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He married Natopian emperor [[Nathan II]] in 1670 after a prolonged struggle with the [[Imperial Advisory Council]] on the matter. Their marriage was short as the kaiser died the following year.  
He married Natopian emperor [[Nathan II]] in 1670 after a prolonged struggle with the [[Imperial Advisory Council]] on the matter. Their marriage was short as the kaiser died the following year.  
== Life ==
=== Infancy ===
After the marriage alliance between the Khanum [[Liv Dravot|Liv]] and the Steward, [[shire:Daniyal Dravot|Daniyal Dravot]], Adam's infant son, Vidar, 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 [[Liv Dravot|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 seemed certain that Vidar, who had become Kaiser by virtue of the dynastic succession, would follow in the same damaged, self-harming and neurotic footsteps of his ancestors.
=== Early kaisership ===
Upon his unexpected ascension to the Kaisership at such an early age, the [[Steward of Shireroth|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 Ayreon-Kalirion|Zahir al Din]], 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 [[Octavius|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 was believed to have compensated that loss of motherly affection with affection from other women, particularly Princess [[Kizzy Drakland]] and Countess [[Mira Octavius-Aryani]]. He was now fond of his Chmberlain, Soraya. The relationship between the Kaiser and his mother remained cold until the mother's death in 1663.
When [[Liv Dravot|the Steward]] exiled the [[House of Ettlingar Freyu]] from Shireroth in 1651, the Kaiser was blissfully unaware of the reasons for the exile and of the consequences of the exile, though unfortunately his step-uncle [[Kaiser Hjalmar Redquill|Audun Joel]] was killed in the crossfire. The Kaiser had always had a good relationship with his step-uncle, and indeed, Audun Joel was regarded as one of the few members of the House of Ettlingar Freyu who had not been infested with a demonic entity (the other one was [[Vilhjálm Daniel Gudrödar|Prince Vilhjalm]] who succeeded his father [[Thorstein Noah|Noah]] as King of Elwynn). As such, upon hearing of Audun Joel's death, a former kaiser, Vidar led the Imperial Court in grieving.
As the Prætor, Fjorleif, was exiled, too, it was incumbent upon the [[Landsraad]] at this time to hold an election for prætor. The Kaiser, upon hearing that it was the kaiser's duties to conduct the election, was overjoyed and went, against all advice, to the [[Palace of Zirandorthel]] where the nobled had assembled. In an embarrassing display of presiding, Vidar forced all nobles to go various sides of the Landsraad floor (depending on which candidate they supported for [[prætor]]). In the end, he counted the nobles on each side and found that one side had more. He had, however, by this time forgotten which side supported which candidate and he solemnly declared the wrong candidate elected. After a while, the Kaiser understood his error and the duly elected winner King [[Ryker Everstone]] took the Prætor's chair and hat, though seemed a bit sluggish in doing so.
After the prætorial incident, the Kaiser was sent [[Montran|to a small farm]] in [[Monty Crisco]] to learn discipline, patience and agriculture, and so that his education would continue in peace and quiet.
In the year 1653 [[Imperial Advisory Council]] travelled to the [[Montran|Montrano Estate]] to celebrate the Kaiser's eighth birthday, during which time an argument erupted over how to deal with the [[Froyalaners]] now that they had been sequestered into the [[Froyalan National Reservation|Froyalan National Reserve]]. Following a tour of the farm and an impromptu demonstration of the use of a burdizzo, a throwaway remark by [[shire:Michael Verion|Michael Verion]] during a further argument on the subject of the Froyalanish question inspired Liv Dravot to consider mass castration as a solution. Although an unlikely subject over which a mother might attempt to bond with her son she nonetheless encouraged him to work overnight on [[shire:Imperial Proclamation: Men and Boys with Froyalanish blood|a proclamation]], the resulting draft was praised by the Imperial Advisory Council and accepted with few alterations.
In mid 1653, Ayreon IV received with enthusiasm the news that his second cousin (of same age as himself) [[Nathan II]] had ascended the [[Natopia]]n throne as emperor. Plans were immediately made for the Kaiser to visit his cousin and his own holdings in Natopia.
The Imperial Advisory Council, growing more concerned that the Kaiser may not be all too willing to conform with the prevailing IAC ideology following the [[Auspicious Occasion]], met to draft [[Charter of Shireroth|a new Charter]] that would restrict the powers of the Kaiser somewhat in favour of a regularly elected Steward. In the middle of 1653, the Landsraad debated the proposal, adopted it, and after three states ([[Elwynn]], [[Goldshire]] and [[Kezan]]) had assented, the Kaiser was flown to [[Shirekeep]] to promulgate the new Charter. The new Charter also separated the post of [[Steward]] from that of [[Regent of Shireroth|Regent]].


