Claymore II

* Basic Info
* Relations
* Occupations

Died: M9-22 310 ASB

Died M6-20 362 ASB

King of Clayistan:

M5-04 302 ASB - M8-26 354 ASB

Duke of Terracotta City:

M5-06 302 ASB - M5-12 302 ASB

Head of the House of Sectile:

M5-06 302 ASB - M8-26 354 ASB

King of Clayistan:

Claymore I

Duke of Terracotta City:

Silvester Sectile

Head of the House of Sectile:

Silvester Sectile

King of Clayistan:

Claymore III

Duke of Terracotta City:

Position dissolved

Head of the House of Sectile:

Claymore III

## Biography

### Early Life (262 ASB - 282 ASB)

Claymore II (Born Payden Sectile) was born on M11-11 262 ASB to the Duke of Terracotta City Odell Sectile and his wife Roseann Sectile who died giving birth to him, his father was grief stricken by the loss of his wife and killed himself on M11-29 262 ASB, Payden was then raised by his older brother Roland Sectile who had taken his father's titles.

### War of Clay Restoration (282 ASB - 290 ASB)

On M1-22 282 ASB Duke Roland Sectile and a collection of other Clay nobles in Clayistan declared war against King Achille II of Clayistan, on account of being a Sandy Clay Loam and not a pure Clay, Claymore II took part in the war and worked primarily on convincing the the State of Estuaria to move against Achille II with Estuaria only joining the war on M5-07 288 ASB. On M8-04 289 ASB Payden's brother was heavily wounded during a battle and fell into a coma. On M2-30 290 ASB Achille II was defeated and Duke Roland Sectile was declared as the King of Clayistan as Claymore I, despite still being in a coma at the time.

### Rise to Power (290 ASB - 302 ASB)

On M3-01 290 ASB Payden Sectile was granted the Duchy of Iron Lake to rule over by Claymore I's wife Matilda Sectile who was acting as regent. Following his ascension to Dukedom Payden Sectile began secretly spreading rumors that his nephew and heir to the throne of Silvester Sectile was illegitimated using the logic that he would have had to have been conceived after his brother fallen into his coma. On M9-08 292 ASB Payden married a noble woman named Kacie Henderson who produced him his first and only son Anthony Sectile on M8-12 293 ASB.

On M1-27 294 ASB Payden was confronted by his wife who had discovered that he had been spreading rumors about the legitimacy of Silvester Sectile she demanded that he stop spreading these rumors, Payden promised that he would stop spreading rumors as by that point he no longer needed to spread it.

By 302 ASB Claymore I's health had begun to fail Payden set off for the Terracotta Palace on M3-15 302 ASB under the pretext of visiting his dying brother, he arrived on M3-21 302 ASB. Claymore I succumbed to his injuries on M5-03 302 ASB, the day after his death Payden Sectile was declared the King of Clayistan as Claymore II despite the protest's of Matilda Sectile and Silvester Sectile.

### Reign (302 ASB - 354 ASB)

Upon becoming king Claymore II was contacted by a furious Matilda Sectile who demanded that Claymore II abdicate in favour of her son, instead of doing that Claymore II transferred the Duchy of Iron Lake to Silvester Sectile in an attempt to calm her down he also requested that Silvester stand down as the Head of the House of Sectile and as the Duke of Terracotta City which he did two days later. Many of the noble's were unhappy with someone that they considered to be illegitimate being granted such a powerful holding, Claymore II attempted to solve the problem on M5-12 302 ASB by writing into law that the current internal borders were the permanent borders, many nobles were outraged by this, but many too pledged their support for this new law. The new law also saw the Duchy of Terracotta City dissolved and annexed into the kingdom properly as a way to show that he was fully committed the the Kingdom of Clayistan and not his own duchy.

On M6-15 303 ASB Claymore II had the State of Estuaria annexed into the Kingdom of Clayistan.

