The Beggar King of Asturcia

A leather bound book of stained crimson felt, clasped in faux gold plating and clasps, the pages are worn and dreary though the words can still be clearly and made out, if one if versed in the Elysian script.

The text denotes the tales of the Beggar King of Asturcia, a noble Lord of Elysia who broke free and claimed independence from the family of Tosima, seeing their rule as unworthy following the coup to dethrone the Elysian Empire. With no true claim to Kingship, he would be known by those outside his court as the Beggar King of Asturcia.

''A foolish man with delusions of grandeur, Isiah Kolduv would grab what power he could at any opportunity. Forever known as one to bend and break the laws of the land, attempting with great futile to excel his lands beyond the squalor it was born into and destined to die in...''

...''As if his antics in his belligerence towards the Empire and Crown was not enough, he commonly sought to sell land that was not his, encroaching upon the territory of bordering Lords. Worse still was the company he kept, meeting with monstrous races to bargain and seek alliances for coin. Mercenary companies born of green skin and fur, waging war against the people of Elysia and Tosima...''

''...Many in Astrucia believe the man to be a saviour of their people and the world, joining monster and man to live in harmony and to be free of prejudice and supposed tyranny of the Empire of Elysia and Kingdom of Tosima. Yet he would name himself the King of Asturcia and rule as thought it were his birthright...''

...''Whispers unconfirmed, though hard to disbelief, say the scoundrel would lay with the very monsters invited to his land. A tainted man of hedonism, treated monsters as slaves, kin and family. A land that needed saving from the beggar King, and yet each time war was waged against the land, their numbers swelled and grew as his slave army of monsters grew stronger and stronger. The people of Elysia would weep for those under his rule who prayed to one day return to the embrace of Elysia...''

''...Whilst wars were waged and failed, Markus Tosima refused to acknowledge Asturcia any longer. To he and the council of nobles, Asturcia was a lost Kingdom of Elysia, and all that stood was a decrepit clan of sodden people. The Free People of Elysia would no longer bear the name of an Elysian land, but a name fitting for the monsters that now inhabited it, Khokkolun...''