Ashravan
| Ashravan | |||||||
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| Titles | Emperor of Rose Empire | ||||||
| Ethnicity | Grand | ||||||
| Homeworld | Sel | ||||||
‘’’Ashravan’’’ of the Eighty Suns was the 49th Emperor of the Rose Empire and a member of the Heritage Faction.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content Despite being known to have a temper, he was a humble man, and an idealist, at heart.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have contentCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content He loved to write horrible poetry and having a good debate. He was arrogant, but secretly wished he could be something other than what he was.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content He also hated fish.{ref|b|tes|day|70}}
He was described as having a “strong face.” He had golden hair, a firm chin and a prominent nose.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
Early Life
He had a younger brother who died when Ashravan was six.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content He idolized his brother, but kept his feelings secret due to a belief that his brother would have made a better emperor. His brother’s fondness for green is the reason it is Ashravan’s favorite color.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
At some point Ashravan began to keep a private journal, perhaps to reflect on the choices he had made. He left instructions to have it burned on his death.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
Life as Emperor
“I have decided, at long last, to agree to the demands of my faction. I will offer myself for the position of emperor, as Gaotona has so often encouraged. ”
—Excerpt from Ashravan’s personal journal
According to Gaotona, Ashravan originally became emperor out of a desire to change the empire such as the favoritism shown to the Grands.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content Over time however, his desire waned.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content Ashravan was swept up in the bureaucracy of an empire that worked, if not perfectly, than well enough. He focused more on the beauty of it all instead of its problems and gave the arbiters more and more control.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
Despite the urgings of Gaotona, his mentor, being a significant factor in his becoming emperor, Ashravan eventually grew to resent Gaotona because he felt inadequate.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
The Emperor’s New Soul
One night a group of assassins, agents of the Glory Faction, broken into the emperor’s rooms and attacked him and his wife, Kurshina{{85, who was killed. He sustained an injury to the head and although a Resealer was able to heal the wound, the emperor was left brain-dead. The arbiters of the Heritage Faction kept the emperor’s status a secret by saying he had sequestered himself during the mourning period for his wife. The arbiters then tasked the Forger Wan ShaiLu to create a new soul for the emperor before the one hundred days of mourning were over. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
Shai used a number of sources for the Soul Forgery, such as official histories, Ashravan’s personal journal and interviews of his friends and family.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content The arbiter Gaotona volunteered himself as a test subject for stamps of minor portions of Ashravan’s soul.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content
On the ninety-eight day of the morning period Shai succeeded in creating a soulstamp to replicate Ashravan’s soul which he would have to be re-stamped with each day.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content Buried in the stamp were certain triggers that Shai added to help nudge Ashravan into becoming the emperor he had always dreamed of being.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content