Leneki

## Common Knowledge

Members of the business sector in Eastern Orelisle may have heard of, or even worked with, an earth wyvern named Leneki. He is a common employer of adventuring parties from Binturia, Zondros, Dilghao and the Three Queendoms areas; his myth as well as his influence and trading company grows daily.

## Further Description

Leneki (Leh-Neh-Kee) is an old presence on Temporis. The Earthen Wyvern is constantly mistaken for an elder Earth Dragon due to his appearance but he is in fact weaker than one. The power disparity between the two has been bridged considerably by his immense age, experience and wisdom that has come into play all these years later.

Originally known as ‘Len-ki’ in old Common texts, the Mud Wyvern has developed quite a reputation in recent years among mortals and resolidified his deadly and malevolent streak among Draconic minds. A ‘First-Age’ Wyvern, his connection to magic and other abilities has been strengthened. Although not as capable as a true material Dragon, the age and the wisdom that comes with it has made Leneki a formidable foe for any would-be Dragon slayer.

Now he is an entrepreneur of fool’s gold, a safer alternative to gold due to the tendencies of adventurers to slay his kin for gold and glory. In their attempts at killing Leneki, they achieve neither. The Wyvern, although a formidable combatant and capable caster, chooses flight out of both cowardice and laziness.

Leneki has obtained wealth and prestige extraordinary for his kind who are usually known as conniving and beastial brethren. Having started his recent businesses with start-up capital with a Pyramid scheme, he has since paid back his accruing interest with an unusually fast speed. A heartless and calculating capitalist by nature, he builds his hoards by mundane matters in trade and travel conveniences.

## History

The early history of Leneki is known only to the Wyvern himself and select scholars, encultured in the lore of the Apotheosis and Binturia. Known sources of his life includes the three volume series of Carlson Voorhees in his *The Hopefully Soon To Be Ancient Tome Of Morsland’s History* and the wyvern himself however but of these sources are horribly biased. What is known is that, Leneki, known as ‘Len-ki’ (Len-Kai) in the years of 5,000, formed a coalition of beastmen to fight against a city-state empire of undead known as Morsland. The war was fierce and held nothing back as non-combatants, holy sites and property spanning the entirety continent was within the wyvern’s sights. It is said that he became a ‘no land, state power’ by subterfuge, dishonesty and luck.

His networking systems allowed him to draw manpower from the Apotheosis, Zondros, the Three Kingdoms area and especially the Beast-folk isles while having an economic foothold in those regions as well as having a continental wide trade system that he mostly profited from to wage war using non-state actors on whoever he wished. After an incident involving undead and necromancy in the Three Kingdoms area, he declared war on Morsland in the Binturia for unknown reasons. He was at war with other state actors in the region such as the Apotheosis’ Plains Elves and rival warlords in the Beast-Folk isles, and Aiur as well as possibly other unknown nations like Yinfruel. Draconic Kind had a resurgence during this era, and was content with their holdings, ignorant of any upstarts like heroes or rival dragons. During the year 5017 A.B, he unleashed his horde of beastmen and allies onto the world that threatened to conquer or subjugate and raid every nation in the world. It was said that the entirety of the Beast-Folk people’s allied to Leneki’s banner. The known beast-folk are as follows: Cow-Folk and Minotaurs, Monkey-Folk, Abbot-Folk, Acorn-Woodpecker-Folk, Crocodile-Folk, Caterpillar-Folk, The Court Of Summer In the Butterfly Isles, Praying-Mantis-Folk, Fish-Folk of the Siren Sea, Dog-Folk, and Cat-Folk.

In particular, Leneki made a Draconic Deal with a general only known as ‘The Mutt’ who is also Aube’s Ancestor. The Wolf-Folk King wanted Leneki to protect his progeny from the curses of Lycanthropy which the Mud Wyvern has done in return for the Wolf-King’s service. He utilized his connections to prevent werewolf attacks on Aube’s immediate bloodline or cured them of Lycanthropy if the need arose.

