Family name Wešek
Given name Elman VI
Born Old Castle, Eistevilma, Wantael Island, 21-VI-2397 TCE
Species Lynx
Sex Male
Height 180 cm (5'11")
Weight 72 kg
Status Married (2444 TCE; to Vanawalt Granta, b. 2401)
Children One son, Crown Prince Tajdal (b. 2446 TCE)
Titles King of Wantael Island, Master of the Great Rift and Keeper of the Utsala Strait
Biographical note Unlike his father, King Elman V (2365-2439), and his grandmother, meek Queen Olya (2331-2413), Crown Prince Elman had the fortune not to grow up in the shadow of his grand-grandmother, the famous Queen Tšelma (2290-2408).
A strong-willed, even domineering woman, Queen Tšelma had, almost three decades before young Elman's birth, denied her daughter Olya her rights to the Wantaelian crown. According to a time-honoured (but unwritten) rule of succession, Wantaelians monarchs are supposed to abdicate as soon as their firstborn, male or female, reaches the age of forty years. Tšelma's refusal to do so, and Princess Olya's unwillingness to confront her mother about the issue, explains the exceptionally long reign of the former (78 years, from 2330 to 2408).
Queen Olya's reign, in comparison, was brief (from 2408 to 2413) and yet constructive, since it ushered the era of constitutional monarchy on the island. All observers agree that Olya was a careful, loving mother and grandmother. Her untimely death in a gardening accident was mourned across the island and beyond.
Crown Prince Elman soon proved himself to be an idealistic, adventurous, even foolhardy young man. In 2422 TCE, against the will of his father Elman V (r. 2413-2439), he fled the country to enlist, under a pseudonym, in the Lentekan Auxiliary Forces.
That was the beginning of the Sixth Fent War (2422-2423). The Lentekan leader, General Anteya Frelk, a widely respected and admired chief of State at the time, had expressed the wish to seize back the lost province of Faltawenza. Faltawenza's annexation by the Dendan Confederation in the aftermath of the Fifth Fent War (2413-2414), founded—as it seemed to many—on very flimsy historical claims, had met widespread disapproval across the Tawa Continent.
Crown Prince Elman was, according to available sources, a very brave and praiseworthy fighter. He only returned to his homeland in 2425, while his father Elman V, facing increased geopolitical pressure, started to manifest the first symptoms of clinical depression.
Elman V, nevertheless, succeeded in maintaining Wantael's long-lasting neutrality during the Seventh Fent War (2434-2437). That time, the Crown Prince, in a strong rebuke of General Frelk's imperialist claims over the whole Fent Valley, fought on the side of the Dendan Armed Forces, still under a nom de guerre.
This prolonged, bitter, bloody conflict, the anguish of not knowing the whereabouts of his combative son, was perhaps one battle too much for Elman V's fragile sanity. He died in 2439, in a road accident whose mysterious circumstances have still not been elucidated. The Warrior Prince, who had returned home just months before, had now become the Honourable Elman VI Wešek, King of Wantael Island, Master of the Great Rift and Keeper of the Utsala Strait.
So far, Elman VI's reign has been a peaceful and prosperous one. The Old Castle's fire in 2452 prompted the move of the royal residence to the nearby, more modern Wisteria Manor. While the "Land of the Ten Thousand Waves" (a traditional, poetic name for Wantael Island) has mostly remained a nation of fishers and farmers, light industry has begun to emerge since the 2440s, especially in the textile sector. Electrification is in progress. It is estimated that half of Wantaelian households now own a wireless set (2490 census). A popular commercial radio station, Voice of the Ocean, has recently—not without controversy—installed its high-power longwave transmitter on the island, causing some diplomatic rift across the Utsala Strait with the neighbouring, usually friendly Kingdom of Tagra (2483). Even television has reached Wantael: a microwave link relays the two channels of the Tagra Television Service (TSZ) since Winter Solstice, 2479.
Wantaelians have been grateful for Elman VI's role in the development of their country. Wantael Island has so far remained faithful to its peaceful, neutralist stance. There is, though, some concern about the future of the Wešek dynasty. Indeed, Crown Prince Tajdal (born 2446)'s relationship with his father has been notoriously stormy, and Elman VI's apparent refusal to abdicate in favour of his son is said to be the main cause for the latter's self-imposed exile on Tagra's Southern coast.
It is rumoured that the king had deep concerns about Tajdal's despotic tendencies and (yet unproven) alleged sympathies with nationalist, revanchist elements in the Lentekan army and state apparatus. If Prince Tajdal, Elman VI's only child, wasn't, for some reason, able or willing to become King of Wantael Island, it would most certainly open the way to a change of dynasty—something that hasn't happened in more than four hundred years.
