Auel

"He's the Hitler of Graal."

Auel is well known graphic artist, guild leader, and hacker. He is attributed with the creation of the guilds Imperia, Britannia, The State, and The Baby Punchers Association and is called the Father of the Graal Military for his influence in laying down their structure and doctrine. He is also an acomplished graphic artist, with his 78+ shield codes being used widely by all. He is also the designer behind most military uniforms and their variants and several original types of bodies. Auel is a publicly known hacker, with over 120 bans on his account and 45+ macro and hack alerts on his profile.

His loyalist following has resulted in the terms "Auelism" for the following of Auel and the term "Auelist" for his followers.

Origins

After completing the tutorial on Balamb Island, the player that would later become Auel was captured by a slave trader. In the days before the Out button, slavers would often capture noobs and sell them to farmers in order to work on their plantations. Auel was captured and sold to a farmer and worked on his farm for a short duration. After escaping from the plantation, Auel joined a group of slavers and became one of the people who enslaved him.

His time in the underworld took him off map for the first time, in the time before The Void, resulting in his interest in off map regions and ways to escape the confines of the mainland.

Auel and the group of slavers he had joined were all jailed for selling slaves several times. After awhile, the leader was banned and the group disbanded.

While wandering, Auel encountered the Graal Defense Forces. The largest Pre-State military. While The State is the origin of all current militaries, there were militaries before The State that operated on different systems and organization. It focused on protecting people from hackers, glitchers, and on towering. The GDF was lead by General Insignia. Auel founded his own slave and farming organization, the SEC and supplied funds to the GDF in exchange for manpower to help capture slaves. It was his first experience with running a guild, and the first exposure to an organized military.

These origins are one of slavery, exploration, illegal activity, and militarism. It's not surprising that such an environment would create the dictator that would be known as Führer Auel.

The Royal Guard

The SEC and GDF eventually split paths. At the time, Auel was known as Arzachel. After spending time with several towering guilds, he wanted something more significant, something where he would be apart of something bgiger.

He found the potential for something more significant in The Royal Guard. Protectors of a King whose name is forgotten (it is rumored to have been the first Auel in the Tale of the Mad King), the Royal Guard kept peace in the Castle and guarded the King on his throne. It was peaceful times, players came from all over the game to request assistance from the King or request his wisdom to settle disputes. The tower guilds stayed above in their flag room, and the halls were filled with guards, nobles, and people socializing as a Kingdom.

Arzachel was recognized for his efficent leadership and combat, the King made him Captain of the Royal Guard.

Several days thereafter, a Civil War broke out in the Kingdom between a faction of noblemen and their handful of followers and the King and his guardsmen. Peace was shattered, and everything fell apart.

However, the sight of such a peaceful society, a true community bound by order, run by players became the foundation from which Auel would seek to create on a global scale.

Captain Arzachel took on the name Auel after the war, and began to lead tower guilds such as DEEPGROUND, and helped start In Motion. Gaining more and more experience with large guilds and real alliances.

The Alliance

Attempting to jump-start his vision of a global order and government like had seen in The Royal Guard, Auel used his new position as a tower leader to forge an confederation between the 3 largest tower guilds at the time: AGK, NAL, and Rice Kings.

It was known simply as "The Alliance".

Despite wielding large numbers in total, the factions were difficult to organize to work together on any project. The lack of a central authority or commitment from any of the factions resulted in failure.

The Alliance was the precursor to The State. Without it, The State would have never come into existance. In The State, all factions gave up sovereignty, and joined together to form one guild, and were not just united by words or figures, but were truly united.

Quotes

-"My people love me because I don't care about them."

-"Winners win while whiners whine."

-"Only the foolish deal in absolutes. There is no black and white good and evil, only grey."

-"I don't play fair, I play to win."