Gender: Male.
Birthsign: The Atronach.
Race: Altmer. Or "High Elves" to the humans.
Age: 406.
Apparent age: Mid to late 40s.
Appearance: Tumiiel has a intimidating presence. He stands at 6'9. Quite tall even for Altmeri standards. His skin is pure gold it seems. Almost everything about his looks is literally gold and blond. From his skin, which even other Altmer takes not of, to his hair, which is regularly kept short way above the neck. And even his eyes Irene in his eyes, which is the color gold in it is so bright that some say it blinds you, which of course, is not true. Just an exaggeration. And his ears are so sharp that he could cut it off and uses it as a blade if need be.
In Summerset, he would clothes typical of Altmeri noblemer, however, he is not in Summerset. As he is fighting a war in Elsweyre, he is wearing a heavy set of armor reserved for generals in the Dominion military. Coated in Blue, the armor is clearly elven in design. (Though standard elven armor is in gold/yellow.) All over the armor is symbols for Atlmeri culture. With an Eagle with it's wings spread on the chest plate of it. He has a golden cape with a dragon, representing Auri-El, coated in black. And his helmet, also coated in blue, is designed to look a head of an eagle, with even the visor looking the face of one. And on the top of the helmet, are feather combs.
Personality: Ever since the Oblivion Crisis, Tumiiel has been expressionless, humorless, and grim. Look into his eyes and you will see nothing but a blank, soulless stare. No one has never even seen him publicly smile. Before that, he was known for being a silent type, until he married Tarlia from House Loreius. Which she managed to open him up, until her death giving birth to her second set of twins, which set him back, and even after what he saw in the Oblivion Crisis, which to this day he does not speak about. Regardless, this is one reason why some fear him. When he says something, good or bad, you know he is serious.
Occupation: Lord of Firsthold, and a general in The Aldmeri Dominion army.
Faction: The Aldmeri Dominion. (Within it, the Thalmor.)
Bio: First you must know who the Adonin family is. While they have been amongst the oldest families in Alinor, they have been irrelevant throughout it's history. Often they just had ownership of a small farm within Firsthold's domains, and often had no say in even the region's politics. That would, in fact, all change when Tiber Septim unleashed Numidium onto the city of Alinor. The Aldmeri Dominion was no more. Tiber Septim then began removing those who would cause trouble from power, including the Lord of Firsthold. Of course, while the Altmer wanted to rebel for that already, especially after Numidium was destroyed shortly after the siege of Alinor. However, the Empire had the bulk of it's legions stationed in Alinor. Rebellion was impossible. Seeing this as an opportunity, Tumiiel's father, Ungcano, had managed through scheming and dumb luck earned the title of Lord of Firsthold from the Empire. Of course, the Empire is unpopular. And so the Tumiiel family, while having a higher status, is now unpopular among the province.
Over the next few decades, Ungcano bore two sons, Ocato, Tumiiel's older brother and whom would be the Third Empire's future Potentate, in 3E 12. Tumiiel himself was then born in 3E42. Ungcano, due their difference in age, had sent them to two different places of education for noble families. The one Ocato went to was "sponsored" by the Imperial government, and is where Ocato was influenced to be Imperial mentally. Tumiiel, without the knowing of his father and the Imperial administration of Summerset, was owned by the Thalmor under the guise of a noble family's sponsorship. While the Thalmor was the representative body of the Bosmer and Altmer in the old Aldmeri Dominion, the Thalmor reformed into a secret society dedicated to overthrow the Imperial administration in Alinor and to eventually destroy the Empire that rules over them. Of course, not all the students knew. They would only contact the brightest and youngest of them. And Tumiiel was both intelligent, and very young. Despite coming from a pro Imperial family, Tumiiel showed no signs of Imperial support and was young enough for them to mold his mind. And it would work. He was influenced by the Thalmor through private "tutoring" on the subject of history. And by the time he graduated, he was committed to free his people.
Shortly after Tumiiel graduated in 3E 64, his father passed due to illness, though rumors were said that he was assassinated due to his unpopularity. And so Ocato was nor crowned Lord of Firsthold. Privately, the two brothers had simple disagreements about certain policies. But for the next 15 years, they butted heads on the issues the Imperials were involved then. Their relationship had burn to ash by 79, when Ocato left Firsthold for the Elder Council. Tumiiel and Ocato never spoke again.
