Erriel

Erriel is a Yempah - decended Grefah member. His father was a full-blooded Yempah, Erretah, who was sold into slavery to the Grefah by the Bluemah. His mother Beea, a full-blooded Grefah soldier, married Erretah after he rose through the ranks of the Grefah army, and together they had their one and only child, Erriel. His pale coloration makes him stand out enough to where he doesn't need any identification symbols, and therefore walks around naked most days. Erriel is a very silent and reserved clayman. He has spent much of his life assuring the Grefah that he was loyal to his country, despite his ancestry. He finds shame in what the Yempah have become, and doesn't want to be in any way affiliated with them. Strangely enough, he admires the Bluemah, and their drive for conquest. Erriel tried his hand at leadership in the New Era Elections, in which he ran with a slogan similar to, 'My Blood Is Green', and a longterm goal of building up the Grefah army and borders, to avoid ever being looked down upon as the Yempah currently are.

Personality
Erriel is very silent and reserved in everything except for politics and war, which he has passionate feelings about. He finds shame in what the Yempah have become, and doesn't want to be affiliated with them. People have gotten past making remarks on his ancestry, yet whenever the topic does come up, Erriel tries to ignore it, yet when pushed, he bashes his father's country's name into the ground, saying he's loyal only to the Grefah, his 'blood runs green', and that he is nothing like those 'cowards'. He also is passionate about war, in which he (strangely enough) deeply admires the Bluemah and longs to see the Grefah rise to the same status militarily. Besides that, Erriel stays very silent, detached, and level-headed. He is good friends with Tachti and Kay.

History
Erriel was born to the once-slave-now-respected-Yempah-born-Grefah-military-commander Erretah, and his well respected warrior wife Beea. The family was among the wealthier in the Kings Era. They had a house of their own, and though Erriel did not have his own room, he did at least have a place to stand when he wasn't doing anything, which he was doing quite often. Because of his privilaged life and uninvolvment, Erriel grudgingly became friends with Tachti, his neighbor of the same age. The two grew up together, and often stood together when there was nothing to do. Tachti's whinings annoyed him. His other peers adored him. Because of his glowing color and naked body, he became the most handsome of them all. However, it was a curse as well as a blessing. Everyone admired him from afar, but rarely ever spoke to him. Erriel never chose a profession during that era. He decided that a soldier's armor would ruin his skin, and that any other job was beneath him. Instead, he just stood around and conversed with his peers, including Kay, who seemed to share many of his ideals. Then the foggy, much unknown time period of 20 years flew by, and the New Era began. Now 25, Erriel was much older, and much different. He became heated in politics and what he believed in, and was afraid that the Grefah Tribe was crumbling from lack of action. For all of his life and all the years before, the Grefah had done no battles to make their name on the land, contested no one, and made no major alliances other than the Bluemah. Along with other Reformists, Erriel believed that in order for the Grefah to maintain their superpower identity, they had to conquest and expand. To better aid this conquest, Erriel enrolled himself into the New Era Elections, and became one of the four canidates running. His campaign slogan was, 'My Blood is Green', and his longterm goal was to build up the Grefah's military and borders. However, the audience was not impressed with him, perhaps because of his color, and he lost with the least amounts of votes.

Trivia
-Erriel was orignally named Rehtahbee, in honor of his parents, but his name was quickly changed by other tribe members because of his beauty.