Kanor VII
| Kanor VII | |||||
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| Queen of All Tavaris Queen of Metradan High Chief of the Tribes of Rodoka Chief of Line Nuvo Lady Patron of Ilarís | |||||
| Reign | 15 April 1924 - 13 December 1940 | ||||
| Predecessor | Adra IV | ||||
| Successor | Zaram II | ||||
| Born | 26 November 1865 Nuvrenon, Tavaris | ||||
| Died | 13 December 1940 Nuvrenon, Tavaris | ||||
| Burial | |||||
| Spouse | Prince Gorvr Alinr of Siånriti (m. 1882-1888) Prince Dearg Aidetyr of Siånriti (m. 1892-1940) | ||||
| Issue | Tevri Nuvo Žanaž Devri Nuvo Aidetíri | ||||
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| Line | Nuvo | ||||
| Father | Prince Zaram | ||||
| Mother | Princess Bežežra | ||||
| Religion | Tavat Avati | ||||
Kanor VII of Tavaris and Metradan (Kanor Nuvo Žanaž, b. 26 November 1865—d. 13 December 1940) was Queen of All Tavaris and Queen of Metradan from 15 April 1924 until her death. She is most well remembered in Metradan, where she is typically remembered simply as Queen Kanor, because of her noted, keen interest in the affairs of the country, which had become an independent monarchy in 1905. Kanor’s death in 1940 caused what has been called “the closest thing the Tavari monarchy has had to a succession crisis” because she was the only Tavari monarch to die with heirs from multiple spouses, and briefly after her death, the two royal children disputed the throne. Splitting the Tavari and Metradani monarchies into separate dynasties was considered, but ultimately in a compromise, both declined the throne and Kanor’s nephew succeeded her as King Zaram II after the only interregnum in Tavari history, lasting 76 hours.
Early Life
Kanor was born to Prince Zaram (b. Zaram Nuvo Mantori, 20 April 1844—d. Zaram Nuvo Žanaž, 9 June 1909), who was the second child of King Otan III and who lost the title Prince upon the accession of his elder sister as Queen Adra IV in 1896. Kanor's mother was Princess Bežežra (b. Bežežra Šonai Calšravi, 8 August 1843—1 March 1868), the daughter of a wealthy Odai-area banker, who perished during the birth of her second child, Otan Nuvo Žanaž. From her birth until her aunt ascended to the Silver Throne when Kanor was 30, she lived with her father, mother, and later her brother, in the North Wing of the Royal Palace in Nuvrenon, separate from the state apartments where the monarch and the royal family lived. After Adra IV’s reign began, the former Prince Zaram was named Chancellor of the Royal College of Nuvo, the ceremonial leader of one of the country’s most prestigious universities, and the family moved to the university's campus in nearby Mežtendi Township.
Kanor lived through a time of significant change in Tavari history. In the year of her birth, Tavaris completed the last section of the telegraph cable linking Crystal Coast with Acruni in Metradan. The Trans-Cerenerian Cable was a massive undertaking that nearly bankrupted the Tavari government and hamstrung its finances for years because, among other reasons, the governing Liberal Party slipped millions of našdat in bribes into contracts for labor, goods, and services in order to secure political support. Its construction also consumed overwhelming majorities of the country’s output of important strategic goods, namely copper and rubber. The cable would come to be thought of as a massive boondoggle, and the government's focus on it is often considered part of the reason the Tavari military was under-equipped and under-supplied during the Gondwana Straits War.
Crisis of 1882
The end of the Gondwana Straits War brought massive scandal when it emerged that Queen Adra III, Kanor’s great-grandmother, had been personally, and unconstitutionally, involving herself in the military chain of command, issuing orders to troops and bribing them with royal funds to follow her orders. Many of these orders were strategically questionable, if not devastating failures, and thousands of Tavari troops died. At the time, the Tavari monarch was the nominal commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces but legally, the role was only symbolic. Later in the war, as the Tavari economy began to struggle, Adra III switched from bribing military officials to extorting them in an attempt to restore what she had spent from state coffers. In 1882, shortly before the war’s end, a group of senior officers led by one Admiral Tevri Šonai Õvris, a direct ancestor of Shano Tuvria, blew the whistle on the Queen’s actions, which became a massive public scandal known as the Crisis of 1882.
