Fiction:Kirvan Jivirik

Margrave Kirvan Jivirik of the March of Stekeveelia is a young Drodo male of the Jivirik clan and youngest son of the famed Fiihar Jivirik III. A staunch liberal, kind and idealistic to the core, his beliefs and behavior have more than once brought him into conflict with his father, who thought him a good pawn before his assignment to overlook the glorified occupation zone.

Early Life
Kirvan was born to one of Fiihar's mistresses on March 23rd, 2779. While technically a bastard, Fiihar would quickly legitimize him, and make a good effort in covering up his origins. Being the youngest of Fiihar's five children, and with his father's very busy lifestyle, Kirvan would often not see his father often, and while he didn't be teased or ostracized by his siblings and peers because of his young age and formerly-illegitimate status. This in part caused Kirvan to be disillusioned with Aristocratic life and his family's conservative traditions from a young age, as he sought recognition and friends elsewhere.

Even as a young teenager, Kirvan stood out as outstandingly intelligent. He often spent his time pouring over the literature of well-known liberals across the gigaquadrant and had a particular gift with words and writing. This, and his deep-set aversion to his immediate family (and anything to do with them) would quickly make him declare himself a liberal, which caused slight dismay among his family members.

Modern day
Kirvan would go on to make excellent grades in both grade school and in university, where he studied political science and Drodoian world history. As with almost all male aristocrats he would also attend a war college for a brief period, but would later remark that he found the experience "extremely unpleasant". Despite this he would prove to be a competent but not brilliant student in the area of strategy, tactics, and weapons usage.

Kirvan would recieve his first major command, and first taste of political power in 2803, when he was assigned by his father, Fiihar, to become the Margrave of the newly-formed March of Stekeveelia. While his father Fiihar believed he could quite easily control the March from afar, using his young son as a puppet, he would soon learn that he had made a miscalculation when Kirvan, as sharp and ambitious as ever, had other plans.

Kirvan would use this opportunity to test out many of the theories he had formed through his writing and studies. In a shocking and almost-unprecedented move, he would complete shake up the colonial system used by so many species for millenia by relying greatly on native infrastracture and cooperation with the natives, allowing a great amount of autonomy and rights over the conquered peoples, and most boldly dividing provincial lines along traditional ethnic, factional and religious boundries. He did all of this as he felt the colonial systems used by most others, while bringing about large, short-term yields, were incredibly unstable and doomed to fail, especially when the simple relocation or extermination of a conquered people was not possible or willing to be done. Instead, he introduced what was at first an expensive operation that he felt would guarentee the integration of the conquered landmass as a proper Drodoian territory, bringing in long-term wealth as opposed to a faraway land to be looted for all its worth, bringing a single payday.

Personality and Traits
Kirvan is remarked as being quite different from his father in many ways, including his personality. If his father Fiihar is bold and detached, Kirvan was diplomatic and personal. Fiihar was a staunch traditionalist, Kirvan wishes to throw open the doors to change. Kirvan had a good control over his anger, while Fiihar was sometimes seen as unhinged, or at least known to take issues to heart.

Both of them, however are alike in their charisma and populist tendencies. Kirvan's way with words and ability to negotiate and mediate issues is oftentimes seen as one of the only things holding his March together; A fact that his father begrudgingly admits to being true and is well aware of. Kirvan has written dozens of essays ranging from grandiose pieces on the ideal civilization to his thoughts on the ancient Human Indus Valley Civilization.

However one of Kirvan's strengths have also been considered a weakness; His idealism, and youth. Kirvan, being the young man he is has a bright outlook on the universe, which has lead him to sometimes assume the best of others when he should not have, and otherwise be naive, and impressionable for all of his own charisma.

Appearance
To be written

Family
Other members of my clan.


 * Fiihar Jivirik III - We argue far too much, father.

Friends
I've come to like you lot.

Neutral
How may I help?


 * Cesterity Isordon - His exploits are quite exciting, indeed.

Disliked
Get on with it.

Enemies
''I am a person of great patience. The fact that you've snapped mine is a poor showing of your character.''

Quotes
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