Polemos

Polemos is the bastard son of Brasidas II Hyrcanus, and brother to Skarian Hyrcanus.

he is called simply Polemos because he isn't a Hyrcanus by name being a bastard, he is sometimes refered to as Polemos the bastard or Polemos the exiled

### **Early life**

Polemos was born to Brasidas and a half Svearian woman, he was raised in Kratia and grew up with his brother until the age of 7, the Ephors implored the king that the bastard boy must leave Kratia, they had many reasons, he was a bastard and worse, half barbarian, he risked the succession and damaged the king's reputation.

### **Exile**

The boy was exiled from Kratia, he was sent back north to his "kin", his mother was dead and his father sent him away.

he was granted to a Svearian merchant who visited the Kratian markets often, the merchant took him to the village of Valfjan, there he was raised by a loving family.

#### **Valfjan**

In Valfjan Polemos learnt of the Svearian gods, and became conflicted between the local gods and the ones he grew up with.

his step-father tried to get the young boy to live humbly as a fisherman but the, now 16 years old boy was told that he will be a warrior from a young age, and so he made friends with a local warrior name Halvard Rolfsson, Halvard was older than him by 3 years so he saw him as an older brother figure in his life, Halvard welcomed him into his home and teached him what he knew about combat.

When Polemos reached the age of 17 he started to robb traveling merchants together with Halvard and a few others from his village.

for 2 years Polemos and Halvard roamed with their gang until Halvard's father, Rolf was killed in a duel for the chiefdom of Valfjan, Halvard seeked revenge and killed the new chief's son, the men loyal to the chief killed most of thier gang, so Halvard and Polemos ran for their lives.

#### Returning to Kratia

Polemos argued with Halvard about their path, Halvard wanted to go back to Valfjan and claim the chiefdom, Polemos wanted to go south, he thought about more ways to earn money, richer people to steal from and new opportunities, the two splitted in good terms.

Polemos now on his own, begun working as a sellsword around the Medosi sea, but it all changed when he heard that his brother was killed.

Polemos returned to Kratia, Kratia was in chaos, Tigetius Morelian took upon himself to lead the city until a new king will be crowned, and so a general was acting as king.

### **The Battle of Israkra**

Polemos took it upon himself to train the men of Kratia and he aided the smiths with forging weapons and armor for battle.

Farboid Hamilvar of Thyconium arrived with his ships to Kratia and after last preparations both men from Thyconium and Kratia sailed to Israkra.

The siege was a bloody one for the Ageosi city states, until the breached the walls they already lost a many men, but when they breached the walls it was over, the city was captured and only a few Ukialtan men were still fighting.

When the fighting was over, General Tigetius Morelian executed Zyros, althrough Polemos believed that he had the right to do it because Skarian was his brother it didn't matter to the old general.

The Ageosi leaders crowned Akufan Vatyanet as king of Ukialta and with both Zyros and Çulkar dead, the war was over and Skarian was avenged.