Sasha Suvorov

Sasha Suvorov, also known as the Mistwalker (tumana marak in Ruskian, "sailor of the fog") or Saint Sasha of the Waves, was a Vrijstedian fisherman who was the founder and first Lord Mayor of the Free City of Cheesegorod, the Archkilen of Zarilyia for the Kryhal faith, and founder of the Kolshakaraq sect of Kryhal. He was the leader of the Svobodist faction in the Vrijsted Confederation's government and, as the mayor of its largest member state, became one of the most influential and powerful politicians in the Vrijsteden. 
Suvorov was banished from Abexilas's plane of reality in 62 VE following an argument with several angry gods, and was canonized as a saint in Kryhal. A prophecy by Saint Failurus foretells Suvorov's return to Abexilas in the year 107 VE. 
== Description ==
Suvorov is a tall and powerfully built man, over six feet tall and of ambiguous age. He has curly reddish-brown hair, rough-hewn features, and a well-kept and very recognizable brown mustache. His eyes are an unnaturally vivid shade of lapis blue. His typical dress is an old brown-and-white ushanka (a fur hat with earflaps) with an eight-pointed red star symbol on its front, a white linen kosovorotka shirt with a red embroidered hem, a blue sash, a faded fur shoulder cape, and felt boots.
Following a disaster on a fishing trip, his left arm was replaced by a mechanical prosthetic, designed by weapons engineer and master mechanic Von Krahen in collaboration with Suvorov. It is made of burnished iron, and has only two fingers and a thumb; the finger movements are less precise than a natural arm, but the prosthetic is capable of converting into a crossbow form which fires bolts from Suvorov's "palm" within 5 seconds of activation. Strange glowing blue grooves and markings run down its length, which are noted to be oddly cold to the touch. The arm is connected via wires to a circular device implanted in the right side of Suvorov's chest, which glows a bright golden color.
Suvorov speaks most common languages with a strong Ruskian accent. The Ruskian ethnicity and language is not native to either Abexilas or the Old Worlds, however.
Suvorov has displayed various peculiarities throughout his short time in Abexilas. He has an obsession with powdered snow, and occasionally takes baths in it, despite occasional frostbite. He behaves eccentrically with those he knows, with habits including hooking people with fishing rods. He is also well-known as a heavy drinker, with an extraordinarily high tolerance for most alcohol.
== History ==
=== Early life ===
Practically nothing is known about Suvorov prior to his arrival in Abexilas, save his own stories.
=== Arrival in Abexilas ===
One stormy night in the spring of 9 VE, Suvorov's skiff crashed on the cliffs of Cordovia, and was dashed to pieces beyond repair. Gathering his few belongings from the wreck, Suvorov followed the lights of Hallsatt along the treacherous coastline until he met Minister Diego Quellen, who had gone out late to close up the boat docks. Diego was startled by Suvorov's abrupt appearance from the mist, but invited him within the city's rudimentary walls and to stay in his house for the night.
The following morning, when the storm had cleared up, BroccoliBoy, the Karalius of Cordovia, welcomed Suvorov and, at his request, granted him a small piece of land near the government building. Suvorov dug an underground bunker on this property, and planned to construct a tower house in his mysterious homeland's style, but he never got around to it, instead creating a large chicken farm and a moonshine brewery in his bunker, working under Minister Diego in the agricultural district and as a freelancing miner for the following three years.
=== Cordovia (9 VE - 11 VE) ===
Suvorov soon became fairly well-known among Hallsattins as a peculiar but likeable asker of questions, aiming to understand better the political situation of the world while initially not getting directly involved in conflicts. As the years passed and he became more accepted as part of the community, he became more vocal about his opinions, and got in regular brawls with taverngoers such as Hydra with varying results. He also became famous for his extraordinarily high tolerance, with other customers claiming that Suvorov had downed enough hard alcohol to tranquilize an elephant while only appearing slightly queasy. The bartender reportedly came to strongly dislike Sasha due to his tendency to smuggle bottles of his homemade alcohol into the bar, where he would buy a shot glass of Ynqari rum and "dilute" it into the bottle to "stretch it farther", making a drink he called "kustom". Whenever he was asked to share some, he would categorically refuse to do so, saying his tolerance was "far too srelishniy for you minor-league drinkers".
