Kaiser Ayreon IV

Imperial House of Ayreon-Kalirion

Kaiser: Ayreon I - Anandja I - Anandja II - Ayreon II - Isa IV - Ayreon III - Hjalmar Redquill - Noor - Ayreon IV Shahanshah: Rashid Arsalani Emperor of the Natopians: Nathaniel Rulers of Elwynn: Richard Lyon - Rai Avon-El - Daniel Elijah - Nathaniel - Daniyal Simrani Jonathan - Hallbjörn Haraldsson - Noah - Vilhjalm Progenitors: Tuuler Kalir and Eskender Arsalani Head: Ayreon IV

Vidar Salim Livarson Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine (born at Raynor's Keep, 8 Gevraquun, 1645) is the son of Adam and Liv, Khan and Khanum of Cabbagefall.

Biography

Childhood

After the marriage alliance between the Khanum Liv and the Steward, Daniyal Dravot, Adam's infant son was transferred to Shirekeep and confinement in the Steward's Tower under the care of a governess not overly given to sentimentality.

The Steward's System is a set of rules designed by Daniyal Dravot and his wife concerning the upbringing of the child of Adam Ayreon-Kalirion, who had been borne by Liv against her will as the victim of rape and a forced marriage.

The System is aimed at encouraging the child to incline habitually towards notions of obedience, duty and service, in contrast to the arrogance and entitlement which had thoroughly corrupted the infant's father.

The infant, would be constantly supervised in the presence of his Governess, Yara Rose of Erudition, and to be kept isolated from other children. The Steward and the Khanum strictly monitored and recorded every action the toddler made and entirely controlled who was allowed access to the boy in the Steward's Tower.

His only other companion, aside from her Governess, was the young Azardokht al-Osman, a hostage of the Steward kept in order to ensure the good behaviour of the House of Osman which ruled the southern isles by the threat that she could be married off to create a rival claimant.

Future plans for the infant's early education revolved around a strict daily schedule. Morning lessons would begin at 08.30 and continue until 11.30. Lessons would then resume at 14.00 and continue until 19.00.

The education would begin, with full rigour, at the age of five years old. In addition to the standard subjects taught under the Agnesia-Alalehzamin System the boy would learn, decorum, the Holodomatic scriptures and later languages.

The Khanum's strictest instruction was that under no circumstances was the child to have any contact with his father, nor to learn anything of Adam except for his crimes and the depth of his depravity.

At the age of seventeen the boy will be assigned to an Imperial Regiment and then sent off to manage a farm in Ran to learn responsibility, which tends to be overlooked when educating Kalirions.

Titles

1645–present: Prince of Elwynn, Llængjarl of Elwynn, Count of Northshire, Count of Arietta, Count of the Lady Esther Isles, Duke of Cheshunt, Count of Upper Macon, Count of Andiopolis, Prince of Natopia, Lord Triumphant in All Four Quarters, Knight of the Black Hole, Progeny of the Once-Living God, Lord in Jorvik, Baron of Port Mills (Natopia), Count of Kaltor, Knight of the Holy Lakes, Scion of the King of Kings