Kaiser Ayreon IV

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Imperial House of Ayreon-Kalirion
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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

Kaiser Ayreon IV
Full Name: Vidar Salim Livarson Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine
Alias Prince Vidar

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Physical Description
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Race: Babkhi, Hurmu, Norse
Hair Color and Style: Light brown hair
Eye Color:
Skin Color: White

Biographical Information
Father: Adam Anushiruwan
Mother: Liv Djupvik
Date of Birth: 1645
Place of Birth: Raynor's Keep
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Current Residence(s): Raynor's Keep
Nationality at Birth: Shirerithian
Current Allegiance(s): Line of Ayreon-Kalirion
Occupation: Kaiser

Kaiser Ayreon IV (born Vidar Salim Livarson Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine at Raynor's Keep, 8 Gevraquun, 1645) is the current Kaiser of Shireroth (since 1650, ASC 6546). He is the son of Adam and Liv, and the grandson of Kaiseress Noor. Until his fifteenth birthday, Kaiser Ayreon IV's government is exercised by the Steward, a position currently (since 1651) held by his mother, Liv Dravot.

Biography

Family background

His father was Prince Adam. He never met his father, not even once. He was separated from his mother, Liv, and stepfather Daniel Dravot, in 1649, after reports surfaced that the mother was unloving to him and treated him with disdain (understandable given his conception was from rape) and made a ward of the Imperial Republic. His mother has visitation rights to her son, though she has not exercised them once since the separation. During his time with his mother and stepfather, the family spoke Normark Norse. He learnt Hurmu Norse from his maternal grandparents, Arviður (b. 1535) and Sól Míudottar (b. 1543), who have remained loving towards him. He spoke Babkhi with his paternal grandmother, Noor.

Aside from his grandparents and estranged mother, his paternal uncles, Aldin (b. 1630) and Vilhjalm (b. 1635), and aunt, Esther (b. 1638), and his maternal uncles Valdemar (b. 1609), Thorleiv (b. 1611), and Oden (b. 1613). He has no cousins on the paternal side, but four the maternal side: Patrik (b. 1643, son of Valdemar), Roderik (b. 1641, son of Thorleiv), and Gunnar and Yrsa (b. 1639 and 1641 respectively, son and daughter of Oden).

Ethnically, Ayreon IV is roughly one third Hurmu, one fourth Norse and one fifth Babkhi. The rest is accounted by Tapferite, Brookshirian, Elw, Storish and Novaya Zemlyan heritage. Among his ancestors are four Kaisers (Ayreon, Aurangzeb, Ayreon II), four Babkhan shahanshahs (Ardashir, Tahmaseb, Rashid, Osman), and two Natopian emperors (Nathan, Nathaniel), as well as from rulers from Elwynn (6), Brookshire (2), and Goldshire (2).

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 was 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 had been 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 was to have been 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. This, however, was not to be. Following the flight of the Steward, Sikander Dravot along with his wife the Khanum of Cabbagefall - pursued by a curse laid by the shade of Tokaray al-Osman bound with the Sword of Vengeance presently presumed lost in Balgurd - the boy fell under the influence of his grandmother's courtiers who encouraged him to resent and chafe against the bonds of the necessary discipline with which he had been raised. It now seems certain that Vidar, who has become Kaiser by virtue of the dynastic succession, will follow in the same damaged, self-harming and neurotic footsteps of his ancestors.

Kaisership

Upon his unexpected ascension to the Kaisership at such an early age, the Imperial Steward Kyle Kilynn took measures to secure the child kaiser and provide for his education until his majority. In recognition of the close relationship between Prince Kyle and the Kaiser's uncle, Pentheros Aldin, the agreement was that the Pentheros would be responsible for the Kaiser's religious education according to the theology of the Dozan Bovic Church. Few provisions were made for the Kaiser's legal, social and formal education, which resulted in the Kaiser quickly becoming spoiled and overenergetic (due to a high sugar intake). In 1651, Steward Kyle Kilynn appointed Soraya Octavius-Parini to the position of Chamberlain of the Imperial Household in an effort to discipline the child-kaiser.

