Lutein Biloba

* Basic Info
* Occupations

## Biography

### Early life (366 ASB - 387 ASB)

Lutein Biloba was born on M3-28 366 ASB in the citadel city of Zeolitania to a pair of Gold government employees.

Early into his life Lutein decided that he wanted leave Zeolitania and see the world. On M1-09 387 ASB Biloba who had joined the Gold Security Force (GSF) was given a posting in the port city of Zoloto.

### Zoloto (387 ASB - 408 ASB)

One of the first things that Biloba nocticed in Zoloto was that most of the city's security personel were not members of the GSF as they were Yellows and were not fit for duty within the GSF. Lutien Biloba later learned that the Yellows were a part of the Yellow Volunteer Army (YVA).

On M7-27 390 ASB an explosion occurred on the docks which destroyed several dock based buildings including one of the GSF's recruitment offices. The GSF in the city were summoned to their secondary headquarters for orders. Part way through the meeting a member of the YVA named Gaetano Mills and announced to the room that he was behind the explosion. On M7-28 28 390 ASB several member of the GSG including Biloba travelled with Mills to his home village of Lemon. Biloba and two other Golds bound Mills to a post in the centre of the town. Once mills was bound the GSF surrounded the village and began setting the buildings on fire whilst killing any who attempted to flee, the whole process took about three hours and when it was done all that was left of Lemon was Mills, bound to the post. Biloba and the rest of the GSG remained in the ruins of the village for two weeks keeping Mills hydrated until he starved to death. Biloba was greatly disturbed by what he had done and witnessed at Lemon.

On during 399 ASB Biloba was investigating the murder of a member of the GSF. On M1-13 399 ASB Biloba brought several members of the YVA into his office for questioning, part way through the interrogation one of the Yellows snapped and told Biloba that he had been ordered to kill the GSF member the leader of the YVA in Zoloto Garis Serinus. Biloba told the Yellows that they were free to go, protocol would have called for them to be arrested as one of them had confessed but by that point Biloba cared little for the GSF and their protocol. On M1-24 399 ASB Serinus visited Biloba whilst he was in his office and asked him why he had let someone who confessed to killing a member of the GSF go. Biloba told him that he no longer cared for the policy of the GSF and the Gold State as a whole. Serimus left Biloba's office after telling him that he would keep in touch.

On M6-25 405 ASB Biloba met with Serinus who informed him that over the past two years a book called the "The Way of Dao Go" had become quite popular throughout the YVA, he went on to tell Biloba that the book was not simply a work of fiction but rather a guide on how to create an ideal country, he asked Biloba to read through the book. Biloba finished reading through the book on M6-28 405 ASB and went back to Serinus to ask him about the book. Serinus told Biloba that he needed to find the man who wrote the book and attempt to recruit him to their cause. On M7-11 405 ASB Biloba boarded the ship of Theodore Thompson who had allegedly written "The Way of Dao Go". He asked Thompson if he noticed that the majority of soldier's and security personal in the city were not Golds but rather Yellows, after Thompson confirmed Biloba explained to him why that is, he told him of the Gold State's citadel cities where their Gold soldiers came from and their hegemony over the Yellow people where they had to provide soldiers or have their villages destroyed and their people killed. Biloba told Thompson that he wished to end the Gold hegemony over Yellow and too institute the philosophy of Dao Go but he needed a way to guarantee the safety of the villagers before the soldiers could rise up against the Gold State, Thompson asked if there were any caves systems by the villages in question, when Biloba said that there were Thompson told him that just before the soldiers rise up have the villagers enter into the caves to relocate.

