Isaac Acentino

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Overview

Isaac Acentino was the founder and original Duke of New Ides, a wine-producing duchy he established under Saludo. He was the biological father of Empress Kara A. Ehrveil by Avery R. Ehrveil, a relationship kept secret throughout Avery's exile and Kara's childhood. Late in his life Isaac declared New Ides independent from Saludo, converted to Larrism as a true believer, restyled the duchy as the sovereign Idesian Empire under his own crown as King, and was killed as a co-defendant in the Night of the Veil.

Background

Early Career

Isaac began as a vintner. He founded Nouveaux Ides, the vineyard estate that gave his eventual duchy its name, and built it into one of the most prestigious wine producers in Caldora. The estate's reputation and his polish at court won him the position of Duke of New Ides within Saludo. His early reputation rested on agricultural innovation and diplomatic acumen.

Exile of Avery R. Ehrveil

Following the Roscarte Coup and Avery's forced abdication from the Ehrengard Empire, Isaac sheltered her. He was her closest surviving ally at the time. The two became involved during her hiding, and Kara was conceived in this period. Isaac participated in raising Kara alongside Avery, teaching her negotiation, alliance work, and how to read a room. The relationship, and the existence of an Ehrveillian heir, were kept secret from the start.

Declaration of Independence

During the Rising Tensions phase of Landfall-530 - Noble Blood, Isaac declared New Ides independent from Saludo. The break was bloodless and was treated by neighboring states as legitimate. Isaac retained his ducal title under the now-independent realm.

Conversion and the Idesian Empire

Isaac became a true believer in Huge Larry during the rise of Larrism and was one of the movement's senior political adherents. He restyled the formerly independent duchy of New Ides as the sovereign Idesian Empire and took the royal title of King. The change was framed in Larrist religious language, and Idesian state policy was drafted around Larry's pronouncements. Churches were established. The Bureau of Religious Oversight identified the Idesian Empire as one of the two polities whose governance had been captured by the faith.

The Princess Salem Incident

At a Larrist baptismal ceremony on unclaimed land outside any sovereign jurisdiction, Lilaris Princess Salem Alvaldi was pressured to accept baptism and marriage into the faith. When she refused and mocked the rite, Isaac, Huge Larry, and Exoticus Exo assaulted her with swords. Isaac then verbally declared Salem exiled from the Idesian Empire. The declaration had no legal standing under Idesian or Imperial law given Salem's citizenship and the location of the incident. The assault was the immediate trigger for the secession of Whitefall from the Idesian Empire and for the consolidated criminal case that followed.

The People v. Huge Larry

Isaac was named a co-defendant in Case No. 593-LIR-NT, filed by Empress Kara A. Ehrveil in the New Terranova Imperial Court. The charges against him included assault, battery, treason for the symbolic exile of a royal citizen, unlawful assembly, and aiding the escape of a known felon. Despite being a sitting defendant, Isaac chose to serve as defense counsel for the cult's leadership. He was openly drunk in the courtroom and verbally attacked the prosecution. A recess was declared to assess his sobriety, confirmed his intoxication, and the trial was suspended. It never reconvened.

Death

Before the case could resume, all six defendants were assassinated in a single coordinated strike known as the Night of the Veil. Isaac was among them. His body, like the others, was marked with a crudely carved "S," the signature of Seraphine du Roscarte and her terror faction Sovarre.

Kara withdrew from public life for months after her father's death. Governance temporarily passed to Nordvik Alvaldi during the mourning period. Riven Skorne assumed leadership of New Ides shortly afterward and began work to distance the duchy from Larrist ideology, eventually restoring the original name of New Ides.

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