Tessian Carrel
His Majesty, King Tessian Carrel (a.k.a. Tess)
Tessian Carrel is the reigning King of Aria. He is a 33-year-old Human and is, at least in theory, the absolute ruler of his realm. He has ruled Aria for 8 years since the death of his father, Marcel III. Tessian was born the only son of Marcel III and Renee of Dunmore in the year 200 AF. He has inherited a dynamic kingdom of many varied races and cultures that is experiencing a huge economic boom in some regions and a cultural stagnation in others.
Tessian is a handsome, athletic man that is unwed and without issue, a source of real concern to many in the kingdom's ruling circles. As the only child of the previous monarch, should something happen to him the kingdom would almost certainly be thrust into a dynastic crisis like none it has seen for centuries.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Tessian is a tall, fit and very handsome man. He is quite aware of his charms and appeal in the eyes of many women, but steadfastly refuses to discuss or consider an arranged marriage that would both benefit the prospects of the Kingdom and his royal family's future.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Raised the only child of an elderly King, Tessian had a very lonely childhood. He had very few friends and even fewer companions he could actually trust. His father, Marcel III, was an indecisive and weak King. His mother, Queen Renee Dechatione, was not fond of her husband, the King. She was far more attached to her father, the Count of Dunmor, Ranald Dechateone and spent significant amounts of the years away from court and at her father's estates.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Tessian is fully aware of the loss of power, authority and prestige that the Crown has suffered over the last 97 years, and he is frequently reminded of how his father's, grandfather's and great-grandfather's legacies are remembered. He desperately wants to repair and restore the power of the King in Aria and secure his own legacy, but has no idea how to accomplish this. Due to divisions within his Kingdom and even within his own Royal Court that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather allowed to develop, he has little support or advice as to how best to bring about the reforms and changes he so desperately wants to enact. As much as he desperately wants to be the decisive and strong King that his father and grandfather were not, he is showing a distressing tendency in his own reign to be just as weak-willed and tempermental as they were.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Tessian is increasingly aware that his unwed status is placing his kingdom and his dynasty is growing danger. While he is only 33 years old, he is the only child of the previous king and he has no issue of his own. Should anything happen to him, the crown would pass to the oldest male descendant of Roche Carrel, because Marcel II had only one son, Marcel III. Roche had five legitimate sons after Marcel II, so the next King of Aria must descend from one of those princes. None doubt that, should the unthinkable happen, there would be a succession crisis and possibly civil war.
Likes & Dislikes
Has an unreasonable dislike for his cousin, the Prince of Fangort, and associates all policies and interactions with Fangorian business and trade as with the Prince. They have only actually met twice in their lives and interacted only superficially, so no one is sure why this is the case.
Tessian has a difficult relationship with the Dwarven Cities of Gorgomoth, a region of his kingdom made up of six semi-independent city states almost ntirely populated by Dwarves. These cities have managed to build a social, economic and military infrastructure that makes them almost entirely self sufficient. All proper and required taxes, tithes and tributes are paid to the King as expected, but very little else is exchanged or shared that isn't priced in a manner to profit the Dwarves first. Tessian is both terribly jealous of the success and prosperity of the region, and terribly intimidated by it.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Tessian does not count many people as close friends, but has had many friendly associations during his life. Lord Durant Carrel, a cousin and the royal legate to Imesse, is one. Another is Duke Dogar am Lanni of the Kingdom of Lesser Imesse.
Less friendly relations are held with his cousin, Prince Rodin III Argoni of the Principality of Fangort, with whom he has an irrational dislike and has openly attempted to interdict trade and commerce with.
Family Ties
Tessian does not enjoy a particularly successful relationship with his immediate family. His mother has never taken an active role in his upbringing, preferring to spend most of her time secluded within her apartments are her family's palatial estates in Dunmor. He has allowed himself to become visibly upset at his maternal grandfather, the Count of Dunmor, Ranald Dechateone, on several occasions, and has even barred him from attending the royal court on several occasions.
Species
Ethnicity
Honorary & Occupational Titles
King of Aria, Protector of the Holy Faith, Lord High Marshall of the Realm, Count of Malamor and Sovereign of Gorgomoth
Currently Held Titles
Age
33
Family
Children
Current Residence
Malamor
Belief/Deity
Pantheon of Heaven
Aligned Organization
Ruled Locations