A sailor once dared him and drank Sasha's kustom when he wasn't looking, but immediately began to have a psychotic break. When Suvorov turned to him, the man began to inexplicably convulse and gibber incomprehensibly until he fell off his chair and was dragged out to the barracks. A local doctor diagnosed the cause of this ailment as an imbalance of the humours in the liver, triggered by the shock of strong alcohol; the man never fully recovered mentally, and went back into convulsions whenever reminded about the incident. Suvorov argued that he was not responsible for someone's choice to steal and drink his personal kustom, and managed to avoid investigation through his friendship with Minister Diego. However, public opinion, especially in the tavern, became greatly soured towards Suvorov following the incident, causing him to leave Hallsatt for a period.
During his time abroad, Suvorov travelled around the Cordovin region, visiting several Zarilyian cities as well as illegally sneaking into the collapsing Gerarian Imperium. It was at this time that he stumbled across a large river cavern on the steep and mountainous southern coast of Geraria, hidden behind a waterfall near the south outflow of the Rolon River. Suvorov investigated the cavern further and discovered that it contained a previously undiscovered underground river filled with natural hot springs, which he named the Peschera, meaning "grotto". Nearby the Peschera, he found and tamed a wild female wolf, who he named Ekaterina II and adopted as his daughter.
==== SPOKCV and the Holy Order ====
The Ketua Crisis had begun shortly before Suvorov's arrival in Hallsatt, and while he started off on a good foot with both Karalius Broccoli and the exiled Ketua Angelo, the crisis became dire, as massive political instability was beginning to break out throughout the region with other events such as the collapse of Geraria, the Myrtanien revolution, and the constant wars in Zarilyia.
War was brewing on the Ostenzarili Peninsula, and a constant atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust was all-encompassing. Broccoli grew more and more paranoid of threats from all sides, distrusting Angelo's supporters, while some like Suvorov became more and more vocally critical of his conduct as Karalius and categorical refusal to compromise with Angelo.
In response to these changes, Diego Quellen started the SPOKCV (the Secret Police of Kingdom Cordovia-Verzet), a top-secret clandestine organization dedicated to intel gathering and sabotage in the region. While nominally subordinate to the Cordovin government, SPOKCV was so secretive that even the Karalius didn't know of its existence, other than a vague intelligence operation run by Quellen. Suvorov was invited to join, and became an intelligence officer privy to most of their discussions, although he never ran any missions himself.
The final straw with Cordovia for Suvorov came when he learned through SPOKCV agents of the recently-formed Holy Order, a military alliance supporting Angelo's claim to reimbursement for unjust banishment. Having grown disillusioned with Broccoli's rule, Suvorov met in secret with Xerneas, Angelo's brother and the Order's leader, interested in joining a potential anti-authoritarian movement to limit the Karalius' authority, but was repelled by Xerneas's fanatical tirade about markets and bringing massive change to the lands, coming away convinced that the Order were a major threat and warmongering expansionists and that there were no viable factions to side with in Hallsatt. 
=== Founding Cheesegorod (12 VE) ===
Thus, Suvorov prepared to flee Cordovia in the spring of 12 VE, leaving everything he'd lived in the last two years behind. He packed up his valuables along with his pet chicken, and was heading to the docks to leave for the Peschera, where he planned to hide from the coming wars and live as a secluded hermit, when Diego and the town baker TheWeirdo accosted him outside his bunker.
Diego revealed that he was no longer loyal to Broccoli, having gone rogue and seceding SPOKCV from the Cordovin government. However, he wasn't keen on joining the Holy Order either, and proposed that SPOKCV leave Cordovia to create or annex a new claim. Surprised by their aligned motivations, Suvorov abruptly revealed that he was already leaving to settle in a secluded piece of unclaimed wilderness. He offered Diego and Weirdo to join him, suggesting that with their financial backing they could found a new town, as a neutral place from the drama and Ketua Crisis. They agreed to the plan, returning home to pack their possessions, while Suvorov boarded a rowboat and sailed down the Rolon River with his chickens to the Peschera, where he set up camp before returning to Hallsatt.
