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Gennor (1253-NA)
Father: N/A Mother: N/A
of Donwick
1253
Gennor is born in Donwick. He is the son of two farmers.
1259
Gennor's mother dies of illness.
1265
Gennor trains to be a hunter in Donwick.
1267
Gennor participates in his first hunt.
1268
Gennor's father disappears.
Gennor's father's position is usurped by another farmer.
Gennor is forced to leave the area of his father's old farm in Donwick.
Gennor travels to Donwick Castle and lives on the streets.
1270
Gennor travels to Wynn Woods and takes work as a gamekeeper and hunter at a hunting lodge.
1272
Gennor is recruited as an escort for a tribute payment.
The tribute caravan is attacked. Gennor participates in the fighting, defeating that attackers.
Gennor is recognized for his might and assigned to the permanent garrison of a huge woodcutting camp in the Wynn.
1274
The woodcutting camp Gennor worked as a guard for in the Wynn is shut down and Gennor is left on his own.
Gennor travels west, across the Ansel and works as a mercenary in the Plains/River Valley conflicts.
1279
Decreasing frequency of Plains raids negatively affect Gennor's work opportunities, but he still manages to find enough work to support himself west of the Ansel.
1287
Gennor hears news of mercenary work in the north, understanding it to be for some king sponsored religious sanctuary, and travels towards Merrod.
Gennor ends up in the Ansel Valley where he works as a laborer for the winter.
1288
Gennor is forced to remain in the Ansel Valley for much of the year. He cannot find any helpful news or direction of where to go to find the mercenary work he previously sought at Clyffen Mission. Ultimately it is the local lord whose land he works keeping the information secret in an attempt to keep Gennor around.
1289
Gennor travels north into Merrod.
Gennor discovers Mother Egu's Tenets from a street preacher near Teymon. The preacher promises steady work, sanctuary, and freedom at Clyffen Mission for those willing to travel and defend the walls from heathens- Exactly what Gennor seeks.
Gennor visits a Pantheon Temple in Teymon which is devoted to The Mother Egu (an interpretation and bridge religion between the Pantheon and Mother Egu- believing that The Mother from the Pantheon is Mother Egu) and seeks new knowledge from the priests about mercenary work at Clyffen Mission. The priests do not mirror the sermons of the street preacher Gennor heard previously- since the 'heathens' the street preacher referred to ultimately tend to be Pantheon worshipers- but direct Gennor to seek knowledge at the a Clyffen Learning Center.
1290
Gennor ends up at the Jorfen Clyffen learning Center. Skillful negotiation and persuasion on the part of the teachers convince Gennor to remain at the Learning Center to discover Clyffen's teachings. Gennor is amazed that he can stay at the Learning Center, be fed, clothed, and educated without having to do any work besides simple chores in return.
Gennor meets Clyffen and Helmuk while Clyffen is visiting the Jorfen Learning Center.
Gennor begins to actively adopt Mother Egu's Tenets as a part of his life at the Clyffen Learning Center.
1291
Gennor's participation at the Clyffen Learning Center increases. he actively participates in day to day work in addition to teaching.
Gennor departs the Learning Center on his first preaching drive. He travels south along the Swat looking for people like his younger-self, alerting them that through Mother Egu and Clyffen's teachings one needs not worry about starving every day and needs not take dangerous risks in life.
Gennor initiates a second preaching drive, heading west along Tonful's Shadow. The journey proves dangerous and hardly successful. Helmuk travels with Gennor on the journey.
1292
Gennor participates in many more preaching drives in the Merrod Region.
1293
Gennor travels to Clyffen Mission, joining their ranks. He trades in the comforts of the urban Jorfen Learning Center for the frontier at the Mission with the hopes of not only helping to spread Mother Egu's tenets in the region, but also to aid in the rescue of Clyffen.
1294
Gennor finds life at Clyffen Mission to be rugged and difficult. The absence of the mission leader Clyffen leaves the place like a snake without a head. The appointed keepers are disorganized and unable to cooperate.
Gennor begins delivering daily sermons in the mission yard to remind everyone why they are there.
Gennor's sermons really take off. He is eventually able to summon a number of teachers from the Jorfen learning Center to aid in the delivery, providing morning, afternoon, and night sermons.
Helmuk returns to Clyffen Mission in response to Gennor's call for aid, and begins delivering sermons and teaching many of the mercenary missionaries.
1295
Gennor joins a mission keeper's impromptu scout force to travel north into the Lowlands and seek information on Clyffen's whereabouts.
Disappointed with the leadership and control of the mission keeper on his first expedition into the Lowlands, Gennor gathers his own group of volunteers and travels north.
Gennor's group capture and kill many Lowlands people while gathering information on Clyffen's confinement.
Gennor leads a second group into the Lowlands, capturing three family members of an important Lowlands figure.
1296
Gennor leads the group to drop his captives back in the Lowlands in exchange for Clyffen. Clyffen is released and returns to the mission.
Gennor is recognized by Clyffen for his outstanding service and is officially put in charge of the mission's self education.
Gennor returns his main focus to delivering daily sermons at the mission.
1298
Gennor is sent to protect Tonful Shadow mines- due to his experience in Donwick protecting woodcutting camps and his familiarity with the Tonful Shadow area from his preaching drives.
1300
Gennor returns to Clyffen Mission from his post at Tonful's Shadow in response to the mission summons.
The mission keepers elect Gennor of Donwick as the new ruler of Clyffen Mission.
Gennor and the mission keepers reorganize the mission command structure, placing less 'absolute' power in the ruler and more towards the upper ranks of the mission.
Clyffen Mission establishes a defined rank system: Missionary, Clyffenman, Eguman (Man of Egu), Mission Keeper, and Mission Master. The majority of the members of the mission fall into the militaristic category of Clyffenmen. The Mission Keepers are enthusiastic about the system because they get more individual power, while Gennor likes the changes because they address the snake without a head situation seen when Clyffen was held captive in the Lowlands.
Helmuk is given the rank of Eguman initially, but quickly is advanced to Mission Keeper to be in charge of Clyffen Mission's self education (Gennor's previous duty).
1301
Mission Master Gennor rejects submitting to the newly united Hernoldfen dynasty, but manages to maintain a mutual relationship. Clyffen Mission continues defending Merrod mining interests along Tonful's Shadow in exchange for monetary benefits and special access to resources.
1306
Helmuk establishes mandatory daily class sessions for all Missionaries and Clyffenmen. The power of the Egumen and other Mission Keepers was too great and their protests too strong to include them int he mandatory attendance, even with Mission Master Gennor's support.
1310
Mission Master Gennor attempts to oust several Mission keepers that have an obvious lack of care or belief in Mother Egu. His measures fail.
Mission Keepers lose faith in Gennor following the unrest caused by his attempted removal of many Keepers.
1311
Mission master Gennor's control over the Mission Keepers reaches a near non-existent state.
1312
Mission Master Gennor resigns his position at Clyffen Mission.
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