While Ocato was still Lord of Firsthold, Tumiiel was the defacto ruler while his brother was gone. With being the first major lord with anti Imperial beliefs, even if it's secret, he suddenly became a useful asset to the Thalmor, who was plotting Ocato's death for Tumiiel to take over. From there, Tumiiel discreetly schemed against the Imperials without them knowing. He was able to increase his personal power in Stormhold over the rest of the first century. And he also pretended to be an Imperial friend. Eventually the Imperial Administration saw him as a close ally by 98, and Legion presence was drastically decreased in the region of Firsthold.
By the year 104, he married Tarlia Loreius, daughter of a major vassal of his that was also secretly hated the Empire. So he could have a strong ally to keep his other subjects and vassals in line. And while the marriage was a political one, the two couple came to love each other. Tarlia even managed to open Tumiiel up, Giving him a sense of personality few people seen. And then by the year 235, she bore a set of twin, something that happens extremely rare to an Altmer. The twins were a male named Ungcano, after his father, and a female named Elenrie, after his mother.
Other than that, the second and third century was more about the Thalmor increasing their powerbase in the province without the Empire's knowledge, to which Tumiiel helped a lot. Over the next two centuries, various nobles supportive of the Imperials were either intimidated, or die of a "mysterious illness." Over time, the Thalmor manipulated the political climate of Alinor. And while not all the anti Imperial nobles were Thalmor or even knew of them, the nobility slowly grew to dislike the Empire. Where even the King and queen too were killed "mysteriously" and the new one was influenced (Without knowledge) by the Thalmor. By then the Empire finally became suspicious, and the Blades investigated. They would set back progress for a time, but the Thalmor would eventually adapt to the situation.
Things for Tumiiel came crashing in the year 327, when Tarlia was giving birth to another set of twins, which was pure dumbluck for that to happen twice. However, the process was bad. Despite the advanced healers, Tarlia died giving birth to the first child, a male. The same infant even had strangled the second infant wit his umbilical cord. And so Tumiiel lost a wife and a newborn son to another newborn son. Tumiiel changed again that day. That was when he became more colder as a person. And to this day, he resents his youngest son, who he cannot disowned due to being family. And it is why he named his Ocato. After the brother he despises. As a mockery. The young Ocato would become the black sheep of the Adonin family.
This did not, however, impede on Tumiiel's work. Rather it made him better at it. While he maintained a fake relationship with the Empire, he became more ruthless as both a rule and a schemer. And this continued on until 433, when the Oblivion Crisis struck Alinor. The entire province faced heavy losses. Including Firsthold. However, Tumiiel face relative success compared to the other cities. When an Oblivion gate first opened outside his city, he took 4,000 and an entire Imperial legion attacked the gate itself. While only 300 came out alive, Tumiiel still closed the gate. This would prove vital as Lord Tumiiel was one of the first to close a gate in Alinor. After a few months of closing gates around Firsthold, (Which Tumiiel did not take part of other than giving the order.) Gates stopped opening around his realm. This gave Tumiiel the time to reinforce the forces of Skywatch, which the city itself was lost and the remaining forces were being overwhelmed. He managed to get into the main gate itself and closed it a second time. Again with heavy losses. He managed to secure the Eastern Isle, or at least for the moment.
Tumiiel's role in the crisis, which along with others, helped the Thalmor. However, it wasn't the Thalmor that would overthrow the Empire's presence. A year after the Crisis, in the first year of the fourth Era, a group called the Beautiful, an organization wanting to reform Aldmeri culture, started the revolution, much to the Thalmor's annoyance as they were about to make the move. Regardless the Imperial Legion, caught by surprise of the amount of nobles fighting them, were forced to retreat into the eastern isle. Where they thought Tumiiel and the Lord of Skyhaven to be the remaining loyalists. However, when the rebel forces invaded the isle, Firsthold and Skyhaven showed their true colors, and obliterated the Imperial Legion, or what remained of them. The Thalmor then managed to took the power away from the Beautiful, and probably prevented chaos form continuing. They then finally announced their existence, which were only thought as rumors. They took credit for the saving Alinor from the Oblivion Crisis and liberating it from the Empire. And for that, the Thalmor grew popular, and many of them, including Tumriiel, became national heroes.
Tumriiel then took part of the invasion of Valenwood. He fought a few but key battles against the Imperial Legion, even when outnumbered. When the Treaty of Anvil was signed, Tumriiel showed how capable he is in both warfare and politics. Which was why he then given an important role for the liberation of Elsweyre. And so he is now at the outskirts of Senchal. He's in the process of taking it.
» Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:19 pm 
). If you do decide it's worth a try, even a simple sketch would be nice.
