Duran Ferrant

Biological

Full Name: Duran Ferrant

Born: 2288 AD (5 WR)

Birthplace: Forthena

Sex: Male

Race: Human

Hair: Auburn

Eyes: Brown

Height: 6'3"

Status: Deceased

Personal

Religion: Elementalism (Alter)

Titles: Lord General of the Forthenan Alliance, King of Forthena, Wielder of the Mana Sword

Known Skills: As a Paladin, Duran had an assortment of healing magic at his disposal. He also was a master swordsman, and wielded the Alter Dimension's Sword of Mana.

History

Duran has been the ruler of Forthena since the death of King Richard. He is the son of Forthena's greatest hero, the dragonslayer Sir Loki Ferrant. When Duran was but a boy, his father lead Forthena's armies against the hordes of the Dragon Emperor Argot Drakonis. Loki did not return from this mission; hearing that Loki was feared to have perished, Duran's mother committed suicide. Thus Duran and his younger sister were raised by their aunt.

During the War of Threes, Duran adventured with the other six heroes of Alter-Mana, and it was Duran who, empowered by the Mana Goddess as a Paladin, drew the Mana Sword and became the Mana Knight. He would lead Forthena into an age of leadership, where Forthena and its Knights of Gold took a leading role in rebuilding the war-torn world and enforcing the tenuous peace. This pact between the six kingdoms of Alter-Mana was known as the Forthena Alliance, in deference to the kingdom that spearheaded that world's new era of peace.

When the Guardians made first contact with the Alter Dimension, the people of the world of Alter-Mana welcomed the foreigners as best they knew how. The Forthenans, in particular, came to love and respect the Guardians, whom they saw as being very similar to themselves in keeping with the two nations' respective chivalric traditions.

However, as the Alterians would soon learn, not all from the Core were as benign as the Guardians. Despite the Guardians' better efforts, corporate and imperialist interests came to the Fringe. General Duran himself became an ardent opponent of Tasnican corporate expansion, and engaged in battling the corps in Alter in every way possible, from sanctions and boycotts to guerilla warfare and sabotage.

With his Alter-Dragon counterpart, King Bartholomew of New Drogen, General Duran entered the world of Alter-Mana into first the Confederation and then the GATO pact, and for a brief time all the nations of Alter enjoyed existing under the umbrella of one of the Web's Great Powers. Following GATO's dissolution, Forthena lost its King, leadership of the Beast Kingdom changed hands, the New Wraith decimated Naba'al, and tensions began to mount within the old Alliance.

Duran wanted to re-unite his world. To do that, he first had to clear his own court in Forthena of any potential opposition. He contrived of an elaborate scheme, staging an attack on himself and seeking to pin the blame on those members of his court who he believed to be a danger to Forthena's continued independence (especially those who advocated reliance on support from Guardia or Tasnica, rather than increased self-reliance). The scheme backfired thanks to the intervention of Irzoile Ricrot, the captain of Forthena's Knights of Gold. Irzoile uncovered the scheme, confronted the King, and bested him. Duran's death passed both the Mana Sword and the Throne of Forthena down to Irzoile.