Brenin Llywd

Brenin Llywd means "Grey King" in Welsh, and he tries to live up to the title. He started out as the leader of one of the eldest factions in the server, Xion, named for the Xiong-nu nomads that menaced Northern China throughout antiquity. He worked to increase the power of the UN throughout the Great Northern War as an arbitrator, while attempting to simultaneously cut back on USR growth early through aid to the Territorialists, in theory to try to keep the USR contained in the North. This effort was disrupted when USR forces, hearing of future military cooperation between the Territorialists and Xion, attacked the capital Xiona Madna by surprise. The brief occupation was ended after some tense negotiations, with a withdrawal of USR forces. When the Great Population Explosion occured, Brenin became the first Prince of Xion, and attempted to rapidly industrialize the faction, with some difficulty due to food shortages and lack of mineral wealth.

His first term as Prince ended in the Inventor Affair. Brenin had been given communication with a spy within the USR, Inventor. However, Brenin soon became certain that Inventor was an agent provocateur working for Mocpages, attempting to entrap him in a crime. Brenin responded by threatening to expose Inventor, which, given the USR elections that were then ongoing, and in which Inventor was running, amounted to blackmailing a candidate in a foreign election, a perception that did not occur to Brenin at the time. The result was Inventor revealing the entire set of issues to the world at large rather than give up his employer, after sanitizing the conversation (something that Brenin noted as a primary cause for his suspicions.) After that came a grueling election tampering trial in the UN, which Brenin barely won based on a strict interpretation of the UN Charter, but which also led to the secession of the entire Comintern from the UN, as the Comintern nations decided that the balance in the UN was biased strongly against them and that it would always be possible for nations to worm out of punishment levied by the UN regardless of the charter.

This scandal led to a vote of no confidence against Brenin, and he left power peacefully, taking the role of spymaster and secretary of state under the Apian Regime. In his time under Apian he acted as a negotiator in the Kiro Crisis.