Kun

Kun is of the Northlander tribe who escapes when his tribe, including his entire family, was massacred. On the brink of death, Kun meets Reniae in White Mountain, who nurses him slowly back to health. After two weeks, Reniae forces him to leave her behind without any knowledge of her identity.

## Personality

As a prince, Kun is reticent and serious in his work. However, the massacre of his family and tribe inceses him and becomes hellbent on avenging the deaths of his tribe. Although traumatized, he is inquisitive and gentle with Reniae. He is shown to be brutal and remorseless towards his enemies, as he returns to the raider's cave to kill hem in revenge for hurting Reniae and the rest of the Northlanders who killed his tribe.

## Physical Appearance

Kun has shoulder-length red hair that he typically wears half-up, and has gray eyes and tan skin. He is of tall stature and has a muscular build. Donning the traditional wear of the Northern Tribes, Kun wears black feathers and leather skins. Prior to gifting his family's relic to Reniae, Kun wore the Man-Eating Eagle's heart, a black rock, around his neck.

## Biography

### Early Life

As a Northlander, Kun is descended from the Man-Eating Eagle. He was born to the Chief Family of the Salt Mountain Tribe Huwatu and Kahala, and had one younger brother. Kahala appointed one of her royal guards, Ningal-Sarbat, as nanny to her children, so Kun, his brother and Humba, Ningal-Sarbat only son, are raised together since childhood. Kun mentions to Reniae that he loved to listen to old stories from his mother

### The Salt Mountain Tribe Massacre

As the new Galtir, Gizzida orders the Golden Forest Temple to eliminate Kun's tribe through the Black Rock Mountain Tribe. Long-standing rivals, Black Rock Mountain tribe sends an envoy to the Salt Mountain Tribe for a marriage alliance in the Winter. They offer Kun, the next High Priest, to conduct the ritual in honor of the renovated Temple of Utu to reconcile their tribe's differences. The Salt Mountain Tribe agrees, and after the festivities, the Black Rock Tribe begins killing Kun's tribesmen as they proclaim their alleigance to the Golden Forest in the name of Armanu and Kata. During the massacre, Kun is only able to escape with the help of his axe he named Urtur.

Making his way to the border between the Salt Mountain Tribe and Black Rock Tribe at the Cedar Forest, he vows in the name of the Sun God Utu to solely devote himself to avenging his tribe by murdering the Black Rock Mountain peoples as he reels from the loss of his family and relatives.

### Meeting Reniae

Struck by an iron spearhead, Kun was nearing death with severe blood loss until Reniae stumbles upon his unconscious body in Cedar Forest. Reniae wakes him and guides him back to the raider's cave in the White Mountains.

Kun struggles to maintain consciousness over the following days as he recovers from his injuries. He becomes close with Reniae, and swears that he will repay her good deeds when he is capable. Reniae asks him to have sex with her as compensation, after Kun rejects Reniae's first request to kill her. He reluctantly agrees, and the two eventually consumate their promise.

Reniae prepares for Kun to escape from the raider's cave to return to the Northern Tribes, who has fully healed despite pretending his leg was still injured.

### Lugal Kun

Returning to Salt City, Kun is hellbent on exacting vengeance and reuniting the Northern tribes. After getting appointed as High Priest of Utu, he returned to Black Rock Mountain and slaughters its people over the course of a full day. Reuniting back at Salt Castle with each of the remaining 11 tribe leaders, Kun proclaimed war against the Golden Forest and Southlands to avenge their pillaging of the North. At that same day, Kun is crowned the new Lugal to lead the alliance of the 11 Northern Tribes.

### War

Eight years after parting from Reniae, Kun is reunited with her in the Northland when she is sent on a mission from Gizzida to assassinate him. He fights with Reniae before knowing her hidden identity and wins. Kun gets Reniae medical attention for her wounds from the fight and they declare their love for each other after he tells her the queen she has heard about was her. The Northland celebrates their queen returning to them. They plan to be married after Reniae recovers from her injuries, but that is stopped once Gizzida travels to Salt City to force Reniae to return to the Golden Forest with him. Reniae convinces Kun that she hates him and Kun watches her leave the Northland with Gizzida.

The events with Reniae and Gizzida weigh heavily on Kun until after he speaks to the merchant Telkos that traveled with Reniae and he realizes Reniae left to protect him and the Northlanders from Gizzida and his ability to use nigak in the Northland. Kun decides to fight in Gana Plains, border area between Northland and Southland, against the Southland forces and the priests and priestesses of the Golden Forest. They attack by night and win the war while trying to locate their queen, Reniae.

Kun decides to leave his men in Gana Plains and find Reniae by himself in the Golden Forest, but his men choose to support him and fight alongside him in the forest. They successfully defeat the remaining priests and priestesses and Kun finds Reniae just before she is fatally wounded by Gizzida. He watches as Reniae kills Gizzida with a branch from Armanu and becomes the new Galtir connected to Armanu. He then holds her as her body burns along with Armanu and the forest. Kun and Reniae say the ceremonial words to become married before she dies in his arms. As Kun holds Reniae, six wings burst from his back revealing that he is the true descendant of Kata, the six winged god.

### Aftermath

It is revealed in a story told by Southland people that the priests and priestesses of the Golden Forest were not descended from Kata, the Six Winged God, and Armanu but from Armanu and the Man-Eating Eagle. The children of the Man-Eating Eagle were as beautiful as Armanu as Kata already gave his glory of light to her. Kata, mistook them as his own, gave his remaining power to the beautiful children. Later when he realized his own children were still in White Mountains, he bounded the false children unto the Armanu tree, that they can only live as long as the tree lives. Then Kata went to protect his true offsprings. With the destruction of the Golden Forest and the tree Armanu, Kun was finally able to inherit his birthright, Kata's powers, and unite the people of the Northland and Southland.

## Quotes

> "In the name of Utu, presider of light and justice, I swear I will have vengeance! I will offer you all of your lives, as a sacrifice to satisfy Utu, Lord of Justice! I hereby make the same oath you did, to exterminate your entire tribe. In the name of Utu, I, Kun of Salt Castle, will exterminate every breathing being in that castle from the Chief's family, down to the newborn babies of the slaves and the livestokck in the barns. I swear in the name of the Great Sun I serve, and until I carry this out, there will be no funrals and mourning .There will e bno feasts to amuse me, no songs or dances to console me. And I will met no woman who can please me. Otherwise, let Utu's rage and curse fall upon me. Until I achieve my goal, nothing, nothing..."
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> -Kun's oath after the massacre of his tribe
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