Hurey

*"Like his forefathers and ancestors the King of Valline known as Hurey was subjected to controversy in his reign having supposedly allying himself to the Dragonlord Asir who sought to vanquish the three kings however in his own plan would deceive the dragon and stood with his cousins against the creature."* - Book of Kings, a book dating the history of kings from all of the three kingdoms

Hurey was a human male and a part of the elite subspecies known as the Galad being blessed with long life alongside being the last known king of the southern kingdom of Valline, unknown to Hurey his father Elror was a magical being who had kept many secrets from him as his father knew that Hurey was not magical himself. During his life he would see and be a part of many battles including being alive during the war between the three kingdoms but unlike his cousins Hurey spent a lot of time with his father who sought to instil in his son that sometimes in order to achieve peace a king must do some evil before he could do some good, this lesson would have more meaning to Hurey in his later life as he would come to realise this when he made a deal with the Dragonlord Asir to help him conquer the realm. To his cousins this would be seen as a betrayal of all mankind and not to just them as he was being branded by all three kingdoms even his own as a traitor and scum, when the time came for his army to be called upon by the great dragon Hurey would speak to his people to convince them of his plan of deceiving Asir and led them to counter attack the dragon helping his cousins including Throda who was able to deliver the killing blow to the dragon and finish the war. In his later years Hurey would work in harmony with the other kingdoms agreeing to the truce between the three kings which included him helping Illias and Throda search for the dark lord Tozor however when Throda was killed by the dark lord both Hurey and Illias would eventually rally under Throda's son Gileon who rallied the kingdoms against Tozor and by the year of 251 of the First Era all three kings would be killed in what would be the final battle against the dark lord.

## Biography

### First Era

#### Son of The First

As a young child Hurey did not know anything about his father or rather he thought he did but in actuality his father held most of his secrets close to him including his magical abilities keeping it away from his son, like many of his cousins and kings before him Hurey was brought up during wartime between the three kingdoms which was a common occurrence over the years that pitted cousin against cousin. In his youth it was seemingly normal that he did not see his father Elror a lot due to the war being at the forefront of his mind alongside his own study which belonged to Cairdor where he researched and practised his magic hoping to expand his power, this would however not bother the young Hurey as to him this seemed normal and he had not known any other way so whilst his father continued doing his studying and practice he too would do the same but instead to become a warrior and one day to be a king. It would be also during his youth that he saw within the kingdom's community other magicians and sorcerers all who safely practised and harnessed their own skills without being persecuted or worried of the opinions from the other kingdoms, as a few years passed Hurey was able to witness the training and forging of the Blades of Valline who became highly skilled warriors that harnessed magic in the form of combat to enhance their skills in a fight, these soldiers would act as the kingdom's elite guard and to showcase the power that Elror now possessed alongside the construction of the Shrine of Elror which was built by magicians in honour of Elror who had honoured their ways and allowed them to flourish.

#### The Final King

By the year 187 of the First Era Elror would pass and Hurey would be crowned as the new king and ruler of Valline however before dying Hurey's father would leave him a key which was to unlock the study from which Hurey had seen him enter many times before, upon entering the study Hurey would first come across a letter that his father had wrote explaining that the study was originally made by his father Cairdor who sought to study magic but uncovered very little furthermore the letter would read of how proud Elror was of Hurey believing he would be ready to lead the kingdom and to never forget the lessons he was taught. Looking over his fathers research he would find out that his father had discovered that it was magic that actually bonded the realm allowing life and nature to flourish as one alongside gifting individuals magic to maintain the balance of the realm, also as he continued going over his father's notes Hurey would find another letter addressed to him revealing to him that should he ever have the need he may be able to communicate with his father at the Shrine of Elror as the magical properties allow them to converse across the spirit world to each other whenever he needs guidance.

