Kalhem Mané

Kalhem Mané is a half Seraan, half Ryzani linguist. He was born in Lacserenea in 145 TE. Although he was born in Lacserenea, he never resided there, he moved with his mother to the city of Lirgal and lived there for most of his life. He never knew his father, and nothing is known about him either. His mother died after he reached his 19th birthday. He joined the Lirgalyn City Guard as soon as possible. Later he bought a house in the city of Carthya where presumably his mother was born. He joined the Ryzani Army soon after getting his Ryzani citizenship. Kalhem Mané would return to Lirgal only to see it being under the control of Certaria. He would then flee Lirgal with most of his belongings to the country of Eisenland. There he met his wife Dáido Korakwera and had a child together, who they named Moiéku Mané.
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Kalhem Mané was born on the streets of the city of Lacserenea in 145 TE. His parents were trying to find a place where to live a better life and crossed continents. But his father would be lost along the way and thus never got to know him. He and his mother would finally settle in the Lunar City-State of Lirgal. Kalhem Mané was always fascinated by the religious Asitir chants, and decided to convert to the Asitir faith at 16 years old in honour of his father. He would spend most of his time drawing and learning to write in the Lirgalyn Script. He would make wood carvings and paintings and sell them on the streets of Lirgal. With this money, he would buy ink and paper to write and draw some more and sell more art pieces.
At 19-year-old, his mother would die by falling in the Myr River and drowned in it. This would sadden Kalhem Mané and decided to let everything behind him by moving to Carthya in the Tsardom of Ryzan. There he enlisted in the Ryzani Army. He was shocked by how culturally and linguistically diverse Ryzan was, and this got him very interested in learning more about languages. Eventually he would go back to Lirgal in hopes of continuing his artistic and linguistic passions. He would return to Lirgal only to see it being under the control of the Empire of Certaria. This would shock him greatly, for he never thought that Lirgal would ever be under foreign rule again. He fiercely opposed this invasion of his country and thus fled Lirgal with most of his belongings because he was mortified by the fact that Lirgal wasn't free any more. He moved to the country of Eisenland where he learned about the Eisendel language and Eisenlandian culture. Furthermore, he became an Eisenlandian citizen. He met a lady named Dáido Korakwera who was just as interested as him in languages, and she was the one who helped Kalhem Mané to learn the local language of Eisendel. They would eventually fall in love with one another and had a child who they named Moiéku Mané.
=== Linguistic researches ===
Kalhem Mané was very determined in researching more deeply into languages on how they evolve and how different languages can be related to one another. He would study various languages, but he would mainly study the language of Eisendel, Thorna and Kan. He would create a theoretical family tree of languages known as Tuisgen. Furthermore, he made most of his studies alone, but after moving to Maxstadt he met many linguists with whom he shared his work with. He and his closest colleagues would create the OFLE (Organization of Free Linguists of Eisenland). It didn't take long for the OFLE to be fragmented from within because of many disagreements and rivalries. Kalhem Mané would be accused of making up his own facts out of thin air, and that his studies were simply factless and useless. But this would not discourage him from making further studies on his own. With the help of his wife he would publish a book in linguistics, but he would be ridiculous not just by the Eisenlandian Institute of Languages, but also by other linguists all over Rathnir. This infuriated Kalhem Mané. He decided to bring an end to his studies.
=== Founding the Rash ===
Kalhem Mané had a grudge for the rest of his life towards linguists who disapproved of his studies, which would push him into being very irrational towards people who would disagree with him in any way or form. He became very abusive towards his family and friends. Eventually, he and his best friend Lijger Lorszon would get to talk about success and failures in their lives. They expressed great anger and resentment towards people in their past lives, whether these people did good or bad. All of this lead to them filling themselves with hate and sadness, for they saw their lives as a failure, and both became irreligious, for they believed that their faith did not protect them from misery and failure, as they both thought it would. Kalhem Mané would slowly lose friends throughout his life, but managed to forge stronger friendships with a few. He and his friends would create a secret group known as the Council of The Six Siblings(Rad av Segeda Ziflijkun), more commonly shortened to Rash.
=== Death ===
Kalhem Mané went fishing one day on a wooden boat, on a river. He would make what seemed like a big catch, but got his feet tangled in some ropes that were laying on the floor of the boat. He fell on the side of the boat, turning it upside down, and wasn't able to swim up out of the water. Eventually, he would drown to his death.
Category:Traveler's Era