Emperor Jadden of Galdrad

BORN 269 4A - The only son of Emperor Jagga, Jadden grew up watching his father’s failures, but loved him nonetheless. When he was 14, Jadden began sneaking out of the palace at night to meet with the young magicker Melda, daughter of the local priestess. Upon returning one night, Jadden watched as the assassin Greycape escaped his father’s chambers, using magic to boost his run across the palace balconies. Jadden knew then what magic was, a tool for death and destruction. When Jadden ascended to the throne, his first act was to make magicking a jailable offense. After the North Mine Massacre, a terrorist attack by magicker rebels that left 37 miners dead, magicking became a capital offense. Jadden rallied the nation behind the opposition to magic, and expanded the empire’s reaches westward toward fertile farmland, promising his people they would never again starve. The day Jadden was granted full powers from the senate was the day the Galdradic Empire reached its current