Ervathus Quaredrian

"Death to all of my enemies. ."

-Colonel Ervathus Quaredrian to Pvt. Dexter Nashorn and several others before executing them personally one day before his forces arrived to assist in ending the Tannengrad Siege, 2304 ME

Cursed with immortality and an agonizingly good memory, Ervathus Pkharmes Quaredrian(2105 - 2304) was a warlord, Commander of the Quaredriatic Free Territory Vanguard Army and a former colonel in the Terragonion Defence Forces and the Army of the Granblechian Republic. He was notably responsible for countless acts of inhumanity throughout his lifetime, especially during his service with both armies, which left him enduring the pains of slavery and humiliation at the hands of the enemy on more than one occasion. While in the Granblechian Army, his brigade, the 74th, known as the "Aumares" Brigade, were infamous for their brutality which derived from his own combat experience against the Urod tribes and later the Pale Elves of the Imparthian Empire. After his service with both armies, he was tried for crimes against humanity for his actions in Vostoria and jailed for life but after several years had escaped inexplicably. Decades later he would return to his homeland below the surface of Mortada where he was reunited with an old soldier who served in his unit, Marcus Hale II. Alongside Marcus' daughter and the surviving members of his entourage who had ventured far enough to reach the Land Further Below,  Amidst the outbreak of the Granblechian Civil War in 2291, his movement grew larger and larger until the point where he became a local warlord and protector of a newly founded nation called Quaredriatic Free Territory (Northwest Granblechia), which was named in his honour. By masterminding various plots to destabilize the already weak Western Republic and accelerate the collapse of democracy in Northwestern Grandeblexius, Ervathus was able to further his own influence over the geographical region. His greed and instability would lead to this death in 2304 at the hands of his step-son and right-hand man, Marcus Hale. Following a bloody confrontation with the forces of the East Grandeblexian Fascists amidst a temporary truce between his forces, Communists from the north midwest and pro-democratic ones in Western Granblechia, his Free Territory's rise was just as swift as it's downfall as without it's strong and instrumental commander. After the victory at Tannengrad in the winter of 2304, infighting quickly began to boil amongst the ranks of his soldiers and commanders and all erupted into disarray. In 2305, a defeated and desperate Marcus Hale formally relinquished control of the Quaredriatic Free Territory over to the Granblechian Socialist Republic, with the combination of the two nations making Quaredria a Socialist Republic, thus forming the Granblechian Union of Socialist Republics later that year. Ervathus' legacy slowly became forgotten although he would be forever remembered as a brutal warlord with a dark past by all those who knew him, regardless of how close they were to him.

Early Life and Beginnings "Nativity in the Fevundasi"
Ervathus Quaredrian was born in 2105 ME in the obscure subterranean regions of Terragon where its inhabitants, the Terragonions lived in vast cities below the surface of Mortada in the Land Further Below. Terragonions are a tall and relatively slender humanoid species with a distinct grey complexion, dark or red eyes and pointed ears similar to those of Elves, and up to two pairs of arms, depending on subspecies. Terragonions residing closer to the surface of the Earth often appeared more humanoid whereas those who lived deeper underground had four arms and larger eyes in order to adapt to the depths of the land further below though they were very rare. Born to an impoverished family, Ervathus spent his early days enjoying climbing the sturdy Jamog trees native to the region and picking apples which he sold to help support his family though he never really established any firm connection to specific members. Although, it is unknown if he had received an education at all but as a young boy, he was renowned by friends and family for his intrepid sensory abilities, being able to see, smell, and hear very well as well as being a very independent person. On his father's farm, his physical prowess showed in his work and his incredible intellect was often reflected in his crafts. Ervathus considered himself more of an artist rather than an intellectual and had grand aspirations of becoming an architect for Terragonia.

At the age of 17, Ervathus began to develop a distinct distaste in the current systems and leaders in power after witnessing the political and military failures of Terragonian King Orahaim during the Juzoa Crisis and the Fevundasi Schism which resulted in the deaths and suffering of the Terragonion peoples alongside the compromising banning of an ancient 700 year old face painting tradition. In protest of the ban, he vowed to eventually tattoo his face with his ancestral markings.

