Sir William David Badger

William David Badger, also known as Sir William I, was the first Lord Protector of the Republic of Acren, however he abdicated that position before his arrival to Kordowyn in KOR 0. Due to widespread war and famine in the Old World, Badger called for a mass migration to a "new world" he had heard about from various merchants. Roughly 12 years before his arrival, Badger and many of his people left Acren in search of a new home. After years of searching, on April 1st, KOR 0, Badger landed on an uninhabited peninsula on the coastline of the Twlloch Sea. Contact with the local native Kordynians was soon established, and the Acrenians began building the city of Kordowyn.
Badger would lead the modern Kordynian state until his death in 14 KOR, when the leadership of the state would be usurped by the native Kordynian Duke Owain I of Pryce. 
There was speculation as to the authenticity of his existence among Kordynian scholars for several decades, many believing him to be a myth created by the Kordynian government under Arthwr II to prevent racial tensions from arising between the Acrenians and Kordynians, however once contact was reestablished with the Old World in the 240s after the Great War, records from both the Republic of Acren and the Gretian-Sidonian Empire confirmed his existence, however the location of his burial site is still unknown. 
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