Alphonse Seabrook

Alphonse Seabrook is a human traveller and adventurer.

### Early Life

Born in Nuhaven in 9 asr after the Scientarian Revolution, he grew up without knowing his parents. His father was Lord James Seabrook of Caliyan, and his mother was Victoria Seabrook. He believed that both of his parents died fighting the Scientarian Empire in the years after they escaped to Nuhaven, though this was only true of his father. He was adopted by a dwarven jeweler named Helga Mankard. Helga instilled a lifelong love of gold and gems in young Alphonse, enough that he developed the ability to sniff out hidden gold and gems. He studied at the Nuhaven Academy, a magical institution founded by refugees from the Scientarian Empire. He was inspired by Fel Honeryrose to become a magus, and despite his jack of all trades skillset set himself up to study for that role. While at the academy, he became close friends with a fellow student named Marabella Pickering. The halfling was one of his best friends until he caught her sleeping with one of their professors and felt that it was his duty to turn the teacher in for his transgressions. Alphonse had a rival in the person of Gamorn Zanben, a gnome who frequently pranked him during his studies, including a particularly embarrassing event when his clothes were disintegrated off of his body during a presentation. Upon graduation, Alphonse decided he wanted to see the world and left on a globetrotting excursion.

### Travelling Gernon

In 28 asr, Alphonse began his journey by heading from Nuhaven to Oyashima. In Akihito, he began to become a bit of a playboy, as his natural charisma and lack of people he knew helped him lean into his more explicit interests. He left at least two bastards in Oyashima that he is aware of, and potentially more. He travelled around for about a year before heading back to the mainland to his family's ancestral home of Caliyan. His father's estate had been long since sold off by the government, but Alphonse wasn't interested in reclaiming lost property. He took in the high society life of the city, and eventually became involved in a sexual relationship with a nobleman named Karl Holloway. He thought he was falling in love, but the wanderlust got to him as life in Caliyan eventually bored him, and he felt the need to skip town. He next headed north to Kurosekai, where he took in that great city. His longest fling in that city was with a halfling merchant named Aludra Silverman. He seduced her away from her wife, and left her with child, which incurred the wrath of her wife, forcing Alphonse to leave town to protect his life. He then left for Escalus, and spent some time in the Whispering Woods. He moved in with a druid named Amarië Ponddancer and had a half-elf son with her. He eventually cheated on her with an half-elven man named Findar Leafwind, and was kicked out of Amarië's home when she discovered the affair. From there, he travelled to the Pale Grasses and became a member of the Fire Eater Orc tribe. He became enraptured by the martial culture of the Orcs, and trained as a warrior in the tribe. He eventually won the hand of Firecracker, the chief's daughter, and lived with her. They had two daughters together, Ghorza and Lotte, and Alphonse thought he had found his final home. During these years, he made friends with a frost giant named Ragnar in the Magros Mountains, who gifted him with a magical large greatsword that would become a well known fixture of his fighting style. But after 4 years with the tribe, he told Firecracker that he needed to leave for a time and see the sights of Jorundum and the Redwall Desert before he could return. Firecracker was enraged at the decision, and told him that he needed to choose between his wanderlust and his tribe. To his everlasting shame, Alphonse chose the open road once again, unable to contain his desire to roam. He spent a few years in the Antax Mountains, taking in the dwarven realms, and even descending to the underdark for a time and making acquaintances with the deep gnomes and drow. Eventually he returned to the surface, and made his way into the desert, arriving at the Vern Oasis.

### Desert Insurgence

Alphonse was excited to have made it all the way to the Redwall Desert, as so few from the east ever travelled there. He had heard about Kelwas, and was interested in finding transportation to that great desert city, when he ran into the party of Fýrgnást Færscyte Mæslingr (Fyrg for short), Kityu Durinn, Tiddlywinks, and Ruga the Swift. The group had recently escaped the Library of Infinite Sands with information on the nature of the primordial spirits and the plans of the tyrant Zithi to use the magic of infinite wishes in the library. As they were planning to head towards Kelwas to alert Vel of the information they had gathered, Alphonse requested passage on their ship. but before they could leave the city came under attack by forces under the control of Zithi. Alphonse valiantly joined the fray to protect the citizens of the oasis town, and was able to help keep Kityu alive whilst Tiddlywinks cowardly attempted to escape (dying in the attempt) and whilst Fyrg was embroiled in battle with an old enemy named Moreidwyn Shimervale. Alphonse and compatriots saw Zithi with the captured goddess Shyver declaring her intention to take over the entirety of the Redwall Desert and eventually the lands east of the Magros Mountains. Alphonse was horrified to see his ex-lover Firecracker alongside Zithi's forces and nearly revealed their location to confront her, but was talked down from that decision. Eventually, the group was forced to hide in the Sandcloaks Guildhall, and only managed to escape with the help of one of the primordial spirits, Yasmin. She teleported the survivors of the raid to Kelwas, with only a short amount of time available before the forces of Zithi broke in to the guildhall.

