Rakem Rhalasian II

Overview
Rakem Rhalasian II is the King of Rhalasium, son of Rakem Rhalasian I, father to Rhys Rhalasian, Lana Rhalasian, Jerelle Rhalasian, and Rami Rhalasian. Husband to Kristina Orsinia. Brother to Rhalf Rhalasian. He is marked by his piety, lust for power, and merciless cruelty to his enemies.

King Rakem's War
It is believed by Rakem that Zzaro came to him in a dream informing him that the Divine Procession was fast approaching, and that he aimed to position him as king of the new world should he be willing to do what is necessary to facilitate the shift. This meant conquering Renaria in the name of Zzaro, though Rakem planned to also take Praedium in the year following the victory. Rakem is enticed by the idea of gaining an even bigger stronghold over the continent of Tencur than the Urbs, and figured that with Zzaro on his side, victory would be assured.

He and the greatest minds in Rhalasium convened to devise this plan to manifest these desires, and do the god Zzaro proud, and he sent for the King of the Viceroyalty of Solitudine, Almerion Riverion, Jamie Kartanian, the greatest general in Nurhst, and his own best generals. After a month of planning, they moved their forces to the northwest border to occupy Fort Rhidinh. They planned to stay stationed there only a week before crossing into Renarian territory and taking Fort Alistair. However within four days of them being there, Fort Rhidinh was ambushed by Renarian forces, and Rakem and the surviving men were forced to retreat.

They spent the next month fightiing to take back control of Fort Rhidinh, and only succeeded after suffering many casualties. Still Rakem planned to press on, with Almerion and Jamie still possessing confidence in the King's grand plan at this point.

They planned to press on into Renarian territory to once again attack Fort Alistair. They succeeded in this, but their victory was tainted by news from the south that Praedi forces had taken crossed Rhalasi borders, and were now occupying Fort Lyssa. The Kingdom of Praedium had declared war on Rhalasium a whole year before they were ready to deal with them. Their forces were concentrated mostly in the north, and dealt with the Renarians, but now they were forced to send reinforcements along with Jamie Kartanian down to take back the fort, and drive the Praedi back.

Morale remaned high with the forces and with King Rhalasian himself, but the rest of the world, his son Rhys included, sensed tides turning against them. They could not war with two kingdoms at once no matter what faith Rakem placed in Zzaro. And the Urbs to the West knew this, and though the second largest concentration of forces in the Rhalasi Empire was located along the borders between Solitudine and Urbs, they were still eager to take advantage of their adversarial empire being stretched so thin.

Things took a turn for the worst when their plans of pressing deeper into Renaria are complicated by the news that Urbs had invaded Solitudine and taken control of their captial along with the royal family. This is when King Almerion begins to pressure Rakem to pull out from the war with Renaria and repel the Urbish threat instead since his family and kingdom was at stake, but all Rakem could think about were the words of Zzaro, and how it was his obligation to conquer Renaria. He reassures him that the forces currently placed there will be more than enough to repel them, and that they will punish Urbs after they deal with Ranaria.

Meanwhile his other vassal, Jamie Kartanian is worried that the Urbs had also taken control of Hrethel Rock, the largest orbital island of Nurhst, and threatened to make a make moves towards the Kingdom's capital, Nurhteim if they were not repelled soon.