Cwameeng

Cwameeng is a boy from the Forest of Secrecy (actually half from the Kingdom of Xhan and half from the Kingdom of Ulke). He is one of the main characters of the series, being one of the protagonists of Book 1: The Elemental Masters (specifically being the main protagonist of Part 4), a supporting character of Book 2 and a major character of Book 3. He is the Master of Air and is 17 years old.

Background/backstory
Cwameeng lived with his parents in the Forest of Secrecy for the first year of his life. After a year, his mother and father left to give birth to his soon-to-be sister, Aibai. However, after they did, his father died from the harsh conditions of the Forest of Secrecy. His mother was then tricked by Ogran into adopting Aibai, which caused her to have delusions. While she still lived with Cwameeng, she had delusions, slowly going crazy, which impacted Cwameeng into having depression and becoming holding a grudge against other people, almost always keeping his distance, and thinks little of people from a high-class status, mostly out of bitterness.

Personality
Cwameeng is an ISFP, making him very free-spirited and observant. He is also incredibly smart, being able to think his way to find out and think his way out of all of Huzuni's plans. He does not know how to use advanced weapons such as swords or bows but doesn't need them, and usually uses his staff in battle. This, however, is just the tip of Cwameeng's personality.

In Part 1, Cwameeng is very possessive of the land that he and his mother technically own and is quick to order Aibai and her friends off. When he hears, however, that the Revolution is near, he quick to offer them assistance to help defeat them, though this is mostly so that he can see Huzuni again, and perhaps talk him out of his conquest to commit genocide on his kind. While he shows bitterness to others as well as suspicion and distrust (particularly to Feraza), Cwameeng shows a more sincere side when talking to Huzuni, who was his childhood friend. Although the two fail to make amends, Cwameeng still acknowledges that he would not give up on him. Cwameeng opens up slightly more to Aibai and Utgand by the end particularly after the confirmation that he is indeed Aibai's brother, but still leaves Ulke to look after his mother, though leaves them with no information of his whereabouts, still not fully trusting them.

In Part 2, Cwameeng thinks little of Feraza, seeing her as a pampered princess who knows nothing about battle and is simply spoiled, showing that he thinks little of people with a high class status. He also sees Utgand as immature and annoying, often ignoring Utgand's statements, thinking little of them. Cwameeng has respect for his sister, Aibai, however, and is constantly agreeing with her, and when he is arguing with Utgand or Feraza immediately stops when Aibai asks him to, showing a deep care for his sister, even though they just met. He also seems to indulge with Minyama, an elemental animal that he with Aibai (and unknowingly Utgand and Feraza) created to track down the Revolution. The two huge turning points for Cwameeng's personality, however, were firstly when Utgand opened up about his insecurities. Cwameeng then boosted his confidence, showing he can be very supportive and caring to his friends. The second was that during his battle with Huzuni, he realizes his friend cannot be saved, and only Huzuni could save himself. Afterwards, Cwameeng dropped his attachments to his friend and let Huzuni make his own choices, no longer trying to no avail to save him. After the battle (which they lost), Cwameeng opens up to his friends.

In Part 3 however, the little boy CREATED BY OGRAN TO FOLLOW HIS EVERY ORDER throws a "prophecy" that states that one of the friends will turn on the others. Cwameeng immediately grows distrusting of his friends and leaves them to "check on his mother" based on distrust. He eventually returns to them however after he sees the Revolution heading to Navaria, and out of fear that they are going to form and army to conquer Ulke, he goes to find Utgand while Aibai and Feraza go to Navaria, showing some more loyalty to Ulke than before. He becomes slightly joking and sarcastic after that and becomes friendly again. However, three incidents occur with each of his three friends shortly after. The first is when they are on the battlefield, and Cwameeng is insisting that they need to unite as the masters of the elements to be able to survive the battle. Arguing between he and Feraza almost leads to Cwameeng's hand being chopped off. Alarmingly shortly after, when aiming for a Revolution soldier, Utgand accidentally burns Cwameeng's hand and when he tries to reach out to his friends, he is driven away from them by the crowd. Once he returns, he is extremely bitter with his friends and barely says a word. He shows no distrust to Jisina nor bitterness to Miniki, but does show bitterness and distrust to his friends. When he goes outside to sleep and returns, Cwameeng seems to have been traumatized by something, although he still helps stop the Revolution. The huge turning point that shows that Cwameeng is in fact worse than before is when he takes the four elemental orbs from his friends, coldly telling them, "you must be careful with you choose to trust".

