Frederick I

> I am the red duke, a bloodkin, and i shall have my people prosper.
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**Frederick I** , also known as **Frederick the Red Duke**, was the duke of Bloodkeep and lord of Bloodstone from the lost world of kylorne. He started House PureBlood and his descendants still rule bloodkeep to this day,

## Biography

### Early life

Being born in the united tribe of the theisites ruled by his father, he was the heir to the tribe.

However his fathers lust got the better of him and soon he had brothers and sisters. While he grew up with them he started to care not if he was not to gain his fathers entire lands but an equal part of it split before him and his brothers, for that he loved them and wished for them to gain theyr own lands.

But his father never wished for his tribe to be split, the tribe he had worked his entire life for, consulting the local wise woman, she told him of a way to spill theyr blood and still keep him in the eyes of the gods as worthy, for that you see kin-slaying was a grave sin.

He gathered the materials needed by the wich and using them he called once by one his sons, the only ones who could split his lands.

The ritual was complex , it involved blood, and trees, in wich the two shall fight for the tribe, whoever was the last to fall from the tree was declared victorious and gained the others lands and life.

### Founding of Bloodstone

When he found out about all this, Frederick at the time known as boar-killer, he wished to kill his father, but when contemplating it in the nearby forest, the forest itself seemed to tell him to flee south.

Following this encounter, and the death of his last brother, he ran south, never to return. On his way to find a new home he saw ostion keeps, lakes, rivers, crimson wolfs.

And than he found a crimson rock, on a field of flowers. That is where, with the little friends he brought with him he build a keep. Soon the keep got the locals, the freefolk they called themself to come to and settle near it. And soon Bloodstone was born, as Frederick as theyr lord.

And as the city grew, walls were build, jobs were made, he grew older, and no heir was made. Than on a hunt, as he aimed his bow, a crimson wolf from behind, jumped on him and swiftly cut his aorta, but gathering his power, he slew the wolf and as his people soon rushed him to a wierd glowing red rock they found in the mines, once placed there,tentacles of blood covered him and he emerged from it as a new , healed and alive, a bloodkin. In an event that he described as some sort of dream where he met a godess that aided him, he learned about his new form and its powers.

### Red Duke of Bloodkeep

After his transformation, and his new-found faith he was crowed,in a house as the duke of Bloodkeep. His people flurished and the nearby colony of Saingone came under his banner swearing fealty.

Soon Araxis introduced themself to the new duchy and they aided Frederick I in finding what remained of his father. As by the standard of the theisites he and multiple low-born women, and theyr sons whould only know theyr true father only when they have proven themself as a skilled individual.

Years went past, and Frederick II was about to turn 16, and his father whould allow him to join him in his court.However in an attempt to learn more about his gods, Frederick I faked his own death and gave his duchy to niram, the than head councilor of araxis. After Frederick II retook his father throne via the support of the local nobility and people, his father hid from him only reaviling himself to still be alive a few weeks before the 2nd feast of bloodkeep,

Frederick I wandered his gods realm, the ocean of blood, inside it, he found truth, power and new ways to bend blood to his will. He left the blood ocean a changed man, and aided in the dowfall of Frederick II, by masking himself of Gerald, the than marshal of bloodkeep, and smuggling Frederick III, out of the city and into The Hallows. He than aided in the siege of Bloodstone, making sure Frederick III and his band enter the city safe and sound, and finnaly using his knolage of the bloodlake and ocean of blood to make Frederick II abdicate the throne to his son.

### Arrival to Eldham

In recent times the rift that was started than by the familly has healed, and the entire familly working togheder made it out of kylorne via the use of a god-way. Via the power and use of the god-way under Old Bloodstone they managed to escape, not after sacrificing an extreme quantity of blood to the gods.

His sons him and his grandson as well as the nobles of the realms were sput out at one of the 3 exists into the world, with the peasents and army exiting at difrent points.The gods also apear lost in the world and they will need to be found and taken back to theyr people if they have a chanse to not break in this new world.