Lord Elrodore Tate

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* Seasen Roe (Cousin)

Lord Elrodore Chivay is a Westfall nobleman who rules over the Barony of Grovemarch. A troubled young man and disgraced politician, Elrodore is also an avid painter and a war veteran.

## Personality & Beliefs

Once upon a time, Elrodore Tate was a man of order and etiquette. A firm believer of staying within the lines. Though he was born a commoner, he fought in the war, and through a fateful reunion with a long lost cousin, came into a position of power. He thought his experience on the battlefield and tactical way of thinking would serve him well in this role. How wrong he was. A rebellion in the neighboring county of Segentis spiraled out of control (rumored to be caused by necromancers) and Elrodore committed a mass slaughter of commoners to prevent them from killing the local baron and plunging the land into hell. When it turned out that the baron had been rescued prior to this, his actions were deemed a crime and he was arrested. He was released months later but this time had a profound effect on him. For a while, he was consumed by doubt and self-hatred. Certain that he was a monster unfit for rule and resigning himself to the life of a traveling entertainer. Those feelings have given way to a new resolve to do good by the people of his new home, Grovemarch. Many still see him as a monster. He however now sees himself as a man willing to do what must be done to ensure a better future for his nation whether that be through order or chaos... and he deeply resents all those who preach commoner ideals yet vilify him for actually walking the walk.

Despite his questionable mental state and horrible past, he is still a competent soldier. His battle prowess has helped him in his travels and you'd be a fool to underestimate him. He did kill thirty peasants in a single second, after all.

## Description

Lord Elrodore Tate has a fair skin tone, fiery red hair, and brown eyes. A former soldier, he has kept his muscular physique despite his new cushioned place in society. His face is fairly worn but he stills looks quite young.

Clothing wise...this man is truly a mad eccentric. He insists on dressing in his jester regalia almost everywhere he goes. The only times he takes it off are for extremely serious occasions like the vote for the House of Commons or a peace treaty signing.

## Biography

A commoner most of his life, Elrodore was born in the Mage Quarter of Stormwind to Arthur Tate (A disowned noble of House Tate) and Amelia Tate (House Tate's former seamstress). Growing up middle class, his mother was the main breadwinner in their house, using her skills as a seamstress to run a successful tailor shop. His father took charge of his education and taught him everything he knew...which turned out to be a lot of philosophy, history, mathematics, and sciences while his mother encouraged a love of art, fashion, and design by having him help around the shop.

Too poor for the noble children and yet too rich for the other common children, young Elrodore wasn't liked by many despite his best efforts. This rejection despite constant attempts to make friends would wear him down. Eventually, he stopped dedicating so much energy to making friends and shifted it to his studies. As he got older this would result in him become colder to others but excelling at many scholarly and artistic fields. Enough so that he caught the attention of the magical college in Stormwind and was offered a scholarship. After four long years of study, he graduated at the age of 20 with a major in Enchantment.

It was around this time that his father passed away. Elrodore moved back in with his mother to help her through the grief and perhaps use his knowledge of enchantment to add to her wares in the shop. This lasted for about two years before a fever took his mother as well. Elrodore tried to run the shop on his own after that but decided to that he needed to go out and see the world for a while. He closed up the shop and joined up with the 7th Legion as a battlemage, fighting in many battles. Unfortunately, while he was away some of the other tailors in the city filed a lawsuit to claim his home based on some arcane land laws and won since Elrodore wasn't present to defend himself.

When he returned he found himself homeless and left with nothing but the clothes on his back, one of his good suits which he hid in case he ever needed it, and his father's cane. For two years he slept in the tunnel between the Mage Quarter and the Park, visiting soup kitchens and looking for work in a desperate bid to earn enough money to buy a new house. His luck changed one day though when he was visiting the cathedral. A chance conversation led to him finding his long lost cousin, Duchess Oliviana Tate-Zverenhoff. Another stroke of luck led him to finding his father's letter of disownment within his cane thus making him able to prove his lineage to Oliviana. Soon after, his cousin restored lands she considered his by birthright to him and Elrodore ascended the class ladder from bottom to top in a week, making the papers.

Soon after entering the House of Nobles it all went to shit though. While interceding in a rebellion in a neighboring county, Elrodore's cold soldier calculations got the better of him and he committed a great atrocity in the name of the greater good. This atrocity has haunted him ever since. He soon after was arrested and abdicated his post as baron. For a time he wandered the world as a traveling jester, running from himself while paradoxically trying to find himself. Now he has found himself in the troubled land of Grovemarch, helping the local peasantry against the ravages of a terrible civil war. While he initially did not want it, in a strange way he has found himself in a leadership position again, as the people depend on him for support and protection.

He will not run from his duties again, nor shall he abandon his ideals of an enlightened and enfranchised commoner. It is in pursuit of both of these goals that he has begun to walk a strange path. While he is a noble, he threw in with the Commoner's Liberation Front during the civil war and was a not totally insignificant character during the fighting in Westfall. Many nobles hate him for this betrayal including his own cousin but he saw bettering the life of the commoner as the true purpose of the nobility and that all those who refused to enfranchise the lower classes as the real traitors. Also, if he hadn't rebelled the rebels would've surely destroyed his lands and people since he hadn't yet had time to form a House guard.

Now with the amnesty he is back in the House of Nobles and thinking hard about how best to ensure the House of Commons he fought so hard for isn't smothered in the crib.

## Titles

### Baron of Grovemarch

Elrodore Tate is the leader of Grovemarch, a small barony located in the southeast corner of Westfall along the river.

### Battlemage of the 7th Legion

Elrodore Tate is a former battlemage of the 7th Legion. He holds his military experience in high regard.

## House

Elrodore is the only member and leader of the newly made House Chivay. This is the ruling house of Grovemarch. It currently holds land in southern Westfall along the Naz'feriti river.

He is also a former member of House Tate. His exit from this house was due to the disownment of him by his cousin, Duchess Oliviana Tate-Zverenhoff. Despite the resulting bitter feelings he hasn't declared this house an enemy and holds out hope that the relationship can be repaired.

## Relationships

Elrodore Tate is the unwillingly estranged cousin of Duchess Oliviana Tate-Zverenhoff. Once when he was the baron of another land, she was his liege lord. Their relationship became rocky however after Elrodore abdicated the barony of Aristaeria and outright fell apart when Elrodore joined the side of the rebellion in the civil war. Oliviana has disowned Elrodore for this and has yet to forgive him. He, for his part, sees this treatment as completely unfair and unreasonable. For now he holds out hope that this can be undone but the longer Oliviana alienates him the greater his anger grows.

Seasen Roe is Elrodore's cousin and Oliviana's half-sister. She is the wife of Dartan Roe, ringmaster of the Runaway Theater Troupe. Elrodore and Seasen share a love for the arts and dancing. He considers her to be more open with her emotions than he is.