Crotinas-Aka

Crotinas Shukeido (styled Crotinas-Aka, "Lord Crotinas") is the leader of the Elven occupation of Ketrab. One of nine Masters of the Ninth School magic - the most powerful elven sorcery, that of Imposed Equilibrum - he is utterly without mercy, compassion, imagination, or flexibility. Instead, his approach to everything is to curtail its extremes and place it under control. This attitude extends beyond systems to individuals: When he discovered in his son, Vried, a penchant for cruelty, he forced the child to spend a month surviving in the wilderness, and then a month in silent meditation. The cruelty was fine, even beneficial in a warrior, but needed to be curtailed and controlled. Now Vried alternates between periods of savage violence and periods of deep meditation.

Calling himself "The Dominator of Men," he now rules Ketrab with a similar approach: Any human willing to join his Militia receives greater rights, but also responsibilities to discipline fellow citizens and perform Elven rituals; thus they are Balanced between human and elven nature, their human excesses curtailed and synthesized with order. An human who defies will be made to fight in the pits until they are ready to join, having spent their chaotic urges, or they die, thus removing the chaotic element from the system. All aspects of life are regulated and forced into a systematic structure, enforced by the Militia and determined by the Elven Numerology of Equilibrium (which Crotinas has mastered as part of his Ninth School training).