Skrá Álfþósson

## King Skrá Álfþórsson Einaren

A painting of King Skrá in the throws of his madness

**King Skrá Álfþórsson Einaren the Mad** (ᛋᚴᚱᚨ ᚨᛚᚠᚦᛟᚱᛋᛋᚮᚿ ᛂᛁᚿᛆᚱᛂᚿ) also known as **the Cursed King** was the third King of The Holy Kingdom of Beinlandi and was the second longest reigning monarch of Beinlandi after King Loft Leifsson.

## Early Life

Skrá was born to King Álfþór Einarsson and Queen Anna in the early years of his fathers reign. Skrá's early life was of little note, he was normally a shy boy, however, he was prone to random incidents of temper and cruelty towards his servants. It is alleged that the young Prince's personality and mood could change on a whim, yet this foreshadowing was often overlooked by the royal staff and his parents.

In his teenage years Skrá became more and more violent, one incident of note was the beating of the servant boy. As Skrá was being dressed for dinner by a boy servant the boy accidentally spilled a drink upon Skrá's clothing. Within an instant Skrá's mood changed into a overly wrathful one. He slapped the boy to the ground before retrieving a wooden rod and beating the child within an inch of his life.

## Later life

Despite this concerning behavior Skrá would go on to find a wife in Ingibjörg, the daughter of a minor Beinlandish Noble. Their introduction was entirely set up by the pair's parents, despite this they got along fine and would produce an heir shortly after their wedding, Prince Leif.

### The Madness of King Skrá

After the eventual death of his father Skrá ascended to the throne of Beinlandi, at first his reign was looked on with anticipation and promise, however that would eventually change. Skrá became obsessed with his mortality and began to try and find a way to live forever and to cheat Daudin of using him in the cycle of decay and renewal. It is said that for this Daudin cursed King Skrá to slowly go mad...

By the year 117 Eftir the King had became seriously deranged, speaking for hours without pause and foaming from the mouth at random. As this progressed Skrá's vocabulary became increasingly complex and creative. One incident of note is that on a stroll about the grounds of his castle Skrá is said to have shook hands with a tree after mistaking it for the Duke of Hálga. Another incident is when Skrá called for his wife to help him categorize each and every carpet in the castle by colour, or a few days later when he decided to have tea with his dog during the early hours of the morning.

The royal physicians tried their best to treat the King whos madness was worsening by the day. They would tie the King to a chair in order to restrain himself in his worst bouts of madness and was often leached. As his illness worsened so too did his wife's health; Queen Ingibjörg had stayed loyally at Skrá's side but his state took so bad a tole on the woman that she soon passed from the stress. With his wife and best friend dead Skrá would finally descend into full madness.

By 120 Eftir the King had devolved into a near animal; the half blind Skrá would prance about the palace nude thinking he was an animal who needed to drink the blood of the pure in order to stay young . Randomly during conversations, banquets, or privy meetings he would strip down and run around on all fours growling and defecating. In the dark hours of the night Skrá is said to have crept into prisoners cells where he would cut them and drink their blood for their youth.

### The Regency and Death

After having returned from a campaign to the south Prince Leif found his father in this far gone state and with the consent of the King's advisors he went to meet with his father. In the meeting Leif and a multitude of soldiers restrained the animalistic King. Skrá would be taken by ship to Einaren Kastala where he would be put under house arrest. Leif would be made Regent for the next 26 years as his father devolved even further on his secluded island castle.

By the time of his death in 146 Eftir Skrá had became fully feral, walking about on all fours in the nude, eating raw meat, and talking to hallucination. Despite this state it is said by the guards watching Skrá who would occasionally become violent, that he was happy.