DireWolf

**Dire** is the founder of the great city of **Dragon's Perch** a jewel in the north. His accomplishments date back to the ***Ellysian*** war where as a young general in the nation **Drak Yamar** he led the **First Coalition-Ellysian War** and brought defeat upon the ***Ellysian Empire*** driving them into the north east. He now resides in **The Pirate State of Barbossa****;** his city and honor may have been taken in **The Fall** but his skill with the sword remains...

## The Beginning

***Dire*** was born in large fishing vessel ***The Silver Dragon**,* a ship like many others bound for the plentiful lands of **Eldham**. The ship was said to have been crammed full with starving people riddled by sickness and hunger. The sickness as it was called claimed countless lives on board the ship, among those **Dire's** parents. With **Dire** barely a month old, the issue of raising the child fell to the military colonel **TheDeadJester**, owing a great debt to **Dire's** father who served at **Jester's** military base in **Rathnir** . With death tragedy and destruction ravaging the vessel it was the most unlikely place for a child. But even as a babe against all odds **Dire** survived the perilous journey and arrived at the shores of **Eldham.**

### Childhood

**Dire** settled down in the great city of Dragon's Point the capital of **Drak Yamar** and was raised in the military barracks. Due to this from a young age **Dire** demonstrated great skill with the sword and in his early teen years managed to surpass the military colonel himself. After this he grew tired of the military leader and his endless lectures asserting that their was a right way to do things, **Dire** believed actions spoke louder than words and was frustrated with **TheDeadJester's** inaction towards the growing threat of the **Ellysians**. This went on for years with reports flowing from the south, **villages** burning, hundreds dying yet no action was taken. **Infuriated** by the inaction and eager to try his swordsmanship outside **Dragon's Point, Dire** vowed he would bring a end to the **Ellysian Tyrants** and bring glory to **Drak Yamar**.

### Ellysian Skirmishes

News of the **Ellysians** had reached **Dragon's\_Point** again, this time in the face of **Dire's** long time friend **Yin** who had been wounded in the shoulder. For **Dire** that was the last straw. Few heard the cantering of **Dire's** horse **Tug** in the early morning exiting the capital as he went south for **Ellysia**. Consumed by anger and vengeance, frustrated in the inaction of the **Drak Yamar** government dozens of **Ellysians** were cut down by **Dires** sword. For only **seventeen** years old his skill was unmatched among the **Ellysian** soldiers. But as **Dire** went deeper and deeper into **Ellysian** territory their army began to wake and marched towards their city **Licherfelde** to intercept him. Trapped by a fast flowing lake around the **Licherfelde** town **Dire** was forced to set up a defendable position, naming it **Dragon's Perch**.

## Ellysian War: Life as a Leader

### Ellysian War

**The** **First Coalition-Ellysian War** was declared from the fortress stronghold **Dragon's\_Perch**, when the **Ellysian** army surrounded the fort preparing to attack. **Dire** although extremely competent with the sword had found himself largely outnumbered and unprepared for the **Ellysian** assault. Tales of the night describe it as completely still with the ground covered in a sheet of snow; the sky pitch black but for three lanterns at the entrance of the **Fort**. It was at the **Fort**, a tall defensive tower dominating the landscape, where reinforcements from the northern nations came to deal a crippling blow to the **Ellysian** military.

With the help of the new **allied** soldiers the battle turned to the **defenders** favour with one final advance from **Dire** forcing the **Ellysians** into a retreat, the running soldiers slipping on the soft snow as they **barricaded** themselves into their homes. The battle had been won. The following day the news of the **success** had spread across the **Northern Nations** and a army to destroy the **Ellysian** town was assembled. In the afternoon of that day the **barricades** in **Licherfelde** were **burnt** and destroyed by **Dire's** army, a shrill cry of surrender from the **Ellysians** spelling the end to the **The** **First Coalition-Ellysian War**.

### Founding Of Dragon's Perch

Although still a young man **Dire** had committed to the horrors and atrocities of **war**. In a effort to start anew and build something of his own **LordCorgi** the leader of **Drak Yamar** at the time instructed **Dire** to start his own city, far away from the **Ellysian** **war;** deep in the northern mountains of their nation. **Dire** as a remembrance to the **Great** **Ellysian war** came to the decision to name the city **Dragon's\_Perch** after the defensive **fort** that drove the **enemy** out of the **south**.

The construction and development of the **Perch** took months with towering walls that rose out from the ice bitten earth and up into the clouds. Down on the ground a gravely path was constructed, snaking between the high roofed homes and to the **Merchant District**. The **Merchant District** was the pride and joy of **Dragon’s\_Perch** bustling with **merchants** and **traders;** **people** journeying far and wide for the vast assortment of items it offered. Due to this other **traders** saw its success as a threat to their livelihood and profits. One merchant  group named the **ETC**, a vassal of the great empire of **Bardonia**, demanded **Dire** to close his shop down or face a war with **Bardonia**. **Dire** had heard many stories of **Bardonia** read to him from a young age with their conquests and bloody history forever staining the soil of **Rathnir** a war with them would be his **greatest challenge yet.**

### Market Crisis/ Horse War

**Dire** had been shaken from his bed in the early morning. It was heard that **Grand Ferensian** troops attacked Drak Yamar's embassy killing and robbing all the men inside. The nation had called a full mobilisation of their military and **Dire** as a town leader was obliged to send troops and lead the assault. But although Drak Yamar was a formidable force and respected throughout **Eldham,** many nations had knives hidden behind their backs and declared their support for **Grand Ferensia.** Now in a unlikely position **Drak Yamar** contacted all their allies from the **First Coalition-Ellysian War**. With the **ETC**, **Aristios** and many more nations opposing them they would need every solider they could get...