Adrian Amatius Valerius I

Adrian Valerius I, self-titled Amatius, was the second Emperor and sole God-Emperor of the Valerian Imperium. Third son of William Valerius, founder of the Imperium, Adrian was raised a headstrong young prince with little ambition for ruling. The Prince ascended to the throne following the deaths of his father and brothers during the wars that forged the Imperium, and took the Imperial name Amatius upon his coronation. Amatius presided over the late Adunationem and Expansionem, securing interstellar power for the Imperium, and led the subjugation of multiple alien races. His assassination by his nephew Wesley Mercator sparked the Imperial Civil War, which devastated the Imperium. Amatius was resurrected by the sacrifice of Imperial Regent Phillip Vitellius Maldrin's High Council to the Well of Disciples, reborn as a Christ figure to the fractured Imperium and hailed as its God-Emperor. His power absolute, God-Emperor Amatius succesfully reunified the majority of the Imperium, crushing the Imperial Dissidents and driving back Mercator's front. He reigned as God-Emperor until his second death centuries later, after which the Imperium nearly collapsed once more.

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