Amour O'dorrah

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**Amour O'dorrah**, often referred to by his forename only, is a Lausán journalist, editor, jurist and the current 8th Judge of the United Socialist States of Eldham.

Born to a humble family on the Dendoran island off the Akaishiran coast, he spent a short period of his childhood there, apprenticing in the few fields and disciplines his parents and the island's small community offered.

After the Dendoran Disaster and the eventual demise of the entire island alongside most of its community and his own family, Amour and a few other survivors managed to escape the inferno and sought shelter on the Akaishiran coast; which later on became his home and residence in Serrona and the continental USSE.

A skilled writer with an eye for the nooks and crannies of everything that comes in his sight; a talent Amour utilized quite well during his adolescence when he joined the Law School at the University of Akaishiro. During these years in university he got more involved in and learned on Akaishiran politics and subsequently, the USSE political scene. He kept a keen eye mostly on Serronan politics generally and regional Union policies specifically. All this culminating eventually with Amour joining the Communist Party of The United Socialist States of Eldham, which all but fueled his passion for writing and editing for the national newspaper, The Red Star.

After Mestur Nethin's close victory in the 281 TE General Secretary elections, the newly appointed Cabinet saw the rise of Commissioner Krakhov to power as Commissioner of Justice and 1st Judge of the USSE. Soon afterwards Krakhov implemented a series of judicial reforms followed by the appointment of two more judges, Diakyta Vauper as the 7th Judge followed by O'dorrah as the 8th Judge of the USSE.

## Biography

### Early life

#### Childhood

Born to a lower-middle-income family on the small island of Dendora, in northwestern Aooleif Sea, Amour was raised a modest life by his parents and his older sister Mariyam. His father, Ebra O'dorrah was a renowned architect and civil planner on the small island before its eventual demise. His mother, Lola Devalla, was a Mari teacher and preacher in the island's humble parish. Amour spent most of his time reading and apprenticing at the hands of the island's craftsmen. His relationship with his mother and sister was nothing short of love and light-hearted fun all around. His relationship with his father on the other hand was a rather complicated mixture of love, respect and fear. Sufficient to say that despite this, his father was a central figure to how Amour's personality was shaped as it is today.

#### Life on the island

The Island of Dendora was an island in the northwestern part of the Aooleif Sea, speculated to be situated somewhere east of Medtremar. The small island had a lively seafaring community that dealt in fishing and pearl-diving, whom Amour accompanied to train and apprentice under to learn all the skills he would later need to survive the seas by himself. Many of these various local trades the island supplied exclusively to the Aooleif Sea basin trading routes (such as the banana leaf trade.) The island's main trade partner was most likely the city of Akaishiro, which later became Amour's refuge and shelter in the aftermath.

### Eruption of Mt. Dora, the Dendoran Disaster.

The Dendoran island where Amour and his family lived went through a series of cataclysmic disasters and events that eventually led to the destruction and decimation of almost all forms of life and civilization on it and later, the erasure of the island entirely off the map. These events, often named the 'Dendoran Disasters,' were put to motion with the onset of an earthquake so strong it reawakened the dormant volcano of Mount Dora, on the eastern side of the island. Soon followed one of the worst ecological disasters in eastern Serrona to date, with Mt. Dora's eruption the entire sky was darkened within minutes and covered in a grey blanket that ushered demise for the inhabitants of the island. Fire was widespread and lava run rampant across all directions of the island. At which time Amour was returning home after a long day working in the sea. After the initial shock and with the realization in, Amour ran for the residence of his family only to find it almost entirely collapsed under the volcanic meteor shower raining hell on the islanders. Spare for one place that was about to collapse as well, his older sister's room. Fighting his way out after dragging her unconscious, covered-in-burns body out of the rubble to his best ability.

