the emancipator, the dragons fangs, the unmoved, the approaching storm, the executioner, Dragon trained assassin

Prince and Second Emperor of Stanzgar

mid 20s

Male

keeps face clean shaven except on campaign

Short and slicked back

Black

5'10"

170

no marks per say, but gives off an air of danger and calm when he enters a room

Athletic

light

Stanzgarian

Blue-green

despises much of the stanzgarian nobility for what he saw as driving his father towards the grave, dislikes the talarans after their second rebellion

none

dour, heavy handed, kind, pragmatic,

seeing his fathers goals and dreams finished and upheld, maintaining the empire his father created,

Nicolas' father was a man who knew that political change would take time, so he worked slowly and subtly, Nicolas does not do subtle, no half measures,
impatience

swordsmanship (trained by a literal dragon)
despite everything statesmanship (trained by his father)
strategy
cooking
fine metal working

poetry
painting
sitting quietly in the gardens
games of stratagy

dour and straight forward

goat kebabs

Stags

The rapier

a doll given to him by Eve Talakar

Goldenrod after meeting Eve Talakar

Second Emperor of Stanzgar, statesman, general

wants the empire and the treaty with Atlania to succeed and out live him

follows both the stanzgarian church of the one and also the atlanian religion

prince and emperor to be in, later in life becomes the second emperor

born in the fall

Born just before his fathers rebellion began, Darius left him in the care of a powerful friend he had met during his time in the Goltari lands (Si'akar the Dremwing dragon not related to the drakes) who spent the rest of the rebellion and a large amount of time after that training and teaching him, including the stupidity of honor duels, telling him that duels are to the death, would join in the fighting in Talara and there meet Arthur Greykeep and his band of adventures, participated in the second undead extermination of Atlania spends the majority of his life serving as a heavy handed but fair emperor except in a few cases, a few months after his ascension to the throne he outright banned slavery in the empire and freed all slaves (although rumors would persist of underground slave rings), would also deal with the Second Talaran rebellion, where his father had been heavy handed with the Talarans Nicolas would be out right brutal, he would see to it that any dissenting nobles and every priest was gathered into the capitol city and shelled it from the coast with a powerful spell cannon. He also created the border defenses that see to it that no Talaran leaves their homeland except through back channels and secret cave tunnels.

Well educated

several cats, dogs, horses, and other exotic animals

mid 20s at the signing of the Treaty of Unity