Catherine
Catherine
Catherine, Queen of Motherland, reigned for just nine years—all of which were spent with the shadow of her beloved father hanging over her. She was a shy woman, easily overwhelmed, who hated the conflicts inherent in a political life. And yet, because she was born first, she was not only destined to rule but required to do so.
With the help of a priestess of The Faith, Catherine learned how to summon her father’s ghost from the undercurrent and commune with him. Unfortunately for Catherine—and for Motherland, as well—she came to be so reliant on her father’s counsel that she was lost without him. And when the priestess died without Catherine ever learning how to cast the spell herself, she and her kingdom fell to ruin.
The soft-spoken queen, without her father’s voice to guide her, came to rely too heavily on the advice of scheming councilors. The kingdom, which had known peace for much of her father’s reign and the early part of her own, splinters and came perilously close to breaking apart. There were factions everywhere within the government, all of them vying for power, and Catherine eventually turned to her cunning son Vladimir II to keep the peace—by any means necessary.
In 226, after ruling for less than a decade, Catherine died under mysterious circumstances. Tragically, she would not be the last of her line to lose their life because they were ill-equipped for the throne.
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