Emperor Alexander Viromaro
Emperor Alexander The Peacemaker Viromaro was a Kythiran Emperor who ruled over the Kythiran Empire in the middle of the Fourth Era. He inherited an Empire that had begun to form a great many cracks after the reigns of the Three Bad Emperors. He managed to restore peace and prosperity to the realm, establishing the Pax Minecraftia that lasted for several decades, until his son, Emperor Louis Viromaro, began the Grand War.
Youth and Reign
Alexander was born as a the third son of Emperor Henry III Viromaro and younger brother to Emperor Charles II & Charles III. He was 10 when his father drowned at Summerhal Palace, and his ten year older brother Charles II took the throne. When he died at the Massacre at Summerhal at the onset of the Alcanzari Slave Rebellion, Prince Alexander was 12 years old. The Imperial Council declared that his 2 year older brother should take the throne over his niece, the crown-princess Melissa, infant daughter of Charles II.
He studied in Helmira and Ardoria. When he turned 17 years old he was ordered by his older brother, then Emperor Charles III, to join the Imperial Legion during the last year of the fight against the Alcanzari Slave Rebellion. He served as an artillery officer until the end of the war, after which he returned to Ardoria to finish his studies. When he turned 22 years old, Grand Chancellor Edward Von Roterstein was fired and replaced with Lord Vilen. As the Empire's budget started to revolve around Emperor Charles III's obsession with magic, Prince Alexander attempted to persuade his brother to fire Lord Vilen and banish the magical societies. As his brother refused, Prince Alexander plotted to save the Empire by luring Lord Vilen to a grand feast in Villa Riverside, supposedly to offer peace and as a gesture of good will gift a magical ancient relic. At the feast, the conspirators successfully killed Lord Vilen but failed at deposing the Emperor. In retaliation Emperor Charles III ordered the execution of all parties involved in the conspiracy, with the exception of Prince Alexander, as he and Charles III were the last living members of House Viromaro. Instead, he was send to a remote island in the Vestlig Sea, where he spend the last year of his brother's rule under house arrest.
After his brother, Charles III’s violent and sudden disappearance during the The Night of Lightning, Alexander was freed from the island by soldiers send by the Ardoraghi High-Lord. After staying in Ardoria for a week, he travelled east to Helmira to assume the Kythiran throne. Aged just 23, he became the 10th Kythiran Emperor.
Alexander inherited an Empire that had suffered through decades of internal issues, rebellions, crises and three bad successive emperors.
Under his leadership, he restored the unity of the Empire, gave the provinces more autonomy, freed the slaves owned by House Viromaro, established rights for slaves within the Empire, recognised the Republic of Aqumis and began restoring the destroyed White Gold Tower.
In an attempt to improve relations with the Province of Ardoragh he ordered the construction of the Skaði Palace, and held many balls in honour of House Von Roterstein. Furthermore, he insisted on his two sons, Prince Louis and Crown-Prince Amantis to study at the University of Ardoria.
For a Viromaro he lived relatively simple, usually only residing in the Imperial Palace or the Skaði Palace. He established numerous organisations to help the Empire’s poor, and upon the insistence of his son Prince Amantis, eatablished the first imperial nature reserves.
His death after ruling for forty years during a hunting accident in Ardoragh led to the death of Prince Amantis and the coronation of Emperor Louis Viromaro.
