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Nikolos Saint Sistomul of Kaapasart, upon campaign.

Str 9(-)/24 Dex 7(-) Con 10(-)/(-) Int 12 (+1 age, 13) Wis 16 (+1 age, 17) Cha 15

Born in 830, January 29th, at Elvenspire

Family Background

Nikolos was born the only son of Dalmanos, a former Encyclonian knight of the Istanok. After his death and raising from the dead by the bishop of the Istanok after a lost battle with monsters, Dalmanos retired to the frontier castle town of Kaapasart, where he was given lands and a healthy comital pension. Although a much older man, Dalmanos was of high status and without family, and so therefore married his second wife, Alastosia Ethereyen, the daughter of a local land owner, who bore him three children, two daughters and a son, Nikolos, who was second-born.

Increasingly religious, Dalmanos financed improvement's to Kaapasart's castle church, dedicated to St. Sistomul, and befriended its priest, Nikolos, after whom he was to name his son. Eventually Dalmanos joined the clergy, and moved the family to Elvenspire, where he became a deacon, eventually dying of old age as the arch-deacon of the Abbadonian cathedral there.

Early Life

Nikolos was born at the Cathedral of St. Malkus the Wise in Elvenspire, on 29 January, 830. After his father's death when he was 5, Nikolos's mother remarried a Knight of St. Quadrain named Nalath Palantanas. Sir Nalath. Although Dalmanos had himself determined that his son should join the clergy, Nalath elected to have the boy first labor for the Bailiwick of Isial of St. Quadrain. For a time he entered into the order as a lay monk, and took to the iron mines the monastery ran, learning from the overseeing monk there important aspects of mining.

Just before his eighteenth birthday, Sir Nalath died in combat against local monsters, and so Nikolos' mother removed him from the Bailiwick of Isial and had him enrolled at the Cathedral College. Nikolos was not the best of students, chafing somewhat under the academic aloofness of the faculty, but he excelled in engineering. When he was twenty, Nikolos encountered Professor Nikolos Athalosia, the archpriest of the Church of St. Lykolos, taking a year-long class with him in planar theology.

Upon earning his degree, Nikolos's mother arranged for him an engineering position over the iron mines of the Bailiwick of Isial, and for a time he did this. Assuming control of his father's lands from his mother, Nikolos grew reasonably wealthy, and continued to take occasional classes at the university. He also traveled several times to Kaapasart to visit his father's lands and resolve issues there, and in so doing met his namesake, archpriest Nikolos, providing him further funds. Invited to holy orders by the Bailiwick of Isial, Nikolos merged his mining career with monastic duties, advancing all the way to the degree of acolyte, but before taking his final oath, he was notified that archpriest Nikolos of Kaapasart had died, receiving a final letter from the old man, imploring him to take over the church of St. Sistomul. The letter also wrote of adventurers from the Kingdom of Pompiers, out from Elvenspire, threatening the viscounty. Feeling the call for life in Kaapasart, and increasingly partial to the Abbadonian rite, Nikolos abandoned his monastic career in the Order of St. Quadrain. Appealing to the Abbadonian bishop of Elvenspire, Armoragard, he was quickly ordained to holy orders as a full priest, and traveled quickly to the Istanok in the hopes of helping to stave off the aggressions of the Mandadorian adventurers that threatened it.

Nikolos in the Istanok

Nikolos became priest at St. Sistomul's during the small war between an element of the Knights of St. Quadrain, led by Sir Tellemant of Bastias, and the Viscount of Kaapasart, Lord Galladion Phylanthion. Tellemant had once cleared lands of monsters for Lord Phylanthion, and been given lands in reward, including a baronial title. Tellemant and his followers however found ways to antagonize the Encyclonian lord, and when they were attacked for taxing lands that were not their own, Tellement claimed injury, rallied low knights and serjeants of St. Quadrain to his cause, and the feud began in earnest.

For Nikolos, he remained peaceful for several years, avoiding skirmishes between the two factions, and seeing to his lands and the maintenance of St. Sistomul's. He also served as a neutral messenger between both factions, and took in orphans at the church, as the deaths began to mount, including William Angus Armstrong.

, and thereafter traveled with his younger sister Alathaya to the Istanok.

Archpriest of Saint Sistomul

Upon reaching Kaapasart

Current Adventures

Nikolos to the Furnorkanasos

By the summer of 872, Count Parrassar, lord of the Istanok, had fallen in the War of the Princes, and the Zaamanthuessen Encs threatened the Istanok, especially in the north. Suspicious of his fellow lords of being partial to the imperial Mancranese claim, and not wishing to pay the Zaamanthuessen to not raid their lands, Viscount Fallast Bowhaven of Kaapasart decided to reach out to his old allies in the Furnorkanasos for aid and alliance. Learning that the Kanosian League was once again gathering that late summer, Lord Bowhaven gathered a small party to arrive in embassy to the Furnorkanasos, to help them fight against the Zaamanthuessen, and also to forge an alliance of mutual self-defense against the Zaamanthuessen. To lead this party, the viscount appointed the Archpriest of St. Sistomul, Nikolos son of Dalmanos.