Kaiser Los I
| Kalir Sethan Kian Raynor | |
| Former Kaiser of Shireroth | |
|---|---|
| Began | 1468 |
| Ended | 1469 |
| Predecessor | Kaiser Lacrymosa I |
| Successor | Kaiseress Viviantia I |
| Imperial Bloodline | Kalir |
| Physical description | |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Hyperborean–Brookshirian |
| Biographical information | |
| Father | Prince Paul Raynor |
| Mother | Sora Kalir |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Mekir Talarion (m. 1442) |
| Issue |
Kaiser Los II (Nixi Mekirion Kalir) Tisme Mekirion Kalir Avri Kalirion |
| Date of birth | 1421 |
| Place of birth | 1469 |
| Date of death | 1469 |
| Place of death | Raynor's Keep |
Kalir Sethan (Old Hyperborean; in modern Hyperborean Kal'ri Sethanion), born in 1421 as Prince Kian Raynor of Brookshire, was a Brookshirean–Hyperborean prince. He became Shireroth's 69th kaiser upon Kaiser Lacrymosa I's abdication of the Golden Mango Throne to him. He reigned as Kaiser Los I 1468–1469. Briefly Duke of Brookshire prior to his kaisership in 1468, but abdicated the position upon becoming kaiser. It was stated that he had felt nothing but antipathy towards his duchy of birth.
He was born in Brookshire to Prince Paul Raynor, the Duke of Brookshire, and Sora Kalir. He had one elder sister, Isa (born 1420). Their Hyperborean mother disappeared four months after his birth.
The Duke, though fanatically devoted to his wife during their marriage, seemed only mildly upset by her disappearance. He remarried within three months, to the daughter of the Baron of Lunaris – a textbook standard match for the nobility of the era. The new Duchess got the responsibility of raising Paul and Sora's children, Kian, who was four months old at the time of his mother's disappearance, and Isa, being 16 months older. She did so only partially and distantly, leaving most of his upbringing to various governesses hired for the task. We know from Brookshire court records that he was raised as a proper Brookshirithian heir in every way. Although his guardians made no secret of his part-Hyperborean ancestry, they did not make any attempt to instruct him in Hyperborean culture, and he, for his part, did not make any attempt to learn it.
This makes it all the more surprising that the next history hears of him, he had moved to Thule and taken the Hyperborean name Kalir Sethan (Common: Kal'ri Sethanion). Although some historians (especially Arision) try to link his decision to a conflict with his father or stepmother over the succession, there is no historical evidence for this, and a few letters suggest he and the Duke of Brookshire remained on good terms until the latter's death.
The name Kalir Sethan is another mystery. The name Kalir, meaning "polar bear", was quite presumptious; polar bears were respected as, if not quite gods, at least superior spirits, and for that reason they were rarely cited in names. Further, we know from his own letters that Kian (who somehow attained a grasp of Kadhamic equalling scholars who had studied it since kindergarten) interpeted it with the grammatically correct by somewhat unusual meaning "noble mirror"; probably a reference to myth in which the Prince of Storms gives a magic mirror to the city of Kalen in exchange for the Kalenese maiden he seized as a wife. The relationship to his parents' family history is suggestive but ultimately incomprehensible.
Contemporary accounts of Kalir focus on his intense energy. His wife's letters describe him as "sleeping at most three hours a night, even in Deep Winter, and unable to sit still for more than a few minutes." If the chronologies from the Amethyst Annals are to be believed, he wrote his three most famous books - Hyperborean Government Within the Shirerithian State, The Kadhamic Mandate and Out of Winter from the East within a single year. His work on governance, which breathed new life into the ancient Council system by reinterpreting the rules laid down by Kadham, gained him an invitation to the Council of Nine. He became Elder the following year, the fifth-youngest Elder ever. The Amethyst Annals give an exhaustive account of his thirty-three year tenure in that position, during which he fully synchronized the Shirerithian and Hyperborean governments and rebuilt the economy practically from scratch.
| Preceded by: Nick of Yardistan |
Duke of Brookshire 1468 |
Succeeded by Erik Metzler |
| Preceded by: Kaiser Lacrymosa I |
Kaiser of Shireroth 1468–1469 |
Succeeded by Kaiseress Viviantia I |
