Julieanna I

Julieanna I (900 BE - present), known as Julienna the Gruesome or Julieanna the Mad, is the empress of the Yutemond Empire of the Korlat dynasty.
Known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of her methods. Julieanna I was born in Empress' Eternity, the daughter of Empress Maria I and Emperor Tiberius. She is called the "Gruesome" for her entertainment for bloodshed and the "Mad" for her hypersexual fetishes and illicit activities.
She was brought to power when her mother, Maria resigned in 66 AK. Her reign is commonly thought to mark the end of a golden age of peace and prosperity in the history of the Yutemond Empire.
Julieanna accompanied her mother against the Barbarian Fuedal Realm of Daolsore during the Wars of conquest in 20 AK to 40 AK and on a tour of the Pithian, Feilerion and Reovell provinces in 67 AK. Her reign saw less military conflict than that of Ulpia Caesaris, but internal intrigues and conspiracies abounded, goading Julieanna to an increasingly dictatorial style of leadership. This culminated in her creating a deific personality cult.
== History ==
=== Early life ===
Julieanna Maria Kalis Korlat was born in 900 BE, during the reign of her great-grandmother, Queen Rosamund the Great in the capital city of Empress' Eternity. She was the daughter of Princess Maria Korlat (later nicknamed Maria the Red) and a Pithian slave, Tiberius. Maria was the daughter of the crown princess, Aldara (later Aldara the Executioner upon her accession as empress in 902 BE).
Through her maternal relations, she was a granddaughter of Empress Aldara the Executioner, and Galerius of Stratham. Therefore, this made Julieanna the paternal great-granddaughter of Claudia Sempronia Minor and her husband Aemilius Claudius Castilgilone; as a result making Julieanna a distant relative of Constintina de Castilgilone (the woman responsible for the First Triumvirate) and the great-great-granddaughter of Sempronia Livilla, the daughter of Anastasia Korlat.
She was looked after by her mother's physician, Isabeau, who treated many of Julieanna's common illnesses. Julieanna received extensive tutoring by a multitude of teachers with a focus on intellectual education. Among her teachers was her royal governess, Faustina de Opplision, the Countess of Fairward.
During the later reign of her mother, she served on the High Tribunal as Crown Princess and later as Vicilium Civilis, even as First State Citizen (after her official inauguration in 53 AK) and attended the funeral of her father, the emperor Tiberius in 52 AK. Julieanna was renowned and admried by the Yutemond Senate for her filial piety. Julieanna subsequently accompanied her mother on a lengthy trip to the newly conquered provinces from 56-60 AK, during which she visited the Pithian Encampment and the Fortress of the Drowned.
When she turned 16, she took several concubines to her bed; her first being a nobleman, Marcus Clovius Septimius who was considered more as imperial paramour rather than a concubine (but the status remained similar). Later, she took Arria Voulsena, a Feilerion common woman and Louise Fahrington who was assigned to her by Maria I. Another, Vipsanius Cinna was kidnapped and gifted to Julieanna after the Yutemond senate slowly purged the Vipsanian family; staining the legacy of General Rio and ending the lines of Lucretia Major and Claudia Sempronia Major.
== Early reign ==
=== Triumph as empress ===
A planned campaign westward was cut short when Julieanna's mother, Maria was overwhelmed by sickness and decided to resign in 66 AK, she resigned to her subsidary palace (following the example of her mother Aldara) and was given the honorific title of Empress Mother Maria. She was 66 years old at her time of abdication.
On the first day of 66 AK, the two empresses celebrated a joint triumph. She subsequently married her brother, Lucon Korlat before accompanying their mother to her subsidary palace in Pithia (later she was stationed in Empress' Eternity to live with Julieanna and Lucon).
In 66 AK, Julieanna Korlat ascended the throne as the third official Korlat empress of all of Yuemond and she was honoured with the new title Grand Empress Aldara Korlat in spite of her poor reputation 66 years earlier when she was the sovereign. Additionally, Aldara was granted executive authority as head of the royal household.
==== Peace in Pithia, Feilerion and Rocol prior to Maria's conquests (67 - 69 AK) ====
In 67 AK, Julieanna remained with the Pithian armies for only a short time before negotiating a peace treaty with the Pithian, Feilerion and Rocol tribes, prior to the massacre and dissolution of the Brotherhood of Justice and the barbarian fuedal realm which had occured respectively from 12 AK to 42 AK during the reign of her mother, Empress Maria the Red.
