Name: King Cauroman Carlosunno
Appearance:The young King is lean and tall, donning shining scalemail and a mantle. He is outfitted like any other Chlotar Noble or Paladin would avoiding over-embellishment, the difference being that into Cauroman's spangehelm is forged an iron crown to denote his kingship, and a set of iron wings to denote his piety. From under his helmet strands of long blond hair fall over his shoulders and back, with a similarly coloured short and trimmed beard covering his chin and jawline.
Kingdom Allegiance: Ruler of Chlotaringen
Tribe: Chlotar
Background:Though Cauroman himself is from the Chlotar Faramundian Dynasty, the quest he inherited from the Udosian Hierophant has elevated him to the heavens, assigned to be God’s Hand-On-Earth. He is to be more than just a King. In the name of God, he will conquer Visandza and unite Humanity into a single Empire.
The Chlotar princeling grew up in his father's capital of Aaixen during the afterglow of the Chlotar Brother War -- a civil war fought between his father and three uncles. Cauroman was the younger of two brothers. Even as children the brothers Cauroman and Dagobert would quarrel relentlessly. Their father, Carlovech, dreaded the sight of it, for his war with his own brothers once started with similar petty quarrels, that over the years just kept escalating and escalating to the point the brothers all despised one another. He would force Cauroman and Dagobert to swear a solemn oath to him, to God and to each other, that never they would raise swords against their brother.
A year ago, King Carlovech was invited by allied King Aethelbehrt of Eodaland to dine with him, as to celebrate Carlovech's victory against his brothers. However through a foul act of Eodaen treachery there was poison smuggled into Carlovech's cup...
Following the death of late-king Carlovech, the Kingdom of Chlotaringen and all its conquered possessions were divided between the brothers to become two separate kingdoms. The Kingdom of Cauroman in the north seated in Aaixen, and the Kingdom of Dagobert in the south seated in Lorhavren. On his deathbed, Carlovech accused King Aethelberht of Eodaland for his demise by breaking the sacred tradition of hospitality. And worse, by killing a King not in fair battle but through cowardly poison. The first act of the Kingdom of Cauroman and the Kingdom of Dagobert -- as a display of their royal authority and to avenge their father -- was to march a large army north to the land bridge connecting Eodaland with Chlotaringen.
In a demonstration of bravado, the feisty King Cauroman was mortally injured after he dueled King Aethelberht in a fight to the death. Cauroman’s force of personality is greater than that of his physique – brave and zealous he may be. Miraculously however, King Cauroman slew his opponent, though mortally injured in the process. Broken many ribs, bloodied and battered, and struck fatally on his temple after his helmet had been struck off, and this injury caused the young King to slowly go blind.
Approaching death, his retainers made all haste to deliver his broken body to the Holy City of Udos for healing. Only the Hierophant's blessing can invoke the power to restore his eyesight. He was transported to the great harbor of Lorhavren, where a ferry of Udos awaited him.
As he was carried into the Udosian Inner Sanctum, the most holy place in all Visandza, he met the Hierophant who proposed a divine Pact.
In return for God recovering his eyesight and restoring him to full strength, the Chlotar King was to become the Holy City’s protector, to come to their defense whenever called upon. He is the only man in the world who can hope to stand against the King of Lampertei, Dalgiserius... The Vestal Institution's very existence is at stake if the Lampert King and his powerful army succeed in their conquest of Amalia. It was quite a bargain; for long the Chlotars had tried to invade Lampertei, but never gained a permanent foothold. The Lamperts are a mighty people and certainly no pushovers.
Cauroman could not be brought to agree to a vow that great and demanding. And so the Hierophant sent forward one of her Priestesses to coerce him into agreeing. She was originally a Baltian Princess, the true-born daughter of Orso's older brother and his wife, Adacharista. As befitting her dynasty she had a mind-warping aura to her, and hers was persuasion through seduction.
Cauroman being such a stiff element of God had never experienced sincere affection for a woman prior to then, and he was brought to consider her words carefully.
Originally her name was Eulalie, Princess of the Balti Dynasty, and she told the Chlotar King the story of ‘her’ people, the Tautans, and their state of degeneration. She told him exactly why the faithful must rise up in defense of God in this crucial turning point of history. Because it is not just the Lamperts who rage against God, but the denizens of Tautom-City also. All over Visandza there is an unholy pact happening against God -- the Chlotars are the only faithful race left.
Cauroman learned the Baltian plot to deliberately kill God and ultimately set the prerequisites for an apocalypse, the scheme that Eulalie’s family is perpetrating. For underneath the decadence and depravity of Tautom is a genuine committed effort to weaken and ultimately destroy God. Tautom city and her uncle Orso are its unknowing perpetrators, used as a playground experiment by dark powers to wantonly rip more and more splinters out of the essence of God. As a consequence of God's weakening, the climate is changing and the tribes of Visandza will be increasingly at each other’s throat. There will be no hope of divine interventions as the world winds down, and humanity will be truly lost.
‘’You are the only one who can stop it, my good King. For all of us.’’Besides a genuine desire to do good, it was moreso Cauroman’s lust for glory and fame that got the better of him. A chance to be a truly legendary hero to be sung of in folklore for the next thousand years. After talking to Eulalie, he finally made the solemn vow to the Hierophant that he’d do everything within his power to save God, Visandza and the Holy City, if she would only return him to full strength and restore his eyesight.
And so it came to pass.
It is a battle against time;
if Udos falls, God may never be able to recover and the world would be left to deteriorate until it falls into final oblivion. But possibly even worse, to Cauroman's mind, he would never be able to save and marry Eulalie. And Cauroman's efforts to save Udos and ending the tyranny of Dalgiserius are largely motivated by him white knighting for the princess. He'd never admit that of course.
Cauroman wields the holy sword Halogan, etched with a rune wherein Cauroman’s oath to the Hierophant, and specifically Princess Eulalie, is preserved. Its metal’s durability had been sanctified in Udos.
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As Cauroman's health recovered and departed Udos, Dagobert's health declined. When the younger Chlotar King returned to Chlotaringen he took the reins of his brother's half of the Kingdom until Dagobert's eventual recovery. But whether Dagobert will recover from this mysterious disease cannot yet be said...