In Part 4, the third event is revealed: while he was sleeping outside, Cwameeng was lured into his cottage BY ANOTHER MINION OF OGRAN and saw his mother's corpse, and then began to grow bitter to his friends, believing it to be their fault that his mother had perished, and is tricked again by Ogran into betraying his friends, showing an extremely vindictive, vengeful and traitorous side to them, scorning them for keeping him from his mother. When Aibai tries to reason with him, Cwameeng at first starts to listen, but then abandons her again after remembering his mother and how he could have saved her if it wasn't for them showing a great deal of loyalty and love to her and incarcerates Aibai and the rest of his friends. Even after being manipulated and betraying his friends however Cwameeng has not lost his humanity and is able to remain calm in dire situations, such as when Usalama attacked him as well as when fighting Huzuni. The only circumstance where Cwameeng is unable to maintain his humanity and actually comes close to being completely evil is when he comes face-to-face with his friends. In one scene he attempts to leave them all in a forest fire, not wanting to have anything to do with them, and not wanting to save them, despite the fact that they had saved both him and Huzuni. However, Cwameeng is eventually able to see through Ogran's lies and immediately feel remorseful for his actions and teams up with Usalama to help rescue them from the Ulkian dungeon and to save Ulke from the Revolution. Cwameeng is still evidently broken after his mother died however and is quick to blame Usalama after Ogran tricks him yet again, and he traps her in the cave. Cwameeng truly loses all his confidence when the four orbs are taken from him by Ogran and he is placed in the Ulkian dungeon and demoralized by Huzuni. It is then that Cwameeng feels ashamed for all that he has committed and bursts into tears, apologizing to all his friends for his actions. Although he feels he deserves no friendship or love, Aibai helps him regain his confidence, and the two reconcile. Cwameeng then helps his friends escape the dungeon, showing that he has redeemed himself. Cwameeng shows extraordinary bravery almost giving up his life multiple times for Ulke, despite not living there nor having anything to do with it (aside from his friends). He also was inspired by Aibai not giving up on him and still uses it with Huzuni, and is eventually able to talk him out of his conquests (sort of). Cwameeng still decrees however that the only way that they can truly save Ulke is by uniting, and is still afraid that them uniting may cause them to cease to exist, but does so anyways, willing to do so for Ulke, and his friends agree with him, showing a great deal of self-sacrificing and selflessness. Cwameeng also is insightful and is quickly able to tell that the orb that was formed from them uniting will help them save Ulke, which it does. After the battle is over, Cwameeng reconciles with Huzuni (despite the fact that Huzuni may not deserve it at all) with Usalama and becomes friends with him again. However, Cwameeng still feels a longing to leave Ulke, it still not truly being his home, claiming that he has always felt a connection with the world unlike most. His friends understand, which leads to both Cwameeng and Usalama leaving Ulke to pursue their destiny, their dreams, and all that the two outcasts have wished to do for years. This encourages Cwameeng to find a bright and hopeful future despite his troublesome past.

In Book 2, Cwameeng truly shows that he has matured from his state in Book 1, understanding Leitani and Putria when they start fighting with each other, claiming that he has been through the same as they have, believing that he was betrayed and tries to talk them out of it, with not much success. He is also quick to understand Birala later in Part 3 and forgives him easily in comparison to Leitani and Putria.