Life and Death of Onurb, a story of triumph, defeat, love and hate.
Onurb was born in the small village of Glunmar under the reign of the Blue Kingdom, his parents were cousins and had many children but only Onurb and his sister made it to adulthood. Since his early days Onurb showed a enthusiastic love for the works of art he would often see in the local church and dreamed of being able to create such beautiful things for a living, but his father wouldnt let him follow his heart, instead he wanted Onurb to follow his footsteps and become a tax collector for the local lord. For several years Onurb was taught basic mathematics, accounting and bookkeeping; during his early childhood Onurb proved to be a smart kid helping his father with anything he could, but as years passed Onurb's relationship with his father worsened along with his desire to learn.
Onurb's father finally died, leaving 14-year-old Onurb alone with his mother and sister, he grabbed everything he could and left the village of Glunmar to go pursue his dreams in Veluca. He tried to become an artist apprentice for various renowned artists, but none would accept him and so Onurb was forced to adopt a new way of life, the life of a street artist. For the next years Onurb spent most of his days in the streets trying to earn enough to eat by doing any kind of artistic job anyone could need. It was during this period that he started to get himself involved in politics, always listening the discussions of the ocasional nobles and aristocrats, and chatting with other street workers as well as foreigners that visited the town looking for opportunities. Onurb's future was being forged in those discussions.
When Onurb reached 24 years old he enlisted in the Blue Army but got rejected for being 'unfit' for the task, his heart got filled with hatred toward the Blue Kingdom. Not long after, war spread through all neigbouring kingdoms; Onurb once again felt the urge of defending his beliefs against the invaders, but this time he enlisted for his newfound homeland, the Green Kingdom. Onurb performed as a field courier, delivering messages and orders to the numerous captains and commanders in the battlefield; he participated in varius battles and sustained an injury in one of his legs. While recovering from his battle wound Onurb learnt his newfound homeland lost the war.
The rival kingdoms decided not to raid or destroy the Green Kingdom in exchange of complete submission and taking full responability for all damage caused by the war. During the next years the Green Kingdom was left economically destroyed, but Onurb still had hope that his homeland would be a powerful kingdom once again. After the war Onurb got promoted to the hidden division of the Green Army, he became a spy. His first mission was to infiltrate a guild suspected of plotting against the new rulers in Uxkhal. Onurb managed to succesfully infiltrate this revolt-plotting guild and became very involved in their internal functionality, it got to a point where Onurb got discharged from his duties as a spy but he kept being part of the guild, he no longer followed nobody orders, he did it out of his very own will.
Several years passed, Onurb made friends and enemies alike, he became a notorious person among the local population with many followers both commoners and nobles whom would give their lives for him. It was about time for Onurb to restore the former glory of the Green Kingdom, and so with help and support of nobles and others he organized a revolt in Uxkhal; at first the revolt started off as a sucess managing to overtrhow the local garrison HQ, but as Onurb marched with his force to the Royal Palace most of his allies abandoned him; with a small but faithful group of followers Onurb attempted to overtrhow the local lord but failed. Onurb was imprisoned under the charge of high treason.
Onurb managed to avoid execution thanks to the objections of the many nobles that followed him, instead he was charged with 5 years of imprisonment. With help of a friendly guard and a literate monk who shared cell with him, Onurb wrote a book about his life and dreams, he named this book ''This Combat of Mine''. Even after avoiding execution, Onurb's followers and allies managed to convice the Green King to give him a royal pardon and release him, and so Onurb only spent over a year in prison.
Onurb was forced to leave Uxkhal in order to pursue his new dream of restoring the mighty Green Kingdom, and so he went north, to the capital of the Green Kingdom. Onurb's renown grew bigger and bigger over the years, especially during ''The Great Famine'', a food crisis wich resulted in thousands of people dead or in total poverty. Eventually Onurb and many of his allies and followers conviced, or rather, forced the King to give him a title of nobility wich would later allow him to accoplish his goal.
Onurb was now formally part of the Green Kingdom, and as any other noble he had the right to become the rightful ruler of the Green Kingdom, but that wouldn't be an easy task. After many alliances, betrayals and general nobility drama, Onurb managed to become the 2nd most powerful person in the Green Kingdom, the Hand of the King. Onurb took advantage of his new position to destroy his political opposition, and undermine the King's authority. Using shady tactics and manipulation of information, Onurb finally managed to overthrow the King and occupy the Green Throne himself. Onurb was now the rightful ruler of the Green Kingdom.
Onurb's reign started with the imprisonment and execution of any kind of opposition to his beliefs, followed by strengthening the crippled Green Army and all kind of civic proyects such as paved roads connecting all mayor cities within the kingdom, wind and water mills in in every farm under the influence of the Green Kingdom, new mines to promote the production of steel, etc. All castles and cities were repaired and reinforced to resist sieges for decades. The Green Kingdom could once again stand on his own two feets.
Onurb's first military target was the Brown Kingdom. Once a mighty unified kingdom, now was torn apart by internal fights between lords who wanted to occupy the Brown Throne. This was a perfect opportunity for Onurb to test his newly reformed Green Army, but due to the long distance between both kingdoms, Onurb could not afford to occupy any settlement on those lands by himself, instead he opted for supporting whoever he thought had the most rightful claim for the Brown Crown. Onurb also found another ally far in the east, the Yellow Kingdom, an old powerful kingdom notorius for their skilled knights capable of incredible feats of agility and accuracy wielding their famous single bladed swords. Not long after, another kingdom decided to side with the Green Kingdom, the Crimson Kingdom, a kingdom known as the craddle of modern civilization, although they were once a mighty huge empire, time proved to be their most fierce enemy and now they were just recovering from centuries of internal fights.
With the Green Army as strong as ever and some powerful allies to protect his back, Onurb started the main offensive against the rival kingdoms. One by one the the rival kingdoms fell under the mighty Green Army and its unique and efficient way of fighting, the so called ''ThunderTactic''; from the smallest to the biggest kingdoms whom once humilliated the Green Kingdom now were falling before its might. A new empire was born.
With the Green Army virtually undefeated in battle, Onurb's boldness rose higher and higher each day up to the point Onurb decided to attack the until then neutral Red Kingdom; with the Red Army at least ten times bigger than the Green Army, they proved to be a worthy opponent. At first everything seemed to go just as Onurb planned, absolute triumph over the Red Army; but the Red Kingdom was an incredibly big kingdom and distances between towns and villages seemed to grow longer and longer the deeper they went into this lands, the local terrain didnt help much either, with knee-high mud and extremely cold temperatures the advance of the Green Army was severely slowed; what was supposed to be a few months of invasion turned out to be a few years, and so the Red Kingdom managed to muster his troops and march to repel the Green Invasion. Everything that goes up must inevitably fall down.
The news of Onurb's failed invasion to the Red Army at the east reached the ears of the yet to be conquered kingdoms at the west, this news emboldened the remaining survivors of Onurb's conquests and switched from a defensive strategy to an all out offensive campaing in wich almost all western kingdoms fought side by side to repel and destroy the Green Kingdom. Fight by fight the Green Kingdom lost more and more power, and Onurb became more and more wrathful.
After many sieges and battles the Green Kingdom was reduced to its capital alone, and with a combined attack from both west and east the Green Kingdom was finally defeated, again. Onurb's scorched corpse was found after the battle, altough many say that Onurb is still alive hiding in the far away White Kingdom.
Inspiration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/albert_einstein
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