She then returned to Yutemond and celebrated a triumph for the conclusion of the wars. Unlike the preceding Korlat empresses and queens; Livia, Ulpia, Namidia and Aurora, she seems to have had little interest in the business of administration. She tended throughout her reign to leave the practical running of the state to a succession of favourites, beginning with Duchess Anastasia Korlat, the daughter of Princess Livia Korlat and Prince Rolf, followed by her younger brother, Lucien Korlat.
== Early acts as empress (67 AK - 72 AK) ==
Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs regarding the Yutemond Senate led to a series of conspiracies and attempted coups, which in turn eventually provoked Julieanna to take charge of affairs, which she did in an increasingly dictatorial manner. Nevertheless, though the senatorial order came to fear her, the evidence suggests she remained popular with the army and the common people for much of her reign, not least because of her lavish shows of largesse (recorded on his coinage) and because she staged and took part in spectacular combats. She was not an inspired combatant. She killed animals by bow, standing above the arena. When she fought, they would purposely submit. It would have led to crucifixion, at best, for killing the empress.
In around 67 AK, she had her sister-in-law (her brother Lucien Korlat's wife), who was also the former governor of Feilerion), Atia Amalia, executed for a claimed action "against the law of the Gods." Later, she allowed for Lucien to marry Richard Fahrington after she called everyone to witness "Fahrington milk" after she ordered her concubine, Louise Fahrington to squeeze breast milk in front of a public audience.
Julieanna banned sex in public, weed, and coffee in Empress' Eternity. She ordered execution for breaking this ban. She restored the judicial regulations by very strict punishments, including execution; she once strangled a member of the senate for the reason that the official had beaten his mother-in-law. Around 50,000 people were burnt at the stake, drawn and quartered and had their limbs burnt on the orders of Empress Julieanna. It was said that "no one" was immune from her wrath, not even members of her family or nobility.
===== Orgy Day (68 AK) =====
In 68 AK, Julieanna developed a lustful appetite and declared Orgy Day. However, when Lucon protested she had the emperor consort whipped in public while she demanded that all those present strip and start having sex. According to historians, she was wholly addicted to wine and to lust. They say she spent all her time in sensual pleasure and when nature was exhausted with the frequent repetition of venereal delights she endeavoured to restore it with potions or commanded a beautiful virgin to have sex with her. On orgy day, she declared that "all adulterous behaviour is void," and she demanded that her concubine, Vipsanius Cinna (whose screams "shook the foundations of Yutemond,") be penetrated Marcus Clovius Septimius. Which (according to most sources) she masturbated to.
=== War in Feilerion (69 AK - 72 AK) ===
Julieanna I engaged in numerous campaigns to conquer barbarian possessions in eastern Feilerion and in the mountains, accurately defining this region as the key to future Yutemond naval power in the lakes. In 69 AK, she went to war with a rebellious Pithian governor and decisively defeated the 100,000 strong rebel army during the Pithian campaign. The last of these wars ended in 72 AK with Julieanna I in control of the whole populace.
== Later life ==
=== High Tribunal reform (73 AK) ===
In 73 AK, Julieanna reformed her entire High Tribunal installing the following members:
* Emperor Consort, Lucon Korlat
* Princess Jazhara Korlat
* Duchess Anastasia Korlat
* Cerularius Palaleologos
* Hainsy of Feilerion
* Gideon Duren
* Prince Lucien Korlat
Additonally, she introduced High Tribunal roles as per the Tribunal Code of Conduct.
== Family ==
While Julieanna was married to her brother, Lucon (arranged by her mother, Maria) she had a huge sexual appetite and took many concubines, it was said that Julieanna never left a province "without having intercourse with a few natives and leaving them wet." She had four official concubines, two men and two women.
=== Consorts ===
* Lucon Korlat, emperor consort. He sired Jazhara and Nicholas.
* Marcus Clovius Septimius, originally first consort, however officially imperial paramour. He is a Yutemond noble who had sired Alexander.
* Arria Voulsena, third consort, she came from a minor knightly family. 
* Louise Fahrington, fourth consort, she was granted to her for political reasons by Maria I.
* Vipsanius Cinna, fifth consort, he came from an extinct Yutemond noble family. He had sired Sophie Melodia.
=== Children ===
* Jahzara Korlat, the crown princess sired by Lucon.
* Alexander Korlat, her second born child and eldest son sired by Septimius.
* Nicholas Korlat, died as an infant. He was sired by Lucon.
* Sophie Melodia Korlat, she was sired by Vipsanius Cinna.
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