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[[File:Portrait of Salome.png|thumb|left|Kaiseress Salome, painted by Jingdaoese artist [[Sunada Minoru]], as commemoration of her 40th year on the Mango Throne.]]
'''Salome''' (''Salome Ylva Octavia [[Ayreon-Kalirion]] ibn al-Majeed [[House of Osman|al-Osman]] bin [[Emir of Sathrati|Sathrati]] of [[Waffel-Paine]]'', born b. 17.VII.1665 in [[Raynor's Keep]]) is the current [[kaiser]]ess of [[Shireroth]] since the [[Kalirion Fracture]] of 1671, Queen of [[Ransenar]], Emira of [[Sathrati]], and Sardar of [[Talenore]]. She was the [[Rulers of Chryse|Queen and Exarch]] of [[Chryse]] from 1687 to 1690, when Chryse joined [[Elwynn]], and [[Head of state (Batavia)|Steward of the Throne]] (''Staatshouder'') of [[Batavia]] (1685–1691).


'''Salome''' (''Salome Ylva Octavia [[Ayreon-Kalirion]] ibn al-Majeed [[House of Osman|al-Osman]] bin [[Emir of Sathrati|Sathrati]] of [[Waffel-Paine]]'', born b. 17.VII.1665 in [[Raynor's Keep]]) is the current [[kaiser]]ess of [[Shireroth]] since the [[Kalirion Fracture]] of 1671, Queen of [[Ransenar]], Emira of [[Sathrati]], and Sardar of [[Talenore]]. Daughter of [[Kaiser Ayreon IV]] and his concubine Lady [[Isidora IV of Octavius-Teleni]], she became [[kaiseress]] at the age of 6 after her father was murdered. Due to her young age, regents governed in her place until she came of age at 15 in mid-1680. Her regent in Shireroth was Lady Mira III Octavius-Aryani, Countess of Shirekeep, a relative through the [[Octavius|House of Octavius]]. In [[Talenore]], the Speaker of the National Assembly Leila Merhaban served concurrently as regent.  
Daughter of [[Kaiser Ayreon IV]] and his concubine Lady [[Isidora IV of Octavius-Teleni]], she became [[kaiseress]] at the age of 6 after her father was murdered. Due to her accession to the Kaisership at such a young age, regents governed in her place until she came of age at 15 in mid-1680. Her regent in Shireroth was Lady [[Octavius|Mira III Octavius-Aryani]], [[Countess of Shirekeep]], a relative through the [[Octavius|House of Octavius]]. In [[Talenore]], the Speaker of the National Assembly Leila Merhaban served concurrently as regent.  


== Name ==
== Name ==
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The given name ''Salome'' is intended to honour her father's predecessor and grandmother, [[Kaiseress Noor]], who took on the epithet ''as-Salaam'' ("of the peace" in Baatharzi). Salome is also an Elw given name, taken from the shared Ashkenatzi-Elw mythology, and is related to ''as-Salaam''. By tradition, many members of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion have at least one Elw name taken from the Ashkenatzi holy book. ''Ylva'' ([[Normark|Norse]] for wolfess) honours her father's mother, [[Liv Djupvik]], who was brave as a wolf during her life.
The given name ''Salome'' is intended to honour her father's predecessor and grandmother, [[Kaiseress Noor]], who took on the epithet ''as-Salaam'' ("of the peace" in Baatharzi). Salome is also an Elw given name, taken from the shared Ashkenatzi-Elw mythology, and is related to ''as-Salaam''. By tradition, many members of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion have at least one Elw name taken from the Ashkenatzi holy book. ''Ylva'' ([[Normark|Norse]] for wolfess) honours her father's mother, [[Liv Djupvik]], who was brave as a wolf during her life.
While in the company of Laqs, Salome insists on being addressed as ''Mamyr Aslanpxu'', with the familiaritive ''Zauśypxu'' ([[Red Laqi Language|RL.]] "War-sister") among those who have earned [[Laqs#Prestige|ł'yġe]] under her service. In 1699 AN, this was augmented to that of ''Mamyr Aslanpxu Oktoeion'', to reflect her membership in the newly created Clan Oktoeion.


== Family and genealogy ==
== Family and genealogy ==
: ''See also [[Salome/Descent from Kaiser Raynor I|Descent from Kaiser Raynor I]]''


=== Family ===
=== Family ===
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=== Paternal side ===
=== Paternal side ===


Her father is the late [[Kaiser Ayreon IV]] (1645–1671, reigned 1650–1671), none of whose parents are still alive. Ayreon IV was the son of [[Adam Anushiruwân|Prince Adam of Shireroth]] (1630–1650) and his wife Liv Djupvik (1615–1663) (later known as Liv Dravot). His father, Adam, had a twin brother, Aldin (b. 1630), who is still alive and who has two children together with his wife Lady Li Naomiai (b. 1627), Prince [[David Ayreon-Kalirion|David]] (b. 1657) and Princess [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]] (b. 1662). His mother Liv Djupvik descends paternally from [[Hurmu]] and maternally from [[Normark]].
Her father is the late [[Kaiser Ayreon IV]] (1645–1671, reigned 1650–1671), none of whose parents are still alive. Ayreon IV was the son of [[Adam Anushiruwân|Prince Adam of Shireroth]] (1630–1650) and his wife [[Liv Djupvik]] (1615–1663) (later known as Liv Dravot). His father, Adam, had a twin brother, [[Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion|Aldin]] (b. 1630), who is still alive and who has two children together with his wife Lady Li Naomiai (b. 1627), Prince [[David Ayreon-Kalirion|David]] (b. 1657) and Princess [[Abigail Ayreon-Kalirion|Abigail]] (b. 1662). His mother Liv Djupvik descends paternally from [[Hurmu]] and maternally from [[Normark]].


