Thorgils Tarjeisson

Arandur of Alalehzamin and Utasia, Chief Secretary of Military Affairs, Chairman of ESB-Jörmungandr Group & Dean of the Library of the People's Academy of Elwynn. Thorgils Tarjeisson is a early to mid 15th Elw century businessman and administrator of Norse ancestry who claims descent from the House of Einhorn.

Thorgils Tarjeisson, Administrator and public servant

Early Life

Born in 1593 in the city of Slevik, Normark. Emigrated to Elwynn in 1608 as an undocumented migrant amongst a party of two hundred and fifty displaced persons. Settled in Caligae. Shared dormitory with Aasmund Vigeland. Joined the Union Defence Force in 1613 with a recommendation from General Secretary Vigeland. Transferred to the People's Militia in 1615. Deployed to the Green Valley (Araxion) in 1616. In the same year he was inured and captured by Church of Wayne fanatics after falling into a concealed bear pit (a large earthen pit with sharpened pikes in the bottom). A prisoner of war, he was transferred into the custody of Brettish forces and held for three years in captivity across the Blue Elwynn in unsettled territory. During his imprisonment, his left foot turned gangrenous and had to be amputated. Released after the armistice was signed in 1619 and repatriated in a prisoner swap later that year. To replace his foot he was provided with a government issued prosthesis that was unfortunately moulded to a right foot of a different size. Sent to Echo City for rehabilitation therapy. Assigned to an administrative post in a refugee reception centre in Islus in early summer 1621.

Sentenced by the Star Chamber to six years of contemplation in a monastery on Raikoth for the rape of Ergonian asylum seeker Kelly Kupliva in 1621. Released early from the Kphoraban Monastery on the Nadir mountain range in 1623 after attaining 'proper perspective regarding his past misdeeds' (or in practice by ingratiating himself sufficiently to the Abbot to earn favour) he was taken by sleigh to the city of Tala and there permitted to study amongst the ruins and work for opals, the local unit of currency. Employed by Councillor Ulni to read and interpret correspondence to the new royal government in Eliria. He was dispatched by Ulni to Amokolia in 1624 to observe and report back on rumours that the Steward's daughter was performing in public martial arts competitions. Thorgils was able to confirm that this was, indeed, the case. Scandalised the Council of Nine refrained from further cooperation with Eliria and even declined to report the disappearance of the Duke who had been dispatched to rule over them.

Instead of returning to Raikoth, Thorgils pressed on into the interior of Benacia, passing across the border and through separatist regions of Amokolia and down the Blue Elwynn to Shirekeep.

After arriving in Shirekeep in early summer of 1625, he found shelter amongst the dosshouses of the docks district where he was known as Thor Tanglefoot and Limpfoot Gils. Being no good on his feet and having no interest to go back behind a desk for a while, Thorgils learned a new trade as an abattoir slaughterman down in the bloody shambles of the Old City. It was discovered that Thorgils had a knack for the butchers trade and could readily turn a cleaver and saw to the hewing of any variety of meat from sinew and bone.

Citizen

In 1634 he applied for formal recognition as a citizen of the Elwynnese Union. Owing to his chequered past, the Royal Court in Eliria refused to grand acknowledgement and instead Thorgils took a boat down to Teldrin in the Grand Duchy of Goldshire and received citizenship there from the Grand Duchess Noor Bint Simrani-Kalirion.

Not long afterwards, a new pamphlet was distributed in Shirekeep entitled 'the Semblance of a Mild Dilemma'. Written as an expression of regret at not being allowed to return to his adoptive homeland it was also a polemic calling upon the Elwynnese to not let their ancestral cultures not be drowned out but through diligence and hard work to instead preserve that heritage long into the future. The pamphlet was well received and convinced the Court of King Noah to rescind their original ban and to grand Thorgils permission to enter Elwynn.

Businessman

In the meantime, Thorgils had been busy. After taking up lodgings in the Bethlem Hotel, formerly Bethlem Asylum, he encountered two other exiles, Daniyal Siskander Dravot, an infamous ex-cudgeller, and Ernst Cryptsinger a former Instructing Justice of the Court of Star Chamber. Both had been exiles since the Communist Revolution. They were living a discrete but not uncomfortable existence in Teldrin, the least lunatic of the notable towns of Lunaris, and were willing to invest their remaining capital into the venture that Thorgils now proposed.

On his journey south Thorgils had noted the unregulated nature of the river trade between Shirekeep and Musica and how no tier of government was asserting itself in either monitoring or taxing that trade, to the extent that smugglers were growing lax and river pirates were plaguing the Red Elwynn. If a company was put together with a monopoly on trade into Teldrin, they might soon be able to fund a river patrol to ward of pirates begin levying tolls on the river. This proposal the three men took to the Aldermen of Teldrin and found them amenable. The next step was to lobby the new Grand Duchess herself. This they did by promising a tenth of all yearly profits. The result was the issuance of a Ducal Warrant and the formation of the ESB-Jörmungandr Group.