Furumura Takahisa

**Furumura Takahisa** is an Eldhamite Plagatean businessman and adventurer currently residing in the city of Shiroyama. He was formerly an influential member of the Shiroyaman town council, however, he resigned this position upon the collapse of Plagatea.

## Biography

### Early Life

Takahisa was born the youngest of 8 children in a poor farming family. They, like many others in the village, eked out a simple life of subsistence farming. By his 18th birthday, Takahisa had grown tired of the quiet and boring farming life. He decided to set out for the Plagatean colonies in Eldham - colonists were always needed after all. Saying goodbye to his friends and family, he departed, hoping to one day return in riches and glory.

### Life in the Colonies

Takahisa arrived in the port town of Orelia, from which he made his way to the town of Shiroyama. Shiroyama was the first Plagatean settlement in Eldham, but had been superseded by Kardivia. Takahisa had arrived in a time of stagnation. The town was often deserted, and large construction projects appeared to be left unfinished. Along with the 3 or 4 other recent immigrants, he set to work creating his new life. He found great success as a miner and brewer, and used the work ethic he had developed over years of farming to quickly become the richest citizen of the town. Takahisa was duly appointed a member of the town council, and assisted in the day-to-day administration of the region.

### Collapse of 2nd Plagatean Empire

Shortly after being appointed to the town council, Takahisa realized that Plagatea was rapidly declining. A lack of central government transparency coupled with incompetent leadership was driving the country into the ground. He yearned to solve the problems facing his people, but what can one man do to change the inexorable march of history? Even as Plagatea was assaulted by nations aggrieved by their leadership's aggressiveness and lack of diplomatic acumen, separatist movements sprang up and began to consume the empire from within. Even Shiroyama joined the separatist fervor, and joined the newly formed nation of Scylding. Grief for his people and culture engulfed him; it pained him to see the once great empire driven into the dirt by incompetency. Takahisa resigned his position on the town council to take up a life of adventure and danger, seeking to reclaim the glory and honor of his people.

### Bandit Hunting

Takahisa stayed up day and night, theorizing ways to best eliminate bandits plaguing Eldham. During experimentations with potion brewing, he quickly realized the power of the combination of Invisibility Potions and Harming Potions. He devised a strategy where the hunter would hide using invisibility in high bandit traffic areas, and spring upon unsuspecting criminals with harming potions. He tested this approach, and found great success in killing unarmored and lightly armored bandits. However, Takahisa had his sights set on greater goals: eliminating heavily armored bandits.
After weeks of hunting for more armored bandits, Takahisa stumbled upon the famed Bandit ErrorL and his accomplice Endshade. ErrorL was sleeping, and Takahisa was able to creep up on him and slay him using harming potions and his trusty iron knife. Endshade was nowhere to be seen; nonwithstanding, Takahisa quickly claimed ErrorL's armor and weaponry as well as his head and escaped. Back with his bandit-hunting fellows, his deeds were memorialized in song. The Ballad of the Bandit ErrorL was composed.

"Lord World into the Nether went,

To hunt for bandits and glory,

But empty it was, with discontent,

He did then wait so gloomily.

He drank his ale, and away he hid,

As from the æther, blatantly,

The Bandit Error so horrid,

With Endshade in his company.

Lord World was dumbfounded and thought,

"Is that the Cruel Error nigh?"

To slay him was what Lord World sought,

And thus promptly prayed to the sky.

"Oh, Great Burkhan, I pray to thee,

This bandit's blood in name I spill,

Please grant me opportunity

That ghastly Error I may kill!"

Endshade, his friend went up aloft,

A lower spot Error perchéd.

For armour good he had put on,

And did not dint of hunters' dread.

But Lord World spied his hiding place,

With sword in hand, in secret part.

His potions swiftly loosed aspace,

Then stabbed Vile Error through the heart.

Lord World went where Vile Error laid,

And swiftly thence cut off his head.

"I would forsake the Horde for all my days

Were't thou alive, as thou art dead."

But from the Nether Lord World came

With goodleye mirth, exultation,

And Error's head he brought with him,

A gift for Randy his Khaan.

Takahisa became wealthy and somewhat notorious after slaying the famed bandit - making over 250,000 dollars from pawning the knave's armor.