Zion Lelya-Earcala

Zion Leyla-Earcala is an adopted daughter of Sareariel Lelya-Earcala. She was born in Port Solanaria, her parents are unknown but the only knowledge she has about them is that they died during a raid on Port Solanaria. She was raised by Maximus Ida of House Ida who was the mayor of the city at the time up to the age of 15 before he died of Soladium overdose. Because of the sadness caused by his death Zion took a boat and fled to Lhûmar, the capital city of The Aurlûnor Velandé. Sareariel found Zion crying in the alleyways and decided to adopt her as her daughter. After raising her to the age of 20 Zion decided to travel the world. 
Upon Pyrrha Lelya-Earcala's succession, she would annual all Lelya-Earcalas who were adopted, which would make Zion no longer a Lelya-Earcala. 
Zion's first stop was to return to her original home of Port Solanaria to see what was going on, there she would stay for 3 years before continuing on her journey across the world. 
== Life in Uldarash ==
As the diplomatic situation in Syltor started to go crazy Zion decided to move to the southern nation of Uldarash in Haven. There she met Polystralian, a local mayor and council member in the Uldarashi government. Poly invited Zion to stay at the town of Meramhold, the capital of the Uldarashi state of Chevkri. Zion began to build her underwater home outside the walls of Meramhold, there she hides her most valuable items including a set of powerful Diamond armor woven with magic to protect her from most ranged harm. Soon due to her knowledge in the diplomatic situation in Syltor she applied to become a Diplomatic aide focused on Syltor. After waiting for the application to go through for nearly 2 years her application was finally accepted. 
=== Diplomatic aide ===
Zion's first order of business was to begin messaging the leaders of the leaders of Syltor and Nieden, soon an Uldarashi embassy in Ryzan was created. Zion quickly travelled to Volkoregrod to help with the creation as this embassy building would be the HQ of her diplomatic operations in Syltor and Nieden. 
==== Unauthorized diplomacy ====
While meeting with the leader of Escharia, Valerian I Lumis they became friends and when Bardonia was annexed by Escharia Zion asked if Port Solanaria could be unaffected by the religious laws in Escharia. But later on when Valerian mentioned a hate for Aurora, Zion was confused and asked why. Valerian began speaking of the rudeness and level of disrespect of the leaders of Aurora while meeting him for diplomatic talks previously, so Zion decided to ask if there was any way that the anger could be reconciled in order for a peaceful relations between the 2 nations. But once Zion reported the contents of the conversation to Empress Nikephoros, Zion was warned that what she had done was Unauthorized diplomacy and any more situations like this would result in Zion potentially being fired from her position of Diplomatic aide.
=== Love life ===
One of the reasons that Zion had left Bardonia for Uldarash was because of her crush on Polystralian. But when she was rejected by Polystralian who was not interested in marriage she was asked out by Ursus. One of the apex's in Chevkri. After dating for an entire year Ursus proposed to her and Zion accepted. 
=== Interesting news ===
While being engaged to Ursus Zion received news that her hometown Port Solanaria was in a bad state, riots and attacks were happening daily. The sender of this news is unknown but the letter included a plead for Zion to return and calm the storm. Under the darkness of the eternal night caused by the disappearance of the sun Zion secretly fled to the coast to board a ship to the north. The journey was both dangerous and easy, with the stars easily visible the entire time navigation was no issue. But the biggest problem was that other vessels could not be seen. Another issue lurking in the dark was the massive fish hiding in the depths. Because of the endless night any source of light would drive these creatures to the surface, this made the crew of the ship unable to light lanterns on deck.
== Life in Bardonia ==
The ports of Port Solanaria were not open to foreigners at the moment, this forced the crew of the Potader (the name of the ship) to unload at Steinburg, the city of Jacob Steinwasser. Jacob is Zion's foster brother. 
=== Coup of Port Solanaria ===
There were no roads between Steinburg and Port Solanaria at the time, so Zion and her friends had to hike through the forests to the outskirts of Solanum (another name for Port Solanaria). When Zion reached the outskirts she and her friends set up camp in the nearby swamp which supplied the party with food through apples and water. On the next day, Zion decided to go on a recon mission into the town. But the town was currently blocked from foreigners, there was also a curfew. When Zion was discovered on the streets after curfew it was obvious she was a foreigner, so subsequently she was thrown into jail. 
==== The escape ====
Staying for a night in prison certainly did make Zion look at the world in a different way. The horrendous living conditions put there by lnedible ever since he took control of the town. The cells were filled with non-Tuberists and other political enemies of lnedible. Men and women were crowded into tiny jail cells only meant for a single person. Luckily for Zion, she had a guardian angel on her side. On the morning of the first of harvest, a figure appeared before her and told her to get inside a barrel if she wanted to escape. Inside a barrel labeled "Poisonous potatoes" Zion was pushed by the person into a river that went into the sea. This figure would later be recognized as Apps, the legendary first mayor of Port Solanaria would brought about the revolution which toppled the tyrannical lords of Solanum and created the system of the council of Elder potatoes and mayorship. But Apps was thought to have died years ago during the Vodka virus that terrorized Solanum at the time. As Zion made her way up to the beaches north of Port Solanaria she could only wonder what mistical things must have happened on that day.
==== The duel ====
After finding a meal with some tramps outside the city walls Zion made her way to the main gate. "Bring me to lnedible, he must pay for his crimes against Port Solanaria", said Zion trying to summon lnedible to a duel. After a few hours news had reached lnedible and he came to the gate to see if the rumors' were true. There she was, Zion Lelya-Earcala, child of Maximus Ida, savior of Solanum. As lnedible came out of the gates to fight, he said "Child, are you sure you want to play with the elders?". "You scumbag, I must draw your blood to save this land", "So be it". So lnedible drew his sword, a diamond blade forged in Northlight, Zion did the same, but a short knife stolen from the catacombs. 
