Ebbe

### Builds

Emerald Isle House, Ashari Complex expansion, Tunnelworker Union Base, Tunnelworker Union Warehouse.

## Appearance

### Age

Physically 97 (considered elder at 250), mentally unknown.

## Backstory

Ebbe K. Prime, originally Letoius of house and clan Prime, was born to a Piglin mother and a Human father who had been blessed by the gods long ago, allowing for the unatural cross-breeding of Humans and Piglins to procede. His mother, not wanting to deal with a child in the harsh wastes of the Nether, left the infant with a passing clan: clan Prime. It was here that the child was adopted by Tyerelius, the leader of the clan. Letoius was given his name, and travelled alongside his father for years to come.

In time, the Nether came under a great seige, a war between Ender and Piglins. Many Piglins of the time thought it the end of their species, their kind scattered and disorganized. It was here, with nothing but spunk and luck, that Letoius managed to ralley several clans together, fighting off a large hoarde of invading Endermen. As the small Piglin army continued their crusade against the invading Ender, Letoius became a hero among many Piglins.

In time, the Nether natives managed to form of a unified front, with Letoius as their figurehead. When they eventually managed to defeat the oncoming hoardes of Ender, driving off their years-long assault of the fire wastes, Letoius was apointed king of their new unified group.

It was now that the young half-Piglin's luck ran out. He knew nothing of running a kingdom, and it swiftly fell to ruin via riots and a small civil war. By the end, the kingdom's own military turned on their king, and locked him in the prison, wishing to hold a public execution.

In a bloody scuffle, Letoius managed to escape, fleeing the nation as the most wanted man in Piglin society. Letoius ran and ran for months, until he stumbled across a lit portal from the old trade routes with the Overworld. Desperate to escape his past and with nothing to lose, he went through.

The instant he stepped into the Overworld, he was overcome with overwhelming pain as he began to zombify, skin and muscles sloughing from his bones. Letoius would have, and should have, died, but the faint traces of magic in his blood from his blood father kept him concious in the new painful form.

The Overworld at this time was free of the monsters who came to plague it in years come, and as such Letoius was an exotic beast to be hunted down. As decades passed, he became a local legend, a boogeyman to scare children. He tried to build up his arsenal, but due to his nomadic lifestyle of avoiding hunters, he was never able to aquire anything more than what he could keep on his person.

Then, something both awful and amazing happened: The Shattering. The Shattering was a catastrophic event that split the ground, releasing horrifying monsters from the earth, as well as a deadly plague. It ruined the world, toppling empires that had reigned for hundreds of years, but for Letoius it was a gift. No longer the center of attention from hunters, and immune to the plague due to his undead state, Letoius was more free than he had ever been in his seventy years in the Overworld.

Now equipped with nothing more than the clothes on his back, his family blade, his gauntlets, and a mask fashioned after the withering undead of the Endermen that had invaded his home, Letoius set out to try and find a place in Human society. In time, he found his way to a city known as Tiberia, where he met two men: Haraldr and Einar. Haraldr was the leader of a once great clan known as the Kurgan, who had been all but wiped out by the Shattering, and was taking pity on any who were lost, inviting them to the clan. Letoius, hiding both his undead and Piglin traits behind a hood and a mask, donned the name Ebbe from the Kurgan dialect, and joined the clan.

It was here that the trio, Haraldr, Einar, and Ebbe, travelled back to the wild lands claimed by the Kurgan, and began to work. They gathered wood and ore in a small camp around a ravine, that later blossomed into the mining town of Braka Hellir. Haraldr later left the town to begin construction of the soon-to-be capital in the eastern mountains, leaving Einar and Ebbe as the leaders of Braka Hellir.

Ebbe spent much of his time in the mines, desperate to be useful to the people who had taken him in, while Einar often travelled back and forth from Braka Hellir and the work in progress capital, Ormsa. As the clan grew, as did the capital, leaving Ebbe and Braka Hellir a remote, but important, cog in the machine of Kurgan. Ebbe documented his life and his secrets in a diary which he labled "Logs of Letoius." It was his first taste of writing.

A spy and assassin from an enemy kingdom, Prythonia, snuck their way into Braka Hellir one night, and while he did not steal anything, he did read Ebbe's diary and became the first to find out his secret, unbeknownst to Ebbe. He eventually revealed his zombification and Piglin heritage to Einar, a man he considered a brother in all but blood.

Unfortunetly, it was around this time that Haraldr became deathly ill. It was a heartbreaking development for Ebbe, but he was used to loss. As the clan leader and king had no heir, the Kurgan, with Haraldr's blessing, held a vote to appoint a new leader. Einar was initially voted, but he turned it down, not desiring the responsibility that came with the power. In his place, a man named Torsten became the new leader of the clan. It was not much later that Haraldr was claimed by the illness.

