Vespasian Odrilaven

Vespasian Dorian Matteus Tōridren Odrilaven is a Kiravian politician serving as a Delegate to the Stanora from Fariva and as leader of the Levantian Union Party. He is one of the leading voices for Levantian continental integration in Kiravia.

Biography
Vespasian Odrilaven was born in Béyasar, Fariva to a Kiravian father of Lovartem Coscivian ethnicity and an Urcean mother from Portsmouth. As a youth, he frequently travelled to Urcea and the Latin Empire with his family. He earned a business degree from Béyasar Jesuit University, but frustrated by the lack of economic opporutnities in Kiravia under Kirosocialism, moved to Urcea for a short time before becoming a manager for a ferry company carrying passengers across the Straits of Ilánova. After the fall of Kirosocialism, Odrilaven began a career in investment banking with the Béyasar-based firm Halogen & Vistur. During the late 21190s, he secured and managed a vast portfolio of investments on the Levantian mainland and amassed significant personal wealth. It was also during this period that Odrilaven became interested in politics in general and Levantian integration in particular, inspired by his own cross-strait background and experience of navigating regulatory barriers to trade and investment between Levantian markets.

Political Career
Odrilaven first entered public service as the Registrar of Properties for County Sendar, Fariva, a vestigial elected office for which he ran unopposed. He was later elected to the city council of Epsivar, Fariva, known for its large Fiannrian and Urcean immigrant populations. Odrilaven served as an independent until 21203, when he and a number of Levantian-Kiravian community leaders founded the Levantian Union Party. In the special election necessitated by the Akbar Leaks campaign finance scandal of 21205 that left several Stanora seats in the Far Northeast vacant, Odrilaven and the LUP took advantage of low Coscivian-Kiravian turnout and dissatisfaction with the historically dominant state parties to win three seats in the Stanora.

While Odrilaven and his fellow LUP Delegates, Águstus Veralumin and Hosémaria Sanmartín, were greeted with hostility and political isolation by the major Stanora factions, they were able to improve their image by joining the strongly national-sovereigntist Coscivian National Congress in vocally opposing the Ixnay League of Nations and earn political capital by supporting the Caritist Social Union and Shaftonist-Republican Alliance on important legislative initiatives.

Personal Life
Odrilaven is married to Terésa Ilvostratin Odrilaven, also of mixt Urcean and Coscivian ancestry. The couple have six children and live in the Béyasar sattelite city of Epsivar, where a majority of residents are of mainland Levantian origin.

Although Odrilaven was baptised in the Coscivian Catholic rite, he primarily attends Latin-rite Catholic parishes with traditional liturgies. He is a polyglot with a fluent understanding of Kiravic Coscivian, Lovartem Coscivian, English, and Latin; as well as an advanced command of Iatic Coscivian and practical knowledge of Gaelic and Greek.