In 2123 at the age of 18, Ervathus decided to leave the family home to enlist in Terragonion Defence Forces in disaffection with the frugal and toilsome life in Terragon. He made his way to the capital city of Zoara, which was the most prominent trading hub for all of the Land Further Below. Coming from a penurious, working class background, Ervathus was unable to continue his education but neither did he want to. Life as a young soldier was rough but Ervathus was suited for it and he saw military service as more of a "grand adventure", or an escape from the slow paced drag of an agrarian lifestyle. Ervathus was tasked with less important tasks for the first few years but in 2124, he saw his first taste of action fighting the Zoaran Mafia. There he proved himself in combat having slain 3 foes in combat with his rifle. His four arms allowed him to wield his rifle and two other firearms which proved to be a very impractical yet deadly talent to possess in an individual. In 2128, the Terragonion Defence Forces invaded the Urod Region of the Land Further Below and Ervathus was tasked with the "purification" of the Urod, a race of Ogre-like people whose features were considered undesirable by the Terragonions, Pale Elves and even on the surface world by the other Elves and Humans. By that point, Ervathus had made it known in the ranks of the TDF that he was a valuable asset as evident in his bloodless capture of 5 Urod warriors by striking dismay into their hearts and convincing them to put down their arms by raising his arms at them with his four arms. Most of his fellow comrades incredibly admired him the moment he stepped foot into the training grounds as if he was already known. His skill with a rifle was excellent but his ability to manipulate and fight with his tongue was prodigious though he was notorious for his brutality on the battlefield having been witnessed using the combined force of his four arms to tear the limbs off of enemies in close quarters combat situations. For every feat he achieved, he was promoted up a rank in the TDF. Finally in 2134 when the Urod Wars were nearing an end, the TDF high command decided that Ervathus' assets were more useful in a commanding position and suggested he take a 4 year leave from the defence forces to attend the prestigious Formentera Academy in Southern Terragonia where he would be trained and made eligible to become an officer. In 2138, Ervathus graduated from the academy and was made a Second Lieutenant. For the next half a century, he would rise up through the TDF ranks during peacetime, his age only bringing more and more wisdom to the battlefield in favour of the Terragonions with time having little detriment on his physical state as elves aged much differently from humans.

Invasion of Terragonia
In around 2156 ME, the Dominus Imperial Expeditionary Force of the Dominus Empire sent 80,000 soldiers and 1800 of the Honourguard "Theta" Division down to the Land Further Below in hopes of not only colonizing the subworld and extracting resources rare and essential to the empire, but also to test out new reverse engineered technologies that had been found. During their time, Pale Elven Colonists enslaved the Terragonion population and used them to mine Jaspidotilaem or “Dotilaem”, which was a rare substance essential to a Dominus Project involving the creation and experimentation of potential new energy sources which would later evolve into levitating propulsion vehicles for special military applications. nevertheless, these were still very groundbreaking at the time.

The Battle of Zoara
In the autumn of 2156 at the Battle of Zoara, the DIE Force had launched a large scale invasion on the capital city of Terragonia. At the time Ervathus had served all the way up to the ranks of a Colonel in the Terragonion Defence Forces and for five whole years, he resisted all Imperial efforts to conquer his home, the Fevundasi Canyon. It wasn't until 2181 he was captured and enslaved by the DIEF when forced to surrender by the Terragonion High Command but that would be going ahead too far at this juncture.

Enslavement in the Dotilaem Mines "Subjugation"
From 2181 to 2238, 57 and a half years, Ervathus toiled in the Dotilaem mines enduring mountains of pain and trauma in the brand new Impartian Mandate or Fevundasi Mandate. Every day he would be subjugated to violence and harassment by the DIEF soldiers guarding the mines. During his time spent in the Dotilaem mines, he was branded 68 times, lashed 30 times every single day and frequently beaten by the guards. One notable brand he received was a large Dominus insignia, which was placed on his left breast above his heart as a reminder of his new masters. His prisoner numbers have also been branded on the right breast and on his backside, terrible and grotesque scars from numerous brandings and lashings are evident.

Galmari Quarry Massacre
In 2236 ME, a massive prison riot occurred, with hundreds of prisoners being killed en masse while only 40+ guards were killed.

A Helping Hand
Amidst the mindless violence, Ervathus, a disheveled corpse of a man with little strength left, followed the stranger into the restrooms where they crawled through the sewage of gutters of the prison mine for days as the heat of the riots intensified, leaving several areas unguarded to their favour. While in the tunnels, he would spend days at a time making subtle and brief movements in order to evade detection feeding off of only roaches and other pests laying in the filth. Finally on the third day, he had reached the end of a pipe along with 30 other escapees and hid in the cargo storage bed of a military transport truck where he was carried off to the landfills and dumped into neighbouring regions of the Fevundasi where he sought refuge from his Pale Elven oppressors. Feelings of great bitterness for the Dominus Empire filled his heart and soul after he had escaped and vowed to return one day to free his people and then, the rest of the world from Pale Elven oppression.

