Vespasian Odrilaven

Vespasian D.M.T. Odrilaven
Delegate for Fariva
Incumbent
Assumed office 21205
Chancellor	Ilham Haydar Mutassim Aldēbaran
Preceded by	Irovon Maclellan
Constituency	Fariva
Personal details
Born	22 Séglús, 21143 Bérasar, Fariva
Political party	Levantian Union Party
Spouse(s)	Terésa Odrilaven
Residence	Epsivar, Fariva
Occupation	Investment banker

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 Bérasar, Fariva to a Kiravian father of Taństan Coscivian ethnicity and an Urcean mother from Portsmouth. As a youth, he frequently travelled to Urcea and Yonderre with his family. He earned a business degree from Bérasar 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 Bérasar-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 Federalist Republican Alliance on important legislative initiatives.

Philological writing

As a polyglot with thorough immersion in both Coscivian and Levantine cultures on both a personal and academic level, Odrilaven frequently uses his platform as a political figure to opine on matters of philology and lexicography, particularly as they relate to translation and to cross-cultural dialogue between Kiravia and the Occident, mainly in political and ecclesiastical affairs. He has been frequently involved with legislation that defines official Ænglish translations for Coscivian terminology, and has advocated new translations, many of his own coinage, for titles such as "countyship" and and "Stanora", usually with limited success.

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 Bérasar 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 Eshavian, Kiravic, Julian Ænglish, Blairite Ænglish, and modern Latin, and has a practical knowledge of Gaelic and Istroyan.