Great Sage Mabreka Cho (Zoraï)
Main Psychological Traits
- Endowed with mature intelligence and a strong sense of mysticism.- Well-measured, eloquent and calculated way of speaking.
- Possessed of discernment, judgment and discretion, he is the ever-steady voice of reason that guides the Zoraï people on.
- Of strenuous moral virtue, is faithful to his god (Ma-Duk) and his duty (to promote Kami enlightenment).
- Superior but not haughty, though strong-willed, he has a strong presence of mind and knows how to bide his time. He knows that harboring Yrkanis, for example, will bring him merit later as Yrkanis would be more tolerant to the Kamis than would Jinovitch.
- Sought as an arbitrator far and wide and though devoted to Ma-Duk, he never allows it to influence him unduly.
Short Biography
Born on the route of the exodus. His father, the great warrior magician Leng Cheng-Ho, is a founder member of the guild of Force of Fraternity. Matini Bremmen Kalus Cheng-Lo was named after the other founder members of the guild (Matini Roqvini a Matis, Bremmen Dingle a Tryker, and Kalus Hym a Fyros). The first names were then shortened to Mabreka. These famous homins helped save Leng, his wife, eldest son and two daughters from being devoured by kitins on the route of the exodus. Mabreka was in the belly of his mother at the time.
2489
Arrives in Zora with his family from the route of exile.
2493
Mabreka is 8 when his father is killed saving
the young Matis prince, Yrkanis. The young Zoraï is taken into the
house of the childless Grand Sage Hoï-Cho who gives the boy teaching.
2495
Hoï-Cho begins dictating his encounters with Ma-Duk. Mabreka, at the age of 10, is the faithful scribe.
2498
Mabreka accompanies Hoï-Cho to Pyr where the
Grand Sage negotiates a Pact of Alliance with the Fyros. In Pyr,
Mabreka makes the acquaintance of Dexton, the future Fyros emperor.
This marks the beginning of a lasting friendship.
2499
War over Lagoons of Loria between the Trykers
and the Matis brings a Fyros contingent led by Dexton through Zoraï
country to join sides with the Trykers. During his stopover in the
Zoraï capital of Zora, Hoï-Cho warns Dexton of the consequences of war.
Mabreka reminds him too of the fraternity of the four peoples that
Kalus Hym and the others of the Force of Fraternity had so keenly
defended. Dexton promises to take prisoners when he can.
2500
On hearing about Dexton's capture by the Matis,
Mabreka volunteers to step in as go-between to negotiate his release.
The aging Hoï-Cho, unable to travel far, agrees to send Mabreka on his
first official mission, despite his youth. The Grand Sage counts on the
young Zoraï's capital of sympathy with the Matis king. Indeed,
Mabreka's father had lost his life saving Yasson's son from the jaws of
kitins.
2501
At the age of 16, Mabreka successfully
orchestrates the release of Dexton for one million dappers, and plays a
preponderant role in the Watergate Border Post Peace Treaty.
2504
Mabreka is 19 when Hoï-Cho dies without
officially designating his heir. Despite his growing popularity,
Mabreka is forced to find exile in Pyr when Fung-Tun, an old and
influential guru, takes the power refuting the Hoï-Cho writings, and
reinstates Jena as Kami Superior. In Pyr Mabreka is able to preach the
enlightenment of Ma-Duk to the Dexton, his friend and Emperor of the
Fyros, to bring him closer still to the Kamis.
2506
Mabreka distinguishes himself in battle
alongside Dexton in a campaign to crush a Matis crusade to convert the
Fyros lands to Jenaïsm. Meanwhile, in Zora, Fung-Tun has gone insane,
the Zora administration is in danger of losing control and guards are
posted to keep all foreigners out so creating confusion and conflict at
the Fyros frontier. It is thus amid great acclaim that Mabreka returns
from Dunes of Exile to calm spirits and with a proposition of a
Fyro-Zoraï peace treaty and a pact of alliance in the name of the Kami.
Fung-Tun is deposed, Mabreka is elected Grand Sage by the High Council.
Mabreka takes the name of Mabreka Cho to rekindle the spirit of the Cho
dynasty and faith in Ma-Duk. Mabreka Cho pushes for total commitment to
Hoï-Cho's teachings throughout the lands. He misses not an occasion to
sow the seeds of faith.
2509
Mabreka gives asylum to the late King Yasson's
son, Yrkanis, and helps him muster an army to dethrone the
ultra-Karavan king, Jinovitch. Mabreka figures Yrkanis would be a more
tolerant king and thus more receptive to Kami enlightenment. Mabreka
and Yrkanis agree to resume trade if the prince's bid to the throne is
successful. Mabreka also manages to negotiate the non persecution of
Kamis in Matis lands.
2512
Mabreka and Dexton join forces against a
swarming of kitins in Knot of Dementia and Dunes of Exile. Mabreka
proves himself in battle to be as valiant a warrior as his illustrious
father and as wise a leader as Hoï-Cho.
2516
Following the Fairhaven Peace Treaty signed in
2515, Mabreka orchestrates the summit of Hoï-Cho where the four homin
powers sign a Free Trade Agreement to establish free movement
throughout homin lands. Thus the pro-Kami guild of Cho are at liberty
to spread the word of Ma-Duk throughout the lands of Atys.
2525
At 39, Mabreka Cho has consolidated the
teachings of Hoï-Cho throughout the Zoraï and Fyros lands. The Kamis
are accepted and sometimes revered in Tryker and Matis lands. He would
now like to bring all the homin peoples another step closer to the
eternal bliss of Ma-Duk.