The Kaiser was from 1647 without contact with his mother until her appointment as Steward in 1651, and Ayreon is believed to have compensated that loss of motherly affection with affection from other women, particularly Princess Kizzy Drakland and Countess Mira Octavius-Aryani. He is now fond of his Chmberlain, Soraya. The relationship between the Kaiser and his mother remains cold.


Government

Role Holder Tenure
Steward Prince Kyle Kilynn 1650–1651
Lady Liv Dravot 1651–
Minister of the Interior Count Armin Jamal-Arminzadeh 1650–1651
Viscount Myn 1651–
Minister of the Exterior Prince Hallbjörn Haraldsson 1650–1651
Prince Kyle Kilynn 1651–
Minister of Military Affairs Princess Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir 1650–1651
ESB-Jörmungandr Group (held in commission) 1651–
Imperial Inquisitor Lord Heath Belledin 1650–
Prefect of Shirekeep Lady Mira Octavius-Aryani, Count Palatine of Kezan 1650–
Chamberlain of the Household Pentheros Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion 1650–1651
Soraya Octavius-Parini 1651–
Landsraad Liaison and Adviser Princess Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir 1651–1651
Court Historian and Notary of Raynor's Keep Lady Layla Verion 1651–
Scientific Advisor and Mostly High Imperial Bag-Carrier King Ryker Everstone, King of Goldshire 1651–

Imperial Proclamations

Imperial Decrees

Kaiser Ayreon IV has issued the following Imperial Decrees, through his stewards:

Steward Kyle Kilynn

  • 936: Mourn the Kaiseress
  • 937: Deportation of Pretender
  • 938: Imperial Ministers and Advisory Council
  • 939: Lichkeep Cession
  • 940: Principality of Mishalan (vetoed by the Landsraad)
  • 941: Imperial Governor of Lichbrook
  • 942: Lomax Restored
  • 943: Imperial Duchy of Brookshire
  • 944: Amendments to Decree 914
  • 945: Conditional Repeal of Decree 922
  • 946: Expanded Lichbrook
  • 947: Helena Chevalier
  • 948: Æsileif Haraldsdóttir
  • 949: The Emirate of Jadid Khaz Modan
  • 950: Minister of Military Affairs
  • 951: The Voltrue Rebellion
  • 952: Chamberlain of the Household
  • 953: MiniInt and Seneschal
  • 954: City Charter of Shirekeep
  • 955: Successor and Resignation

Steward Liv Dravot

  • 956: Rearmament of Constancia
  • 957: Mishalan
  • 958: Imperial Ministers and Advisory Council
  • 959: The Shirewiki
  • 960: Caverden and Overdolor
  • 961: Shirekeep's Penal Facilities
  • 962: Matters pertaining to the Kaiser
  • 963: 2nd Amendment to Charter

Acting Steward Lord Myn

  • 964: Institutions in the Mandate of Tellia
  • 965: The Imperial Mother,
  • 966: Acting Acting Steward.

Acting Acting Steward King Ryker

  • [[Imperial Decree 967|967]: Mapmania

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

1648–present: Lord of Zauberförde/Senkyōwan (Natopia)

1648–1650: Prince of Shireroth.

1649–present: Khan of Caer Lum'ruush.

1650–1650: King of Goldshire.

1650–present: Kaiser of Shireroth, Kaiser in Kildare, Emperor of Kildare, King of the Elian Lands, Emir of Sathrati, Marquess of Zy-Rodun, Imperial Prince of Shireroth, Duke of Brookshire, Thane of the Shirelands, Keeper of the Apollo Legacy, Wielder of the Sword of Vengeance, Grand Master of the Orders of the Dragon, Griffin, Phoenix, and Chimera, Sovereign of the Golden Mango Throne, Count of Dracoheim (all in Shireroth), Prince of Hvalafell (Stormark), Duke of Istvanistan, Count of Istvan, Lord Mayor of the City of Vladagrad (Natopia)

Ancestry


Preceded by:
Kaiseress Noor
Emir of Sathrati
1650–Present
Succeeded by:
Incumbent
Preceded by:
Noor
King of Goldshire
1650–1650
Succeeded by:
Ryker Everstone
Preceded by:
Kaiseress Noor
Succession of the Shirerithian Kaisership
1650–present
Succeeded by:
Incumbent