Lewis I of Sierra

Lewis I (Lewis William Andrew; December 11, 1858 – February 2, 1946) was King of Sierra from August 15, 1893 to February 2, 1946. The firstborn son and successor of Smith I, he reigned for nearly 53 years and saw the rise of Sierra through the Sierran Cultural Revolution and both  before his death in 1946 and succeeded by his youngest child and only daughter, Angelina II.

Lewis was born into the Royal Household as the in December 1858, a little less than a month since his father, Smith I, the first king of Sierra, assumed the newly established throne of the Kingdom of Sierra. In his youth, Lewis studied and served in the Royal Navy, acquiring a fascination with  and. Witnessing much of Sierra's early development while Crown Prince, including the Sierran Civil War, the, and the rise of the Sierran empire, Lewis ascended the throne following his father's death in 1893. Under his reign, Sierra saw a profound change in society and culture, various reforms on civil liberties for minorities and the working class, restricted, rapid urbanization, technology modernized, and the maturation of the Sierran military.

At the time of his death, Lewis had overseen the victory of Sierra and the {{W|Allies of World War II|Allied forces]] of World War II but ended with controversy over the government's secret involvement with the nuclear testing that led to the {{W|atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki}}. The fallout of this scandal and drop in government trust would rest in his daughter, Angelina I who would spend her initial years regaining public trust. Nonetheless, Lewis has been hailed as a progressive monarch who was open to change and reform, and steered the Kingdom away from chaos.