In a climactic battle that took place in the gardens of Binturia and on the doorsteps to the Great City State Tomb-Kingdom of Morsland, the forces of Morsland prevailed. The battle took three days to finish and after, both armies were spent, leaving nothing but destruction and magical excess in its wake. Leneki, in a desperate move, took to hiding underneath the Transfiguring Forest and bide his time to both reflect and plan his actions for when he emerges again. He grew slothful in that time and extended his 1,000 year self-exilement to 5,000. By then, outside forces woke him up from his slumber. He was not asleep for all that time however. He manages the remnants of his holdings with his minions and keeps tabs on the outside dealings of the world but is still ignorant from most of his time in self-exilement and indolence.

## Early Life

Leneki was born from bestial wyverns in the Aegis mountain range in the year 4,942 A.B. Sensing his difference from his more animalistic and instinctual kin, he chose a life of solitude on the plains of Zondros for most of his early life. His mother also left him for being the runt of her hatch and he chose not to chase a love that would never come. There he was forced to evade adventuring parties who saw his life as automatically forfeit. He chose a life of self-exilement and self-betterment. He stylized his life after the Dragons but learned from their mistakes. His ‘pawns’, the lesser mortal races, would be taken care of and despite the extra work, it would guarantee a lower chance of rebellion and sedition. He moved his holdings to the cursed orc ruins of Zondros where plague racked and killed their population off the face of Temporis. In the wild wastelands of the plains of the orcs, he was forced to become good, fast and proficient in many things or die.

When he developed his abilities to truly be considered a proper draconic being, he departed to the Celestial Plane for acknowledgement of his peers but found only ridicule due to his Wyvern lineage. Enraged, he entered the Plane and stole what he liked such as lower powered artifacts, the uncared for wealth of the Silver Dragons hoards and scoured the Akashic Accords Libraries of knowledge.

When he emerged 40 years later after his self-exilement, he had the skills to try for power on the world stage. He united most of the Feras Isles into the **United Feras Federation** or U.F.F within the decade of 4,990.

The archipelago at the time was known as savage and belligerent and conflict among beast-folk was not uncommon. Through cunning, political maneuvering and schemes that played the very long game, Leneki united the tribes, cities and metropolises of the Feras and brought them on a war footing on Greater Orelisle. In spiked longships filled with the bodies of their enemies, the U.F.F made landfall on what is known as Ore-Land and Cliffhaven today. Any civilizations that were once there were swept aside by claws and fangs as the pacts of Dragon-kind was invoked to protect against this foe. The surrounding countries mobilized for the threat, temporarily ending their rivalries to stave off their extinction. The magic shamans of the beast-folk converted the land itself to one of savage wildlands using terraforming sorceries known by the loremasters of the Accords. Their advance was swift and brutal and the term ‘war crimes’ was invented or at least popularized during this period.

Seeking a world where he could manage the economic success of himself and his allies, Leneki chose force to bring about his materialist world order. To fully succeed, he needed uncontested access to the trading heartland of the continent, Binturia. Securing the aid of the Binturian Party during this time period, he declared war on Morsland, which was dominant undead power in the region of Binturia that jealously guarded a vital secure trade influence. After a stunning battle that lasted three days and nights, his forces were defeated and the success of the previous years quickly gave way to the reprises of rivals and the coalitions that formed against him. After losing, he chose self-exilement and maintained quiet guardianship over the draconic pacts that were made with him. The defeat left him bitter, depressed and lazy. The ramshackled remnants of the army dispersed and some tried to go back home, only to meet the angry arrows of Elves or Humans. Some chose to make their new homes in the forests and wilds at the edges of civilizations as they hoped that a new beast-folk army would relieve them and use their towns as the stepping points for greatness. Others did make it back home but were casted from their families for losing their chance at a golden age or for their actions in the war. And so, as the Mud Wyvern slept in a cave in the forest of the elves by Jericho, the first chapter of his turbulent life came to a close.

## Time with the Binturian Party

A common employer with the Binturian Party, Leneki has sent the party to assist his resurgent rise to power on the political stage. The following is a brief and most recent exploits with the Binturian Party.

