Lodveils Rellio

**Lodveils Rellio** is a member of the Historical group after 136 years of his death, living right now on the Pentagram City.

He is an brownish-clay armless demon who died in 1885.

## Background

### Personality

Louis was a political, rebelling pompous. He caused and led the two resistance movements against the government of Canada, and its first prime minister. Louis sought to defend the rights for Métis and identity as the Northwest Territories came progressively, becoming obsessive in his mental agitations. Also led to rebellions through the 1880s until after that, feeling defeated and hanged for his actions afterwards.

After his death in 136 years later, he became very quiet, unsocial and totally full of neutralize, much doing his own business to do something else for his own afterlife. He also may lose temper if it is too much or whatever it bothers him.

### Physical appearance

Lodveils was a brownish-clay armless demon with red eyes. Wore a brownish tophat with a damaged feather-like antennae looking appearance. A dark brownish neck collar-like scarf that covers the lower view of his face. And a brownish suit with eight buttons, and two pockets.

And also stood around 185 cm (6 ft 1).

## History

### Life and death

When he was alive, he was born on October 22, 1844, from in his grandparents' small one-room home north of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, at the fork of Red and Seine rivers. Louis was the eldest of the eleven children in the locally well-respected family, his father was a Métis who had gained the community by organizing a group that supported Guillaume Slayer, but later got arrested and tried for challenging the HBC's historical trade monopoly. His mother was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Lagimodiere and Marie Anne Gaboury, one of the earliest European-descended families to settle in Red river in 1812.

When he was seven, Louis began school in the bishop's library. At age of ten, Louis was educated in St. Boniface Catholic schools including eventually a school run by the French Christian Brothers. At the age of thirteen, he came to the attention of Bishop Alexandre Tache was eagerly promoting the priesthood for talented young Metis. In 1858, Tache arranged for Louis to attend the Petit Seminaire of the Collége de Montréal. During his time, he was doing fine of languages, science, and philosophy.

Following the news of his father's premature death in 1864, Louis lost interests in the priesthood and withdrew from the collage in March 1865. For a time, he continued his studies as a day student in the convent of the Grey Nuns, but was soon asked to leave, following breaches of discipline. He remained in Montreal for over a year, living at the home of his aunt, Lucie Riel. Impoverished by the death of his father, he took employment as a law clerk in the Montreal office of Rodolphe Laflamme. During this time he was involved in a failed romance with a young woman named Marie or Julie Guernon. This progressed to the point of Louis having signed a contract of marriage but his fiancée's family opposed her involvement with a Métis, and the engagement was soon broken. Compounding this disappointment, Louis found legal work unpleasant and, by early 1866, he had resolved to leave Canada East. Some of his friends said later that he worked odd jobs in Chicago, while staying with poet Louis Honoré Fréchatte, wore pomes himself in the manner of Lamartine, and he was briefly employed as a clerk in Saint Paul, Minnesota before returns to the Red River settlement on July 26, 1868.

The majority of the Red River had historically been Métis and First Nation people. Upon his return, Louis found that religious, nationalistic, and racial tensions were exacerbated by an influx of Anglophone Protestant settlers from Ontario. The political situation was also uncertain, as ongoing negotiations for the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada had not addressed the political terms of transfer. Bishop Taché and the HBC governor William Mactavish both warned the Macdonald government that the lack of consultation and consideration of Métis views would precipitate unrest. Finally the Canadian minister of public works, William McDougall, ordered a survey of the area. The arrival of a survey party on August 20, 1869, increased anxiety among the Métis as the survey was being carried out as a grid system of townships that was cut across existing Métis river lots.

In late August, Louis denounced the survey in a speech, and on October 11, 1869, the survey's work was disrupted by a group of Métis that included Louis. This group organized itself as the "National Committee of the Métis" on October 16, with Louis as secretary and John Bruce as president. When summoned by the HBC-controlled Council of Assiniboia to explain his actions, Louis declared that any attempt by Canada to assume authority would be contested unless Ottawa had first negotiated terms with the Métis. Nevertheless, the non-bilingual McDougall was appointed the lieutenant governor-designate, and attempted to enter the settlement on November 2. McDougall's part was turned back near the Canada-US border, and on the same day, Métis led by Louis seized Fort Garry.

