President Oswald Lloyd

Oswald Meldrew Lloyd (Born 5th Ruay 3387) is the current Lifetime President of the Southern Republic. He was offered the lifetime presidency when the fledgling nation was founded to ensure its survival and to keep royalist corruption from entering it's politics.
==Early Life==
Oswald Meldrew was born on the fifth of Ruay 3387 in the Yual Region of the Southern Territories. Son to a lawyer and a teacher he led a rather comfortable life in a close community. He was educated by private tutors but then attended the Belslough University, studying politics, history and law. While there he became an advocate for the Casorian Empire's dissolution, but when many were put to the axe for such a philosophy he realised that the best way to remove the Empire's control was legitimately, democractically.
==People's Convention of Freedom==
In 3410 the new Imperial-Regent, Prince Frederick Edwardson called the Southern Collective to assembly, Oswald was elected to represent his home, the Yual Region being a prominent local figure. When the collective met for the first time near the end of the year the Imperial-Regent set down the Emperor's will that each borough was to be reorganized. These reorganizations were used to keep the South in constant disarray and Oswald came to realize this. For the first time in years he brought a motion to the Regent, who so disgusted that a representative took the floor from him, called the assembly to a close. Several Collective Representatives came to Lloyd with a prospect, to form a peaceful group who's ultimate goal was an indepdent South, akin to the Middle Kingdom. The People's Convention of Freedom was born.
==The Tyranny of the Regent==
Meeting in secrecy the People's Convention drafted up the People's Constitution of the Southern Territories, a dangerous and treasonous document that would set down the 'republic' of the people of the Southern territories. By 3418 the document was complete and had the signatures of eighty percent of the Southern Collective, however Lloyd as the figurehead of the movement refused to sign. Believing the Emperor to be a reasonable man, and the Regent the barrier he sent a missive to the Imperial Senate in Lockvalar. In it he enclosed a copy of the constitution to show the measures that some were going to take for their autonomy. This did not go as Lloyd had hoped and the Emperor commanded the arrest of those who scribed it. Although their identities were not known the Regent plunged the nation into martial law, restircting assembly, rights and freedom. By 3420 the Regent had the names of the conspirators, including Lloyd.
==Night of the Hunter's Hubris==
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