Untred IV. Correct
Untred IV. he was prepared for the government for a long time and received an education even outside the empire. In the last years of his father's life, he often represented him, because Untred III. he was sick. After his accession, he continued to work on the Great Chronicle of Magnursia and carried out a fundamental administrative reform of the city-province-state-empire system. It clearly determined the tax flows and responsibilities of individual levels of administration. In 1452, the Great Chronicle was completed, which became the most copied work of the empire. However, his reign was also marked by a dark step - the use of the first biological weapon against the eastern nomads. He died shortly afterwards of rapid paralysis, which many saw as the price for his act.
Dynastic Information
Educated heir and chronicler
Untred IV. he had been in power for a long time, so he was sent to several universities and outside the empire to get the best education possible. In the last years of his father, he gradually gained experience in governing, because due to the illness of Untred III. often took over his duties. After his accession, he continued his father's great work and had a chronicle of the entire history of the empire written. This project was not just a commemorative matter for him. He understood it as a tool of identity, which was to remind the empire of its unity, significance and long continuity.
Reform of cities, provinces and states
Untred IV. carried out one of the most important administrative reforms of the late empire. He regulated the relationship between cities, provinces, states and the empire. He gave the cities more freedom, but at the same time stipulated that if their ruler was not the same as the ruler of the province, they had to pay twenty percent of the taxes collected to the provincial ruler. Provincial governors paid fifteen percent to the rulers of estates if they did not control the estate themselves. The rulers of the estates, i.e. Crown administrators, then paid ten percent to the emperor. This system set clear rules according to which each level of administration received funds for its tasks. The cities paid the guard and buildings, the provinces roads, villages and provincial institutions, holding the army and the emperor the capital, the imperial offices and the highest institutions.
Full integration and completion of the Great Chronicle
The introduction of the system was not easy, as not all nobles accepted the new setup with enthusiasm. Nevertheless, around 1450 it was fully integrated and began to pay off. The empire gained a clearer financial and administrative flow, which helped to stabilize the economy and the responsibility of individual rulers. In 1452, the Great Chronicle of Magnursie was completed. It consisted of 314 books with an average length of five hundred pages and became a bestseller and the most copied edition of books in the history of the empire. By Untred IV. he completed his father's cultural legacy, imprinting it with a form that has survived generations.
Illness as a weapon
In 1460, the empire faced an eastern army composed mainly of nomads. They demanded the release of captured nomadic raiders who had been caught by the Crown Stewards in the east and southeast. Untred decided to comply with the request, but secretly had the captives infected with a special disease created in the laboratory of one of the eastern universities. This was the first actual use of a biological weapon in Ulvenor. The disease was supposed to manifest itself only after a certain period of time and destroy the nomadic army from within. Untred knew that only he had the cure. When the disease did strike, he was planning a later expedition to conquer the remaining wild nomads.
Paralysis and suspicion of a fatal price
Untred did not live to see the expedition. Like his father, he was affected by paralysis, but this time the course was much faster. Within a month of being diagnosed with the disease, he was on his deathbed and died. Many people later interpreted his death as a price for using the disease against his enemies. Whether it was superstition or a moral interpretation of history, Untred IV. he remained a monarch of extraordinary administrative merit as well as a terrifying move that changed the limits of what an empire was willing to do for victory.