King Endoric IV

*"Blesséd King of Thorns remedied only by the riches of those close to him." - Sir Edmund Shangton of Norther Isle*

King Endoric, also widely known as the King of Thorns, was a the High King of Fagia from 597 AP 4E until his death in 649 AP 4E at the age of seventy-six years old. He was the eighteenth king in the Endoric bloodline and was the fourth counsel member of the Elder Halturian Council during his reign. He was also a war general during the Glowing Rock and Windshelf War in the 593 year and also a generally renowned warrior in his own right.

## Name Origin

His full name is Thyrek Romion Endoric IV, which was a name passed down from his father and his forefathers previously. The word 'Thyrek' and 'Romion' collectively mean "Unseizable Fury" and the word 'Endoric' has Celestial Origins, most likely meaning "Truth" as the modern celestial word is Edorai.

## Description

King Endoric IV was born with light brown hair and blue eyes. For most of his life he had a muscular and large frame, which he honed and shaped during his years as a war general. He is around 6'1" and was eventually seen as a large bellied king who loved nothing more than a drink of Edessian wine and a packed pipe.

## Life and Childhood

He was born on February 1st, 573 AP 4E, to Thyrek Romion Endoric III and Hera Kerjan Endoric, in Sella Stronghold, Endoria. He was an only child, and had no other living family besides his parents and older uncle Hade, who by the time he was four, passed away. When he was two years old, his parents gave birth to his sister, Sydni Endoric, who would pass away after just two days of being alive. He was raised without leaving the castle until he was six when his father took him on a hunting trip to Yellow Gardens, Fagia. When he was thirteen years old, during the Edessian occupation in Northern Aidrozan, his father was killed when a dragon attacked his travelling camp. His father was helping the Empire do to an agreement in which the Empire held him to. Unfortunately, he died saving a family and their four children, in which he was successful in killing the dragon. His mother Hera claimed the high throne and would go onto rein for the next eleven years.

When he was twenty years old he helped lead troops in the Glowing Rock and Windshelf War. On the battlefield, he bore red and black armour that was sharply thorned. Due to the Endorian colours being blue and gold, this was strange. After the battle, tales of his battle prowess talking about his “beautiful rose armour” arose and gave him the nickname “The King of Thorns”. He accepted this title and now even wears a thorn-like crown on his head, to recall to this title.

At twenty-four years old, his mother passed away at the age of fifty-nine from a sever illness called the Calcification Virus. This devastated him, and it is said that he didn't leave the castle for an entire year, until the winter solstice. With the death of his mother however, he would become king of the country of Fagia. When he was thirty years old, he married Maiele Orwen, also just called Mai, an Elven woman whom he met while travelling in Valkaebo, Losandrool. She was a poor and sickly woman who he helped get back to good health and eventually married. He was the first person in his blood-line to have married out of Royalty, and also marry a non-human. After a year of being together, Mai gave birth to their first daughter, named Saura. Unfortunately, after just three days Saura would pass away from a fever. Devastated by their loss, they would vow to not have any children for a long time. Ten years after the death of Saura, they would have their second child named Timothee. During child birth, Mai would too pass away. A few years later, he appointed a statue in his courtyard to her to show his stilled love for her.

Thyrek raised Timothee (who is a half-elf) much his own father did; shielding him from the outside world until he felt he was ready. At nine years old, Timothee would leave Sella Stronghold for the very first time. He taught his son how to fight with swords, spears and lances and would teach him literature and of other cultures, trying to get him ready to be a great king.

During the Lands of the Phurst D&D Campaign, Thyrek and Timothee lived in Sella Stronghold. Timothee is married to a human woman named Harmony Silvanus and has a daughter named Hera. Thyrek never remarried and commanded the armies of Endoria, protecting his kingdom and country from Asha Neldorna's forces in Masgream.

Right before the main targeted onslaught on Masgream, the king gave a very iconic and famous speech to his men for inspiration. The speech was afterwards re-named to “The finality”, written down and re enacted by his son every February 1st.

On February 3rd, 649 AP 4E, Thyrek would pass away in his sleep at the age of seventy-six from heart failure and lung descrepencies. His son Timothee Romion Endoric became the High King of Fagia the next morning after a sorrowful coronation at the age of thirty-five. Every year, on February 1st, Endoria has a celebration of life for King Endoic IV with huge feasts and parades. The main event of the day is at 8:30 pm when Timothee wears his father's armour and re-inacts the speech he gave during the Masgream final onslaught.

## Armour of Thorns

The King of Thorns was almost depicted without his iconic plated and thorned armour. It is a relic which is kept in a glass case in Sella Stronghold, protected by an almost impenetrable magical barrier created by his son. It is a traditional Endorian suit of Knight Armour adorned with the colours red and black, and many spikes that represent a rose. It is suspected the armour set is worth around nine million gold pieces. It is also forbidden by law to replicate or mimick the armours design and style and in the year 652 AP 4E it was written in the Fagian constitution that the armour was illegal to be replicated or remade in any way, shape or form and would be punishable by death if done.

## Shard of the Philosopher's Stone

When the king was thirty-three years old he was given a shard of the Philosopher's Stone by a now unknown figure as a royal gift. He kept it with him and never relinquished it until his death in which his son Timothee inherited it.