Evannaron Splintle

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Advisor to the Neo-Estuarian Emperor:

M1-17 52 ASB - M9-26 60 ASB

## Biography

### Early life (23 BSB - 2 BSB)

Evannaron Splintle was born on M1-26 23 BSB to the Estuarian Governor of Iron Lake Barchairi Splintle and his wife and advisor Verincial Bytius. Evannaron Splintle began administrative training as soon as he was capable of speech.

On M10-21 21 BSB, the Empire of Shale arrived in Jarnvattan as a part of the Second Shale Invasion of the Soil Texture Continent, prompting the governors to order their forces to surrender. The governors and their families, including Evannaron were subsequently placed in the Jarnvattan Fortress Prison. Evannaron would continue to be taught by his father whilst imprisoned.

On M12-20 18 BSB the Empire of Shale declared their invasion over and placed a part of the continent under the control of native vassals and another part under the control of king Pied I of the Kingdom of Ryevornia as the region's Shale administrator, Jarnvattan was under the control of Pied I. On M12-27 18 BSB Pied I had the Native Governor of Iron Lake Declan Basil along with his family released and had him made the Duke of Iron Lake. The Splintle family however, remained imprisoned. On M1-08 17 BSB Declan Basil had Evannaron Splintle released to continue his administrative training.

Barchairi Splintle was released on M8-28 12 BSB.

### Work for Iron Lake (2 BSB - 16 ASB)

On M10-27 2 BSB Evannaron Splintle was hired as an advisor by the newly independent Duchy of Iron Lake and their duke Ebony Basil.

On M6-27 12 ASB the Kingdom of Clayistria launched an invasion of both the Duchy of Eastpike and the Duchy of Iron Lake. Evannaron told his duke that he should try and find a defendable point in the Duchy and try and fight the Clayistrians to a standstill. The war eventually developed into the First Clayistria-Clayistan War and saw all of the duchies of Clayistan dragged into it. The war with Clayistria lasted until M1-22 16 ASB with the negotiation of a ceasefire and on M5-28 16 ASB. Following over four months of deliberation all of the duchies of the Clayistan region came together to form the Kingdom of Clayistan with Ebony Basil as the first King of Clayistan, the agreement took into effect the next day with Ebony Basil taking the regnal named Argilla I.

### Work for Clayistan (16 ASB - 31 ASB)

Argilla I died on M6-25 21 ASB of heart failure. On M6-26 21 ASB Argilla I's son Victory Basil became the King of Clayistan under the regnal name Victory I.

Victory I had a weaker will than his father and gave Evannaron and his father plenty of room to grow their influence and would often convince Victory I to hire their political allies as advisors.

On M3-22 31 ASB the Count of Ackanalund Usman Mosley invited Victory I to his palace in the southern most part of the Kingdom of Clayistria he was also informed that several important figures from the Kingdom of Loam would be present including King Loamsly VI, this would have been Victory I's first visit to the Clay Loam regions of the Kingdom of Clayistria and due to the presence of Loamsly VI he decided to bring many important members of his court with him including Barchairi Splintle. Barchairi left Evannaron in charge of his duties when he departed later that day.

On M4-10 31 ASB Brett Basil, Victory I's younger brother announced that the convoy had been attacked with almost all of those in the convoy having been killed including Victory I and Barchairi Splintle. Evannaron did not have time to weep for his father as he knew that he could use this tragedy to further his own position. The day after this news Brett Basil who was now the country's regent came before Victory I's court to ask for their support in Victory I's son Lorenzo Basil's ascension to the throne. Evannaron told Claysius I that he did not believe that Victory I was truly dead. The supporters of Splintle voiced their agreement and Brett left disappointed.

On M4-16 31 ASB Brett Basil as the Regent of Clayistan dismissed a large number of Victory I's court and replaced them with members of his own court from Osilicat. Though none of Evannaron's supporters were removed he decided that it was only a matter of time until they were and began formulating a plan to remove the issue.