#### Dragon and the Dark Lord

Since his father's death Hurey took up the mantle of being king of Valline which also included leading and commanding the war effort against the other kings being his cousins who in his mind sought to claim his lands, as the new century dawned upon the three kingdoms an emissary from the kingdom of Valadrion would visit the kingdom of Valline bringing word to Hurey from his cousin Throda who wanted a truce between the three kingdoms based on his belief of sighting a dragon that was supposedly marching an army from the east believing that the dragon sought to destroy them all. Whilst Hurey was very much aware of magic and its abilities including the unnatural properties a sighting of a dragon was unheard of and to him he saw this as nothing less than a trick that Throda was using so that he would lower his guard, having come to this conclusion he would send the emissary away and instead continued the hostility towards Valadrion whilst having the idea of a dragon in the back of his mind. Only months after this offer of a truce Hurey would once again be visited by a messenger however this was not a messenger from one of his cousins but from the Dragonlord Asir who was seeking to gain an alliance with Valline to help him destroy the other two kingdoms and in return his own kingdom would remain untouched and left as the last human kingdom where he can continue to rule from, Hurey would ponder this decision keeping the messenger within his castle whilst he made his way to the Shrine of Elror to go and speak to his father about his choice. His father would once again remind him of one of his lessons being that sometimes to do a good thing a king must do an evil thing if he is to ensure the survival of his people and his lands and that he could not tell Hurey what the right decision is or even what decision he would pick, knowing his lessons he had been taught Hurey would return the next day to speak to the messenger and would inform him that the kingdom of Valline will rally behind Asir when they are needed. Upon the messenger leaving the rumours of Hurey's new alliance would reach the other kingdoms who saw him as not only a traitor to his own people but being a traitor to all of mankind selling them out to the Dragonlord, the time would eventually come for him to honour his alliance to the dragon and he would march his army to the Battle of Ardum where he saw thousands of men being killed by the forces of darkness and Asir himself slaughtering many of the armies that belonged to the other two kingdoms. In this moment Hurey saw that he had made the wrong decision and would immediately order his army to charge to the defence of his cousins in what would be the first time in history that the three kings fought together, this betrayal would catch Asir off guard and his army would be outnumbered by the three kings allowing for Throda to emerge from the battlefield to slay the Dragonlord.

With the battle being won and the three kings victorious side by side they would all return to their respective kingdoms until the beginning of the following year 204 of the First Era where all three kings would once again meet and signed a truce and alliance between the kingdoms so that they may be ready for any other threat, as this treaty was signed the three lands would begin to flourish with all sorts of trade and wealth including new guilds and even magic to be looked upon in a positive light throughout the lands. For about 21 years this would be the golden decades for the three kingdoms however Throda would be ever watchful for new threats that could topple the peace that had been built, this would come to light as he discovered the existence of Asir's second in command and new dark lord known as Tozor who had returned east to rebuild his own power. In a meeting with Hurey and Illias he would mention that strange sightings had been seen beyond their borders that only confirmed his suspicions of the dark lord's re-emergence which could ignite a second war that they may not be ready for, by the year of 225 of the First Era this war would come with Tozor hoping to finish his master's work and destroy the three kingdoms for good. As the war raged on Throda would eventually manage to pinpoint the location of the dark lord and wanted to end the war by slaying him and dispersing his armies with Illias backing him up and a small contingent of soldiers Hurey would stay back and continue commanding the war as a whole, in the year 233 of the First Era Illias would return with Throda's body who had been killed by Tozor being one the biggest blows in the war that the kingdoms had suffered from. This death would ripple throughout the kingdom sending morale into the ground and both Illias and Hurey would not have any ideas or plans on how to continue but since Throda's death his son Gileon would step up becoming the new king of Valadrion, in his ascension he would give a speech at his coronation to his people and to the other kings that he was not prepared to give up and wanted to end the war by killing the dark lord. By the year 251 of the First Era Gileon had managed to once again boost morale and have his cousins Hurey and Illias rally behind him to finally stop Tozor who by this point was losing the war and he knew it so the dark lord would barricade himself and his army in what seemed to be his last stand, this time all three kings would lead the army straight to this fortress as Hurey felt guilty that he was not there for Throda and so wanted to be in this fight now. As the siege went on eventually they would break through into the fortress and then into the throne room where the dark lord was on his own almost as if he had been waiting for the kings, as they rushed the dark lord he would cast a spell that would cause the entire fortress and its surrounding area to be destroyed which would also cause the death of all three kings and their army.