Kali Owells

**Kali Owells** is the former Captain of Lancephil County's Knight Order. He had been a retainer of Io Lancephil for 37 years until he betrayed him.

## Personality

Since childhood, he had a stubborn and determined personality as he wished to revive his fallen house. The only thing he felt he could do was train in the sword so that's what he did - day in and day out - without any rest.

He is a heartless and cold-blooded man who threw away his family for his ambition.

## Background

40 years ago, the House of Owells collapsed after the Head of the House and most of its senior retainers died in an ambush by Byron Kingdom. To revive his fallen house, Kali Owells continuously trained in the sword. Due to his habit of only training all day, every day, he tended to be dirty all the time. Eventually, the people around him started calling him "**Muddy Kali**"due to this.

Three years later, Count Io Lancephil saw him and decided to make him an apprentice knight. Afterwards, he followed Io Lancephil to battle for decades. During that time, he accumulated a lot of merits and was granted the title of Viscount. However, he was shocked when Io Lancephil suddenly chose to move his county to the border regions to guard them. He, who had been in the prime of his life, was forced to stay in a countryside fief.

Ten years ago, his wife and young daughter who had been returning from his in-laws’ house were captured by the Arslan Brigand who were based around Arslan Valley. He refused to pay the ransom demanded and didn't even organize a troop and march to save his family. Instead, he was busy flattering Duke Bradley Webster who was visiting the Pavor Castle on that day. On the day his wife and daughter were kidnapped, Kali Owells was doing all sorts of flattering in order to climb up to a higher place.

He had thoroughly remained silent about his wife and daughter's plight so that the banquet wouldn't be canceled. In the end, his wife and daughter were killed after going through all kinds of suffering. Thanks to that, he was solidly pressed by Count Io Lancephil after this truth was later revealed and had to remain as the knight order’s vice-captain without advancing for a long time.

## History

### Previous Timeline

Kali Owells betrayed Io Lancephil and started a rebellion to take over the Lancephil County. According to Roan, he succeeded and then killed his son, Walter Owells, who resisted until the end.

### Current Timeline

Due to Roan's knowledge of Kali Owells' treachery, he had been on guard against him since the day the two met. After discussing this with his retainers, they purposely loudly went to subjugate Poskein Lake so as to give Kali Owells a perfect chance to put his traitorous plans in action. Taking the bait, Kali Owells went to rendezvous with Jonathan Chase's right-hand man and the Supreme Commander of his Forces, Viscount Royce Fielder. During that time, Io Lancephil escaped from Pavor Castle after being informed of the situation by Chris. In an effort to get him back, Kali Owells kidnapped the former Knight Captain of Lancephil County and Io Lancephil's dear friend, Albert Wein.

However, when he still didn't return, Kali Owells gave the order to execute common citizens whom Io Lancephil considered his children. As he expected, Io Lancephil rushed back towards Pavor Castle to save his citizens where elite soldiers were waiting in ambush. Still, Io Lancephil brilliantly commanded his smaller army to gain successive victories, however, despite a few early victories, his Forces were repeatedly defeated due to Kali Owells using the citizens as shields. Unexpectedly, Io Lancephil managed to escape to Menoa Mountain where he met Roan and made him his successor allowing him to officially enter the fief war.

Then, Kali Owells' Forces and Jonathan Chase's Forces were repeatedly ambushed by the Tale Legion and lost many men. The situation turned worse when Semi returned from conquering Exos Island and the Tale Legion reached its full size. Moreover, Brian Miles and his Vende Troop who were sent to the border region between Chase County and Lancephil County completely stopped any reinforcements from entering the Lancephil County.

Then, Roan covertly went to Landingham Barony where the Lancephil Guardian Army was based and met Walter Owells. He sent Walter Owells to infiltrate Kali Owells' Forces. To successfully infiltrate Owells Forces, Walter Owells made up stories about how he hates Roan who took away his succession right and that he wished to become the Count since "even a commoner bastard was able to do so." Kali Owells was pleased that his son finally saw things the same way as him. He slowly began to trust him more as Walter Owells fought seven battles and won all seven of them. This was mainly due to Roan secretly providing him with some secrets beforehand but Kali Owells did not know that. He then left Walter Owells incharge of the northeast line while he west to rendezvous with Chase Forces and destroy Tale Legion. However, to his surprise, Tale Legion was not present in the west. He then received reports that Tale Legion was seen in the south and chose Arslan Valley as the decisive battlefield without knowing that Clay had already predicted that he would make such a choice.

At the decisive Battle of Arslan Valley, Kali Owells gave Walter Owells a separate legion and ordered him to situate himself at the back of Tale Legion and ambush them when they retreat east within Arslan Valley. However, he was betrayed by Walter Owells made Kali Owells' Forces fight each other by fooling his troop into believing that Roan was employing the same strategy as when he ambushed Baron Elton Coat by having his soldiers don the armors of the defeated Byron Kingdom soldiers. To counter this, he made wear a blue cloth on their arms and stated that only the soldiers with a blue cloth are their allies. Roan had the Tale Legion do the same. This led to Kali Owells' Forces believing that the soldiers with blue cloth on their arms are their enemies and, as a result, Kali Owells' Forces ended up attacking their own allies. The chaotic battle continued for a long time due to Walter Owells going around and killing the officers above the rank of adjutant. Eventually, however, Kali Owells realized that they were fighting Walter's Troops and learned from them that they were simply following Walter Owells' orders. Enraged, Kali Owells realized that he had been betrayed by Walter Owells. His commanders fought while not caring for their lives and soon opened a hole in the Tale Legion's encirclement which allowed Kali Owells to escape. However, he was ambushed by Walter Owells who was laying in wait. The two then fought and Kali Owells was surprised by his son's amazing skill. Just when it seemed like the battle would end in mutual destruction, Walter Owells' resolve shook and he dropped his sword. Kali Owells' eyes also wavered and but he still cut off Walter Owells' arm. He then stabbed his sword in Walter Owells abdomen and crippled his mana before escaping.

He was killed by Roan in personal combat in the next battle.