Salome's paternal grandfather Adam is the eldest son of [[shire:Kaiseress Noor|Kaiseress Noor]] of Shireroth (1604–1650; reigned 1644–1650). Noor was married twice, first with the former Natopian emperor, Prince Nathaniel (1686–1632), with whom she had four quadruplets, Princes Adam, Aldin, Rostam and Arn. Adam murdered his brothers Rostam and Arn 1639 as well as his mother in 1650. Noor's second marriage was with King Noah of Elwynn, with whom she had two children, Prince [[Villy Esposito|Vilhjalm of Amokolia]] (1635– ) and Princess [[Esther of Anglia]] (b. 1638). The marriage with Noah was posthumoustly annulled, and Vilhjalm and Esther lost their noble and imperial titles in Shireroth. Vilhjalm, now known as Villy, underwent castration and contracted loyal subjecthood in Shireroth in what many people outside Shireroth term the [[Froyalanish genocide]]. Esther of Anglia currently lives in Stormark in exile.
Salome's paternal grandfather Adam is the eldest son of [[shire:Kaiseress Noor|Kaiseress Noor]] of Shireroth (1604–1650; reigned 1644–1650). Noor was married twice, first with the former Natopian emperor, Prince Nathaniel (1686–1632), with whom she had four quadruplets, Princes Adam, Aldin, Rostam and Arn. Adam murdered his brothers Rostam and Arn 1639 as well as his mother in 1650. Noor's second marriage was with King [[Noah of Elwynn]], with whom she had two children, Prince [[Villy Esposito|Vilhjalm of Amokolia]] (1635–1685) and Princess [[Esther of Anglia]] (b. 1638). The marriage with Noah was posthumoustly annulled, and Vilhjalm and Esther lost their noble and imperial titles in Shireroth. Vilhjalm, now known as Villy, underwent castration and contracted loyal subjecthood in Shireroth in what many people outside Shireroth term the [[Froyalanish genocide]]. He was later transferred to Francia in a peace agreement, and resettled in Stormark. He is believed to have perished in 1685. Esther of Anglia currently lives in [[Arbor]], having adopted the name [[Fatima of Arbor|Fatima]], where she is Emira consort.


On Kaiseress Noor's paternal side, Kaiseress Salome is a direct descendant of Prince [[shire:Daniel Simrani-Kalirion|Daniel Simrani]] (1574–1571, who ruled Elwynn 1607–1613) and [[Rashid Arsalani|Rashid Arsalani-Kalirion (Kaiser Ayreon I)]] (1450–1544, who ruled as Shahanshah of Babkha 1529-1541 and Kaiser of Shireroth 1542–1544). It is through Rashid's mother Tuuler Kalirion (1420–1512), daughter of Prince Paul of Brookshire, that Salome traces her primary lineage back to [[shire:Kaiser Raynor I|Kaiser Raynor I]].  
On Kaiseress Noor's paternal side, Kaiseress Salome is a direct descendant of Prince [[Daniel Simrani-Kalirion|Daniel Simrani]] (1574–1631, who ruled Elwynn 1607–1613) and [[Kaiser Ayreon I|Rashid Arsalani-Kalirion (Kaiser Ayreon I)]] (1450–1544, who ruled as [[Shah of Babkha|Shahanshah of Babkha]] 1529-1541 and Kaiser of Shireroth 1542–1544). It is through Rashid's mother [[Tuuler Kalir|Tuuler Kalirion]] (1420–1512), daughter of Prince Paul of Brookshire, that Salome traces her primary lineage back to [[Kaiser Raynor I]].  


Among her ancestors are five Kaisers ([[Kaiser Ayreon|Ayreon]], [[shire:Kaiser Aurangzeb|Aurangzeb]], [[shire:Kaiser Ayreon II|Ayreon II]], [[shire:Kaiseress Noor|Noor]], [[Ayreon IV]]), 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).
Among her more immediate ancestors are five Kaisers ([[Kaiser Ayreon|Ayreon]], [[Kaiser Aurangzeb|Aurangzeb]], [[Kaiser Ayreon II|Ayreon II]], [[Kaiseress Noor|Noor]], [[Ayreon IV]]), four Babkhan shahanshahs (Ardashir, Tahmaseb, Rashid, Osman), and two Natopian emperors (Nathan, Nathaniel), as well as rulers from Elwynn (6), Brookshire (2), and Goldshire (2).


She belongs to the imperial houses of [[Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Osman]] and [[Waffel-Paine]], and to the Shirerithian Imperial bloodlines of [[shire:Line of Ayreon-Kalirion|Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[shire:Line of Steffki|Steffki]] and [[shire:Octavius|Octavius]].
She belongs to the imperial houses of [[Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Osman]] and [[Waffel-Paine]]. In terms of imperial genealogy, she can trace her descent to [[Kaiser Raynor I]] through her membership in the bloodlines of [[Ayreon-Kalirion]], [[Kalir]], [[Steffki]] and [[Octavius]]. In the most senior genealogical line from [[Kaiser Raynor I|Raynor]], she belongs to the sixtieth generation of descent from [[Kaiser Raynor I]]. These three have academically been referred to as the [[Line of Ayreon-Kalirion-Steffki-Octavius]].


== Early Life ==
== Early Life ==
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== Rule ==
== Rule ==


In preparation for her coronation, Salome spent three days of strict fasting and prayer at the [[Holodomatic School|Holodomatic nome]] at Raynor's Keep, ritually purified and initiated into the school as a syndomate. On 17.VII.1680, Salome reached the age of majority in accordance with the Charter, and was invested in the full authority of the Golden Mango Throne. As part of her coronation, she appointed three new members to the Landsraad and named [[Chrysostom Wythe]] the first [[wiki:Steward|Steward]] of her reign proper.
In preparation for her coronation, Salome spent three days of strict fasting and prayer at the [[Holodomatic School|Holodomatic nome]] at Raynor's Keep, ritually purified and initiated into the school as a syndomate. On 17.VII.1680, Salome reached the age of majority in accordance with the Charter, and was invested in the full authority of the Golden Mango Throne. As part of her coronation, she appointed three new members to the Landsraad and named [[Chrysostom Wythe]] the first [[Steward]] of her reign proper.
 
In 1685, following the Batavian Revolution, the joint assembly of Batavia, in an attempt to improve its diplomatic position, offered the crown of Batavia to Kaiseress Salome. On 17.VI.1686, the [[Imperial Advisory Council]] gave Salome its approval of accepting the Batavian offer of the crown, and the [[Landsraad]] resolved two days later the same. The matter was immediately communicated to the Batavian ambassador in Shireroth in an audience with the Kaiseress. Her coronation as Steward of the Throne (Staatsholder) of Batavia occurred in ....
 


