James Faustino

Jamison “James” Florence Faustino Sr. was a Huitcan refugee taken in by Sirradra, and founder of ENNN. The stress of leading the company eventually lead to his retirement on Rathnir, eventually dying at seventy three.
Later being reborn in Abexilas, he helped build up the Acreoni outpost of Fjallk to defend against the squatters of Perria. Later becoming the Vogt of Naquezas, as well as a devout Fishist Scientific Socialist after the Golden Fish descended on Naquezas.
== Early life ==
=== Childhood ===
Born to noble parents of the Huitca Federation in the capital city of Tlahatl. James would find himself receiving the highest education in a wide variety of topics. (An education which would give him the ability to learn many languages throughout his future travels and life.) Leading a life that was overall privileged. Until of course, in his teenage years, when the Huitca Federation was dissolved. Surrounded by chaos in a now unstable part of the world, the Faustino family were forced to flee the falling federation.
=== Nomadic Years ===
However, according to James's own account, out in the wilds, his family would be found by a group of bandits who would quickly rob and imprison them. After many weeks being trapped in the bandit's camp, James would manage to escape. Continuing his travels into the wider world of Rathnir on his own, his parents never making it out. These travels would span over many years, walking from continent to continent, country to country as a vagabond. Until he finally found a home, a nation nestled in the very corner of the world. 
=== Immigration Into Sirradra ===
Eventually he came across The Autokratoria of Sirradra, which, after a quick immigration process, welcomed him in with open arms. Giving James a small but cozy apartment in the southern town of Vassa in the province of Enthica-Novoros. For a time he would make money doing odd jobs to help the town and make some cash. 
Later learning of the Enthica-Novoros province's many political parties. He would quickly become a member of the Enithican Labor Party. Purely for their support of, and success in bringing religious freedoms to the area in the past. Something that James wanted to support in his new home, considering his dedication to, and open expression of, his Huitcan Cardinalist faith. 
== The Vassa Times and ENNN ==
=== Establishment and First Growth ===
A year or so later, James, purely for the fun of it, would create and publish the first issue of The Vassa Times. A newspaper named after the town in which he lived. Covering everything from local news, to foreign affairs. The paper instantly gained success in the area. Especially with its only competition, the Enthican Times, owned by Amy Spud, already on decline, assimilating itself into the Vassa Times soon after the release of its first edition.
=== General Overview ===
With that assimilation, James and the former head of the Enthican Times, Amy Spud, would create ENNN, or the Enithica-Novoros News Network. A company comprised of both the Vassa Times and the Enthican Times, both occasionally posting their own respective newspapers. With the Enithican Times being a quick, bite sized, one page style newspaper. While the Vassa Times was much more polished, taking longer to write every issue. The company quickly started doing well. However, with this popularity came a greater work loads. That, along with the lack of help writing the Vassa Times, and on top of that matters in his own personal life, the company would become more of something that stressed him than anything else. 
=== Friendship With Amy Spud ===
Over the months James and Amy Spud would grow to form a platonic bond with one another, a friendship forming as they worked together at ENNN which would persist for many years to come. 
== Abandonment of Cardinalism ==
Meanwhile, as Faustino continued to manage and write for ENNN, he would become familiar with politics across the world. Including developments in his home continent of Ummarnu. He would watch as events would unfold, and as Ashai reformed the territory of the fallen Centarii republic into a new part if its nation named Huitca, led by Rex Ferdinand. At first he found himself excited by the restablishment of his home, happy at the thought of maybe going back. But his excitement at the prospect would quickly fade as an endless stream of internal disagreements in the government and general bull came from the local political sphere.
He would learn of problem after problem in the new Huitca, and it got to the point that he felt ashamed to call himself Huitcan, and even a Cardinalist. So, after much thought and inner turmoil, he forsook his religion, and abandoned his Cardinalist roots. If Tlahatepa, Meclahua, Cualitzin, and Xoalcoatl would allow his home to devolve into what he saw now, how could continue to he pray to them? 
With that he also abandoned the Enithican Labour Party, finding his one biggest reason for being a member evaporating into thin air. 
