Harakar Oken

Harakar Oken was the Living King of the Kingdom of Akaria.

Harakar Oken
Living King
In office 30-10 2 TT – 19 TT
Preceded by	Bantar Arkara
Succeeded by	Artak Arkara
Personal details
Born	11-1 35 TT Oksken, Kingdom of Akaria
Died	19 PC Off the coast of the Kingdom of Akaria
Nationality	Akarian
Children	Dakar Oken
Parent(s)	Johnakar Oken, Karlal Oken

Biography

Early life

Harakar Oken was born in Oksken on 11-1 35 TT, the first son of Johnakar Oken and his wife Karlal Oken. He and his siblings were educated at Naikar Memorial School in Okenate close to their family home. Harakar studied business at the Grand Weer University in Manser. On 20-12 13 TT, Johnakar gave Harakar control over the Oksken Fishing Company offices in Manser which put him in charge of the company's operations within the city.

As Leader of the Oken, Johnakar was entitled to submit his nominee for the next Living King to the Ossbosche Assembly. The Oken were fairly unimportant within Akarian politics and Johnakar's nominee being selected was unlikely. As Johnakar considered his work to be more important than potentially becoming the Living King he nominated Harakar in his place. On 9-12 10 TT the Perat announced that they had uncovered a plot by the Arkara to further increase their influence over Ossbosche Assembly. The documents presented linked the Arkara to the deaths of multiple ossbosches and prominent udenbosches. These revelations began the False War. The Oken had no ossbosches under their control and the few udenbosches they did have control over were of little influence. On 13-7 4 TT, Living King Bantar Arkara was assassinated triggering the 43rd Living Election. There was much debate within the Ossbosche Assembly as to who to replace Bantar with. The once esteemed Arkara had attempted to overthrow the assembly, whereas the Perat and their allies were suspected of having been behind the assassination of Bantar. On 30-10 2 TT the Ossbosche Assembly named Harakar Oken Living King.

Pre-calming

Harakar ascended to a very precarious position. Few members of the public outside of Oksken knew much about the Oken. The Ossbosche Assembly had elected him by default rather than merit, and thus his position was not guaranteed security. Many of the Kadrikes were dissatisfied about the Oken being elected, considering that they had lost no one during the False War and it was rumoured that some of them were conspiring to have Harakar assassinated. Harakar did not use his limited powers immediately to allow his public popularity to grow.

Grand Calming

On 18-1 1 PC, the day of the Grand Calming, Akaria was opened up to the other nations of the Attu Archipelago and was thrown into a state of panic. Harakar ordered for the Council of Akaria to assemble which was done on 24-1 1 PC. During the meeting, Harakar managed to gain the Council's support in issuing his first four dictates. These dictates in order; permitted the Living King to make treaties with other nations, established the Akarian Scouting Force to find other nations, permitted the Living King to organise Akaria's forces how he saw fit beyond their borders and gave the Living King the ability to create what was essential Kadrike Law beyond the borders of Akaria. During the Assembled Period the Living King was a primarily religious and ceremonial role in Akarian society with most of the power in the country being held by the ossbosches and the Kadrikes, these dictates restored the Living King's role to one of significant political power.

After making contact with several nations Harakar issued his 5th Dictate on 18-2 1 PC which helped to establish the Inter-governmental Radio System (IgRS). Harakar issued two more dictates on 22-2 1 PC. The first established two foreign zones in Akaria, one around Oksken and one around Manser. The second permitted the Living King to censor any news going through either of the foreign zones.

On 25-3 1 PC Harakar established both the Akarian Navy and the Akarian Trade Fleet, with the fleet being owned by the Oken.

Early trade deals

On 23-4, 1 PC Harakar and Yyme Braia of Utlia agreed to a trade deal, where Utlia would provide the Oken with coal in exchange for hydrochloric acid. This furthered Akaria-Utlia relations. Later that year, Harakar and Casi Fromatica of the Caesic Federation drafted a trade deal, in which the Caesic Federation provided the Oken with coal in exchange for hydrochloric acid. The deal was officialized by the Caesic Federation on 2-8 1 PC, after 3 days of negotiations. The deal furthered Akaria-Casea relations.

1st Conflict with Nieuyjar

During early 2 PC, it became known to Harakar that the Nation of Niueyjar, was in the midst of a civil war. It was understood by Harakar, that the winner of this war may pose a threat to the rest of the archipelago. On 5-4 2 PC Harakar and Yyme founded the Akaria-Utlia alliance as a measure, in case the winner of the civil war attempted conquest. At the same time that the alliance was founded, a plot of land on Utlia was reserved for the Akuta military base.

On 15-5 2 PC, Erak, in Niueyjar was attacked by Reformers, during the attack Utlia lost contact with a ship of theirs which was in the port delivering crabs to Vidar Astridson. Vidar claimed that there had been an earthquake and that the sailors had broken their legs and were unable to speak. Sceptical to this claim, Yyme and Harakar sent a strike force commanded by Akarians and composed mostly of Utlians to Niueyjar to rescue the sailors. On 18-5 2 PC, as the part of the strike force was approaching, the ship travelled through a reef off the coast of Niueyjar, which was spotted by a Niueyjara scout. Vidar threatened to kill the family of whichever leader was responsible for this incident. The strike force extracted the sailors on 20-5 2 PC. Following the rescue of the captives, the actions and cause of the strike force were revealed. Vidar continued to make death threats towards Harakar and Yyme along with their families and people. On 9-12 2 PC, after lengthy planning, the Akaria-Utlian alliance began supplying Vidar's enemies, the Traditionalists with weaponry.

