Rhoaban Gustaf I (Total War)

Gustaf was the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Akkala, the predecessor to the Kingdom of Hyrule.

Appearance
Gustaf was a male Ancient Hylian, with crimson eyes and grey hair. He sported a grey beard and mustache.

He wore a set of ornate bronze-hued armor decorated with sapphires, as well as a crimson cape and tunic. In battle he utilized an ancient Goddess Sword and Hylian Shield.

Power and Abilities
Like many Ancient Hylians, Gustaf possessed to ability to channel searing light from his blood, and was able to apply this power to the arrow he slew Sulkaris with.

History


Ancient Age
In 3000 BG, the fallen Sage of Forests, Sulkaris, innumberable years after being cast out of the Sacred Realm, encountered the Gohma, a race of arachnids still wandering aimlessly as she was after the destruction of their creator, Iemanis. Under Sulkaris, the Gohma engaged a genocidal campaign against all who follow the Goddesses with an unending tide of the arachnid spawn. King Gustaf struck an alliance with Emperor Torkulon of the Huskus, lured the Gohma into Ordona Province, where the Huskus would attack them from behind. Eventually, the Akkalans defeated the armies of Sulkaris.

After the battle, King Gustaf duelled with Sulkaris, until Sulkaris knocked Gustaf's sword out of his hand and prepared to kill him. As Sulkaris prepares to kill him, King Gustaf grabs a bow and arrow from a fallen soldier and shoots an arrow imbued with the Goddesses' power, killing Sulkaris.

With the death of Sulkaris and the Gohma disbanded, the Kingdom of Akkala was established. This new empire crossed the land and made many allies in its time such as the Zora and the mysterious Wind Tribe. While many of these nations remain autonomous, the Wind Tribe became close to the Hylians after King Gustaf's rise to power. This led Gustaf to wed the Wind Tribe's queen, Siroc and have several children with her.

During his reign, Gustaf, greatly expanded the territories of the Kingdom of Akkala, colonizing the Gerudo desert and much of the western Kokiri Forest and Faron Woods after the near-destruction of the Huskus Imperium.

In 2992 BG, the Darknut Legion from the western Gerudo Cliffs suddenly began a crusade towards the far east of Hyrule. They marched past Akkala and the Zora Dominion and instead invaded the mystical lands of the Wind Tribe known as Holodrum. A bloody war between the Darknut Legion and the Wind Tribe broke out, and the hidden cities in Holodrum were left in ruins. Queen Siroc came before him to plead for aid from the Hylian army.

Gustaf lead the Hylian army to the Tarm Ruins, the last bastion of the Wind Tribe. The Darknuts were defeated at this last junction, allowing the Wind Tribe to escape to the skies. In 2955 BG, Akkala fell under an invasion from the Moblins. Desperate from failure against this horde, Gustaf authorised the empowerment of a young woman, then known as Hylia, with dangerous abilities. With her new powers, Hylia easily held the Moblins at bay.

Hylia's miraculous abilities earned her the love of many, to the point that the Akkalans decided to depose Gustaf and crown her as Queen. Gustaf is forced to flee west with his children and a small group of loyalists west past the Gerudo Cliffs, where he established the hidden kingdom of Calatia and ruled there until his death. Hylia would later use the Order of the Wizzrobe to remove all knowledge of Gustaf's rightful heirs and their descendants: Hylian historical records would later remember the founder of the Kingdom as a celibate, childless man who died of natural causes before the Moblin invasion.

Quotes
''The Goddesses chose their pride. Fighting against that shows how wrong you all are.''