Marian von Auerbüren

> "Ah yes, 'Marian will do something'. Why don't you do something?"
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> - **Emperor Marian** to General Valle Schmitz, one of the 'secondary antagonists'
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### Title(s)

Consul of Naalsachte, Emperor of Greater Germania

### Occupation

Consul of Naalsachte, Emperor of Greater Germania, General of the Inater Despotate, Officer of the Inater Despotate, Officer of the Federation of Spore Creatures

### Affiliation

Republican and Imperial Naalsachte, Inater Despotate, Federation of Spore Creatures

## Biographical information

### Date of death

December 2, 1951 (ascended at 205 years old)

### Spouse(s)

Iris Schwerner (later Iris Dietrich) (1776-1841)

### Children

Theo Dietrich, Carl Dietrich, Charles Dietrich, Philip Dietirch

### Residence

1st Dietrich Estate (1746-1791)Faerann Encampment and Residence (1791-1799)
Palace of Vienna (1799-1815)
None (1815-1816)
Dietrich Cabin (1816-1851)
2nd Dietrich Estate (1851-1951)

## Misc

### Theme(s)

None yet

**Emperor Marian I,** real name Marian Dietrich von Auerbüren, and known by both historiographers and by his followers as simply the "Second Coming of Astvaldur" (although he *hates* that name), was the sole Emperor of Greater Germania from 1802 to 1815 (not counting its successor the Empire of Hamburg), a skilled mage and a world-renowned military strategist, commander and general who was set back by the very poor general corp ensuing from the Great Purge of Naalsachte towards the tail end of the Republican period (which also led to him overthrowing the republican government). Despite these esteemed titles, Marian is really quite humble and reserved, and is also a tad shy, often preferring to speak in short, blunt, curt sentences rather than going on long monologues. He makes relatively infrequent appearances throughout the Revolutionary and Marian Wars, as he is often commanding troops on other fronts. He has a Spyrm pet known as Adlai. Adlai particularly also likes to disguises himself as a piece of clothing to prank others with a little, non-threatening lightning shock, but is also a potent whip and can utilize magic (most Spores are very weak in terms of magic).

## History

### Marian Wars and Revolutionary Saga

Marian is the penultimate boss and main antagonist of the Revolutionary Saga, but mostly acts non-hostile (although VERY threatening in appearance) towards the heroes. However, throughout the final parts of the Revolutionary Saga, Marian slowly becomes more corrupted by the Maroonian Spire, made of Dark Crimson magic, near his palace, with it starting off as acting out-of-character (he is normally an excellent boss to his subjects, but his reputation slowly declines as the saga goes on especially once the tides begin to turn in the mid 1810s) and culminating in physical changes (red eyes and black aura) as well as a voice that sounds like one of a legion and even entering a downright catatonic state before his final battle while this horror of a split personality takes over. The battle against him is ridding him entirely of the influence. After this is done, he becomes flustered and surprised that the heroes are already in his palace (unaware of what happened while the Spire took over), and later prepares to fight them *again* out of obligation before the situation gets explained to him. Thus, he fights alongside the heroes to defeat the "Crimson Horror", unleashed after Marian's defeat and surrounding the Maroonian Spire, before destroying it entirely.

