Arthwr III

Arthwr III, also known as Arthwr "the Great" was the first Emperor of Kordowyn, and the 15th ruler of Kordowyn from the Pryce Dynasty. Arthwr III was the only child of the former King Owain V and Gwynedd Brys. He ascended the throne at the age of 19 in KOR 230, after his father's death. Arthwr was determined to unite the known world, as his father tried and failed to do. In the year KOR 233, The Second Invasion of Kolangrad started and ended. Following this brief war, Arthwr III declared himself as the first Emperor of Kordowyn, earning him the title "the Great" within Kordowyn. 
== Early Life ==
As the only child of Owain V, Arthwr was given a proper education from a young age, and was specifically groomed to rule the sprawling kingdom. Arthwr was given an official education in military tactics and history from General Dyfnwal Baines, as well as personal lessons from his father in administration and diplomacy. Arthwr was also taught to speak Varisian, which he does so fluently. In his own personal time, as limited as it was, Arthwr taught himself Old Kordynian, as well as learned as much as he could about Kordowyn before Badger's Landing, and throughout most of his life took great interest in it. He also, later in life, learned to speak Hybretian and Kolanski fluently, and has a decent understanding of Garmanese.
Arthwr spent 4 years in the Grand Army of Kordowyn from the age of 18 to 22, until he succeeded the throne in 233. In the Army, Arthwr served as a high ranking officer in the artillery corps. 
== Ascension to the Throne of Kordowyn and the Second Conquest of Kolangrad ==
Upon the sudden death of his father in 230, Arthwr became king. In 233, Arthwr began marching west for Kolangrad, intending to finish what his father started. The Hybretians and the Kolanski thought Kordynian arrogance would once again cost them the war; however Kordowyn had been planning a second invasion since shortly after the first. Arthwr, being an artilleryman, commanded the artillery barrage on Kolangrad, while the rest of his military fought the Hybretians and Kolanski at sea and in the fields around Kolangrad. 
Upon the defeat of the Kolanski and the Hybretians, Arthwr returned to Kordowyn, and on the steps of the former New Acren Cathedral (the same place where Arthwr II declared Kordowyn a kingdom over a century prior) declared that he was the Emperor of Kordowyn. Arthwr gave a rousing speech, calling himself "the new sovereign of the known world". He also pledged to assist in rebuilding Kolangrad and Hybretia following the war, saying that "all parts of our new Empire deserve assistance when needed". Later that year, Arthwr returned to the West, and crowned Daelin I as the first Duke of Hybretia for his service to Kordowyn in the war. 
== Arthwr's Reign After the War ==
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