Soukeski Hayes

**Soukeski Benjamin Hayes** is a Ferrian politician, architect and inventor from a small village from in and around modern day Ferrum Debueno, who fought against The Republic of Solague (formerly known as the Empire of Solague) in the Solagist Civil War as their commander and leader.

## Personal Details

### Residence

New Addity, Choralex

He was born and raised in a small village in and around of Ferrum Debueno, and stayed in that territory in his younger years. Him being isolated (due to there not being many 'modern' societies in his childhood) caused him to become extremely unsocial which furthered his already growing violent tendencies. in 1848, he moved to Old Solague and built himself a home there and in 1849 was convicted of mass murder.

Throughout his life, he has been the cause (and the catalyst) of some of Solague's problems, even going as far to quietly *completely* take over somebody else's revolution to take the state for himself, creating The Choralexian-Solague Empire.

## Early Life

Born in and around Ferrum Debueno, Hayes grew up isolated, only interacting with a few close friends and family. Ever since he was in his youth he had violent tendencies and anti social behaviour, which caused making and maintaining friendships difficult. Soukeski was skilled in hunting and building, even going as far to build small huts on island of Addity.

Hayes used to spend most of his time on Addity, being missing for days just to build tiny huts and camp there. It is said that during this time, in his teenage years, something drove him insane. He had once wrote (presumably) about it in a journal, *'Something snapped one day while on the island of Addity, back in '40.' .* Hayes never disclosed what made him snap. In 1848, he found himself in Old Solague and decided to ditch his old village to live there, building himself a home and then in '49, being convicted of mass murder.

In the year of 1850, Soukeski attempted to assassinate Monty Quartz after they all celebrated Quartz's victory as mayor and day 100 of Solague. This lead to his temporary arrest, he escaped pretty swiftly and formed the Rebellion of the Commonweath.

## Civil War Era

Hayes and his battalion made their first major attack in late 1851, annexing Jamestown and attempting to take the entirely of Aurum. Their efforts failed and it lead to the arrest of Hayes.

But it didn't end there, after Hayes was forced to temporarily disband the rebellion, he stormed Aurum yet again and succeeded, then storming Solague and successfully taking that, too.

He crowned himself the 2nd Emperor of Solague and created his signature black herse.

2 weeks later, Monty Quartz and a friend of his decided to confront Soukeski, and fought him and retook Solague. Despite all that he had done, why hadn't Monty killed him? Why does he keep forgiving him, he wonders.

A few days before the new year of 1852, Soukeski disbanded the Rebellion of the Commonweatth forever and peace between him and his old rival was restored for a little.

## Post Civil War

After the Solagist Civil War, Soukeski went on an adventure and found land for a new home for himself which he temporary named 'The Compound'. He built himself a home, with walls around it to keep himself safe from all the monsters and natives that may try and attack him. In early 1852, Hayes had a trial, in which the Solagist government collected all evidence of Hayes' crimes against the state after he had committed his final crime in Solague, burning down a green and white flag outside of somebodies home.

The trial ended with Hayes being exiled from Solague, and having to reside in his compound for a while. But before all of this went down, Monty Quartz had constructed a large, stone wall around his land to keep him contained while his trial went on. After his banishment, Quartz and Hayes battled in the compound. The battle was long and brutal and ultimately ended in Hayes' land being blown up, resulting in a massive crater left there, dubbed 'The Crater of The Beginning'. They both silently looked into the pit, with Soukeski alone with his home destroyed. He thought it was time to create something he was dreaming of since 1851...

## The Creation Of The Union Of Choralex (and in general)

Hayes thought of the huge crater of something good, a new beginning. He and an accomplice started consruction on making the crater safer and built small homes and bridges inside of a man-made cave he created. All was good, and he finally named his new nation The Union of Choralex. Hayes created a dictatorship like monarchy, with it's flag based off of his old rebellion's colour scheme.

Hayes set off to create the second town in his new nation, New Addity, where he built it upon a swamp. Soukeski named this new town after his favourite Solague location - Addity - which he couldn't visit at this time due to being exiled.

New Addity was a booming, yet dull and oppressed town for a while as Hayes still had to learn the ropes of ruling a nation out of passion, not spite. Word got out a new revolution came out of nowhere, and the leader, Lucas "Swampy" Newton confronted Soukeski to talk him into joining - Hayes accepted and became the brains out of the whole operation.

## Downfall.

Hayes and his new friend Newton, hatched a plan to build a wall around South-East Solague and trap Taering Wilson and Monty Quartz. With the wall constructed, and revolution bigger than ever, the duo began to start riots outside the capitol building, and took over the state.

This made Soukeski the 4th and final Emperor of Solague, and Newton as his Vice-Emperor. The Choralexian-Solague conflict ended with Wilson and Hayes coming through the offices roof and holding them both captive, forcing them to resign. Hayes did it willingly, expecting death, but Quartz forgave him and revoked his banishment. it confused Soukeski a little, why would he yet again keep him alive and forgive him? It was weird, he thought.

Hayes stayed out of Solague's way after this for the most part, interacting with Quartz and founding Vinland with him and Newton.

During this time, Hayes quietly married a woman by the name of Liv. It is said that they had known each other for a while as Liv was apart of The Rebellion of The Commonwealth. The wedding was kept quiet and was restricted to just friends and family.

## Later Life

In his later years, Hayes' already bad alcohol problem was eating away at him. With a son he had not met due to him sending him off to another nation in hopes of keeping his offspring safe and multiple health issues he had to overcome, he distanced himself from public appearances. He lived a somewhat happy life with his wife, Liv, but his guilt about the past started to affect him and further his alcohol addiction - maybe Hayes *wasn't* pure evil.

While sat in his Plymouth, Choralex home in early 1900, Soukeski had heard of his old rebellion resurface and try to take Solague. He was shocked, but more so confused. After decades, why did they return? They were praising Hayes for what he did. Soukeski knew that his alcohol problem would get to him. Especially now, he could not live in a world where he had to see what he created years ago reform and terrorize Solague. Hours after, a black haired man wearing Hayes' old striped sweater and black herse knocked on his door. They looked at each other for a while until Hayes realised it was his son... After all these years, he had finally met Kol Hayes, future ruler of Choralex. They had a chat, and discussed the recent resurfacing of the Rebellion of the Commonwealth, until Kol decided it was his time to leave, to fight his fathers old rebellion.

At approximately 2:30AM, 1900, Soukeski Hayes was found dead in his seat after drinking himself to death. He left a note telling his dear wife not to worry about his loss and to keep it within congress for a month, as he could not handle the guilt of living in the same world where his past heinous acts are revived and carried out by a younger generation. He also brought up their son, it is the only piece of the note that could be restored.

'*I have met my son, hours before now. He is a striking young fellow, is he not? I know you have had close contact with him for a while. He looks just like you I'd say. Do not worry about Kol, for he is fine on his own, he is fighting against the terrible rebellion. I am proud of him. And do not worry about me either - tell the congress about my passing as soon as you can, step down from your role as secondary ruler. I am sure Kol will find his way to the throne of Choralex. I love you my dear, we will see each other soon.'*

Liv Hayes died 2 months after Soukeski did, and Kol Hayes took the throne of Choralex and ruled for a long time, expanding the Choralex royal family for generations.