While Queen Adra III could not be taken to court or otherwise see judicial consequences for her actions—as the monarch is legally at the pinnacle of the Tavari justice system and considered unassailable—the government instituted sweeping reforms that devastated the independence of the Tavari monarchy by removing it entirely from the military chain of command and stripping it of literally every source of income. Whereas the Tavari monarchs had, until then, received all the income from public lands and waters and passed on what wasn't spent to fund royal operations to the civil government, after 1882 that money went directly to the Treasury and the monarch was paid a salary from the annual budget. The Tavari monarch was forbidden from making quite literally any income whatsoever, with any money acquired by the monarch being considered state property. The reforms also seized the royal family's private portfolio of wealth in order to repay the state from what Adra had illicitly spent. The result, as Adra is said to have complained, rendered the Tavari monarch “entirely subservient to the state, a beggar and invalid locked in a gilded prison.” She called the changes “even more humiliating than republicanism.”
The Crisis of 1882 eventually brought about the end of more than 60 years of uninterrupted rule by the highly conservative, business-friendly, and blatantly corrupt Liberals, and in the inter-war period between the Gondwana Straits War and the Great War, other political parties again were able to participate in governance. The Democratic and National parties, which eventually merged into the Democratic National Party, alternated in governments with the Liberals, who despite the scandal continued to maintain significant support simply because nearly the entire business establishment of the country was unwavering in its support of business-friendly Liberal policy. However, issues of bribery and kickbacks in relation to military equipment procurement continued, and on top of that, the newly frequent changes in political leadership in the country caused frequent shifts in priorities and strategies, all of which significantly slowed the rebuilding of the Tavari military.
Marriages and Children
Kanor reached adulthood in 1881 at age 16, which was the legal age of majority in Tavaris until after the Great War. At the time, she was fifth in line for the Tavari throne, after Crown Prince Otan, his daughter Adra, and Adra’s daughter Adra and son Avodan. She was not generally considered likely to inherit the throne, but she was still considered close enough that an arranged marriage with a candidate of suitable class and prestige was considered appropriate. At the time, the country was commonly known as the Tavari Empire, and it was considered important by the government of the day that Tavaris keep up appearances as one of the great colonial powers of the world. One thing that other great powers often did, but which Tavaris did less due to biological constraints of species, was intermarry with other monarchies. Only orcs and tieflings can produce viable offspring with orcs, and the number of orcish and tiefling monarchies with prestige considered acceptable to the Tavari were very few. However, the notion of Tavaris building rapport, and possibly international prestige, by intermarrying with other royal lines was considered too great an opportunity to disregard.
In 1882, during the height of the scandal of the Crisis, Kanor Nuvo Žanaž quietly married Gorvr of Alinr, the Prince of the Duchy of Siånriti in Lapérouse. The Duchy of Siånriti was a strategically important coastal region with an economy rich primarily in furs and had been extant for much of the second millennium CE. Prince Gorvr was a tiefling, and it was considered very remarkable that the Tavari royal family would permit the blood of another species into the royal line. In response to the scandal, however, Queen Adra III responded only “There is no law requiring the Tavari monarch to be an orc, and so long as I am here, there never will be.” While Adra III’s credibility was highly strained by the Crisis of 1882, it was still considered exclusively the province of the monarch, not the government, to decide on family affairs such as marriages, and if there was any opposition to the marriage among the Tavari political elite, it was kept quiet and never acted upon.
Kanor and Gorvr had one child, who they named Tevri Nuvo Žanaž (1884-1979). This is a common Tavari name among the public, but it had never been used for someone so close to the line of succession and was seen as somewhat crass. In 1888, just six years after their marriage, Gorvr died of malaria, a tropical disease not uncommon in Tavaris but unheard of where he was from. Kanor is said to have become despondent and entered into a depression for several years. She wore purple, the Tavari colour of mourning, every day for years—in a shade said to match the colour of her husband's skin.