== Short Time in Politics ==
=== The Enithican United Front and The Election ===
With the rising popularity of ENNN, Faustino was becoming a small, but still relatively popular and influential person across Enithica-Novoros. Attracting the attention of a newly forming political party in the province, the Enithican United Front. A center-right party comprised of influential people from across Enithica-Novoros. All running together for all five seats of the local government council. 
James would choose to join the party alongside Ateus Van Luscius, Jeremy ad Alendir-Vulidion, Harold Teutonicus Ad Alendir, and Ze Alaric Thalos. All of which had contributed to the province in their own way, and all of which had earned a spot in the party. 
=== Personal Contribution of Faustino and Results of The Election ===
James would, over the course of the election, do much for the EUF. He would design and distribute promotional posters for the party. As wells as use his executive and editorial spot in ENNN to edit the paper in favor of the EUF. Doing everything from framing opponents in a poor light, to subtly painting his friends positively, and even retroactively changing the results of surveys to make it look like the EUF was doing better than it was.
All of which worked, as three of the five EUF members got spots on the council, securing for the party an EUF majority. Meanwhile, James, although happy for his friends that they won the election, did not secure a spot on the council himself.
== Mental Breaking Point and Retirement ==
With the ruining of his homeland, overwork from ENNN, losing the election, and his personal life all starting to pile on James's mind, he began to have trouble keeping up with managing and writing for ENNN. So, after months of continuing to work, the quality and speed of his work declining, James would retire from ENNN, leaving Amy Spud in charge as the new CEO. 
Amy would later put the company’s newspapers on an indefinite hiatus, using the husk of a corporation to commit fraud. 
== Marriage, Children, and Final Years ==
After this James would lead a life of relaxation and please in Vassa, the town which had become his home. Over the years much would happen, some of his friends would die, (although he never knew what happened to his oldest friend Amy Spud) he would move to Fjörgyien as Vassa slowly became abandoned over the years. But eventually he met another kind soul, one who had, like him, fled their home, a falling nation. And after a few years, the two would marry. Her name was Donna Schneider, and she made James the happiest man in the world. 
Together the two would have a child, James Florence-Schneider Faustino Jr. A long name, but one they both loved for a boy they both loved. Together they would raise him, bringing him up not with as much privilege as his father, but in a much more stable society. Where his son would never be forced away due to turmoil or strife like both he and his parents were. 
Years later as he grew older however, James Florence Faustino would die one day, peacefully in his sleep. 
== ... ==
James awoke in an environment so foreign it was impossible for him to describe, but if he had to try he would say that he was in a grand and luxurious mansion, and outside the windows was everything, floating about an endless void of nothing, still as they hung in the endlessly dark sky. Then suddenly a voice rang out.
“Jamison Florence Faustino Sr. I have been expecting you.” The voice said, booming across the castle.
“I have watched you with great interest, seen you grow from a scared young boy, to a thriving businessman, to an old man, you are a kind soul.” The voice began to say as its source appeared, descending down the grand stairwell. James immediately recognized its similarities with the common enderman but this one was different. It was taller, and its human eyes glowed a faint yellow hue. 
“I have grabbed your soul from your deathbed and brought you to my domain, I have saved you from death. So please, allow me the honor of a dinner with such a kindred spirit.” James, not wanting to upset his savior and host, he accepted the offer, and the two dined on meals James had never seen in his life before. Later, after their meal was done and a game of inter dimensional chess was played, the being made another offer to James.
”For my whole existence I have been trapped in my own world, being forced to watch yours with all its activity and wonders but never able to interact but in spiritual ways such as I have with you.” The being said, beginning to make his case.
”But I have brought you here for just that reason. You see, I want to go to your grand world, so feel the sun on my face, the wind in my hair, the water going down my throat.” The being said, gaining some sympathy from James. 
“But dear Jamison, we can be beneficial for one another. I can muster my dimensions power and send you back to the mortal realm, and in return, I will hitch a ride and we can share a body. I get a chance to feel the world and you get a second chance at life!” The being said, and after some thought, James took its deal. 
