Koppodrazi Ueshiba

## Koppodrazi Sjach Ueshiba

**Koppadrazi Sjach Ueshiba**, leader and founder of House Stefarni.

## Appearance

   Koppodrazi was a Drow with white hair, ebony skin, and blue eyes. Age 123 as of 1215 A.S. He preferred to wear simple robes and to go around barefoot, but he enjoyed fancier dress when the occasion called for it. He wore his hair in dreadlocks and had a pet spider named Blinky who would hide in his hair and peek out to say hello to passersby.

## History

### Times of War

Born to a Drow community in the Highland Rise near Aural and rising to 1st General to King Morihei. A simple soldier, Koppodrazi signed up when he was of age, studied under his General, and learned the ways of war. The tactics, the ebb and flow of battle, and what was the true meaning of a warrior.

    As time passed and Koppodrazi rose in rank, there came a day when he was tested. During a battle, his unit became split off from the main force and forced into retreat into snowy hills. It’s said that, after being hunted for days on end, he and his unit made camp in a cave. Many were in the throes of hunger and dehydration, others with festering injuries. Koppodrazi abstained from rations and drink by choice, so others would survive, as he was uninjured and of relative health at the time.

They heard an approaching force. Koppodrazi ordered his unit to snuff the fire, and hide, while he moved toward the cave mouth with his spear. What ensued over the next hour, in the darkness of night, was speculated about for many years by the surviving members of his unit. Wild stories abound, but the evidence showed fifty soldiers of the enemy dead, and all but three of his own unit surviving and making it back home. Not a word was said on the trip back by Koppodrazi, other than a single complaint that the tip of his spear broke off during the scuffle. That’s how he earned the call sign “Shadow,” and the position of 1st General.

### Peace in Abishot

In 1137 A.S., at the age of 45, Koppodrazi moved to Abishot, and though a decorated war veteran, he wanted to pursue two things that he felt his war days had taken from him: working with timber, and the study of peaceful martial arts. He had met many in his time who offered to train him, and he invited them all to the city.

    He built the monastery for them to aid him, and in time, bought the timber mills as well. The greatest of his teachers had been alive long past her expected death and didn't look or act a day over 25. It was in her honour that he named the great house he was building. Her name was Gwendolyn Stefarni. She taught him the Art of Peace, and as Koppodrazi learned this ancient practice, he finally understood what King Morihei had been pushing the Generals to strive for.

Gwendolyn was the last Grandmaster of her order, and when she passed, Koppodrazi bore her coffin all the way back to her homeland, together with three other members of his House. It was she who told him, "You must always have No Doubt. Even in your doubt… But what do I know, I’m just a girl. Little old me."

    As a growing power within Abishot, House Stefarni became a trusted name to the Royal Family. With a calm disposition, steady counsel, and a thorough understanding of the timber industry and its needs, the House was counted among the five to be formed as the Royal Council, and on Dushah Adriane Baris’ installment to power, Gwensei Koppodrazi was still proud to serve this new generation of the family. He would be until the day he passed.

During his time in the city, he married a woman named Omiko, and in 1142 A.S., he had a child. Omiko Ueshiba passed during childbirth, and his son, Kamakura Tatsu Ueshiba, grew to follow in his father's footsteps. Kamakura enlisted and fought for the army until his untimely death in battle. His last known words were worries that he had dishonoured his father. In 1215 A.S., Kamakura’s blades were set into the wall at Abishot’s Temple of Lianda in a ceremony meant to let soldiers end their watch by Esteemed Orator RX-78-2.