Harald V

Emperor Harald V called for the first expedition west across the Drager Sea from the Solandian Empire that ultimately reached the continent now known by Solandians as Vesland.

Excerpts from the Historien om Imperiet av Soland: Vesland Edit
Compiled and composed by Torvold Ostersonne and translated into Low Solandian by Ekberht Halfdan"…And so, in the year 828, on our Emperor, Harald V, son of Jovun III, son of Harald IV, House of Eldgammel’s coronation he looked upon the lands of his father and found them tamed and cowed. Kings of the south brought him incense and oil but this did not please him. Kings of the east brought him wine and silver but this did not please him. Kings of the north brought him furs and steel but this did not please him. Kings of the first father, his own house, brought him fish of lye and tapestries but this also did not please him. Harald V desired not the fruits of his father’s conquests, nor those of his father’s father. He desired new lands to bring into the glorious light of the Solandian Empire…""…In the year 830, from the Pearl Throne in the capital, Byenavsol, Harald V issued a decree promising gold, noble title, and glory eternal to any who dared to cross the Sea of Drager in search of new lands for his glorious patrimony. And so the great trade princes built great longships of the finest make and unlanded nobles, adventurers and thieves crowded together for the chance to crew them…""…In the year 841 the first ship returned from the east, the Dragedreper, captained by Magnar Lodbruk, son of Haedsil, son of Kanneg. The ship bore exotic fabrics, treasures, and the bones of the savages they slew in the taking of them. For such success where all had failed Magnar was bestowed the title of Jarl and given command of the Imperial Fleet to wage a crusade of conquest in this new land…""…In the year 855 the last of the savage Blomstmenn were defeated and driven out of the great peninsula of Vesland making way for the great settling of those verdant lands by the people of the Solandian Empire. But there was great greed and jealousy among the kings and dukes as to the question of who would hold the titles to such lands. It troubled Harald V deeply to see such greed poison the minds of his vassals and so he decreed that new houses shall be raised up to kinghood and that Vesland shall be divided between them and governed by them for the glory of the Empire. The Veslander Kings owed fealty directly to Emperor Harald V and so their wealth could not endanger the prestige of his house…""…In the year 874 Harald V died under suspicious circumstances and his sons were soon after murdered by bandits en route to the Summer Palace…"