaining information was to research a family who were shareholders in the Treasuricus, knowing everything there was to know about them - their secrets and more. During his years digging ever deeper, Terngorn began to formulate a three-pronged plan to ensure the rise of House Grenthyx after beginning to meet with strange hooded figures, not an unfamiliar sight in Euphratuman Place. This was a sign of Terngorn's intimately with the Unidentified Presence, an opaque order whose true agenda alluded all. By the 290 AGs, Terngorn had formalised his plan to focus on social, economic and educational strands of society, influencing each in tandem in order to secure a social, economic and educational environment in which head of House Grenthyx, Jaekob Grenthyx, could begin to rise. Having kept a keen eye on the rise of Jaekob Grenthyx within Chaestish society, Terngorn became more certain of his higher purpose seemingly ascribed by the Presence. 
The educational front was given to Terngorn's own son, Stormulan Euphratuman, who was set to marry University of C'thardjia Rector, Ella, while Terngorn himself used his status as a shareholder and his lucrative knowledge about other shareholder's families to begin to pull strings behind the scenes. Terngorn was appointed as the Treasurer of the Capital on the Council Magnus in 299 AG, its second highest position. 
=== As High Treasurer ===
Terngorn manipulated the shareholders in the Treasuricus to move to increase interest rates to an extortionate amount following the Invasion of Ephellindron, but only on the poorest, least influential towns and villages. In effect, this would bankrupt Ephellindron, unable to purchase aid for its people because of the high interest rates. Terngorn, using his position in the Council Magnus, outwardly condemned the rise and voted against the decision, covering up his true involvement. Ineded, as a mark of his disgust, he publicly announced that House Euphratuman would be withdrawing involvment from the Treasuricus. However, this was merely a move to avoid accountability on Terngorn's behalf - he had actually increased his influence by doing this. Now, any actions which he pressured its shareholders to undertake were not to be blamed on him at all, no longer being one of them. This continual criticism of the Treasuricus and increasing popularity of Terngorn's manufactured distrust resulted in a public perception of the Treasuricus as corrupt by the end of the Great War. Terngorn, in a final act of pressure, demanded the shareholders relinquish control of the bank, changing its structure so that one person, not a collection of shareholders, was to administrate the bank. Having persuaded them all to resign, having little other choice, the citizenship of the Continent were happy to see structural change, unaware of Terngorn's plan. Indeed, most of their happiness was sourced in the fact that Jaekob Grenthyx, their new King, would have control over the banks. This acted as the completion of Terngorn's economic plan - even though Jaekob had been given absolute power, in reality, this was gifted to him by a higher authority - the Presence - and thus was expected to answer to them. 
=== Dealings with the The Second Grenthyx Dynasty ===
== Family ==
Both of Terngorn's parents were from the kingdom of Skjermark and resettled in Dubravier during a period of intense decline in the kingdom in the years prior to Terngorn's birth. Category:Characters
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