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Given name Elman VI
Born Old Castle, Eistevilma, Wantael Island, 21-VI-2397 TCE
Species Lynx
Sex Male
Height 180 cm (5'11")
Weight 72 kg
Status Married (2444 TCE; to Vanawalt Granta, b. 2401)
Children One son, Crown Prince Tajdal (b. 2446 TCE)
Titles King of Wantael Island, Master of the Great Rift and Keeper of the Utsala Strait
Biographical note Unlike his father, King Elman V (2365-2439), and his grandmother, meek Queen Olya (2331-2413), Crown Prince Elman had the fortune not to grow up in the shadow of his grand-grandmother, the famous Queen Tšelma (2290-2408).
A strong-willed, even domineering woman, Queen Tšelma had, almost three decades before young Elman's birth, denied her daughter Olya her rights to the Wantaelian crown. According to a time-honoured (but unwritten) rule of succession, Wantaelians monarchs are supposed to abdicate as soon as their firstborn, male or female, reaches the age of forty years. Tšelma's refusal to do so, and Princess Olya's unwillingness to confront her mother about the issue, explains the exceptionally long reign of the former (78 years, from 2330 to 2408).
Queen Olya's reign, in comparison, was brief (from 2408 to 2413) and yet constructive, since it ushered the era of constitutional monarchy on the island. All observers agree that Olya was a careful, loving mother and grandmother. Her untimely death in a gardening accident was mourned across the island and beyond.
Crown Prince Elman soon proved himself to be an idealistic, adventurous, even foolhardy young man. In 2422 TCE, against the will of his father Elman V (r. 2413-2439), he fled the country to enlist, under a pseudonym, in the Lentekan Auxiliary Forces.
That was the beginning of the Sixth Fent War (2422-2423). The Lentekan leader, General Anteya Frelk, a widely respected and admired chief of State at the time, had expressed the wish to seize back the lost province of Faltawenza. Faltawenza's annexation by the Dendan Confederation in the aftermath of the Fifth Fent War (2413-2414), founded—as it seemed to many—on very flimsy historical claims, had met widespread disapproval across the Tawa Continent.
Crown Prince Elman was, according to available sources, a very brave and praiseworthy fighter. He only returned to his homeland in 2425, while his father Elman V, facing increased geopolitical pressure, started to manifest the first symptoms of clinical depression.
Elman V, nevertheless, succeeded in maintaining Wantael's long-lasting neutrality during the Seventh Fent War (2434-2437). That time, the Crown Prince, in a strong rebuke of General Frelk's imperialist claims over the whole Fent Valley, fought on the side of the Dendan Armed Forces, still under a nom de guerre.
This prolonged, bitter, bloody conflict, the anguish of not knowing the whereabouts of his combative son, was perhaps one battle too much for Elman V's fragile sanity. He died in 2439, in a road accident whose mysterious circumstances have still not been elucidated. The Warrior Prince, who had returned home just months before, had now become the Honourable Elman VI Wešek, King of Wantael Island, Master of the Great Rift and Keeper of the Utsala Strait.
So far, Elman VI's reign has been a peaceful and prosperous one. The Old Castle's fire in 2452 prompted the move of the royal residence to the nearby, more modern Wisteria Manor. While the "Land of the Ten Thousand Waves" (a traditional, poetic name for Wantael Island) has mostly remained a nation of fishers and farmers, light industry has begun to emerge since the 2440s, especially in the textile sector. Electrification is in progress. It is estimated that half of Wantaelian households now own a wireless set (2490 census). A popular commercial radio station, Voice of the Ocean, has recently—not without controversy—installed its high-power longwave transmitter on the island, causing some diplomatic rift across the Utsala Strait with the neighbouring, usually friendly Kingdom of Tagra (2483). Even television has reached Wantael: a microwave link relays the two channels of the Tagra Television Service (TSZ) since Winter Solstice, 2479.
Wantaelians have been grateful for Elman VI's role in the development of their country. Wantael Island has so far remained faithful to its peaceful, neutralist stance. There is, though, some concern about the future of the Wešek dynasty. Indeed, Crown Prince Tajdal (born 2446)'s relationship with his father has been notoriously stormy, and Elman VI's apparent refusal to abdicate in favour of his son is said to be the main cause for the latter's self-imposed exile on Tagra's Southern coast.
It is rumoured that the king had deep concerns about Tajdal's despotic tendencies and (yet unproven) alleged sympathies with nationalist, revanchist elements in the Lentekan army and state apparatus. If Prince Tajdal, Elman VI's only child, wasn't, for some reason, able or willing to become King of Wantael Island, it would most certainly open the way to a change of dynasty—something that hasn't happened in more than four hundred years.
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