Masamune V

Masamune V
Full name	Masamune Takeshi Celeborn Adrestia
AKA	Prince Masamune V
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair color and style	Blonde hair
Eye color	Blue-Gray
Skin color	Light
Other	Issue: none (unmarried)
Biographical information
Father	Emperor Anarion (Emperor of the Imperial Federation)
Mother	Qasima Çakar
Date of birth	1728 (24 AN years)
Place of birth	Gondolin, Adrestia
Residence(s)	The Imperial Palace, Gondolin
Nationality	Imperial Federation (Ralgonese)
Allegiance(s)	Imperial Federation

Prince Masamune V of the Imperial Federation was born in 1728 AN as Prince Masamune Takeshi Celeborn von Adrestia. The fifth to bear the name Masamune, he is also styled as Prince Masamune V of Adrestia, which is his current princely name. He was born minutes before his twin sister, taking his name from diverse cultures in the empire, and after his still-living ancestor, Nobunag'an. In 1746 AN, the family's name was changed and "Adrestia" was adopted as a simple surname to reflect the prestige of his family (while other laws were passed banning individuals from illegally taking this name for themselves).

From his father's side, he is part of the House of Adrestia, the ruling dynasty of the Imperial Federation. This in turn is the Western (and main) branch of the House of Ral, from which his direct (and still-living) ancestor Nobunag'an IV originates.

He is the eldest child of Emperor Anarion of the Imperial Federation, out of an astonishing 24 other siblings. While the Imperial Federation is an elective monarchy (this being done through the Senate), he is, nonetheless, the Emperor's heir-presumptive. He reached his 18th birthday in 1746 AN. He and his twin sister Mariko are essentially inseparable, and tend to be fiercely protective of each other.

As of 1752 AN, Masamune V is 24 years old.

Biography

Early Life

Born in Gondolin, Adrestia in 1728 AN, he is the eldest of Emperor Anarion's 25+ children. Masamune, the fifth prince of Adrestia by that name, arrived minutes before his twin sister, Mariko. Celebrations were held for weeks in the capital, as the birth of twins was considered an auspicious start to the Emperor's young family.

Their father proved extremely fond of his children, and proved fiercely protective of them. Furthermore, Masamune and his twin sister took after their father's eccentric tendencies. And to the dismay of the court, he and his twin sister shared their father's rather intense fondness for oddities, and Masamune's interests could be just as macabre as his father's. He's took to love fire more than the court would otherwise like... far more than the court would otherwise like. (Multiple incidents at the Imperial Court involved him, his father, and more than one of his siblings setting fireworks off inside the Palace to cause "well-structured" disturbances "to keep the little rabbits on their toes," in his father's later words).

Multiple courtiers attempted (at the cost of their careers) to separate the rapidly increasing flock of noisy, relentlessly restless children from their father to give them a more "proper" education than they deemed possible under their father's overly protective vigilance, and worse, infectiously eccentric attitude. Unfortunately for them, Anarion wised up, and in an act engineered directly to spite these same people, pre-empted notions of "extra summer education." By this, he sent his two oldest children during several summers beginning in 1732 AN to the court of Mondo, who Emperor Anarion was especially fond of at the time. To compound his expression of displeasure with the Court, the Emperor sent more of his immense brood of children to live with Mondo (a "known ravenous eccentric") for separate periods of time when Masamune was home, "to keep his good friend company."

From 1740 AN, the two children would also spend every other summer or winter season visiting the family of their mother Empress Qasima, alternating with (increasingly large) groups of other siblings as the years went by. He was known to others as a civilized, well-mannered boy, even if an odd one by most standards. He remained inseparable from his twin sister, and was deemed (at least by his father) as a role model for his younger siblings, most of whom took after their father's eccentricities in their own fashion. The fact that Masamune's own morbid interests never ceased was attributed by some in the Imperial Court to his father's and Mondo's influence -- a rumor Masamune himself has actively avoided addressing as he grew older.

Education

Masamune reached his 18th birthday in 1746 AN, fully completing his intensive post-secondary and preliminary military studies in the same year.

In accordance with the imperial family's tradition, Masamune and his twin sister were given notice that it was preferred that they went through their university education overseas. This would be done to familiarize themselves with the world and its peoples outside of the Imperial Federation, and gain appreciation for what their home country had, and needed improvements on if they were to rule or otherwise occupy consequential posts in the imperial government.

After intense deliberations (these involving unsolicited advice from the Imperial Court) of the imperial family abroad for international education, in 1746 AN, Masamune went with his twin sister Princess Mariko Adrestia to began attendance at the Peace Academy in Hurmu from 1746 AN to 1750 AN. This formed a compromise between those wanting to send the Emperor's eldest children to Shireroth, Cakaristan, and New Alexandria. It also coincided closely to Anarion's own election to the Senate of the Holy Lakes, a fact that most likely helped Masamune and his sister land a spot in the extremely competitive school.