King Alphrick I

*(List of Monarchs)*

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**Half-Siblings**

* King Deadmund of Gwavkado
* Prince Æscent
* Prince Alchelm
* Prince Beorhbold
* Prince Ceolwold
* Prince Coenward
* Prince Cuþwiu
* Prince Cynard
* Prince Ealhard
* Prince Eanworth
* Prince Eardcen
* Prince Horiß
* Prince Jægarren
* Prince Osledd
* Prince Sigwig
* Princess Gwenlynn
* Princess Lucrette
* Princess Maurella
* Princess Morca
* Princess Mula
* Princess Pendine
* Princess Sexhere
* Princess Silphia
* Princess Swanalla
* Princess Þeoffa

      **Alphrick I** (initially spelled **Ælphric**; April 2nd, 695 - July 27th, 758) was the founder and first monarch of Limelon from 729 until his death in 758. He is a direct ancestor of every Monarch to sit on the Limelon Throne.

      Alphrick claimed three separate titles of King that were split evenly among his three sons upon his death. The Kingdom of Limelon went to his eldest son, Ælphric "Elderberry" (Alphrick), the mountainous fjords of Simmercia went to his middle son, Owine (Owynn), and the bushlands of Angloupe went to his youngest son, Godwain (Godwynn).

## Appearance

      Alphrick is an average-sized caucasian man with dark purple irises, long messy mint-colored hair and a mint-colored beard. While not visible on his sprite, he has freckled skin, sharper canines and ears with pointed tips. Like many other Limelon Monarchs, he wears a large golden crown on top of his head.

      IIn his portrait he wears chainmail armor on his torso with a red shirt underneath and a Burgundy-colored cape. While not visible in the portrait; he also wears a peach-colored belt, forest-green leggings and golden-brown boots.

## Personality

      During his life, Alphrick was known to be a man who put his people above all else, which is what made him so popular during his era and why his people chose him to be their King. Alphrick would be willing to make immoral or non-ideal decisions to appease those who supported him, but he was by no means a tyrant, even by modern standards.

## History

### Early Life

      Alphrick was born in the year AD 695 as a Prince of an ancient Kingdom known as Gwavkado. Alphrick's father, King Æpplewulf had a clear favoritism towards him, even though Alphrick was the King's ninth son. The exact reason why Alphrick was the favorite child is unknown, but the most likely reason was that Alphrick was said to be the least physically deformed of all his siblings. Æpplewulf never really understood why so many of his children looked slightly off, as all his sister-wives seemed perfectly healthy during their pregnancies.

      While having many half-brothers and half-sisters, Alphrick really only got along with his three older full-brothers; Æphred, Prince Æþerstan|Æþerstan]] and Æpplebald and his younger full-brother, Ælfheard. Shortly after Alphrick reached 18 years of age, he would be given the task of selecting which of his virgin relatives would become his bride, a choice that would normally be decided by randomly drawing names out of a helmet. Alphrick chose his half-sister, Gwenlynn, the only full-sibling of Prince Deadmund, the eldest of Æpplewulf's sons. However, not long after their wedding, Æpplewulf would catch the dreaded common cold and die as a result, with his son Deadmund succeeding him as King.

      The first few years of Deadmund's reign were uneventful for the Kingdom of Gwavkado, which allowed the new King to get better acquainted with the new husband of his beloved sister. Gwenlynn bore Alphrick a son, also named Alphrick (nicknamed "Elderberry") in 715, filling the King with so much joy that he gave Alphrick and his brothers high ranking positions among his cabinet.

      Deadmund thought he'd spice things up a bit by picking his brothers jobs based on what they were good at rather than choosing at random. Æphred became the Lord Treasurer, Æþerstan the Secretary of Diplomacy, Æpplebald the High Steward, Alphrick the Secretary of War and Ælfheard the Chamberlain of the Palace. The five of them were hired at the ages of 27, 23, 21, 20 and 14 respectively.