In 1891, Kanor visited Siånriti for the first time, and met with members of her late husband’s family. The next year, after a period of significant political upheaval in Lapérouse due to the beginning of the Unification War, the entire princely family left the country and moved to Tavaris, staying with Kanor and her family at the Royal College of Nuvo. The departure of the princely family was a minor scandal in Lapérouse but is remembered more in Siånriti specifically as one of the first major causes of instability during that era. Kanor married Prince Dearg of Aidetyr (her late husband's cousin, who had become Prince after Gorvr's death) quickly thereafter, and in 1893, her second son, Devri Nuvo Žanaž (1893-1984, later Devri Nuvo Aidetíri), was born. Devri is another name common among the public but not the elite, and usually, “Tevri” and “Devri” are names given to twins. That Kanor’s Devri was not a twin of Tevri was considered gauche and awkward, and Kanor and her family gained a reputation for being socially inept. However, by all accounts, Kanor was a devoted mother who took the time and care to ensure her children were happy, at the expense of her participation in high society and thus her reputation.
Great War
When the Great War broke out in 1904, Tavaris initially declared neutrality. However, Tavaris had always been much closer to the Morst than to Asendavia, the latter being a major competitor for resources and influence in northwestern Gondwana. Tavaris protested only mildly when Morstopackian ships began moving through Tavari waters to attack Asendavian ships, which Asendavia complained was a violation of neutrality. After one such incident in 1908, known as the Anarís Incident, in which an Asendavian ships was sunk with hundreds aboard, Asendavia declared Tavaris a combatant in the war and declared war upon them. The Asendavians proceeded to attack Anarís, at which the Royal Tavari Navy held the Second Fleet and more than half of the First Fleet. This attack absolutely devastated Tavari military capacity and especially crippled the Navy. Shortly thereafter, Asendavia began a land invasion of Tavaris from Vaklori.
The Great War, especially the years of the Asendavian occupation (which reached as far south as Lansai and lasted in some places for nearly 9 years), was absolutely devastating for Tavaris. The economy collapsed, shortages of food and other crucial goods were endemic, and rates of malnutrition and poverty skyrocketed. Times became extraordinarily tough for everyone, and in the case of Kanor and her family, they and several other families close to the royal family were hidden in safe houses in order to assure that there would be royal blood somewhere in the country with which to rebuild the royal line. At first, Kanor and her family were moved, along with seven other families, to the ancient Avbomatti Shrine in Eštakai, which contained very deep catacombs which were highly secure but immensely uncomfortable and, with the seven families as well as all the entombed dead bodies, incredibly overcrowded. In 1910, Kanor and her family were moved to a house in Odai, where they were forced to live undercover out of security concerns. Said Kanor of the Odai house: “It was larger than the coffins in Eštakai, but not by much, and because we were so ignorant of the common life, we eventually resolved simply to never leave the house, lest we reveal ourselves and open ourselves to the threat of harm. The eight years I spent in that tiny house in Odai are the worst of my life, and so great is my disdain for that time that to this day I cannot bear to visit or even think of the city of Odai to this day.”
During the war, Kanor’s father died, leaving just her, her husband, her children and her brother Otan from 1909 until the armistice with Asendavia went into effect in 1917. Meanwhile, her aunt Queen Adra IV continued on the throne. Adra IV was considered remarkably healthy and gave birth to more children (five) than any other Tavari queen in history. However, of these, three died before the age of 2, and her only two children to reach adulthood both died in the war. Crown Princess Adra (1871-1911) died of starvation after, according to her mother, she “developed a terrible anxiety over the consumption of food, as though she feared that if she ate, there would be someone in the country who went hungry, which she could not bear.” Her youngest child, Crown Prince Avodan (1873-1914), was killed by Asendavians after he attempted to participate in a raid on an Asendavian-held supply depot in Good Harbor.