Just before Haraldr passed, though, the Prythonic spy ended up joining Kurgan, revealing his name as Conan. Admitting his spying around Ormsa and Braka Hellir, though not his knowledge of Ebbe's secret, Ebbe was suspicious of the man. But he came with Haraldr's express blessing, and so he was forced to accept it.

During Ebbe's stay in Kurgan, he found himself growing more wealthy, and with a stockpile of resource growing faster than the kingdom he supplied them to used them. With the alien feeling of free time, Ebbe began to research topics of a more scientic nature. Specifically, what it would take to revive his physical body, and keep it from zombifying.

In his research, he found he needed a combination of a weakness potion, and enchanted golden apple, a totem of undying, a nether star, and the infused power from end crystals. And so, he began his journey to revive himself.

He became closer friends with Conan in the coming months, bonding with him in the search for a Totem of Undying for Ebbe's revival, as he did with the new king Torsten. As months and months passed, Ebbe and Conan became best friends, and became something of an adviser to Torsten. Torsten shared with Ebbe the secret recipe to the Kurgan Brew, a powerful drink known only to the must trusted of the Kurgan clan.

Continuing with his experiments, Ebbe befriended the leader of the kindgom of Osterwalde, Auduin. The man was interested in many academic studies, and was willing to help Ebbe with gathering the resources for the procedure, viewing it as a once-in-a-lifetime oppertunity for study. It was also around this time that Ebbe began to speak to the god Loki, and was given the gift of a magical broadsword.

Time went on, as did life. Ebbe got closer to gathering the resources needed, lacking only the crystalized souls at the heart of a Wither. Unfortunately, Ebbe got lazy and impatient, and decided to go on with the experiment without the star. At first it seemed a success, but it was not long until side effects started to show. A violet eye at first, but soon his skin turned the same black as the Ender.

As more and more years passed, the infection grew wider and more expansive. Ebbe left the clan, becoming a nomadic merchant across the kindgoms, but eventually succumbed to his infection, gouging out his one remaining orange eye so a small part of him could remain uncorrupted.

It was now that Ebbe stopped being himself. Corrupted by the Ender in both mind and body, Ebbe became a prisoner in his own brain, a servant and slave to the Ender. As thousands of years passed, this Ender became sentient, a creature known as The Harbinger in time, and travelled from Ebbe's original world, to Iteria. This was done by corrupting an End Portal with alien magic, redirecting the portal from the End to a realm known as the True Void. However, Ebbe's struggling against his mental captor through them off course, lost in the teleportation realm. Through sheer chance, the creature was hurled into another rift, dropping them into Iteria.

The Harbinger created an organization known as the Gatesmen, became allies with the then-leader of Hiraeth Serenity, but eventually fell to a trap to purge the Ender from Ebbe set up by the Eternans Julius, Niko, and Abelio. While Ebbe was intially grateful for finally freeing him, it was quickly morphed into distaste as Niko attempted to hold him prisoner.

Ebbe managed to break free from the cell, fleeing through the Nether and running to Avigsburg. It was here that he became allies with Wilhelm, the grandmaster of the Sakari Order. It was here he hatched a plan for a new group: The Tunnelworker's Union.

Later, at the Desert Villa, Ebbe recruited a half-Ender by the name of Ellery. The duo tried to create an alliance with a small up-and-coming faction, but were sold out to Niko and ambushed. However, a Human named Barry who worked with the Sakari Order who ran a tavern known as the Broken Barrel were willing to join.

After the trio had excavated a home for the Tunnelworker's Union, they recruited their final member: a fae named Gwynden. Ebbe and Gwyn became quick friends, their pasts quite different but sharing similar enough elements to find common ground. Gwyn became Ebbe's best friend in Iteria, being the only person he felt comfortable confiding in fully about his past.

Which is why when they seemingly disapeered, and Ellery left, Ebbe disbanded the Union, moving to a remote location that only a small trusted few knew of. Ebbe constructed a small home there, but once Ender Chests stopped functioning, he left his home in order to seek answers. That was the last anyone had heard of him, and he left his most precious belongings behind for his friends.

## Appearance

In his prime, Ebbe was 5'4 in height, and had long floppy ears that started near his scalp on each side, just above where normal humans ears would be. Unlike normal piglins, Ebbe's skull wasn't as wide, and his eye sockets weren't as round. This is due to only being half piglin, and being what Ebbe had dubbed a "Pig-Man." His skin is a light brown, similar to the colour of dried dirt. Physically, Ebbe is 97 years old, which is considered early middle aged or late young adult for piglins. Ebbe also has two tusks coming from the sides of his mouth at an angle. Each are 6 ¼ centimetres long.

## Character traits

-Paranoid

-Tired

-Curious

-Alcoholic

-Reclusive