Ear Bardur

Ear Bardur, Son of Brain Bardur is a builder from the town of **Winterose**. Helping found the town under the name of Emberguard in his first days. He came to be the Master builder of the town and most of the town has been built with his implication in one way or another. Ear is now the count of Dejuria, a duchy(province) of Vulperium. The duchy has 2 main cities; Winterose the mega city, and Ost-Helm the trade center to the East.

## The Founding of EmberGuard

Born shortly before the official founding of the town, Ear would help his Grandfather and Great-grandfather in the resurrection of the town. Once known under the name of name of Veanor, the ruined town lacked a builder. Building houses for the first settlers of the town Ear laid the physical foundation for EmberGuard. EmberGuard has since changed names multiple times and also merged with the preexisting town of FrostGuard to it's south.

## The RatKing Incident

With the town well established with a dozen members, the young Bardur took upon fishing in the nether. Having heard that the task could yield greatly he took off in the fury depts. Ear having gone nether fishing multiple times with no incident let his guard down and brought all his valuables with him.

That is when it started. With his back turned, RatKing robbed him of all his valuables. Most notably his 3 pickaxes. Without his enchanted tools he could not continue any of his construction, most of the town with many unfinished buildings. This pained him, consequently he became aggressive and paranoid. Later, attacking a new neighbor thinking he was being robbed again.

The RatKing would eventually agree to return his Bars of “Turdice“ after much begging, and a few unsavory favors. After this exchange, Ratticus would befriend Ear who had by then rebuilt his prized collection of pickaxes. However, Ear would turn to a phase of alcoholism to cope from his trauma.

## Did Eye Bluff?

Having now grown up and made his impact on his town and family, he was still not included in the family tree. Regulus the king was the keeper of the Kuton and Olmero tree and had failed to include Ear in the Family trees. Having requested multiple times to be added to the trees Ear finally snapped.

Having lost all his patience in the negotiations with Ratticus, he showed his dark side. Ear, inspired by a similar threat made by his father; THREATENED TO TAKE HIS EYES OUT! Unfortunately for Regulus, Ear had already felt great trauma, he was naïve to call his bluff. Ear sculpted his eyes out with a spoon and left his wide eye's open for anyone to see.

It took a week of convincing not by Regulus but by his Grandfather Sesam to finally bandage his face. He later put one of his eyes back in and gave the other away to his nephew Berry Kuton. Berry would not respond to Ear's attempts at reclaiming his eye back, so instead he put a spider eye in, the likes of which would never properly bond leaving him with a white eye and poor depth perception.

Several months later, he would take his right eye back out in exchange for keeping the crown of Eros which he had taken custody of when he took over Frostguard. This would again be the idea of Regulus, the former Mayor of Frostguard who had left unexpectedly leaving many priceless historical artifacts to be claimed by Ear.

## Count of Dejuria

Sometime now past since his last great accomplishment, Ear was now a count. After the purchase of the Rasterian mainland, many of the Dejuria elders moved back to their homeland lost to war a long time ago. Being the eldest permanent resident of the Vulperium duchy, he was named Count of Dejuria by Regulus and Scroll.

Ear was eager to take hold of the position previously held by his father. [...] He would gain much maturity thru this role and would even grow tusks. Gaining more and more influence the once young member of the Kuton-Bardur dynasty would become very ambitious. He would often loose sight of the limits of his influence and public opinion and would be reprimanded by KK many times. From his many attempts to become part of nobility even with his greatly lacking wealth or his constant attempts to divide Eros once again into the glory it once held. Although the division would spark great public opinion in Dejuria and among the remaining citizens of Ravka, it would gain little traction and would never fruit.

## The Attempted revival of the AIC

The AIC or Azcorian Intelligence Center was the spy network of the Vulperium and it's former neighbors (now duchies of the Vulperium). Formerly, Ear was a spy under Sesam. However, the AIC would become a archive shortly after the founding of the Vulperium leading it into dust. Thankfully, before his departure, Sesam gave Ear his role as a Director with level 4 clearance the highest possible. Allowing him to have access to all the old archives that were kept in the AIC. #Note: There are many directors in the AIC

The revival would happen many month after it's downfall. After noticing a high in hostile opinions of the Vulperium, the High level operator would meet with the other Directors in an attempt to revive the organization. Unfortunately, the others told Ear to go ahead without the Bureau which was dissolved. His only option was to conduct the proposed operations on his own. He would for a short time but would find them fruitless.

In his boredom, Ear would attempt a coup on the Sylding nation but would be shut down after making the mistake of asking permission. To this day, the Attempted coup is the only public operation Ear has conducted.