Freezis Foundation

The Freesis Foundation, originally called the Freesis Firm, was a merchant guild founded by Keel Freesis and later reorganized as a massive business conglomerated by his son, Shaw. Its influence stretched across the majority of Evillious, and maintained a branch in nearly every major nation across the region.

Foundation
Following the Lucifenian Expansion War, Keel Freesis expanded his growing business and created the firm, developing a chamber of commerce to control and dominate trade between different nations. Eventually expanding into the Kingdoms of Lucifenia, Marlon, Elphegort, and Divine Levianta, the company absorbed the assets of preexisting trade associations, constructing a trade network of information; easily controlling the market with its communication, the firm became the richest conglomerate at the turn of the 6th century EC. With their enormous assets, part of the firm's wealth secretly funded the ambitions of Queen Prim Marlon.

At some point during the late EC 400s, the trade coalition was joined by the Association intelligence network; as part of the merge, it was decided that the closest and most trusted aide to the Freesis family head would adopt the name "Bruno" in recognition of the Association; in exchange, if the head died and no immediate heir existed, the Bruno would take over their authority until a proper successor was determined. As the Firm expanded, Keel was accompanied by a Bruno that acted as his butler and informant.

Reign of Evil
With the company financially secure, its leading members kept in contact through Keel's monthly banquets; the gatherings allowed the separate branches of the organization to exchange information, make transactions, or advance their own authority. At the start of the Green Hunting in EC 500, Keel was imprisoned by Princess Riliane and held captive. Reaching out to its Lucifenian branch, the firm liberated Keel and gave him residence at Corpa's mansion.

Shortly after, the company secretly funded the Lucifenian Resistance and collaborated with them for the Lucifenian government and Riliane's rule to be overthrown. Following the outbreak of the Lucifenian Revolution, the foundation's Rollam merchant commanded the city's middle class into a frenzy when the revolutionary army's battle at Rollam became dire. The Foundation provided needed weapons and turned the tide to the Resistance's favor.

Reorganization
With the revolution's success, Keel attended the peace talks concerning Lucifenia before relocating to Marlon and changing the company's nerve center. Five years later, Keel retired after suffering from a major concussion, handing the organization over to his son, Shaw. With his his father's guidance, Shaw gradually garnered business acumen and the firm grew under his leadership. The company was later reorganized as the Freesis Foundation in EC 531; after its creation, a business contract was agreed upon between the foundation and Elluka Clockworker, permitting her to freely use the foundation's power and resources.

At some point, Shaw took on a member of the Marlon royal family as his closest aide Bruno. In the late 6th century EC, Shaw organized the first international police organization, the World Police, in order to crack down on the rise of organized crime, linking pre-existing law enforcement organizations throughout Evillious. He also established other companies under the Freesis Foundation umbrella, including the Shuburke Newspaper and the Freesis Fishery Association.

During the same century, the foundation funded an expedition to charter the seas west of Marlon and discovered the continent of Maistia in EC 592; colonizing it, the foundation harvested its resources for trade to Evillious. In this period, Shaw Freesis' granddaughters Hanne and Heidemarie Lorre joined the Foundation's organizations of the Shuburke Newspaper and the World Police, respectively.

Père Noël
At some point, several of the original manuscripts of Yukina Freesis' works turned up missing from the Foundation and some were discovered being sold on the black market. To protect their copyrights, the Foundation worked in tandem with the World Police, issuing a Lost List naming all missing manuscripts for the public to turn in upon discovery.

The World Police continued to investigate the black market and the involvement of the new criminal organization Père Noël, rumored to control the market, with the Freesis Foundation looking into the organization privately. In EC 609 Hanne, as a reporter for the Shuburke Newspaper, was soon given use of the Foundation's resources to investigate the mysterious killings occurring in the city. Soon after Caspar Blankenheim's death, the Foundation pressured the World Police to stop investigating the black market in Toragay. Following Shaw Freesis' death, Bruno Marlon took temporary control of the Foundation.

After the situation in Toragay escalated as illness spread among the populace, the Elphegort government entrusted the Freesis house with the investigation into the event in EC 609. Shortly after, traffic between Aceid and Toragay was halted and a team was sent in. By the time the foundation's investigation team arrived, Toragay had become a ghost town. Later, a month after Shaw's passing, Ari Freesis was selected as his replacement over the Foundation.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * In business, a foundation tends to be an organization run for philanthropic or legal economic reasons and kept afloat by the finances of a family or individual, versus a private firm or company that works for the purpose of economical profit.