Simm Buxtehude

Simm was a hero who brought greatness to Holden through epic questing.

History
In the War Against the God-King, Holden’s greatest hero, Simm Buxtehude, played a critical role. He forged an unstable alliance between Malchior, Arcanix, the Seelie of the Tuatha, the Ord and the newly arrived Displaced against the might of the God-King’s forces. With the help of the Seelie prince Dundareel, Buxtehude tricked the God-King into committing his forces, allowing their alliance to sneak the Displaced’s city-killing bomb into His presence.

The resulting explosion vaporized Shad-Hujem and buried the Godhead Seat—his source of power—under a mountain of stone. Simm’s final action before he died of a strange wasting illness—“radiation poisoning,” the Displaced called it—was to crown his second in command, Queen Genevieve, and force the other empires to recognize Holden as their equal. Additionally, he charged her with raising his infant daughter, Myriad Buxtehude, to be the next Hero of Holden, a position similar to that of general in other lands.

According to the Queen, Simm's death marked the end of the days when questing was a way to bring influence to a nation.