EdwardPaine

**Edward Paine** is the Gyzkhuz prophet, Head of state of Gyzkhuza, and mayor of Ekitokoy. He was the Portmaster in Pirate's Rest, owned by the Broken Skull Pirates. He also was the previous Lord of Xuetlba, a failed mining/kelp town.

## Biography

### Xuetlba

One of the flaws Edward Paine suffers from is his own ambition but lack of drive. Nothing exemplifies this aspect of his character better than the failed city of Xuetlba. Founded on a coastal badland after the discovery of an ancient mining site, Xuetlba was originally founded as a mining town after the discovery of large gold deposits. Edward Paine as Lord and, for a short time, only inhabitant of the city immediately began terraforming and developing artificial soil for farmland and for felling imported Acacia. Revelling in his own success, he soon forgot the fact that not only was the town founded on Ravenguard soil, the gold deposits were quickly being depleted. Three more came to live in the town, before all of them abandoned the settlement, leaving Edward alone in now worthless land. Edward Paine discredits the effort of his citizens and feels betrayed by them. Soon, he shut the city down, leaving signs around the premises to explain what the plans and buildings were for.

### Broken Skull Pirates

Soon after Xuetlba was abandoned, Edward Paine continued to develop feelings of frustration with the limitations on his ambitions set by the overwhelming power of nations. He despised the organized religions which he now deemed a scam. Most of all, he developed hatred towards Ravenguard. He blames powers like Ravenguard for the lack of power he himself can actually obtain. Frustrated, he decided to try to join a group of bandits or pirates. At the same time, Tanner Orin and CarlCassel massacred many dogs during one of their raids. Seeing both the frustration from Dog worshippers and the general masses, he immediately set out to be recruited by the two into their pirate band. Edward Paine now felt that he didn't need to own a mighty civilization to be a great in history books, he just needed to make it into the books by any means.

### The Bid War

The Bid War was a comedic war in which users Lemon, SirRasputin, Dark Drak and the "witch" (What they called themself) fought in the auction house over a single enchanted golden apple that Edward had put up for 200 starting price. The final price was over 70k, and Paine promised to write an epic story detailing protagonists, antagonists, and side characters based off of who the bidders were and how they behaved in chat. It is currently being written on hiatus.

### End of Broken Skull Pirates

After Broken Skull Pirates became inactive for a considerable period of time, and as the active portmaster of an empty port, Edward Paine left signs describing his future plans for Broken Skull, and a collection of books in his private residence. Work on the book had gone on hiatus. Edward Paine hid a portion of his riches somewhere beneath the ocean at Pirate's Rest, however the distance from shore is not given.

### Ekitokoy

After leaving Broken Skull Pirates, he founded a village south west called Ekitokoy, or "Two Forests". The abundance of terracotta, varied trees and resources, and beautiful coastal reefs made it far too attractive to not settle. Currently, Ekitokoy is under terraforming and construction in order to make a White Terracotta based village with a port and room for expansion in population.

### Gyzkhuza

After having visions of three men separated by brick, he built a statue depicting it. He sensed some power had been released when the symbol was created, and thus formed a new religion based on the creation of statues depicting three "Gyzkhuz". Using money he had gained when he was in the pirate crew, he founded a new nation, Gyzkhuza, and began to completely cover Ekitokoy's surface in white terracotta to lay out a new plan for construction of the The Holy Ekitokoy City, which is currently the capital.