Jonas Zheyllar-Castellan

Jonas Zheyllar-Castellan (Castellan Tongue: Yonas Theylaríl-Kastelál) is a noble Castellan writer and librarian. Jonas is the current heir of House Castellan. He currently resides in his home in Astrafall in the Third Kingdom of Grand Castell. He was born in the , on the island of Farrenore in Rathnir from a blood ritual performed by Chrome Lozharo. 
==Life in Rathnir==
===Early Life===
Jonas was indirectly born to Chrome Lozharo and Wesllyn Castellan during a blood ritual performed by Chrome. His name is derived from the Castellan words 'yos', meaning day, and 'nas', meaning power, so his name literally means 'Power Day'. The reason of this naming is unknown. Shortly after his birth, Chrome, regretting creating a child, left Jonas to a simple family in Farrenore. He grew up without knowing his heritage. When he was only five months old, his foster mother passed away from an unknown disease, referred to by his foster father as the Anti-Flame. During the next years, his foster father would care for him with the few things he could buy from his job as fruit merchant. Every night, before Jonas went to sleep, he read Jonas a story about a brave man that met a stranger in a bar, who told this man the secrets of his ancestors. They always sat next to the furnace, and when Jonas asked why, his father told him that it was a beacon of hope and safety.
===Traveling Period ( - )===
He lived with his foster father on the island until he was thirteen. In that year, his father got extremely sick and passed away in Spring. Jonas suspected this to also have been the Anti-Flame. On his deathbed, his father told him about his Castellan heritage, hinting at the fact that he was adopted, and he asked him to travel the world as he once did to return to his homeland. In , Jonas departed on his world journey, surviving by trading the few things he found on his way. Due to not knowing the names of his foster parents, he adopted the surname Asát, which means 'traveler'. After 7 years of traveling, Jonas set out to reunite with the Castellans in the Kingdom of Grand Castell, before the arrival of the prophesized Comet of Iristor. He traveled for ten long years along the Northern Sparwood coasts and through Fjelli lands. In , he finally arrived in Grand-Castell, with almost nothing to his name. When he arrived there, he discovered that the story his father always told was the life story of Skavier Castellan III and his talks with Meep, the Light Incarnate and the god of the state religion in Grand Castell. It also explained why his father always wanted to be close to the furnace: he was a follower of the Orthodoxy of the Light Incarnate. Jonas immediately converted to the Orthodoxy, in memory of his father's wishes.
===Battles for Rathnir ( - )===
====March on Urnu-Arrak====
After setting up camp outside Gaular's walls, he earned some money to pay for light armor. When StoneyStoner spoke to Rathnir in he went to Urnu-Arrak to see what the prophet had to say, right before the March on Urnu-Arrak. In the chaos, Jonas saw Stoney declare himself the avatar of the Soleannen god Solaris. He barely escaped the slaughter of Rathnirians, and fled home. There, he prayed to Meep to help his fellow Rathnirians destroy Stoney and to save them from the impending doom of the Comet.
====Battle of Eyon====
Later that year, in , he heard that the Rathnirians were planning to reclaim Eyon from StoneyStoner and House Paxia. He joined the Rathnirians in the Battle of Eyon, but due to being underequipped, he fought mostly at the back and even had to retreat a few times. In the end, Rathnir won the battle and reclaimed the city, and Jonas returned to Castell.
====Battle of Evermore Bridge====
Jonas once again answered the call of the Rathnirian Legion in the to fight in a final battle against StoneyStoner and the pro-Stoney Eldhamites, in the plains of Frostmarch. He fought to claim the bridge with his fellow Rathnirians, but got hit by the immense impact of a meteor fragment that Stoney pulled to the battleground. He luckily got blasted in a stream of water, breaking his fall. He saw Stoney's speech and his death at the hands of Twerkish with the Paxian Bow, followed by StoneyStoner and G0NF ascending and leaving Rathnir for good. He swiftly travelled back home to prepare for the evacuation of Rathnir.
===Preparation for Abexilas ( - )===
After the War of the Comet ended, Jonas became involved with the Castellan migration plans. He had joined the migration team of his real father, Heir Apparent Wesllyn Castellan, due to him seeing the monarch as a competent and respectful leader, while bot not knowing they were family. Jonas entered the walls of Gaular for the first time for a preparation meeting. He would enter Gaular for the second and last time before his departure together with other Castellans from Rathnir, and would travel by sea until reaching the New World, Abexilas.
==Life in Abexilas==
===Arrival and Settling of Abexilas ( - )===
Jonas arrived to Abexilas on a Castellan ship. After entering the fog, his ship almost lost the rest of the fleet. After a few days, he finally arrived at Saradímas, the first Castellan town, which was only a village at that time. Being one of the first settlers to arrive, Sarád Wesllyn asked him to gather resources in the mines to expand Castell's influence in the region. Around that time, he moved in to a temporary tent like other Castellans. In his early days he explored the northern coasts of Talasi and parts of Norvinia, meeting people of all cultures. He met many people, like Sonic and Saemos Valtheim, Koka Samerdio, skyZ35, JamezWorrall, Kotélus Castellan, Vâati Étrénia Dashari Mirruolix, CraftStorm and Iceio. He joined the Fishing Guild and often went fishing in the Grand Empire of Fisk.