Upon Avodan’s death, Kanor became Crown Princess. At age 49, it was the first time in her life she had held any actual royal title. The political elite—especially her aunt, Queen Adra IV—were generally disappointed that Kanor was to be the next monarch, but it was considered inappropriate to discuss such things in public, so what knowledge of this is known today comes primarily from gossip and hearsay. While there were some who were concerned over her apparent lack of a sense of social taste, many were quietly opposed to the idea of tiefling blood in the royal family. Both Tevri and Devri had large horns, which Queen Adra IV is said to have asked to be removed (not generally considered possible) because they were “without dignity.”
There were, however, others who were in favor of half-tiefling monarchs. Adra IV’s apparent disdain for tieflings in the royal family stands in contrast to that of her grandmother, Adra III, who approved both of Kanor’s tiefling marriages. Prime Ministers of multiple parties raised the notion that half-tieflings were likely to live longer, healthier lives than orcs, and could reproduce with fewer complications. Wartime Prime Minister Vedra Novandri Takašt is said to have remarked “We should require every Tavari to marry a tiefling, and then we would be unstoppable.”
Rebuilding Years
The time immediately following the Great War is sometimes known in Tavaris as the Rebuilding Years. The Tavari economy, especially its industrial capacity, was shattered by the war and needed to be rebuilt. The Asendavian invasion destroyed much of one of the country's two industrial centers, the northeast. (The other such center, the southwest, was less damaged in the early years but suffered significantly from air bombings later in the war.) The Tavari military also needed to be essentially rebuilt from scratch. These questions dominated the public sphere for the first few years, not social issues like the species of the Crown Princess's children.
However, the Rebuilding Years also saw a massive wave of Tavari nationalism and a surge in interest in “Tavari culture” and “Tavari tradition.” It was during this time that traditional Tavari wrestling saw a resurgence, and also the era in which the Tavari National Party was born. Also during this time, as the visibility of the Church of Akrona began to increase in Tavaris outside of the west—primarily through hospitals and charitable aid in wartorn areas—early tensions began to form that would later give rise to the political crisis around crematoriums for Akronist funerals in the 1950s. By the 1920s, the idea of someone who wasn't an orc sitting on the Tavari throne had become unpalatable to a much larger group of people.
Queen of Tavaris and Metradan
Queen Adra IV died in 1924, aged 82. Adra IV is the second-longest lived Tavari monarch in history (after Melora II, who died at 85), and at the time of her death was the oldest orc in the country. She had spent 28 years on the throne, but was considered an invalid at the time of her death. She is remembered popularly for guiding the country through the war, though especially after suffering a stroke in 1920, was almost entirely uninvolved even nominally in state affairs. Even at the time, it was not uncommon to hear it claimed that Adra IV “held on as long as she could” to prevent half-tieflings from becoming princes of the Empire.
On her death, Crown Princess Kanor became Queen Kanor VII, one of two queens and five kings to bear that name. Her son from her first marriage, Tevri, became Crown Prince, while Devri held the title of Prince. Kanor VII was the 40th Tavari monarch, and the 2nd monarch on the throne of Metradan, which had been established as an independent monarchy in personal union with Tavaris in 1905, shortly before Tavaris has entered the Great War. Given the nature of the war, Adra IV had had little involvement in Metradan, and even after the war ended, she was too frail to ever travel there. Instead, four times a year, the Metradani Prime Minister had traveled to Nuvrenon to bring with him acts of the Diet and other orders that required royal approval, a process which the Metradani government considered untenable.
The Tavari constitutional tradition has never included the notion of a royal viceroy who is empowered to act with royal authority without royal oversight—no viceroy could have the legal authority to sign a bill into law, for example. Rather than make such a change, Queen Kanor traveled to Metradan four times a year, later increased to every other month, in order to sign legislation and other orders. The telephone was also readily used to keep the monarch abreast of Metradani affairs and to give verbal confirmation for orders where legally possible.