===Government===
===Government===
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! Steward
! Steward
| 1680– || [[Chrysostom Wythe]] || [[Viscount Holly-Wythe]] ||  
| 1680– || [[Chrysostom Wythe]] || [[Count of Woodshire]] ||  
|-
|-
! Minister of State
! rowspan="2" | Minister of State
| 1672- || Caleb Sarrick || Lord Sarrick ||  
| 1672–1684 || Caleb Sarrick || Lord Sarrick ||  
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for the Fiscus || 1678- || Ms Naïs Szodarvs || Zir Hælsans ||
| 1684– || [[Evgeniya Sotnikova]] || [[Viscountess of Hope]] ||  
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for Defence || 1672- || Heinz Łatþig-Sur || Zir Hælsans ||
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for the Fiscus || 1678– || Ms Naïs Szodarvs || Zir Hælsans ||
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for Rites and Citizenship || 1672- || Iddo Neriui || Patrician ||
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="2" | Commissioner for Defence || 1672–1684 || Heinz Łatþig-Sur || Zir Hælsans ||
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for Public Works || 1680- || [[Evgeniya Sotnikova]] || [[Viscountess of Hope]] ||
| 1684– || Liese Aethonia || Lady Aethonius ||
|-
|-
! Minister of the Exterior
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="2" | Commissioner for Rites and Citizenship || 1672–1684 || Iddo Neriui || Lady Neriui ||
| 1672- || Chrysostom Wythe || Viscount Holly-Wythe || ''position held concurrently with Office of Steward''
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for International Trade || 1670- || [[Aloys Serratus]] || Patrician ||
| 1684– || Heinz Łatþig-Sur || Mr Heinz Łatþig-Sur ||
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for the Raspur Pact || 1675- || Aes Bonna || Laeszus u Zir Hælsans ||
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="2" | Commissioner for Public Works || 1680–1684 || [[Evgeniya Sotnikova]] || [[Viscountess of Hope]] ||
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for International Cooperation || 1670- || Daniel Mortis du Grifos || Lord Mortis du Grifos ||
| 1684– || Derok Aezjor || Mr Derok Aezjor ||
|-
|-
! Chamberlain of the Household
! rowspan="2" | Minister of the Exterior
| 1667– || Isidora of Octavius-Teleni || The Imperial Mother || ''Mother of the Kaiseress''
| 1672–1684 || [[Chrysostom Wythe]] || Viscount Holly-Wythe || ''position held concurrently with Office of Steward''
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Master of Pages || 1667- || Sintsza Aneï || Seniormost Adept ||
| 1684– || [[Aloys Serratus]] || Lord Serratus ||  
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Master of Endowments || 1680- || Mari Eiskar || Senior Adept ||
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="2" | Commissioner for International Trade || 1670–1684 || [[Aloys Serratus]] || Lord Serratus ||
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Dean of the Dirâsat-an-Nûr || 1680- || Alejian Kaukainen || Frainan Uihmanzis (retired) ||
| 1684– || Kai bi-Folłur-Tuifals || Lord Folłur ||
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for the Crypteia || 1658- || Qadesh Marozzi || Salbnan (retired) ||
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for the Raspur Pact || 1675– || Aes Bonna || Laeszus u Zir Hælsans ||
|}
 
===Imperial Decrees===
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Decrees issued by Salome as Kaiseress of Shireroth.
 
{| class=wikitable
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! Short Title
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="2" | Commissioner for International Cooperation || 1670–1684 || Daniel Mortis du Grifos || Lord Mortis du Grifos ||
! Issue Date
! Content
|-
|-
| [[Imperial Decrees (Shireroth)/Imperial Circles|Imperial Circles]]
| 1684– || Awaz Rahimdokht || Ms Awaz Rahimdokht ||
| 22.VIII.1680
| Creation of Imperial Circles for Brookshire, appointment of Lord Lieutenants
|-
|-
| [[Imperial Decrees (Shireroth)/Wythe I Government|Wythe Government]]
! Chamberlain of the Household
| 23.VIII.1680
| 1667– || [[Isidora IV of Octavius-Teleni|Isidora of Octavius-Teleni]] || The Imperial Mother || ''Mother of the Kaiseress''
| Appointment of senior government positions for Wythe Stewardship
|-
|-
| [[Imperial Decrees (Shireroth)/Treason Of Isenbury|Treason of Isenbury]]
| style="text-align:center" | Master of Pages || 1667- || Sintsza Aneï || Seniormost Adept ||
| 18.IX.1680
| Address to the city leaders of Isenbury<br />offers amnesty for the crime of resisting Imperial authority in the body of Lord Lieutenant Ameunin<br />Ultimatum to submit to Imperial authority by 1.X.1680
|-
|-
| [[Imperial Decrees (Shireroth)/Of Much Mercy|Of Much Mercy]]
| style="text-align:center" | Master of Endowments || 1680- || Mari Eiskar || Senior Adept ||
| 10.XIII.1681
| Address to those who have received mercy and those who have scorned it<br />Grants to loyal Laqs
|-
|-
| [[Imperial Decrees (Shireroth)/Approval of Marriage|Approval of Marriage]]
| style="text-align:center" | Dean of the Dirâsat-an-Nûr || 1680- || Alejian Kaukainen || Frainan Uihmanzis (retired) ||
| 1.I.1682
| Approval for the marriage between David Raion and Mariette, Princess of San Martín
|-
|-
| [[Imperial Decrees (Shireroth)/Dispensation for Entry|Dispensation for Entry]]
| style="text-align:center" | Commissioner for the Crypteia || 1658- || Qadesh Marozzi || Salbnan (retired) ||
| 8.II.1682
| Dispensation from the regular order to permit members of the [[Imperial Expedition to Crestfall]] to pass through the Bâb-an-Nûr during the triumphal procession irrespective of rank
|}
|}


===Ducal Decrees===
===Decrees===
 
[[Imperial Decrees (Shireroth)#Salome|Decrees issued by Salome as Kaiseress of Shireroth]]


Decrees issued by Salome as Duchess of Brookshire.
Decrees issued by Salome as Duchess of Brookshire:


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== Titles ==
===Relationship with the Laqs===
 
Salome has built much of Shireroth's ascent from the depths of the Fracture atop support from the [[Ŝḥenĉeł'yh]]. Her relationship with the Laqs began as merely financial, with representatives from the House of Octavius providing the necessary training, weaponry, and equipment to build the Ŝḥenĉeł'yh into a viable mercenary force. Its leadership was reluctant to receive direct operational orders from a young and inexperienced war leader, but warmed to her during the [[Imperial Expedition to Crestfall]]. She earned multiple counts of [[Laqs#Prestige|ł'yġe]] disarming and overpowering an assassin sent by the [[Brookshire Anti-Alienation League]], receiving supplicants and avenging their comrades, and leading Laqs on the battlefield.
 
