The Keepers of Today
The year is 1703 GE, and the Keeper Council is in shambles. With the death of Lady Kathlyn and the flight of Lord Kenji, who is suspected of her murder, only Sammeth, Lord of Earth, Din, Lady of Fire, and Atlas, Lord of Water remained, and Atlas too, or so goes the official narrative, turned against the council, leaving only two to govern the Middle Lands from the Tower of Five.
Atlas Muundir
Lord of Water Atlas Muundir is best known for his campaign and victory against the dread animancer Balsibart, who depopulated entire islands on the Ocean Belt and was stopped by Atlas and a group of intrepid heroes that faced him in the Saltplains.
There, Atlas used his command of water as well as old magic to seal the animancer far underground inside an ice berg within the Secret Ocean below the Great Land.
Din of High Saxia
Born among the mighty
The Angel Saxons, Lady of Fire Din boasts a powerful magical heritage and has displayed impressive prodigy to match it from an early age on.
With three Keepers dead or defected from the council, she is the only Keeper remaining besides Lord Sameth Gildorn, though the Lord of Earth keeps her on a tight leash, insisting she focus on her education rather than state affairs. For this reason, her proxies, the Guardians of Fire, have taken over many of her duties in governing the City of Fire, Lumina Aka.
Kathlyn Dulheine
Said to have killed herself with her own trident Ankerias in 1702 GE, Kathlyn Dulheine, Lady of Lightning died under suspicious circumstances, the prime suspect being Kenji Sokolow, Lord of Wind.
With her death, her permanent seat as one of the three consuls of
Fulgrath also opened up temporarily, and her absence has left an uncomfortable power vacuum in the Republic of Fulgrath.
Kathlyn was a powerful Keeper, and most infamous for her childhood years, when her uncle and friends hid her away from the Keepers on the Corsic island of Rastrowel. There, she had to discover her powers without the aid of her trident, a weapon belonging to her by birthright. Even though not in full possession of her Keeper Powers, she faced the ancient and powerful animancer Vordestra and came out on top at the end of the confrontation, a feat that is still recounted in stories throughout the Corsic Ocean.
Sameth Gildorn
The oldest among the living Keepers, Lord of Earth Sameth Gildorn is considered a wise and learned man, who used to teach at the Gladering University in Arda. His knowledge of magic and history is extensive, and he has been a trusted guiding influence among the other Keepers for years, before the tragic events that lead to the current state of the council.
Kenji Sokolow
Like Kathlyn Dulheine, Kenji Sokolow, too, did not grow up among the Keepers in the Tower of Five. His father, Antonin Sokolow, known as the Black Czar of Vechnaya Bramma defied the extradition treaty of the Age of Heroes, withholding his son from the other Keepers and withstanding their advances too.
The immortal Czar had amassed a vast array of powerful animantic magic and creatures under his employ, fortifying his lands against attack for many centuries, and even the Keepers were loath to face the dark magic of his Outcast animancers, those who had learned their craft in fabled Druith and had paid the price for learning how to abuse it.
It was Kenji himself, who defied his father and fled to the Middle Lands to claim his destiny, but the shadow of the Black Czar is long, and sometimes he still felt it within the mighty walls of the Tower of Five.
Now, he has fled those walls, leaving the tower after the death of Kathlyn, to where, no one knows...
