Andreas Gerran

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Nitegra

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**Andreas “Dreas” Gerran** was Konigsman metahuman of the Gerran family. He was hailed as the “Superman of Metahumans” for his unmatched arc prowess. He sought to end the discrimination against metahumans he saw, and to that end led his allies against the Ramantigue Empire in the Arc Wars. He would later become the governor of the province of Nitegra under the Duost Empire, and then First Archon of the nation of Nitegra once it gained its independence.

## Personality

As a child, Dreas was very compassionate. He loved his father, and desired to see him happy, willingly going along with the triarc experiments. Then, when Tysen Donovane died during the same experiments, Dreas decided on his own to keep a token of Tysen’s memory with him at all times, and also began studying dark arc outside of his work with his father. As a teenager, though he was extremely strong, he never flaunted his power, and was never too serious. When competing with the arcbeasts of the mountains in a never ending string of arm-wrestling matches, Dreas saw his constant victories in a fun way, not a dominating one. He believed he just happened to be the strongest, but that shouldn’t change anything. He is one to acknowledge his weak points and work to cover them, as shown with his friendship with Irotas, who, though extremely weak, could outsmart Dreas at every turn. He would seek help from Irotas and his older sister Dona to fill the holes in his capabilities.

"The Mettle" is Dreas personal philosophy of overcoming adversity, and not letting things like revenge and hatred cloud the mind.

## History

### Ramantigue Empire

Dreas was born in the Tegrana territory of the Ramantigue Empire to Marcurias Gerran and Cleovara Gerran. Dreas grew up in a time when many powerful metahuman families were gaining prominence, and as a result, the Empire was very distrustful of metahumans who didn’t swear absolute allegiance to Emperor Ramantigue.

At his birth, Dreas was seen as a tool tobyhis father. Marc had recently discovered a way to treat the demonwave, through an innovative application of the simultaneous use of three arcs, to allow the metahuman body to synthesize metal, creating the the Metal triarc. While this method couldn't cure demonwave cases, as only the mysterious powers of the Greatest Generation could completely eliminate the demonwave virus, the metal triarc was meant to contain the demon wave, and halt the spread of the disease.

Marcurias Gerran had another child, Dreas’ older sister Dona. Dona’s blood had already settled by the time he had concocted the alchemical compound to instill the metal triarc. So instead, he turned to his young son Dreas. Dreas was an excellent candidate. Not only because of his young blood, but because he was already a prodigious user of the earth arc. Earth, Marcurias theorized, was not only a component element of metal, but its elemental base. Marcurias worked alongside two other scientists, Aklus Donovane of the Ira province, as well as a Sovereignty refugee named Torian Durmwell. While all too old to experiment on themselves, the three used those close to them. Marcurias, believing earth arc was the elemental base for the metal triarc, infused his own, earth arc-rich blood into the formula to try to impart metal arc onto his son, Andreas. Aklus and Torian believed the three elements of earth, fire, and light were equal in the creation of the triarc. Aklus offered his son, Tysen, to the experiment, while Torian offered his ward, Morian, to the experiment. Despite casualties, the experiment was considered a success, for with the death of both Tysen Donovane and Morian, the metal triarc was instilled in young Dreas Gerran’s blood.

Even at this young age, Dreas was perceptive enough to know that Tysen’s sacrifice had something to do with his new power, but he wasn’t sure the specifics. As a result, though he was now innately imbued with metal, he began studying techniques of the dark arc, in honor of Tysen Donovane. While his metal arc was completely original, forming off his body in spear-like tendrils, he utilized the dark arc much like the Vane had been using it for generations, to coat his melee attacks and to simply summon and incite darkness.

As a teenager, Dreas was taken to the Luxuria Mountains, an arc-environment populated mostly by different species of primates. There he learned that his father’s great strength came not only from a masterful use of the Earth arc, but also from the Wild arc. The Gerrans and their immediate branches were some of the few humans allowed into Luxuria by the apes. The Gerrans were inherently tied to the Earth arc, being descendent from the hero Elk. This made them sturdy and strong, and, in addition, most of the apes of Luxuria wielded Earth arc as well, so this created a kinship between the two groups. Dreas’ father was one of the strongest humans the ape’s had seen until they began to train Dreas. The apes took a particular interest in him, because even at a young age, he could beat most of them in arm wrestling just with his base strength and earth arc. One ape intrigued Dreas the most because it wasn’t the strongest, but in fact the weakest. Irotas was a black baboon, and was the pariah of the mountain. He was considered  a freak, and connected to the dark arc. This gave him higher mental abilities, and he could communicate with humans directly through their minds and understood their languages. He was the smartest primate, and after Dreas got bored of beating most of the apes in physical contests, he resorted to playing Irotas in “chess”, which he always lost. Irotas helped Dreas hone his dark arc powers, and the two grew very close.

Irotas returned to the Blade with Dreas, and, with Dreas intimidation, the apes at least pretended to be sad to see Irotas go. Back in the Blade, Dreas learns that his much older sister, Dona, has returned on leave from Hell Island. A master of the dark and earth arcs, Dona is excited how Dreas has taken to the dark arc, and not let the power of the metal arc go to his head. She taught him her new technique to manipulate the sizes of things, and through further development and tutoring by Irotas, Dreas invented the Voidmaster Technique.

