Bareth Aefendt

was the 49th Serene Doge of Aeldrum, from until his assassination in .
== History and Legacy ==
Bareth was the Doge of Orim, and the protege and agent of Serene Doge Leopold Orvhim. He became Serene Doge following the death of Leopold in . The Bareth administration was bookended by the First and Second Coalition Wars, ending with his shocking assassination at a diplomatic summit to celebrate the end of the war on Tar'Thalran. While Bareth's popularity was in significant decline at the time of his death, with the Serene Doge himself anticipating his retirement, his assassination cemented him as a martyr in Aeldman (and especially Neoconservative) historiography.
As Serene Doge, Bareth established a virtual dictatorship, ending constitutional term limits and constructing a political machine that allowed his Conservative Party to maintain a stable constitutional majority in Parliament for 40 years. Bareth presided over a golden age of Aeldman preeminence following the First Coalition War, in which the Serene Doge ruled mostly by delegation to a powerful cadre of technocrats and industrialists.
== Personality ==
Throughout his long administration, Bareth saw himself as a crisis-leader, with day-to-day policy being better handled by his subordinates.
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