Eugene Solaire

Count was the Serene Duchy of Aeldrum's Head of National Intelligence and Count of Lidenia during the mid-400s A.U. A staunch political rival to Sevrar Orvhim and the Neoconservative Party, he served as a balancing force during the Aefendt, du Montreal, and Emiir administrations. He was instrumental in discovering the Nipponese involvement in Orvhim's eventual public assassination, and revealing it at a strategic moment to derail the cultural momentum of the Church of the Spires and destroy the political career of Montreal (whom he viewed as a would-be autocrat like Aefendt, about whose legacy Solaire had evidently mixed feelings). Though officially a distant cousin of Count Homer of Lidenia, Solaire in fact had no family relation to the man, having served instead as his Factor and most trusted agent for decades. When Homer disappeared at the end of CW1 (sold to the Bank of Valdos by his spymaster, the perfidious de Turenne), Solaire used his access to and insight into the Lidenia network to take over the bulk of the Count's assets, fabricate a claim of inheritance and present himself as the rightful heir, with sufficient resources and blackmail material to smooth his accession. While the public narrative held that Homer had been murdered in a coup attempt led by the Marquise Corina Vendrin, for which she was heroically uncovered and arrested by Count Sevrar Orvhim, Solaire both knew Homer's actual fate and that Orvhim had been a co-orchestrator of the attempted murder of Homer (and had used his position of chief of police to pin full responsibility on his co-conspirators).
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