Salome made a concerted effort to the learn the [[Red Laqi language|Laqi language]] at great difficulty, due to its unusual structure, paid into the Ŝḥenĉeł'yh as a war leader on its council in order to assemble her own formation, the ''Tyġoryġwh'' ([[Red Laqi Language|RL.]] "The Eagle-Owls"), and adopted the modified Laq dress of Ŝḥenĉeł'yh battledress while outside of the Imperial Court. By the end of the [[Imperial Expedition to the Guttuli]], Salome had assembled a personal guard of Laqs, the ''Tyġoryġu Pesak'oh'' to travel with her in all settings, to supplement the Palatini Corps life guards. To satisfy the decorum of the Imperial Court, she issued them dress uniforms for use in Shirekeep, and ordered the construction of barracks in Raynor's Keep for them to maintain as a permanent headquarters in the capital.
 
At the first convening of the enlarged [[Landsraad]], in mid-1688 AN, the contingent of newly-elevated Laqi leaders invited Salome to attend a '' Pšyhem ia Has'', to be held in the Field of H'Graa outside Maltenstein. At that council, the attending princes made a covenant with her, naming her ''Laqezeć' Ćadzyx'' ([[Red Laqi Language|RL.]] "Sovereign among All Laq"). Unaffiliated Laq clans issued statements complaining of the arrogant presumption, and insisted that there has been no sovereign over All-Laq since the dawn years and that there will never be one until the sunset years.
 
Until her elevation to Sovereign of All Laq, Salome's social role within Laqi circles had been that of an independent warlord, a position typical of a charismatic and militarily-effective Laq who lacked a traditional clan powerbase. With her Laqi powerbase primarily rooted in her ability to lead and secure wealth for her followers, Salome had effectively become a nouveau-riche power broker with a sizable retinue of peers.
 
Following her elevation, however, Salome found that she was now without peers and newly-isolated. Princes found themselves hesitant to treat with her as one to a warrior leader, but, because Salome lacked the trappings of a clan, clans could not treat with her as one clan to another. Her attendance during the following few years at Laq [[Laqs#Feasts|feasts]] diminished, except for those conducted by [[Lyn Ityqu]], who refused to change his demeanor towards her.
 
In 1693 AN, shortly after [[Imperial_Decrees_(Shireroth)/A_Just_Recompense|disinheriting her younger brother]], Salome issued an invitation to all the clans that had established their courts in [[Brookshire]] and the [[Guttuli]] for a great feast ([[Red Laqi language|RL.]] ''Ieśheieśuŝho''), to be held in the fields of Montran. The [[Great Feast of 1693]] would be the largest gathering of Laqi magnates since Salome's elevation to Sovereign of All Laq and the first gathering in which Salome served as a master of ceremonies. At the event, Salome was seen imbibing an excess of alcohol, complaining about the fickleness of her brother, made a pass at more than a few high-prestige warriors, and had to be helped outside of the festal boundary in order to vomit.
 
In the last days of 1698 AN, Salome retreated to the woods near [[Montran]] and camped with [[Lyn Ityqu]] and his family. During this retreat, they discussed Salome's increasingly fraught relationship with the Laqi clans, who were becoming restless during the long peace, and who lacked a proper mechanism to relate with her in their terms.
 
In early 1699 AN, Salome summoned Bethany V of Octavius-Leilani, who had been one of the few members of the House of Octavius to fully-support her work, especially with the Laqs, to Montran, as well as four additional hand-picked clan princes from Brookshire. Once all had arrived, Bethany was created Prince of Oktoeion, with the Manor of Montran and its attached lands and properties granted to the new clan. Bethany's skills in the Laqi arts were confirmed (with some effort), and then the five other attending princes offered up Laqs to be retainers to the new clan prince; these candidates demonstrated their skills in the usual manner and the top ten were invited to swear oaths to the Prince of Oktoeion. Salome also provided chosen members of the Eagle-Owls ([[Red Laqi language|RL.]] ''Tyġoryġwh'') to swear oaths to Bethany. This was in order to substitute for her lack of retainers in the traditional sense; under normal circumstances, Salome, as the creator of the new clan, would also have been expected to offer up Laqs to the new prince. Since she had had no clan affiliation up until this point, however, those who had served under her had instead invested their whole glory with their home clans (like Lyn Ityqu, whose successes under Salome made him powerful enough to be made a clan prince in his own right).
 
At the close of this impromptu feast, Salome issued a directive, whose veracity would be confirmed by the six princes present, that the clans were to communicate with their Sovereign Among All Laqs through the new Clan Oktoeion, within which Salome would now be counted and name. Before leaving Montran, Salome and Lyn discretely suggested some potential suitors among the more cultured Laqi nobility for Bethany to consider for a ''Hak'o'' ([[Red Laqi language|RL.]] lit. "stallion", in this context a Laq expected only to provide strong stock and lacks rights or obligations to the child; typically used in the exceedingly rare cases where a woman is invested as a clan prince). Bethany ultimately chose Zmicier Ianqu Ẑylyŝĉ, a [[Laqs#Green Laqs|Green Laq]] who had served as a subaltern in the [[Imperial Expedition to Crestfall]] before being elected to the Kehl. On 20.IX.1702, Bethany and Zmicier named their newborn son Baġden. His purpose fulfilled, Zmicier thereafter made the case to his prince that he should remain attached to Prince Bethany, in order that Clan Ẑylyŝĉ may attain a position of preference with Clan Oktoeion.
 
===Relationship with the Imperial Family===
 
Salome's early years were defined by constraint from the Imperial Mother, whose protectiveness during the early years of the [[Kalirion Fracture]] ventured into paranoia. As soon as Salome reached majority, she instituted a restructuring of the imperial government so as to decrease her mother's direct authority, and took on every opportunity to be away from [[Shirekeep]] "on business" to avoid her. This desire to keep distance also influenced Salome's management if the Imperial Family; apprehensive about becoming like her mother, Salome sought to arrange marriages for her younger siblings, so that they would be the conduit through whom the [[Line of Ayreon-Kalirion]] would continue.
 
These plots came to a head in 1693 AN, when Salome arranged a meeting with the [[Co-Monarchs of Drak-Modan]], [[John Hilding Waffel-Paine]] and [[Loki Drakspunk]], with the goal of cementing relations between [[Shireroth]] and [[Drak-Modan]] through a marriage between [[Prince Kir of Shireroth|her brother Kir]] and [[Lisa Starshade]], a member of Drak-Modan's royal house. Instead, Salome found out that Kir had already contracted a marriage without her approval, in direct contradiction to house law, and that he refused to break that contract for a legitimate marriage that would produce heirs to the Golden Mango Throne.
 
In response, Salome complied with the law and disinherited her brother, and then took steps to help arrange a marriage for her next brother, [[Prince Rubin of Shireroth]]. This was successful, and the Order of Succession began to fill out again for the first time since the three siblings were born.
 
