Arthur Norbury

Born and Raised in a medium sized town called Khartenburgh, Arthur Norbury of house Norbury lived with his mother and father alongside 2 older brothers. Joseph Norbury the Elder was a smith renowned for his craft across the Nurandyllion Empire, he was given land by the Local lord on which to build his own estate. While 2 of his sons followed in his footsteps Arthur was different. Arthur was a natural born fighter so he sought to put his talents to good use as a member of the Towns guard. Pay was decent, work was steady and plentiful and the joy of dishing out justice was immense, Long did Arthur serve his Guard captain with unwavering loyalty and honor, Captain Flynn Debach was as honorable as they came. Until he Retired. The new captain; Captain Yager Keshtal was everything the Guard corps despised. He was a liar, a thief, and a cheat. but of course it wouldn't be discovered as he had the local Lord in his pocket, Seems growing up in a Rich Noble family estate has it's perks. The guard went from being the Towns revered protectors to just a bunch of crooks who take bribes for any situation. Not Arthur though, he believed in a cause and Yager didn't like that. One faithful day Arthur was called into Yager's office to discuss schedule changes (spoiler alert it wasn't about that) when he arrived he noticed some thugs at the door who he had never noticed working for the town before. . . Upon entering the captains office of the barracks Arthur found Yager sitting in the dim light of a candle with his muddy sabatons on the Table propped on his desk sitting smugly back in his chair. Yager attempted to persuade Arthur to join him and his Thugs and he would share in cuts from bribes and taxes he had planned to enforce along with protection fee's. when Arthur refused and threatened to inform the Duke Yager fired him from the guard and threatened to Throw him in jail for treason and he would serve capital punishment. Arthur returned to his estate where he informed his family. They sold the Estate to afford travel expenses and even sold the smithy and moved to Pahvitz where they resumed their Smithing Jobs whilst living in modest Middle class. Arthur did not join them, he feared Yager would come after him and his family so he left the Continent in it's entirety, Arthur fled to a continent that hadn't even been settled yet to escape the persecution of corruption in his own town. Fearing should he ever return Yager would find him or worse, his family would be threatened.

### Arrival on Askalar

After fleeing his home continent Arthur found himself on a Barge taking explorers to a new land, a recently discovered continent out in uncharted waters, when the ship made landfall he departed the group in search of his own destiny in this new land. After months of exploring he would stumble upon a small wooden cabin under construction, 2 men inhabited the area, their names were Aldar Warhammer, and Alefred Grandrein. they offered Arthur a place to stay and stay he did. thus began to early days of a nation called Tyrakir.

### Humble beginnings

Arthur began his first day as a Tyrakirian gathering lumber to build a base of operations, it took months but the first hall was complete and the people of Tyrakir finally had shelter from the harsh elements of Grandrein valley. Arthur began construction on his own private home as the Jarl had given him land on which to do so. it took many months of labor but it was done, Arthur's new home. Not long after this accomplishment a woman came to Tyrakir, her name was Thea. She was an explorer looking for her own place, when we offered her a place in Tyrakir she politely refused and went on her way. It had been a year and the small village of Tyrakir was booming into a larger city

### The First Blood

Fast forward a few years and Tyrakir has become a thriving nation boasting it's own military and a force to be reckoned with. Arthur had long since been appointed a Guard of his fair city, much like he had been in his home village of Khartenburgh, although this time things were going to be different. Some guards would report a disturbance at the gates and Jarl Grandrein would rally the rest of the guards Arthur included to see personaly what was happening. A man from Stengar, a neighboring nation further down the mountainside in the greenlands. The man came to offer us protection if we swore loyalty to Jack Stewart, king of stengar. Tyrakir was a proud and prideful nation so we refused him and the man began to hurl insults at us, The Jarl told him to fuck off and we began to prepare for any hostile actions that may result in this exchange, However the man left with not a farewell but a warning: "It's shame you thick headed barbarians can't be made to see reason, you truly are uncivilized rabble". The mans words meant nothing for Tyrakir had nothing to be ashamed of, we conducted ourselves with a firm and gentle rule. Following our little encounter with our neighbors we began preparing for their assault by building fortifications, it was around this time when Arthur heard reports of what the Stengarians had done in the greenlands, the Stengarian knights had charged down some peasant farmers of a nation called Libertia simply for not agreeing to join them, veteran knights cut down simple farmers who could barely hold a weapon, Sick bastards. while construction was still under way some guards had found a drunken stengarian scouting near us so we captured him. The stengarians sent a Knight patrol to look for him, so he must have been a spy. They would see the Jarl atop the wall with a dagger at the stengarians throat as he cut the bastards gullet open, we would not tolerate this intrusion from stengar. Outraged the stengarians brought fourth a champion to fight us in a 1 on 1 exhibition match. we sent forward our best Berserker warrior. The fight was brutal but our Berserker was victorious as he severed the champions head staining the wall with Stengarian blood. the Stengarians left in shameful defeat as they had lost two of their own while we remained untouched.

