Minos

### Occupation

Minister of Construction of Eldora (former), Head of the Craftsman Guild, Lawyer (secondary)

## Personality

Minos is usually calm and collected. He cares a lot about his work and will judge people based on the amount of effort they put into their builds - including himself, meaning he always tries to make a build the best it can be.

### Goals & Motivation

Short term:

gather members and projects for the Craftsman Guild

Long term:

become a well known builder among all nations and kingdoms of Oracle

## Abilities

### Physical strength

Minos possesses great physical strength because he is used to carrying around heavy building materials, having been a builder for over a century.

### Speed & Agility

Minos is not the fastest when it comes to running, the only notable thing about his otherwise rather bad agility is his ability to deploy emergency water buckets, which he developed over the course of several years while working on some really tall buildings.

### Endurance & Stamina

While he isn't the fastest or most agile, Minos has trained his endurance over many decades. He can't run very fast, but he will run for a long time.

### Charisma & Intelligence

He has a decent amount of intelligence that he needs to properly plan buildings (and execute the plans) so they look good. He is also reasonably charismatic as his profession requires that he can work well with many other people (usually strangers). He wasn't always like that, he started out somewhat self conscious and became more confident over the course of his career.

### Combat ability

Minos is a very inexperienced fighter. Despite being almost 250 years old, he never had any combat training.

### Skills

He is really good at building and planning.

### Drawbacks/Weaknesses

His main weakness is his lack of experience in combat. He can barely fight mobs, let alone other people.

## Backstory

### Early Life

Minos was born in a small town in the eastern desert. Not much is known about how he grew up, only that he always had a particular interest in architecture. As a young adult, he travelled around and tried to learn as much as possible about architecture and different building styles. When he finally returned home, he believed himself to be the greatest architect in the world, despite not having any experience whatsoever; he believed that what he had seen on his journeys had prepared him enough to take on any task.

And at first it seemed like he was right; the first few small projects he completed in his hometown turned out perfectly. However, with every completed project he became more careless, skipping safety measures and trying to go faster and faster. Especially with small builds, he just tried to get them out of the way as fast as possible so he could return to projects that he deemed to be more worthy of his attention. And on one particular occasion, he made a fatal mistake.

The project was small, in his view insignificant; essentially nothing more than a shed for someone to store their tools in. As was usual for a project this size, he planned to do it in only one afternoon - merely a few hours - and in his carelessness and the attempt to go fast, he neglected to properly secure one of the wooden beams holding up the ceiling, thinking that it would stay in place on its own until he could get around to attaching the rest of the roof construction to it (which would secure it to the other wooden beam). As Minos made his way to the door, (because the shed was situated on a slope) the wooden beam started to slip off of its support beam and fell, hitting him in the back and more or less tearing it open along the back of his spine as it made its way down. By some miracle, this incident did not cause any damage directly to his spine and he managed to recover, although it took several months for the wound to heal, leaving Minos with a large scar across his back. At the time of this incident, Minos was only around 50 years old, relatively young for a Dragonborn. This event had a notable impact on Minos' attitude towards building; he started to care much more about small details and things that were seemingly insignificant, opting to do things thoroughly rather than fast.

### Recent life events

Slowly, over many decades, the interest in architecture in the region of Minos hometown more or less died out among the general population as other things started to concern people more. Many builders like Minos (this is only the case for the dragonborn among them; the rest gradually died of old age) started to become bored or frustrated, thinking back to the days where Architecture was regarded as something more significant, something that was relevant to many people. Many of them, including many of Minos friends, started to move away to other regions where the relevance of their work was much higher.

### Present life

After hearing about Eldora, a new Dragonborn Empire being founded, Minos decided to travel west to the place he was told it is in. Due to his experience, he managed to become the Head Architect of Eldora, as well as the leader of the construction guild, which later became the craftsman guild.

## Events

- on November 21st, 2023, Minos resigned from his position as Minister of Construction in Eldora and left the Kingdom. He left behind a letter:

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To Kiyoka, and anyone else who cares.

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Oh how long I have been dreading the day on which I would write this letter...

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I have known for a long time that this day would come, and now it is finally here. The day on which you have pushed it too far.