Over the next few nights, the three refugees secretly transferred all their belongings, along with stolen seeds and breeding animals from the Cordovin agricultural district. When they arrived with their final boatload of cows, a mysterious figure appeared from the shadows of the Peschera's cavern, dressed sharply in a gray suit with a square head, his flat face made of glitching static. Darkness seemed to shudder and crackle around him, but Suvorov enthusiastically greeted him and introduced the being to the others as his old friend, the Doctor Televisor, whom he had met on his wandering in the older worlds. Together, the four of them founded the Free City of Cheesegorod, with Suvorov as Lord Mayor and the Doctor as Deputy Mayor.
=== Lord Mayor (12-34 VE) ===
The town remained small for a long time, only gaining a few new citizens over the next four years as the Cheesegorodians slowly built up their infrastructure and kept a low profile, hoping to avoid attention from the shifting powers in the region.
==== Forming the Vrijsteden ====
In the summer of 16 VE, Cheesegorod established relations with the city of New Acenoty in the far north, due to their shared interests and political ideologies. Suvorov and Xaeron of Acenoty agreed to form an alliance, the Vrijland Confederation. With the support of their new ally to the far south, the Acenotian leadership were granted independence by their Lyskirjan overlords, becoming the Independent City of New Acenoty.
The Confederation was renamed to the Vrijsted Confederation ("Free City Confederation" in Acenotian) in 17 VE at Suvorov's suggestion, in order to emphasize the sovereignty of each state. However, over the following years, the Confederation came to fulfill the role of a nation rather than the alliance it originally was. Suvorov agreed to sign a treaty formalizing these tighter bonds in 19 VE, and Cheesegorod became the Second Vrijsted of the Confederation. From that point forwards, however, while continuing to be an advocate for development of the Vrijsteden as a whole, Sasha would come to be the primary advocate for decentralization and against further centralization under Acenoty.
==== Phocaean Crisis ====
In 25 VE, 
Formation of Realms of Phocaea, Cheesegorod refuses to join
The crisis began to draw to a head after Marengard's secession from Anrolya and subsequent joining of the Realms of Phocaea. The Council of the Vrijsted Confederation held an assembly at the Marengard Citadel in 26 VE, where Ellie proposed that the Realms join the Kingdom of Maecenia, the colossal state in northern Tiberia ruled by her father. Suvorov took this as a threat to Cheesegorodian sovereignty, and the discussion quickly became heated. As the argument escalated, Suvorov threatened to withdraw entirely from the Vrijsteden, while Ellie's bodyguards began to make threatening moves towards him. Suddenly, the great creaking doors of the Citadel were thrown open, and the grey-haired Mairon of Corigan, whom everyone had thought dead, appeared surrounded by a small band of loyalists, decrying Ellie as an imposter and revealing her deceptions. He had been forced into hiding in Anrolya by a series of riots and assassination attempts, and Ellie had stirred up the violence in Corigan before usurping the throne herself.
Infuriated at scale of the deception pulled over the Vrijsteden, Suvorov made an impassioned speech, today known as the Speech on the Steps, before the gathered crowd on the steps of the gargantuan Citadel. In it, he called the Realms of Phocaea an illegitimate state with no right to exist, criticized those who had spearheaded its founding, and demanded Ellie's arrest. Mairon announced that Corigan was no longer a member of any Realms, to which Xaeron readily assented. Ellie insisted that Mairon had legitimately signed over Corigan to her and designated her as his heir, and attempted to coerce Salmancer IV of Marengard into siding with her, threatening to have her father King Yasujirō attack Marengard. A physical fight nearly broke out between the Maecenian guards, Suvorov and the Corigan and Marengard forces, until a figure in Mairon's retinue revealed himself as Vozhd Michail of Vladistan, brother to Yasujirō of Maecenia and Ellie's uncle. He denied that Ellie's actions had had any official backing, and claimed she had gone rogue in an attempt to make a name for herself. Ellie attempted to flee, but was quickly apprehended by Mairon's guards and taken into captivity in Corigan.