On M10-12 407 ASB the YVA forces in Zoloto captured the Gold State facilities in the city and cut ties with the central government, declared the State of Zoloto, Biloba was declared Chairman of the new states as a Gold ruler would seem more sympathetic to the ruling class of the Gold State. After capturing Zoloto the YVA forces in the city (now called the Zoloto Armed Forces or the ZAF) made their way south towards the citadel city of Zeolitania which they captured on M11-03 407 ASB. The day after the capture of Zeolitania Biloba offered Thompson a position in the State of Zoloto's government, he declined claiming that he needed to spread the beliefs of Dao Go to the other cities in the Gold State and then to the rest of the Precious Metals Continent, Thompson and his ship left Zoloto on M12-23 407 ASB.

In the early morning of M1-07 408 ASB Biloba was informed over radio that Zeolitania was under siege, Biloba could do little more than wait as the ZAF was already stretched thin. Later that day the GSF attacked Zoloto, the small number of ZAF forces in the city were no match for the GSF and were put down shortly after the initial attack. Biloba was captured by the GSF and dragged off to one of their boats that had docked in the city, as he was being dragged away he saw the gold population of the city being evacuated. After a short while the GSF began shelling Zoloto, Biloba could only watch. The shelling lasted for over six hours, when it was done there was not much of a city left, Biloba was taken off the boat and brought to the centre of the city where he was tied to a post and abandoned. After a day on the post Biloba was rescued by Theodore Thompson who took him aboard his boat, he was told later that the State of Zoloto was no more, Biloba decided to join the crew of Thompson's ship the Swaggerino.

### Swaggerino (408 ASB - 411 ASB)

After his rescue the Swaggerino drifted for five days, and on the fifth day Thompson called a meeting with the six people aboard the ship as to their next coarse of action, Biloba told the group that it was no longer safe to remain in the Gold State, or anywhere else on the Precious Metals Continent, he then mentioned that their was another nation that existed outside the Precious Metals Continent that the Gold State had occasionally sent trade convoys to, they departed for the Lava Empire the next day.

The Swaggerino entered into the waters of the Lava Empire on M6-15 408 ASB and was escorted to the Lava Empire's capital Chamberton the day after. Once in Chamberton they were given seven days to sell their goods and buy the goods of the Lava Empire before they would be forced to leave, they were also told that they could apply for Lava citizenship which would allow them to stay indefinitely at the price of eighty percent of each person's belongings, they were advised against trying to cheat the system. On his third day in the Lava Empire Biloba along with the rest of the crew saw the Ichthor Grand, the personal ship of the Lava Emperor depart from the city. Thompson held a meeting with his crew on their fourth day at Chamberton to decide where they would leave to in three days time, Thompson had two ideas the first was to land on the eastern coast of the Soil Texture Continent, the second idea was to travel to one of the islands of legend recorded on the map that he had purchased, before a decision was made Alta Mullacor revealed to the group of his intention to become a citizen of the Lava Empire and remain in Chamberton, the remaining group decided that the best course of action was to go to one of the islands of legend.

The Swaggerino left Chamberton on the night of M6-22 408 ASB which was a stormy night, the Swaggerino left the Lava Empire's sea quite easily but was then whisked off eastward by strong winds, as they went further east the rain turned to hail which began to shred the sails, Thompson ordered the sails to be taken down but by the time that they were they had been shredded to the point of uselessness. On M9-23 408 ASB whilst still traveling through the storm land was sighted by Edmund Philips, Thompson angled the ship towards the land. As the Swaggerino was approaching the unknown land a chuck of what Biloba assumed to be hail about the size of a man's head tor it's way though the floor of the ship, as Thompson ordered the floor be patched a second smaller piece of hail landed between him and Biloba, Biloba saw that it was a rock and looked up and saw that the land that they were heading towards was not land but rather a floating landmass in the sky and it's reflection on the water which unknown to him was the flying country of Regolithia, Thompson tried to have the Swaggerino turn itself around but the wind was too strong and the ship went under the floating landmass. Underneath the landmass Biloba could see it's underside which was largely grey with patches of glowing purple crystals which provided a dim light underneath the landmass, he also saw many more rocks falling from the stone ceiling some as large as the Swaggerino itself, Thompson ordered all of his crew below deck until they passed out the other side of the landmass, they spent their time below making sure that the ship remained floating and tending to any injuries that they sustained from rocks falling through the vessel's floor. On M11-18 408 ASB the noise of rocks stopped, Thompson was the first one to surface and soon ordered the others up to remove all of the rocks from the deck. On M1-02 409 ASB a proper grounded landmass was discovered and Thompson ordered the ship to dock on it's coast