      A year after becoming High Steward, Prince Æpplebald was going through the King's mail when he realized there had been a letter sent by Lulachlan, the stepson of the King of the Apriskots. Æpplebald, despite knowing that deep down this was of high importance, skimmed through the letter and gathered that Lulachlan wanted to meet the Gwavkado diplomat for trade discussions. Æpplebald told the King and brother Æþerstan what he knew, and since the two of them could not read, they took his word for it. Æþerstan gathered a small number of forces and set off to go meet with the Apriskot Prince, not knowing they were walking right into a trap.

### Macbrooke's Invasion

      A fortnight after Æþerstan's departure, his family began to grow concerned about when he was coming back. Prince Ælfheard went around asking everyone in the Palace if they had any clues on why he wasn't responding to any of King Deadmund's letters. Æpplebald, realizing his grave mistake, packed his belongings and fled. It is said that before leaving, Æpplebald wished to bring a single woman with him, and was forced to choose between a wife, and his beloved daughter Ælißa, so he decided to make his daughter his wife.

            This classic royal love story was later written into a novel, "Purplex: Insist To Be In Broad".

      It would turn out that Æpplebald's cowardly leave was what would end up saving his life, as the very next day, Gwavkado was invaded by King Macbrooke of Apriskotland. The number of Apriskot soldiers far outnumbered that of King Deadmund's army, but Alphrick still tries his best to lead his men to something that resembled a victory. Throughout late 716 and early 717, multiple of Alphrick's half-brothers fell in battle, including Deadmund, whose teenage son, Ælphberht surrendered the Gwavkado Throne to Macbrooke instantly.

      Macbrooke proclaimed himself the King of Gwavkado, and since he was now in control of more than one Kingdom, he could now by law call himself the proud owner of an empire. The Apriskot King only wanted to capture Gwavkado just for the benefits and had no real interest in the nation itself, so he left with his son, Prince Flynnláech to go back to his comfy throne in Apriskotland. Left behind in Gwavkado were; Macbrooke's younger sons Kennyth and Stannis, daughter Maqenzie, son-in-law Eocháed, step-son Lulachlan and nephew Induff. The former royal Gwavkado family were kicked out of their palace and had to settle living in their crummy twelve bedroom manor.

      Alphrick and his family, now with the status of high class citizens, lived quietly under their new Apriskot overlords. Alphrick's wife, Gwenlynn gave birth to a daughter, Charlot in the year 718, though the timing would be unfortunate due to the brand new law put out by Prince Kennyth. As the Apriskots were a christian nation, they now required all newborn Gwavkadian babies to be baptized. Knowing that the forced conversion of Christianity would forbid the Gwavkado sacred traditions of "keeping bloodlines pure", Alphrick finally had enough and created a rebellious group called the Knights of the Cater.

### Gwavkado Rebellions

      Throughout the next three years, the Cater performed numerous minor attacks, hoping the invaders would get annoyed and leave, which unfortunately was not too effective. Just as Alphrick was about to give up on giving up and double down with an aggressive attack, he received word that his brother Æpplebald had returned to the Kingdom.

      When confronting his presumed deceased brother, Alphrick eventually asked how Æpplebald snuck into Gwavkado unnoticed, to which Æpplebald just showed his brother a glowing green rock. Alphrick's eldest brother, Æphred recognized this object to be the fabled Green Relick, a magical stone that can not only change one's appearance, but can also make them entirely invisible.

      Another year later, circa 722 and the Cater were posing as far more of a nuisance than ever to the Apriskot Princes that were in control of Gwavkado. The constant amount of raids and pranks that Alphrick was causing had gotten so bad that it had reached the attention of King Macbrooke all the way back in Apriskotland. Upon learning that a giant painting of himself with a small penis had been placed in the middle of Gwavimoel Town Square, the King got so angry that he, out of pure rage, strangled his son Flynnláech to death and then proceeded to scream so loud that his lungs exploded.

      Upon hearing the tragic fate of his father and half-brother, Prince Kennyth was crowned the new monarch of Apriskotland as King Kennyth IV. The new King of Apriskotland had low chances of inheriting the Throne, being his father's second son, so Kennyth wanted to personally thank Alphrick for driving his father to madness.

