Waihua Wehe-Rex

Waihua Wehe-Rex, also known as Jebediah Wehe, 'Senior' or simply Wehe, was a politican & militia fighter from Carthya. He is most famous for being the first democratically elected Regent of Carthya, as well as his later work against the Bardonian Empire during the early years of the first occupation. Wehe was also a founding member of Carthya, and began constructing the political dynasty of House Rex from the city.
=== Early Life (818-843 ACA) ===
Wehe was born to a middle-class family in the capital of the Second Tsardom of Ryzan, Tossagrad in 818 ACA. Early on in his life, he was sent alongside the first group of settlers to found the city of Carthya in 843, carving out a small hole in the ground next to the bay by which to live in, due to the lack of housing available in the new city. For 11 months, Wehe lived out of a small hole in the ground, gathering materials from nearby forests to help build up the city. His home eventually evolved into the entrance to the city mines, one of the most heavily used mines in Syltor. Wehe was eventually provided permanent housing in 845 ACA, with what remained of his original home being used to remake the entrance to the mines, which remain long beyond his death.
=== Political Career (843-848 ACA) ===
Wehe would ultimately embark into politics, running in the 846 ACA elections for the role of Regent of Carthya, the second-in-command of the new Carthyan Freehold. Founding the Carthyan Democratic Party in 843 ACA, known for its alternate take on the freehold's flag with a distinct purple band along the lower third as its official logo. Wehe did not initially succeed in the polls, but after forming a coalition with fellow candidate Sarlician, Wehe won in a landslide victory with 60% of the popular vote. He would assume the position of Regent the same year, the first to do so through the democratic process.
Due to the shortness of Wehe's time in office, he was not able to accomplish much as Regent. He was overall conservative, enforcing the ideas regarding private property ownership, free market economic policies &, during his later years in office, the Republican movement growing in Ryzan's heavily populated south, as well as opposing the First Aurlunoren-Ryzani Empire on the basis of 'cardinal risks to Ryzan's security as a nation to bind itself to another through marriage alone'. His political career was unfortunately stunted in 848 ACA by the invasion of Ryzan by Bardonian forces, which lead to a gradual decline in his power in the new Second Freeholds of Westreach.
=== Rebellion Work & Death (848-850 ACA) ===
With his power now dwindling and the Republicans taking up arms in the countryside against the occupying powers, Wehe would quietly leave his post in 849 ACA, dissolving the Carthyan Democratic Party in hopes of pursuing a new career in the Ryzani Republican Party & the Ryzani National Armed Forces (RNAF). He would initially spark protests against occupation within the city of Carthya, producing propaganda for the Republicans (such as the 'FUCK BARDONIA' banner campaign) and inciting revolution among the populace, using the connections he developed in his political career to gain a decent following & reputation in the Republican forces.
Shortly after a crackdown on protests across Westreach in early 850 ACA, Wehe would depart into the countryside to become a full-blown militiaman. It was during this time that he began using stimulants & hallucinogenic drugs to stay alert in his hideout near the swamp town of Slimehost. Overusage of these drugs caused his right eye to begin bleeding on a frequent basis, eventually being permanently tinted red. His grand plan was to bomb the centre of the Bardonian Empire, New Dorasterrock, specifically the newly constructed Senate Building. 
After months of preparation, on the 4th Tardalan, 850 ACA, Wehe would depart from his hideout in Slimehost and make his way to New Dorasterrock. He had steadily been building up the bomb underneath the city over the prior week, however, whilst carrying spark wire through the city, he was identified by Bardonian guards and cornered in an alleyway. He was shot twice in the chest before the guards slit his throat. News got around surrounding his death shortly afterwards, with Carthyan moderates hailing him as a political hero to the Republican cause, whilst he was martyred by the more radical RNAF fighting cores for his later works. He was buried next to Carthya City Square until 855 ACA, where his body went missing. His body was finally buried in the Rex Family Graveyard, next to his original home in Carthya, in 938 ACA, where it has remained ever since.
=== Post-Mortem ===
==== Entropy Worship ====
It is believed by those close to Wehe that he may have intentionally martyred himself in order to split his soul. Before his death, his use of hallucinogens made him believe in Entropy, which supposedly told him he could split his soul in two in order to help both causes at once, both as a politician and a militiaman. Another interesting element to the investigation into his death launched by Darrow Aasimar was that despite being killed in New Dorasterrock, his body was found in the entrance to Carthya City, over 10 miles away, with some local residents reporting a body falling from the sky. 
==== Conspiracy Theories ====
After this, more public appearances of Wehe's "brother", John P.G. Rex, who had a much more ghostly appearance with green blood stains where Wehe was shot. However, this theory was disproved by a Bardonian autopsy on John following his execution in 860 ACA, which revealed he was in fact human, and suffered from lack of pigment cells in his skin, giving him a greyscale appearance. Some still believe that John is actually the ghost of Wehe, and the mystery itself has never necessarily been solved. 
Similar conspiracy theories surround Wehe's body, who they claim was reanimated, becoming Jonathan Rex aka Blackcoat. Scientists from the Volkoregrod National Laboratory confirmed after his execution that their studies on Jonathan in 856 ACA showed no definitive signs of being a reanimated corpse despite the lack of skin on one side of his body.
Category:Lore
Category:Traveler's Era