In 1698 AN, Rubin arranged a meeting between Salome and Kir and Kir's family, in the hope that this would help mend the breach. While Salome's heart was softened, her actions to mend the rift inadvertently left Kir's ego bruised, resulting his own actions taken to deepen the rift between the two of them further. Salome instructed her staff to cancel any appointments or events for the remainder of the year, then travelled to [[Montran]] to get wasted.
 
== Titles and Arms ==


1665–present: [[Sathrati|Emira of Sathrati]], Progeny of the Once-Living God, Lady of the Holy Lakes, Scion of the King of Kings
1665–present: [[Sathrati|Emira of Sathrati]], [[Viscount Audon of Varmland|Lady Baroness of Varmland]], [[Lady in Jorvik]], Progeny of the Once-Living God, [[Lady of the Holy Lakes]], Scion of the King of Kings


1671–present: Kaiseress of [[Shireroth]], Rani of [[Tas Neemia]], Duchess of Brookshire, Duchess of Chestnut, Princess of [[Hurmu]], [[Order of the Holy Lakes|Princess among the Lakes]], Duchess of [[New Aquitane]], Marchioness of [[Zy-Rodun]], Khanum of Caer Lum'ruush, Countess of Upper Macon, Countess of Andiopolis, Countess of Dracoheim, Countess of Istvan, Baroness of Port Mills, Lady of Zauberförde/Senkyōwan, Lady in [[Jorvik]], Progeny of the Once-Living God, Scion of the King of Kings, Thane of the Shirelands, Keeper of the Apollo Legacy, Grand Master of the Orders of the Dragon, Griffin, Phoenix, and Chimera, Sovereign of the Golden Mango Throne, Lord Mayor of the City of Vladagrad
1671–present: Kaiseress of [[Shireroth]], Rani of [[Tas Neemia]], [[Duchess of Brookshire]], Duchess of Chestnut, Princess of [[Hurmu]], [[Order of the Holy Lakes|Princess among the Lakes]], Duchess of [[New Aquitane]], Marchioness of [[Zy-Rodun]], Khanum of Caer Lum'ruush, Countess of Upper Macon, Countess of Andiopolis, Countess of Dracoheim, Countess of Istvan, Baroness of Port Mills, Lady of [[Senkyōwan|Zauberförde/Senkyōwan]], Progeny of the Once-Living God, Scion of the King of Kings, Thane of the Shirelands, Keeper of the Apollo Legacy, Grand Master of the Orders of the Dragon, Griffin, Phoenix, and Chimera, Sovereign of the Golden Mango Throne, Lord Mayor of the City of Vladagrad


1673–present: Queen of [[Ransenar]]
1673–present: Queen of [[Ransenar]]


1674-present: Sardar of [[Talenore]]
1674-present: Sardar of [[Talenore]]
1686–1691: [[Staatsholder]] of [[Batavia]] (''Staatshouder van Batavië'')
1688–present: [[Laqs#Sovereign|Sovereign of All Laq]]
=== Coat of arms ===
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| 1671– || [[File:Arms Zy-Rodun2.png|75px]] || As [[Marchioness of Zy-Rodun]] ||
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| 1671– || [[File:BrookshireCOA.png|75px]] || As [[Duchess of Brookshire]] ||
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| 1671– || [[File:Emperor_Nathaniel_Personal.png|75px]] || As Duchess of Cheshunt, Countess of Upper Macon, Countess of [[Andiopolis]], Countess of Dracoheim, Countess of Istvan, Baroness of Port Mills, Lady of [[Zauberförde|Zauberförde/Senkyōwan]] ||
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| 1671– || [[File:Newaquitanecoa.png|75px]] || As [[Saint Christopher's|Duchess of New Aquitane]] || On a black shield, Saint Christopher, wearing a red loincloth, crossing a river, carrying the Messiah, in red garments, on his shoulder, the Saint carrying a golden staff in one hand and the Messiah holding a golden orb
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| 1671– || [[File:Hurmu_coat_of_arms.png|75px]] || As [[Order of the Holy Lakes|Princess of Hurmu, Princess among the Lakes]] || Use of the [[coat of arms of Hurmu]], undefaced, by special licence by the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]]
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| 1671– || [[File:2017TasNeemiaCoA.png|75px]] || As [[Tas Neemia|Rani of Tas Neemia]] ||
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=== Former titles ===
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Latest revision as of 12:43, 16 December 2023

Salome
Salome Ylva Octavia
Salome.1688.png
Kaiser of Shireroth
Began 12.VIII.1671 (59 years ago)
Predecessor Kaiser Ayreon IV
Successor (Heir presumptive: Kian Aiomide Shahnaz)
Steward


Regent or Ruling Steward


Imperial Bloodline Ayreon-Kalirion
Physical description
Gender Female
Species Human
Race Mixed
Hair color and style Golden Blonde
Eye color Green
Skin color III
Biographical information
Father Kaiser Ayreon IV
Mother Isidora IV of Octavius-Teleni
Date of birth 7.VII.1665 (Age: 65 years)
Place of birth Raynor's Keep
Kaiseress Salome, painted by Jingdaoese artist Sunada Minoru, as commemoration of her 40th year on the Mango Throne.

Salome (Salome Ylva Octavia Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine, born b. 17.VII.1665 in Raynor's Keep) is the current kaiseress of Shireroth since the Kalirion Fracture of 1671, Queen of Ransenar, Emira of Sathrati, and Sardar of Talenore. She was the Queen and Exarch of Chryse from 1687 to 1690, when Chryse joined Elwynn, and Steward of the Throne (Staatshouder) of Batavia (1685–1691).

Daughter of Kaiser Ayreon IV and his concubine Lady Isidora IV of Octavius-Teleni, she became kaiseress at the age of 6 after her father was murdered. Due to her accession to the Kaisership at such a young age, regents governed in her place until she came of age at 15 in mid-1680. Her regent in Shireroth was Lady Mira III Octavius-Aryani, Countess of Shirekeep, a relative through the House of Octavius. In Talenore, the Speaker of the National Assembly Leila Merhaban served concurrently as regent.

Name

Upon her birth, she was given the surname Ayreon-Kalirion ibn al-Majeed al-Osman bin Sathrati of Waffel-Paine which speaks of her genealogy. With the rank of her mother (despite belonging to an imperial bloodline herself) not being sufficient enough, as the mother was not an imperial consort but a concubine, the Imperial Court deemed that the House of Octavius needed not be considered a dynastic surname of the young kaiseress-to-be. Kaiser Ayreon IV, however, decided to honour that house by giving Salome the third given name Octavia.