#### Scarring and eye loss

During Amour's escape with Mariyam a violent volcanic debris struck them both from above, in the last moment before it hit them, Mariyam, to her best exhausted power, managed to push Amour out of the direct impact's way just enough to save his life, subsequently getting killed in his stead. The impact nevertheless was so powerful that it blasted a shard of lava on Amour's left eye and a large part of his head as well. It burned his eye dead and scarred a good part of his head and hair. The only thing he had at that moment was a piece of cloth remnant from Mariyam's arm that he used as a makeshift patch to calm the burn and stop his eye bleeding. Later on in the aftermath, it was this same piece of Mariyam's clothes that he used as an eyepatch to hide his left eye's scar from then to this day.

### Life after Dendora

The events of the Dendoran Disasters soon settled, with the destruction of the entire island, spare for those who managed to run to the seas, or those who were already in the sea by then. Amour was lucky enough to barely reach the shores of the island, and latch to one of the many boats and rafts scattered all over the shore, whose owners now either burned, drowned, or missing and presumably dead; as was the case with Amour's own parent's.

#### Asylum in Akaishiro

Amour's life was nothing short of a mess by now, with no family to get back to, no home behind him, and nothing but the vast sea in front of him. One of the many times he held onto life with sheer skill and willpower was then and there as he started to settle down, and accept the reality of things and plan for his next step. Which was headed towards the city of Akaishiro.

His complicated emotional state was briefly expressed in this excerpt from his journal during his travel:

> *''I feel abandoned, discarded and worthless, I lost all and all. The sea looks endless, but I'll keep rowing... and one day, I'll reach the shore.''*
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Soon after, Amour found himself ashore the Akaishiran borders. Expecting the worse Amour tried to find anything he can make a weapon from but found nothing spare for a few pages he always had on him, some ropes and the ashes he accumulated and later on used to write with. And to his surprise he was met with nothing short of generosity and accommodation by the PSB agents and the Akaishiran port authorities. During his stay at the Akaishiran border, the treatment of the PSB agents during the examination generally, and Agent Ruben Ronango'O specifically was what encouraged and later on helped Amour decide to fully immigrate and become a citizen of the USSE.

Amour enrolled in the University of Akaishiro, majoring in Constitutional Law and taking a minor of Journalism. His personality began to take form by the day. His involvement in the daily campus life, his small time work as a journalist for the Red Star and the political fervor all around him led him to read more and learn about Xeroism and political thought. Having already had political opinions - although never voiced out - on the greed of the few and class struggle, he found himself in line with what she was advocating for. He began educating himself on various causes but ultimately came to believe the righteousness of Xeroise's cause and what she described as *adaptive revolution.* This eventually led Amour to join his fellow Xeroists and join the Communist Party of the USSE.

### Commission of Justice

Amour graduated with honours in Constitutional and International Law. Something he held with pride during his judiciary tenure. He continued practice in advocacy until the appointment of Krakhov of Kazkaya as Commissioner of Justice and First Judge of the current Eight appointed Judges licensed to arbitrate and judge on different manners and aspects of law within the Union. Soon after the implementations of Krakhov's reforms, Amour was appointed as the Eight Judge of the USSE. To this day, Amour keeps working as a jurist and judge, advising on matters of constitutional importance and gravity when needed.

### Commission of Information

Having already worked for the national newspaper for a while, he kept a low profile, covering various events but most importantly the SPA Elections following Mestur Nethin's elections. That was until Commissioner Pakartov tasked Amour with an emergency edit of that week's edition; an edition that was delayed more than once owing to technical complications within the Commission of Information. Amour accepted hesitantly, unsure whether he was ready for such work yet. Time went by and proved he was up to the task, having introduced a whole new format and architecture of the paper. It was met with acceptance and joy from several influential and public figures, and eventually Amour was promoted to the full-time position of Editor-in-Chief and eventually the new Director of Operations of the Commission. Overseeing the day to day operations of the various media outlets that the commission has to offer.

#### Radio Lausá

Around the winter of 291 T.E, Amour directed the establishment of Radio Lausá, under the supervision of the Commission of Information, premiering that newly birthed national radio presence with the debates of the 20th GenSec elections between running candidates Solastaran Serebra of Renapheus and Mànisol of Gehenazar. The debate was held near the People's Hall in the USSE capital, Kazkaya. It saw the beginning of a new era of telecommunication and broadcasting of information, an era that came with many merits and challenges alike.