Prince Alexander Caius of Aaun

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Alexander Caius Alstion Alexander and his Sonlacher spaniel, c. 1970 Prince of Aaun Race: Heartlander Birth: 10 Sun's Smile, 1959, Apostolic Kingdom of Aaun Death: Living House: Alstion Father: John I, King of Aaun Mother: Amelya of Middelan

Alexander Caius (21 Harren's Folly, 1959 - Present), the fifth son and sixth child born to the union of John I, King of Aaun and his wife Amelya of Middelan, was a prince of the Apostolic Kingdom of Aaun leading up to and concurrently with its formation into the Heartlander Confederation.

Biography

Childhood

The dead of the Aaunish winter heralded the royal births of Alexander Caius and his sister, Calliope Analiese, a short five minutes later. Unlikely from birth to be pressed into the rulership of the realm, instead he was allowed to roam as he wished by his aging father, and though his mother oft attempted to press him into the tutelage of aged scholars, he took far better to her stories of knights and exotic adventures. Yet home was a boring place, where he was entrapped in an endless loop of prayer and study, and the recent end of the Aevos Coalition War had heralded the beginning of a realmwide peace - so few chances of hoped-for glory seemed on the horizon.

That peace, however, gave ample time with his family - and as Aaun's finances prospered, so too did the once austere royal family's budgets balloon. Whereas his siblings grew up within the confines of the Hand of Horen, Alexander was given the chance to see the reborn world with his mother and sisters; frequent travels west through the Petran valleys and into Haense were oft taken, and where they were not the family took to its retreat on St. Andrik's Isle, hunting in its small royal preserve and playing with myriad pets.

Squireship

On one such journey to the neighboring Commonwealth of the Petra, he caught the eye of their queen, Catherine I whilst swinging a wooden sword amongst the weeds. Taking a liking to him, she offered him a practice bout; and when, to the river court's surprise, he prevailed, she offered him squireship at her royal side. Thereafter far less of his childhood was spent with his family and their court of clergy and ministers, replaced instead by the lessons Catherine I would impart upon him whilst fishing and the poetry shared between the knights of the rapids.

Yet to be a squire is to invite danger, and oft such was the case in the commonwealth, where brigands still roamed along the edges of what was once Veletz. So it was that, in the course of his squireship, he would fight dozens of brigands, and in turn grow embittered to battle like no tourney knight could know. Saving even the queen's daughter from a malefic beast in the north, he would build a certain reputation for skill at arms - yet this did not buy him the happiness he had been lulled to sleep with by his own mother, and so he for a time receded into the libraries and museums of the Temesch crownlands.

Later Youth

When he emerged, Alexander was well-spoken and well-read, reassured of his talent but oft loathe to its use; rather than demanding a duel of raiders when they captured the Petran queen, he instead offered his own princely circlet as ransom, and rather than begin a battle to save his sisters, he smuggled them out with careful planning.

This did not make him immune to the search of glory, however, for in 1970 he began to travel abroad more frequently; present for the comet that shattered Valdev, and its scavenged shards sparking his inner flame once more, he began to integrate himself within the foreign court. Besting half its army in an impromptu tourney beside Belisar Ruthern won him the funds, with his mother's assistance, for a manor to be shared with his sister Calliope (whom had been warding in the Haeseni palace) in New Valdev. It was whilst settling there he met Stefaniya Edvarda, a patrilineal niece of the king; they bonded over their shared whims and fancies, in adventures and the pages of old stories alike. A year later he fashioned from his starlight shard a pair of matching circlets for her and her royal aunt, and with it asked her blessing to court Stefaniya.

Titles, Styles and Honors

• 1959 - Present: His Apostolic and Royal Highness, Alexander Caius, Prince of Aaun

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Marriage	Notes

Ancestry

Ancestors of Prince Alexander Caius of Aaun

16. Leopold John, Prince of Alstion               8. Charles I, King of Aaun                       17. Victoria Elisabeth de Ravensburg               4. James I, King of Aaun                             18. Philip Michael, Viscount of Provins               9. Eleanor of Provins                       19. Claude Élisabeth Ashford de Savoie               2. John I, King of Aaun                                   20. Ulrich Lothar, Prince of Merryweather               10. Vanhart Reinolf von Alstreim                       21. Nikita Avreliya Tuyvic               5. Edith of Reinmar                             22. St. John of Reinmar               11. Johanna Klaudia, Duchess of Reinmar                       23. Georgina Sofiya Baruch               1. Alexander Caius Alstion                                         24. Willem van Aert               12. Valentin van Aert, Duke of Blackvale                       25. Heidi de Vilain               6. Johanes I, Captain-General of Veletz                             26. Joseph Amadeus Vasile               13. Emmalina Vasile                       27. Johanna Elizabeth von Alstreim               3. Amelya of Middelan                                   28. Karl III, King of Haense               14. Georg I, King of Haense                       29. Amadea of Susa               7. Mariya Karenina, Duchess of Schattenburg                             30. Nikolay Mikhail Kortrevich               15. Esfir of Jerovitz                       31. Esmée di Oxenstierna