### The last Straw

There had been many months of skirmishes between Stengar and Tyrakir but none could get a foothold over the other in this war, the stalemate was frustrating to both sides. Unbeknownst to Tyrakir, Stengar had formed a shadow alliance with the warriors of Kordon (protectors of the borderlands) and we would later discover that in the night they kidnapped Jarl Grandrein and would later execute him in a cell far away from Tyrakir. The underhanded bastards.Tyrakir mourned it's loss but would be reignited with the flames of retribution for Sigrid Almarn would arrive from Aelthred's homeland hearing of his disappearance. Sigrid forged a grand alliance between the mardoch merchant guild, Kaltlanda, Libertia, and Lyris and with that grand army he marched on the city of Kordalinska in order to bring those responsible for the secret killing of our Jarl to justice!

### Disaster strikes

The battle of Kordalinska was won, but at what cost? in the aftermath of the siege Sigrid and his now guard captain Arthur Norbury, approached to defeated leaders Nicomedes Dion and Salazar de Luna. They realized the fate that awaited the sorry bastards so they leapt at Sigrid and Arthur and a bloody brawl broke out, Try as he might Arthur couldn't land a hit with his halberd, attempting to think on his feet he threw his halberd down and jumped onto Salazar tackling him off of Sigrid, but behind him Nicomedes Dion picked up the discarded halberd and thrust it into Sigrid's chest wounding him fatally. Sigrid fell unable to move, Arthur seeing his beloved Jarl fall went into a blind fury taking out his back up sword and slicing Nicomedes throat clean open killing him, he then swiftly cut that snake Salazars head clean from his shoulders. when the battle was over Arthur knelt to provide his jarl with aid, but he lacked any medical training and for once Arthur was scared. . . he began shouting out to the crowd of Kordonians for aid but none would listen. helpless as his Jarl was bleeding he called out once more in desperation, only for a ray of light to beam from the darkness of the rain and shadow. A woman by the name of Adrestia Laurien rushed from the crown tearing off articles of her clothing to use as bandages to staunch the bleeding. Together they hauled the defeated Jarl back to Tyrakir with cover from the returning army. Weeks pass, and despite her efforts Sigrid Almarn passes from his injuries. A loss that would haunt Arthur for the rest of his days, even in his later years as an officer in the Highland empire Arthur feels the guilt, the hopelessness, the despair that he felt that night in Kordalinska, however in spite of this agonizing depression his friends Rylan Fenn, Alaren Bearclaw, and Adrestia always kept him going, As well as a promise he made to Alefred Grandrein to protect the people of Tyrakir to the last Berseker. Arthur inherited leadership that he never asked for and had little experience leading an entire nation, and so he Reformed the Jarldom into a Republic to ease his pain but this made many more problems down the line. The council often couldn't meet due to difficulties so motions would be passed without the full consent of the whole council.

### A new Era for Tyrakir

The people of Tyrakir were happy under the Republic although the council was somewhat defective it still agreed on what was best for it's people. Tyrakir prospered for a short time but slowly declined without a strong leader or Jarl to unite them. one fateful day a man from Stengar arrived calling himself Flynn Stewart, the name alone brought back feelings of rage and hostility within Arthur, all the trouble that name has caused his people. Flynn came to negotiate an Alliance strangely enough, this caught Arthur off guard and in the heat of his fury he came to a realization; Tyrakir would never truly heal if the sins of the past could not be mended, Tyrakir's people would continue to suffer if further hostilities were to ensue. His duty was to the people of Tyrakir, and so he put his personal grievances aside and allowed Flynn to continue. eventually the Alliance would boom into an Empire and Tyrakir would return to a Jarldom under the protection of the Highland Empire. Arthur felt much more confident in his place as jarl now and would go on to fight side by side with the Highland empire through the southern aggression which would lead to the siege of Halrin and later down the line, Flynn's War. He later adopted a son to inherit the Jarldom, His name was Victor Norbury. Arthur would continue live the rest of his life happily in Tyrakir under the new Askalarian empire