      King Kennyth offered the people of Gwavimoel a "rare, one of a kind" picture of a monkey to whoever first gave away Alphrick's hideout. The Knights of the Cater were soon informed that Kennyth was on his way to what the Cater assumed to be getting revenge. As expected, the King walked down to the entry hall, asking to "give Alphrick what he deserved." Kennyth's happy tone would come to a halt upon noticing Ælphberht sneaking up behind him with a dagger. The King snapped and commanded his guards to pin Ælphberht down and gouge his eyes out, the pain of which would end up killing the young ex-prince. Kennyth IV raided the Gwavkado hideout, stealing supplies, the Green Relick and six of Alphrick's half-sisters.

      While unprepared for the loss of supplies and family members, Æphred expected Kennyth to take the Green Relick and leave, so he broke apart the stone into two pieces, saving a half of the Relick. Æphred and Alphrick's younger brother, Ælfheard was confused why his brother didn't just give Kennyth a tiny piece of the Relick since he clearly didn't know he was stealing the entire rock. Æphred explained that the Relicks rock coverings are just shells, and that each of the Relicks has a core. If a piece is broken off that isn't attached to the core, it'll slowly dissolve and regenerate on the piece that *is* attached to the core. Æphred's explanation was long and boring, so his brothers paid no attention to his rambles.

### The Three Witches Plot

      The Knights of the Cater spent months trying to think of a plan to save both the Green Relick's core (which at this point Kennyth had noticed his piece had been getting larger) and their sisters. Making a plan did become slightly easier after Alphrick's half-sister Þeoffa sent a letter expressing that she and the others were much happier with the Apriskots and she planned to marry Kennyth and become the Queen of Apriskots.

      With little time left, the Knights of the Cater were desperate for an idea and had to resort to asking their sisters and/or wives for help. Gwenlynn came up with a plan to use the Relick's powers to disguise themselves as witches and scare the King's foolish brother-in-law, Eocháed into giving back the rest of the Relick. As there were no better plans on the table, Alphrick put his wife's idea into action and had his three other sisters, Lucrette, Maurella and Silphia disguise themselves to be even more deformed, and they went off to hide in the nearby woods.

      Later that day, Lord Eocháed was bringing back home a cake he bought in a hut in the woods until he saw the disguised sisters of Alphrick suddenly appear out of thin air. Eocháed dropped his cake from his fear, not because he was afraid of witches, but because he misinterpreted the three ladies for goblins, which he had a phobia for. Lucrette, Maurella and Silphia did not originally plan to have green skin, they just snorted some of the Green Relicks dust while waiting for their target to show up.

      The three tried to tell Eocháed through riddles that his brother-in-law was a tyrant and could not be trusted with the Green Relick, which wasn't getting through and the three spoke in a more straightforward manner. Eocháed came to the conclusion that these Goblins were telling him to give the Green Relick back to Alphrick and co., so he did just that without suspicion or realization of what was really going on.

      When Kennyth could not find where his prized possession had gone off to, Eocháed told the King that the Relick had been stolen by Vikings, which were just a relatively new threat at the time. Kennyth IV declared war against the utterly confused King Bjornabas Erricksson of Dinemark, starting the First Cool War (723-735). Eocháed, not being able to hide his lies anymore, went into his wife Princess Maqenzie's room despite being banned from entering by her, and explained his experience with the three "Goblins" and how her half-brother was prophesied to be a tyrant. This knowledge worried the Princess and made her realize she would get Kennyth off the Throne by any means necessary. Maqenzie thought that poisoning her brother would be a little too far, so she instead poisoned his younger brother, Stannis and put the vial of poison in the King's chambers.

      The King of Apriskotland was put on trial for the murder of his brother, and while he was already confident that his fiancée was to blame and he would be let go, his half-sister begged to be his lawyer. Maqenzie was allowed to bring in a witness, which unexpectedly was the King's favorite horse, Bojaq. The Princess asked Bojaq "yay or nay" whether his master was innocent, to which the horse responded with the latter option. Kennyth IV was taken off the Throne, exiled from Gwavkado and his title of King went over to Eocháed, who was one of the three candidates for the next King along with his wife's maternal half-brother Lulachlan, and her cousin, Induff.

## Trivia

* Alphrick is partially based on the legendary King Brutus I of Britain along with the real-life King Alfred the Great of Wessex, whom Alphrick is named after.

