Emperor William XXIII of the House Avent
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His Imperial Radiance, Firstborn Son of the Earth; Guardian of the Solar System; King of Avalon; Lord Sovereign of the Kingdom of Windsor-in-Exile; Prince Imperator of the Arms of Orion, of Sagittarius, of Perseus, and Centaurus; Magnarch of Orion; Conqueror of Norma; Grand Strategos of the Legions of the Sun; Supreme Lord of the Cities of Forum; North Star of the Constellations of the Blood Palatine; Defender of the Children of Men; and Servant of the Servants of Earth. Uganatai (False King) to the Cielcin. WILLIAM THE GREAT, the Sun of the Millenium.
Emperor William XXIII took the throne as a young man in ISD 15826 after the passing of his mother, the Empress Titania Augusta, and ruled for an unprecendented thousand-year reign—spending much of his time in transit around the Imperium, unlike most of his predecessors. He began one such tour in ISD 16989, sailing with a Legion fleet from Forum to Gododdin to Nessus, and then in a circuit about the Centaurine provinces to assess the damage dealt by Cielcin invasions and the general war-readiness of the provinces. This tour required the uprooting of much of the Imperial court, as well as an escort of several Martian Legions.
—His wife, EMPRESS MARIA AGRIPPINA AVENT, Princess of Avalon, Archduchess of Shakespeare, and Mother of Light.
—Their children:
—AURELIAN, Crown Prince and firstborn child.
—IRENE, second-born child.
—FAUSTINUS, thirteenth-born child. Famously said to resemble Hadrian Marlowe.
—MATTHIAS, thirty-fourth-born child.
—RICARD ANCHISES, forty-seventh-born child.
—PHILIP, fifty-second-born child, a notorious gambler and womanizer.
—ELEANOR, seventy-seventh-born child.
—ELARA, seventy-eighth-born child.
—SELENE, ninety-ninth-born child, potentially betrothed to HADRIAN MARLOWE.
—ALEXANDER, one hundred seventh–born child and former squire to Sir HADRIAN MARLOWE.
—TITANIA, one-hundred-eighteenth-born child.
—VIVIENNE, one hundred twenty-sixth–born child.
—His brother, PRINCE HECTOR AVENT, Supreme Chancellor of the Imperial Council, Prince of Aeolus.
—His cousin, LORD NICHOLAS AVENT, Governor-General of Gododdin.
—His ancestor, KING WILLIAM VII WINDSOR, called WILLIAM THE ADVENT, the God Emperor, Emperor of Avalon and Eden, Last King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, King-in-Avalon, and Lord Sovereign of the Kingdom of Windsor-in-Exile. The first Sollan Emperor, deified by the Chantry.
—His predecessor and mother, TITANIA AUGUSTA III, whose reign first brought humanity into contact with the Cielcin. Fondly remembered for her hawkish response to the crisis.
—Other Imperial ancestors mentioned in Lord Marlowe's account (Sorted A to Z):
—EMPEROR ALEXANDER V
—EMPEROR CYRUS II
—EMPEROR GABRIEL IV
—EMPEROR TITUS VIII
—EMPEROR TITUS EMILIAN
—EMPEROR WILLIAM XIX
—EMPRESS IRENE II
—PRINCE ARTHUR
—His cousin, LORD MARCUS AVENT (SPOILER WARNING)
Advised by The Imperial Council
Serves as head of The Imperial Legions
Official portrait commissioned by VIANELLO THE PAINTER.
—His Magnarchs:
—LORD KAROL VENANTIAN, Magnarch of the Centaurus Arm. Seated on Nessus.
—Magnarch of the Sagittarius Arm.
—Magnarch of the Perseus Arm. Seated on Tiryns.
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