The given name Salome is intended to honour her father's predecessor and grandmother, Kaiseress Noor, who took on the epithet as-Salaam ("of the peace" in Baatharzi). Salome is also an Elw given name, taken from the shared Ashkenatzi-Elw mythology, and is related to as-Salaam. By tradition, many members of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion have at least one Elw name taken from the Ashkenatzi holy book. Ylva (Norse for wolfess) honours her father's mother, Liv Djupvik, who was brave as a wolf during her life.

While in the company of Laqs, Salome insists on being addressed as Mamyr Aslanpxu, with the familiaritive Zauśypxu (RL. "War-sister") among those who have earned ł'yġe under her service. In 1699 AN, this was augmented to that of Mamyr Aslanpxu Oktoeion, to reflect her membership in the newly created Clan Oktoeion.

Family and genealogy

See also Descent from Kaiser Raynor I

Family

Her father is the late Kaiser Ayreon IV. He had three more children, the twins Prince Kir and Princess Kian (b. 1667) and the posthumously born Prince Rubin (b. 1671). Her mother is Lady Isidora IV of Octavius-Teleni, her father's concubine. Her father had also a husband, Emperor Nathan II of Natopia, who is the Dowager Imperial Consort of Shireroth, and one courtesan, Jaap van Pijpervale. Nathan II acts as a stepfather for her, while Jaap was denied all contact with her since her ascension to the throne in 1671.

Paternal side

Her father is the late Kaiser Ayreon IV (1645–1671, reigned 1650–1671), none of whose parents are still alive. Ayreon IV was the son of Prince Adam of Shireroth (1630–1650) and his wife Liv Djupvik (1615–1663) (later known as Liv Dravot). His father, Adam, had a twin brother, Aldin (b. 1630), who is still alive and who has two children together with his wife Lady Li Naomiai (b. 1627), Prince David (b. 1657) and Princess Abigail (b. 1662). His mother Liv Djupvik descends paternally from Hurmu and maternally from Normark.

Salome's paternal grandfather Adam is the eldest son of Kaiseress Noor of Shireroth (1604–1650; reigned 1644–1650). Noor was married twice, first with the former Natopian emperor, Prince Nathaniel (1686–1632), with whom she had four quadruplets, Princes Adam, Aldin, Rostam and Arn. Adam murdered his brothers Rostam and Arn 1639 as well as his mother in 1650. Noor's second marriage was with King Noah of Elwynn, with whom she had two children, Prince Vilhjalm of Amokolia (1635–1685) and Princess Esther of Anglia (b. 1638). The marriage with Noah was posthumoustly annulled, and Vilhjalm and Esther lost their noble and imperial titles in Shireroth. Vilhjalm, now known as Villy, underwent castration and contracted loyal subjecthood in Shireroth in what many people outside Shireroth term the Froyalanish genocide. He was later transferred to Francia in a peace agreement, and resettled in Stormark. He is believed to have perished in 1685. Esther of Anglia currently lives in Arbor, having adopted the name Fatima, where she is Emira consort.

On Kaiseress Noor's paternal side, Kaiseress Salome is a direct descendant of Prince Daniel Simrani (1574–1631, who ruled Elwynn 1607–1613) and Rashid Arsalani-Kalirion (Kaiser Ayreon I) (1450–1544, who ruled as Shahanshah of Babkha 1529-1541 and Kaiser of Shireroth 1542–1544). It is through Rashid's mother Tuuler Kalirion (1420–1512), daughter of Prince Paul of Brookshire, that Salome traces her primary lineage back to Kaiser Raynor I.

Among her more immediate ancestors are five Kaisers (Ayreon, Aurangzeb, Ayreon II, Noor, Ayreon IV), four Babkhan shahanshahs (Ardashir, Tahmaseb, Rashid, Osman), and two Natopian emperors (Nathan, Nathaniel), as well as rulers from Elwynn (6), Brookshire (2), and Goldshire (2).

She belongs to the imperial houses of Ayreon-Kalirion, Osman and Waffel-Paine. In terms of imperial genealogy, she can trace her descent to Kaiser Raynor I through her membership in the bloodlines of Ayreon-Kalirion, Kalir, Steffki and Octavius. In the most senior genealogical line from Raynor, she belongs to the sixtieth generation of descent from Kaiser Raynor I. These three have academically been referred to as the Line of Ayreon-Kalirion-Steffki-Octavius.

Early Life

The first six years of Salome's life were spent between Raynor's Keep and the Montran Estate, under the watchful eye of her mother, Isidora IV of Octavius-Teleni, who had been elevated to Chamberlain of the Imperial Household in 1667 AN. During the fateful days that began the Kalirion Fracture, the Imperial Family were in the County Palatine of Kezan. On 12.VII.1671 AN, Salome inherited the Golden Mango Throne upon the announced death of her father. The decision is made by the Chamberlain and Imperial Mother for the child Kaiseress to temporarily remain in Kezan for her safety. Salome spends the next three and a half years there.

On 8.II.1675 AN, the Kaiseress finally returned to Benacia, the political landscape having radically changed, in order to participate in her coronation as Queen of Ransenar, one of the post-Shirerithian states that had developed in what had been Goldshire. A month later, she returned with the Imperial Court to Raynor's Keep, where she lived for the last five years of her regency.

Rule

In preparation for her coronation, Salome spent three days of strict fasting and prayer at the Holodomatic nome at Raynor's Keep, ritually purified and initiated into the school as a syndomate. On 17.VII.1680, Salome reached the age of majority in accordance with the Charter, and was invested in the full authority of the Golden Mango Throne. As part of her coronation, she appointed three new members to the Landsraad and named Chrysostom Wythe the first Steward of her reign proper.

In 1685, following the Batavian Revolution, the joint assembly of Batavia, in an attempt to improve its diplomatic position, offered the crown of Batavia to Kaiseress Salome. On 17.VI.1686, the Imperial Advisory Council gave Salome its approval of accepting the Batavian offer of the crown, and the Landsraad resolved two days later the same. The matter was immediately communicated to the Batavian ambassador in Shireroth in an audience with the Kaiseress. Her coronation as Steward of the Throne (Staatsholder) of Batavia occurred in ....


