Väinämöinen

Väinämöinen the Conqueror, also known as Väinämöinen the Great, was the founder and first king of the Kingdom of the Northlands. He claimed to be able to summon blizzards from thin air(they were actually unrelated and coincidental with his conquests), and held the only way to survive these devastating blizzards that ravaged the entire subcontinent of the Northlands in the form of the Kannith Fire Crystals. However, these crystals were originally created by the ancient Palenquean civilization, and is was Väinämöinen's brother, Joukahainen, who rediscovered the secret to creating them. Väinämöinen killed Joukahainen in the year BV(Before Väinämöinen) 3, after learning how to make the crystals himself, and taught only his soldiers how to. Anyone who disclosed the secret would be drowned with their whole family up to three generations back. These barbaric laws were ended by Kristian I, thankfully. Väinämöinen easily conquered most of the Northlands, but the Sámmëleinu tundra and the deeper forests of Savolax were too difficult to invade, and the New Jury of Nine stopped his conquests in Lordaeron, as the Kingdom of Lordaeron, longtime rival and now ally of the Northlands was formed by JoAnna Coterel and her non-dynastic heir King Jeffory I Goldenheart. Most Northlanders, even the House of Väinämöinen, now see him as a highly flawed patriarch of their people and a trickster villain, though as portrayed in the highly mythologized fairy tales of the North he is more a trickster hero archetype. He was also gay, and only married and had children to secure his family line.