Marianus

Marianus (born Winston III Baldverg) was an erinian statesman and general who served as the 9th Grand Protector of the Erinian Commonwealth.

Marianus was tasked with the consolidation of the vast conquests done by Victorian and Castorian, but also initiated his own conquests such as the Palletin War and the Naswalian coup.

A very militant ruler, Marianus hugely favoured the erinian army over any other institutions, placating it and empowering it at every opportunity. This put him at odds with the parliament, who feared he had the intention of removing the autonomy of the republics and creating a new autocracy.

He also created the two new colonial republics of Gettria and Stenberg in southern Valernia, after the conquests of Olwyn Charhanson.

Marianus died in a horsing accident in 1050 at the age of 42, without an appointed heir in place and was thus succeeded by the parliament-approved candidate of Arnulian.