Cymriel Kram

Cymriel Kram is an antagonist featured in The Archaia Chronicles. He is the ruthless leader of the sinister Ebon Order cult. Kram is an occult radical who seeks to undermine and destroy all royal hierarchies.

His goals are a result of his traumatizing upbringing and journey into the dark magic arts. He personally saw the corruption within various empires and monarchs. It fueled him to form a secret society of "revolutionaries" to break down these empires and realign them in his image. Cymriel Kram believes that it is his divine calling to conquer all the kingdoms of Visilion in order to rule them with what he perceives to be, "true justice and authority"

Background
Cymriel was born in the shoddy kingdom of Namaea to poor, lower class leather-workers. Everyday of his life was a struggle. As a child, Cymriel starved as he watched the children of nobility run around with full bellies. He wanted to know why his family could not be the same.

As he grew older, Cymriel became more and more aware of the injustice running rampant in his kingdom. He saw the mistreatment and criticism of the lower class from higher citizens. When his older brother fell ill with the plague, his family was prohibited from seeing a doctor, for they were only reserved for the privileged. Instead they were only allowed an herbalist, but even then his brother could not be healed. His death had a severe impact on Cymriel's and his perception of the feudal system, fueling his hatred for it all.

Death was to trouble Cymriel many more times later in his life. During the Albumi-Namean War, his kingdom implemented a Warning of Sedition for anyone trying to aid Album in the War. His parents, among other lower class laborers were accused of supplying the Albumi scouts with supplies (which they had been scapegoat of the true traitor, a Namean lord). As punishment to to false charges, they were promptly execute in a public demonstration of enforcement.

A broken and furious Cymriel was also exiled from his kingdom due to association with the guilty; he was deemed too young for execution. Instead, he was forced to live with a cruel deacon and his family, so he could atone for the false crimes he was indicted with. Everyday it was either grueling labor or beatings (sometimes both) from them. After months of abuse, Cymriel's anger was pushed to the limit. He released it in the form of dark energy. it gave birth to a sinister magical entity known as Tantarin. Realizing that his newfound powers and Tantarin could grant him his freedom—and revenge—he murdered his abusive foster family and set out to avenge his parents' wrongful death.

Along the way, Cymriels mission to purge corruption from kingdoms captivated the minds of outcasts who seeked to join his cause. What started as a group of like-minded pariahs evolved into a shady cult of bandits and anarchists. With the aid of his cult and dark magic, Cymriel roams the land of Visilion sabotaging kingdoms through violence and pain, ultimately to conquer them all and establish a unified sovereignty rule with what he deems to be proper authority.