As both duelers drew closer, a blanket of silence wrapped around the spectators. "FOR SOLANUM", this was Zion's rallying cry, and with that cry she leapt forwards.
==== The aftermath ====
A bloody mess, that's what this was. Zion won with only a little health left to spare, a single fanatical follower of lnedible could have ended her. But what's done was done, Zion was now mayor and lnedible was dead (he was only heavily wounded but survived the duel). With Port Solanaria entering a new age, more people joining and more buildings constructed, new ideas were now being thought of. An armory, yes, that's what we need...
=== The Riders of Ruston ===
A few days after taking over mayorship, Zion decided to travel to her adopted-brother Planeman18's fortress. The famed Fort Ruston, this fort was mostly funded by Zion's foster father Maximus Ida. The fort was also home to the Riders of Ruston, Planeman's cavalry military group. There was a massive force of horses there, many of them incredibly valuable as they were some of the fastest and strongest horses in Bardonia. So this led a force of 20 others to retrieve these horses in 3 missions, as there were 50 horses. After this operation Port Solanaria had access to a large cavalry force.
=== Noxist crusade? ===
Word was now spreading, a storm was gathering. The Noxists of Rathnir were calling for a crusade, and this would be a big one. People were talking left and right about how they would travel to the rendezvous point to meet up with the others and march north to Helmia. Zion heard of this and was interested. So it was agreed that Zion, TNTore1234 (a.k.a Bitchboy) and 6 other Solanum militiamen would travel to the gathering point and spectate the crusade. It took the company a week to get to the location, but there was no one else there. So the party spread up and gathered supplies such as food and weapons. A few days past before they saw other people, a caravan was travelling past in search of trade. Another group came a week after they got to the location, this group was a squad of 4 soldiers loaded with bright armor and shining weapons. After no one else came Zion and her group left. Apparently there was still 2 more days until most people came...
=== A voice in the fields ===
A few days after returning from the failed crusade Zion was working in the fields helping some of the local farmers. But after stumbling down and approaching a small pond she heard a voice... A voice that spoke of a prophecy, the town was entering a dark age, and the town needed a lamp to guide them. This lamp was their savior, their messiah. And this messiah was Salien, the name meant loyalty in the language of south western Bardonia. This "loyal" person was to be their savior, but they would not know it yet...
=== Election time ===
A year had past since Zion took over the town, Tntore123 wanted to become mayor again, and so did many others. So Zion called for elections between the three main candidates. Zion promised a powerful armory and many more defenses to the town, and the others called her power hungry and called the project a waste of time. A month into campaigning later the two other competitors promised to put their votes together in a coalition to defeat Zion, with many criticisms later she decided to step down from mayorship and stopped construction on the armory.
=== A new town ===
A few days after stepping down from mayorship Zion received a message from her foster brother, Jacob Steinwasser (formerly Ida). It said that he now ruled over a nation in Eldham called Wolfingrad, but also said that Steinburg had fallen into ruin because of lack of funds. Zion promised to reclaim Steinburg from the squatters that now inhabited the city. But she didn't have enough money so now she begs for donations on the streets of Port Solanaria seeking investments...
==== Sales in Lennox ====
After hearing of a large shop in the island of Lemebah in Dragoonia, Zion began to gather a large amount of Baked potatoes from the Port Solanaria to sell at the shop. At the start the price was too high, a potato seller was able to sell 1 potato for 5 dollars. Which meant a single stack would be worth $225. After selling an entire double chest's worth of baked potatoes Zion managed to receive $11,000 from selling potatoes, this was already half of the money needed to claim Steinburg.
== The Unitary state of Xemalatau ==
Xemalatau is a small island nation founded by Juno, the largest mapmaker in Rathnir. It is also a popular vacation spot.
=== Message from the south ===
One day in Port Solanaria a messenger arrived and told Zion about the nation of Xemalatau in the south sea. During her travels in Nieden in her youth Zion had met Juno and became good friends. Apparently Zion's foster father Maximus Ida was also friends with him in the past. The message from Xemalatau was from Irodias, who Zion had also met in Escharia. The head scribe knew about Zion's former brewing prowess and asked if she could bring over a large amount of alcohol for Juno's birthday party. Zion had long forgotten about brewing, but the Bartender Hipps was able to mass produce the amount of Vodka needed. Zion donned her armor as she prepared to act as an armored convoy to protect Hipps in their dangerous journey into the south.
=== The journey south ===
After boarding a ship Zion ordered the captain to sail straight south towards the state of Xemalatau. Hipps and Zion were accompanied by a small band of mercenaries to protect them from the pirates that lived all around the Xemalatau archipelago. The journey was fine as it was attempted during the night. 
Around 3 days later, they reached the shores of Xemalatau. With the vodka in a barrel, Zion left the vodka outside Juno's house. But the vodka was later stolen by someone else... 
== Battle for Solanum ==
Main page: Solanaria civil war
The battles of Solanum was a bright and poetic end to Zion's life. Leading hundreds of troops into battles in the Solanaria province allowed her to gain massive power, but in the end, her chaotic personality was the end of her. With massive casualty rates her popularity plummeted amongst her own troops, desertion from the troops and incompetence from the officers caused everyone, her own troops and people to betray her. After living a life of heroism and a death of shame.
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