Villem

Villem was the elder son of the royal pair of Lyria and Rivia, Meve and Reginald. The queen was known to love them both but since they didn't really inherit her wit, having personalities even more reckless than their father, she doubted either would ever want or be able to rule.
== Biography ==
=== Upbringing ===
Villem was born to Queen Meve and her husband in 1251 when they were both quite young, thus she referred to them as "fruits of delightful abandon" when speaking to Kings Vizimir II, Foltest, Henselt, and Demavend III at their meeting in Hagge. Unfortunately, both sons inherited most traits from the father who was infamously dim-witted. Thus they were neither predisposed nor inclined to make proper kings, all the more since they hardly ever cared about it and often roamed the world making all sorts of trouble.
=== Second War with Nilfgaard ===
Although his mother Meve always thought that he wasn't cut out for politics, Villem proved her to be wrong, although committing a treason in the action: in 1267 during the Second Northern War, Villem together with Count Caldwell and the Council of Peers overthrew Queen Meve and surrendered the country to Nilfgaardian general Ardal aep Dahy.
While Meve managed to escape the tower she was confined in in order to create a new army to take back her usurped country, Villem was crowned King of Lyria and Rivia by Caldwell and the pledged alliance with Nilfgaard.
In the meantime Meve, leading a new army through the North, defeated Nilfgaardian troops at the Battle for the Bridge on the Yaruga. This was a crucial event during the war: the Empire's turned out to be extremely vulnerable and the whole North took arms against Imperial forces.
Villem, knowing he was losing the war, sent a messenger to his mother and arranged a meeting on Devil's Tower. There, Villem offered Meve his loyalty and what remained of his forces, breaking his alliance with Ardal aep Dahy, provided that Meve accepted his conditions: safety for him and his advisors, his reforms were to remain untouched and last, he was to remain Meve's heir and next in line to the throne.
Although her own son stabbed her in the back and sold her own country to Nilfgaard, Meve finally forgave Villem and accepted his conditions.
After the North won the war, Villem worked hard to regain his mother's trust and respect. He helped her in ruling the country and took on many daring missions, regardless of the risks. The lad who Nilfgaard had wielded as a tool now sowed terror along its borders... and appeared a successor most worthy of Meve.
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