Prince Arlayenn Rilawayd

The reigning prince of Jartapur is the latest of the long-standing Rilawayd family. He is struggling to meet the needs of an effectively independant nation with his lands' long-held glories of being a major part of an ancient empire.
He was married twenty years ago to the daughter of a duchess from Vienches, but unfortunately his wife died about fourteen years ago in the Revenge of the Cats Plague. The prince was nearly killed as well, but the court surgeons pulled him through at the expense of the rest of his family and others in the palace. His eldest son and only daughter died as well.
Now the prince has two surviving children. He has an eight-year old son named Prince Aerowin, sicky his entire life and currently bedridden, sick unto death. There is also a fourteen-year old girl from Nanduchar whom he has adopted named Chihiro Hirobashi, renamed Cherry Blossom Rilawayd. As she is not of the prince's actual bloodine (as well as female), she will most likely not assume the throne in the event of the passing of the prince and his son.
Some note that the prince doesn't seem as vigorous as in his youth, after losing so many of his family. Often when making difficult decisions as the ruler, he leaves on his private deep sea fishing boat, often with the people bothering him with one opinion and another, and comes back with a decision (and invariably fish).
The prince has stated that he wishes for a return of the Arumelian Empire, but there is nobody in the heartland who is willing to support. Therefore, he has to rule Jartapur as an independant entity until the situation changes. He believes that the Danbak Kryle situation is a result of the last emperor's stupidity. He had advised the emperor against sending the Härag barbarians up the river but the emperor overruled him. Now, after barely withstanding an assault from up the river, the prince has sent an envoy to deal with them, while keeping his army fat and well funded. Another embuggerance is the recent troubles with Arana concerning fishing areas off the northeastern coast of Ruencia. Arana claimed rights to the fisheries as a part of former Arumelia while Jartapur insisted that they were pretty much theirs. The old tried-and-true ships of Jartapur did poorly against the newer designs of Arana and Jartapur lost the fisheries for good.
Prince Arlayenn is 55 years old, with a shock of blonde hair atop his head surrounded by whitening around the sides. He has tanned and weathered skin from a lifetime spent fishing on the open seas in small boats. He has wiry musculature, though he don't move as smoothly as he once did.
He seems a little week to Newall.
Category:Jartapur
Category:Rulers