### Post-Marian Wars

After the Marian Wars, Marian and his family are exiled from the entirety of Germania (including Naalsachte, Wintermachtia and Gammeria) according to the Treaty of Salzburg, and being reviled in the rest of Europe he decides to flee up north to the Spore Mainland. But fighting in North Germania continued and the remnants of the Imperial Government continued to attempt to get him back, to which he declined. Marian and his family would settle down in the growing city of Inaterlin in 1816 after a 1-year long journey, where they would establish a cabin. Being allowed to go to Sporia with 10% (which is still a lot) of his wealth and his old emperor's clothing, the ex-Emperor would soon get a lot of unwanted attention from the native Inaters, as the Spores at the time were dirt-poor (poverty in Sporia was on average over 97% in 1815 which was IMMENSELY high even for those standards). Eventually, due to his military genius, which was sought after, Marian was invited to join the Inater Armed Forces but declined due to his heavy anti-war attitude at the time. After the Lunar Cataclysm settled, he finally accepted a second invitation in 1826, well proving himself in the Inater Army (which had incredibly high standards for its military, being a Spore country and all) even despite the extremely poor supply situation it had at the time where most Spore soldiers barely had any equipment, if any at all. Compared to other Spore states which hung on to their dying traditionalistic and reactionary ideals, the Inater Despotate was well in the path of reform, actually deciding to tap into the plentitude of minibiomes, with an abundancy of natural resources, present in the Spore Mainland to make up for being cut off from most international trade (this was during the peak of the Sporophobic Fever). The Inaters, not deterred by Funtime, Declavan, and New Germanian hostility towards their people, would make their own projects to industrialize their lands despite having little foreign investors to go off of. Thus, Marian would not only witness but also contribute to a national transformation during his service in the Inater Army, and would notice the supply situation in the forces he commanded improving more and more as the years went on. In 1838, the Inater Despotate would wage war on the Maggots for the final time in the pre-unification period. Marian would command the Inater 8th Division in the northern front. In the early 1839 Battle of Dekotary, the 8th Division under Marian would use "mines" planted by Atoll Burrs, Inaters, COBs and Kylens in order to deter underground Maggot forces from striking behind the lines with remarkable success. This was the first time that the Spores had ever used Atoll Burr fluids in such a way, and would later be used (although very sporadically, which was one of the reasons why the Spores were defeated alongside Ants being able to 'sense' and warn others of the mines, something the Maggots could not) by the Second Spore Republic in the Spore-Ant War. This decisive victory in Dekotary would lead to the Inater 8th Division pushing all the way to Maggoscow, where the Inater king planned to stop. Marian, however, had other plans. Instead of taking Maggoscow, he decided to let other Inater divisions reinforce the fronts and then request for EOBs to be deployed; he was planning to invade St. Maggotsburg. The Inaters thought he was crazy (St. Maggotsburg is a floating island), but decided to go forth with it anyway; this WAS the same Marian who conquered much of Europe. With the Battle of Maggoscow beginning, Marian took the opportunity to take the focused Maggots by surprise and landed significant numbers of forces on St. Maggotsburg using EOBs (with COBs to attack any other COBs that tried to attack the EOBs). St. Maggotsburg was intended to be a backup capital, so Marian going after it first took the Maggot Premier by complete surprise as he expected the Inaters to attack Maggoscow and then let the Maggots be. Once there, he took the city on the floating islands in the matter of a few hours, as the invasion had disoriented Maggot forces so much they simply surrendered to his men; they couldn't even withdraw back to Maggoscow. Marian left the island of St. Maggotsburg victorious and was commemorated by the Inaters for doing the seemingly impossible (multiple other invasions of St. Maggotsburg were attempted in the past that ended in utter failure, this was the first and only successful attack on the floating islands). Marian sent forces into Maggoscow with his EOBs to invade the Maggoscow, which were destroyed; the Maggots wouldn't fall for such a trick again...or so they thought. In reality, it proved to be a double-subversion; Marian's forces broke through the southern gates of Maggoscow relatively easily, seeing as their decoy trick had worked, and flooded into the city, preventing the Premier's escape and capturing him. The Maggots surrendered soon after, and got completely annexed into the Inater Despotate in the Treaty of Ommater, starting the Despotate's rise.

At home, Marian's decisive victories were commemorated and commended. Marian had completely and utterly obliterated the Maggots almost single-handedly. Both he and the entire 8th Division he commanded received solarium medals (the highest order of merit in the Inater Despotate) and Marian got a Sporepedia, which was rare in the world, let alone in the (at-the-time) very poor Spore Mainland. Despite these victories, Marian felt...hollow. He was already celebrated before and saw this as nothing new, and instead had much more of a disgusted and conflicted feeling. Marian did not like war at all and he liked even less of being thought of as an 'excellent general'. Pressure forced poor Marian to stay in the Inater Army despite objections to how he was being venerated at home, which was worsened by the death of his wife Iris in 1841. Luckily for him he did not have to fight in any major conflicts (he was not sent to the battle lines of the Inater-Dorelky War or Inater-Byhorn War, though they were both major victories for the Despotate) as the coalescing of Sporia from then forth was not decided by violence but instead by the rise of spheres of influence; specifically two spheres of influence...

The **EYELACTIC REPUBLIC**

and the **INATER DESPOTATE**

Meanwhile, on March 4, 1846, Marian finally resigned from his position as general, preferring to remain as an officer of a garrison and already stressed from being the national hero of both Naalsachte AND Sporia where he would remain all the way until Sondre Gunderson's 'emergency takeover' in 1907 out of protest. However, Marian's command of the Inater 8th Division led to it going from being an ordinary division to becoming the Despotate's and later Sporia's most elite division all the way until 1921. The Ant Empire's invasion would lead to the 8th Division fleeing to ANLA held land after defeat in the Battle of Nevintia; they later fled with reduced numbers to the Vaipura Queendom, then neutral Greenland and finally the Arian Federation where they would eventually join the Arian Armed Forces. They would side with the Arian Free Army and the Arian Union State, and as such they would remain an existent entity (also fighting in the North American front of the Prisarian Wars) to this day as the 1st Sporian Division of Aria.

After retirement from the officer corps of the Federation of Spore Creatures, Marian would live a modest life in Inaterlin throughout the First Coalition War. Marian would vocally protest the Redian Swarm during the Second Spore Coalition War, which Omega Spore couldn't do anything about as, for one, many of the secret police in the Inater region at the time were still very pro-Marian, and another being that Marian is an incredibly strong person (being able to hold off some of the most powerful people in the world during the Revolutionary Saga) and would likely be able to take them all on at once regardless (which was something they knew). Omega Spore (a fake Omega Spore, one of many) was so enraged by this that he considered actually subduing Marian himself, and began preparations to actually face him head-on. This never came to fruition, as being one of the weaker Omega Spores (only having 4 Spores infused, all Arelves) of the bunch, a few days of preparation made him know all too well he would get stomped. Thus, Omega Spore saw it as not worth the effort and Marian's protest against the Redian Swarm would be a significant thorn on Omega Spore's side in ensuring popular support (as it practically invalidated him among Inaters). Finally, during the early Cold War, Marian would ascend to the Zephyrian Dominion in 1951 at 205 years old (he would likely have lived MUCH longer, seeing as he 'ascended' at the equivalence of age 43) thus, for practical reasons, marking him dead.