Tegula

His August Majesty

Great Khan

Bastards: ?

*"They call themselves kings now? emperors even? Bah! I founded the first and longest lasting Empire this world has ever seen. I alone can master of the blue flame magic. To Me, Soul hunters and Primordial Beasts are but mere playthings, and on top of that I command the greatest army in the world. So tell your king that he himself must bow before Me, and pledge his fealty to Me."*

- Tegula

**Tegula** is Great Khan of the Badlands and the god-emperor of the Piglin Empire. He is often called **The** **Tyrant** by his enemies.

He is one of the overarching villains in the Cradleworld, a terrifying Netherlord who's blood is the very source of the potent soul fire magic.

He has destroyed several kingdoms and other Netherlords in the past centuries and is the piglin most dedicated to eradicating the habit of killing and eating pigs. In battle he should be considered on the threat level of a final boss, someone to run away from, not towards.

He has ruled the Piglin Empire since it's founding on day 1, in October 2021.

## **Appearance**

The demonic pig lord towers impressively large at 2.5. He is of the rare blue piglin pedigree.

At thousands of years old, old age do not affect this piglin. His fur is bristling with blue embers, shimmering with the magic blood that runs through his veins. His tusks are gilded and his droopy ears are greenish blue and fitted with thick rings of yellow gold.

His eyes actually glow red in the dark, burning like the hottest depths of the Nether itself. A dark blue scar cuts across his left eye.

The Emperor dress in a red laquered piglin armor with golden details. He sports a crown fitted with diamonds, the largest carved into the shape of a blue flame.

## **Personality**

Tegula is furious. He is resentful and has a good memory. He never forgets. He never forgives.

The Snouted Netherlord has led his people for several lifetimes. He has seen entire generations of piglins live and die and the repeated sorrow and exhaustion of losing his people over and over and over again turned him cynical. Turned him cruel.

His rage is terrifying to behold. His wrath impossible to put out. He does not tolerate rudeness or disrespect towards his person or his people. He personally wiped out the Wither culture, culminating in the Burning of Dheuro. It is likely that he destroyed the Netherborne race in the city of Gehenna in the year -240, but this has not been confirmed.

He has a dark sense of humor, perticularly with his wife and family. His soft side is his daughter Empatio, the Piglin Princess whom he adores. The blue piglins live together in the palace, safely enscansed while their horde of underlings do their bidding.

## History

Main article: History of the Piglin Empire.

The Piglin Empire is the oldest surviving nation in the history of the world, and thus it's history spans all of recorded history. The piglin scribes recorded the rise of humans and other races, making old piglin books extremely valuable for students of history.

### The Dawn Age

Main article: The Dawn Age

Apart from the Gods themselves, Tegula is perhaps the oldest living being in the Cradleworld, with a few exceptions like Carrot the Parrot.

#### Early life

Not much is known of Tegula's early life, but with the written record he springs on to the historical and political scene as a great leader of piglins.

Much of his early life is shrouded in mysterious legend, but according to piglin legend, he gained knowledge of three schools of magic.

Tegula dubbed these powers the Three Arts of Destruction; Fire Magic, Soul Fire Magic and Lightning. Babar was the source of Fire Magic and Tegula taught the first priests how to wield the flames. The power of Lightning was kept as a secret tool that - if enough master magicians worked it - could power amazing machinery. But most of all, Tegula was willing to reform his own system when needed.

#### Moving to the Overworld

Tegula opened a portal to the Overworld and built a capital where they entered. For most of it's history, the piglins never strayed far from their walled city in the Overworld, prefering to bring in provisions and resources through the portal. Once the Nether became to inhospitable to provide food for the vast population of the piglins, they permanently moved to the Overworld and started expanding beyond the walls of the old city, out over all of the continent of Susa.

He fought Primordial Beasts and killed them to keep the Empire safe. Many and great where the beasts of old, but with the Bluflame Blade in his hand, the Emperor destroyed them all. His greatest feat was killing the Three-Headed Serpent Monster that haunted the Bacterian desert, burning its flesh to ash, boiling it's eyes and leaving the bones as a proof of his feat. Several centuries later the shifting sands have swallowed the remains of this great skeleton.