On November 6, Louis invited Anglophones to attend a convention alongside Métis representatives to discuss a course of action, and on December 1, he proposed to this convention a list of rights to be demanded as a condition of union. Much of the settlement came to accept the Métis point of view, but a passionately pro-Canadian minority began organizing in opposition. Loosely constituted as the Canadian Party, this group was led by John Christian Schultz, Charles Mair, Colonel John Stoughton Dennis, and a more reticent Major Charles Boulton. McDougall attempted to assert his authority by authorizing Dennis to raise a contingent of armed men, but the Anglophone settlers largely ignored this call to arms. Schultz, however, attracted approximately fifty recruits and fortified his home and store. Louis orders Schultz's home surrounded, and the outnumbered Canadians soon surrendered and were imprisoned in Upper Fort Garry.

Hearing the unrest, Ottawa sent three emissaries to the Red River, including HBC representative Donald Alexander Smith. While they were en route, the Métis National Committee declared a provisional government on December 8, with Louis becoming its president on December 27.

Meetings between Louis and the Ottawa delegation took place on January 5 and 6, 1870, but when these proved fruitless, Daniel chose to present his case in a public forum. After large meetings on January 19 and 20, Louis the formation of a new convention split evenly between Francophone and Anglophone settlers to consider Donald's proposals. On February 7, a new list of rights was presented to the Ottawa delegation. Donald, and Louis agreed to send representatives to Ottawa to engage in direct negotiations on that basis. The provisional government established by Louis himself as he published it's own newspaper titled New Nation and established the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia to pass laws. The Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia was the first elected government at the Red River Settlement and functioned from March 9 to June 24, 1870. The assembly had 29 elected representatives, including a president, Louis Riel, an executive council, adjutant general, chief justice and clerk.

Despite the apparent progress on the political front, the Canadian party continued to plot against the provisional government. They attempted to recruit supporters to overthrow Louis. However, they suffered a setback on February 17, when forty-eight men, including Boulton and Thomas Scott, were arrested near Fort Garry.

Boulton was tried by a tribunal headed by Ambroise-Dyime Lépine and sentenced to death for his interference with the provisional government. He was pardoned, but Scott interpreted this as weakness by the Métis, who he regarded with open contempt. After Scott repeatedly quarreled with his guards, they insisted that he be tried for insubordination. At his court martial he was found guilty and was sentenced to death. Louis was repeatedly entreated to commute the sentence, but he responded, "I have done three good things since I have commenced: I have spared Boulton's life at your instance, I pardoned Gaddy, and now I shall shoot Scott."

Scott was executed by firing squad on March 4. Louis' motivations have been the cause of speculation, but his own justification was that he felt it necessary to demonstrate to the Canadians that the Métis must be taken seriously, Protestant Canada did take notice, swore revenge, and set up a "Canada First" movement to mobilize their anger. Louis biographer Lewis Thomas noted that "as people then and later have said, it was Riel's one great political blunder".

The delegates representing the provisional government arrived in Ottawa in April. Although they initially met with legal difficulties arising from the execution of Scott, they soon entered into direct talks with Macdonald and George-Étienne Cariter. The parties agreed on several of the demands in the list of rights, including language, religious, and land rights. This agreement formed the basis for the Manitoba Act, which formally admitted Manitoba into the Canadian confederation; the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia unanimously supported joining. However, the negotiators could not secure a general amnesty for the provisional government; Cartier held that this was a question for the British government. As a means exercising Canadian authority in the settlement and dissuading American expansionists, a Canadian a military expedition under Colonel Garnet Wosleley wad dispatched to the Red River. Although the government described it as an "errand of peace", Louis learned that Canadian militia elements in the expedition meant to lych him.

It was not until September 2, 1870, that the new lieutenant-governor Adams George Archibald arrived and set about the establishment of civil government. Without an amnesty, and with the Canadian militia threatening his life, Louis fled to the safety of the St. Joseph's mission across the Canada-US border in the Dakota Territory. The results of the first provincial election in December 1870 were promising for Louis, as many of his supporters came to power. Nevertheless, stress and financial troubles precipitated a serious illness—perhaps a harbinger of his future mental afflictions—that prevented his return to Manitoba until May 1871. The settlement now faced a possible threat, from cross-border Fenian raids coordinated by his former associate William Bernard O'Donoghue. Archibald issued a call to arms in October, and assured Louis that if he participated he would not be arrested. Louis organized several companies of Métis troops for the defense of Manitoba. When Archibald reviewed the troops in St. Boniface, he made the significant gesture of publicly shaking Louis' hand, signaling that a rapprochement had been affected. When this news reached Ontario, Mair and members of the Canada First movement whipped up anti-Louis sentiment. With Federal elections coming in 1872, Macdonald could ill afford further rift in Quebec–Ontario relations and so he did not offer an amnesty. Instead he quietly arranged for Taché to offer him a bribe of C$1,000 to remained the voluntary exile. This was supplemented by an additional £600 from Daniel for the care of Louis' family.