== Into The New World of Abexilas ==
=== Acreon, Perria, and Fjallk ===
Upon landing in the new world James found himself alone in the forest, the spruce trees stretching high above him. He was astonished to look in the reflection of a nearby pond and see his body. The being had given him his younger body, and he was feeling like his old self back from the ENNN and EUF era. Although he quickly noticed the yellow tint to one of his eyes and darkness of the skin around it, the being had certainly hitched a ride as it said it would. As he wandered the forest he would meet wanderers and traders who explained to him that he was late to Abexilas by several years. Many nations having already been formed and most people already being established in the new world. 
Soon enough though he would encourage encounter a traveler who took him to the Acroni outpost of Fjallk. Apparently, a group led by Baeked Perron was claiming Acroni territory and naming it "Perria". So the Acroni government approved the creation of the Fjallk Outpost to limit the expansion of Perria. The two now stood within walking distance of one another, each seemingly annoyed with the others existence. 
What convinced James to stay however was what was at the center of the little underdeveloped town. It was a grave, labeled Amy Spud, his oldest and most treasured friend from the old world. He realized she must have come into the new world of Abexilas and then somehow died. He decided in that very moment to settle in Fjallk, building his home right next to Amy's grave. Neatly placing himself right into the conflict between Perria and Fjallk. Helping build up and small outpost of Fjallk.
=== Becoming the Vogt of Naquezas ===
Naquezas was meant to be a grand city atop a mountain, its original Vogt (Vogt being mayor) has grand plans, however never had the time to complete them due to turbulence in their personal life which retracted from their ability to lead and grow the city. Due to this, the higher Acroni governance decided that the city's leadership position should be shifted to someone with a greater ability to actually work on developing the city. Through several legal loopholes as well as personally knowing some people in the Acroni goverment from his ENNN and EUF days, James became the new Vogt of the hardly developed, barely populated Naquezas.
However, in order to lead the city he would of course have to leave Fjallk, the outpost which not only he helped grow so much but also the location of his best friend's grave. The idea of leaving his old friend caused quite a bit of turbulence in him. Turbulence which was quelled by the being, who, with their great power, afforded James the chance to speak with Amy Spud one last time. After a long conversation between the two Amy told James that it was okay if he left. For it was wrong of him to turn away this opportunity and waste away in Fjallk simply becuase of her. He had to move on. And so he did, packing up his things and saying goodbye to the outpost which he had helped build to travel to Naquezas and assume local leadership.
== The Arrival of the Golden Fish in Naquezas ==
=== The First Few Weeks ===
James had been managing the town of Naquezas for months now but had quickly found himself in a sort of gridlock. Most of the town's money had been withdrawn from the national treasury by the former Vogt before they left to deal with personal issues and the Acreoni government was trying to ask for the money back but was having great difficulty contacting them. This, along other factors such as a lack of assistance from the Acreoni goverment essentially ground development of Naquezas to a halt before it could even begin.
It is in this context that the Golden Fish descended on Naquezas, preaching of a better society built on equality, democracy, and revolution. This Golden Fish's teachings quickly spread across Naquezas and developedinto the religion of Golden Fishism and the ideological movement of Fishist Religious Socialism. Both of which were accepted by the few locals, along with the Golden Fish themselves as an ideological guide and religious figurehead.
James took an interest to the Golden Fish's teachings as well, adopting both the religion and the ideology as his own. In fact, James Faustino would become the founding author of The Book of The Golden Fish, writing it's first chapter, "The Arrival".
=== Founding Fishist Scientific Socialism ===
James soon came to a realization though, he came to believe that the Church of The Golden Fish and Fishist Religious Socialism as an ideology where in inherently flawed as organizations, and inherently hypocritical schools of thought. 
He quickly wrote “Fishist Socialism, Utopian and Scientific“. Declaring his belief in the validity of what he called Fishist Scientific Socialism and a workers vanguard party inspired by Xeroism. As well as his belief in the invalidity of Religious Fishism and its church. He made several hundred copies of the book and delivered them by night, leaving horse drawn carriages full of them in town and city squares for people to take and read across Acreon.