Life after slavery "Champion of Chaos, Confusion and Madness"
He travelled to the arid nation of Ruzzeria where he decided to lay low and plot revenge against the Dominus Empire for how they wronged him. For many years he lived in complete isolation in the Dog’s Tail area of the scorching hot Ruzzerian deserts as a hermit. Once he had completed his planning, he made a return to normal society by joining the Grandeblexian Military using his previous Terragonion military service to attain higher ranks with great ease. He was regarded as an invaluable asset to the Grandeblexian Forces as he had prior experience in fighting the Pale Elves, decades before the current soldiers were even born.

Vostorian War, Heroism & War Crimes "Oh how the mighty have fallen"
In January 2263, he led Grandeblexian Forces in the Vostorian War and fought against the Pale Elven Occupation. While fighting in the Kvartiry region of Vostoria, he and his platoon fought hard against the Vostorian Imperialists, who were puppets of the Dominus Empire located in the Vostorian plains, a nation within close proximity to Western Mortada. During his service, a bullet took off a portion of the tip of his right ear, which has left a noticeable scar. He held no emotional attachments to any of his men and perceived most as means to meet an end and nothing more. However, of all the men and women he knew during his serive with the Grandeblexians, he was closest to Sgt. Marcus Hale II who he had considered to be akin to a son.

Battle of Kvartiry
During the February of 2263, the Grandeblexian Army 3rd Division "Orcus" led a head-on assault on from the North onto the Vostorian city of Kvartiry which was under the control of the Vostorian Imperial Army, a Dominus Empire backed faction. Arriving in transport trucks to the outskirts of the city were 20,000 soldiers, with around 5000 in the command of Colonel Ervathus Quaredrian. Being the highest ranked officer to see combat on the battlefield, Ervathus decided to make the bold and almost unrealistic move of ordering an artillery barrage onto the enemy position before leading the 74th brigade's charge into the city limits. Applying years of experience in the Fevundasi and beyond, Ervathus tactfully led just under 5000 soldiers into the city behind enemy entrenchments, sucessfully and efficiently breaking the Vostorians' most crucial line of defence which failed to claim even the littlest of Grandeblexian lives, numbering at only 40 casualities. As the bunkers and trenches were captured by the dozens, the Vostorian Imperial Army was forced to surrender and those in the south quickly scattered into the foothills seeking santuary from the invaders. By noon, all surviving 420 soldiers and 35 medics were captured and rounded up outside of the city hall. Ervathus congratulated the captured soldiers for their outstanding acts of bravery and patriotism and admired their "blindness to fight". Unfortunately before the rest of the division could arrive, Ervathus had already ordered all the prisoners to be rounded up and executed in a fashion strikingly familiar to the fate of the Urod Warriors in the Fevundasi, though nobody present even knew about any of that. The 455 were all shot and killed by the Aumares Brigade and thrown into mass graves forcefully dug by civilians. Such an event greatly traumatized hundreds of young soldiers whom were mostly fighting just to afford a college education.

Operation Raindrop
In the April of 2265, Grandeblexian Forces spearheaded by his very own, the 74th "Aumares" Brigade of the 3rd "Orcus" Division, had liberated the small, but heavily defended city of Meraviny. He led the charge against the Vostorian lines who were supported by Dominus Empire Honourguards, facing a torrent of machinegun fire and shelling from the wide array of artillery emplacements set up by the enemy. The townsfolk were so satisfied with his valiant efforts that they renamed their town after him in his honour. For unknown reasons, he went mad during the ceremony and ordered his men to attack the townsfolk but all of them refused and he was abruptly tackled when he drew his sidearm and was arrested by then-Major General James del Franco in a messy struggle. He had shot Franco in the left bicep during the altercation but overall, he had no choice but to submit to the pile of soldiers. He was tried in front of the Supreme Court of Grandeblexius and found guilty for his attempted mass murder and later, evidence of countless war crimes ordered by Ervathus were uncovered.

After his shocking arrest stories and anecdotes from his former soldiers arose of how he used underhanded tactics to deliberately get POWs of Pale Elven descent executed in the most brutal ways via normalization of hatred and prejudice against their people. He would even kill his own men in false flag attacks in order to create an environment of hatred and anger against the enemy until little to no remorse remained in the heart.

