Duliae

Compendium
One often forgets that Gha'alia is home to more than dark figures clad in iron and hide.

It is the notion of many young Gha'alian soldiers that their dark world runs solely on the sway of their sword, forgetting entirely that there always has been, and always must be, the presence of commerce on their sullen little isle. Duliae is an esteemed figure, unique in this status among generals, tactitians and swordsmen. He has spent many long years cultivating trade lines and pumping blood into Gha'alia's economy, an uphill battle if ever there was one in a place such as this.

It would take a relentless, tenacious, cunning man determined to succeed, and Duliae has, splendidly. He is very wealthy, very well connected, and highly suspect.

Early Days
" Duliae first became known to an even younger Gha’alia; a somehow more chaotic and lost group of orphans who knew only swords and destruction. He was young himself, an eager breath above elfling who had mysteriously avoided conscription. He had an ailing mother, a dead father, and a wicked tongue. He was one of the first elves born on the new island, and he always felt a very strong tie to the land, even though to most of the older elves Gha’alia had seemed strange and foreign. They never spoke much of where they were before Gha’alia, and with the strange confusion that took their faces, he’d learned long ago not to ask. The others his age scrambled to establish themselves, trying to fill the empty spaces their ancestors had left them with, but they were as children, lost in the fog. Even then, Duliae could taste the blood in the water; the opportunity, as it were, to seize the confusion and direct it. When the younger elves of today consider him an exception, an odd, old cowardly elf who is a necessary but poor representation of their people, he can’t help but stretch his thoughts back through the years. Because as it happens, Duliae is one of the first true Gha’alian’s, and Gha’alia has certainly not avoided Duliae’s influence."