Nevertheless, by late June, Louis was back in Manitoba and was soon persuaded to run as a member of the parliament for the electoral district of Provencher. However following the early September defeat of George-Étienne Cartier in his home riding in Quebec, Louis stood aside so that Cariter—on record as being in favor of amnesty for Riel—might secure a seat in Provencher. Cartier won by acclamation, but his hopes for a swift resolution to the amnesty question were dashed following Cariter's death on May 20, 1873. In the ensuing by-election in October 1873, Louis ran unopposed as an Independent, although he had again fled a warrant having been issued for his arrest in September, Lépine was not so lucky; he was captured and faced trial. Louis made his way to Montreal and, fearing arrest or assassination, vacillated as to whether he should attempt to take up his seat in the House of Commons—Edward Blake, the Premier of Ontario, had announced a bounty of $5,000 for his arrest. Louis was the only member of Parliament who was not present for the great Pacific Scandal debate of 1873 that led to the resignation of the Macdonald government in November. Liberal leader Alexander Mackenzie became the interim prime minister, and a general election was held in January 1874. Although the Liberals under Mackenzie formed the new government, Louis easily retained his seat, Formally, he had to sign a register book at least once upon being elected, and he did so under disguise in late January. He was nevertheless stricken from the rolls following a motion supported by Schultz, who had become the member for the electoral district of Lisgar. Louis prevailed again in the resulting by-election and was again expelled.

During the period, Louis had been staying with the Oblate fathers in Plattsburgh, New York, who introduced him to parish priest Fabien Martin dit Barnabé in the nearby village of Keeseville. It was here that he received the news of Lépine's fate: following his tribal for the murder of Scott, which had begun on October 13 1874, Lépine was found guilty that sentences him to death. This sparked the outrage in the sympathetic Quebec press, and calls for amnesty for both Lépine and Louis were renewed. This presented a severe political difficulty for Mackenzie, who was hopelessly caught between the demands of Quebec and Ontario. However, a solution was forthcoming when, acting on his own initiative, the Governor General Lord Dufferin commuted Lépine's sentence in January 1875. This opens the door for Mackenzie to secure from parliament an amnesty for Louis, on the condition that he remain in exile for five years.

During his time of exile, Louis was primarily concerned with religion rather than politics. Much of these emerging religious beliefs was based on a supportive letter dated July 14, 1875 that he received from Montreal's Bishop Ignace Bourget. His mental state deteriorated, and following a violent outburst he was taken to Montreal, where he was under the care of his uncle, John Lee, for a few months. But after Louis disrupted a religious service, Lee arranged for Louis to have him committed to an asylum in Logue-Pointe on March 6, 1876 under the assumed name "Louis R. David ''. Fearing the discovery, his doctors soon transferred him to the Beauport Ashylum near Quebec City under the name "Louis Larcochelle''. While he suffered from sporadic irrational outbursts, he continued his religious writing, composing theological tracts with an admixture of Christian and Judaic ideas. He consequently began calling himself "Louis David Riel, Prophet, Infallible Pontiff and Priest King''.

Nevertheless, he slowly recovered from his mental illness, released from the asylum on January 23, 1878, with an admonition to lead a quiet life. He returned for a time to Keeseville, where he became involved in a passionate romance with Evelina Martina dite Barnbé, sister of Father Fabien. He asked her to marry him and move to the west "with the avowed intention of establishing himself" before sending for her: however their correspondence ended abruptly.

