Arcadius Atreides

## Geneological information

### Family

Herveus Atreides (Father)Castor Atreides (Uncle)Vulcan Atreides (Grandfather)Ghost Atreides (Cousin)

### Parents

Herveus Atreides, Unnamed mother (deceased)

## Biography

### Early life

Arcadius was born in the slums of Mithusu to a beggar mother, his mother passed away when Arcadius was just 6 due to the great Mithusuian plague his father Herveus also left him at a young age leaving him orphaned and alone. Arcadius was then send to a boarding school by the government where he caused quite a stir making trouble wherever possible. Eventually when Arcadius was 13 he was expelled and kicked to the streets there he worked as a chimney sweep earning the nickname Ashen.

One fateful afternoon Arcadius heard a conversation between two guards about a new town in eastern Mithusu called Ketohn, intrigued by this town and hoping for a new start he travelled there and saw what would one day become his home.

### Ketohn

When Arcadius arrived in Ketohn fully embraced the name Ashen believing that a new home meant that it was time to start a new life. The first person he met was Flammy a town guard who Ashen eventually befriended. He later met many notable characters such as Fantok (the mayor and founder), Osric Graven (the prime minister), Methodofguass and Frednoisette. He began to talk to Osric about the high level of disorder and chaos in the town, they eventually agreed to bring this issue up with evitar the malik of mithusu who agreed to make Osric the Prime minister. Fantok believing that he was losing control over his town began to plot independence. Alas it didn't take long before Evutra found out about this treachery and exiled him promoting Osric to Govoner of Ketohn.

### Voices

One night while lying in bed Ashen began to hear voices, these voices promised him gold beyond his wildest dreams, friends who would be loyal till death, enough power to collapse an empire. Arcadius tempted by these promises demand to know what the voices wanted in return after a moment of silence he heard whispers “temple” ”shrine” ”worship” they chanted as their voices slowly got louder and angrier Arcadius grew fearful until eventually he exclaimed for them to stop. Almost as if a switch was  flipped there was total silence in his head, as he lay in bed he debate wether or not to obey and begin constructing a temple.

### Xi-iel

After weeks of careful planning Ashen was ready, he had hired a construction team to help him build his enormous temple (60 meters in height) As his temple grew he realised something, another thing the gods demanded was ‘worshippers’ so he went searching for followers. During this time he met many people including Zeyvoa, Trifecta and Human hen he also invited fantok to join him at xi-iel so that they could build something together.

### Exile

Once word of Fantok’s return reached Evu the malik of mithusu he was enraged ordering Xi-iel to disband and for Fantok and Ashen to be exiled. Ashen not wanting a war obliged and left. During his exile in the mesa Ashen felt more alone than ever the only thing to keep him company was the abundance of gold and he slowly became addicted to it. He was able to meet up with some friends in a run called argue loteo in southern Mithusu they caught him up to the events Eventually after many months Arcadius was served a notice, he could return to Mithusu IF he payed a fine of 60,000 and became a plebeian again. After some hard deliberation Arcadius agreed and returned to mithusu.

### New Life

Once he returned to mithusu Ashens worked harder than ever builder Evutria’s (a city in mithusu) walls until eventually he once more became a citizen. Shortly after that he became the head brewer of Mithusu at age 15. From there. He used alcohol to get close to the nobility of mithusu until eventually he was given the town of Tork-Grok to look after. He faithfully served as Tork-Grok’s baron recruiting people and building homes for them. ArcticFox seeing his use proposed to make him the minister of culture and economy a high valued position.

### Current Day

Ashen reconnected with his father and met the rest of his family. As minister of culture he continued recruiting for mithusu and keeping tabs on the population. The job of Minister and Baron was very Overwhelming for someone who was still a child so he decided to retire earlier and he bought a small cabin in the woods where he resides to this day.

## Appearance

Arcadius is a human in his late teens. He is around 5'9 and has his mother’s amber eyes. Arcadius has dark blonde shoulder length hair often kept in a pony tail. He usually wears Tork-Grok's military uniform or blood red robes. Before owning Torkgrok he would wear a green tunic along with dirt brown pants.

## Personality

Arcadius is an outspoken child who enjoys arguing others. He has also shown himself to possess a keen mind for studying and learning, Arcadius is also loyal to those who treat him with respect. He has a compassionate nature but is capable of being ruthless when necessary. He is often found drinking mead and wine and he doesn't deal will with alchol often having angry outbursts while intoxicated.