Wassen Schamilte
Wassen Schamilte Jnr Pȥkvāen Ւասսեն Ծամիլթե Դժռ Պժկվըեն | |
![]() Portrait of Wassen Schamilte, c. 1896 | |
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Titles | |
![]() President-General of the Virassian Republic Marshal of the Virassian Military | |
Date of birth: | 6th October 1850 |
Date of death: | 8th March 1939 (aged 89) |
Nationality: | Virassian |
Ethnicity: | Imlynan-Virassian |
Language(s): | Virassian Atraelish |
Gender: | Male |
Height: | 5' 1" |
Family | |
Spouse(s): | Ēlisabeth Balorza |
Children: | 3 |
Father: | Wassen Schamilte Snr |
Mother: | Ruthera Pȥkvā |
Occupation History | |
Education: | Belessian Gardens College |
Field(s): | War studies, Atraelish language studies |
Religion: | ![]() |
Occupation(s): | Ruler of Virassia |
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Service history | |
Service/branch: | Virassian Military |
Years served: | 1870 - 1939 |
Rank: | Marshal |
Commands: | Virassian Royal Armed Forces, Armed Forces of the Virassian Republic (1901-1939) |
Fought in: | Virassian Civil War (1898-1901) |
Awards: | Michlinof Gate Medal, St. Bakhus Cross, St. Sebāstian Cross |
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“ | Militarism is at the core of the Virassian nation and all she has stood for. It is a tradition that has stood unchanged across nine centuries following the enthronement of the Great Rodimir Oderanv. It is only suitable that this frail Parliament be dissolved and the disorganised rabble in the streets and countryside be quelled under the secure iron hand of a reformed military government. Tradition has been Virassia's strength, and it will be through my army's governance these troubles will subdue. | ” |
–Schamilte, December 1899 |
Wassen Schamilte (Virassian: Ւասսեն Ծամիլթե; pronounced ['wɑ.sen 'tʃa.mɪl.te]; Atraelish pronunciation ?/'wɑː.sɛn ʃɑː.'mɪl.tə/; born 6th October 1850) was the Marshal of the Virassian Military, de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Virassia from 1899, and ruler of the First Virassian Republic from 1901 until his death in 1939. The eldest son of Wassen Schamilte Senior, a Belessian General of the Virassian Royal Army, Wassen Junior enjoyed a comfortable upper class life, attending the Belessian Grammar School to fulfil his secondary education and completing a bachelor of War studies minoring in Atraelish language studies at the elite Belessian Gardens College before his enrolment in the Virassian Royal Armed Forces in 1870 as a Lieutenant.
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Personality[edit | edit source]
During his rise to prominence in the 1900's until his death, Schamilte was presented as an authoritative, rational and committed ruler of the Virassian state and a highly effective commander of the Virassian Military with little regard for fuss and trivial matters. To his sympathisers, Schamilte was highly respected for his intelligence and his rejection of both the royalist ideals of old and sympathy towards the rebels involved in the Virassian Civil War. For many of them, he presented a welcome and desperately needed break away from the otherwise impotent class of ruling royalty and advisors, with his educated and realistic perception of events cutting through the residue of social and economic mismanagement built up through decades of incompetent leadership by the ruling Michlinof family, a dynasty that by the late 19th and early 20th century was dominated almost entirely by mysticism and blood based elitism.
To the revolutionary movement of the civil war that foregrounded his rise to power - and the masses that represented it - he was known and derided as a deeply conservative and vicious member of the ruling class, as a power-grabbing brutal dictator with little interest in even the most watered-down of liberal reform, even as a fascist by some who used the term broadly to mean any right wing reactionary. Schamilte's uncompromising, militaristic crackdowns on dissent earnt him widespread fear and hatred amongst the participants of the movement, with the fear of his army marching upon strikes and protests helping galvanise his opponents into action to diligently organise and agitate widespread struggle, as well as providing reformists within the Virassian Royal Parliament and the movement more broadly plenty of fuel for their "lesser evil"ist rhetoric in support of moderation and parliamentary change.
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Appearance[edit | edit source]
Though some Virassian blood coursed through his veins, Wassen Schamilte's family heritage was thoroughly mixed with ethnic Imlynans, highlighting its strong historical ties with the House of Chasteuila. Though dark-haired in his youth, Schamilte was strongly Amulni-looking, with characteristically pale skin and blue eyes. During the civil war his ethnicity was a strong point of criticism by the far right, with leading members of the People's Revolutionary Front often denouncing him as an Amulni spy eager to undermine the Virassian people's valiant attempt to free Virassia from Astralist rule.
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“ | Truly I owe most of ideals to the great regimes of Saeyri and Atraeth | ” |
–Schamilte, in Atraelish, during a diplomatic visit to Atraeth, September 1931 |
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Narrative characters | |
Primary characters | Dȥorge Proud · Emme Vosimkh · Herzeg Zubak · Juotsou Hou-gemgun · Mark Nowe · Perrie Josephson · Signis Pale · Sulejman Lukanov |
Background characters | Vukomanovića XII · Wassen Schamilte |
Non-narrative characters | |
Historical figures | Helos Piktari · Janisser IX · Kyrasu Wapŭle · Vukomanovića XI · Zhyajkur II |