Leike Corver
Leike is a woodcarver from Causquette, Aderia, and is the younger brother of Leski Corver.
Leike's birth, like many births within the globe, was bittersweet as it resulted in a death as well. It was not something that any of his family has held against him, but it is a pervasive factor in his life nonetheless, and his being the baby of the family is ever soiled with this idea as well.
However, he lead a provincial, contented childhood much like the rest of his siblings. He was close with the younger two—his eldest brother, Reise, took to the Beourjen Army and Border Wars when Leike was still in nappies—and still remains close with both Leski and Garrett, as well as with his father, Vetchen.
The children's mother died during Leike's childbirth, and so Leike was raised solely by his father on their farm, with each subsequent sibling leaving Causquette for the city one by one as Leike grew up. It was not a particularly bad life, and Leike himself looking back on it would be grateful for its simplicity. He went to a small school in town that he walked to and fro with Leski four days a week, and on the days when they were not working then they were up from dawn till dusk to aid their father on the farm.
Leike's eldest brother Reise was killed in an arcanic incident in 1546 while on reserve with his scouting company up on the Beourjen-Aveaan border, and the loss was hard on the Corver family, particularly on Garrett and Vetchen, however Leski and Leike were also grieved by the loss. Their grief was further exacerbated by Garrett leaving the farm not even a year later, and their father grew somewhat distant for a time from both Leski and Leike.
In 1554, Leski left the farm as well, taking up a job at the Beourjen City Paper and leaving Leike to be the last of the four children at the farm. By this point Vetchen had accustomed himself to the notion that his children would all one day leave to forge their own paths, and so while he still enlisted Leike's help while the boy was in school, and the two remained close, there was a distinct air of knowing that Leike was not meant to stay in Causquette forever either and thus Vetchen did everything he could with their meager income to ensure that Leike would be prepared and educated by the time the day arrived.
And so it eventually came. Leike received letter from Leski the following year—they exchanged letters every so often, which he did with Garrett as well though more scarcely—encouraging him to follow his lettering pursuits in the capital city, where he might lodge with her at her apartment, and she might as well procure him a job at the paper she worked.
There wasn't much to consider. His father encouraged it at least as heartily, because Leike had always been good with his letters and bellied it as an interest, and Leike himself felt the pull of city life much more than he did that of the country. And both Leski and Garrett resided in Beourjen City at this point, so it was really more suitable for him to move there anyway—their father would not stray from the farm, but he already visited the other two every so often when he could spare the coin, and Causquette was close enough that the other two of Leike's siblings returned home intermittently as well.
So he went, staying at Leski's apartment for the first several months before he could afford his own little place, and taking her up at the job at the paper. While Leski was employed through the main Beourjen Paper, Leike found that the job she had procured for him was through the Reserves, a smaller and more risque sect of the main publication, yet still a decent-enough place of employment. Perhaps even more so in the vein of what he had imagined upon coming to Beourjen City.
Growing up, Leike had kept up a passive passion of art and sketch in his spare time, along with a love of books and letter; the latter he shared with his elder sister. The job at the Reserves allowed him to cultivate both—he was delegated to be an assistant reporter, and he took to the job easily and with appropriate enthusiasm. He was a natural at it, he quickly found, and he enjoyed both the investigative and convivial aspects of the job.
Within the first year of his new employment, he found himself working on a piece that would come to be increasingly relevant to the political strife churning within the city, though in the early stages Leike only knew that he'd been assigned another interview. It was to a slighen, Stef, a former soldier himself who had later been incarcerated on a slew of suspicious charges.
When they met, Leike had no inkling as to the nature of the charges, nor of their relevance to the city as a whole. He was ignorant of the social sphere in which Stef operated, and he found that Stef was of an even greater apathy toward him. Yet he proved the best man for the job; he drew Stef in, was both efficient and genuine in his interest for Stef's background, and pulled forth a most intriguing article—one that would, if not incite, still swell the burgeoning turmoil within the eastern confederacy.Even now, he doesn't quite understand the full extent of what he's gotten himself into. He's come to the city to pursue what he figured, at best, to be a childhood dream of artistry and fulfillment, and whilst he's found it in a somewhat warped instance, he has still found some satisfaction in the city, in his job.
