Mwimdo
The legendary King of Balabala presides over the most welcoming and open city on Dalkesh.
Mwimdo's story begins at his birth. Mwimdo's father Shemwindo, King of the local area, prayed to Savras to determine his fate. Unfortunately Savras spoke to Shemwindo of a prophecy that it would be his firstborn son that would be his ruin. As a result Shemwindo imprisoned his pregnant wife, Omano, in the largest tree at the edge of the Ivory Jungles. It was imprisoned in this tree that Mwindo was born. He and his mother survived for thirteen years on bugs and the water that would filter in through a crack in the tree before Mwindo's mother passes away. Mwindo prays to Lathander for a new start for him and his mother, the tree shifts and revealed are two wooden hilts protruding from the wood. Mwindo draws a wooden axe and a buffalo tail flyswatter. Mwindo carves his way out of his prison and begins to explore the new world he finds himself in. The forest around them had been felled to create farmland leaving their tree alone on the side of a lake. Mwindo travels around the farms helping the people with their menial tasks and discovers that his wooden axe is magically powerful and his flyswatter has the ability to heal people. After helping out the locals for a year or so some tax collectors come to punish some of the farmers for not paying enough tax to the king. Mwindo fights the guards and defeats them, finding out that the king was in fact his father, Shemwindo, and has become a bit of a tyrant these last thirteen years. Mwindo becomes overcome with rage and vows revenge on Shemwindo for what he did to his mother.
Mwindo begins to rampage towards his father's castle Baniyana, his axe becoming more powerful the more he fights. By the time he reaches Baniyana it is powerful enough to sunder the walls in a single strike, in the chaos Shemwindo escapes to the capital of his small kingdom, Katee. Mwindo gives chase destroying all in his path with the power of a vengeful avatar of the gods. He finally catches his father after carving a path of ruin through Katee, at this point his rage subsides. Mwindo sees the death and destruction he has caused in his pursuit of vengeance and decides not to kill his father, instead imprisoning him in the dungeons of the now ruined palace of Katee. This act of mercy causes his wooden axe to shatter.
Mwindo retraces his steps using his flyswatter to heal the damage he has caused, bringing the dead back to life and healing the forest his father had cut down as well. The regrowing forest destroys the rest of Katee and Baniyana and the oppressed people there follow Mwindo on his journey. Miwndo only stops at the edge of the lake and the tree where he and his mother were imprisoned. Here he told the displaced people to build their homes in the trees and never again should they know the suffering of a tyrant. Finally once the city of Balabala is up and running Mwindo uses his flyswatter to bring his mother back to life.
As the King of Balabala, Mwindo's goal above all others seems to be to make his people happy. Constant festivities are held and once dusk falls and the workers have all returned back, drink and song flows through the treetops.
The people of Balabala also tell of the greatest party Mwindo ever threw. After the death of his mother some fifteen years after her resurrection, though of natural causes this time, her funeral was to be a day of celebration for her life. The great tree that had been her prison was felled and set on the lake, her funeral pyre set ablaze on its trunk. Only when the fire stopped would the celebrations be over but so vast was the tree that it was a week later that the final fires sunk beneath the water. Mwindo called a day of rest where no money was to change hands for any reason as people slept off their hangovers while he ventured into the jungle to see his father, still imprisoned in Katee.
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