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Kaiser Ayreon IV
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Full name Vidar Salim Livarson Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine
AKA Vidar Ayreon
Physical information
Species Human
Gender Male
Hair color and style Blond hair
Eye color Blue
Skin color White
Biographical information
Father Adam, Khan of Cabbagefall
Mother Liv Djupvik
Date of birth 1645
Place of birth Raynor's Keep
Date of death 1671
Place of death Raynor's Keep
Residence(s) Raynor's Keep
Nationality Shirerithian
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; died (murdered) at Raynor's Keep, 12.VIII.1671) was the Kaiser of Shireroth (since 1650 until his death in 1671. He had also been ruling Prince-Regent of Natopia twice (1654–1655, and for a few months in 1660). He was the son of Adam, Khan of Cabbagefall and Liv, and the grandson of Kaiseress Noor. Before his coronation (1.IX.1661), Kaiser Ayreon IV's Shirerithian government was exercised by the Regent, a position last held by the duke of Calezi (1656–1661).

Background

Name

Vidar Salim Livarson Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine is the Kaiser's full name. His family and closest friends call him Vidar, an old Norse name related to a Norse forest god. His middle name is Salim, a Babkhi name of Baatharzi origin, meaning "peaceful", named so by his grandmother Kaiseress Noor after her own epithet al-Salaam ("of the peace"). Livarson, "son of Liv" in Hurmu–Farewellish, is his matronymic, given so to show that he is not only his father Adam's son. His last name Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine consists of a number of components; Ayreon-Kalirion is his bloodline, ibn al-Majeed ("descendant of Majeed") refers to the founder of the Simrani family Majeed, al-Osman refers to his belonging to the House of Osman through his father's maternal grandmother, bin Sathrati means that he is a descendant of the first Emir of Sathrati, Rashid Arsalani (Kaiser Ayreon), and Waffel-Paine is his dynastic house from his father's grandfather Nathan Waffel-Paine.

In Elw, his name is written Видар Салим Ливарсон Аериоон-Калирион ивн ал-Мажид ал-Осмон бин Сатрати аф Уофел-Пеин (Vidar Salim Livarson Aerioon-Kalirion ibn al-Mazhid al-Osmon bin Satrati af Uofel-Pein), and pronounced /βidaʁ salim liβaʁson aəʁioːn kaləʁion iβnalmaʑidalosmon bin satʁati aɸ uoɸəlpəin/. Usually, however, it is written as his regnal name, Аериоон 4 Қаисар (Aerioon 4 Qaisar).

Family

His father was Prince Adam, the Khan of Cabbagefall. 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 grandfather, Arviður (1535–1652) who remained loving towards him. He spoke Babkhi with his paternal grandmother, Noor.

Ethnically, Ayreon IV was 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, Noor), 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).

He belonged to the houses of Ayreon-Kalirion, Osman and Waffel-Paine, and to the imperial bloodlines of Ayreon-Kalirion and Steffki.