* Alphabetical

King Alphrick II **•**
King Alphrick III **•**
King Johnwin I **•**
King Rickward I **•**
King Rickward II

King Johnwin II **•**
King Stefmund I **•**
King Johnwin III **•**
King Edgard I **•**
King Alphrick IV **•**
King Hargold Axebeard

King Wulfred Bluecloak **•**
King Harthagold **•**
King Leofrick Snakeye **•**
King Wulfred Warfoot **•**
King Rickward III **•**
King Rickward IV

King Hecktor Hardragon **•**
King Rickward V **•**
Queen Catherick **•**
Queen Anha I **•**
King Taxweld I **•**
King Edgard II

King Taxweld II **•**
King Edgard III **•**
King Josyph **•**
King Wilmore I **•**
King Edgard IV **•**
King Henrick I

King Nickoliss **•**
King Georgeoff **•**
King Henrick II **•**
King Henrick III **•**
King Henrick IV **•**
King Alphrick V

King Johnwin IV **•**
King Frander I **•**
Queen Elibet I **•**
King Edgard V **•**
King Wilmore II **•**
King Wilmore III

King Alphrick VI **•**
King Stefmund II **•**
King Henrick V **•**
King Rickward VI **•**
King Wilmore IV **•**
King Henrick VI

King Donford I **•**
Queen Margarick I **•**
King Donford II **•**
King Donford III **•**
King Donford IV **•**
King Alphrick VII

King Edgard VI **•**
King Frander II **•**
King Rickward VII **•**
Queen Elibet II **•**
King Rickward VIII **•**
King Wilmore VI

King Donford V **•**
King Donford VI **•**
Queen Anha II **•**
King Alphrick VIII **•**
King Johnwin V **•**
King Frander III

King Stefmund IV **•**
King Johnwin VI **•**
King Donford VII **•**
Queen Margarick II **•**
King Donford VIII **•**
 Claimants

King Godwynn of Angloupe

Co-King Arthor

Empress Marilynda

King-Consort Peterren

King Stefmund III of Simmercia

King Wilmore V of Angloupe

Regent King Charlez

King Alphrick II **•**
King Alphrick III **•**
King Alphrick IV **•**
King Alphrick V **•**
King Alphrick VI **•**
King Alphrick VII **•**
King Alphrick VIII

Queen Anha I **•**
Queen Anha II

Co-King Arthor

Queen Catherick

Regent King Charlez

King Donford I **•**
King Donford II **•**
King Donford III **•**
King Donford IV **•**
King Donford V **•**
King Donford VI **•**
King Donford VII **•**
King Donford VIII

King Edgard I **•**
King Edgard II **•**
King Edgard III **•**
King Edgard IV **•**
King Edgard V **•**
King Edgard VI

Queen Elibet I **•**
Queen Elibet II **•**
Queen Elibet III

King Frander I **•**
King Frander II **•**
King Frander III

King Georgeoff

King Godwynn

King Hargold Axebeard **•**
King Harthagold

King Hecktor Hardragon

King Henrick I **•**
King Henrick II **•**
King Henrick III **•**
King Henrick IV **•**
King Henrick V **•**
King Henrick VI

King Johnwin I **•**
King Johnwin II **•**
King Johnwin III **•**
King Johnwin IV **•**
King Johnwin V **•**
King Johnwin VI

King Josyph

King Leofrick Snakeye

Queen Margarick I **•**
Queen Margarick II

Empress Marilynda

King Nickoliss

King Owynn

King-Consort Peterren

King Rickward I **•**
King Rickward II **•**
King Rickward III **•**
King Rickward IV **•**
King Rickward V **•**
King Rickward VI **•**
King Rickward VII **•**
King Rickward VIII

King Stefmund I **•**
King Stefmund II **•**
King Stefmund III **•**
King Stefmund IV

King Taxweld I **•**
King Taxweld II

King Wilmore I **•**
King Wilmore II **•**
King Wilmore III **•**
King Wilmore IV **•**
King Wilmore V **•**
King Wilmore VI

King Wulfred Bluecloak **•**
King Wulfred Warfoot