Kiireinen

Kiireinen's current outfit

Kiireinen is an isolationist and wanderer on Azrane. He currently does not belong to any nation, organization or association, keeping to himself only. He avoids other individuals and gatherings.

## Physiology

Kiireinen is a humanoid of a race unknown to anyone. He is of feminine beauty and his skin is completely black and well-cared for. Additionally, he has markings of gray color on many places on his body. His pointy ears are black, and their tips gray in color. His eyes are pink and his sclerae are yellow, and markings of the same color can be seen above and below his eyes. Kiireinen's teeth are sharp and pointy, which is quite common for his race. Kiireinen currently wears the clothes he arrived in Azrane in, which were all that remained after escaping from his motherland, his home. The clothes are a snow-colored day dress, over which he wears a black-and-red robe. He also wears black gloves, and a golden necklace around his neck. Kiireinen's hair is white and long, and it is decorated with flowers, as well as a black-and-red ribbon on the back of his hair. Although hidden by his hair, Kiireinen also has moderately short black-and-white striped horns. Atop his head, he wears a golden diadem, given to him as a member of the royal family.

## Personality

Kiireinen is the type of person who stays away from others. They are not fond of the company of others, and have a habit of hiding or running away whenever they spot someone in the distance. This negative attitude towards others was etched into his memory because of certain events before his arrival in Azrane, and it has remained until today. ~~Despite Kiireinen's avoidance of others, they are generally friendly to the surroundings around them, as well as to others, but it takes a while to approach and befriend them, as it is relatively hard.~~ Before coming to Azrane, they were a loyal friend and son, caring about their peers and, in time, even strangers. Kiireinen's loyalty has never changed, and he would rather die than betray those closest to him.

## History

### Pre-Azrane

Kiireinen was born as the second child in a royal family in a strict yet humane matriarchal nation. According to hereditary law, any male offspring of the Queen shall be executed, as he cannot stand in line to the throne, let alone succeed to it. Kiireinen's mother, the Queen of the nation, knowing the contents of the hereditary law, could not bear the idea of allowing her own child to die, and decided to conceal the truth from the public. All the untrusted doctors present at the birth were secretly assassinated by the military police on the Queen's orders, and any person who found out one way or another about the child's true identity met the same fate. The first system of censorship in years was also set in motion, designed to maintain the belief that the Queen's child was of the female sex.

As time passed, Kiireinen was indoctrinated by his own family - mother, father, sisters. He was told he was not a boy, dressed as a girl, taught sewing, embroidery, and good manners, and his sense of gender was destroyed. He was also taught by a hand-picked, trusted teacher, not studying at the royal academy like his sisters, but at home. At the age of 11, he was also planned to marry the son of a wealthy and powerful aristocracy who, in exchange for the right to a share of the royal family's wealth, agreed to keep the secret, and not reveal the truth.

Ever since he was a child, Kiireinen loved reading, literature and languages. It was a break from real life for him, where he had no friends and could not leave the royal court. One day, Kiireinen found a book in his father's bedroom that described what it was like behind the walls. It was an illegal book, as for centuries the population had been told that Reisia was the only place in the world with living people, and the whole outside world was too dangerous for Reisians to settle there.
All of Reisia was surrounded by walls built in ancient times by magic, which made it easy to spread untruths and propaganda of the monarchy, and any doubt was punished by imprisonment or *re-education*, which was in reality torture. The only ones who could see the outside world were the military, who would never know the forbidden truth anyway because of Reisia's location. Revealing the truth would also be impossible anyway, due to the Military Police's strict supervision of the military. The vast majority of Reisians believed in this, remaining passive to the rest of the world, living a simple yet peaceful life. The discovery of his father's book at first caused Kiireinen to panic, as he too had been told this too, but as time went on, Kiireinen returned to his father's room more and more often, just so he could read the book again and again. He was fascinated by it.

## Kiireinen's Journal

### **October 25, 850**

*Today I was in the North, and I saw that a town was evidently preparing for a feast or other meeting. I don't know what they're planning, but apparently they don't care about my presence, if they know I'm nearby, that is.*
*As for me, I don't care very much, I'm still having trouble with food even though I'm doing all the things I learned in the royal garden. I think I'm running short of hands to work with, and I'm afraid I'll soon have to ask for help from others, though the very thought of it makes me sick.*
*For the time being, I will think about what to do next. I am thinking of setting up another base, this time in the far South. Perhaps it will be more peaceful there...*

### **October 27, 850**

*I made it north today, to the land where the snow lies, just like it was in the forbidden books. In Reisia, I could never have seen such sights. On the one hand, I am glad to have found what I hoped to see, but on the other hand...*

*I feel so disappointed...*

### **November 2, 850**

*I've been working on building this place for a few days now.... Algos. I named it after the demon of pain and suffering. It is said that it brings tears and weeping, which often happens to me...*

### **November 4, 850**

*I'm tired.*

*I'm tired of working all the time. I'm tired of being alone. I am tired of the pain I feel on a daily basis. The world is not what it was meant to be. It's not what I expected, it's not what the books said it would be like. There are no white, freezing lands, no valleys full of dust and sand. Nor is there flowing water, or huge body of water called the ocean. Some of them are here, but not for real. They are here physically, but not mentally. I am tired.*

*There is no freedom here.*

## Trivia

* As a child of Reisian royalty, Kiireinen suffers from a very rare disease called Csaria
* Kiireinen originates from a continent in the far North-East
* Due to PTSD, Kiireinen has an unusual aversion to all nations
* The nation Kiireinen comes from uses a different notation of time, confusing him about local times
* Kiireinen is multilingual, speaking e.g. English and Ancient Endish