Markus Tosima

* Human
* Elemental

**Markus Tosima** was the last ruling King of the Tosima family and Kingdom.

## Description

Known to have made a wish to the Dao, Sadanna al-Baahish, only to be tricked, enslaved and ultimately turned into an earthern elemental being whom desired to become a true archomental and rule Tosima as Terraczar, the King of the Terra. He would later be known as the Fossil King.

He was ultimately defeated upon his attack on Elderfall, being trapped within a magic circle and then imprisoned in a gemstone whilst in his weakest form.

## History

*In 867TF, the Church of Zitus named Markus Tosima the King. Upon his coronation, he invited the nobles of his land to court to express his dream of uniting all of Elysia under the Tosima rule within thirty years, to serve the will of Zitus and enact the tenets where his family had failed in the centuries that had passed. He had promised that it would be their legacy, but as they shared their legacy, so too must they share the sacrifice. The taxation of the people of Tosima would rise over the years, tripling within five to see record highs in poverty and death as Markus Tosima collected a war chest for the expansion of his Kingdom. Whilst Markus Tosima never openly declared war upon the lands North and South, he would send hired mercenaries and vagabonds to venture into their lands to raid villages, temples and shrines for coin to fund their war effort. Pirate ships were paid bounties to blockade shores and docks to hinder the supplies and health of those within their lands.*

*In 890TF, the Demon War would begin before the King of Tosima could officially declare war upon the south. Those that Markus Tosima would see as enemies to be subjugated would now be allies in the war against the world-ending threat of the Demon Lords. The armies of the Kingdom of Tosima were levied and sent south to hold the Demons at bay within the Peaks of the Vale. Using the funds raised over the many years, a fortress were constructed with the aid of the mages of the Elysian Institute of Arcana, to act as the last line defence between the Demon armies and the Kingdom of Tosima. The fortress, Badengatt, now stood and blocked the way between north and south.*

*With the aid primarily of Asturcia and the Institute, the Demon Lords would find themselves imprisoned within divine castings of chains, whilst Varal of the Elysian Institute of Arcana was able to banish the majority of the Demon armies. Upon word of their success, Markus Tosima sent his forces south of Badengatt to clear up the remaining Demons within the lands. Though it is well recorded that the intent were conquer lands and hold a position from they would advance their territories and declare formal war upon the southern territories. As nobles looked upon the destruction and wrath left behind by the Demon Lords armies, seeing the death that could have been stopped if they were march south sooner, the nobles of Tosima gathered just as they had done over eight-hundred years before.*

*A quarter of their forces would never march south, instead they turned around to the North with their eyes upon the Capital. Word would reach Markus Tosima, whose spies, eyes and ears would reach even the most loyal rebel garrison. Before their forces could reach the gates of Tosima, the King's right to enlist noble heirs to their army had been enacted quickly and with a vengeful fury. With word reaching the rebel Lords, they disbanded their armies and returned home, sending letters that begged for mercy from their King.*

*None would be found. Just as their ancestors head would decorate the wall of Tosima one upon a time, the tradition had been continued, only it was the sons who would pay the price. To further belittle and enrage the nobles, Markus Tosima outlawed mage counsel in the Kingdom of Tosima, save for the King himself and demanded that the Elysian Institute of Arcana were to move to the Capital to better serve the crown. The request was promptly denied.*

*Not only would Markus Tosima name those rebel Lords as traitors and enemies of the crown, but also the Elders of the Institute. Forces had been sent time and time again to the Institute, but each time the forces returned stating that they could not find the Institute.*

*A war would rage over the coming years, five years of war in the countryside of Tosima. With the mercenaries brought in through the war coffers raised over decades of high taxation, the rebel Lords would be forced into small scale attacks on supply lines and scouting parties, just as they had been defeated by the wild folk of the North when they served under the Tosima family. With aid from the Elysian Institute of Arcana, the Vestarian Republic and Kingdom of Asturcia, the war against Tosima would bring many small victories in a war that seemed to never end as the rebel forces were unable to truly defeat the strength of the Tosima Kingdom. Where armies fell in small numbers, they would be replaced with foreign mercenaries from overseas.*

*The rule of Markus Tosima would soon end, following an internal uprising within the Capital of Tosima, seeing the gates of the city open for the rebel Lords to enter alongside the Elders of the Elysian Institute of Arcana, where an agreement would be signed by all nobles and elders as a Coalition was formed, in the same vision the Republic of Elysia had once been born.*