Aloisius Treadwell

Vital information Age 62 (Birthday June 1, A. R. 145) Black eyes. Bald except white patches of hair in and around his ears. Poofy white beard and eyebrows. Height 5'5" after shrinking from poor health and old age. Weight: Treadwell has given up trying to keep any measurement of this. The meat scales in the butcher's shop fail to register him accurately, now, which is enough. Aloisius Horatio Treadwell, aged sixty-two, has led one of the most confusing lives of any of Myrken Wood's patrons, temporary or permanent. His time in Myrken Wood began approximately three years ago when he left his birthplace of Westenford, Amasynia, and it all started with his secretly impersonating dead governor Gad Phuri shortly after his arrival. As deception turned to truth, and after Treadwell was freed from a brief stay in the town jail, he found his calling in Myrken to be the same as it was back home. Treadwell entered Myrken Wood politics, having already been entrenched in political life from his time at home. Having been the only son of Octavius Treadwell, the former Chief Magistrate of Westenford, he had ultimately followed through with Octavius's insistence on going into his father's line of work, and Aloisius was able to weasel his way into a council seat there, beginning as a mere Clerk of Court and working his way to the top of the Council. In Myrken Wood, Aloisius used his brash, forceful personality to work his way into the post of Councilor for Administrative Sanctions for around a year before a temporary disappearance. From the end of A.R. 205 and well into October of A.R. 206, a man claiming to be Treadwell reappeared in Myrken Wood; that man was Richard Aengus, fairy king of New Hibera. In short order, the revelation that Treadwell was supposedly a fairy from the very beginning caused the Myrken Council to lay claim on his house and to the toy shop he had inherited from Roderic Cliché, claiming that a fictitious entity, a disguise for a visiting fairy king, could have never held them. It also led to his wife Raylan taking their infant children, Nicholas and Arella, and leaving Myrken Wood. In October, A.R. 206, a very much human, life-sized, and angry Aloisius Treadwell was teleported back into Myrken Wood, claiming vehemently that he had been held as a sleeping prisoner, a victim of daily concentrated doses of Fairy Dust, as punishment for eating a roasted fairy during a meeting of the Westenford Ruling Council. Otherwise, Treadwell's life has been littered with problems--some familial and some magical. From the re-emergence of his sister Elizia and her daughter Elizabeth to his first divorce from his wife Blanche and the disappearance and reappearance of his daughter Babette, to the above trickery played on him by Richard, Treadwell has led a life that has occasionally had him wondering his place as man and father. In addition, this onetime actor turned politician turned sometime toymaker has held, like Roderic Cliché before him, a fleeting, temporary place as Myken Wood's own mythical persona of snow and jolliness, Father Winter. At the moment, however, a grumpy, greedy, self-centered Treadwell freed of such magically enforced jollity seems to relish the decadence and gluttony in which he lives out the rest of his mortal years, unhampered and untouched by magic. Finally, as of June, A.R. 207, Aloisius has once again laid claim to lands, property, and titles due him in Westenford--all things he'd briefly had to give up while under Governor Helstone's rule in an effort to prove loyalty to Myrken Wood. With Helstone finally away from Myrken, Treadwell has once again sought to expand his holdings and purse strings. November 6, A.R. 207, finds Aloisius married to his fourth, hopefully final, bride, the former wife of his cousin, Bartholomew. Alice Olivia Chopin Drivel, after a whirlwind of a courtship lasting a little less than a week and hastened to such by assistance from the fairy magic of Richard Aengus, ended up at long last acknowledging her long since split from Bart Drivel by turning around and marrying her new love, Myrken's toymaking tax collector. Alice has since ended up pregnant, something she has just learned by December 207. Lately, as of the end of December, A.R. 207, the group of devoted Tubbians from Westenford have made a mass exodus to Myrken Wood to seek Treadwell as their new Lord Tubbian, their spiritual leader, a position that he has since accepted wholeheartedly. As of the end of January, Treadwell seems to have moved up in the ranks, taking on something near papal significance for the Church of Tubbius. A Quick Look at the Treadwell Extended Family (Current as of November 6, 2007) Benjamin Lucas Octavius Augustine Treadwell: Family patriarch, deceased, father to Aloisius Horatio Treadwell, Langley Treadwell, and Elizia Treadwell. Aloisius Horatio Treadwell, 62, sometime Chief Magistrate of Westenford, Amasynia, former Governor of Myrken Wood, and current Councilor of Administrative Sanctions, Myrken Wood, currently quite active in Myrken Wood. Alison "Alice" Olivia Chopin Treadwell, 62, former wife of Bartholomew Drivel, recently arrived to Myrken Wood, newly married to Aloisius with perhaps the fastest courtship on record. Babette Treadwell, firstborn daughter to Aloisius, former owner of Babette's Tavern in Westenford. Elizia Treadwell, older sister to Aloisius, currently inactive. Elizabeth Rose Treadwell, or Liza Rose, daughter to Elizia and niece to Aloisius, currently in Myrken Wood. Langley Treadwell, 75, eldest of Langley, Elizia, and Aloisius Treadwell. Currently living in Myrken Wood with his son John. John Vinson Treadwell, 49, son to Langley Treadwell, nephew to Aloisius Treadwell. Bartholomew Orin Roland Edward Drivel the Third, 45, similar-looking cousin to Aloisius Treadwell, scholar by trade and toymaker by hobby, now partner with Aloisius in Myrken's toy shop.