Claymore II hosted a party at the Terracotta Palace in it's ballroom on M3-30 304 ASB at the party Claymore II noticed that many of the guests that he had invited had not shown up, most of the guests who had shown up were former supporters of Achille II and Achille II himself who was currently the Duke of Sunbell and Alander. Towards the end of the night Claymore II heard an explosion coming from outside of the Terracotta Palace, he ignored it and went to get some punch from a punch urn when Duke Ralph Sandoval of Tyvridge grabbed Claymore II by the neck and began to wrestle him to the ground, as the four guards in the room were running over to intervene Count Issah Marrowsparch of Marrowsparch stabbed one of the guards in the neck with a butter knife, Achille II then ran to the dying guard as if to tend to him took his sidearm and shot one of the other guards in the back of the head before turning slightly and shooting another guard in the chest, the remaining guard was incapacitated when Grand Duke Harrish Pendleton of Northife hit him over the head with his metal walking stick. Following the incapacitation of his guards Claymore II was heaved onto a chair and bound to it using a rope that had been brought in by Sandoval, Claymore II demanded for Achille II release him, Achille II demanded that Claymore II abdicate in favour of himself to restore him as the King of Clayistan, Claymore II told Achille II that "There is nothing you can do that could convince me to abdicate" Achille II told Claymore II that he had men capturing Claymore II's son and told Claymore II that "that is what will force you to abdicate". Twenty minutes later multiple members of the Clayistan Royal Guard (CRG) burst through the ballroom's doors firing at everyone that they deemed a threat, Sandoval was killed when a bullet struck his heart and Marrowsparch when a bullet struck his head, Pendleton was left alone due to being incredibly aged and seemingly frail, Achille II was shot in the chest and through his right lung he managed to survive his injury as Claymore II ordered his guards to take Achille II to the palace's hospital to be tended to. Claymore II learned after being rescued that his young son had evaded capture and managed to alert several members of the CRG who were investigating the explosion in one of the side buildings to the presence of hostiles in the Terracotta Palace.

Following the incident at the party Claymore II had all of the individuals who conspired against him stripped of their titles and sent to the labour city of Annaractine, Claymore II noticed how the majority of those who acted against him came from the Kurey region and on M4-02 304 ASB Claymore II made a bold move by dissolving the all noble titles within the Kurey and Establishing the Sandy Clay Autonomous Region (SCAR), a governate run exclusively by an individual appointed by the King of Clayistan and the Sandy Clay Regional Army (SCRA) an army sperate to the many petty armies of the nobility and subservient only to the Governor of the SCAR and the King of Clayistan.

On M8-28 315 ASB Anthony Sectile's wife Maria Sectile gave birth to a son who was named Antonio Sectile by Claymore II. On M12-08 337 Maria Sectile gave birth to another son who was named Albert Sectile by his father.

On M12-08 337 ASB Claymore II arranged a marriage between Albert Sectile and Queen Sarah II of the Kingdom of Clayistria within the Loaman Empire and allowed the couple to leave the Terracotta Palace and live in a manor in the coastal town of Warrash. On M4-20 341 ASB Claymore II removed Antonio Sectile from the line of succession because he married a commoner, he recalled Albert Sectile and his wife along with son that they had during their time in Warrash named Carlos Sectile, Albert protested being brought back but was quickly shut down by Claymore II who claimed that now that he was the second in line to the throne and could no longer risk living outside of the palace, Claymore II and Anthony Sectile began being training Albert how to rule the next day.

On M3-17 343 ASB Claymore II whilst training Albert Sectile with his father heard an explosion that came from somewhere in the palace Claymore II had been warned in advance by the Clayistan Royal Guard (CRG) that there was an assassination plot underway. Following the CRG's instructions Claymore II ordered his son and grandson to the saferoom to wait for the arrival of the CRG who would show up in a few hours. A few minutes after arriving they were joined by Maria Sectile. The group remained in the saferoom for six hours before the CRG arrived to remove them. it was discovered shorty after their rescue that the explosion had killed Sarah II and Carlos Sectile the CRG leader present told Claymore II that there must have been two different assassination plots underway. A group of three people were captured by the CRG shortly after Claymore II and his family were freed from the saferoom. On M3-19 343 ASB Claymore II held a meeting with the various heads of the CRG garrisons. Claymore II knew why the CRG had responded the way it did and also knew that the heads he had summoned were not the real leaders of the CRG. He told the CRG representatives that he wanted to use the attack as justification to create a new national army. That same day the Guardsmen of the Clayistan Royal Guard were removed from the CRG and used to create the Clayistan National Army (CNA). The people who had planted the bomb confessed on M3-21 343 ASB and claimed that they were hired by Duke Richard Cloam of the Duchy of Loamshield, Albert Sectile and Claymore II both deduced that the assassination was done to prevent the Kingdom of Clayistria from passing onto Carlos Sectile and leaving the Loaman Empire upon Sarah II's death. Albert asked Claymore II what action was going to be taken against Richard Cloam, Claymore told Albert that he would not risk a war with the Loaman Empire over "a small dispute", Claymore II's rational for this was that he intended to blame the assassination on the lack of competent military intelligence within his vassals and order the vassal militaries to be incorporated into the CNA, he never told this to Albert who left the Terracotta Palace the day after the confrontation, a mere two days before Claymore II went through with his plan.

Claymore II died on M8-26 354 ASB from complications after falling off of a chair.