Raganvad Gundaroving is the Grand Prince of Sturgia and the leader of clan Gundaroving. He is the owner of Balgard, Varcheg, Mazhadan Castle, and Nevyansk Castle, the husband of Asta, and the father of Simir, Mimir, and Valla.
Background[]
In year 1077, then-Prince Raganvad marched with his father, Grand Prince Vadinslav, alongside the Battanians and Vlandians to confront the Calradic Empire at the Pendraic. In the battle that followed, Vadinslav was killed as the Sturgians fought the main imperial force and overwhelmed their camp. However, Raganvad did not participate in the frontline, having been ordered by his father to stay back. Upon receiving word of his father's death, Raganvad claimed the Empire's Dragon Banner as his father's trophy and thus his inheritance, but Olek the Old refused, breaking the banner's staff and throwing it at his Prince. Raganvad was further enraged by what he perceived as cowardice from High King Caladog fen Gruffendoc for ambushing the imperials instead of fighting them directly.
Official Description[]
| “ | The current Grand Prince of Sturgia is Raganvad. Harsh and uncompromising, he believes that it is the right of the prince to command the boyars in all things, not just in making war. For the time being they obey him, not least for his ability to call on the kinsmen of his mother, a Nordic princess with ties to the fearsome Skolderbroda mercenary company. | ” |
Quotes[]
| “ | Yes. The day my father died, thanks to Battanian treachery.
When they pledged to support us in the battle, we believed they would stand with us in the shield wall, like men. But of course this is not the Battanian way. They sprung some woodland trickery up in the hills, killed off Neretzes' vanguard, and no doubt spent the rest of the battle whooping and boasting and chopping the heads off of men who were already dead. It was Sturgians who met Neretzes' guard face-to-face. My father ordered me to stay back as he led them into battle, but he was at their head. He forced them back, then they broke and ran for the shelter of their camp. We went and attacked their ramparts, and broke them, but my father was hit by an imperial mace at the moment of his triumph and died. I will never forget when a messenger ran to tell me that my father was dead. But I knew I must swallow my grief, because now I was king. I rode down into the ruins of the imperial camp to take their banner as a trophy, my inheritance won by my father and passed down to me. Oh, some of the boyars were insubordinate. But I have since showed them that I am master. |
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| — on the Battle of Pendraic | ||
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| Grand Prince Raganvad | Unknown |
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