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Ameron's First Reign

Born to the victorious Liege of Vrel at the end of the Fifth Civil war, by a war-prize sire, Ameron grows up to disappoint both parents. His very Vrellish mother wanted him to be smart, but not bookish. His Lor'Vrellish father, Avatlan, cannot share Ameron's joy of life and fundamental optimism. Ameron is obliged to marry a Demish Pureblood, for political reasons, but is happiest on Monitum with friends, lovers and horse riding. His days of avoiding political challenges end in his twenties when his mother places him in charge of the disastrous Killing War. Shocked by the destruction, Ameron is also open minded enough to learn from captive enemies and negotiates an end to the war known as the Americ Treaty, which calls for mutual isolation by banning use of the Killing Jump. The decision not to press farther into Reetion territory, and to aid in the evacuation of the remaining Reetion nationals (known to later Reetions as "The Old Regime"), is controversial on Fountain Count. He becomes Ava when his father assassinates his mother, and presides over an eventful eleven years of reforms inspired by his Monatese education and desire to strengthen the central authority of the Ava, including monetary stabilization schemes and a welfare system for houseless commoners on Gelion known as "the Ava's Dole".

Ameron is wounded in an assassination attempt by political opponents while meeting with representatives of Rire, in their territory, to re-consider the terms of the Americ Treaty. His First Sworn, a female Liege of Monitum, is fatally wounded protecting him. Ameron is lost in the jump when she dies while piloting it through the Killing Jump to get him to medical help. Incomplete information survives, but enough of the story was told by survivors to account for the exclamation or oath "Ameron's Wound", in English, which is abbreviated to "S'Wound" by some Gelacks, to whom English is as meaningless -- and meaningful in the abstract -- as Latin to most modern Catholics.

The Legend

Ameron becomes something of a patron saint of commoners and the ideal liege of progressive radicals like D'Ander and intellectual Sevolites like the Monatese. Stories inspired by his flamboyant style contribute as well as the number of changes he made, small and large. There is also the famous Ameron Biography, written by Sela Lor'Vrel, his maternal aunt.

Ameron's Second Reign

Ameron emerges from the jump in which his pilot died nearly 200 years later. That amount of time slip is unprecedented, but the contemporary Liege of Montium, Di Mon, is soon convinced the real Ameron has miraculously been restored to Sevildom. Ameron survives his wound but his spirit is dealt a grave blow by studying the history of the intervening years in which many of his reforms toppled and his supporters suffered. Meeting Ayrium of the Purple Alliance, in the novel "Pretenders", puts life back into him--much to the dismay of the over-protective Di Mon. With Amel's help, recruited via Ayrium, a restored Ameron negotiates a deal with the ruling Ava, Ev'rel, who trades direct power now for a son who can child gift for her when he grows up and be a contender for the throne then, also. This child, called "The Throne Price", is stolen as a baby by Amel, who admits it but will not explain why or say where the child was taken. His life is forfeit to Ev'rel as a consequence and he disappears for a while, but she declines to kill him, at least for the moment, and he resumes his life as part of her household. Rumors are rampant to explain all this, but little in the way of hard facts ever emerge publicly.

Ameron retains the long-term goals of a reformer in his second reign, but is much more cautious about it, although still an optimist and gambler in a crisis, with a flamboyant style.

Ev'rel is Ameron's grand daughter via his Demish marriage, in his first reign. In addition to the Throne Price, he also gifts a child to Monitum, who is named Ditatt after Di Mon but called Tatt to distinguish him from his namesake. Ameron also has two love-children with Ayrium, and plays politics with the possibility she is his cher'st, or "soul love", which both Vrellish and Demish respect as an excuse to avoid further child-gifting or marriage, respectively. Ameron is leery of children, as he fears they could interfere with his goals.

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