Jeval â Nyun

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Jeval  Nyun

Jeval â Nyun was a professor of Advanced Spirit Engineering at Amad University. He was also a prominent member of the Mantis and one of the principal Mantis members who were responsible for making Amad University an important cornerstone of Mantis strategy and research. Later, he led the Titan Project and was exiled for causing a massive catastrophe doing that.

Life

Childhood and Family

Jeval â Nyun was born in Mavyn, Thythr in the year 51, to a family of labourers working on Minor Spirit farms throughout the city. Early on, he was compelled to help his parents on the fields. Thus, he acquired experience with Divine Spirit and its promising potential; however, he also saw how meagre the output seemed to be.

Early Studies and Mantis membership

When he was 16, in 67, he applied to Amad University and graduated ten years later with an honour certificate in Advanced Spirit Engineering. Feeling very comfortable in an academic environment, especially amid the growing threat of war, he began applying for and working on his future professorship. It was during this time that he by chance made great friends with a member of the Mantis, at the time a secret organisation. During the next three years, he was being introduced to the ranks of the Mantis, proving useful due to his in-depth knowledge and personal contacts among very competent researchers in the very discipline the Mantis was secretly studying themselves.

War and Hiding

When the Great Peasants' War broke out in the year 80, he was ordered as per Thythryn law to report to war; however not being a very combative personality, he sought refuge in one of the Mantis' clandestine research facilities. There, he also met Yvi, a bounty hunter whom he promptly fell in love with.

Marriage, Children and First Upheaval

In 97, he married Yvi, who gave birth barely a year later. Due to the First Upheaval of Mantis of 98 putting Jeval in danger, along with his new family, the young couple decided to let Yvi and his child move to a farmstead away from  Nyun. Over the next few weeks,  Nyun took an active part in the Upheaval, building most essential weapons and parts of containment chambers that would end up becoming the confinements for Yami, the Scholar during her conversion to Divine Harvest. This put him on a list of high profile individuals convicted of sabotage and insurrection.
However, as the tides of war were very much in favour of Thythr's enemy Skyrmin, the Thythryn High Council agreed in an extremely close landmark vote in late 98 to tolerate the Mantis and use Divine Harvests as energy sources in the war.
It was then that  Nyun was pardoned and regained his professorship at Amad University and was appointed executive engineer to convert Yami, the Scholar into a Divine Harvest. At roughly the same time in 98, his parents were befallen with the Skyrmin Fever and succumbed to the disease not much later, he took on a second academic focus, researching herbal medicine to hopefully find a cure. However, he quickly acknowledged that traditional medicine was not enough. Inspired by the military successes of Divine Spirit Engineering, he tried applying that discipline to medicine; with unexpected success. He was credited as the inventor of White Acid; a substance synthesised using Divine Spirit that was capable of curing the Skyrmin Fever.
The construction of the first Divine Harvest succeeded; and the excessive amounts of Divine Spirit applied to weaponry, partly of  Nyun's design, allowed Thythr to turn the Great Peasants' War's tides.
As the war ended in 99 with a decisive victory for Thythr, Â Nyun was awarded the Thythryn Medal of Honour for his extraordinary efforts and critical involvement in war technology, and especially the invention and production of White Acid. Jeval moved back with his wife and kids.

Depression and descent into obsession

In the year 100, Â Nyun's daughter, Sythia, was killed by one of his father's weapons in a tragic accident that he blamed himself for. This threw him in an ongoing, recurring state of crippling depression. He found his mental escape in his studies. Friends, colleagues and even his wife attested him later with becoming absolutely obsessed with the idea of bringing back his daughter. He would lock himself in his study for days or even weeks on end, experimenting on samples of, a practise that even his wife called "revolting". Not much later, in 101, she divorced him and moved back to her family.
Now free from any distractions, Â Nyun isolated himself even further. Several times, the Mantis had to inquire personally whether he was even still alive. Without any significant results, he stayed in this state for a couple of more years.

Titan Project

In the year 104, he was appointed via anonymous orders by the High Council of Mantis to lead a top secret experiment called the Titan Project seeking to use Divine Spirit to artificially grow a race of superior humans, the titular Titans. Now fanatically possessed by the idea of somehow bringing back his first daughter as a Titan, he accepted eagerly.
He continued his obsessive studies with a major research grant and a team of assistants, which actually yielded several promising results. The same year even, he and his team devised a method of growing a child no older than five into an adult within just a year, in addition to developing excessive physical and mental capabilities; however, their memories, personality and body might be severely damaged; that's implying it even worked. Another issue was the enormous required amounts of Divine Spirit. Nevertheless, the High Council of Mantis agreed to a test run of a dozen test subjects, under executive privileges of Jeval â Nyun.
As  Nyun grew more and more obsessed with the idea of finally being able to regrow his daughter as a Titan, he grew impatient as well. His assistants were reportedly severely against the idea of a non-consensual collection of test subjects, however  Nyun's fanaticism knew no morality. He paid a group of mercenaries to abduct a dozen children; from streets, sanctuaries and orphanages throughout Mavyn. Towards his assistants and even the High Council of Mantis, he lied, deceiving them into believing the children were volunteers or convicted criminals.
To fulfil his desire to resurrect his daughter's lifeblood somehow, out of what his colleagues later described irrational fanaticism, he insisted one of the subjects be his late son.
The experiment yielded mixed results. An unspecified number of children immediately died from complications with the procedure, some later. However, his son and a couple of other subjects made it to the final stage: a type of mental restructure that would make them unconditionally listen to commands. However, the experiment's final stage drew so much Divine Spirit that the faculty's energy infrastructure overloaded, imploded, and left the entire faculty in ruins, causing several Titans to escape; among them, the Titan that used to be his son.

Exile

As reports of this experiment and  Nyun's obsessive fanaticism began to surface to the public after the destruction of the faculty, he was subsequently sentenced by the Thythryn High Council to exile in 105 and was thus forced to leave Mavyn. His whereabouts are unknown; yet it is believed he is trying to desperately seek out the Titan that used to be his son, and complete the procedure.

Ideology

One of the most prominent members of the Mantis before and after the First Upheaval of Mantis, Â Nyun had a major impact on its internal policies and ideology. A humanist and a rigid materialist, he rejected the notion that the Eradine deities were omnipotent, natural rulers of Eradin. Much rather, he and his followers acknowledged their powers and role in the creation and management of the world while at the same time stressing the impact that humanity had on Eradin to build what it is today.

"I see the hundreds of hundreds of acres our folk have graven out of grey dirt. I see the ships' canal our scarred hands have dug through dull hills to bring trade to our inland towns. I see the walls of Mavyn, stretching higher than the sun on some winter noon where once just a mound decorated the land. And so, I cannot help but to think to myself: Thythr could not have been the work of a God. Human fingerprints line these lands."

Jeval â Nyun

According to  Nyun, Eradine deities might have created the world, yet were passive to human advancement. Much more central to development of civilisation were ordinary people, labourers and peasants, who toiled the dirt, constructed houses and cities, while the deities enjoyed the fruit of humanity's labour in the form of worship and sacrifice. Nowadays, barely anything was the direct product of their influence, so deities should not be revered as leaders. Going even further, the deities' controlling role in human suffering made them exploiters, in the eyes of  Nyun and large portions of the Mantis.
This ideology was used as justification for the Mantis' ethics in researching the harvesting of their Divine Spirit and turning them into Divine Harvests.

Year of Birth

51 54 Years old

Birthplace

Mavyn

Current Residence

Unknown

Gender

male

Aligned Organization

Mantis

Other Affiliations

• Amad University
• Thythr