In the early morning of M5-25 31 ASB Evannaron and a group of palace guards set off to arrest Brett Basil on charges of treason. Evannaron's plan went as follows, have Brett imprisoned and tried for treason, establish an alliance with the Neo-Estuarian Empire, acknowledge that Clayistria had Victory I killed and start another war against them, finally he would use the war as an excuse to have the Kingdom of Clayistan merge into the Neo-Estuarian Empire. Evannaron and his forces arrived at Brett's door, one of the guards knocked on the door and opened it with a key. Splintle announced that Basil was under arrest for treason and that he was being escorted to the city's dungeons. As they moved towards the dudgeon more and more of Brett's officials from Osilicat joined them, eventually the group of people which by this time contained almost three times more prisoners than escorts was stopped by Brett's sister Maya Basil and a servant named Gwacho Barl. She demanded that her brother be released, Splintle refused and Maya suddenly moved closer and was shot by one of Splintle's men, the moment after that Brett Basil and his court were upon Splintle and his men. It quickly became apparent that Splintle did not have enough men to win the fight and ran off to get reinforcements. He had been gone just under twelve minutes when an explosion went off somewhere in the palace. Splintle ordered men to investigate who discovered that Brett Basil and his supporters had caused the explosion to escape. The men Splintle sent off also found that the palace's radio room had been destroyed which supported Jarnvattan's radio connection to the rest of the continent. Splintle took the destruction of the radio room as a sign that Brett did not intend to simply escape and slip back to the County of Osilicat, but rather intended to remove Splintle from power. Splintle decided to try and spin this in his favour and M5-28 31 ASB he finished writing up a letter that claimed that Brett Basil had killed Maya Basil and cut out the city's communications in an attempt to seize power for himself. Splintle gave the message to a messenger of his and ordered him to leave the town and travel north to Fjorson to deliver it to the Duke of Frothfryke Cage Henderson.

Splintle knew that the garrison in Jarnvattan was probably a match for the limited forces that Osilicat could provide but feared that Brett would sway the army to his cause. Evannaron needed all the forces that he could and couldn't really afford to send the army off on a pointless errand to get them out of the city, instead he decided to remove the palace forces and replace the with mercenaries.

As time progressed armies began arriving and setting up camp just outside of the city. Splintle quickly learned that these armies were loyal to Brett Basil.

On M8-18 31 ASB the forces that were assembled outside of Jarnvattan attacked the city. The Unified Clayistan Army forces under Splintle's control did not defect as he had expected and fought until they could no longer fight. On the third day of the battle Brett Basil's forces breached the palace. Evannaron's forces fought throughout the day with most of his mercenaries refusing to surrender. At the end of the day Splintle's chambers were breached and without hesitation Splintle surrendered. After his capture Brett Basil had him sent to the Jarnvattan Fortress Prison.

### Imprisonment (31 ASB - 33 ASB)

On M9-27 31 ASB Splintle was transferred to the labour city of Boretine where he would serve as a labourer.

On M10-17 31 ASB Evannaron Splintle and several other Estuarian labourer's broke into Boretine's communication room and captured the Clayistan communication staff. From there Evannaron contacted a high ranking official in the the Neo-Estuarian Empire who he knew prior to his imprisonment. He told his contact about how many prominent Estuarians were being forced into servitude in the city and asked for his contact to plead with the Emperor to mount a rescue mission. His contact told him that he would see what he could do. Splintle and his men killed the communications workers and left.

Evannaron awoke during the night of M9-26 33 ASB to the sound of explosions. He looked out the work shed's window to see a fleet of ships bombarding the town. The shed's guards had left by the time that Splintle awoke so Splintle and his fellow labourers began barricading the shed's doors shut with 'furniture' in hopes of keeping the invaders out. As the hours went by Splintle began to think that the barricade had worked, then without warning one of the buildings walls were torn down and armed men flooded in. The armed men held the labourers there for a time until a list was given, they read from the list and selected people from it who were escorted way from the building, Splintle's name was not on the list. As the men were leaving one of the armed men mentioned to another that several of the civilian workers had been killed during the attack and that they needed replacements. Splintle and two other men were selected to take their place and were taken aboard one of the ships. After arriving on the ship Splintle was separated from his group and brought into a room with some other prisoners, all of whom were Estuarian. The new group was then informed by on of their captors that these vessels were from the Neo-Estuarian Empire and that this was a rescue mission. The ships soon departed for the Neo-Estuarian Empire.

### Neo-Estuarian Empire (33 ASB - 60 ASB)

On M11-28 35 ASB Evannaron Splintle was made Governor of Perobidium.

Evannaron Splintle resigned from his position in Perobidium on M1-17 52 ASB to accept a position as an advisor to the Neo-Estuarian Emperor Spearial Eradium. Splintle convinced the Emperor to normalize relations with the Kingdom of Clayistria. He also convinced him to tighten trade restrictions with the Kingdom of Clayistan as a form of retribution for perceived injustices against the Estuarians.

Evannaron Splintle died on M9-26 60 ASB during an attempted coup against Spearial Eradium.