As the Swaggerino approached the landmass it struck and became wedged on a coral formation off the coast of the landmass, the supplies which were already dwindling after the incident with the floating landmass were deemed insufficient to repair the ship. Early in the morning of M1-03 409 ASB Biloba, Marcums, Philips and Thompson boarded the Swaggerino's motorized life vessel to travel to the landmass and gather enough lumber to repair the ship, Boarchuck stayed behind to keep the ship from floating away if it were to become dislodged. The group initially harvested three trees by the shore had their timber tied to the life vessel, Philips was instructed to remain at the lifeboat and to begin turning the timber into lumber whilst the others moved inland in search of more trees. A grove of trees was discovered about three hundred metres away from where the boat was docked, before cutting could begin a strange creature approached the group, the beast looked like a person but walked on all fours and possessed huge muscular legs and a tail to match. Marcums attempted to shoo the creature away, the creature responded by bounding towards her at supernatural speeds and knocking her to the ground with it's legs before climbing on top of her and scratching viciously at her face and neck with the claws on it's hands, Biloba did not know what this animal was, as he was thinking about the creature a second beast came and knocked Thompson to the ground, Biloba shot the creature before it had a chance to begin ripping into him, Biloba told Thompson to run and began running back towards the lifeboat. As Thompson and Biloba were approaching the site of of the lifeboat they noticed that Philips had begun moving towards them, they assumed that he had heard the gunshot, they then noticed approaching Philips was a different creature, this one had skinny legs and no visible arms, it's body was covered in thick oily fur aside from that it was completely hairless, it possessed a tiny head perched atop a long neck. The demon began running at Philips who noticed and managed to get a shot off before it was upon him, the bullet was seemingly absorbed by it's body, Thompson and Biloba entered into firing range of the beast right as it had begun kicking Philips they began shooting and yelling at the demon in an attempt to scare it off it eventually did run off. Thompson and Biloba dragged the wounded Philips to their lifeboat and returned to the Swaggerino with their three logs in tow which would be the only wood that they would gather from the landmass. Philips died four days later due to internal bleeding, the Swaggerino departed the day after.

The Swaggerino traveled for five months in a state of semi-operation as due to the lack of wood available to repair it water was needing to be constantly bucketed out of the vessel and it could not move at any reasonably quick speeds or it would risk filling with water too quickly, the ship's preserved food traveled along side the ship in barrels and crates bound to the ship only by ropes. On M6-26 409 ASB land was sighted to the south of the Swaggerino, Thompson ordered the ship to dock at the shores of the landmass. The area Thompson chose to dock at was a small green field backed by a cliff, during the initial scouting of the area Thompson went alone with the Swaggerino's cannons pointed at him at all times, after he searched the area Thompson signaled for Biloba and Boarchuck to come ashore and begin removing trees for the Swaggerino. By 411 ASB the area where Thompson had chosen to dock at had grown into a small village albeit with only three people in it, the town was named Port Swaggerino after the vessel that had brought them there which remained permanently placed at the dock with the dock being built into the ship which was now serving as Theodore Thompson's office who was declared Mayor of Port Swaggerino. On M7-14 411 ASB Thompson and Biloba ascended the cliff using a rope based rising mechanism as they had done many times before, they journeyed to a grove where Boarchuck said he had seen some hardwood trees three days prior whilst scouting, the pair located the trees where Boarchuck said they would be, Biloba began cutting the largest tree present a warrior of some sorts darted out of a bush and stabbed him in the stomach with a spear, Biloba died not know that the man who killed him was Peaty Kask.