Sofus Tanael

Sofus Tanael is the founder and leader of Eden's Awoken, as well as the writer of their religion's book, Serpent's Truth and the founder of the town of Nuhoben. He his generally a closed off and jaded person, however he still enjoys company. Although Sofus wishes to spread his ideology, he isn't very aggressive in doing so. He believes appealing through friendly relations and still coexisting with those who worship deities is a better strategy then attempting to force his ideals on others, since fighting others only weakens the mortal nations overall. He is still more then willing to take up his blade if needed.

## Early Life

Sofus was born as a bastard child to an unknown father and a human mother in the old Empire, though his father is believed to have not been entirely human due to the non-human traits Sofus himself exhibits. His religion was passed on to him by his mother, who was potentially told of it by Sofus' father. His mother died in the Empire's fall, and has an ornamental grave next to his house in Eden's Awoken. He believes the fall of the Empire to have been orchestrated by the Demiurge to prevent mortals from growing too strong.

## Recent Events

### Founding of Eden's Awoken and conflict with Thaustein

Sofus ventured alone to found a new faction in the wake of the Empire's fall, and built Eden's Awoken himself on top of a mountain, coincidentally not far from where Thaustein was founded. While he quietly worked on establishing himself there, Thaustein grew, and eventually threatened Eden's Awoken (still consisting only of Sofus) with vassalization, or else they would go to war. Sofus knew he wouldn't be able to beat them on his own, so he laid traps in his mine and rigged the mountaintop to explode, as well as placing lava inside the mountain that would be exposed by the explosions.

After negotiations with Thaustein collapsed and he was beaten inside of one of their halls, he lured their leader Lancelot to the bottom of his mineshaft, which was rigged with tnt, and then tried to finish him off himself, though he was again defeated. As a last resort, he triggered the exposives at the top of the mountain, but eventually had to concede defeat. Thaustein assisted with repairing the moutaintop, and him and Lance grew a mutual respect for each other. Despite the hostile vassalization, Sofus grew to be a trusted ally of Thaustein and rose to a high commander in their ranks.

### After Vassalization

Thaustein was good to Sofus granting him much netherite to upgrade his equipment, and he did his best to serve them well in return, working on several different projects for them. During the search to the southwest that led to the public discovery of the great rift, Sofus came across a Pillager Outpost, and later built an entire small fort around the structure, using it to gain large amounts of XP for enchanting projects.

Soon after Sofus has written Serpent's Truth, news spread about a shipwreck and the disappearance of Argore Austirbergi. Since he was already making a trip to the area of Scholar's Rock to drop off a copy of his scripture, he went on to investigate the shipwreck and discovered Argore's personal effects among the wreckage, including their Journal, 4 books containing the digits of pi, a fossil fragment, a chainmail chestplate, and a raw cod. Sofus made copies of the Journal, dropping the original off at Scholar's Rock along with the pi books, but kept the fossil and the chestplate for safekeeping since he didn't know what to do with them.

### Leadup to the World Congress

As tensions rose between Eastrock and Thaustein, Sofus worked for Thaustein on several secret projects, heading a few of them himself. As the World Congress drew near, with a lawsuit being raised against Eastrock by Thaustein, he met with Empress Tatiana and offered to be a spy for her inside of Thaustein to replace the one that had been caught, in exchange for support in seceding from them. In fact, this was all a farce, and he had formed private plans with Lancelot that he would mislead Eastrock in any possible future hostilities through this false alliance. As part of his meeting with the Empress, he agreed to vote in Eastrock's favor during the lawsuit, and help supply them for their defense (of course not planning on actually providing many resources)

Sofus was present at the first World Congress, and shot Cowslayer twice as he was being disruptive, instantly killing them both times. Its unclear how canon Cowslayer's presence was in rp since their card was still filled with all the defaults and they had no character yet, although they were appointed as the new leader of Eastrock (soon to be Cowrock) in the same state. Although he was planning to vote in Eastrock's favor during the lawsuit to maintain his cover, the events of the Five Minute War made this unnecessary, and he was one of the many factions to declare war.

### Postwar Period

Sofus was present for both the bombing of Thaustein and the encampment war. At the second congress, he volunteered to work on the new highway project, and constructed one from the Capital leading north to the road between Thaustein and Eastrock (now the Ivotus Republic)

Without projects to keep him occupied and connected with others due to Eastrock's total collapse, he became more isolated and it began to bother him. In this time, he built a small village under his home base, as well as getting a chicken named Cockatrice that he built a special coop for by his house. While these helped, the isolation continued to eat away at him and during the opening of Northwood College, he got incredibly drunk on the provided alcohol as well as more that he had brought with him. Following this, he began learning to brew it himself in his underground village, but after another night of heavy drinking in the village, he found that he was totally inebriated among people he wanted to protect. He resolved to quit drinking entirely, and to bring his efforts more on protecting and elevating mortal kind rather then focusing on the higher powers he so despised. To this end, he began construction on the new city of Nuhoben in a nearby forest so that people could live and thrive like they once had under the Empire.

### Market and Townbuilding

As Orez announced a revamped effort to construct a new central market, Sofus did work along with Raine Illus to remove the trees and flatten the area to assist with contruction, as well as providing quartz and other material to help build it. During this period, he mostly focused on maintaining and building Nuhoben, as well as declaring independence from Thaustein with it being mostly defunct by now. Nuhoben continued to be expanded with an experimental, pyramid shaped dense housing structure and more lighting. With other candidates dropping out of the election for president of Northwood around this time, Sofus decided to run to try and keep Sapphire out of the position, since she was only a child.

## Anterra Coup

When the Anterra Coup occured and Plague seized power with the Acolytes of Hostina, Sofus was conscripted as an ally by Orez for help with their future plans of resistance. During this time, a second member was recruited to Eden's Awoken, being Simon, though soon after they dissapeared leaving a message that Eden's Awoken was now a vassal of Anterra, though no actual political action seemed to have been taken. Investigating this, Sofus went to the Acolytes who were now in control of Anterra and arrived during a meeting between Jarka, Plague, and Frañcez. Jarka had a discussion with him, before he witnessed Orez receive a punishment for eavesdropping before they escaped.