Leevan

### Introduction

The main villain could be a Validian who is manipulating the political climate of the Cursed to desire a return to the glory days when Validian rule brought peace and prosperity. He also has agents in all the kingdoms who are loyal to the Citiri cause. Their primary objective is to stoke a Trohan and Trudonite war or even a Trudonite civil war between the ever divided electric and magnetic.

His name is Leevan. His true goals go far beyond restoring Validia. He wants to unify all the nations under him. When he was young he was an idealist who strongly believed in a removal of conflict. But he and his fellow students were persecuted and killed. This pushed him into extremism and now will stop at nothing to collapse the existing governments and unite the world under his rule (he thinks he is the only one who can rule justly). This is why he causes conflict and civil war. He wins people over with his words and in many ways he is completely right, he just goes about it wrong. He surrendered his ideals and ends up becoming just like everyone else.

The problem is that even after years of leading the Citiri cause, his ideas are more popular among the educated idealistic youth. Leevan has an incredibly pessimistic view of human nature. He comes to the conclusion that the only way he can unite the world is to create a common enemy. The Outcasts. Though they are few, he stokes people's fear that they will destroy the way of life. Outcast bear outcast offspring which could eventually de-magic the population. People have always berated the outcast as they have no loyalty to any tribe. Leevan is able to use this scapegoat to unite the general population to the Citiri. The elite and educated oppose this movement, but Leevan is able to overwhelm through show of force and defeat the old guard. This works remarkably well, but eventually it gets out of control and a mob mentality takes over. At first Leevan just proclaims a message of segregation and that this can only be accomplished by a untied force. Soon Outcasts are put into camps and anyone suspected of supporting Outcasts.

The final fight, Idir fights and wins. Leevan joins them in the end, but he feels committed to his ideals for awhile because he’s convinced himself that his way is the only way.

### Personality

Leevan was a young child at the time of the destruction of the Validan empire. He witness the horrors of war on both sides, not just Validian. He grew up with pacifist ideals and saw that there people were more similar than they are different. As a teenage, through written messages he became the organizer of a youth movement to unify the nations and end the many conflicts that he named the Citiri. They would protests in different captial cities. In Trudon however, their peaceful protests were interpeted (somewhat correctly) and the nucleation of a larger more dangerous uprising. The Trudon government under the approval of the king, attacked and killed the unarmed youth. Leevan escaped. He kept trying, but they were constantly persecuted. He slowly become more extreme in his actions. Eventually in his grief and rage he then murdered the king of the Trudons, hoping that it was merely the consequence of a bad ruler. Idir's adopted father broke off from Citiri at this point. But instead he started a civil war as Electro and Magnetic battled for control of Trudon. After additional assassinations, his view of human nature which had always been somewhat pessimistic, broke entirely. No matter who was ruling, nothing ever changed, it only got worse. There was never going to be change for the better with the gentle methods. He believes humans are incapable of any good or peace, and the only solution was to unify them all himself. He became jaded.

He eventually compromised enough that he was willing to use Outcast of scapegoats in the name of the greater good of Coban. They were the smallest percentage of the population after all. He eventually does succeed, but using the evils of human nature to make things better only makes things worse. Coming face to face with Idir forces him to consider how far he had fallen from his original goals. He argues that Idir's parents died for nothing. Nothing ever changed and nothing ever will unless we use more forceful means. But Idir comes to see that his parents death is only useless if he gives up trying for a better tomorrow the right way. Even if the right way never happens in his lifetime, he believes that it will one day if we make the most difference that we can. Leevan eventually surrenders and disbands the Citiri. He lives the remanders of his days in Outcast Valley prison as a freelance writer seeking to amend the wrongs he has committed.

### Skills and Abilities

Leevan is the most skilled Validian fighter alive at the time of Coban: Citiri. He has mastered the defensive disintegration rune, using a permanent rune. Thus he is able to defend almost any attack, close range or projectile. He can use the explosive runes as well. He is proficient in fusion runes, but is not a master.

Leevan is an excellent leader and speaker. His voice is dynamic and silvery, but even just his written words is deeply convincing to most. He speaks of the strengths of the different nations and how Traho is strength in numbers, Trudon is industrial and mighty, the Vallen are a people of change, and the Validans strength is what is meant to bind the nations of Coban together in harmony as nature dictates.

### Equipment

Decentegration sword. At one point Leevan fights the Validian leader of the assassins and that’s how he gets the Validian sword.