King DiMarco of Fanaglia

DiMarco (DiMarco Alonso Gustav Ziegler; born 9 September, 1810) was king of Arviragus from the time of his father's death in 1831 until the Fanaglian Unification in 1842, at which time he rose to the status of King of Fanaglia. When Arviragus became a duchy of the United Kingdom of Fanaglia, DiMarco turned over local governance of the duchy to his younger brother, Wilhelm Ziegler. DiMarco ruled Fanaglia until he was deposed and executed by his own daughter, Princess Autumn, in 1874.

Early in his reign, King DiMarco was revered as the king who united the five old kingdoms to defend against aggression from Menid in the west. After forming a historic peace treaty with the Mendeans, he poured countless Krôms into science and agriculture and promised to pull his people out of the dark ages, making sure that every Fanaglian had fresh food, clean water, and a roof over his head.

Perhaps it was greed, or perhaps it was madness, but, over time, Fanaglia became an absolute perversion of everything he had promised: lines of people a mile long waiting for stale bread, water that stank of sulfur, ten or more people sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder in public housing. Meanwhile, the king and his lords sat high in their castles, reveling in the spoils of all of their peoples' work.

DiMarco later disowned his then-sixteen-year-old daughter, Princess Autumn, for allowing a homeless mother and her children to sleep in his stable. Autumn went into hiding; she fled to the countryside, where she began recruiting dissenters for Libre Fanaglia, which eventually led a successful military coup against him.

DiMarco was captured by rebel forces on 8 November, 1874. He was tried for crimes against God's Will, for which he was quickly found guilty. The High Court ordered his execution by hanging on 30 November, 1874, and his body was buried unceremoniously in an unmarked grave.