Jehalson da Frostmarch

## Early life

Jehalson da Frostmarch was born a lonely child to a squatter family in western Frostmarch. While originally being trained to scavenge and live a nomadic life, Jehalson slowly but surely also learned the satirical arts of being a jester, serving as a traveler entertainer to various cities in the South of Rathnir. After the death of his family, Jehalson moved back to Frostmarch and settled down in an abandoned hut in the desert, which was aptly named after him by the locals. The town government found out about his squatting, and sent him an ultimatum to move out or face charges. Not wanting to settle in Frostmarch and seeking a more exciting life, Jehalson set forth north to the Kingdom of Dubris in Lunaris, where he heard change was taking place.

## Travels to the north

Being located in one of the most southern regions in Rathnir, Jehalson had a long journey ahead to the island of Dubris. He decided to take the nearest nether portal to go as far north as possible. While this seemed to be an efficient strategy, it also entailed a long and treacherous journey through several nether biomes, and eventually through a high way, where he narrowly escaped a lurking bandit. Once arrived at a suitable nether portal, he exited to discover being around two kilometers away from the island of Dubris. Walking and swimming the rest of the way there, he finally arrived at the island, only to discover that it was no longer a part of Lunaris, but rather a break-away state called the Republic of Hansa.

## Life at Hansa

Once arrived at Hansa, he started experimenting with brewing in a lab under the tavern of Henry Chamberlin. Henry would find Jehelson trade deals while Jehelson would brew them. After being able to create private connections within the Brewing market and making independent trade deals, Jehelson started selling independently of Henry, which angered Henry a lot as the structure laboratory under the tavern was originally built by him, however, Jehelson had built the means of production there.

After a three-day-long conflict, Jehelson decided to move out of the tavern, and with his wealth, he bought a shop across the town where he moved his brewery. After a three-month-long coma caused by having drank a dangerous experiment, he decided to rename himself “Itasoc”, a Hanseatic version of his name.

The new Brewers of Hansa shop in the industrial district thrived, and he managed to discover and create many drinks which lead to the boom in the Hanseatic brewing industry. During his experimentations, he also became a citizen of Nomedia and Lunaris, as he was seeking other markets to expand in.

## Nomedian Ministership and Return to Hansa

Having first been sent to Nomedia as a spy for Hansa, Itasoc obtained citizenship, and used the opportunity to expand his company into Nomedia. Spending a few weeks there, observing and gathering intelligence, Itasoc became more and more attached to Nomedia, eventually planning to help it by organizing a reconstruction of it. He ran for minister of Nomedia after the ONU government was well stabilized and elections happened. His opponent, GeorgiaMan, was known as a nationalist of the Kingdom of Reign, and so did not recieve many votes from the new population. But as Itasoc started seeing the voter turnout, he noticed the first problem with Nomedia. The population was largely made up of government officials and not working class citizens. At first he hoped this was just a voter turnout problem and that the nation actually had sizeable workforce. However, after his election into the position, and the start of his 4-week plan, he discovered that this suspicion was not true, and that the bureaucracy of Nomedia was as bloated as it was. With more than 60% of the population being in the government, and only 2 citizens being actual full time workers, Itasoc noticed that the labor force was not apt to start construction of the new Nomedia he envisioned.

At the same time, the BoH was growing in both workforce size and the drinks market in Hansa was expanding. As such, he gave a last ditch attempt to organize a workforce recruitment campaign, but it failed, leading to him retiring and his return to Hansa, this time as a full-time executive of the BoH.

Back at Hansa, he began experimentation of new drinks, and expanded the BoH menu into one filled with custom drinks as well as ancients and stocks. This built up, and ended up having him earn the Experienced brewer rank in the Stoneworks Brewers guild.

## The Mayday Revolution

Having noticed firsthand the poverty and economic injustices of the liberal republic of Hansa, as well as the widespread political violence within the country, Jehalson slowly became more radical. Being influenced first by the various socialist republics around Rathnir, as well as by his own views and morals of the world, Jehalson the Jester, Itasoc the brewer, and Officer Javert, decided on a fateful day to cast away the chains of his countrymen as well as his own, and launched the doomed Mayday Revolution. Having gathered the heads of the Hanseatic government at the top of the coffeehouse, he gave a brief speech on his origins and on his mutualistic ideals, before stabbing both of them, running into the plaza, gave another speech, and then threw himself into the ocean, where he would die.

The Mayday Revolution was largely inconsequential to Hansa, and only marked the fall of the BoH as an organized company.

## Mayday Revolution Speech

"To my fellow brothers and sisters of Hansa:

Our time as slaves is over. We have persevered and fought for our independence from Tessel, and through this, we have guaranteed a future of independence for our children and grandchildren. But how long will this freedom last?

We who have fought for our liberty have not been given the right to it -no- quite the contrary! The old masters of the past have perished, and in their place a new ruling class has been established: one which wants to establish dominion over us, not serve us, to put us back into the shackles of slavery. Do not fool yourselves with their excuses of solidarity and meritocracy, remember that a king is still a king regardless of his past!

As we have seen with the traitorous Henry Chamberlin and Ledvig Bach, these masters who claim to be our allies want nothing more than to enslave us once more under their monopoly of exploitation. They would rather have us be the peasants of Tessel than have us be free of them! They are the ones who agreed to sell us into independence rather than fight for us and they are the ones who will continue to barter our very souls until we fight for our justice.

You may be brought to think that the leaders of the Republic might be different than the traitors of the past, but the fact is that they share the same goals: the exploitation of our labor,  and our return to the plantations! Chancellor Chamberlin and Admiral Bach are nothing more than figureheads of the landowners, who seek to take away our rights to autonomy, democracy, and equality, and they are already in the process of doing so.

Shall we let ourselves be subjugated by these generals who call themselves emperors? Shall we allow the plutocrats of the past to become the monarchs of the future? No! We are not a people of docility, but one of revolution! We are the people who fought for our independence! We are the slaves who threw off their chains!

Don’t let the autocratic lies of Chamberlin and Bach catch you off guard, for the strength of their authority is akin to that of a twig, and our strength to that of a boot. We shall cast off our chains once more and claim our rights to liberty: for Hansa and humanity!

They may ask us who we are to break their falsely proclaimed power, their divine monarchy, their blood-stained crown.

To that, I say:

We are the common person: the worker, the nurse; the student and teacher; we are the farmer and the toiler; we are those who bring forwards progress and most importantly we are the people of Hansa. What mythical story can they tell to dispel a striking hammer? What feudal excuse can they create for a people hungry for justice?

None.

With the noble goal of equality before us and the blazing torch of liberty at hand, all we have to do is strike out against the oppressors and secure our rights to autonomy, democracy, and equality - for ourselves, our children, and all the people of Hansa.

Forwards comrades, to the future!"

- Jehalson da Frostmarch, 1st of March 2022, moments before throwing himself into the Hansean harbor