Berini Emperor Raffaello I

Born: 231 A.B.

Died: 299 A.B.

Cause of death: Pigeon fever

A few words about him: A magnificent emperor. He is descended from one of the slaves Mario I freed when he lay on his deathbed. He was chosen by the Noble's Ministry to be the new emperor without his knowledge when Berlintini II was still alive. He was appointed emperor by the Noble's Ministry 43 days after Berlintini II's death. The original idea was to make him a puppet emperor which worked for the first 3 years but it ultimately failed. It failed because he was a quick learner and he used the time to learn how to do his job. After 3 years of being a puppet and learning the job, he tracked down and arrested all the people directly involved in Berlintini II's murder, as well as stripping Leonardo of his rank and arresting him and replacing all the people in the Noble's Ministry with new ones and arresting the old ones, as well as arresting all of Alexander I's henchmen and most devoted supporters. He then gave them very public trials where he either accused them of treason, mass murder, accessory to mass murder or all of the above, and he executed them all shortly afterwards. This helped him prove his righteousness (if you could call it that) and establish legitimacy and helped with his unification campaign to collect all the little pieces that broke away during Berlintini II's reign. He managed to restore the empire's territory from the border near the Res Publique's eastern border near Lefan in the west to Toma and 5 kilometers east of it in the east. In the south he reached the eastern great lake and the Proto-Berinus (the river that goes between the eastern and western great lakes through the Kir mountain range). He wasn't able to retake Kirshan which did it's own piece collection and reestablished the kingdom it had centuries before. As he was campaigning, Raffaello I rebuilt the military according Filip I's system and gave citizenship to the cities he retook as well as starting to rebuild the infrastructure which he did more intensively when he stopped campaigning at 279 A.B.. He reopened trading relations with the Kurs and with Galan as well as starting to trade with the Emorian kingdom, Bashur, Ushar, Pali, Auruckshuck, Yu-Bai and the Guntartar's sixth Khanate as well as the Rhuli kingdoms. He died in the first pigeon fever outbreak in the empire which lasted between 298 A.B. to 301 A.B. and killed 1 million people. Ascended to the throne at the age of 40, ruled for 28 years. Born to an educated middle class family in Berin, his father was killed by Alexander I, died at the age of 68.