===Start of a Writing Career ( - now)===
In the , Jonas started a writing project in hopes of becoming more fluent in the Castellan tongue. He planned to write a collection of poems about Castellan culture, activities and politics. Jonas himself refers to this collection as The Saradic Rhymes, due to him dedicating his work to the Sarad of that time, his own father Weslynn. In that same year, he showed the first draft of his first poem Ane fusse, about Saradímas, to the Castellan public, receiving much attention. Head Scribe Belysários Teserát (Belysarius) reworked this draft in the more official Atilerát script and added illustrations. The positive attention to his work made Jonas write two more poems during the : Kwes mele Mypi, about Primavera, and Akúras astáraya, about Astrafall. In the , he wrote Setrasa ob yasás, about Varmas. After attending the first Talasi Summit in the , Jonas wrote his first political poem, Ekias ateya, about the seeming peace between Corry and Grand Castell in the . In the , Jonas wrote Bir' ob kabír, a poem about the worship of Meep by the followers of the Orthodoxy of the Light Incarnate, Grand Castell's state religion. Soon, Sarád esnár Sarád and Bastius Ribasi were added, relating to the appointment of the two new Sarada and the building of Ghami. In , the work consisted of ten poems.
===Becoming a Maple Adventurer ( - )===
Having earned a respectable amount of money and recources by fishing and mining, Jonas went to Valtheim Manor to start his journey as a squire of the Maple Adventurers' Guild. He went south until arriving at Beelvenheim. Then, he followed the Fleuve de Santé to the west, passing Levan, Bardonia and DonFuer, before sailing to Iristoya. Jonas crossed the lands of the Valdic Union and arrived at the first outpost. After a few days of rest, he headed northwest, leaving port at Falkenburg. After a short stop at the fishing centre of Fisk, Jonas scoured the lands of Barakor Stasrikos Lhah and crossed the frozen rivers of Norvinia. He took some rest in Vladistan after finding the second outpost. After a few weeks, he went to Aurelium, where he set off to the swamplands on the other side of the sea. Here, he cautiously admired the settlements of the swamp goblins. After two rough weeks of traversing the enormous mangrove swamp, he passed through the Kongregan and Great Berrian lands and crossed the sea from Mupwaaud to Sônianong Nolgý, in Irithel. In five weeks, Jonas crossed the first mountain range. He had a quick rest in Gearlixt. Shortly after, Jonas climbed over the second mountain range in seven weeks, before arriving at the final outpost and admiring the city of Irithid. When he headed back, Jonas was awarded the title of a Maple Adventurer, becoming a full member of the guild.
===Breakthrough on the Anti-Flame ( - )===
While moving to a new house in Valtheim Manor when asked to leave Saradimas due to unknown reasons, Jonas stumbled upon a trace of dried blood on his backpack, of which he was sure wasn't his, but his father's blood, who was the previous owner of the backpack. Jonas quickly took a sample of the blood and compared it with his own. He discovered that his father's blood had an abnormally high amount of pure carbon in his blood, leading to the discovery that his own blood also contained an exceptional concentration of carbon. When further researching the carbon with the little equipment he could find, he discovered an unexplainable mutation to the carbon atoms, dubbing this pseudo-element 'Mypium'. This made Jonas believe that the disease was not purely biological, but there were magic or divine powers in play. With this hypothesis, he associated his seeming lack of aging as a side effect of the Anti-Flame.
===Lifting the Veil of Royalty ()===
After being invited by Chrome to stay in Astrafall, he moved into his town. Jonas often helped Chrome with tending the farms and building the new shop, building up good relations with him. During this time, Jonas found that there were mysterious stumps growing out of his head, made out of a very hard material. When talking to Chrome about this, she was shocked and revealed those were demon horns like his, making Jonas the son she had left all those years ago in Farrenore. Happy to have a family again, Jonas was officially made part of House Lozharo and House Castellan, with Chrome and Wesllyn's enormous becoming his own. Chrome also adopted Rabbit, a sculk-infected rabbit originally living in the mountains of Araanas, who would become his sister. He discovered that his demon blood he got from his mother had stabilized the fatal effects of the Anti-Flame. Further, his carbon-concentrated blood had fused with his demon DNA, giving him a coating of hardened charcoal on his upper arms, shoulders, lower legs and knees, even partly changing his hair to a dark gray color. His golden eyes identified himself as a demon of Greed, just like Chrome. The lack of aging he had deemed an effect of the Anti-Flame was just a trait of his demonic heritage.
===Zheyllarii Prince of Fashion ( - now)===
After living many years from fishing and writing small poems, Jonas found himself approached by his father Wesllyn, who asked him to be his heir. Happily, Jonas accepted. Furthermore, this would be the catalyst for Jonas to start to become more directly involved in state and church matters. He found himself a place in the Lower Hand at his other father Chrome's court in the Llozharii Shorelands and became one of the writers of the newly reformed Orthodoxy under his father Wesllyn as new Lord Protecter after the banishment of his grandmother Kotélus. During this period, he started to embrace his royal status, sewing his own costume bearing the green of House Castellan mixed with the purple and gold resembling House Lozharo, as well as a dragon symbolizing the goddess Zeyloris, the divine Judge of demons and their followers.
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