18th Shahanshah

V 243 - V 249

Grand Magistrate of Pelegon

V 198 - V 232

Grand Vizier of Pelegon

V 232 - V 243

Odios I Pelegon, remembered as Odios the Old, was the eighteenth Shahanshah. The younger brother of Pelegon V, Odios was an unlikely Shahanshah, ascending the throne after his great niece Deshna went missing in the Shadowfell. Already elderly when he ascended the Golden Falcon Throne, Odios would only rule for five years.

Though wise and effective in his youth, by the time he ascended the Golden Falcon Throne he was old and spent. The stresses of the Throne took its toll on the Shahanshah, who insisted on making himself seen and respected after his predecessor's absent misrule, took a fast and drastic toll on the Shahanshah's mental and physical health. Within a year, he was senile and unable to attend most parts of public life, forcing his daughter and heir Princess Deshara to become the face of the Crown. When Princess Deshara unexpectedly succumbed to a suden illness in V 248, Odios was ruined by grief and his mental faculties slipped even further. He would follow his beloved daughter to the grave less than a year later.

His reign is widely considered to have been an ineffective and sad end to his otherwise distinguished life.

It was quietly joked across the Empire that he was unaware that he was married to his third wife, Cassandra Oldblood, and he was known to misspeak and call her "Maryam" in public.

Odios I as depicted in an illuminated Riverfolk manuscript