Stewart Oriole-2 Mott

Fields at the Culver Academies

Stewart Oriole-2 Mott, later known as the King of Michigan, was a military and political leader who rose to power in the second term of the final President of the United States, Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain. He was the grandson of Dr. Stewart Mott, who was Swain's childhood doctor, and to whom he bore an uncanny resemblance. The King was engaged in a war with the Great Lakes pirates and the Duke of Oklahoma, whose allies included Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. His own allies were in Indiana, including the concentration of Daffodils in Indianapolis. He kept a Summer Palace on Lake Maxincuckee shortly after his victory in the battle at that same location, on the site of the former Culver Military Academy. Early in his career he was a "skinny and supple and ascetic young soldier-saint" in a simple soldier's tunic without badges of rank. His quarters at the time consisted of only a folding cot and long table with several maps. He studied works such as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, and stated history was all he read, since those who failed to learn from the past repeated it.

He maintained scribes to record important meetings and events, although few of his own soldiers could read or write. One form of punishment he used was to order soldiers to cut the grass of his estate with bayonets, pocket knives, or scissors. In President Swain's second term, he was invited to the King's Summer Place to sign a document surrendering the United States' claim over the Louisiana Purchase, most of which was at the time under the control of the Duke of Oklahoma, in exchange for one dollar, which was never received. The two then discussed the King's grandfather, whom he did not know well, specifically the unhappiness Swain noted in him when he was a child. The King was unaware of any criminality or addiction in that part of his family and speculated that maybe his grandfather was "just one of those people who was born unhappy." After securing power, he later became an "obscene voluptuary, a fat old man in robes encrusted with precious stones." He kept a harem of children who shared his middle name, including Melody Oriole-2 von Peterswald, whom he captured at the Battle of Iowa City when she was six years old. She also happened to be the granddaughter of former President Swain. Her "ordeals become more disgusting" as she aged and eventually she escaped from his tent one night while he slept, stealing a Dresden candlestick that she brought as a gift to her grandfather, who was then living in Manhattan.