He is awoken by a party of Binturians led by Aquano Silfedis who heard a rumor of a dragon that held a vast reservoir of gold in its hoard. The encounter was somewhat hostile but it did force the Wyvern to realize that he could not sleep the millennia away any longer. A.B 10,017

Leneki sends the Binturian party to protect a pyrite mining town in the Apotheosis by the name of Trobesa that he nominally controls. In return he rewards them with pyrite and stock into his company that he funds utilizing a pyramid scheme. The town is saved and Tesmus resumes their management of the town after the party prevents both the zombies and Land-Man Piranha-Dans from obliterating them. A.B 10,017

Leneki sends the Binturian party to Zondros to influence their election cycles so that he may influence their political party into negotiating favorable trade deals with him. Additionally, he sends some members to rescue a spy agent in Koda that was recording the dealings of general Rainmaker’s forces in A.B 10,017.

Leneki retrieves the party after they are sent to Morsland to recover an artifact of power for Delcho. He convinces the party that Delcho is a tyrant for power and hires them to foil his plans to bring the Dragons into the Material Plane in full force in A.B 10,018.

Leneki tells the party to retrieve an artifact of power in a draconic burial tomb in the Overbright and to do this, he tells the party to secure the airship of the Dove-folk King, Martin in A.B 10,018.

Leneki makes select Binturian party members his draconic servants so that they may retrieve another Draconic artifact in the Akashic Accords Libraries in a demi-plane. This happened in A.B 10,018.

Leneki forms a rescue mission with Binturians to rescue some other Binturians that was teleported to Lesion by Delcho. Using contacts with the Knights of Alloi, the Binturians attempt to retrieve a long lost artifact from the city’s vaults and escape in A.B 10,018.

Leneki offers a silver ring to the party to retrieve a heavily fought over artifact and crown jewel of K’veston in A.B 10,018.

After retrieving most of the artifacts, Leneki hires the party to aid his attack on Delcho’s base in Cliffhaven. After a pitched two day battle, and a haphazard negotiation with the Oreacles, Leneki’s forces find victory in the battle through tenacity, trickery and the aid of the Binturian party’s prowess. The sorcery plane ritual was neutralized and Delcho Sinfella slain in A.B 10,018.

Leneki sends the party to Mulldoom, Zondros where they recover Planepacked, a heavily fought over piece of Dwarven artwork by both Draconic and mortal forces. He begins a mining expedition here and readies to colonize the mountainhome for his own ends in A.B 10,019.

Leneki resends the Binturians to Mulldoom, Zondros to confirm the rumors of both a ‘Cure-All’ item in the depths of the mountain home's facilities and to scout out the source of a possible lead of an Adamantine mine. Although the cure was problematic, he rewards the party with Adamantine worksmiths and gains control of the only known Adamantine vein in Orelisle in A.B 10,019.

## Current Life

The dripping mud wyvern currently runs an inter-continental company across Orelisle, run by micro-managed officers and managers whom he keeps heavy tabs on. He also hires as many adventurers as the offices of Zondros as they are a source of replenishable labor for him. He currently holds the economic power of Zondros carefully balanced within his hands and monopolizes many trading companies by buying out significant competitors and outlasting them during economic downswings with stocks. He tries to profit off of (and prevent) disasters for Orelisle and knows that the best way to stay alive is to ally with the forces that rule the world; from a cunning standpoint, he is correct with his choice of allies.

Leneki converts any excess monies into pyrite and hoards them in his caves by Zondros and the Apotheosis. From there he takes the wealth and funnels them into an offshore demi-plane that has been abandoned in the years after the Pionus’ fall. The end-goal of Leneki is as mysterious as it is simple. He wishes to create a world where economic power does not revolve around condensed agricultural works and heavy infrastructure projects but rather one in which wealth is generated through labor and works of art. This idea is called ‘Egoistic Altruism’ and it is an idea he (lazily) strives for. He attempted it by force once, but now he doesn’t really care.

## Further Information

* The Binturian Party
* Cjopaze
* Morsland
* Zondros