Twenty years ago, the youngest Scarlet Emperor, King Fjor, reigned. He was popular among the people and aristocracy, the army and the courts. Charismatic, fair, and clever, it was a golden age under his rule, and the empire prospered. However, he was perhaps most famous, or infamous, for his close bond with Kaede Foster, a blue-haired necromancer and assassin, revered and feared by many. To Fjor, he was a blood-brother. They laughed, they bickered, and even fought on numerous occasions. But they always remained close.

Then, Foster killed him.

Trefor, the son of Fjor, was a mere ten years of age when his honorary uncle betrayed them, and he succeeded his father as Emperor. In the following years, when the sun was blotted out, dubbed the "Age of Ruin", Trefor grew up quickly to successfully manage the Empire his father had ruled. Once a sweet kid, now a shadow of what his father was.

At thirty years of age, Trefor rules the Scarlet Empire well enough. Leading a small-scale war against the Ash Elves without much difficulty. But many still see him as his father's lesser, much to his disdain and repressed sorrow. He distracts himself from the naysayers by investigating his former uncle, who disappeared and was presumed dead after the Ruin began. But Trefor knew his uncle better than that. He knew he was alive.

And he wouldn't stop until he found him, and asked... 

"Why?"

[Tefor has a welsh accent, with still somewhat young-ish, but authoritative tone of voice. He's not some lazy king, sitting on his throne and ignorant to his people and empire's plight, he's proactive and competent.]