With his age, Dreas’ power only grew. He developed ways to cover for his metal’s weak shapes to increase its offensive and defensive capabilities, and use both dark arc and Irotas for many supporting actions. Upon his inevitable appointment to Hell Island as a young man, he was introduced to large numbers of foreign metahumans he never had a chance of meeting in the Blade or even Tegrana for that matter. It is here he met allies like Danael Nemesine, Siante Ectara, and Mergerro Rockfield, who enlightens Dreas to the power of Vision. The power of Vision was the fundamental curriculum of arcsmen of his nation, the Remmah Kingdom. Meanwhile, the powerful metahumans of the Ramantigue Empire focused more on hereditary abilities and arc combinations, and only just began to see the merits of adding Vision *onto* their existing powers. Through training and missions with Mergerro, Dreas comes to master the Visions of Power, Fortitude, and Radiance, which leads him to create the legendary Andreas Cannon.

The more powerful and prominent metahuman families were shirking military duty for what they perceived as a more noble position on Hell Island. Emperor Ramantigue saw this a consolidation of power against him. The common folk did nothing but praise Ramantigue, but he was persecuting powerful families in his lands like Nuvaport, Gerran, Randall, Donovane, Diemare, who were creating triarcs and advanced arcs, and feared for his position as leader. Dreas and his Hell Island peers fear Ramantigue will begin using rhetoric and propaganda similar to Helvetica, and will turn the humans against the metahumans. This eventually comes to pass. The Emperor claims the metahumans are amassing power to take over the world. In truth, these powerful metahuman families are more scientific and curious about it. What is the extent to their ability? Why? When? Where? Who? What? About arc power. Ramantigue himself was a metahuman, and employed them in his army, but he attacked and pursued those that didn’t ally themselves with him and his political entity, revealing himself, subtly, as a metahuman supremacist. He desired all the power on his side, with the metahumans forming a superclass above the humans.

### Arc Wars

On leave in the Blade, Dreas hears about the Kulan Incident, and is present when Efferet Kulan eventually makes it to Tegrana. With the information from Efferet in the hands of the Hell Island staffers, they make their hard stand against the imperial faction. During the First Siege of Hell Island, Dreas goes up against Eodold Nuvaport, a staunch supporter of Ramantigue out of duty, not necessarily shared ideals. This angers Dreas, who defeats Eo with only Vision. Afterwards as a prisoner, Nuvaport sees Dreas’ way, and agrees to join their cause. As this “Rebellion” is housed on an Island, most of the battles are naval, and rarely hit the island after Nuvaport’s first siege. In addition, during the battles at sea, Dreas was responsible for travelling the world and curbing the demonwave with his metal arc. Though at first few request his services as he is in open rebellion against the Empire, he slowly gains allies and a following on the mainland because he is seen as a salvation figure. Dreas and Eo Nuvaport, his lightning-user ally, had constructed a large charged domed around the island to ensure the particles don’t escape. After a long time of this, the demonwave loses its airborn powers, and transmits only through blood contact, meaning the staff of the island are safe.

The rebels believe they need a more mainland presence, and so they make their way to Tegrana, the province with the most support. However, upon landing, they are confronte by the Scale, who had left their jurisdiction in the Blade to confront the rebels on the coast. There Dreas learns of the quieted civil war in the blade, and how the city is under his father’s control, and the imperial forces were ousted. The Scale were created by the empire, and so they abandoned their post as protectors of the anti-imperial Blade, and headed to the cost to find passage to Ramantiga. The battle is quite one-sided, with the Hell Island Staffers deicisviely defeating the Scale, who they bring back to the blade to imprison. The rebellion then uses the Blade as a base of operations closer to the rest of the people of the empire. With a larger network of information, the rebellion secures proof of Efferet’s claim, that an Imperial Arcsman was responsible for the attack on the Kulan Wood. They release this information to the empire and beyond, with triggers the Hell Island Desertion. A small cell of Imperial spies on hell island defect, brining to Ramantiga with them sample of demonwave particles.  These two actions are cited as the official beginning of what would be know as the Arc Wars between imperial loyalist and rebels of Tegrana and Hell Island.

Immediately, Dreas tried to ensure all the humans of the empire he could that they are fighting for everybody, because Ramantigue’s increasing power hungry tendencies will not end well for people who can’t protect themselves. Therefore, let us protect you. The metahumans fighting for Ramantigue fight for honor and duty. Some christen themselves the "New Great Generation", likening themselves to Vacelum and his students, only this time they fight for an empire rather than against it. The capitol is near impossible to approach, a chain of fortress islands in the middle of an ocean. To the common people, the rebellion was led by three metahumans: Dreas Gerran, triarc wielder, powerful charismatic metahuman; Eodold Nuvaport, triarc wielder powerful ex-imperialist, convinced by Dreas to join the rebellion; and Siante Ectara, metahuman genius and expert tactician. The rebellion spreads through Cendor easily with Eo at the helm, and Draccala joins along as well after short periods of fighting. Korrento is staunchly imperialist, as their economy revolves around aid from a larger entity. As such, they fall to a group military expedition pincer maneuver by naval Cendor forces and a group land attack of Tegrana and Draccala forces. Dynoa remains imperialist. Some historians claim this was due to a water-arc kinship, but most believe the Dyna, once enslaved by the Helvedic Empire, were collectively afraid of going against imperial wishes, and conformed for safety. Ira was kept imperialist with foreign aid by the Old Vanaean Throne.

