Cephorus Varian

**Emperor Cephorus Varian** (5E 296–5E 350), also known as **Cephorus the Kind**, and **Cephorus the Childless**, was the Jarl of Solitude and the fourteenth Emperor of Cyrodiil after the death of his grandmother Marlena Varian.

## Biography

### Early years

Cephorus was born on 296th year of the Fifth Era to the Varian Dynasty. He is the eldest son of Talian Varian, the Jarl of Solitude and unknown mother, possibility named Perlena. However the brothers was soon raised by their grandmother the reigning Empress Marlena Varian after the brothers learned that their father, Talian had abandoned them. His younger brother, Claudius who is an skilled General. Just like his brother, Cephorus was an skilled General and become royal family from the nobility gamily, which his father Talian become Jarl of Solitude in 5E 295, the year before Cephorus was born. He spend his childhood as one of the most successful and kind child in Tamriel.

### Jarl of Solitude

At the some time, his father was the Jarl of Solitude in Skyrim and Cephorus was become the Jarl after his father's death in 5E 307 and Cephorus becomes her grandmother Empress Marlena Varian's successor. Over the course as Jarl, Cephorus was cared as the most popular Jarl in Solitude and Skyrim, despited that he was an Imperial, not and Nord. Two years later, the rule of Cephourus caused him to not cared anymore, but abdicated the throne of Jarl. His successor is somehow unknown, but his brother Claudius, maybe become the Jarl.

### Emperor

With her grandmother's death on 5E 318, Cephorus arrived at Imperial City to be crowned Emperor Cephorus Varian, which at aged of twenty-two, the youngest monarch in Cyrodiilic history, succeeding his ancestor and great-great-great-great-great grandmother Marcella Varian's aged at twenty-six.

By 5E 321, Cephorus' reign is notable for the peaceful state of the Empire, with no major revolts or military incursions during this time, and for his governing without ever leaving Cyrodiil. While his brother, Claudius was also successful Imperial General. The brief reign was marred by financial difficulties and his inability to assert his authority over the Imperial army. A revolt by the Penitus Oculatus in 5E 347 essentially find to someone to marry multiple times, finally he married a fellow nobility women by the name, Agrissia, from the Cenilius family.

### Personal life and Death

With Cephorus' reign of thirty-two year reign, Emperor Cephorus had struggles to bore a child, he later married Agrissia only to her death of childbirth the year before Cephrous. With his brother to inherited the throne, Cephorus leaves a mild legacy. The Penitus Oculatus commander said that "The Emperor don't marry and so, we did what we best to prusade him to married before his dynasty collapsed."

With the possibility to reduce a child to succeeded Cephorus, but he died in 5E 350, with Agrissia died pervious year due to childbirth compliticitions. Cephorus was later succeeded by his 51-year-old brother, Claudius III.

## Trivia

* There's no information that Cephorus Varian begin or really rule Solitude, but had a little information that his father died, took rule and have the only two years of his reign as Jarl, as other sources claimed that he ruled more than two.
* A bust of Cephorus is displayed in the Imperial City Palace of the Imperial City. The bust is viewable in *The Elder Scrolls VI: Invasion*, which might description of Cephrous' appearance.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 *Dynasties: The Varians of Cyrodiil*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 *Pocket Guide to the Empire, Fourth Edition*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 *Pocket Guide to the Empire, Fifth Edition*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 *Brief History of the Empire, Book IV*

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