In Tavaris, Kanor's reign is associated mostly with the Reconstruction Years and with the associated expansion of the economy and restoration of economic growth. However, these successes are usually attributed by historians to the civil government and the private sector, not to Kanor, who was not at all considered to be knowledgeable of or even particularly concerned with affairs of the economy. One change on which she is said to have had some influence is in the elimination of Odai Province in a reform of the provinces of Tavaris in 1926, not to be returned until another reform in 2022. She was far more popular in Metradan, where she was involved in the affairs of establishing a distinct culture and identity for the new country. She corresponded more regularly with her Metradani Prime Ministers than her Tavari ones, and is said to have been very involved in selecting Metradan's national symbols such as the flag and anthem.
In 1928, the territory then known generally as Tavari Central Arcturia or by the name of its largest settlement, Ilarís, granted the Tavari monarch the title of Lady (or Lord) Patron, as part of its entry into the confederation of Arcturian port cities that would come to be known as the Union of Free Cities. While the area of Ilarís had been settled by the Tavari nearly as long as Elatana, it had never been formally integrated as part of Tavaris proper. Previous Chiefs of Nuvo had been directly involved in investing in the Central Arcturia Company, and had profited off that company's usage of slave or underpaid labour, but since 1882 Tavari monarchs had been unable to legally possess assets and that investment had ceased. By 1928, the Tavari monarch was seen by people in Ilarís—which was governed jointly by the Central Arcturia Company and an Akronist religious order, the Sisters of the Twelfth Niche—as something of a neutral third party, so they elected to place the Tavari monarch in a highly limited role as a ceremonial "head of state." This generated a brief scandal across the upper echelons of Tavari government and society, with the belief that the role would legitimize the Monarch's ability to circumvent the ban on asset ownership through Ilarís. However, Tavari courts eventually ruled that it was impossible for the Tavari government to revoke a title that had been granted by a foreign state. Instead, the Cabinet used legislation that forbade the monarch from exiting the country without permission of the Cabinet to prevent the monarch from ever visiting Ilarís.
Her husband Dearg was also heavily involved in Metradan, especially in the country's business world, in which he came to be a significant investor using the portion of ducal family funds he had managed to bring with him from Lapérouse. In particular, he involved himself in the north of the country and the ethnic Cescolian community, which was generally considered closed to orcs at that time. Dearg brought accounts of the Cescolians to Queen Kanor, who is said to have empathized with them and impressed upon the Metradani civil government to work to improve conditions for them. Both the King and the Queen are said to have been horrified by the 1926 assassination of Metradani Prime Minister Fulberto Rienzo, the only Cescolian to ever hold that office, and demanded that the Metradani government pay a significant sum to his family, which it did quietly in 1928.
Queen Kanor VII was pictured on the Metradani 1000 nashdat bill from her accession until the currency’s end in 2023, after other monarchs assumed the throne and even after the country abolished the monarchy in 1956. The street on which the Metradani Diet and many other government buildings are located is Queen Kanor Way. Queen Kanor is even well remembered by Cescolians because she is the only Tavari monarch to ever learn their language, and by the last years of her reign, she was regularly corresponding fluently with community leaders in northern Metradan in Cescolian Norvian. Her husband is even more well remembered by Cescolians primarily because his investments in their businesses—most notably in the tobacco and lead mining industries, both dominated by Cescolians with little ethnic Tavari participation—helped establish a stable economy and base of jobs in their region while the Metradani government dragged their feet on economic development in the north.
Death and Succession
Queen Kanor VII died early in the morning on December 13th, 1940, aged 75—by orcish standards, a full life. Crown Prince Tevri was 56 and Prince Devri was 46. Under Tavari law, the monarch is defined as the Chief of Nuvo—that is, whoever is the Chief of Nuvo was by virtue of that office King or Queen of All Tavaris and King or Queen of Metradan. The Chief of Nuvo’s succession was legally defined, and under the law, a new Chief of Nuvo takes office the moment the previous one perishes, not by any administrative declaration or act. However, Tavari law also required the monarch to take an oath of office, administered by the Prime Minister. At the time, both the Metradani and Tavari Prime Ministers were to administer separate oaths for the separate thrones. Under the text of law, it was Crown Prince Tevri, the eldest child of the previous monarch, who was to take the thrones of both countries. However, never before in Tavari history had a monarch produced two children by two different but lawful and legitimate spouses, and there was enough concern within the Tavari government that, when Crown Prince Tevri arrived at the National Diet building at 8 that morning, Tavari Prime Minister Leba Handareš Namtobi declined to give the oath. This immediately precipitated a constitutional crisis.
