In a nation where the nobility regularly looked down on the peasantry, Letrion was one of the many who felt abused by his betters and sought to rise in the social ranks. Latvannon was not an especially barbaric state, but it did not possess the refinement of Agea. The nobles were haughty, the peasants uneducated, and the statesmen showed little compassion. Kings were petty and selfish, queens vain and thoughtless.

So quick were they to crack the whip at the commoner that the tears of the suffering sapped quickly at their thrones and broke them down.

In the Fire Revolution of 435 TY, the peasantry of Innsbruck overthrew the monarchy of Düsseldorf and established a militia. During this period of upheval, Letrion became a notable figure, both as a communicator between the new and old regimes, and also as a peacemaker and merchant who helped stabilise the nation. He brought new commerce into the country, helped the militia establish a council, and prevented the slaughter of the ex-nobles who displayed good character.

Unlike most militia leaders and rebels, Letrion was quite educated. While many rebels were intellectuals, few actually understood the needs of society and what a system of justice required. In a period of his youth, despite being poor, Letrion had the benefit of being schooled by an Agean professor who taught him the ethics of statesmanship.

In 437 TY, when Innsbruck had stabilised and was growing into a healthy nation again, Letrion elected to leave politics and establish himself as a businessman. His father was a Bharatan and had left him several contacts in the merchant guilds which managed trade between several outposts in the Nordelands. Investigating the various guilds, he became rather enamoured with the technological aspect of things, and decided upon building his business around machinery.

Founding his own guild named "Veldanes Machine Industries", he immediately set about securing alliances with other groups and entered into consortium deals with the top merchants of the day. Soon they were working for him, and he was at the top of the monetary food chain. He was even called "the First Lord of Business". But it wasn't enough.

Even though Letrion had secured himself as one of the most prominant businessmen of the time, he still felt unsatisfied. He wanted a magnum opus; a great project into which he could pour his entire being. He wanted to fly.

Man could not fly with wings, though some could with magic. But Letrion had no time to learn magic, nor life enough to evolve wings which could lift his body. Thus he developed a new system of flight. The Bharatans had been toying with the idea of using air to inflate sheepskin to use as flotation devices on ships. Letrion took the idea, heated it, and put it on strings. Soon he had the first balloon, and while it sailed through the air gracefully enough, it wasn't what Letrion wanted.

Thus came plans for the airship. Using the latest in steam engines lifted from locomotive prototypes, Letrion and his engineers constructed blueprints for a propeller-driven, hot-air balloon-suspended ship which could cruise the skies at speeds only birds had enjoyed. By the summer of 441, the airship was ready.

Although largely hidden from the world and legendary at best, the airship was very real to Letrion and his mechanics. They realised however, that such a magnificent creation could easily be abused by the corrupt. Each member of the team had suffered great hardship due to such people, and none of them would wish it on others. To prevent others from learning too much about their new invention, the crew seperated the plans and hid them away in pieces. The ship would never appear at a public port, and its legend would be perpetuated by the company's insistance that it didn't exist. Thus they erected a legend around their creation, barring inquery and curiosity at every turn.

To suit this new mysticism, Letrion became less and less a public figure. In time, he vanished almost completely from social thought, a legend like his ship. But from time to time he would emerge, interfere with the workings of the world, and then slip into the shadows again. Some call him the "Emperor in the Underworld" due to his reclusiveness, travelling from place to place on the breath of the wind.