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Extract from A Fulle and Compleat Account of His Ruling Majesty’s Ongoing and Truly Glorious Age of Wisdom by Gavyn Tawbury, Court Historian to the Library of IllyriaThe Eighth Monarch in the Deyrik-Groensen lineage, His Majesty King Sigurd of Illyria is usually referred to as either “The Just” or “The Samaritan” for both his boundless wisdom and his generosity of spirit.
The eldest of the three sons of the revered King Drendor (blessings be upon he who now resides in the celestial Ancestral Lands) King Sigurd was called to his rule in the year 1012, at the tender age of 15.
Worried that his son might be too young for the responsibility, Drendor – who was ailing rapidly at the end – signed into law the Royal Council Act of 1012 to ensure that in his absence his son would be guided by the wise through the traps and pitfalls of Royal responsibilities and duties, and ably assisted through the challenges he would doubtless face from outside as well as within the Middle Kingdom.
Despite his youth upon his Ascendancy to the Throne, King Sigurd’s wisdom was by now unparalleled throughout the lands and he needed little help from the Council to prove his worthiness to Rule, enacting many laws in his early years to consolidate the beneficience and munificence he has always shown to those peoples of the Middle Kingdom who rightly accept his wise and just rule.
In 1019, His Majesty appointed his brother the Lord Grendam to watch over The Western Realms on his behalf, and his youngest brother Porthur was similarly dispatched from King Sigurd’s Seat of Rule at Centrum to oversee the Duchy of Keppen, in order to ensure that the Kingdom’s fine arable pasturelands were utilised most effectively on behalf of all its people.
Our noble King continues the traditions of his forebears, regularly dispensing gifts to all who would seek to settle in the civilised parts of Illyria that truly count for something.