Handareš Namtobi (Prime Minister from 1940 until 1944) was the first ever Social Democrat to hold the office of Prime Minister of Tavaris and had been in office for only a few months. Her Metradani counterpart, Meshta Balutar, was like most Metradani Prime Ministers from the big-tent, vaguely populist Metradani Coalition. The Tavari PM was inclined, like her party, toward republicanism, while the Metradani PM’s stance on monarchism is less clear. However, Balutar’s career prior to politics was in retail; he operated the country's largest chain of automotive petrol stations and convenience stores. As a result, he was one of the Metradani cigarette industry's largest customers and the country's largest cigarette retailer. Balutar strongly preferred Prince Devri, the son of King Dearg, to whom he felt he owed a debt of gratitude for investing in the cigarette industry and making his business possible. Handareš Namtobi preferred Crown Prince Tevri not out of any connection to him personally but simply because the text of the law seemed to mandate his accession, and she feared any deviation would destroy her party’s credibility.
The Tavari Attorney General confused the situation when he arrived and advised Handareš Namtobi that the succession was not as clear as it would seem, because the legal definition of “the royal family” was possibly ambiguous. No Tavari monarch had ever had a child by a second spouse with children from the previous marriage still alive, so the Attorney General claimed it was legally uncertain whether, when she married a new King and had a new royal child by that King, Queen Kanor had actually begun a whole new royal family whose right to succession superseded that of the “previous” royal family. The question was whether the next monarch was defined as “the eldest child of the previous monarch” or “the eldest royal child in the royal family.” If “Crown” Prince Tevri was not actually in the royal family, then it was “Prince” Devri who was actually the eldest (and only) royal child in the royal family.
It took over three days of negotiations and consultations between and among the Tavari and Metradani governments to settle on an answer. The Native Rodokan chiefs also began to get involved, concerned over the identity of their next High Chief, who was the same as the Tavari monarch, and the administration of Ilarís within the Union of Free Cities filed complaints with the Tavari that they were being excluded from determining who would be their next Lord Patron. On the morning of the 14th, the Rodokans and the Ilaraštani were admitted to the negotiations by telephone, which only served to create further division and uncertainty with so many more stakeholders at the table.
At first, it was assumed the solution would entail dividing the thrones. It was immediately clear that the Metradani side favored Devri with the Tavari favoring Tevri, and the easiest solution seemed to be ending the personal union and placing Devri on the throne of Metradan. This was something Metradan had the legal authority to do on its own, without Tavari involvement. However, Prime Minister Balutar was hesitant to end the personal union because there was still a powerful lingering sense of connection among the ethnic Tavari in Metradan to the Tavari monarchy, and he worried removing their symbol from Metradani public life would upset them. Meanwhile, the Rodokans tended not to have a preference between the two candidates but were most concerned with rectifying the ambiguity in the text of the law, which confused the purpose of the consultations and led to delays.
Tavari law does not account for the possibility of an “interregnum” and, technically speaking, the Tavari government ground to a halt during the period. The Diet ceased to meet and it was considered unclear if the government could take literally any action whatsoever—it was only because civil servants ignored memos issued by the Attorney General that government bills continued to be paid and law enforcement remained on the streets. Prime Minister Handareš Namtobi declared publicly that “there is, with absolute certainty, a monarch currently on the throne, but it remains unclear who that monarch is.”