Arkara Uprising of 3 PC

On 4-2 3 PC with the support of the majority of the Council of Akaria and his father, Harakar issued Harakar's 10th Dictate barring members of the Arkara from being ossbosches. Four days later Kamakta Arkara, Head of the Arkara Family declared his defiance of the dictate beginning the Arkara Uprising of 3 PC. Harakar fled Ablesken for Oksken and two days later appointed Amarok Bokok to serve as the High Director of the Living Army. The conflict ended on 24-3 3 PC when the Arkara agreed to step down from their positions with the promise of amnesty.

Haute eee Agricultural Crisis

On 13-9 4 PC Harakar agreed to send 40,000 Akarian agricultural workers to eee in an attempt to resolve the Haute eee Agricultural Crisis in exchange for the creation of the Akarian-Hautean Alliance and the establishment of the Aharka Military Base.

Eastern Bloc and coma

Harakar met with Cok and Yyme in Agreement from 23-1 to 24-1 5 PC to discuss the formation of an economic and military alliance between their three countries. The Eastern Bloc was founded on the second day of the summit. The day after the summit Cok invited Harakar to his residence to discuss his plan to hold a plebiscite in Siô on independence from Haute eee. During the meeting, Harakar fell into a coma after consuming some dandelion bread and was hospitalised in eee. Shortly after, Johnakar took over his duties as Living King. Harakar was sent to Utlia on 4-2 5 PC for further treatment. Harakar briefly regained consciousness on multiple occasions whilst in Utlia. On 22-4 5 PC after regaining consciousness Harakar managed to speak on the IgRS (as most of the things he had brought with him to Haute eee had been put in the room with him). He was unable to form any complete sentences, only getting out a few non-sensical sentence fragments before being sedated. The day after Johnakar had him returned to Akaria due to concern that the people of Akaria might interpret Harakar's ramblings as a brown walk and that they might be upset with Utlia for depriving them of information regarding the Kings in Brown. Harakar fully awoke on 20-6 5 PC and resumed his duties as Living King.

Tour of the Isles

On 5-2 7 PC, Harakar departed Akaria in the Giga-Yacht to visit all the nations of the Attu Archipelego in what Harakar coined the "Tour of the Isles".

He arrived at the Kingdom of Tietero and met with Reĝo Henriko II on 7-2 7 PC.

On 20-2 7 PC, Harakar arrived at Faltir and met with officials of the United Airfryer Enterprise.

On 14-3 7 PC, Harakar met Empress Heidr Gullveigdaughter on Niueyjar. During the meeting Heidr threw Harakar and Scribe to the Living King, Lightning Perat into the Dragon's Maw as punishment for the Akarian Massacre. Whilst in the maw, both lost consciousness and awoke some hours later having been pulled out by Heidr's geese.

Harakar visited the Caseic Federation on 8-6 7 PC and met with Federal Foreign Minister, Casi Fromatica.

On 10-6 7 PC the Giga-Yacht got swept south into the Southern Ocean, cutting off contact between Harakar and the known world. During their time in the Southern Ocean Harakar managed to befriend a southern squid.

The Search for Ara Deram

The Dakota Mine –one of the many mines in Akaria opperated by the Deram– ceased to function on 17-2 8 PC. The next day Harakar began looking to meet with Leader of the Deram, Ara Deram to talk to him about the loss of the mine. Harakar recruited Leader of the Perat, Storm Perat to help him track down Ara as he knew that the two had entered into an unwritten alliance.

Harakar, Storm and Lightning met with Ara on 23-5 8 PC. The meeting went poorly with a fight breaking out between the the Perat Harakar had brought with and the Deram. Ara broke Storm's pelvis and Lightning broke Ara's jaw. It was only through Harakar's intevention that they all survived the incident. The next day all trade ties between the Perat and the Deram were severed. Harakar had known that the Deram and Perat had been allying themselves against them and that their leaders would not get along in person.

On 29-8 8 PC the Oken and the Deram made a trade agreement.

2nd Calming

On 16-1 9 PC, radio opperaters across the Attu Archipelago began picking up radio signals coming from the Brchipelago. It soon became clear that a 2nd Calming had transpired and that new nations could be ascessed. On 18-1 9 PC the Harakar ordered the Akarian Scouting Force to investigate the source of the radio signals. The Serene Merchant Navy mobilised on 20-1 9 PC in search of other nations as evident by radio signals coming from the north of Akaria. Harakar did not want to risk provoking the Serene Merchant Navy as he did not know how large it was, but he did want to establish contact. On 22-1 9 PC Harakar ordered a single ship of the Akarian Scouting Force to be sent to find the Serene Merchant Navy.

9 PC Eastern Bloc Summit

Harakar attended an Eastern Bloc Summit on 15-2 9 PC. At the summit he convinced his fellow Eastern Block delegates that the Eastern Bloc should be supporting Nongba during the blockade of the island by Niueyjay.