In the fall of 1878, Louis returned to St. Paul, and briefly visited his friends and family. This was a time of rapid change for the Métis of the Red River—the buffalo on which they depended were becoming increasingly scarce, the influx of settlers was ever-increasing, and much land was sold to unscrupulous land speculators. Like other Red River Métis who had left Manitoba, Louis headed further west to start a new life. Travelling to the Montana Territory, he became a trader and interpreter in the area surrounding Fort Benton. Observing the detrimental impact of alcohol on the Métis, he engaged in an unsuccessful attempt to curtail the whisky trade. In Pointe-au-Loup, For Berthold, Dakota Territory in 1881, he married the young Métis Maguerite Monet dit Bellehumeur, according to the custom of the country, on April 28, the marriage being solemnized on March 9, 1882. Evelina learns of this marriage from a newspaper and writes a letter accusing Louis of "infamy". And sometime before, Louis now had children, Jean-Louis and Marie-Angélique Riel, but the third child died after being born on October 21, 1885. (less than one month before he was hanged). He soon became involved in the politics of Montana, and in 1882, actively campaigned on behalf of the Republican Party. He brought a suit against a Democraft for rigging a vote, but was then himself accused of fraudulently including British subjects to take part in the election. In response, he applied for United States citizenship and was naturalized on March 16, 1883. With two young children, he had by 1884 settled down and was teaching school at the St. Peter's Jesuit mission in the Sun River district of Montana.

Following the Red River Rebellion, Métis travelled west and settled in the Saskachewan Valley. But by the 1880s, the rapid collapse of the buffalo herd was causing near starvation among the First Nations. This was exacerbated by a reduction in government assistance, and by a general failure of Ottawa to live up to its treaty obligations. The Métis were likewise obliged to give up the hunt and take up agriculture—but this transition was accompanied by complex issues surrounding land claims similar to those that had previously arisen in Manitoba. Moreover, settlers from Europe and the eastern provinces were also moving into the Saskatchewan territories, and they too had complaints related to the administration of the territories. Virtually all parties had grievances, and by 1884 Anglophone settlers, Anglo-Métis and Métis communities were holding up meetings and petitioning it into a largely unresponsive government for redress. In the electoral district of Lorne, a meeting of the south branch Métis was held in the village of Batoche on March 24, and representatives voted to ask Louis to return and represent their cause. On May 6, a joint "Settler's Union" meeting was attended by both the Métis and English-speaking representatives from Prince Albert, including William Henry Jackson, an Ontario settler sympathetic to the Métis and known to them as Honoré Jackson, and James Isbister of the Anglo-Métis. It was then to send a delegation to ask him to return.

The head of the delegation to Louis was Gabriel Dumont, a respected buffalo hunter and leader of the Saint-Laurent Métis who had known him in Manitoba. James Lsbister was the lone Anglo-Métis delegate. Louis was easily sways to support their causes, he also intended to use the new position of influence to pursue his own land claims in Manitoba.

Upon his arrival Métis and Anglophone settlers alike formed an initially favorable impression of Louis following a series of speeches in which he advocated moderation and a reasoned approach. During June 1884, the Plains Cree leaders Big Bear and Poundmaker were independent formulating their complaints, and subsequently held meetings with Louis. However the Native grievances were quite different from those of the settlers, and nothing of it was resolved. Honoré Jackson and representatives of other communities set about drafting a petition to be sent to Ottawa. In the interim, Louis' support began to waver. As Louis' religious pronouncements became increasingly heretical the clergy distanced themselves, and father Alexis André cautioned Louis against mixing religion and politics. Also, in response to bribes by territorial lieutenant-governor and Indian commissioner Edgar Dewdney, local English-language newspapers adopted an editorial stance critical of Louis.

Nevertheless, the work continued, on December 16, Louis forwarded the committee's petition to the government, along with the suggestion that delegates be sent to Ottawa to engage in direct negotiation. Recepit of the petition was acknowledged by Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Macdonald's Secretary of State, although Macdonald himself would later deny having ever seen it. By then many original followers had left; only 250 remained at Batoche when it fell in May 1885.

While Louis was awaiting the news from Ottawa, he considered returning to Montana, but had by February resolved to stay. Without a productive course of action, Louis began to engage in obsessive prayer, and was experiencing a significant relapse of his mental agitations. This led to the deterioration of his relationship with the Catholic clergy, as he publicly espoused an increasingly heretical doctrine.

