Demetros Detheniax (concept)
Demetros 'Iron-Spike' was a Northern Aversarian warlord who maintained control over much of Kalathipsomi in the early 1200s. The bastard son of the noblewoman Kena Detheniax and (if rumors are to believed) Vedegar Brethaniac, the semi-legendary master of many of the criminal organizations in Aversaria during the peak of the Imperial Civil War. Iron-Spike was born in relative squalor in the shadows of the Mayikprolollan in Prose on 1202 IS.
Cunning and shrewd, Demetros managed to use intrigue, guile, and intimidation to take the majority of his mother's lands after her death in 1209 IS; either killing or removing her trueborn heirs in the decade after her death. Demetros soon ruled most of his family's lands and began to rapidly expand them through further subterfuge and campaigning for the next decade.
Demetros is perhaps most known (or infamous) for swearing fealty to Aautokratir Aeschraes, using the backing of the 'Lord of the Ashes' to further extend his domain towards the Black Mountains and begin what many considered a legal criminal organization that held much sway throughout Etepezea. Soon, Demetros had become known as one of the right hand men to Aeschraes, and many lords remained under the Aautokratir's grip entirely for fear of the assassins known to be employed by the Iron-Spike and his myriad of criminal connections.
Demetros was slain in 1229 IS by Legan Isacea of Legio XXI 'Axiaothea' during the Vilnian Assault, alongside his counterpart Karthyn Delenel in a duel with Isacea. With Iron-Spike's death (with no accepted heir), order in Kalathipsomi rapidly collapsed into infighting between revolting slaves, military commanders, criminal organizations and local nobility, and would remain in such a state until the Sjalvolki Migrations in the 1250s.