Eldryd Armitage

== Overview ==
Eldryd Armitage was a male member of House Armitage, the first of the house to be Duke of Contra, usurping House Pineston with Awela Armitage. A strong, persuasive and determined man, he became Duke, supported by the Grenthyx Dynasty, in 29 AG, with his rule ending in 44 AG after his assassination by a Pineston sympathiser. He married Awela in 29 AG, and had two children, Sior, in 31 AG, and shortly before his death, Cerys, in 44 AG. 
== Appearance ==
Eldryd had blond hair, blue eyes and sported a beard. He was of a modest build, and typically wore clothing thought to not be befitting of a man of such high rank. 
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Eldryd was born into House Armitage, and enjoyed a loving upbringing. He was conscious from an early age that House Armitage benefited greatly from House Grenthyx, and with the advent of the Grenthyx Dynasty, were amongst the primary benefactors of the establishment of the Kingdom of Llanoreid in 5 AG. He grew surrounded by the influence of tradesmen.
=== The fall of House Pineston ===
House Pineston had ruled Contra since its official inception in 1 AG, and ruled the area in which House Armitage lived for generations prior. In 27 AG, Eldryd met the heir to House Pineston - Awela Armitage - at a ball in Seuldor Ridge Castle. The two formed a romantic relationship and began to see each-other, with the news spreading quickly around Contra, and eventually reaching the ears of the Grenthyx Dynasty. As such, Eldryd was delighted to hear of a meeting to discuss the matter with Grenthyx officials. Eldryd was overhwelmed to recieve the support of House Grenthyx, owing to House Armitage being much more faithful than the occasionally verging on troublesome reputation of House Pineston. Realising that the Duke, Lannyn Pineston, was in ill health, they could install Eldryd as Duke and Awela as Duchess Consort, thereby ridding Contra of the influence of House Pineston. 
So, at the death of Lannyn in 29 AG, Awela and Eldryd married very swiftly. The marriage, as agreed by both parties, was to mean that Awela would be absorbed into House Armitage, and their children were to belong to the line of Armitage. A large reason this was achievable was the gradual realisation on the behalf of Awela Armitage that she agreed with Eldryd and the Dynasty's view on her parents and her ancestry, coming to view them as inefficient and outdated. Indeed, the people of Contra told the couple as much, so the young Awela agreed happily to the Dynasty and Eldryd's terms; dooming House Pineston and relegating them to a position of irrelevance. 
House Grenthyx officially recognised House Armitage as the rightful rulers of the Duchy of Contra following their successful marriage. They would also reside in Seuldor Ridge Castle, as agreed by the new Armitages and the Dynasty. To complete a concoction of embarrassment and shame for House Pineston, it was also agreed that the now widowed, former Duchess Consort, Vae Pineston, would remain in Seuldor Ridge Castle to live among the Armitages. The notion was to use her as a metaphor, as the last member of House Pineston, for its irrelivence and death; slow, alone, and surrounded by those who usurped her - even her own daughter. 
=== Rule and Assassination ===
In 31 AG, Awela and Eldryd had their first child - Sior Armitage. Around this time, Contra enjoyed a period of prosperity, harnessing the boom in trade and mineral mining that arrived with the recent establishment and subsequent expansion of neighbouring Kingdom, Helmont, and the boom in prosperity that Llanoreid enjoyed as a result. Indeed, the new Duke enjoyed untold levels of friendship and closeness of collaboration with the ruling House Braitbirn of Llanoreid and the Ruling Family Fyth of Helmont - Patriarch Stanryth I Fyth and Matriarch, the Lady Jarmina Fyth. With this affording Eldryd a strengthened resolve to see Contra prosoper, he enacted many policies to expand the north of the Kingdom, which was completely undeveloped - tapping into its potential for mining, including the sought-after armour-building metal, Staron. However, in 44 AG, just as these policies were beginning to take effect, and shortly after the birth of his daughter, Cerys, he was assasinated by a House Pineston sympathiser while touring a nearby town. The assassin, who was later executed, was revealed to have done this to destabalise the family, knowing that his 12 year old son, Sior, would inherit the Dukedom. It was also committed as revenge to the treatment of Vae Armitage as a prisoner in her own home, humiliating her - the asssasin was suspected to be a friend of Vae Armitage, though the now ill Vae never had any hand in the assassination itself. She would die in 46 AG, marking the extinction of House Pineston - and by extention - the completion of Eldryd's primary aims. 
== Family ==
Category:Characters
Category:Contra Character
Category:Rulers