On February 11, 1885, a response to the petition was received. The government proposed to take a census of the North-West Territories, and to form a commission to investigate grievances. This angered a faction of the Métis who saw it as a mere delaying tactic; they favored taking up arms at once. Louis became the leader of this faction, but he lost the support of almost all Anglophones and Anglo-Métis, and the Catholic Church. He also lost the support of the Métis faction supporting local leader Charles Nolin. But Louis, undoubtedly influenced by his messianic delusions, became increasingly supportive of this course of action. Disenchanted with the status quo, and swayed by Louis' charisma and eloquent rhetoric, hundreds of Métis remained loyal to Louis, despite his proclamations that Bishop Ignace Bourget should be accepted as pope, and that "Rome has fallen".

The Provisional Government of Saskatchewan was declared at Batoche on March 19, with Louis as the political and spiritual leader and with Dumont assuming responsibility for military affairs. Louis formed a council called the Exovedate. On March 21, Louis' emissaries demanded that Crozier surrender Fort Carlton. Scouting near Duck Lake on March 26, a force led by Gabriel Dumont unexpectedly chanced upon a party from Fort Calton. In the ensuing Battle of Duck Lake, the police were routed and the North-West Rebellion began in earnest. The near-completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway allowed troops from eastern Canada to quickly arrive in the territory. Knowing that he could not defeat the Canadians in direct confrontation, Dumont had hoped to force the Canadians to negotiate by engaging in a long-drawn out campaign of guerrilla warfare; Dumont realized a modest success along these lines at the Battle of Fish Creek on April 24, 1885. Louis, however, insisted on concentrating forces at Batoche to defend his "city of God". The outcome of the ensuing Battle of Batoche which soon took place from Mary 9 to 12, never in doubt, and on May 15, a disheveled Louis surrendered to Canadians forces. Although Big Bear's forces managed to hold out until the Battle of Loon Lake on June 3, the rebellion was a dismal failure for Indigenous communities.

Several individuals closely tied to the government requested that the trial be held in Winnipeg in July 1885. Some historians contend that the trial was moved to Regina because of concerns with the possibility of an ethnically mixed and sympathetic jury. Prime Minister Macdonald ordered the trial to be convened there, as where Louis was tried before a jury of six Anglophone Protestants. The trial began on July 20, 1885. Louis delivered two long speeches during his trial, defending his own actions and affirming the rights of the Métis people, rejecting his lawyers' attempts to argue that he was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found him guilty but recommended mercy; nonetheless, Judge Hugh Richardson sentenced him to death on August 2, 1885, with the date of his execution initially set for September 18, 1885. Louis was tried for treason and for the murder of Thomas Scott which he was killed from 15 years ago., noting that as "people then and later have said, it was Riel's one great political blunder".

Boulton writes in his memoirs that, as the date of execution approached, Louis regretted his opposition to the defense of insanity and vainly attempted to provide evidence that this was not sane. Requests for a retrial, petitions for a commuted sentence, and an appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britain were denied. John A. Macdonald, who was instrumental in upholding Louis' sentence, is famously quoted as saying "He shall hang though every dog in Quebec barks in his favour!" (although the veracity of his quote was uncertain). Before his execution, Louis received Father Andé as his spiritual advisor. He was also given writing materials and allowed to correspond with friends and relatives. Louis Riel was hanged for treason on November 16, 1885, at the North-West Mounted Police barracks in Regina.

## Abilities

He had been the politician who founded the province of Manitoba, and a political rebel leader of the Métis people, defending, leading and negotiating the terms of Manitoba entering the Canadian Confederation. Even executed Thomas Scott for committing insubordination before fleeing to the United States to escape from his prosecution, he was elected three times as member of the House of Commons, but fearing his own life that he didn't take the seat. He became religious as he was a chosen leader and later leads the people to longstanding rights grievances of the North-West Rebellion until 1885 where he was imprisoned, and hanged for treason and murder.

### Demon transformation

Much almost like other demons nor sinners. He possesses to transform his full demon form only if he loses his temper and is monstrously angry if something pisses him off or what not any of he didn't like.

### Politic ability

Since he was a politician, he gives out details, facts, and a lot of stuff that he knows, to give out most writing ideas. As he progressively made out places to use and set up for their work to gain money.

## Trivia

* Lodveils was based off of a real person that did died in 1885, **Louis Riel**.
* As much he was and once to be, Lodveils didn't pretty much care to do anything for today right now until when it comes to doing actual work and business for their group.