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Daveed is a Second Age Imrhys Man. He is currently the ruler of the Island of Hunt, member of the Hovden League, and the Pope of Education

Major Life Events

Early Life Awakening Training
Huntian Univesities The Second Gnarrhys War Melanie
The ThirdGnarrhys War The Sapphire Halberd The Fourth Gnarrhys War

Early Life

Daveed was born in 3487 in the country of Hunt. He was the son of a sailor-turned-park-ranger and a seamstress.

It was a time of upheaval and distrust among the races. The Gotts, the Huntian royal family, subtly encouraged the human majority to consider all non-humans sentients second class citizens. The Gotts further encouraged the peach humans to think of themselves better than the browns, coppers, or goldens.
Rather than believing the messages that were taught by the educational system of the time, Daveed went to the source. He befriended and got to know members of the other races.


Awakening

He grew very disdainful and mocking of the racist groups of his own peach human ancestry, and decided to see how far he could push a mocking. In 3507, he 'joined' the loudest of the bunch - the 'Peach Human First Group' or 'the Figs'. He convinced a number of the members that peach humans with brown eyes are inferior to those with blue or green. Already brainwashed in that general direction, the blue eyed Figs started to believe him and a resolution was put before the Figs council to start excluding the brown-eyed peach humans from the Figs. After a number of meetings, a number of the brown-eyed Figs followed him and found him eating and laughing with a number of elves and brown humans. They returned to the rest of the Figs and set a trap for Daveed.
At the next meeting, after his rant, the Figs fell on him with the intention of killing him. The attack triggered his Imrhys Awakening. Energy exploded out of him. The Fig meeting building was destroyed. Pieces of it are found a hundred miles away.

Daveed used his powers to bring down the supremacist group and started to work to change the country. He met resistance from the Gotte Royal family and the other supremacist groups of several different races.


Training

The Imrhys Luther and Larsen found Daveed and take him the Crossing to train him. He stayed in the Crossing for 90 years.

Huntian Universities

In 3600 AI, he returned to Hunt and found that very little had changed. He built his first Huntian University to help spread the word of acceptance. In 3602, King Bartholemew V of Hunt had his soldiers disguise themselves as peasants. They burnt the university to the ground. Daveed immediately began to rebuild, and it is burnt down again in 3610. Daveed rebuilt again.

In 3614, the university was burnt down again. Oddly enough, at the same moment as the disguised soldiers burn down the university, the soldiers’ barracks and the palace catch on fire. Daveed could not be implicated because he was in the coliseum watching the chariot races. He rebuilt for the fourth time, and two years later, disguised soldiers burnt the university down again, as did the barracks and the palace. The university was rebuilt again, and Daveed lent money to the royal family to rebuild the palace and the barracks.

In 3618 AI, Bartholemew V died, leaving his son Ignatius I in control of the country. Rather than making Daveed a competitor, Ignatius enrolled his son Marcus in the Huntian University and had Daveed join the royal council. Over the next centuries, Daveed set up satellite schools throughout the Isles of Hovde.

The Second Gnarrhys War

In 4807, at the start of the Second Gnarrhys War, Daveed battled the Second Gnarrhys Lord on the Campused Colony. He and several other Imrhys tried to seal the Second into ground. The Second was able to burst out of the idyllic island, creating a massive crator at the center of it. Daveed survived, although two Imrhys and thousands of inhabitants died.

Realizing the danger that the Isles of Hovde were to him, the Second sent the Dathrhys Lords Reynold and Jarduk to take over the islands. In 4822, the Dathrhys take ovver Hunt. The Gotte royal family is killed, and Daveed, Colletta, Phyllis, and Luther are driven into hiding and Reynold sets himself up as the Tyrant of the Isles.

In 4833, Luther and Daveed go to a dungeon on Phyllistine to free it of its prisoners. Unfortunately, Reynold, Jarduk, Jurandez, and Jahn-Krant were at the dungeon on an inspection and torture tour. Luther was killed and Daveed barely escaped.

In 4668 AI, Daveed and several other Imrhys led their forces and drove the Dathrhys off of the Isles of Hovde. On the remains of the first Hunt Spire, Daveed and Reynold faced off and Daveed managed to kill the Tyrant of the Isles. With the royal family dead, the people of Hunt elect Daveed to rule them as the Pope of Education.

Melanie

During the Third Age, Daveed, Phyllis, and Colletta became more and more important in the education and international judiciary. They were aided by Melanie, one of Daveed's students. Melanie was the administrative governor of the southern most island Hoffner. She would send Daveed reports, and after several centuries, she suspected he was not reading the reports. In 7503, as a test - and to teach the pope a lesson - she snuck a proposal that made her queen of Hoffner. Daveed signed it, and Melanie became queen, much to his chagrin. Melanie joined the council as a full member the following year..

The Third Gnarrhys War

In 10051, during the Third Gnarrhys War, Savaron attacked the Isles of Hovde. Daveed and Olin, the Bearer of the Sapphire Halberd, drive the Gnarrhys Lord off, but Daveed was pierced by many of Savaron's black knives and was mortally wounded. Olin was unwilling to see his old teacher die and channelled his lifeforce through the Sapphire Halberd. Olin healed Daveed, but Olin completely drained himself and died. Together with the other Hovden leaders, Daveed staved off several attacks by Savaron.

The Sapphire Halberd

Daveed became the protector of the Sapphire Halberd, but he was never the wielder. In 10,450 AI, a Fourth Age Imrhys by the name of Xhiong with the reputation of being a first rate thief snuck into Daveed's palace and stole the Sapphire Halberd. Much to Xhiong's surprise, Daveed was overjoyed that the Halberd had finally chosen a new wielder.

The Fourth Gnarrhys War

In 13,708, the Fourth Gnarrhys War started, and Daveed was one of the first that Zierath went to for aid. The first three books - Castle Zierath, The Basalt Mace, and The Stone Dees - cover this time period.

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