Since 1664, he had one concubine, Lady Isidora IV of Octavius-Teleni, with whom he had a daughter in 1665, Salome, who became next in line to the Mango Throne. In 1667, the Kaiser, acting through his concubine, produced twins, Kir Azariah Vidar and Kian Aiomide Shahnaz, and after his death, Rubin Leonid Orientalis in 1671 (she was already pregnant when he died)

He married Natopian emperor Nathan II in 1670 after a prolonged struggle with the Imperial Advisory Council on the matter. Their marriage was short as the kaiser died the following year.

Life

Infancy

After the marriage alliance between the Khanum Liv and the Steward, Daniyal Dravot, Adam's infant son, Vidar, 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 seemed certain that Vidar, who had become Kaiser by virtue of the dynastic succession, would follow in the same damaged, self-harming and neurotic footsteps of his ancestors.

Early 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 Zahir al Din, 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 was believed to have compensated that loss of motherly affection with affection from other women, particularly Princess Kizzy Drakland and Countess Mira Octavius-Aryani. He was now fond of his Chmberlain, Soraya. The relationship between the Kaiser and his mother remained cold until the mother's death in 1663.

When the Steward exiled the House of Ettlingar Freyu from Shireroth in 1651, the Kaiser was blissfully unaware of the reasons for the exile and of the consequences of the exile, though unfortunately his step-uncle Audun Joel was killed in the crossfire. The Kaiser had always had a good relationship with his step-uncle, and indeed, Audun Joel was regarded as one of the few members of the House of Ettlingar Freyu who had not been infested with a demonic entity (the other one was Prince Vilhjalm who succeeded his father Noah as King of Elwynn). As such, upon hearing of Audun Joel's death, a former kaiser, Vidar led the Imperial Court in grieving.

As the Prætor, Fjorleif, was exiled, too, it was incumbent upon the Landsraad at this time to hold an election for prætor. The Kaiser, upon hearing that it was the kaiser's duties to conduct the election, was overjoyed and went, against all advice, to the Palace of Zirandorthel where the nobled had assembled. In an embarrassing display of presiding, Vidar forced all nobles to go various sides of the Landsraad floor (depending on which candidate they supported for prætor). In the end, he counted the nobles on each side and found that one side had more. He had, however, by this time forgotten which side supported which candidate and he solemnly declared the wrong candidate elected. After a while, the Kaiser understood his error and the duly elected winner King Ryker Everstone took the Prætor's chair and hat, though seemed a bit sluggish in doing so.

After the prætorial incident, the Kaiser was sent to a small farm in Monty Crisco to learn discipline, patience and agriculture, and so that his education would continue in peace and quiet.

In the year 1653 Imperial Advisory Council travelled to the Montrano Estate to celebrate the Kaiser's eighth birthday, during which time an argument erupted over how to deal with the Froyalaners now that they had been sequestered into the Froyalan National Reserve. Following a tour of the farm and an impromptu demonstration of the use of a burdizzo, a throwaway remark by Michael Verion during a further argument on the subject of the Froyalanish question inspired Liv Dravot to consider mass castration as a solution. Although an unlikely subject over which a mother might attempt to bond with her son she nonetheless encouraged him to work overnight on a proclamation, the resulting draft was praised by the Imperial Advisory Council and accepted with few alterations.

In mid 1653, Ayreon IV received with enthusiasm the news that his second cousin (of same age as himself) Nathan II had ascended the Natopian throne as emperor. Plans were immediately made for the Kaiser to visit his cousin and his own holdings in Natopia.

The Imperial Advisory Council, growing more concerned that the Kaiser may not be all too willing to conform with the prevailing IAC ideology following the Auspicious Occasion, met to draft a new Charter that would restrict the powers of the Kaiser somewhat in favour of a regularly elected Steward. In the middle of 1653, the Landsraad debated the proposal, adopted it, and after three states (Elwynn, Goldshire and Kezan) had assented, the Kaiser was flown to Shirekeep to promulgate the new Charter. The new Charter also separated the post of Steward from that of Regent.