Yozef Kolsko

**Yozef Kolsko** is the Paramount Hetman of Caedellium. He came to this position as a result of his leadership of the clans of Caedellium in their resistance against the attempts of the Narthon Empire to subjugate their island. He is the first and only individual to hold this post.

## Biography

### Cast Under an Alien Sun

Joe Colsco, a PhD candidate chemistry student from Berkeley, California was on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago when his plane was struck by a malfunctioning spacecraft of an unknown origin. Unable to return him to Earth the *beings* in control of the spacecraft offer Joe a choice. He could decide whether to be cast on an Earth-like planet with humans existing at a roughly circa 1700 CE level of technology, or be quickly and painlessly terminated. Joe chose the planet, only finding out later its name was Anyar.

The beings, called The Watchers by Joe, left him unconscious, naked and weak on the beach. He was discovered shortly thereafter by a young denizen of the nearby town. Enfeebled after a 2 year convalescence on the spacecraft Joe was taken to the Abbey of St. Sidryn that dominated what he came to find out was the coastal town of Abersford in the Clengoth district of the Keelan clan province of the island of Caedellium.

Joe spent his first few weeks on Anyar recovering from his long, enforced convalescence on board the The Watchers craft. His muscles had atrophied from lack of use but he found he gained his strength back remarkably fast. This he attributed to the nano-tech machines The Watchers claimed they had added to his body, as well as their statement that they had somehow modified his mitochondria to increase the efficiency of the structure within the cells themselves.

While having an emotional breakdown on a bench in the Abbey gardens he was comforted by one Carnigan Puvey. Carnigan was a massive man, close to seven feet tall and heavily muscled. To everyone's surprise Carnigan and Joe seemed to become friends despite the initial barrier of language. The additional barrier, that of Carnigans dangerous reputation, was lessened as time passed and people realized that the big man may have been judge too harshly based on his appearance. From Carnigan, Joe learned that he was now to be dubbed 'Yozef' as the local language didn't have a hard 'J' sound and the 'S' sound tended to shift to a 'Z' sound. Thus did Joseph Colsco become Yozef Kolsko.

Yozef spent the next few months continuing to acclimate to his new surroundings. He began an intensive study of the local language, Caedelli, while helping Carnigan around the Abbey with various chores. After an incident at a local pub, Yozef was inspired to finally use some of the advanced scientific knowledge he had to make the chemical Ether. This was both to make the lives of those around him better, and the less altruistic desire to secure an income. Ether would become the first of many innovations Yozef would introduce not only to Caedellium but Anyar as a whole.

The Ether distillation business broadened Yozefs personal world in the Abersford area and by extension the Keelan province. He would proceed to meet a series of people that would form his earliest social and professional friends. Sistian, Diera and Cadwulf Beynom, Filtin Fuller, Denes Vegga and Bronwyn Linton all played major roles in Yozef's first few years on Caedellium.

At the end of Yozef's first year in Abersford the St. Sidryn's Abbey was attacked by a band of Buldorian pirates. The attack was a raid on the town and abbey with the goals of capturing slaves, burning the town and abbey, and to put the clan on a defensive footing. Despite his lack of experience Yozef found himself offering advice to Denes Vega on defending the abbey. More than half the town's fighting men were away and the odds of survival for the townsfolk of Abersford if they defended the abbey walls was extremely low. Yozef suggested not only allowing the invaders into the abbey via the gate, but advocated for using young women as bait to lure the pirates into a trap before. The lesser Buldorian clan that was providing additional manpower to the raid, eager for the spoils they had been denied by their countrymen, fell for the trap and lost more than half their number. This happenstance left the Buldori leader Adel Adalan

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## Appearances

* *Destiny's Crucible: Cast Under An Alien Sun*
* *Destiny's Crucible: Pen And The Sword*
* *Destiny's Crucible: Heavier Than A Mountain*
* *Destiny's Crucible: Forged In Fire*
* *Destiny's Crucible: Tales of Anyar*
* *Destiny's Crucible: Passages*