Geoffery de Castellane

== Early Life ==
Geoffery was born in the Duchy of Castellane years before the War of the Daggers. He was tutored by his father who taught him the value of stewardship and intrigue, which he mostly disregarded in favor of more impractical studies such as art, theology and culture. Geoffery spent his teen years on many escapades around the Empire, making his way from Lauchette, to Hallengard and even to the Winterlands. His journey came to a halt however when he was became stuck in the Winterlands during the War of the Daggers. It was during the war and his time there that he would find his life changing before his eyes from each letter he received from home. When he returned home, Aedwin was a newborn nation, and his father was a newly elected King. During this brief time, Geoffery finally committed to his new inevitable role, and took up training with the army and administering the realm where his father could not. He was not granted much time for this transition however. His father soon received a blow from a boar on a hunting trip, that would prove fatal due to infection. The nobility agreed that de Castellane should pick up the mantle, mostly out of selfish desires to maintain their own duchies rather than neglect their fiefs in favor of the capital city.
== Reign ==
Geoffery, settled into his new position, was not an ambitious ruler. He simply wished to build up his forces and cultivate relations with Hallengard. He accomplished this soon enough, but ran into many problems on the domestic front, mainly being anti-religious individuals who would regularly upset the city. This led to him establishing the Faith Militant, who pursued to, unexpectedly, peacefully enforce Andophy. Geoffery later assisted in the establishment of Fort Merit around the same time. After these two events, things were looking up, until Lauch invaders arrived to despoil the realm of Aedwin. Geoffery struggled to pursue them, and as a result opted to stay in the city awaiting a siege. The siege did not come however, and much to everyone's dismay Fort Merit was burned and spoiled by Lauch troops.
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