Elias C. Vanhurst

## Biography

**Elias Crorangudaux ''The Wise'' Vanhurst** is the current King of Avrenheim. He is known for forging the Kingdom of Avrenheim by uniting the Kingdom of Otharia and the City State of Avrod. Currently residing in Avrod, Avrenheim's capital, Elias' main plans necessitate spreading the religion of Order, establishing stable towns and a powerful prosperous Kingdom.

## Early Life

### Pre-Adolescence

Elias was born inside Tiemsiep, Kingdom of Norzan. He spent most of his childhood within those parts and had no wealthy or noble relatives. His family was of the common people's class. His father, Aenar, was an unknown blacksmith while his mother, Rhella, was a housewife. Elias also had a brother who was by a year younger than him called Daeron.

### Adolescence

Elias and his family were close to each other. Him and his brother had a special and a positive friendship. When they reached the age of Adolescence, they've decided that both of them would become blacksmiths, just like their father. He was generally a pleasant folk and committed no troubles. Due to a great bandit raid of the city, after it's complete annihilation, Elias was the only one in his family to survive. Some of the people that survived headed north and elected Elias as their leader, due to his peaceful behavior and ways. They established a village called ''Avrod'' that would later on become a town.

## City state of Avrod

After the great bandit raid of Tiemsiep was over, Elias along with other Norzani survivors migrated north near the snowy hemisphere where they settled on a town called ''Avrod''. Avrod was progressively growing and became a city-state with it's own government and committed diplomacies. Elias was the one of the main founders and was the mayor. The town later on united with migrating people from the Kingdom of Otharia and formed the Kingdom of Avrenheim.

## Kingdom of Avrenheim

Elias was elected as the first king of the Kingdom of Avrenheim and was coronated on 7/10/2023. The Kingdom was created by uniting the City State of Avrod and the town of Zimosthar which was forged by the migrating Otharians from the south. Elias had a big role in the Kingdom of Avrenheim as he was one of the main founders and the one who organized the country generally. It is one of the biggest kingdoms in the north. His reign is still not over and Avrenheim managed to prosper culturally, economically and industrially, making it the ninth richest nation on Avalor. In the interim, Elias developed a severe ailment that caused his skin to become highly sensitive to sunlight. The illness significantly impacted his reign, compelling him to confine himself indoors in order to mitigate the risk of potential fatality. Elias purportedly acquired the nickname "Vampire" among the general populace due to his sensitivity to sunlight caused by his illness. His reign was at the risk of an end at the Battle of Avrod, where he was fatally injured by the Cursed dragon and attacking goblins, orcs, ents and witches.

### Battle of Avrod

The Battle of Avrod was a skirmish between forces of mobs and the military of Avrenheim, Legio Kryos, and Polis.

Elias C. Vanhurst, the Kar (King), was giving various visitors from all around Avalor a diplomatic tour of Avrod that evening. Hard roars from the heavens were audible at the end of the tour, and the air was much colder and drier. According to eyewitness accounts, a pillar of fire that behaved like ice swept through the guests, killing several and wounding the others. This instantly raised the alarm in Avrod, causing the few soldiers still in the tour to prepare their weapons and the King of Avrenheim and his knights to get ready for combat. They had a Cursed Dragon in their path.

The dragon rampaged through the city as Avrod was getting ready to defend itself, killing everybody without shelter with a freezing fire. Avrod countered with silver arrows after the dragon struck it repeatedly, but the dragon was unsurprisingly unaffected. The Kar stepped in to engage the dragon in hand battle after becoming furious after witnessing his homeland devastated. The dragon howled in anguish as he severed its throat as it pounced at him. It retaliated by leaping into the air and whipping the Kar with its tail, dropping him into the wreckage where his aide Ferhard Lovsson (Aress18) would move to seize control and order him to be sent to a healer. The Dragon was fatally injured by the Kings attempt to puncture his neck and the constant arrows landing on him which made him proceed to retreat, howling a call to those who would listen.

As they were hiding in the forest, further hordes, including Goblin Shamans, Ork Brutes, Ork Kings, Ork Giants, and Ents, emerged. By this time, the tour's members, including the Patriarch of Order and Quandingle of Legio Kryos, had armed themselves and were prepared to fight back with steel. The attackers used bows to decimate the smaller hordes as they approached in waves, and they engaged in combat with the giants and monarchs. The former patriarch Pocket, who had gone missing a Locodan year earlier, reappeared in the midst of the conflict and assumed command of the Polis soldiers, utilizing magic to weaken giants from a distance. The defenders succeeded in pushing through the church and into a vacant field, where their bows were significantly more powerful and they massacred any surviving groups. Despite all the losses Avrod sustained, they were victorious in the battle.