Emperor Calvus

=== ''"Did you falter beneath our destiny? For now there is no return. We gave you everything. Did you know you seized us from the preordained victory and triumph of our people?" ' Calvus' address upon surrender to republican forces. ''' ===

Emperor Calvus, known as 'The Lion', was the last emperor of Kulia, officially abdicating the throne in 661EK. Calvus inherited the throne as an infant; and it was during his early years that Kulia prospered, stable leadership under Earl Dupost alongside previous reforms by Cardinal Daubney led to a short lived golden age in Kulia's history. However this golden age was soon overshadowed by the Connoran independence war. Eight years of brutal fighting would eventually end up in a crushing and humiliating defeat for the Kulian Empire. Calvus would attempt to right the wrongs, in one last effort to restore Kulian hegemony, Calvus would invite exiled Daubney to court and prepare for an invasion of Connora.

Ultimately Calvus would be defeated. Calvus' invasion was too costly a burden to bear, and though he did not suffer a defeat in battle, low supplies and a sudden revolution back home would leave Calvus and his army isolated in Connora, where he would finally surrender to Connoran and Republican Kulian forces.

Calvus would go on to serve as the constitutional head of state in the form of the Archduke of Kulia. Calvus' death in his country estate would go unnoticed, save for the close family and servants who attended his chapel funeral service. Calvus' legacy is one of both glory and bloodshed; he would leave Kulia in a much weaker state than the one he inherited, though historians often look upon the bold and young warrior-emperor favourably for both his courage and his patriotism.

Early years
Calvus was raised in the royal chambers of The Alabaster Palace. Since he was only three years of age when his father, Victorin, passed, Earl Dupost, head of the privy council, acted as regent of Kulia until Calvus was sixteen years old.

Calvus, from the age of thirteen, was tutored by then General Holke Rigal, Rigal was an avid militarist who, having fought in the Connoran Independence War, was keen to disperse all knowledge he possessed upon military matters. Once Calvus assumed the throne at age sixteen he invited the exiled Cardinal Daubney to court, where, upon his arrival, would receive the office of Lord High Steward. Holke Rigal would receive the office of Lord High Marshal and Christer Picard the office of Lord High Seigneur