Knout D'Ferro

Knout D'Ferro was a Rozulian politician, diplomat and heraldist, and founder of Hesten.
He lived in the Rozulian town of Hesten, he is mostly known for the Polari migration from Rathnir, and as a politician and diplomat from the Kingdom of Rozul.
== Biography==
Knout D'Ferro was born in the spring of 256 TE, in Chervonstad. He read much and frequently travelled with his parents around Haven. When he turned 13, he made a travel across the world of Rathnir, meeting new people and discovering for him unknown places. During this journey, he learned a lot about Rathnir and the people living there.
When he returned home, he learned that his mother had died a few months prior. He went to his mother's grave with his father. A few days later though, his father got gravely injured during a fight in a bar, and died a few days later. These losses left a big mark on Knout's youth After the death of his parents, Knout's joyfulness and curiosity disappeared for a few years. But in 268, he decided to do something, and to protect people. This resulted in his election run for Alfheim's minister of Justice, which he lost to The_Carolian, but got appointed as vice-Minister of Justice.
After the events of the War of the Comet and Iristor's comet bringing them to Abexilas, Knout decided to found his own city, for which he got permission to do so in the north of Coronia, a frozen land of spruce. His city, Hesten, quickly grew as an important border fort and city, attracting inhabitants from over the empire. After the collaps of Coronia and the resulting formating of Rozul, Knout got appointed as Secondus, which was the second highest position in Rozul. He continued building up Hesten and recruit new inhabitants until the fall of Rozul. 
In 42 VE, Knout D'Ferro adopted a boy that had been found at Hesten's church. He named him Thristan D'Ferro (Polari: Θρισταν Δ'Φερρο), who later changed his name to DeFerro after moving to Ischanor. 
After the Scaliga-Solania war, which left Hesten in ruins, Knout D'Ferro left Halinn when Solania refused to return his territories to him. He wrote the poem "The State of Halinn" describing the raging wars and involved parties, which in his eyes were cruel and dumb. He travelled to Lakaria, where Adino, the former king of Rozul, tried to force Knout into a public apoligy by blackmailing him, but this did not succeed. Knout lived in Lakaria bitter and depressed, which resulted in him getting sick with heavy feavers and hallucinations. Knout D'Ferro succumbed after a week of fighting the sickness in the spring of 53 VE. 
== Career ==
===Alfheimi Periode ===
File:Alfheimi Imperial Coat of Arms.png|Alfheimi Imperial Coat of Arms
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During the 270 TE elections, Knout put himself forward as candidate for the Ministry of Justice. He got second in the vote, and thus entered the ministry as vice-minister of Justice, under Minister The_Carolinian. He helped with reorganizing the ministry, and writting a new juridical act, which would bring order and justice back to Alfheim. During the writing of that juridical act, Knout got into a clash with the Minister of Defense, over the suggestion of a conscription law. Knout got himself in an lawsuit, which resulted in giving him a burnout. In the summer of 278 TE, Knout resigned of his position as vice-minister of Justice. After his resignation, Knout tried to open a business brand, which sadly wend bankrupt a few years later.
Knout D'Ferro was an active writer, busy with the book "the Chronicles of Knout D'Ferro", heraldist and lawmaker. He made a new coat of arms for the Imperial house of Alfheim, and seals for the governmental bodies.
===Abexilas===
==== The Travell and Coronia ====
After arriving in Abexilas, Knout travelled all over the western continents, searching for a place to live with his race. After first settling by accident in the state of Ynqar, he sold that settlement and travelled to the Empire of Coronia, where he settled the town of Hesten. 
==== Rozul ====
After the dissolving of Coronia and establishment of Rozul, Knout continued to develop his city, which slowly became the most active city in the entire country. The city walls were expanded, and more and more houses were built to accomodate for the influx of new citizens. Due to Knouts efforts in Rozul, he got appointed as Secondus, which is the second highest position in the kingdom. Knout was the last Secondus and ruler of Rozul, after the king Adino had sold the nation to a vassal of Vladistan. His home town of Hesten was the last bastion of Rozul until Knout decided to surrender to Scaliga.
===== Post-Rozul =====
After the downfall of Rozul at the hands of Scaliga, Knout retreated behind the walls of Hesten, which became a Scaligan town. He started working on reforms and developing Hesten, but the town slowly drained of inhabitants who fled or left due to Scaliga.
At the end of the war between Scaliga and the Swords of Halinn, Knout found Hesten in ruins. The subsequent peace negociations resulted in the transfer of the County of Hesten to Solania, who refused to return the city to Knout D'Ferro. Knout left to Lakaria after the transfer was done.
Category:Traveler's Era
Category:Abexilas