Lorinbas van Hillstein

Lorinbas van Hillstein ( borne on September
9th, 1910), the current Governor of City Central, is a member of the old Aristocratic
families  and one of the few supports of
"Old" Echain.

## Early life

Lorinbas van Hillstein was born on
September 9th 1910 on the grounds of Hillstein manor outside of City Central to
Lord Richmund van Hillstein and Augusta van Hillstein. Through complications during
the pregnancy, his mother, who was the daughter of one of the side branches of
the royal family, was unable to conceive further children, which lay the entire
responsibility of the Hillstein line on Lorinbases shoulders.

He was homeschooled under the tutoring eyes
of his mother, who installed a strong loyalty to the royal line in the young
childes mind and formed him into a pious Catholic. Other subjects included, but
were not limited to, Portuguese, English, German as well as the fundamentals of
statecraft.

Lorinbas was forbidden of any activity that
could harm the young heir, as both his mother and his father were overprotective
over the boy, as he represented the survival of the family. As a result, his early
life was shaped by boredom and endless hours in the manors library, that were
spent reading about the history of Echain. He even went as far as remembering
the entirety of the royal line over the centuries, on his own volitions ,just to
quench the boredom that he faced on a day to day bases, within the confines of
the manor.

## Escaping the manor

After months of begging, at the age of 13
his father allowed Lorinbas to start learning the arts of fencing as well as
marksmanship. While the boy was unable to master even to basics of fencing, he
proved to be naturally talented regarding the handling of guns and his skill surprised
not only Richmund but also the military tutors, he brought on to teach his son.

At his 16th birthday Lorinbas was taken by
his father, together with family guests from England, to a hunting trip into
the forests of Aberisk. There, the teenager found the two loves of his life.
Hunting and Laura Barrett-Lennard. The young Lord and the daughter of one of
Richmunds business partners fell head over heels for each other and after a few
weeks of drama both families agreed to a marriage when both children would come
of age.

It would take another 4 years for the two
lovers to meet again. In these years Lorinbas spent his time travelling ,at his
father's side, around the Dutch East Indies as well as the British Raj. Where
he not only made first hand experiences with said cultures but spent most of
his time big game hunting.
Shortly after his 20ths birthday he returned to Echain where he was reunited
with Laura and married her.

After the wedding, Lorinabs and Laura left
Echain together to attend university in Portugal where he studied literature
sciences for the coming years.

## Spanish Civil war

After 6 years in Portugal, in 1936 with the
outbreak of the civil war in the neighbouring Spain. Lorinbas saw his values and
Catholic faith under attack by the Republican forces in Spain and after a long
fight with his wife, crossed the borders with nothing more than his big game hunting
rifle and joined up with the Nationalist forces as a scout within a volunteer
battalion.

For the next two and a halve years the studious
man that Lorinbas was before the war, was transformed into a battle hardened soldier
willing to do what every was necessary to achieve victory.
During this time, the battlefields of Spain became his hunting grounds and his
pry changed from animals to any man or woman that run before his rifle.

His most famous, or infamous, action happened
during the battle of Bilbao in June 1937.  There, he supported advancing Nationalist and Italian
troops with restless sniper fire, securing at least 34 confirmed kills. This
act as well as the fact that he used a big game hunting rifle brought him the
nickname of "Huntsman of Bilbao" from Nationalist forces.

Over the rest of the war he saw inconsistent
action but supported the Legion Condor as a scout and sniper till war's end,
after which the returned to Portugal together with Heinrich von Rürsfeder, a Lieutenant
within the Legion Condor who was disillusioned from the fighting in Spain and unwilling
to return to Germany . In Portugal he reunited under tears with his wife and
the three decided to return to Echain, unaware of the political situation on the island nation.

## The Occupation

While travelling back to Echain, together
with a group of other Echain citizens who partook in the Spanish Civil War, Lorinbas and his companions heard of the outbreak of what would become known as the
second World War and the Japanese actions on Echain. With these information came also the knowledge of the fate of the King as well as the news that Lorinbases parents had been executed by the Japanese for
resisting the occupation. Enraged by this Lorinbas organised his travelling companions, who felt the
same way, into the new Royal Guards, also called the Grey Guards.

The newly formed Guards landed with small
boats on the south coast of Plainsdale and started entrenching themselves within
the Great Southern Jungle and the Sunless Jungle.
The Guards launched attack after attack against occupational forces, raided convoys
and slaughtered checkpoint garrisons. It did not take long for their reputation
to be established as one of brutality, ruthlessness and terror. These campaigns
proved successful on a material as well as psychological level but it took not
long for these tactics to show their prize. After months of fanatical
fighting, most of the members of the Guard had been killed during one of their suicidal
attacks.
Only in the later stages of the occupation would the Guard be able to fight
again in the open, when they actively worked together with other, more numerous,
resistance groups.

During the occupation Lorinbas and his wife
Laura had a daughter together. They named the girl Augusta in remembrance to
Lorinabses mother.

## After the Occupation

After the liberation of Echain, Lorinbas argued
for the nation the return to its monarchic roots, but was overruled as Echain  embraced the new republic with open arms. He was voted as the first Governor of City
Central by overwhelming majority. There he started rebuilding the city and
keeping the values and traditions of old Echain alive and well.