#### The First Golden Age

Tegula launched a Golden Age of piglin culture. Using the fire of Babar, they rose to become the first and mightiest nation this world has ever seen. They invented soulroads, portal travel and guns. They established contact with the Baron of Death, taught the first humans in Bacteria how to read and write, and their greatest feat of all: Breathed fire and life into inanimate objects, creating artificial life that was not quite the zombification used by the Baron, but something else entirely. After two centuries the piglins abandoned these experiments.

Year -178 of the Dawn Age, members of the Zenderius clan of the prehistoric Sea people (Which would later become olympians and hobbits) snuck into the Memnon Palace and stole the source of Lightning Power, the Trident of Lightning, The lightning power remained a powerful weapon within the Legion until the Great Doom. During the Age of Heroes, this crime severly contributed to the piglin-human wars and to the piglins subsiquent blood feud with the Zenderian bloodline.

His rule established some sort of contact with the Netherborne, a mysterious race even better suited to life in the Nether than the piglins themselves. Today, all but a few netherborne have been destroyed.

Year -178 members of the Zenderius clan of the prehistoric Sea people (Later olympians) snuck into the Memnon Palace and stole the source of Lightning Power, the Trident of Lightning, The lightning power remains the secret weapon within the Legion to this day and the subsiquent blood feud has claimed many lives.

### Age of Heroes

Main article: Age of Heroes

The Age of Heroes is the official server start when the great masses of players where finally allowed to join. It happened in September 2021 and lasted until the map change in October 2022 (The Great Doom).

Civilizations has come and gone, the big fish had eaten the little fish and the Emperor has paddled on, ever steering the course of the great piglin nation. As such, no living piglin remembers a time before him, they can't even comprehend it in their recorded history. He is as eternal as the name piglin itself. A pillar of their world view.

During the Age of Heroes, Tegula would sire an heir with the Empress. This was the first time in 700 years that a blue piglin had been born. The piglins and warthogs celebration lasted for over a year, and on her first birthday the Crown Princess was named Empatio by her dotting parents.

#### Straddling the world like a colossus

The Piglin Empire soon found themselves in a favorable position, As humans and other races emerged, they seemed content with infighting, Since the piglins did not find the northern lands hospitable they felt no need to conquer into other races territory, however, war and diplomatic crisis still arose,

Tegula had ordered his piglins to stop the advancement of the aquilan bridge, eventually leading to the Battle of the Bridge, the first armed conflict seeing piglins go up against all the civilizations to protect their border. The fighting was stopped when the Emperor appeared and forced the human-coalition to retreat.

With the kidnapping of Fred, Tegula personally led a rescue mission. at the handover of the prisoner, the treacherous aquilans murdered Fred the Pig. Tegula ordered his pigs to burn and kill everything in Aquila on their path back to their own territory, as vengeance.

Tegula led the piglin army to a strategic victory in the First Soulhunter-Aquilan war on 2021-11-23, where he intervened on the Soulhunter-side.

#### The Second Golden Age

The second golden age began at the start of 2022 and lasted until the Great Doom in October 2022. During this time, Tegula chose to adapt a wait-and-see-strategy to deal with humanity. Isolationism toward foreigners halted some trade, but great wealth still found it's way to the piglin coffers.

This resulted in peace in the south and a second golden age of the piglins, where they renovated the old capitol, created the first Soulroad, and perfected gunpowder weaponry with the introduction of the working musket.

Tegula ordered a trade embargo be placed on aquilans, for reasons of openly allowing the eating of pigs to go unpunished. Aquilans approaching piglin territory where slaughtered indiscriminately.

Tegula hosted the First Conference of Memnon on 2022-01-09, where all nations under the sun agreed to outlaw the terroristic cult of Tiamat/Bloody Queen-cultists.

Tegula was present with his daughter at the Snoutzibar Thanksgiving on 2022-04-23, making a rare public appearance.

On 2022-10-11 Tegula and his cohort of piglins visited the new town of Lionsmouth, establishing diplomatic contacts with it's leader Ygnard.

#### The Great Doom

At the end of October 2022, the Great Doom caused the destruction of the old world. The piglin cities of old was cast down in ruin, and the survivors was led by their god and their emperor to the other side of the world, to the new continent of Ardia.

#### Recent events

Tegula sent most of his piglins out to colonize the south and establish their towns. Within a short amount of time, the piglins had explored the south and claimed the Greater Badlands as their own.

Tegula ordered the piglins most loyal to him to start the construction of a great palace, that would function as a fortress of his people and a center for administration.

