Baron Halifaihn Von Khreidenfeln

### Early Life

Born the 20th of 23 children in his family, he was an afterthought to his parents. Just pushed out while another was being put in. He was forced to learn many things on his own or taught by his older siblings, he has 10 sisters and 12 brothers. Many of the oldest had left already and would just wait for their inheritance. He however would be getting nothing and thus would have to work for everything.

### Childhood

As a child he gained a small reputation for being an ass to people around him, and having a love for obtaining things. If he wanted something by some divine magic he would find a way to get it, and get it he did. His little corner of a room that he had to share with 3 of his brothers was always full of things he’d obtained and anything he didn’t want. He’d give to a younger sibling. He didn’t have much of a care for many of his siblings and those feelings were reciprocated as there was so many they didn’t and couldn’t truly develop any bonds with each other, that didn’t stop him from having his two younger brothers and his younger sister as his favorites. Should something go wrong with any of them he was the first to attempt to fix it. Although with a 50/50 track record he could still make some good of anything.

### Teens

As a teen he started getting into trouble, probably because he was never truly taught how to behave just how to get out of trouble, he rarely got caught for anything, but people always had it out for him because they thought he did it. He’ll never admit to doing anything of the like and he claims that if he did, he would take credit for it. As a teen his love for obtaining things start growing rapidly he got a job as a logger in a nearby logging camp outside the city he was born in. Here he learned the world of logging and the lumber business. He started putting in a minimum of 12 hours a day, and made some good money. With this money he would save half and spend the other half on his younger siblings, for food or something they wanted.

### Early Adulthood

On the day he became an adult he was forced to leave home, he tried his best to fight it to no avail. So he left in search of greater things and more money to be made, now a hardened capitalist he sought for another way to make vast sums of money, he settled on the outskirts of a town called Tippensburg in the nation of Nethileth. He saw some great possibilities in this town and began building a home on an island while he drew up plans for a naval fort to protect the sea routes of the city. He never got the chance to build it before being sent to a peninsula an ocean away to start a new city. Here he fell in love, endless supplies of lumber for frivolous profit.

### Certeskan Prosperity

Here on the forested peninsula, was the start of the city Certeska, named for the word possibilities in his native tongue. Here began his project of forming a town that would produce no matter what, through anything that happens. He began with mass tree felling processing the trunks into planks and selling them en masse, now with some money in his pocket he began funding mining operations and the starting of industrial output, putting together assembly lines and obtaining mass amounts of machine tools, with this he can now sustain himself with his towns production of ores in the mines, process that ore and produce with it, finish it with wooden furniture, and sell it all for profit which goes back into the town.