On the third day of negotiations, December 15th, the parties involved had become exhausted and stressed, evidenced by the fact that the Metradani Deputy Prime Minister collapsed and died and the Rodokan Chief of Moenarr was ejected from the Diet building after punching the Tavari Minister of Internal Affairs in the face. The Tavari Minister required stitches, but had to wait because the Diet’s staff surgeon was occupied performing an autopsy on the Metradani Deputy Prime Minister. As the Minister bled on the table, the assembled delegates came to agree that there simply could be no agreement between Tevri or Devri and that the solution would probably be to select some third candidate. After the Minister was finally attended to, at about 11 am, the Grand Chamberlain of the Silver Court announced that Zaram Nuvo Šolosar, Kanor VII’s nephew and son of her brother Otan, was King Zaram II of All Tavaris, King of Metradan, High Chief of the Tribes of Rodoka, and Lord Patron of Ilarís. He was issued the two oaths of office shortly thereafter.
Legacy of the Interregnum
It remains uncertain to the modern day who was the monarch of Tavaris and Metradan between Friday, December 13th and Monday, December 16th, 1940. The Tavari Diet passed a law, the Royal Succession Act of 1940, shortly afterward that clarified that “the eldest living legitimate child of the monarch, meaning that person who is by birth or lawful adoption descended from the previous monarch and is older than any other living person descended from the previous monarch by birth or legal adoption, regardless of any other factor, shall become monarch on the demise of the crown.” Had this law been in effect already, Crown Prince Tevri would have assumed the throne. This law also included a clause explicitly stating that “the identity and name of that person who was King of All Tavaris from the death of Her Majesty Kanor VII until 11:04 AM on December 16th, 1940, is and shall forever remain unknown, and shall not be included in any official count of the monarchs of Tavaris.” While this person was either Tevri Nuvo Žanaž or Devri Nuvo Aidetíri, and that person should theoretically have been considered the 41st monarch of Tavaris, they are not counted as such, and on all lists published by the Silver Court, Zaram II was the 41st monarch of Tavaris.
Though very few of the people involved ever said so publicly, it is generally believed that the mixed-species heritage of Tevri and Devri played a role in their ultimate passing over as Tavari royalty. The wave of Tavari nationalism that overtook Tavari culture in the years after the Great War included with it stark resistance to any changes in the institution of the monarchy and significant anxiety that the Tavari monarchy’s image had to be maintained. Tavari nationalists also generally held that Tavaris was and ought to be a country of orcs and governed by orcs, who unlike other species are indigenous to northwest Gondwana—in other words, Tavari nationalism post-Great War was and is a speciest project. The notion of tiefling blood on the Silver Throne was unpalatable to Tavari nationalists, who during the three day interregnum conducted several public protests, and Tavari National Party politicians across the country pressured the Prime Minister to make a change to the succession.
In Metradan, the accession of either Tevri or Devri was also opposed by many on the right who feared that their close association with the Cescolian community would lead to the government pulling development resources away from the orcish-majority south to the human-majority north. The Metradani right, with which the Metradani Coalition was generally aligned in most respects, considered the economic neglect of the Cescolian community necessary for Metradan to continue to exist as a Tavari-speaking orcish-governed country. Zaram II had little connection to Metradan, and neither he nor his son Zaram III were particularly concerned with the country.
It is also true that Kanor VII, especially in Tavaris, had a reputation as being somewhat awkward and inept in the ways of high society and high culture that were expected of the monarchy, which also turned both elites and the general public away from her and her family. There were few public complaints at the skipping over of her heirs. The notion of a King named Tevri or Devri did seem foolish to many Tavari people. Her nephew Zaram, on the other hand, had a name that had been in the Tavari royal family for five centuries and was a classically trained musician and a traditional Tavari wrestler, and his focus on Tavari arts and culture was popular among the public.
The descendants of Kanor VII have remained in Metradan and to this day are active in business and politics in the region now often called Zampanea in northern Metradan. There is a small community in Metradan of tieflings from Siånriti who migrated either on the invitation of King Dearg or through connections to those who did. In the highly segregated country, the Siånritian community has something of a unique ability to move between the human north and orcish south and operate among and between them. To this day, tieflings in Metradan tend to be wealthy and active in politics.