Harakar Oken

**Harakar Oken** is the Living King of the Kingdom of Akaria.

## Biography

### Early life

Harakar was born in Oksken on 11-1 35 TT, the first son of Johnakar and his wife Karlal. He and his siblings were educated at Naikar Memorial School in Okenate close to their family home. Harakar studied business at the Grand Weer University in Manser. On 20-12 13 TT, Johnakar gave Harakar control over the Oksken Fishing Company offices in Manser and put him in charge of the company's operations within the city.

As the head of the Oken Family, Johnakar was entitled to submit his nominee for the next Living King to the Ossbosche Assembly. The Oken Family was fairly minor within Akarian politics and Johnakar's nominee being selected was unlikely. Johnakar himself considered his work to be more important than potentially becoming the Living King and nominated Harakar in his place. On 9-12 10 TT the Perat Family announced that they had uncovered a plot by the Arkara Family to further increase their influence over Ossbosche Assembly. The documents presented linked the Arkara Family to the deaths of multiple ossbosches and prominent udenbosches. These revelations began the False War. The Oken Family lacked any ossbosches and the few udenbosches they did have control over were of little influence. On 13-7 4 TT, Living King Bantar was assassinated. There was much debate within the Ossbosche Assembly as to who to replace Bantar with. The once esteemed Arkara Family had attempted to overthrow the assembly, whereas the Perat Family and their allies were suspected to have been behind the assassination of Bantar. On 30-10 2 TT the Ossbosche Assembly named Harakar Living King.

### Pre-calming

Harakar ascended to a very precarious position. Few members of the public outside of Oksken knew much about the Oken Family. The Ossbosche Assembly had elected him by default rather than merit, and thus his position was not guaranteed security. The major Holy Families were dissatisfied about a minor family being granted the throne and it was rumoured that they were conspiring have Harakar assassinated. Harakar did not use his limited powers immediately to allow his public popularity to grow.

### Post calming

On 18-1 1 PC, after the Grand Calming, Akaria was opened up to the other nations of the Attu Archipelago. The calming opened up Akaria to the other nations of the Attu Archipelago. During the Assembled Period the Living King was a primarily religious and ceremonial role in Akarian society with most of the power in the country being held by the ossbosches. Through a series of dictates backed by the fear of the unknown Harakar Oken managed restructure the Living King into a position of power, putting himself almost completely in charge of foreign affairs.

On 25-3 1 PC Harakar established both the Akarian Navy and the Akarian Trade Fleet, with the fleet being owned by the Oken Family.

On 23-4 1 PC Harakar and Yyme Braia of Utlia agreed to a trade deal, where Utlia would provide the Oken Family with coal in exchange for a variety of acids. This furthered Akaria-Utlia relations. Later that year, Harakar and Casi Fromatica of the Caesic Federation drafted a trade deal, in which the Caesic Federation provide the Oken Family with coal in exchange for hydrochloric acid. The deal was officialized by the Caesic Federation on 2-8 1 PC, after 3 days of negotiations. The deal furthered Akaria-Casea relations.

During early 2 PC it became known to Harakar that the Nation of Niueyjar, one of the largest nations, was in the midst of a civil war. Harakar considered the presumed leader of Niueyjar Vidar Astridson to be hostile and overzealous. He also understood that the he was considered to be one of the more tolerant members of his society and whoever replaced him could be worse. On 5-4 2 PC Harakar and Yyme founded the Akaria-Utlia alliance as a measure, in case Vidar lost his civil war and his successor attempted conquest. At the same time that the alliance was founded, a plot of land on Utlia was reserved for the Akuta military base.

On 15-5 2 PC, a Niueyjara port containing an Utlian ship delivering crabs to Vidar Astridson was attacked, with the Utlian ship losing contact with Utlia. Vidar claimed that there had been an earthquake and that the sailors had broke their legs and were unable to speak. Sceptical to this claim, Yyme and Harakar sent a strike force commanded by Akarians and composed mostly of Utlians to Niueyjar to rescue the sailors. On 18-5 2 PC, as the part of the strike force was approaching, the ship travelled through a reef off the coast of Niueyjar, which was spotted by a Niueyjara scout. Vidar threatened to kill the family of whichever leader was responsible for this incident. The strike force extracted the sailors on 20-5 2 PC. Following the rescue of the captives, the actions and cause of the strike force were revealed. Vidar continued to make death threats towards Harakar and Yyme along with their families and people. On 9-12 2 PC, after lengthy planning, the Akaria-Utlian alliance began supplying Vidar's enemies, the Niueyjar Loyalists with weaponry.

On 4-2 3 PC with the support of the majority of the Council of Akaria and his father Harakar issued Harakar's 10th Dictate barring members of the Arkara Family from being ossbosches. Four days later Kamakta Arkara, Head of the Arkara Family declared his defiance of the dictate beginning the Arkara Uprising of 3 PC. The assembly raised the Akarian Holy Army and fought back against the Arkara Family. Peace between the Kingdom and the Arkara Family was achieved on 24-3 3 PC. During this time Harakar Oken stayed with his father in Oksken.