Krasus von Hohenzollern-Jagiellon

His Majesty, in a ceremonial uniform.

Krasus von Hohenzollern-Jagiellon is the Head of State of Prussia-Poland, being the King of Prussia and the King of Poland, and assumed the throne in 1992, in the aftermath of the Coup of August 15 and the beginning of the Insurrection of 1992. Variously condemned or praised both at home and abroad, Krasus, depending on who you ask, is either a tyrant who, at the Reichswehr's urging, massacred rival factions of the anticommunist resistance and betrayed the cause of Prussia-Poland by crushing more open democratic reforms and by pardoning many former Communists, or a champion, alongside the Ministry of War and Reichswehr he commands, of the stability and ordered liberty that Prussia-Poland needs in turblent times.

## Childhood and Early Life

- Something about farming parents hiding his heritage

Eventually, Krasus discovered the truth

## Service with the Prussian-Polish Home Army

Krasus' arrival provided much-needed legitimacy and morale to the Home Army, especially those that were drawn from disgruntled Reichswehr units who held no particular love for liberal democracy or absolute monarchy.

## Seizure of Power and Insurrection of 1992

### Massacre of Sept. 13

As the Civil War ended, on September 13, 1994, Krasus called a meeting with many Cassadian-backed absolutist insurgent leaders, about 200 in total. Ostensibly it was to hammer out a plan for the future of Prussia-Poland after the war.

The meeting, in reality, was a trap and the leaders were subsequently slaughtered by Reichswehr troops. The Cassadian-backed absolutists, in the view of the Reichswehr's high command, were the greatest threat to the 'ordered liberty' that was the Reichswehr's espoused post-war ideology, and had to be eliminated at all costs, and Krasus concurred.

The massacre, for all it's brutality, worked. The absolutist militas fell apart and were either absorbed or hunted down by the Reichswehr.

## Politics

See also: National Pragmatism
, Ordered Liberty

Krasus views himself, and the Reichswehr he leads, as charting a middle course between the societally-destructive chaos of absolute political liberalism and democracy, and the equally destructive(and in Krasus' view, downright Satanic) tyranny of absolute monarchism. He sees his role, and the role of the nobility, as that of exemplar citizen-soldiers charged with setting a moral example for the rest of the nation, as opposed to inherently 'superior' men and women who claim to be ordained by God to wield actual political authority. This markedly different role for the nobility and monarch generally puts him at odds with many other monarchs, and he generally treats absolute monarchs with a special contempt.

His attempts to charge a moderate course render him by far the most popular figure in Prussia-Poland, although large sections of the populace, to his mild chagrin, continue to support the republicans and the absolutists, and especially in the latter case through violence.

## Family and Personal Life

See also: The Hohenzollern-Jagiellons, The Prussian-Polish Royal Court, Court Etiquette in Prussia-Poland.

Krasus has a wife, Sophia Laurenberg von Hohenzollern-Jagiellon, and three children: Berengar, Adelheid, and Casimir. He generally has a close and affectionate relationship with his wife and all three of his children, although he is somewhat distant from Casimir compared to his other two children due to Casimir's status as the youngest child and the last in the line of succession, as well as Berengar's considerable mental issues developed after his deployment to Afghanistan.

### Sophia Laurenberg von Hohenzollern-Jagiellon

Krasus once loved, and still loves, his wife. Time, the stresses of raising children, and running the state, however, have exhausted much of the inital passion, and the two act much more like a pair of very close friends as opposed to a husband and wife.

### Berengar and Ida Findehoof

Krasus is ambivalent about Berengar's love for Ida Findehoof; while relieved that Ida is not an aristocrat and viewing her presumed qualities as a diplomat and intellectual in a positive light, he does not know Ida's religious leanings and is somewhat wary of her ties to Teressien's government and elite; both of which could, potentially, make it politically difficult for Berengar to marry Ida - and thus, in Krasus' view, to marry at all, given his long-standing contempt for the concept of mistresses.