Levi

## High Grand King Levi Niskain of Workhold

Levi was the founder of Workhold and the rightful ruler of his realm. He is also regarded as one of the Heroes and Saviors against Jimer. Levi is hailed as a hero to this day in the land of Edelmaa, even though the Old Royal Dynasty has been exiled from the lands. The statue of Levi still stands tall near the Tridentroad of Graille and Midlands. Levinburg also still keeps his name. A ship of the Bismarck-class was named after him around 300.

## Birth

Levi was born in the Kingdom of Edelmaa into and wealthy family of nobles. His father was the steward of the Edelmish king. His mother was famously beautiful woman in the Edelmish Kingdom.

Levi was very bright, he spent a lot of his early life in libraries. Though he was not strong. He was taught to fight with swords, but he was mediocre at best.

## Personal life

Levi married a beautiful lady from the rich city of Charlington, Lady Barbara. Levi had four children with her Henrinion, Lyon, Nils and Arien. All of them were sent to foster parents to hide from Jimrock when Jimrock invaded.

## Workhold

Levi, though rich, did not grow too spoiled. He did have servants, but he made friends among them. Most notably his two stewards Samuel and Miro. With the aid of his friends and a man by the name of Osten Scale from the Scale family, Levi began to grow mighty ambitions.

When the King of Edelmaa was exposed of being of peasant descent and only chosen to be king randomly by the last king, the realm exploded. The Nobles formed the Noble Alliance and wanted to dethrone the false king. The King on the other hand was already 33-years old and had ruled for over 15 years so he had a following. A huge war emerged. Levi exploited this division and remained neutral for a while until stepping in with the aid of Olian merceneries and the Scale family. This began the Unification Wars.

The Unifications Wars were highly successful and Levi managed to consolidate much of Edelmaa under his new Kingdom of Workhold. The Kingdom flourished under him and became one of the richest ones in the world. The Kingdom also laid in the middle of the Budugen ocean which connected the two huge continents of Olia and the Westlands. Levi then exploited his position and managed to monopolize the Western trade and force Olia to pay huge tolls to Edelmaa and the Westlands which enriched Workhold even further. New land reforms and developments in farming made food production rocket.

All of this ended around 70AK when Jimrock invaded the continent. Levi was forced to go into hiding and remained so for a decade. In 90AK Samuel Berghof started a small revolt in the city of Antikea. Levi got wind of this and joined Samuel. Levi managed to rally all peoples of Edelmaa under him and this time the Waldisians, people that were skeptical of the Worvians at first were in as well. The excitment for Levi was short lived for he died in the very first battle of the Worvian Revolutionary War.

## Battle of Small manor field

Levi was not a military strategist, he couldn't fight either. In the Unification Wars Levi was heavily helped by Samuel Berghof's ancestor Veyr Berghof and Osten Scale. Now Levi was helped by Samuel Berghof. Samuel was a tactical mastermind and the Battle went completely in his favor.

Levi however, thought it would be moralizing to charge the enemy personally and so he did. But during his struggle he remembered how poor of a fighter he was. He was soon dismounted easily and swarmed by Jimrock soldiers. These soldiers tried cutting him, but Levi's armor was too tough. Levi however was just waggling in the ground he was panicking. Soon a soldier open Levi's visor and stabbed him through the head. Luckily the battle was already won numerically and the Worvian forces routed the Jimrock army.

## Legacy

Levi was buried under the Royal Keep which turned into an tradition. Levi's eldest son Henrinion who would be known as "the Cruel" and "the Great" was crowned the king of Workhold. A statue (facing eastward towards the nobles) of Levi was built in the trident road. Also an castle was built near the statue named King Levi's Stronghold.