Emperor Adrian (Empire's Edge)

Emperor Adrian is a important historic character in Empire's Edge. He died long before the events of Empire's Edge, however he is mentioned several times, there are also many historians writing about him and some people jokingly saying that John and Adrian look almost the same.

Life as Emperor
Since not much is known about Emperor Adrian, as he became Emperor at the tender age of 19 and later burned down everything that documented his childhood or teenage years. Adrian then begun a campaign he called "The Great Purge" where he systematically slaughtered secret societies across the globe as he saw them as cancerous greedy scum that needed to be killed.

After the Great War, and after the Republic of North Germany tried to rebel and invade Southern Germany, Adrian led the army against the Republic's army of North Germany and defeated them at the battle of Berlin. He then massacred every left standing enemies, including their entire families to in his own words "prevent future germanic resistance".

He also reformed Rome itself, increasing women's rights drastically and also led a campaign against slavery across the globe. Nonetheless, Adrian was also responsible for the destruction and genocide against the last remaining Ottomans after destroying all their attempts to try to build an Empire.

His tactics and methods were so brutal that enemies called him "Adrian the Tyrant" or "Massacre Emperor Adrian". However he was also called to be the only one who ever managed to utterly destroy and demolish and entire culture and demolished the will of entire tribes and people to get their own state.

Methods
Emperor Adrian's methods rarely changed. His most used method was the demolition of the countries he beat. He then would massacre and slaughter the leaders and their families in order to destroy the will of the people, he would then also slaughter thousands of prisoners of war and demand total obedience from the defeated people.

Death
Despite killing political enemies, being responsible for genocide, massacres all across the world and yearly attempts on his life, Adrian was never killed and died from a rare illness. He died at the age of 49, after having ruled the Roman Empire for exactly 30 years.