Enormeous

Kaede Wellington is a Heartlander, he grew up in a well managed and wealthy household and was consistently viewed by his peers as being ahead of those around him academically. Being a member of the Wellington family he was expected to continue the family merchant tradition, but as he grew up he proved to have larger artistic aspirations. He was left alone with his father Arnold Wellington since birth, and lived in a large house atop a hill overlooking the city of Helena with the other rich families in the city. His father was very egotistical and expected his son to be something like himself, once saying to one of his close business partners “Why is he like that? Walking around with some sort of blank stare in his eyes as if he is lost in another world.” “I wasn’t like that!” Kaede was always seen as a disappointment to his father, even though he never said it. Regardless of this, Kaede eventually grew up to become a very successful architect in the city of Helena, becoming widely respected and well regarded by people across the city. As he was beginning to get his own career and life on track, his father eventually began to succumb to an aggressive lung disease. When his father died at the age of 60, Kaede was devastated, as despite always being at odds with him, he looked up to his father as a role model of who he wanted to be. However, he soon discovered that this was the least of his problems, when he looked through the family records in his father’s house and saw that his identity was a lie. He was not in fact a Wellington family member, but he and his father were of Raevir descent, and thus Highlander race. Through further looking through these records, he could see that this mix up was intentional, for his mother was not really dead, but was the wife of the late emperor of the Orenian empire, and he was a bastard child. This fact had to be covered up by his father for the past 20 years, but now that his Father was dead, the people who had known the secret were no longer being silenced by his father through his money, and with his father dead there was no money left to pay them off. When the current emperor of Oren got wind of the previous emperor’s half child being alive, he saw Kaede as a problem. Before a dispatch could be sent to arrest Kaede however, he had fled the city. With this, the emperor decided to cease in any orders for Kaede’s arrest, so long as he never returned to the city of Helena. Currently Kaede is currently without a home or aim, and is venturing through the country of Arcas living off whatever food and work he can find.