## **Abilities**

* **Overall Abilities:** A powerful magician and dangerous warrior, he is possibly one of the strongest threats for players in the Cradleworld.
* **Mastery of Blue Fire:** He can freely use all types of fire magic, including the unique Soul Fire.
* **Immense Strength**: The Emperor has herculean physical strength, being able to easily trade blows with several warriors at the same time.
* **Warlock**: Tegula is a warlock and can do many types of magic, like creating magical items, disguise himself or using blue fire to propel himself and fly.
* **Veteran**: 800 years of fighting has taught the Emperor a thing or two about swordsmanship. His martial skillset is superb.
* **Genius Intellect**: Tegula possesses an extraordinary level of intellect, most likely due to his advanced age and life experience. He ruled the Nether and the Piglin Empire for milennia before coming to Ardia. He is well-informed about current affairs and about significant figures among the other races.

## Special moves

These are his three spells that he can perform:

* **Hellfire cyclone: Armageddon:** Offensive ability. AoE Destruction that causes a 7 block wide and 15 block long street of soulfire explosions. This spell is a stronger variant of the ultimate fire spell, called Hellfire Cyclone.
* **Blue Inferno:** Static defensive ability. Wall of flames. Stepping through it kills you.
* **Firefly**: Tegula shoots blue flames from his feet, allowing him to propel himself and fly a short distance.

## Quotes about Tegula

*"Soul Hunters and Primordial Beasts are horrifying monstrosities, it's true. But this one... This one is different. One glance and you know you're looking at an apex predator. One glance and you realize how frail your body is. How slow your legs carry you. Your arms turn to jelly and fear poison the mind. One glance from this monster sent me reeling and haunted my sleep for years. Imagine how long he has existed. How much he knows. He is like a God walking on this earth and yet... Those red eyes shone in the dark of night... All I could see was a RAGE so unfathomable that I can never hope to describe it and do it justice. And for the worst moment of my life, those hellish beacons where directed right at me."*

- Kyrus the Historian.

*"They say he never sleeps. They say he never forgets what you do. They say that when he walks by, red flames burn blue."*

- Toad Darmotty.

*"How could we lose the war? Wolves are supposed to eat pigs!"*

*"Not this one, they don't."*

- Crippled survivor from the Aquila-Soulhunter war, explaining to a young recruit why the tide of battle was turned.

*"I've heard the Pig Emperor shits gold."*

- Olympian pleb

## Quotes by Tegula

*“Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”*

― **Tegula,** in the Aquila-Soulhunter War.

*"Now sit there and look upon the lands where doom shall come to your people. For you have mocked me, and questioned the power of Tegula, master of the fates of the Cradle. Upon your kin shall rest my curse for all eternity*

- Tegula to Catboy\_Greger who was locked with magic on the highest peak of the Badlands. During the middle of Age of Heroes.

*"I am fire. I am death."*

- Tegula

"Brave warriors! This is what you've trained for. Babar is with me and I am with you. Today we are taking no captives. We are getting justice for Fred and countless other pigs eaten by these savages. Remind them who's the baddest motherfuckers out there. Attack now sons of Babar! Burn their ship and burn Honkimus fucking wig while you're at it! Your Emperor watches! Your motherland watches! Now! Fight with all you have!"

― **Tegula's** speech to his piglins before joining the fray during the Aquila-Soulhunter War.

*“You dare touch me, you inbred filth!"*

― **Tegula's** insult before killing 3 civilians during a state visit to Olympus.

*"Nonsense! My priests can never commit a fault and if they do, they where led astray! I will have none of it!"*

― **Tegula's** response to the Consul's demand to rein in Saleera and the priesthood from committing state-sponsored arson in other kingdoms. Tegula increased the budget for the priesthood after this.

*"Eating pork is racial cannibalism and the most heinous sin. Every pork eater, wether man, piglin or otherwise, shall be exterminated. Mark my fucking words, piglins, if you don't bring their heads as proof of justice I will take yours."*

- Tegula to his people.

## Trivia

Tegula share similarities with Ganon from A Link to the Past visually and perhaps he was inspired by him. Vocally he reminds one of a mix of Winston Churchill and Emperor Palpatine.

His best friend is Saleera.

His mount is a huge hoglin, a huge war-boar in it's prime.

Tegula's account is also the Owner account of the server.

Before launching the server, Tegula actually played on the old world (first server) for months, building the city of Memnon in survival.