Isidoros

Isidoros
Isidoros (circa 1816)
Emperor of Constantio
Reign	June 29th, 1804 - April 8th, 1827
Predecessor	Vonitsos
Born	15 March 1767 Apelnisse, Constantio
Died	April 8, 1827 (aged 60) Apelnisse, Constantio
Issue	Adonis Kalliadis
Full name Isidoros Arta Kalliadis

Isidoros (Isidoros Arta Kalliadis; 15 March 1767 - April 8th, 1827) was the last emperor of Constantio from 1804 until the dissolution of the Constantio Empire and his death in 1827. The heir apparent to the throne, and made the Prince of Apelnisse by his father Vonitsos, Isidoros became emperor upon Vonitsos' death in 1804. Isidoros proved initially to be a charismatic ruler, but his lavish lifestyle quickly made him unpopular in the increasingly turmultuous empire. In his first years in power, he ordered regional homages to nearly double, and protests against his rule broke out across the empire. Only two years into his reign, the Wars of Independence broke out and Isidoros clamped down hard, ordering the imperial military to snuff out rebellions by any means. The ensuing 17-year-long war ravaged west and central Nortua, and as the empire gradually lost its territories, Isidoros was forced to make concessions. In the later part of his reign and life, Isidoros had recurrent and eventually permanent mental illness. The exact nature of the mental illness is not known definitively, but historians and medical experts have suggested that his symptoms and behavior traits were consistent with either bipolar disorder or porphyria. In 1827, he formally dissolved the empire with the Armistace of Gurikans, abdicated the throne, and committed suicide in the Imperial Garden in Apelnisse. With his death, the still united but fragile alliance of Constantio passed control to his nephew, King Adonis Kalliadis. The period in between the end of the empire to the establishment of the Republic, the Council of Administrators were frought with corruption and infighting as either establishment base attempted to sway the opinions of King Kalliadis.

Isidoros' legacy is defined by the disasterous reign and collapse of the empire, which up to that point was widely considered the most powerful geopolitical entity in the world alongside the Skithan empire. Some historians are inclined to treat Isidoros sympathetically, seeing him as a victim of circumstance and illness. Others portray him as an ineffective and out-of-touch monarch, as his initial disregard for his imperial subjects for his own lavish life failed to quell simmering dissent, and his brutal tactics to try and prevent wider revolution sparked a more unified effort against his reign. In pursuing war with the secessionists within the empire, Isidoros believed he was defending the right of the regional administrators to levy taxes, rather than seeking to expand his own power or prerogatives.