Odo Curia, Lord of all Men
"Men were born on the Isle of War, but I shall make them inheritors of all of Kevica." -Odo Curia's Promise
"There is a certain amount of respect one has to have for our ancient foe. Of his deeds and sins against us, there are many. Having met him personally, I cannot blame anyone for thinking poorly or highly of him. He destroyed and spared our temples, he is quick to call for atrocity as much as he will bring unending mercy. His views change depending not on his mood, but what he can conveniently do. He does not fight for men, nor for empire, but for legacy." -Elvish General on Odo Curia

Odo Curia was far from humble beginnings, born a prince upon the Isle of War, but in his youth he received strange dreams and a calling to the mountains above his home. In legend, Odo had received secret knowledge from a god of war, that he would find a new purpose in his travels. Odo left for the mountains and was faced with five challenges, the first a battle of skill as he wrestled an ancient drake which roosted on the path and slew it. The second was a battle of wits, where an ancient door's puzzle remained unsolved but with a near comical forcing of Odo's strength he 'solved' it. The third was a battle of strategy, where he came across the path of ten powerful golems who fought in unison who guarded the path ahead. Through a mixture of various strategies, he defeated them and continued. The fourth was battle of strength, where a great boulder was felled in his path. Through prayer to his gods, Odo tore the boulder down from the cliffs and continued on. The fifth battle was no easy test for him, for it was battle of death. It was said Odo came face to face with a shadowy being and a smaller being in it's care, and it spoke and interviewed him upon the mountain. It was said that when Odo told the being his intentions, it gave him his blessing and the smaller being showed him the path forward, where he found a lonesome Black and White Tree of Anar.

In that tree was an axe, said to be left by the human god of war for him alone, and beneath that axe with the skeletal remains of an ancient elf. Odo received the secret knowledge from his gods, of a blessing of his coming to the mainland of Kevica, where he would forge a new empire. Odo left and declared to his tribe his intentions, but set about finding many mighty heroes to join him in his cause. Many heroes were needed to invade the lands of the elves, and Odo sought them far and wide. Contests were made and wars were waged to unite the isle of men under a single banner. Spurned on by ancient prophecy and religious fervor for being blessed by a war god, Odo Curia forged a kingdom dedicated to a single, overriding purpose. They would sail across the waters to Kevica, and claim his new birthright.

Many tales and legends were spun of Odo's coming. For elves, some say the elvish court was forewarned at a late hour of Odo's landing, while human tradition paints their hero coming during a time of great troubles. Odo's army began quite small compared to the unified elvish force, but there was something Odo was said to have saw, something he was looking for which he sought out personally to defeat his foe; the foe's slaves who languished beneath them. Generations before his time when men did not live in stone castles, elves crossed to the Isle of War to kidnap men to bring back to Kevica to serve them, shepherding peoples to be their slaves. Odo sought these peoples out personally, convincing them to join his cause and made it his mission to use them. No one knows why the warrior king had done this, some say out of pragmatism, others say out of a moral need. Regardless, it was these forces who would build up the bulk of Odo's armies.

The elves arrayed great hosts against him, and one by one each army began to fall. Odo was not just a great warrior, leading his men from the front with armored cavalry, he was also an experienced battle commander and one which would remain undefeated. Even at terrible odds, the human king was able to exit the jaws of defeat. One by one, elvish cities began to fall, and even the heartland of elvish kind came under attack. Odo's armies began to splinter, as the many heroes who joined him soon found that numbers of former slaves joining their cause could easily overwhelm the smaller and fractured elvish armies, often unable to organize in time and faltered often. Odo's campaign was genocidal to say the least, as elves who surrendered were given either a quick death or were brutally enslaved, an irony that Odo himself was said to consider well deserved.

Odo's campaigns ended in Estan, as the rest of the elvish empire crumbled and washed away, leaving vast swathes of humans in charge of their own lands, at least for a short time. The elvish lands in the north crumbled under the combined force of the Ratik fleeing the Wildar clans, and Odo's general failed to breach into Roasam. Odo's heart was said to soften on the elves when his forces first encountered the Havens, the despondent hosts of elvish slaves were mortified to learn their commanders and nobles fled to pristine paradises as his armies swept up what remained of their empire. Odo spent much of the remainder of his reign putting the yoke of the Curdans onto the non-Curdan humans, and forging Empara Curdia to rule all the realms of men from this day to the end of days. Odo's warrior prowess continued even into his old age, his strength and wisdom impressing many and having spent much of his time on battlefields than in the halls of governance.

Odo became a figure both love and hated by many, and for elves his legacy is strange. Many elves despise humans for their cruel treatment, but yet a number of elvish prisoners would often speak highly of him. Odo was said to be private, having a warrior and barbarian's personality in the battlefield, but a calm and studious voice off of it. Odo had personally killed the elvish king in battle, but the elvish king's brother who had been a prisoner in his camp was treated well and eventually let go to live out his days in the Violet Wall Haven. Odo was said to have several close non-human servants and friends, such as being a close companion of Vag-Rumbard's early king and had a rabbit folk servant who had been a peace gift sent to him by the Great Warlord who would be his closest companion after his wars. Odo's friendliness however could not overshadow his darker moods, such as many elves who know him for butchering their temples and destroying their peoples, and the countless atrocities committed on his watch. Yet for the realms of men, even the future Illuminated, Odo is seen as the greatest of all human rulers.