Back in Kelwas, Alphonse offered his services to Vel, as he did not want this mad dictator Zithi to threaten the people of the east. Approached by a representative of The Sander, Alphonse, Fyrg, and Kityu travelled to Sun's Peak to seek out the Tengu oracle's aid. The group stopped in Kityu's hometown of Grand Rock, where Alphonse ingratiated himself with Kityu's family, particularly her littlest sister Dinah after they saved her from the drakes on the mountain. From there, the group headed up Sun's Peak, eventually reaching the lair of Rugara the Kindler. The great brass dragon wyrm was living in hiding from the dragonslayers, particularly Adele Tellumnar. She bid them go to Sunhaven to ascertain the safety of her children Kozus and Rumira. They left Dinah with Rugara for safekeeping and continued on their journey. At the top of the mountain, Alphonse and company fought Saborys the Skin Weaver and the dominated Ruga the Swift, who managed to steal the magical entry key the Sander's representative had given them. Sadly, Alphonse was forced to kill the young Ruga in the battle. Saborys stole the two older dragons from Sunhaven, and escaped to New Telomere. Alphonse was deeply affected by this battle, enraged at the perfidy of Saborys and the abuse of the young dragon Ruga. He swore vengeance upon her and wished to continue the journey to save the other dragons. The group managed to enter Sunhaven and met with the Sander, as well as the rest of the Tengu who resided on the demiplane. Alphonse became fast friends with the daughter of the chief, Artemis, and convinced her to join the group back on Gernon so that she may see the material plane. After leaving Sunhaven with Artemis in tow, the group returned to Rugara to tell her the bad news about the kidnapping of her children, which caused the angry dragon to place a Geas on the group to rescue her children from Saborys.

Alphonse and company travelled across the expanses of the Redwall Desert to avoid the captured Vern Oasis, and battled against various monsters and threats of the deep sandy wastes. Eventually they returned to Kelwas to see a terrible site. The city had been blasted by a terrible blizzard, seemingly brought to its end by the power of Shyver under Zithi's control. Rumors amongst the survivors were that Zithi had chased Vel and Yasmin into the Maggorian Highlands. The group learned of a camp of Zithi's forces to the south of the Red River where several elite member's of Vel's inner circle were being imprisoned, and the party decided to rescue them. It was there that Alphonse saw a blast from his past, as Firecracker was stationed here as well. Taking the opportunity to confront her, Alphonse and Firecracker talked in her tent. It turned out that one of their daughter had died of cancer in the years since he had left the Fire Eater Tribe, and that the other daughter was terribly ill as well. Firecracker deeply resented Alphonse for his decision to leave them, especially for how their daughters could not understand why their father would abandon them. Alphonse apologized, but couldn't accept that Firecracker was offering her services to a force like Zithi's that was planning on conquering all of Gernon, and thought her a fool for trusting that they would be able to help her save their daughter. The two parted ways, and Firecracker amazingly did not decide to turn in her ex to the enemy. Eventually a battle ensued to rescue the prisoners, and they were successful in their escape.

Following their battle outside of Kelwas, Alphonse continued journeying to New Telomere, under the influence of the Geas to save the children of Rugara. Upon arriving in the city, they discovered that the city was in the middle of an ongoing conflict between the legitimate government headed by Sultan Bardek, and the New Telomere Underground controlled by Saborys Skin Weaver. Alphonse assisted in some of the early combats against the underground, but was eventually brought low in the battle against Kaldani Kreel at the fighting arena beneath the city's largest brothel. He was trapped in a pit of acid before being captured by the summoner's snakelike familiar Ukobach and taken to Saborys' lair in the New Telomere Catacombs. Artemis had already been captured by Grimmer, another of Saborys' lieutenants, and the two were imprisoned there together. Alphonse was subjected to a horrible surgical experiment by the Skin Weaver, where she grafted the plucked feathers from Artemis onto his flesh, turning Alphonse into a freakish fusion of human and tengu, but gifting him the ability of flight. He was eventually freed when his compatriots battled their way into the catacombs and defeated Saborys, but he was terribly depressed over his disfiguration.

Rejoining the effort to stop Zithi, Alphonse now bore the scythe of gluttony Zartún which he took from the catacombs. He was withdrawn following his torture, and practiced relentlessly with the powerful artifact, waiting for his chance to use it to destroy his foes. Alphonse travelled south to defeat the envoys of Dalux that wished to declare war on New Telomere, and then on to Nanzón where they helped gain the assistance of the Dawnwalker, the leader of the Kitsune. It turned out that the Kitsune had captured Firecracker and her ally from Dalux Razir Razortusk, and Alphonse assisted in rescuing them from the pits where they were to be sacrificed to a vicious elephantine beast called a grootslang. Firecracker was infuritated at Alphonse's demeanor, as he had decided to devolve into a high and mighty demeanor to handle his own pain, but eventually they decided to work together to stop whatever was threatening both of their goals. It turned out that the Dawnwalker had actually died and been replaced by a draconic immortal being called