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Sharlayan Forum Representative
An Elezen born and raised in Old Sharlayan, Fourchenault is one of the more influential members of the Forum, his nation’s governing body. This council, formed of ninety-nine elected representatives, dictates Sharlayan’s course for matters great and small, be they minor regulations or national policy. Indeed, it was by the Forum’s decree that, in response to the imperial invasion of Ala Mhigo, the Sharlayan colony in the Dravanian hinterlands was abandoned nearly overnight─an event referred to by many as simply “the exodus.”
In addition to his political power, Fourchenault also wields authority as the patriarch of the Leveilleurs, one of Sharlayan’s oldest families. Its lineage can be traced back to the nation’s founders who arrived aboard Nyunkrepf’s Hope during the Sixth Umbral Calamity. Thus does the family keep Nyunkrepf’s words as its creed. “Renounce the ways of war, and pursue enlightenment through knowledge and reason”─so spoke Sharlayan’s first leader, and so too does Fourchenault Leveilleur.
Until recently, Fourchenault was driven to fulfill a singular purpose─one which the Forum had pursued in secret for two hundred and seventy years. Having learned of the Final Days through an unexpected communion with Hydaelyn in the aetherial sea, Sharlayan’s elite set to work developing a ship by which to ferry their people─and their hard-won stores of knowledge─to the moon, thence to search for a new home among the stars.
Fourchenault’s dedication to this plan grew more fervent after his wife Ameliance gave birth to their two children, Alphinaud and Alisaie. Desperate to ensure the twins escaped the coming apocalypse, he threw himself into his work with a determination bordering on obsession. The death of his own father, Archon Louisoix, during the Seventh Umbral Calamity only served to deepen his resolve.
As the Final Days drew closer, Fourchenault was consumed by fear for his children’s safety and disapproval of their continued association with the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. He vowed to get them aboard Sharlayan’s ship by any means necessary, even should it cost him what remained of their already strained relationship. However, when the twins accomplished the impossible by optimizing the ship’s aetherburner, he came to understand that their conviction would not be denied─nor should it. Unburdening his heart, he at last reconciled with his family and embraced the monumental responsibility of saving the star.
The ship he dubbed the Ragnarok would travel to the very end of the universe, delivering the heroes who would defeat the threat he had so long feared.