Government

Wythe Stewardship

Title Tenure Name Titled Comment
Steward 1680– Chrysostom Wythe Count of Woodshire
Minister of State 1672–1684 Caleb Sarrick Lord Sarrick
1684– Evgeniya Sotnikova Viscountess of Hope
Commissioner for the Fiscus 1678– Ms Naïs Szodarvs Zir Hælsans
Commissioner for Defence 1672–1684 Heinz Łatþig-Sur Zir Hælsans
1684– Liese Aethonia Lady Aethonius
Commissioner for Rites and Citizenship 1672–1684 Iddo Neriui Lady Neriui
1684– Heinz Łatþig-Sur Mr Heinz Łatþig-Sur
Commissioner for Public Works 1680–1684 Evgeniya Sotnikova Viscountess of Hope
1684– Derok Aezjor Mr Derok Aezjor
Minister of the Exterior 1672–1684 Chrysostom Wythe Viscount Holly-Wythe position held concurrently with Office of Steward
1684– Aloys Serratus Lord Serratus
Commissioner for International Trade 1670–1684 Aloys Serratus Lord Serratus
1684– Kai bi-Folłur-Tuifals Lord Folłur
Commissioner for the Raspur Pact 1675– Aes Bonna Laeszus u Zir Hælsans
Commissioner for International Cooperation 1670–1684 Daniel Mortis du Grifos Lord Mortis du Grifos
1684– Awaz Rahimdokht Ms Awaz Rahimdokht
Chamberlain of the Household 1667– Isidora of Octavius-Teleni The Imperial Mother Mother of the Kaiseress
Master of Pages 1667- Sintsza Aneï Seniormost Adept
Master of Endowments 1680- Mari Eiskar Senior Adept
Dean of the Dirâsat-an-Nûr 1680- Alejian Kaukainen Frainan Uihmanzis (retired)
Commissioner for the Crypteia 1658- Qadesh Marozzi Salbnan (retired)

Decrees

Decrees issued by Salome as Kaiseress of Shireroth

Decrees issued by Salome as Duchess of Brookshire:

Short Title Issue Date Content
Brookshirene Forces 10.III.1683 Reorganization of military forces
Summoning of the Kehl 15.V.1683 Instructions to reconvene the Kehl

Relationship with the Laqs

Salome has built much of Shireroth's ascent from the depths of the Fracture atop support from the Ŝḥenĉeł'yh. Her relationship with the Laqs began as merely financial, with representatives from the House of Octavius providing the necessary training, weaponry, and equipment to build the Ŝḥenĉeł'yh into a viable mercenary force. Its leadership was reluctant to receive direct operational orders from a young and inexperienced war leader, but warmed to her during the Imperial Expedition to Crestfall. She earned multiple counts of ł'yġe disarming and overpowering an assassin sent by the Brookshire Anti-Alienation League, receiving supplicants and avenging their comrades, and leading Laqs on the battlefield.

Salome made a concerted effort to the learn the Laqi language at great difficulty, due to its unusual structure, paid into the Ŝḥenĉeł'yh as a war leader on its council in order to assemble her own formation, the Tyġoryġwh (RL. "The Eagle-Owls"), and adopted the modified Laq dress of Ŝḥenĉeł'yh battledress while outside of the Imperial Court. By the end of the Imperial Expedition to the Guttuli, Salome had assembled a personal guard of Laqs, the Tyġoryġu Pesak'oh to travel with her in all settings, to supplement the Palatini Corps life guards. To satisfy the decorum of the Imperial Court, she issued them dress uniforms for use in Shirekeep, and ordered the construction of barracks in Raynor's Keep for them to maintain as a permanent headquarters in the capital.

At the first convening of the enlarged Landsraad, in mid-1688 AN, the contingent of newly-elevated Laqi leaders invited Salome to attend a Pšyhem ia Has, to be held in the Field of H'Graa outside Maltenstein. At that council, the attending princes made a covenant with her, naming her Laqezeć' Ćadzyx (RL. "Sovereign among All Laq"). Unaffiliated Laq clans issued statements complaining of the arrogant presumption, and insisted that there has been no sovereign over All-Laq since the dawn years and that there will never be one until the sunset years.

Until her elevation to Sovereign of All Laq, Salome's social role within Laqi circles had been that of an independent warlord, a position typical of a charismatic and militarily-effective Laq who lacked a traditional clan powerbase. With her Laqi powerbase primarily rooted in her ability to lead and secure wealth for her followers, Salome had effectively become a nouveau-riche power broker with a sizable retinue of peers.

Following her elevation, however, Salome found that she was now without peers and newly-isolated. Princes found themselves hesitant to treat with her as one to a warrior leader, but, because Salome lacked the trappings of a clan, clans could not treat with her as one clan to another. Her attendance during the following few years at Laq feasts diminished, except for those conducted by Lyn Ityqu, who refused to change his demeanor towards her.

In 1693 AN, shortly after disinheriting her younger brother, Salome issued an invitation to all the clans that had established their courts in Brookshire and the Guttuli for a great feast (RL. Ieśheieśuŝho), to be held in the fields of Montran. The Great Feast of 1693 would be the largest gathering of Laqi magnates since Salome's elevation to Sovereign of All Laq and the first gathering in which Salome served as a master of ceremonies. At the event, Salome was seen imbibing an excess of alcohol, complaining about the fickleness of her brother, made a pass at more than a few high-prestige warriors, and had to be helped outside of the festal boundary in order to vomit.

In the last days of 1698 AN, Salome retreated to the woods near Montran and camped with Lyn Ityqu and his family. During this retreat, they discussed Salome's increasingly fraught relationship with the Laqi clans, who were becoming restless during the long peace, and who lacked a proper mechanism to relate with her in their terms.

In early 1699 AN, Salome summoned Bethany V of Octavius-Leilani, who had been one of the few members of the House of Octavius to fully-support her work, especially with the Laqs, to Montran, as well as four additional hand-picked clan princes from Brookshire. Once all had arrived, Bethany was created Prince of Oktoeion, with the Manor of Montran and its attached lands and properties granted to the new clan. Bethany's skills in the Laqi arts were confirmed (with some effort), and then the five other attending princes offered up Laqs to be retainers to the new clan prince; these candidates demonstrated their skills in the usual manner and the top ten were invited to swear oaths to the Prince of Oktoeion. Salome also provided chosen members of the Eagle-Owls (RL. Tyġoryġwh) to swear oaths to Bethany. This was in order to substitute for her lack of retainers in the traditional sense; under normal circumstances, Salome, as the creator of the new clan, would also have been expected to offer up Laqs to the new prince. Since she had had no clan affiliation up until this point, however, those who had served under her had instead invested their whole glory with their home clans (like Lyn Ityqu, whose successes under Salome made him powerful enough to be made a clan prince in his own right).

