Grand Prince Stavian IV

Grand Prince Stavian IV is the current sovereign of Taldor. Prior to his installment, at the retirement of his uncle Stavian III, the Grand Prince was a creditable captain in the Royal Taldan Navy. he one the favor analogues of the crowd, and was awarded the Royal Triumph, for his capture of, at the time, the most fearsome warship to sail the Eastern Inner Sea. The Qadiran vessel, the Scimitar of Light, was the first of what were later called "construct ships," vessels that used not wind for movement but magical energies, captured and directed by golem and construct creations.

Stavian IV has proved a competent sovereign, and since his installment Taldan fortunes have improved. While the Taldan bureaucracy is substantive, it does a yeoman's job of maintaining the administrative apparatus of the principality. Stavian IV has also successfully copied, or at least mimicked, the magical technologies required to build a construct ship: the Coaltounge. during the first voyage of the Coaltongue, Elven terrorists and Stavian's elder sister, the Duchess Ethylen, attempted to sabotage and think the new construct vessel. This plot was newly successful but ultimately foiled by the 13th Cluster. The 13C was rewarded by the Grand Prince personally after the event.