Aurellis
People in the Empire
Within the Prime realm, the following people exist:
Emperor Sirius IV, 15th Emperor of Eboracum
The Emperor was formerly a general, as is usually the case. He appears about 40 years of age. He has recently married, and has a household which comprises over 1500 people, both free citizens who are loyal retainers, and slaves. There is currently only one acknowledged Imperial child - Field Marshall George Helgram - the recently appointed Regens of the External Empire.
It has been recently declared that the Emperor is actually a son of the Pater Deorum, by the Most Noble Honoured Lady Rebecca von Celestine, High Priestess of Sian, who is his mother.
Empress Sirenna, Wife of the Emperor of Eboracum
Sirenna is a daughter of the Mater Deorum, who was brought up in Sian's temple, with it seems the express intent of becoming the perfect wife for the Emperor. Destiny (or the will of the goddess) was not to be denied and the expected wedding took place on the first of November 757.
Little else is known about the Empress at this time. She rarely makes public appearences, and does not regularly attend the Imperial Audiences with the Emperor.
Honoured Lady Flavia Moran, Minister of State
Flavia Moran was elected to Senate as a constituency senator for a borough in Londinio, in Britannia. She was a principle member of the Guild of Weavers and Tailors, though since her appointment to the Minister of State post, and elevation to earldom by the Emperor, she has let this lapse.
She seems in her mid 30s, and is in a life partnership with a Master Tailor, and also has a mistress. She has had two children with her life partner, one son who is now in the navy, and a daughter aged 15 at home, and also has a child born of her mistress, a 7 year old boy, in her household.
Society gossip says that she is spending an increasing amount of time away from home, where she leaves her mistress and her partner, to visit a number of Houses of Life, apparently for the gaming tables.
Magister Militum Honoured Duke Nathan Helgram,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nathan is a descendant of the Pater Deorum's family from the old time, who was part of the founding of Eboracum. He served in the Army from the start, rising to the position of chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the reign of 5th Emperor, Maximus.
Nathan led the impeechment of Maximus, and when the Senate refused to find him insane, and the Joint Chiefs were sentenced to death, Nathan was aided to escape this punishment by the gods, and went on the run for over 500 years Imperial time. Eventually, under the current Emperor, he was pardonned, the death sentence was rescinded and he returned to duty in the Imperial Military, finally re-gaining the chair of the Joint Chiefs on the retirement of William O'Connor.
General, Honoured Lady Margaret Scholes, Judge Advocate General
Made earl by the Emperor on her appointment as JAG, Margaret Scholes is the 26th person to occupy that post. She was a counsellor originally drafted into the military to defend a group of soldiers accused of rape, and undertook several other assignments under military law, as her civilian law career continued. Upon her reaching the Bar, when she was next called to serve, this time prosecuting case of misappropriation of booty, she accepted an offer to a full time commission, becoming one of the then JAG's permanent staff.
General Scholes apparently has a vicious temper, and keeps a large stable of male slaves on her property, purely as an outlet for her violent nature, taking advantage of the Earldom she received on appointment to allow this. At least two of her former slaves are now lifebonded to her.
Honoured Princess Alisha, Foreign Minister
Alisha is the daughter of the Divine Robert Delacy, and was appointed Foreign Minister of the Empire after the death of Princess Alana.
Honoured Marquise Judith Lacey, Chancellor
Judith Lacey is from outside. She is an associate member of the Guild of Magic, Master Level, and her principle membership is with the Guild of Clerks at Master Level. She used to sit on Guild Council, but retired that seat on her appointment as Chancellor of the Imperial Treasury. The Emperor made her a Marquise on her appointment.
Honoured Sir James Jones, Guild Master of Law
James Jones is the Guild Master of the Guild of Law, and is therefore chairman of the Imperial Court of Appeal. He is married, with 3 mistresses. He was granted a Knighthood by Senate on his appointment to the Master of Law chair. He lives in Lancethwaite, and travels to the Capital to undertake his duties. One of his mistresses maintains an apartment for him there.
Honoured Sir Magnus Cameron, Imperial Advisor on Religion
The Emperor appointed a Master of Students as his advisor on matters relating to the gods, when his predecessor was eradicated in a bolt of lightning. It was apparent to Sirius that the previous Emperor was on the point of embarking upon some plan which one of the Gods disapproved, and he wished to avoid a similar end. Magnus was one of the foremost authorities on holy law, and holy mythos, and an associate member of the Guild of Law.
Honoured Sir Arthur Tullius, Minister for Trade
The Ministry for Trade is concerned with enabling and assisting the free trade within the empire. The Trade ministry run the Imperial Stock Market, which is located in Eboracum, and lists most of the multiversal companies in the Empire.