With the all the western provinces in rebellion against the empire, they prepared their joint naval assault on Ramantiga. Dreas and his father, along with countless other Gerran and earth arc users, detach Hell Island from the ocean floor, and begin moving it, acting as the rebellions flagship as they make their way towards Ramantigue himself. The Imperial Forces are backed by the Dyna, the Vane, and the OVT, and the final battles encompass the entire Ramantiga Archipelago. The rebels reach the capitol and collectively defeat Ramantigue and stop his plan to release a demonwave plague on his enemies. In his defeat, Ramantigue reveals his success. He succeeded in creating demonwave warriors, like those who fought the Greatest Generation, though they were created on the mainland. With most of the naval battles ended and the fighting transitioning to the archipelago itself, the rebels do not notice the demons coming across the ocean from the OVT. In Ramantiga, Dreas, Eo, and Siante only get word of the demons after they have landed on Hell Island, defeated all the staffers, and absorbed the entire demon population of the island. As Dreas rushes to go deal with them, as Elk dealt with them before, he is approached by Eo and Siante, who insist on coming with him.

Siante coordinates relief efforts, using who is still available at the end of the wars to evacuate those still living on Hell Island. Meanwhile, Eo and Dreas stand before the demons, who have gained sentience, introducing themselves as Gallo and Boxwood. Dreas and Eo return do battle with the two. With Dreas’ immensely powerful metal abilities, and Eo’s powerful quake abilities, Siante became concerned that Dreas and Eo may destroy the island and inflict major harm on the planet in their efforts to eliminate the demons. As the battles intensify, the remaining Gerrans lift Hell Island out of the ocean and into the sky. They succeed in weakening the demons enough for Dreas to seal the particles, but at the cost of the destruction of the whole island. Eo however, couldn’t safely immobilize his foe, and had to destroy him, releasing the particles. As debris falls back into the ocean, water-arc users try to curb flooding, and others find Dreas and Eo’s bodies afloat in the water. They are alive.

### Reformation

In recuperation, Dreas, Danael, and Siante and instrumental in restructuring the empire now that the Ramantigue Empire is no more. The provinces are renamed, to distance them from the separate, ethnocentric societies they had been in the past, and new more politically powerful Archons were put into power. Specifically Eo was instilled as Archon of the Accendria province, and Dreas Gerran was made Archon of the Nitegra province.

### Duost

While Danael remained in the Blade with Dreas, Siante left with the group that would reform the large-scale government of Ramantigue. They went to the Ramantic colony of Shira, Siante’s home nation, and in Siante’s first move that made Dreas question him, he moved the capitol to Shira. Dreas knew the capitol couldn’t remain in Raman, however putting the capitol in a place that was until recently just a colony, and one that was not central to empire didn’t seem prudent. Siante assured Dreas the oligarchs knew what they were doing.

Dreas felt further betrayed by Siante with the official declaration of the Dusot Empire, named for the oligarch’s support and conversion to the Duost religion, which ostracized the Tegra ethnic group. Despite these religious reforms, the Duost empire greatly increases its member provinces stability and self-sufficiency.  Dreas loses contact with Siante, and eventually has three sons, Georgius, Jonnar, and Regulos. Dreas helps trains George in his earth-arc strength, Jon in the metal arc, and has little in common with Regulos.

### Duost Revolution

Dreas participated very little in the revolution combat wise, as he had a province to run in the meanwhile. After his son Jonnar led the war that brought down Siante’s empire, Dreas abolished the empire, and stepped to the forefront of history as the first Archon of the *nation* of Nitegra.

### Reconstruction

Dreas great charisma caused others to follow suit, as he ascension to nationhood was followed shortly by his old friend Eodold Nuvaport announcing his independence from an imperial entity, rising as the Archon of the *nation* of Accendria. With the other nations following suit, the Reconstruction Wars commenced. Dreas organized the Nitegran forces during the Rust War, and at its end, abdicated his Archon position to his son George (Jon perished in the aftermath of the Duost Revolution, and Regulos had left the Blade a criminal).

### Modern Era

Dreas death by old age is announced. With the apparent deaths of both Jonnar Gerran and Josh Gerran, the world believes the power of the Metal triarc has left Nora with Dreas' passing.

## Legacy

* Dreas’ left Nitegra with what would come to be known as the Mettle, his person philosophy of overcoming adversity, and not letting things like revenge and hatred cloud the mind.
* Directly, Dreas’ death without another living Gerran who could use the Metal Triarc triggered the Kleo Coup.
* Dreas is known in history as one of the strongest metahumans who ever lived.
* His creation of the posthumously named Andreas Cannon has been learned and adapted by many of his descendants and their close allies.