Second Imprisonment
For his crimes, he would be sentenced to life imprisonment in Creachless Rock Maximum Security Prison. He served time for around 14 years until it was discovered in 2277 that he had miraculously escaped against all odds. Perhaps western prison conditions were nowhere as harsh as the Dominus Empire prison mine that he had experienced many years ago. His time at Creachless, though brief in comparison to his sentence, was spent in solitude rather than the loneliness he was intended to feel. In his specially designed 9x12 foot cell, built to accommodate his large size, he was often found staring out of the 5 inch wide window slit which gave him a rather mundane view of the courtyard. Every day for meals he would only be served a high sodium paste of unknown composition and a glass of water. Despite being solitary most of the day, at dinnertime he often would socialize with Grandeblexius' other most dangerous criminals about how their sleep was. He was very fascinated in the dreams of other inmates and would often speak to them about the content of their dreams but it seemed that they were only having nightmares there. Over the course of the next 14 years, he changed very little

Life after the Second Escape
After his escape in 2277 ME, he went into hiding again after all of his life’s work to restart had been tarnished, and vowed revenge against not just the Dominus Empire, but Grandeblexius and the rest of the global powers altogether. He no longer believed that either worlds should continue to be allowed to thrive and worked towards their downfall from behind the scenes in any way he could. He believed that the Grandeblexians had betrayed him on that fateful day when he ordered the massacre of Vostorian citizens who he believed to be sympathetic to the pale elven cause.

In 2283 ME,

Return to Terragonia "Homecoming & Reclamation"
In September 2284, Ervathus was caught in the middle of the infamous assault on Coronalia City at the hands of the Imparthian Imperial Army while eating at a fast food chain called Macky's in the city's south end, where the attacks hit the hardest. While enjoying his Wacky Macky Burger, thousands of bombs were dropped by the Dominus Honourguard 2nd Bomb Squadron onto the streets of the largest city in the world as complete mayhem soon ensued. Of the 35,150 civillians killed during the attacks, Ervathus was not too badly hurt by the attack, but deeply awakened by it. Ervathus watched on the news displayed on an old TV as once the bombing had ceased, another wave of airplanes flew over Imparthian paratroopers attempted to land near Faramund Palace, the nation's capitol building. He smiled when he witnessed the palace's dome being hit by a bomb and watched as the two worlds he hated the most, finally collided and were fighting eachother once again. Knowing that war was finally at hand between the mighty Grandeblexian Republic and the ever expanding Dominus Empire, Ervathus prophesied that those on the surface would be subjected to death, destruction, suffering and loss on a scale the world had never seen before, so he decided to return home to Terragonia. To do so, would have to use the same exit he had used to escape Terragonia, Dog's Tail Chasm in Ruzzeria.

From there, he made his way down the depths of the surface world and entered the land further below. There in the land further below, he returned to the ruins of the ancient city of Zoara, the city that had once been paradise in a lost world. Zoara was the capital of the Terragonion Kingdom and the final stronghold of the Terragonions until their conquest, enslavement, assimilation and later, extermination at the hands of the Dominus Empire. Ervathus returned nearly a lifetime later to find that his former home had turned into rubble and ash. The skeletal remains of many of it's residents remained scattered, broken and desecrated while majority of it's treasures sacked, with barrels of toxic waste dumped into it's waterways by the Dominus Empire. The few Dominus soldiers issued the revolutionary Varizel 43a power suits who died in Zoara had their corpses reanimated due to the emergency override activated upon the death of the user, allowing their corpses to continue fighting for as long as the helmet is linked to their brain. Ervathus fought off dozens of the cyborg "zombies" with much difficulty though their cognitive and physical functions had degraded overtime due to exposure to the toxicity of the city and the wounds they had sustained prior to their death. It had seemed as if the presence of Dominus Empire had mysteriously disappeared in the Fevundasi. This would later turn out to be false as he was ambushed, kidnapped and captured by members of the Honourguard of Omicron working alongside the DIEF in special joint operations at a massive compound behind a waterfall.

Resurfacing in the 2nd Civil War and The New World "Rising Unseen"
In 2291 amidst the outbreak of the 2nd Grandeblexian Civil War, Ervathus decided to leave New Zoara, the Fevundasi and Terragonia for good and return to the surface while reunited with his old soldier, Marcus Hale II after their miraculous reunion in the Fevundasi during 2285.