At the close of this impromptu feast, Salome issued a directive, whose veracity would be confirmed by the six princes present, that the clans were to communicate with their Sovereign Among All Laqs through the new Clan Oktoeion, within which Salome would now be counted and name. Before leaving Montran, Salome and Lyn discretely suggested some potential suitors among the more cultured Laqi nobility for Bethany to consider for a Hak'o (RL. lit. "stallion", in this context a Laq expected only to provide strong stock and lacks rights or obligations to the child; typically used in the exceedingly rare cases where a woman is invested as a clan prince). Bethany ultimately chose Zmicier Ianqu Ẑylyŝĉ, a Green Laq who had served as a subaltern in the Imperial Expedition to Crestfall before being elected to the Kehl. On 20.IX.1702, Bethany and Zmicier named their newborn son Baġden. His purpose fulfilled, Zmicier thereafter made the case to his prince that he should remain attached to Prince Bethany, in order that Clan Ẑylyŝĉ may attain a position of preference with Clan Oktoeion.

Relationship with the Imperial Family

Salome's early years were defined by constraint from the Imperial Mother, whose protectiveness during the early years of the Kalirion Fracture ventured into paranoia. As soon as Salome reached majority, she instituted a restructuring of the imperial government so as to decrease her mother's direct authority, and took on every opportunity to be away from Shirekeep "on business" to avoid her. This desire to keep distance also influenced Salome's management if the Imperial Family; apprehensive about becoming like her mother, Salome sought to arrange marriages for her younger siblings, so that they would be the conduit through whom the Line of Ayreon-Kalirion would continue.

These plots came to a head in 1693 AN, when Salome arranged a meeting with the Co-Monarchs of Drak-Modan, John Hilding Waffel-Paine and Loki Drakspunk, with the goal of cementing relations between Shireroth and Drak-Modan through a marriage between her brother Kir and Lisa Starshade, a member of Drak-Modan's royal house. Instead, Salome found out that Kir had already contracted a marriage without her approval, in direct contradiction to house law, and that he refused to break that contract for a legitimate marriage that would produce heirs to the Golden Mango Throne.

In response, Salome complied with the law and disinherited her brother, and then took steps to help arrange a marriage for her next brother, Prince Rubin of Shireroth. This was successful, and the Order of Succession began to fill out again for the first time since the three siblings were born.

In 1698 AN, Rubin arranged a meeting between Salome and Kir and Kir's family, in the hope that this would help mend the breach. While Salome's heart was softened, her actions to mend the rift inadvertently left Kir's ego bruised, resulting his own actions taken to deepen the rift between the two of them further. Salome instructed her staff to cancel any appointments or events for the remainder of the year, then travelled to Montran to get wasted.

Titles and Arms

1665–present: Emira of Sathrati, Lady Baroness of Varmland, Lady in Jorvik, Progeny of the Once-Living God, Lady of the Holy Lakes, Scion of the King of Kings

1671–present: Kaiseress of Shireroth, Rani of Tas Neemia, Duchess of Brookshire, Duchess of Chestnut, Princess of Hurmu, Princess among the Lakes, Duchess of New Aquitane, Marchioness of Zy-Rodun, Khanum of Caer Lum'ruush, Countess of Upper Macon, Countess of Andiopolis, Countess of Dracoheim, Countess of Istvan, Baroness of Port Mills, Lady of Zauberförde/Senkyōwan, Progeny of the Once-Living God, Scion of the King of Kings, Thane of the Shirelands, Keeper of the Apollo Legacy, Grand Master of the Orders of the Dragon, Griffin, Phoenix, and Chimera, Sovereign of the Golden Mango Throne, Lord Mayor of the City of Vladagrad

1673–present: Queen of Ransenar

1674-present: Sardar of Talenore

1686–1691: Staatsholder of Batavia (Staatshouder van Batavië)

1688–present: Sovereign of All Laq

Coat of arms

Period Picture Right Comment
1665– Arms Zy-Rodun2.png As Emira of Sathrati
1671– Arms Zy-Rodun2.png As Marchioness of Zy-Rodun
1671– BrookshireCOA.png As Duchess of Brookshire
1671– Emperor Nathaniel Personal.png As Duchess of Cheshunt, Countess of Upper Macon, Countess of Andiopolis, Countess of Dracoheim, Countess of Istvan, Baroness of Port Mills, Lady of Zauberförde/Senkyōwan
1671– Shirewikiheader1.png As Kaiseress of Shireroth See coat of arms of Shireroth
1671– Newaquitanecoa.png As Duchess of New Aquitane On a black shield, Saint Christopher, wearing a red loincloth, crossing a river, carrying the Messiah, in red garments, on his shoulder, the Saint carrying a golden staff in one hand and the Messiah holding a golden orb
1671– Hurmu coat of arms.png As Princess of Hurmu, Princess among the Lakes Use of the coat of arms of Hurmu, undefaced, by special licence by the Order of the Holy Lakes
1671– 2017TasNeemiaCoA.png As Rani of Tas Neemia

Former titles

1665–1671: Lady of the Holy Lakes
1665–1671: Imperial Princess of Shireroth
1671–1678: Queen of Normark
1687–1690: Queen and Exarch of Chryse

Former coats of arms

Period Picture Right Comment
1671–1678 NormarkCOAwiki.png As Queen of Normark
1686–1691 Arms Ayreon-Kalirion10.png As Staatsholder of Batavia Using her dynastic coat of arms as a member of the Imperial Bloodline of Ayreon-Kalirion, undefaced
1687–1690 COA Chryse.png As Queen and Exarch of Chryse
Preceded by:
Kaiser Ayreon IV
Kaiseress of Shireroth
1671–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Heir presumptive: Prince Rubin
Preceded by:
Kaiser Ayreon IV
Marchioness of Zy-Rodun
1665–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by:
Zahir al Din
Emira of Sathrati
1665–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by:
Kaiser Ayreon IV
Duchess of Brookshire
1671–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by:
Position created
Queen of Ransenar
1673–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by:
Joseph Bartholomeus des Vinandy-Windsor
Staatsholder of Batavia
1686–1691
Succeeded by
Hendrik Leopold des Vinandy as King
Preceded by:
Vidar
Queen of Normark
1671–1678
Succeeded by
Monarchy abolished
Preceded by:
Kaiser Ayreon IV
Princess of Hurmu
Princess among the Lakes
Lines of Waffel-Paine and Elijah Ayreon

1671-present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
heir-presumptive: Ichirō


Ancestry

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