History
Leike Corver is the youngest of the four Corver children, and seventeen years old when he's first introduced in the series. He's three years younger than Leski, who is the next oldest out of the four children as well as one a predominant character throughout the series.Leike's birth, like many births within the globe, was bittersweet as it resulted in a death as well. It was not something that any of his family has held against him, but it is a pervasive factor in his life nonetheless, and his being the baby of the family is ever soiled with this idea as well.
However, he lead a provincial, contented childhood much like the rest of his siblings. He was close with the younger two—his eldest brother, Reise, took to the Beourjen Army and Border Wars when Leike was still in nappies—and still remains close with both Leski and Garrett, as well as with his father, Vetchen.
The children's mother died during Leike's childbirth, and so Leike was raised solely by his father on their farm, with each subsequent sibling leaving Causquette for the city one by one as Leike grew up. It was not a particularly bad life, and Leike himself looking back on it would be grateful for its simplicity. He went to a small school in town that he walked to and fro with Leski four days a week, and on the days when they were not working then they were up from dawn till dusk to aid their father on the farm.
Leike's eldest brother Reise was killed in an arcanic incident in 1546 while on reserve with his scouting company up on the Beourjen-Aveaan border, and the loss was hard on the Corver family, particularly on Garrett and Vetchen, however Leski and Leike were also grieved by the loss. Their grief was further exacerbated by Garrett leaving the farm not even a year later, and their father grew somewhat distant for a time from both Leski and Leike.
In 1554, Leski left the farm as well, taking up a job at the Beourjen City Paper and leaving Leike to be the last of the four children at the farm. By this point Vetchen had accustomed himself to the notion that his children would all one day leave to forge their own paths, and so while he still enlisted Leike's help while the boy was in school, and the two remained close, there was a distinct air of knowing that Leike was not meant to stay in Causquette forever either and thus Vetchen did everything he could with their meager income to ensure that Leike would be prepared and educated by the time the day arrived.
And so it eventually came. Leike received letter from Leski the following year—they exchanged letters every so often, which he did with Garrett as well though more scarcely—encouraging him to follow his lettering pursuits in the capital city, where he might lodge with her at her apartment, and she might as well procure him a job at the paper she worked.
There wasn't much to consider. His father encouraged it at least as heartily, because Leike had always been good with his letters and bellied it as an interest, and Leike himself felt the pull of city life much more than he did that of the country. And both Leski and Garrett resided in Beourjen City at this point, so it was really more suitable for him to move there anyway—their father would not stray from the farm, but he already visited the other two every so often when he could spare the coin, and Causquette was close enough that the other two of Leike's siblings returned home intermittently as well.
So he went, staying at Leski's apartment for the first several months before he could afford his own little place, and taking her up at the job at the paper. While Leski was employed through the main Beourjen Paper, Leike found that the job she had procured for him was through the Reserves, a smaller and more risque sect of the main publication, yet still a decent-enough place of employment. Perhaps even more so in the vein of what he had imagined upon coming to Beourjen City.
Growing up, Leike had kept up a passive passion of art and sketch in his spare time, along with a love of books and letter; the latter he shared with his elder sister. The job at the Reserves allowed him to cultivate both—he was delegated to be an assistant reporter, and he took to the job easily and with appropriate enthusiasm. He was a natural at it, he quickly found, and he enjoyed both the investigative and convivial aspects of the job.
Within the first year of his new employment, he found himself working on a piece that would come to be increasingly relevant to the political strife churning within the city, though in the early stages Leike only knew that he'd been assigned another interview. It was to a slighen, Stef, a former soldier himself who had later been incarcerated on a slew of suspicious charges.
When they met, Leike had no inkling as to the nature of the charges, nor of their relevance to the city as a whole. He was ignorant of the social sphere in which Stef operated, and he found that Stef was of an even greater apathy toward him. Yet he proved the best man for the job; he drew Stef in, was both efficient and genuine in his interest for Stef's background, and pulled forth a most intriguing article—one that would, if not incite, still swell the burgeoning turmoil within the eastern confederacy.Even now, he doesn't quite understand the full extent of what he's gotten himself into. He's come to the city to pursue what he figured, at best, to be a childhood dream of artistry and fulfillment, and whilst he's found it in a somewhat warped instance, he has still found some satisfaction in the city, in his job.
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Age
18
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Reise Corver
(Brother)
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Gender
male
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