Breaking the Siege of Tannengrad, Finest Hours & Demise
In December 2304, the 19rd Caialutum Guard Division "Orcus", a division Ervathus formerly commanded in, spearheaded the rush to capture the West Grandeblexian capital of Tannengrad crossed the river Harkdale and reached the banks of the ancient citadel of Tannengrad in Western Grandeblexius and laid siege upon the city. For seven days and seven nights they The West Grandeblexian capital was desperately exposed to the strong arm of the East and therefore gravely needed to bolster their reinforcements lest they wished to survive the onslaught. A force of 2000 revolutionaries from the northwest of Grandeblexius, the Gairncorm Mountains, and Lake Gonz, led by none other than the legendary Colonel Ervathus Quaredrian himself with rifle and two pistols in hands arrived at the northwest edge of the River Harkdale beside the city of Tannengrad on cars, makeshift armoured vehicles and tanks taken from the abandoned Wemoma Armoury in Ronham. Ervathus' soldiers ambushed the Orcus Division while they marched through the city outskirts to the ancient walls and engaged in close quarters street fighting with eachother.

Death
Ervathus in the company of Rhodric and Six, Ervathus was shot in the head with a 13x108mm anti materiel round which had completely blew his head into a bloody pulp, thus bringing his life to a sudden end and freeing him from the curse of immortality cast upon him centuries ago.

Legacy
After his gruesome death, the remaining 1769 revolutionaries consisting of armed civillians, political dissidents, former West Grandeblexian soldiers, and various other groups accompanying him at the battle managed to push back the onslaught of the 3rd Division and smash their momentum, forcing them to scatter back to the shores of the River Harkdale before being captured, if not, publicly humiliated and stripped to their undergarments to be hung on street signs and lamp posts dead or alive. With confidence in the West Grandeblexian Government lost, Ervathus' revolutionaries managed to rally the support of Tannengrad and seize control of the city from the Republican government. Most of the West Grandeblexian soldiers stationed in Tannengrad and the surrounding areas merged with the newly founded anarcho- Quaredriatic Free Territory, an idea originally conceived by Ervathus and [Insert Name] in 2292.

Although he had died during the siege of Tannengrad, in the end his dream of a land free from the "bloodied grip of the false gods Democracy and Imperialism", the "leeching grasp of the Gods" did not die with him. In the 2 weeks after the anarchist victory at Tannnengrad, his army of originally only 20 in 2271 had soared in numbers to approximately 20,000 as of January 2305. This was short-lived as around half the army eventually defected over to the Granblechian People's Liberation Front, which later on absorbed the entirety of the Quaredriatic Free Territory in order to put such a strategic and vital location under control. This was because right after the historic victory at Tannengrad, the Anarchists holding the city without the guidance of Ervathus quickly soon spiraled into chaos and disarray with vicious infighting.

To prevent this, the forces of the Granblechian People's Liberation Front, who had previously aided Anarchist forces in the taking of the city, alongside Anarchist defectors led a swift and brutal insurrection on the parliament building, repelled the sparse and disorganized Anarchist retalitory forces, and assumed firm command of the city. After a swift victory against the already leaderless bandits, the leaders of the Liberation Front and Marcus Lee Hale II, the De-facto Anarchist leader who defected to the Communist side, signed a merger treaty, which led to the formation of the Granblechian Socialist Republic, the first Socialist state in Granblechia. Although the surviving Anarchist forces suffered a harsh defeat to the Communists at Tannengrad, their ideals were scattered far out to the unceded lands of the former Granblechian Republic, forming new criminal empires and peaceful communes for generations to come.

Many years after the siege, inspired by his brave actions and disregarding the known crimes of his past, a group of his surviving followers organized into a cult-like faction whose children viewed him as a deity. In 2333, a town located in the northwesternmost borders of the former Granblechian Republic was founded and named Pkharmes, in honour of the legendary Warlord. It was in this mountain town that a new religious movement began to spread throughout the Gairncorm Ranges, the place that Ervathus once made headquarters for decades. His most devoted followers wore facepaint in a similar fashion to that of his tattoos.

Beliefs and Personality
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Trivia

 * Ervathus's original concept and design was created by M. Maraj around 2015-2017 and many general elements of his design are still retained to this very day.
 * His name was initially Colonel C.C., standing for "Colin Calister"
 * Ervathus used to be a primary antagonist in one of the short stories in an untitled side comic about "hatguy", AKA what is known is Robert Armfeldt today.