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Orinis Elliris was born in an unknown land. He spent his early years working for a trading company and became a representative of said nation. Shortly after exiting his youth, he was informed that the nation he was a part of had collapsed. He was distraught by this because this meant he would be losing his home and have to move away to a faraway land. He became a wanderer of the lands, going by sea on a boat until he hit the shores of Wolfswood. He found small fishing and merchant village in a city called Karthhold. Where he learned that it had just become an independent microstate called The Pale. He was a young adult, and he was known by the people of Karthhold to be a mischievous individual. In one case, a fellow Freeman compared his hair to cotton candy earning him the nickname "Candy". As he grew alongside The Pale though, he became a functioning citizen of The Pale and even built the walls around the village, turning it into an island stronghold. Little did he know, he would stay in this nation, and it would grow to be a regional superpower.

## Life in The Pale

Orinis officially became a Freeman on August 11th, 4 days after The Pale's founding. He lived in Karthold and had become familiar with a fellow citizen named Kaidus Ariano, whom he began throwing gifts through his window. During this time he came into contact with the Spirit of Travels and Freedom Nelson, who he found outside of Karthold and tamed. He stayed with his new stallion for many weeks, however, while Orinis was out looking into a new location for a possible brewery, Nelson disappeared from Karthold, in his stable, there was a blade, a final gift of sorts that Orinis would name Nelsons Bounty. He was greatly saddened by this occurrence. During his grief, Orinis would attempt to create a brew to summon his past stallion back to him, and although he came close, he was never successful in bringing back Nelson. He named this brew Speaker Of Traveler's Brandy. He recognized the influence of a pantheon of gods, one known as Skjotunhra. As this realization dawned upon him, curiosity began eating away at the back of his mind. A flame had been lit, the flame of curiosity to explore and gain knowledge of these gods, he would read texts and study rituals about these deities growing his ties even further with Kaidus, a fellow follower of this religion. Eventually, he would help found the Sand Speakers Coro, a group of gifted followers of the religion that would act in essence as priests of the gods before being pronounced: "The Speaker of Travels". Soon afterward, Greywatch would be bought from Sylvania with Kaidus becoming its Jarl, however, Orinis would decide to stay in Karthold although he did visit regularly, even creating a festive shack for the fall season. As The Pale gained control of Avaria's colony of Eldham, "Wolfswood" with new Holds being formed he still decided to stay in Karthhold, officially opening his own business titled The Fowl Cauldron, with his brewhouse in karthold and a cow named Frank. He opened a Tavern in both Karthold and Bastria. He gained close relations with other business owners and citizens of The Pale including Kulovicz, a fellow brewer.

## The First Sand War

During the events of the First Sand War, Orinis was a palean soldier and was the first soldier of The Pale to arrive at Oblitus Oris. He helped the Merconian citizens with last-minute preparations and as The Pale forces began to arrive, he took a position in the fort. He would stay up in the fort and fire below on the Zamotz soldiers, however, the Zamotz soldiers breached the fort soon after by using both crimson wine and pushing the soldiers back. Orinis fought against them and as The Pale's soldiers began to push them out of the first level of the fort, Orinis was Injured and blacked out due to blood loss. He would awaken days later in the war-torn city, with a foggy memory and an injured leg, before he would begin his slow journey back to Karthold, made even more tedious by his injured leg. After his return, he would soon publish a story titled "The Tale Of Orinis" detailing his travel in some level of detail, the reliability of this record has fallen under question.

## The Second Sand War

During the events of the Second Sand War, Orinis would fight in all three battles. During the first battle, the defense of perria, he would be given the task of defending the front gate along with other soldiers, although after the battle had turned in The Pale's favor, he would then move to the front lines to new cromore and explore slightly, before returning to perria moments later. In the second and third battles, he took a far more active role. In the second battle, he was put in charge of supplying the soldiers alongside other pale citizens, he was tasked to transfer supplies from the current capital of karth to perria. He would then supply both small stations with potions alongside people who would run the supplies out to the front lines. During the final battle, he was tasked with bringing supplies to the front lines, however, this was not needed as the offense was only met with a force of phantoms, dubbed the "Merconian Air Force". After the battle, Orinis would claim the town of Oblitus Oris and rename it "Phantom Oris" as a reference to the phantom battalion that bravely protected the city.

## House Ironback

After the events of the second sand war, Orinis was pronounced steward of karthold and soon to be mayor of the capital at the time. He was to help the current Jarl, High King of The Pale Wulfgar Ironback in the running of the hold and was to construct the walls of the new capital that had been under construction. However, after his duty was fulfilled and the walls stood tall over the unfinished capital, he was approached separately by both Wulfgar Ironback and the now prince of the pale, Cadon Ironback about joining House Ironback, initially offering adoption of Orinis into the house, he refused to be adopted for unknown reasons, however, he would then agree to join the house as a Squire, or more accurately a Retainer of the house. He would then continue construction by helping in the building of Ironback Keep. During this time, the growth of Karthold led to many new generations, and one deeply disturbed child would be sealed away by Orinis.

## Jarl Of Karthold

After multiple months working under Wulfgar, or Jdd, the High King decided to renounce his jarlship of Karthold, so that he may focus on the nation as a whole. Orinis was then contacted about taking over the reins as the new jarl of karthold. This was an incredible achievement and he swiftly agreed to it, being proclaimed as the new jarl the same day. However as he sat in his new home, the longhouse of karth the capital of the pale, the silence of karthold became overbearing, The population in karth had slowly dissipated as new holds were formed and new opportunities were given in other holds, and now he was truly alone. But he wasn't going to just let the hold die, he knew better than that and immediately went to work, pulling out a tattered map that he had once used in the past alongside the other builders of karth, and began reworking the city, this place wouldn't die out, not yet. Unfortunately, after the Third Sand War was canceled, the people of The Pale decided to sail off to unknown lands. Orinis would not stand for this, opting to stay behind alone. In his sorrow, he would bury himself in an underground library where he would die.