Lhohen Darben Nehromed

Without doubt, the figure of Darben was the most significant connection between spiritual scheming and real-world politicking. He was born to simple tavern-keeper around the city of Calathem in 3513. The man of this father is unknown other than to Darben himself and his mother died when he was young. However, luck did smile upon him. A widower named Dehesa, bred in the well-known and landed Merodehen dynasty, encountered his father and became his lover. They married a year later, and Darben suddenly became the heir to her inheritance, for her previous marriage bore no children. At the young age of 14, he ascended to power upon the death of his mother. Thrown into the arena of southern politics, he befriended the reigning Lhenod of Grathem, being Aderahen Cartholem, and learned deep wisdom about matters of government and history. When he died around the year 3532, Darben became a close confidant of his successor, Hemherod Cartholem, and exerted considerable influence upon him in calculated and uncalculated ways.
Around the year 3546, he was approached by members of an enigmatic organization, self-described to operate in the interests of Mesian.