Kaiser Jason IV

Chronicles of the Reign of Jason IV

1224

And in the year 1224 After Norton, Jason of the House Steffki, a man of martial ardour and ambition did learn that the Kaiser, Nicholas the Third of his name, was with his retinue and court drinking and whoring at the Manor of the Lord Malkarnek and at the expense of that same Lord, a man of no great standing by the name of Balzenbeck. Jason, with his most devoted henchmen, immediately set off in the dead of night for the Lordship of Malkarnek which lay far to the north of Jason's manors in and around the city of Alexandretta.

Riding tirelessly for seven saddle-sore days, Jason arrived, on the morning of the 9th of Laemill, amongst the thickets of the copse on the Hill of Dunarben overlooking the fortified manor house, a large mobile village of tents surrounded by a hastily dug ditch and palisade fence was erected. A mist hung over the slumbering encampment and Jason was shrouded from the view of the Kaiser's guards. Changing into the filthy mud-splattered jupon of one of his sergeant-at-arms, and placing a hooded cloak of poorly spun hemp about his shoulders, the Lord Jason rode down into the Kaiser's encampment disguised as his own messenger.

Preceded by: Nicholas III

Succession of the Shirithian Kaisership 1224–1279 AN (43–98 ASC)

Succeeded by: Santiago II