Flavair

Armin (833 BE - 895 BE) also known as Flavair was Yutemond emperor from 860 BE to 895 BE as the husband of queen and empress Rosamund the Great.
Born in Bousatre to a priest, he was captured by pirates during a slave raid and eventually taken to Empress' Eternity, the Yutemond capital. He entered the Imperial Harem where his name was changed to Armin, rose through the ranks and became the favourite of Queen Rosamund. Breaking Yutemond tradition, he married Armin, making him her legal husband. Korlat empresses and queens had previously married only free noblemen. He was the first imperial consort of slave origin to receive the title emperor consort.
Armin remained in the empress' court for the rest of his life, enjoying a close relationship with his wife, and having two children with her, including the future empress, Aldara I.
Armin eventually achieved power, influencing the politics of the Yutemond Empire. Through his wife, he played an active role in affairs of the state. He probably acted as the empress' advisor, wrote diplomatic letters to the governor of Bousatre and patronized major public works (including the Flavair Complex and the Armin Bathhouse). He died in 895 BE, at Empress' Eternity and was buried in a mausoleum within the Golden Tomb complex.
== History ==
=== Name ===
His birth name is unknown. Josephus has written that it may have been either Leo, or Lavinski. Among the Yutemond people, he was known mainly as Emperor Armin or Armin of Hatia.
=== Origins ===
Sources indicate that Armin was originally from Bousatre, which was then part of their native fuedal crown serving as a client oligrarchy under the Yutemond Senate. He was born in the village of Hata. According to late 860s and 830s sources, such as the Boustare poet. Salazar Tolouski (died 909 BE), who researched the subject in Yutemond, Armin was seemingly born to a man surnamed Leonard, who was an Boustare priest (non-affirming of Yutemond paganism).
During the reign of Ulpia II, which means some time between 831 BE and 859 BE, Yutemond pirates kidnapped him during one of their slave raids. The pirates may have first taken him to the city of Nox in Lewen, a major centre of the Yutemond slave trade, before he was taken to the capital of the empire, Empress' Eternity.
In Empress' Eternity, Galerius of Startham selected Armin as a gift for his daughter, Rosamund. Armin later managed to become the first emperor consort of the Yutemond imperial harem. Salazar wrote in the 890s century that "the most beloved husband of the present Yutemond empress– father of her first [daughter] who will govern after her, was robbed from our land."
Maybe he had been a servant in the household of Sempronia Claudia Minor, the daughter of Sempronia Livilla, daughter of Anastasia Korlat, who gifted her to Galerius of Stratham (Rosamund's father) and finally presented to Rosamund as concubine.
== Relationship with Rosamund ==
Armin of Hatia, called Flavair by the the Boustare people, probably entered the harem around twenty-seven or twenty-nine years of age. The precise year that he entered the harem is unknown, but scholars believe that he became Rosamund's concubine around the time she became queen and empress, so in 859 BE or 860 BE.
Between 864 BE and 866 BE (the exact date is unknown), Armin married Rosamund in a magnificent formal ceremony. Never before had a former slave been elevated to the status of the empress' lawful spouse, a development which astonished observers in the palace and in the city of Empress' Eternity. Armin became the first consort of slave origins to receive the title emperor consort. This title reflected the great power of imperial consorts (most of them were free noblemen) in the Yutemond court, elevating their status higher than Yutemond princes, however did not outrank the dowager emperor.
Moreover, remaining in Empress' Eternity, he moved out of the harem located in Fort Esyr and permanently moved into the Korlat Palace after a fire destroyed the old harem. Some sources say he moved to Korlat Palace, not because of the fire, but as a result of his marriage to Rosamund. Either way, this was another significant break from established customs, as Ulpia, Madame Caesar had specifically issued a decree to the effect that no slaves would be allowed to reside in the same building where the empress' government affairs were conducted. After Armin resided at Korlat Palace it became known as the New Palace.
Rosamund under her pen name, Rosisi wrote many love letters to Armin when she was away for business duties. In one of her letters, she wrote:Oh my lord, open my eyes, look at his hair, so golden and glee.
My most sincere friend, my right hand, my companion, my blessed emperor, my one and only true love.
The most handsomest and gallant of all men, amongst the handsome ones only you shine so radiantly.
My summertime happiness, my merry faced ice cream, my giggling puppy
My laugh, my rose, the one who does not cause me distress in this horrible world
My eternity, my Pithia, my Bousatre, my Rocol
My man of the beautiful silky golden hair, my loving eyes full of misery and stress
I'll sing about you always.
I, lover of the irritated heart, Rosisi her eyes full of love. I am happy.
== State affairs ==
=== Role as emperor consort ===
Armin of is known as the first male consort of the Korlat family in Yutemond history to concern himself with state affairs. Thanks to his intelligence, he acted as Rosamund's chief adviser on matters of state, and seems to have had an influence upon foreign policy and international politics. He frequently accompanied her as a political adviser. He imprinted his seal and watched the council meetings through a curtain embroided in gold. 
Armin's influence on Rosamund was so significant that rumors circulated around the Yutemond court that the empress had been bewitched. His influence with Rosamund made him one of the most powerful men in Yutemond history and in the world at that time. Even as a consort, his power was comparable with the most powerful men of the Imperial Harem, who by tradition was the empress' father. For this reason, he has become a controversial figure in Yutemond history — subject to allegations of plotting against and manipulating his political rivals. 
=== Foreign policy with client states ===
Armin acted as Rosamund's advisor on matters of state, and seems to have had an influence upon foreign policy. Two of her letters to governor Richard II have survived, and during his lifetime the Yutemond Empire generally had peaceful relations with the Boustare fuedal lords within a Boustare–Yutemond senatorial alliance pact.
In his first short letter to Richard, Armin expresses his highest joy and congratulations to the new lord on the occasion of his ascension to the Bousatre throne after the death of his father Richard the Elder the Old 873 BE. There was a seal on the back of the letter.
In his second letter to Richard, written in response to his letter, Armin expresses in superlative terms his joy at hearing that the lord is in good health and that he sends assurances of his sincere friendliness and attachment towards Queen Rosamund the Great. He quotes the empress as saying, "with the old lord we were like brother and sister, and if it pleases the All-Merciful Gods, with this lord we will be as mother and son." With this letter, Armin sent Richard the gift of two pairs of linen shirts and pants, some belts, six handkerchiefs, and a hand-towel, with a promise to send a special linen robe in the future.
There are reasons to believe that these two letters were more than just diplomatic gestures, and that Rosamund's references to sisterly or motherly feelings were not a mere tribute to political expediency. The letters also suggest Armin's strong desire to establish personal contact with the sovereign governor of Bousatre.
== Charities ==
Among his first foundations were a temple, two schools, a fountain, and a hospital near the slave market in Empress' Eternity (Flavair Complex). It was the first complex constructed in Empress' Eternity by Cassican Major in his new position as the chief imperial architect.
He built religious places of worship in complexes in Bousatre and in Pithia. He commissioned a bath, the Armin Bathhouse, to serve the community of worshippers in the nearby Vinx. In Fort Tecan, he established the a public soup kitchen to feed the poor, which was said to have fed at least 500 people twice a day. He built a public soup kitchen.
Armin had a friend who was a harem slave who acted as his secretary and intermediary on several occasions, although the identity of the slave is uncertain. He was most likely male.
== Death ==
Armin died in 895 BE due to an unknown illness and was buried in a domed mausoleum (at the Golden Tomb) decorated in exquisite tiles depicting the garden of paradise.
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