Emperor Basileus Palatini

Portrait during the Reataliations War, fourteen years ago.

If you want it easy...                                               ...We chose the wrong side!

-The emperor's warcry to his followers, and the answer they always give.

The current emperor*, Basileus Quatre Palatini, was elected by the senate in 1405 Post-Idura, ten years ago, due to his role in ending the Retaliations War and other remarkable feats benefitting the Northern Empire. At the time, he had, and still has, great popular support. A war veteran seventy years old, fifty five of which he spent in the imperial army as a soldier and centurion, also makes him popular among the military. During his time as emperor, he showed a certain pragmatism**. Maybe due to his experiences as a soldier, he doesn't spend much in luxuries like past emperors, maintaining a reasonable humility. Physically, the emperor can compete with men half his age. Every day, he runs the entire extension of the Palatinate Walls, also verifying their condition and the militia's morale. Even so, he isn't as fast as he once was, and his enchanted panoply compensates this fact. As emperor, he has acess to a great deal of equipment and mounts, his favorite being the giant dog*** called Folkas II. His personal motto is Dum Spiro Spero, which means "As long as I draw breath, I will have hope". An unique power, supposedly acquired during the events which lead to the destruction of Ashbel, is that the emperor can invoke the souls of old companions in arms to help him during combat****.

His panoply consists of a magnecurium called "For Diana*****", with a adamantine blade; an engraved suit of armour, "Diveus Cuirass", laminated in the neomaranthine style; a personal extravagance is using simple boots instead of greaves, but it makes sense considering his past as a infantryman; a kosinbian repetition pistol and a hand mortar, besides ammunition. This equipment has powerful magics, befitting his status as the emperor of the Union of Imperial Duchies.

 

 

 

 

 

*Other titles: Granite Bear, Watcher of the Feltran Throat, Eximius Mgister Militum of the Imperial Legions, Salvator Imperium, count of Elpis, Dragonslayer, supreme commander of the Palatini Bears.

 

**A man who loves his land so much that he's willing to use what he hates to save it. They love him for helping the truce with the goblinoid tribes, for attempting to bring an end to the hate. He never stopped hating them, he just prioritized the bigger threat: Lucian. -Beatrice Palatini, the emperor's daughter in law.

 

***Of the breed called "Hamask-Shepherd", found in Yaros.

 

****In his words: "all veterans have ghosts in their pasts, but only I lead mine against dragons."

 

*****His missing daughter. It is said that she is dead, that she ran away, that she was kidnapped etc. The emperor refuses to comment on this.