Editing Niers Astoragon (section)

==Chronology==

===Volume 1===
Niers anonymously sends out a chess puzzle across the world, in the hopes of determining the good chess players. The challenge is also received by [[Olesm Swifttail|Olesm]], who shows it to [[Erin Solstice]], who solves it almost instantly, and also sends back a challenge of her own.<ref>[[Chapter 1.31 (Archived)]]</ref>

===Volume 2===
Intrigued by Erin's puzzle challenge, which took him days to solve, Niers commissions a pair of magical chessboards enabling two people to play over long distances, and sends it to Erin anonymously. While disappointed by the first game which he wins easily (as unbeknownst to Niers, Olesm was playing), he is pleasantly surprised by Erin, who is able to beat him four times in a row.<ref>[[Chapter 2.18]]</ref> Later, when the entrance to [[Liscor's Dungeon]] opens up, he receives several [Messages] about [Dangersenses] being triggered across a wide distance around [[Liscor]].<ref>[[Chapter 2.48]]</ref>

===Volume 3===
After having played three chess game with a new [[Lyonette du Marquin|unknown player]], he sat in front of his small chessboard with a dark expression on his face and mused to himself that his mystery player is gone and that someone who knows chess but has barely played it at all has found the board. He stared at the chessboard and at [[Magnolia Reinhart|Magnolia's]] letter and considered leaving for Izril, but dismissed the idea and stared at the chessboard darkly, and hoped that this new opponent would eventually give the board back or find its true owner. He kept staring at the chess pieces, the letter, and then at the window, and told himself that he couldn’t leave, as he has a job and a duty as he is the second-in-command of his Company. So he kept staring back to the chessboard, waiting for his mystery player.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/10/10/3-22-l/ Chapter 3.22 L]</ref>

===Volume 4===
At some point after playing around six games against the new [[Lyonette du Marquin|unknown player]], he stopped playing with them and reset the board to how it was left by the true owner. Every time he realized that he was not playing with the true owner, he kept resetting the board.<ref name=":4.18">[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/03/13/4-18/ Chapter 4.18]</ref> While he was in a bad mood because his mystery player had not come back for over a month, he began to read the general report of the newest companies and recent events. He sighed as he studied the outcome of the battle between the [[Razorshard Armor]] company and the [[Roving Arrow]] company, and called all of them fools, as there was no return for either company because they ruined their reputations for destroying themselves fighting over a valley that was now practically unusable. His eye then caught the name of a new company that had declared itself, the [[United Nations]]. Remarking that 'United' was a word that he had dreamed of, and had spoken to the other Great Companies of Baleros about, as it was a hope for Baleros, and for a world, that Magnolia had tempted him with, but ultimately it was nothing but an empty dream. As the new company had the same dream as him, he glanced at the name and memorized it, just in case. Then he flipped the page and kept reading, while every now and then, he would glance at the chessboard’s pieces that had not moved and look away. While still in a bad mood, after reading and filing the report away, he had a curious sensation. He felt a subtle feeling, but he had trained himself not to ignore his instincts, and as it cried out to him as he opened the report and stared down at the name in ink, he could feel it. He knew it wasn’t a coincidence or a chance, but only the start. And that everything he had witnessed, all the little pieces, they were falling into place. That something was happening, and that the world would begin to move again. As he was thinking about this, behind him, on the chessboard, a piece slowly slid forwards and stopped.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/03/10/1-06-d/ Chapter 1.06 D]</ref>

While he does not show up in person but only as a chess opponent, he was enraged that [[Mrsha|someone]] was constantly scattering the chess pieces. He picked them up again and again, and slammed them back on the chessboard, each time with more force, as he kept getting increasingly angry as this repeated. Then after around two minutes passed when someone else made one of the only legal moves that they could make, he made a safe move, but grudging as he didn’t think it was the true owner. He kept playing against this opponent, then he realized that he fell for a trap, as he was too upset over the one who was scattering the chess pieces to notice it. He made his next move within a minute, but the opponent showed him no mercy and ended the game in six minutes. He did not move the pieces since the opponent had checkmated him, until the opponent reset his side and left the other side as it was, as a form of challenge. He tested this opponent with two different playing style and knew that this opponent was the true owner. He played with them all day until it was close to midnight.

===Volume 5===
As the new strategy game Go swept across Baleros, he spent an outrageous sum of money commissioning an enchanted Go board, while playing his 37th game of Go in preparation for it reaching his unknown adversary in Liscor.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/07/27/5-06-m/ Chapter 5.06 M]</ref>

Niers with Foliana, [[Peclir Im|Peclir]] and several of the Forgotten Wing company’s officers and [Strategists], were one of the observers that were ‘listening in’ on the situation of Liscor's [[Face-Eater Moths]] [[Moth's Attack on Liscor|attack]], and the discussion of the [[Walled Cities]] and [[Wistram Academy|Wistram]]. When Wistram was going to send a magical projection to all individuals with appropriate receptive capacity, Niers ordered Peclir to get a scrying orb, so that they could watch the event as well. When Foliana asked him if there would be a lot of people listening, he told her that he wouldn’t be surprised if the conversation was appearing across the world and that the [[Flos Reimarch|King of Destruction]] himself is watching too. During the course of the event, when the Painted Antinium Soldiers showed up, [[Noass]] and [[Relz]], the two Drakes commentators, pointed out that those Antinium Soldiers have paint on their carapaces, and speculated if they are some kind of new Antinium variant, Niers asked [[Umina]] if she can see what those Drakes are talking about. Upon her confirmation that they indeed had something on their bodies, he said that they appear to be the standard Soldier types, and wondered if this was a trick or if it had some further meaning. As he leaned back in his seat, thinking hard about them, Foliana asked him if Liscor could win. As every head turned to him, he smiled, knowing that his reputation could rest on a correct answer. He told her that while the adventurers were putting up a good fight around that [[The Wandering Inn|Inn]], he wouldn’t place all his coin on them just yet, as they were tiring. As he was going to keep explaining, he stopped and sat up when the [[Erin Solstice|Human girl]] appeared in the doorway again and asked the Pallassian soldiers if they were coming through yet. When they did not, she glared at them, and Niers laughed as he saw her raise one expressive finger and insulted them and their city. She then slammed the door shut, and Niers blinked as the Drakes cried out and the portal vanished for five minutes, before the image reappeared.

When the event ended, Niers ordered the excited soldiers and students, to bring him the reports of the [[Horns of Hammerad]], the [[Halfseekers]], the [[Silver Swords]], and [[Griffon Hunt]]. Particularly on the [[Pisces|[Mage]]], who had cast the weather spell. He then retired with Foliana to his quarters, and was barely able to sit still, as he was excited of the entire event and about [[Liscor's Dungeon]]. Foliana appeared next to him and asked him if he was glad that Liscor’s standing. and wondered if his mysterious chess friend was okay, and if they had something to do with the battle. He told her that he had no idea, but that he did notice Olesm Swifttail, the Drake that commanded Liscor’s defenses. Niers said that he had made an excellent job for a [Tactician] of his level, and wouldn’t be surprised if he jumps two-to-three levels. They came to the conclusion that Liscor was a place to watch after. And as he remembered the past when they had cleared a dungeon like Liscor’s, he asked her if they could clear a dungeon like that again.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/07/31/5-08/ Chapter 5.08]</ref> 

A day after the battle at Liscor, he had one of his students and Wistram set up a broadcasts of himself in a mock battle, to be projected across the world.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/08/04/interlude-flos/ Interlude - Flos]</ref>

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