Important People

Yevie Tenebris Purpumtum

Dragon of Smoke, son of Evangelion Tenebris, grandson of Emperyon Tenebris, and inheritor of the Tenebris empire; Yevie has had an interesting past to say the very least. He, much like Meter, has a lot of conflicting information about his life, though unlike Meter it seems to encompass his entire life. In very old documentation Yevie Tenebris is the only child of Evangelion- the acting Empress of Escherin at the time of Meter’s arrival to Metrianda. She and her empire held control over almost all land in Escherin, which she had violently taken from many of the already established factions in Escherin at the time. When Meter arrived, he promised the people of Escherin that he would overthrow and drive out Evangelion and her mother and return their land to them- which he did. Meter ended up, against his pacifistic beliefs, violently killing Evangelion and Emperyon in order to destroy the empire as both had threatened to return- something he could not allow. After he had killed them, he had found the unhatched egg of the recently born Yevie- which he had been warned would be there. In recently written history, the tower god of Robasa- Robasarai- had told the young future king that he had to gather the egg, bring it to her, and kill it in her tower in order to ensure peace would reign across his kingdom. He did not do this. Instead Meter had the young prince raised alongside his own children. He assigned his knights to care for him, provided everything he might need, and it seemed that the young Tenebris was growing up to be a kind, if not nervous, child. Up until he was abducted just before he turned 17. He was held captive for several months before the knights of Robasa Odie Thomas and Kora Shigar (the two knights tasked with raising and caring for him) located the facility he was being held at and destroyed it- freeing the young dragon. Since then Yevie had been described as odd, not all present, and erratic. Not even a year later he staged a coup against Meter- which he inevitably won, killing most if not all of the knights of Matan and anyone friendly to the king. He publicly executed the king and (allegedly) all of his children (12 of 13 according to legend) and his wife before starting The Council of Dragons- a fascist government that would hold total control over Metrianda for the next several thousand years. Yevie ruled with an iron fist until his retirement when his daughter, Bravophae Tenebris, took over The Council shortly before its fall.

However, Miko, you find several other histories of Tenebris. In some, Meter fails to kill his mother and he’s raised to rise up and fight against the king’s eldest son: Finnigan, sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses. In others things go almost the same, save for him sometimes never killing the Matans, never being abducted, different people raise him, he’s a woman, he supports the kingdom, he becomes a pirate, an ascetic, an academic, a doctor, a good man, a bad man, a neutral man, a forgotten man- he does a thousand and ten things differently across a thousand and ten histories.

In the oldest version you can find, though, things go almost the same, save for 3 very important things: Robasa (a woman in this history) never calls for his death, he is never abducted by the cult, and it’s not him who kills Meter. Yevie Tenebris is raised by Kora and Odie, who adopt him as their own and inevitably have their biological child, Backflip Shigar-Thomas, a sister for the young dragon he has in no other histories. He grows up alongside the eldest siblings of the Matan family, goes to school to become a neurosurgeon, and becomes romantically entwined with the oldest Matan- Finnigan. Yevie is described, and pictured (!), as a very nervous, socially awkward, book-bound dweeb who stands remarkably tall despite being slouched next to the shorter Finnigan Matan- a suave, smooth-talking, cool-headed orator who is a spitting image of his father with none of the redeeming qualities. The two get into loads of trouble that Yevie tries to prevent them from getting involved with yet Finnigan consistently gets them cleared of. When they are both well into adulthood, after the birth of the most recent Matan child, Miracle, Meter announces that he will be abdicating the throne to his eldest daughter (Finnigan’s twin sister). Shortly afterwards Meter, Ladella, and nearly all of their children (32 of 34) are killed alongside a massive swath of their castle staff and immediate supporters inside the castle in Robasa (the tower is not mentioned in descriptions of the city this early, strangely). Finnigan, tear stricken and angry, claims immediately following the funeral that the Captain of the ship ||||| ||||||||| is responsible, and that he will enact revenge and pluck “that damned thing from the sky” if it's the last thing he’ll ever do. While most of the history here is difficult to parse through or entirely lost in restricted documents and missing webpages, Miko finds that it ultimately ends in a bloody war that results in the sinking of the ship and its sister ship. The entire time Yevie appears to be bowing his head in support of his husband, though it's claimed that, behind the scenes, he is entirely unsupportive of the war.