Cleburn Ramsalot

This artwork was painted by an official House Ramsalot portraitist. It may or may not be an idealized depiction of King Cleburn.

## Biographical Information

### Also known as

* Clebby
* The Mad King
* Cleburn The Courageous

## Physical Information

### Distinctive features

Reddish beard, corpulent build (from overindulgence), bald scalp

## Relationship Information

### Family members

* King Samuel Ramsalot (father) 💀
* Queen Alice Ramsalot (mother) 💀
* Queen Charlotte Ramsalot (wife) 💀
* 21 Ramsalot daughters 💀
* Prince Nicholas 'Nickles' Ramsalot (son)
* Prince Tobias Ramsalot (son, presumed dead)

### Loyalty

* House Ramsalot
* The Kingdom of Feyshore (formerly)

### Occupation

Ruler

King **Cleburn Ramsalot** was the last king of the former Kingdom of Feyshore. His rule was tumultuous and concluded with the Fall of Feyshore, which resulted in Cleburn's death by defenestration at the hands of Pirate King Bradai Maith. The power vacuum caused by Cleburn's death led to the formation of two separate kingdoms: South Feyshore, which retained Stormalong as its capital, and the North Shore, whose new capital became Brindelle.

## Biography

Cleburn Ramsalot was born in the formerly united Kingdom of Feyshore to then reigning King Samuel and Queen Alice Ramsalot. It was awkward for Cleburn growing up in the castle because Samuel always spent a suspicious amount of time alone with his first knight, Sir Dean, and Alice was always off sleeping with any man she could get her hands on, ranging in status from a foreign king to the village idiot. Cleburn never liked spending time with either of them. His father seemed to always abandon him to go "address domestic affairs" alone with Dean, and while his mother was kind to him, her nether regions always reeked of a rancid odor from their overuse. Any prolonged exposure to her made him nauseous. There was even a legend of the royal family being abducted by cannibals on vacation, but the story goes that they were eventually all released because the cannibals lost their appetites around Queen Alice.

Since he had little parental influence for most of his life, when he was very young Cleburn often spent his time in the woods killing small animals for fun. He ripped apart the bodies of rabbits and squirrels, and whatever meat he didn't eat raw he used to make his "meat dragon". If there was an occasional lively rabbit, he would tie it to his rabbit-powered chariot when the older ones died of starvation. He learned not to value any life other than his own and those who were of use to him. He did this from when he was five until age ten, when his parents forced him to become more involved in learning how to one day rule the kingdom. He never liked this and his parents practically had him running the kingdom on his own by the time he was fifteen years old so they could spend more time consumed in their self-indulgent ways.

Cleburn grew to despise his parents for what they forced him to do. Shortly after his 18th birthday, the king and queen needed to travel overseas and made Cleburn join them on the trip. Before their ship even left the docks of Feyshore, Cleburn came up from below deck saying that he was very ill and making such a long naval journey would be the death of him. He stayed on the docks smiling and waving while watching his parents' ship sale away.

Their ship never left the harbor. The gunpowder stored within the ship had somehow ignited and blew up the ship in an explosion that sent some of the bodies nearly 100 feet in the air. Public records showed that no cause for the explosion was ever found.

Cleburn became King of Feyshore at the age of 18 and later married a young royal who became Queen Charlotte Ramsalot. Cleburn had spent most of his formative years murdering animals in the woods, so he never grew close to anyone until he met Charlotte. They both loved each other and had many children over the years. They had a son, Tobias, who went missing as an infant and is presumed to be dead. All of the other children were girls except for his other son, Nickles. Over the years, a terrible change came over Cleburn, and no one knew what was causing it. There were rumors of discord in his marriage and of him making advances on his daughters. Cleburn accused Charlotte of adultery on a daily basis and often gave the order to have her beheaded. The castle staff learned to just hide her until Cleburn calmed down.

One night, a terrible storm made its way over Feyshore (the capital wasn't called Stormalong for nothing). That night, Cleburn and Charlotte had a terrible fight. No one knows what happened, but the next day, Charlotte was missing and an anonymous report claimed that Charlotte had been carried off in the storm and was lost forever. Many did not believe this, but they kept quiet for fear of suffering the king's wrath. After that, many claimed to have seen Charlotte's ghost near the edge of the treeline of Amadeus Forest, watching the castle. Very strange things happened in Feyshore after Charlotte's death: floating lights over the city, devil houses in the woods, people popping into town with unbelievable abilities, and monster attacks. Cleburn handled each new problem with an ever-growing sense of incompetence and selfishness.

Rumors of Cleburn's madness began to flourish. He exterminated the newly-emerged mire race (a race of half-giants living not too far away from Feyshore's capital of Stormalong), and public outrage caused him to be dethroned. Cleburn was sent to Tempis Mortis prison and Nickles became his successor as king. After Nickles stepped down as king to attend a dance academy to pursue his dreams, Cleburn became king once more. This was initially opposed by the public, but after everyone who originally was involved in Cleburn's dethroning went missing or was publicly executed, the populace accepted his return. He continued his lifestyle of over-eating, relations with various women in Feyshore, and personal affairs secret to the general public of Feyshore. By this time, Cleburn's madness was attributed to syphilis, a debilitating ailment that would eventually take his mind.

In the meantime, Bradai Maith (then just a Captain), was running a criminal empire in the Eastcliff Slums of Stormalong, and he, along with the Ice Lord Marshall Carter of the Witherlands, Princess Rosaria De Lancret of Araedia, Flower Prince Caderyn Vortigern of Terresol, and Viceroy Dimitri Novikov began to formulate a plan to depose King Cleburn. This plan formed the blueprint for the Siege of Stormalong and the eventual Fall of Feyshore. Bradai Maith used his connections in order to sow dissent among Feyshore's populace.

After some time, the Siege of Stormalong properly began. With the help of the majority of the powers of Marin, including King Cleburn's Head Knight, Sir Heath Romanov, Bradai Maith and his co-conspirators completely decimated the city of Stormalong. Bradai himself killed King Cleburn by pushing him out of a window. After those events, dubbed the Fall of Feyshore, the kingdom was split and its profits divided between its conquerors.

## Personality

Cleburn was known for his lechery, incompetence, selfishness, and by the time of his death, madness. He had multiple affairs while he was still king, siring many children.

## Appearance

At the time of his death at the age of 42, Cleburn had a mostly-ginger beard and no hair atop his head, as he had grown bald. His over-consumption of food led to him becoming severely overweight.