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By the time you read this letter, that day will be in the past, as writing this letter will be the first step of my preparations to leave this kingdom behind.

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When I initially heard about Eldora, I was excited; finally I had find a place where the dragonborn could be amongst themselves, thriving and prospering in an empire that could stand the test of time, like the dragonborn themselves can.

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I had high hopes about my position there, too; my reputation had earned me the position of minister of construction right away, and things started off great; early on I built the courtroom under the castle, a work that I was particularly proud of at the time. However, much to my dismay, this would be my one of my only two courses of action as minister of construction, the second being at the very end of this letter.

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When I first came to Eldora I was met with an atmosphere that I can only describe as beautiful and grand; a refreshing alternative to the crammed human cities that I had seen so many times on my travels. Everything nice and tidy, in black and gold; made to last for a long time, like the dragonborn themselves.

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During the reign of Aiden, this did not change at first. He had some rather strange ideas but everything was in order, in line with the idea of the empire; it was him for whom I constructed the courtroom. However, as time went on, his presence as leader steeply declined; together with the other ministers and the empress, it was decided that he should be removed from his position in favour of a new emperor who seemed more promising and a better fit for the position.

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As it turns out, I could not have been more wrong. This new actor, whom I do not respect enough to call by name, is not deserving of his title or power; but Kiyoka and the rest of the royal family seem to think otherwise; wether they are stupid or just naive, I cannot tell. I, for one, despise him. Within a matter of months, he has stripped Eldora of all that made it significant: the architecture, the houses built to last millenia, gone. The flag, defaced in a hideous green and blue; it is now a mere shadow of it's former self. The very idea of a dragonborn empire has been erased from this place; it is no longer ruled by a dragonborn.

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I would have attributed these actions to simple stupidity some time ago, but I can see clearly now that all of this was carefully and maliciously planned; I was oblivious to this process despite it happening before my very eyes. With the final step of his plan, the traitor to the throne has made Eldora his own. He has successfully erased every last bit of identity and culture that this place once had, has made it into an empty, lifeless, soulless shell, that does not even deserve to be called empire anymore. And now, he has robbed it of the last thing that it had - it's name.

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He has never cared about Eldora, not in the slightest. All he wanted was an empire of his own, yet he lacked the strength to build one himself, so he resorted to taking advantage of someone else's effort. A petty thief is all he would have been, had it not been for the much misplaced trust of our empress; now he calls himself emperor but is at the same time a traitor, as are all who knowingly enable him.

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To make matters worse, for a long time now, I have been completely disregarded in my position as minister of construction. It is supposed to be my duty to watch over any major building projects that occur within the kingdom. The deconstruction of the houses that make up the heart of the kingdom has not been approved by me, nor was I ever asked to approve it. I would, right now, much rather sit in the cafe to write this letter; but that, too, is gone. When the station was torn down without warning, I inquired about it, and was told that a design had been made by someone else, and again, without my involvement. This last incident is partly to blame on Aiden, too, but as the traitor was to actually make the design, he would have had plenty of opportunity to ask for my approval, which did not happen.

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With the flag now defaced, my friends in this place dead or banished, I no longer have anything that holds me here; I will set off to leave this place for good; I pity those who stay, for most of them do not know what they could have had.

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I shall put this note in place of the throne that was betrayed, and leave under the cover of darkness. By dawn, I will already have left Eldora far behind, by dusk, I will have reached Leafton. By noon of the second day I will have arrived at my destination in the far north, far beyond your reach. I advise the Eldoran leadership not to try to contact me, as I do not wish to speak to them again. Perhaps I will reconsider this after some time; a frost troll's lifespan is quite meagre after all; however, for now, I do not wish to have anything to do with Eldora. I also no longer deem this place worthy of my works; I will take my house with me (as you would tear it down anyways after I am gone) and I would take the courtroom too, if I could; you do not deserve to have it seeing as you do not respect the castle in the slightest. Needless to say, I will not be completing the last thing I was tasked with but never got around to do; I have other projects far more deserving of my attention.

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Along with all of this, I hereby resign from my position as minister of construction, and since you do not seem to care about this position anyways, I strongly suggest that you do not try to fill it again.

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- Minos

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