Tullius, is fantastically rich himself, with a fortune supposedly to rival the Emperors. This is impressive considering the Imperial coffers are filled from taxes, and perhaps indicates that Tullius has used his position to influence trade in his favour on occasion.
He is married, has 5 current mistresses, has had 26 children, 15 boys and 9 girls. All of the girls are still unmarried, though they are all now adults.
Honoured Dame Druscilla Moore, Minister for Performance and the Arts
Druscilla is an associate art trader, and a principle Theatrica Star Actress. She was elected by Theatrica to Senate, after a long run in the role of the Divine Seline in the vastly successful play 'Ascension'. Almost as an afterthought, once she was a Senator, the Emperor decided to create this ministry, and appointed her to it.
Equally as an afterthought, he gave out no Title with the job, so Senate declared her a Knight. She is a self declared Lesbian, in a joint partnership with 3 other women, all of whom are Theatrica members. They form a major lobby for women's rights, and gay rights in the Senate.
Honoured Madam Susan Lyoness, Speaker of Senate
Granted a Knighthood by Senate on her appointment, Susan Lyoness is the most senior figure in Senate after the Emperor himself. She was the former mistress of an army colonel, who quit that household, before being accepted as apprentice by a journeyman Mage. Eventually she qualified, went on to Mage College, and is now a Master Mage. She was elected as a Senator for a borough in Eboracum, before being elected Speaker in her fifth year.
She has no partners, wife or mistresses, and has one daughter, who is now serving as Minister of Slavery in the External Empire. She is rarely seen socially.
Honoured Sir Lawrence Mackay, Minister for Transport
Lawrence Mackay has an unenvied job, running a ministry which is partly beholden to a Guild which is outside the Law and a Divine force. Transport is nevertheless his job, and under his guidance the Britannia Railways project has neared completion, allowing travel between the cities of the home Realm without need for Pilots. He was elected from the teamsters Guild, where he holds a mastership.
Archmage, Honoured Lord Linus Westingham
Linus is the Head of the Council of Magic, and obviously is a Master Mage. Otherwise, he seems fairly uninteresting as a character. Appearing to be in his late 50s, he is married, and has had 4 children, all grown up now. He has extended the Talent testing program extensively during his term as Archmage, and now all wards of state, and pupils at state schools are tested for talent, with scholarships offered by the Guild to the good ones found.
He is currently trying to have a program started where foreign captive slaves are tested for Talent, but this is running into much opposition within Senate.
General, Honoured Marquis Warren Fortiscue-Marcus,
Commander of the Imperial Guard
Warren is the general in command of the Imperial Guard.
Within the Realm of New Canada, the following people exist:
General Honoured Sir Morris Lewis-Vernus
Sir Morris was the Regional Governor of New Canada, which is a land realm comprising a major continent on a world out around the 50th parallel. The Empire controls what mostly corresponds to the Americas, and the technocracy has the rest of the world. Federation presence is repulsed strongly. The Americas were taken from the Federation by conquest, 150 years ago, by High General Henry Vernus, Morris' Grandfather. The capital City is New Yorvik.
Morris presided over an ignominious period in New Canada history, when New Yorvik was invaded by the Federation, and it eventually turned out that Morgan's first mistress was in fact a Federation resistance leader, and had been throughout the whole of the last 150 years.
His reassignment to a frontier realm is the final opportunity for him to prove he has what it takes to be great.
High General Morgan Grigson
Morgan was chief of police in New Yorvik, and then in the re-organisation after the invasion he was made Mayor. Having served for 15 years in this capacity he has now been promoted to the Governership of New Canada. New Yorvik is a techno-magical city with a population in excess of 5 million. New Canada is one if the major Empire centres of activity in this region of shadow, and New Yorvik is the administrative centre of the Realm.
Morgan was married to an ex-slave, whom he bought the freedom of, so that he could marry her, called Mandy Summers, who was an ex-film star from earth of the 1950s, abducted by a slave ring. She never told either Morgan or her daughter Amanda how she became a slave until her deathbed. At that point, Amanda, a young Courier Pilot, decided to join the militia, and prepare to go undercover on Earth to try and close down that end of the kidnap trail. Her father agreed, and so, having discovered who the Militia Courier Pilot of the ring was, she seduced him into taking her to the world, and then killed him to trap the rest of the gang there. She kept contact by returning, once per year to report, via her comms crystal. She removed her identity bracelet before leaving the empire.
Olivia Lewis-Vernus
Olivia is the 18 year old daughter of the ex Governor of New Canada. She recently declared herself a citizen, enrolled at Mage College, and formed a partnership with General Grigson.
Sylvia Lewis-Vernus
The other daughter of the ex Governor, and something of a social parasite, she married a local press baron, and after his disgrace became the proprietor and editor of the New Yorvik Times.