The assembly dispersed, although not before Michail delivered an ultimatum to Marengard on behalf of Vladistan's Anrolyan vassals in the Anrolya-Marengard Cold War, threatening action by Vladistan against the Confederation if they did not resolve their dispute with Anrolya.
==== Treaty of Marengard ====
Salmancer IV died shortly after the Speech on the Steps, being succeeded by his more cooperative son Valencen III. Despite this, negotiations between Marengard and Anrolya still went extremely poorly, leading to another crisis in Vrijstedian leadership in Summer 27 VE when it was revealed the Cold War was on the verge of going hot any day and hardly any progress had been made in negotiations. Suvorov, terrified by the prospect of war, leaped into action, coordinating frantic discussions between both Emperor Garlic of Anrolya and Valencen, and drafting up the Treaty of Marengard in a single night to meet both of their needs. He succeeded in having the Treaty officially ratified in Summer 27 VE by the Vrijsteden, Marengard, and Anrolya. The treaty stipulated the terms of the Kingdom's disbandment, Valencen's abdication, and Marengard's annexation back into Anrólýa. Additionally, it established a non-aggression pact between the Confederation and Anrólýa.
The Kingdom of Marengard was disbanded in 28 VE as required by the Treaty, and succeeded by the Anrolya Imperium. There was significant controversy and debate over whether the terms of the Treaty of Marengard were correctly followed by Anrolya, as shortly after the annexation Emperor Garlic exiled Valencen from Marengard for alleged aggression against another noble; Valencen raised an outcry in the Confederation over this, claiming this was politically motivated and a violation of the Treaty. However, the Confederational government, despite much sympathy towards Valencen's position in the populace, chose not to press the issue. This was largely through the influence of Suvorov, who believed maintaining the hard-won NAP with Anrólýa was more important than justice for Valencen (since he believed arguing that the Treaty's terms had not been fulfilled might prompt Anrólýa to consider the NAP as illegitimate as well, and reopen the possibility of war).
==== Creating Svobodism ====
After Corigan's merger with New Acenoty in 30 VE, Suvorov became the primary opponent of Mairon Corteir and his Corteirist faction. It was during this time that Mairon completed and published one of the most famous books produced by a Coriganese author, "A Treatise on Corteirist Theory". "Corteirist Theory" was immensely popular and proved profoundly influential in Vrijstedian politics, precipitating the rise of the powerful Corteirist faction, led by Mairon himself. The Corteirists advocated for a centralized government to 
To combat what he saw as a dangerous centralizing ideology that threatened to subsume Cheesegorodian independence, Suvorov formed his own, competing ideology called Svobodism (from Kescherian svoboda, meaning "freedom"), which incorporated many of his long-professed beliefs
Mairon Corteir was assassinated in his island of Xing in 33 VE, shot by a native Murimese woman. Despite his enmity with Corteir, Suvorov was horrified by the act, and personally joined the hunt for the assassin. It was during his time in Xing that Suvorov came to see the atrocities that Corteir had committed in his goal of creating a new Xing peopl; disgusted, he gave up on the hunt, claiming illness, and returned home. The assassin escaped and was never apprehended.
Mairon's younger brother succeeded him, taking on the name Sorath III "the Younger". Sorath was an agreeable and more moderate ruler, who was able to find common ground with Suvorov and end the strife that had been present in the Vrijstedian Council for some time. 
=== Voyages (35 - 50 VE) ===
=== Triarch (52 VE - present) ===
== Gallery ==
File:Suvorov stan skin.png|During his time in Halsatt, Suvorov's clothes were bright and simple
File:Suvorov tntfortress.webp|Fanart of Suvorov on thin ice, by TNTFortress
File:Suvorov skin october 2024.png|After his voyages, with his prosthetic arm, rough stubble and sun-beaten clothes
File:Suvorov post-bender.webp|Hungover after downing a bottle of "kustom"
File:Suvorov-skinmc-2.png|suvorov_stan's Minecraft skin
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