Queen Aristan

The daughter of the Unifier and queen Enusat, Aristan was notable for having none of the special abilities her parents had. She was married to Border Prince Sargon, whose family reigned over the tri-country area, which allowed the kingdom of Citad to be protected from pirate and knilian invasions. queen Aristan officially ruled over Citad for 45 years. 
= Life =
Despite her lack of natural magical abilities, Aristan is notable for being a Longliver, and was a recurring character in Citad and was at the basis of several massive changes in the kingdom of Citad, Insulam, Piras and others. 
==Assassination Attempt==
The early life of Aristan was marked by an infamous assassination attempt by the Echo Trolls. The Echo Trolls constantly tried to escape their magical prison, first by manipulating a nobleman from outside the royal family to kill Queen Aristan and the rest of the royal line, this would fail and lead the royal family to reinforce the barrier, forbidding the trolls from interacting with any non magical beings besides the royal line.
==Rule of Queen Aristan==
Queen Aristan’s rule following the Unifiers death is generally considered a rather peaceful time by historians, as no particular event besides the assassination attempt made against her arised. She also had many beautiful castles built in the tri-country area. This gave her the admiration of commoners and the nobility in Citad, Piras and Knil. One of the Underlords of Bellow, Lord Bazs Drol was reportedly smitten when he met her, renaming one of the city’s in Piras Aristanville.
==Unifiers Grace==
Some time later, after the birth of future King Beles, a troll architect bearing the seal of the Unifier sought an audience with the queen. He announced that the city he had promised her father was complete. Aristan immediately traveled to see the wondrous city, leaving her husband and son to rule in her stead.
Upon seeing the city, the Queen was apparently overwhelmed with emotion and vowed to never build another castle, as none could rival the beauty of the city she named Unifiers Grace in honor of her father. As a sign of gratitude she freed the Carpen trolls, who were never seen near the city again. Queen Aristan then made the city the royal capital, its strategic positioning in the middle of the kingdom (at the time) gave it a better defensible position than the previous state capital of Coraren.
Queen Aristan eventually buried her husband and lived to be very old, some suspecting that her power was her longevity. This would turn out to be exact, and in a very dark way.
==Marriage to Drol==
Queen Aristan, in her later years in life eventually lost her dear husband Sargon, King Beles took the throne of Unifiers Grace, and Aristan left for Piras, where she married again, this time to the Bazs Drol, an Underlord of Bellow (who conveniently lost his wife days after hearing of Aristan’s arrival). Drol had many sons who were all grown and had left to make their own lives, and a young strange haired daughter, Salaeb, whose beauty was great, so great that the queen began to become jealous of it.
Drol became senile in his old age, and was consumed with his love for Aristan. Before long his fief became isolated from the rest of society, seldom visited, and its staff minimal. Aristan greatly missed her past life, but Drol forbade her from leaving the castle and withheld letters from her son, King Beles, and forged responses. In this isolated state, Aristan only had two occupations, her image, which she saw was less beautiful than that of her growing stepdaughter, and magic.  
==Salaeb==
Drol eventually died, leaving Aristan isolated with her stepdaughter, in a castle well hidden in the forests of Piras.
Aristan eventually became jealous of her stepdaughter, who became more beautiful than her. She attempted to kill her in an alcohol fueled rage but her ward escaped. Once her stepdaughter was gone, the witch queen realized that her ward was the source of her youth and she began to deteriorate. She then began experimenting on ways to maintain her youthfulness, but found that she could only maintain her youth when in the presence of noble blood.
In time, Aristan became bankrupt and was unable to pay her staffs wages, the personnel left the castle.
==Anagalshu==
Out of options, Aristan sells her property and relocated to one of the castles she built in the tri country area. She then ordered her manservant that she had binded to her will along the way, (who was Arrol Drol, one of Bazs Drol’s sons) to kidnap the youth from a noble line in order to keep her youthful appearance.
The castle Arrol found was none other than Unifiers Grace. Having orc lineage, the young Arrol broke the trolls spells upon the castle, and it began to crumble. In the general panic of the event, Arrol managed to capture the princess that would give the queen her youth once again. Unbeknownst to Aristan, this was none other than her granddaughter Anagalshu, daughter of King Beles. Arrol eventually developed feelings for the young princess, and they fell in love. Arrol then escapes with her to bring her home.
Upon finding out that Arrol had betrayed her and taken Anagalshu, she follows the duo, but upon seeing the ruins, recognizing it as Unifiers grace. Something changes in her, she sheds a tear, possibly of shame, and leaves. She returns to her castle, but aware that her son may not show her leniency, finds a suitably old woman, burns down her castle with the woman inside and leaves for the forests of the tri-country area.
==Witch Queen==
Aristan retreated to the ruins of an old orc fortress that was unhabited since the orc wars. There she continued her magic studies over the period of several weeks. She continued to teach herself magic through demonic rituals, until managing the immense feat of trying to summon a Mussorg Chernabog. The demon was summoned deep underground, which killed it and caused a mountain to rise from underneath the fortress. Goblins flocked to the mountain and Aristan made them her servants, taking the title of Witch Queen. She convinced the goblins of her power by allegedly turning into a dragon. 
Through the waning power of the rotting Mussorg under the mountain, Aristan furthered her study of magics. Her reign as witch queen was cut short as less than a month later, her fortress was assaulted by werewolves who were dormant in previously unexplored halls in the fortress. Aristan fled the fortress in dragon form, leading to the legend that there are dragons in the tri county area. 
She crash landed due to her wounds and was found and "rescued" by Sola Petrichos-Citad. She stayed with his mother Fanfa Petrichos-Bearqueen and her tribe of Werebears for a time under the name of Misha. Misha became instrumental in warring against the Lycan Thropes of the area. She hid her powers well and eventually accepted the gift of Ursanthropy. 
== Marriage to Sola Petrichos-Citad ==
After the death of Fanfa, Misha became queen of the Werebears. Sola eventually married Misha and they had a child together, Goston.
Misha was very influential once she became queen once again. Being much more crafty than her husband, she sought to protect the anthrope refuge from King Demetrius, she did this by giving her daughter’s hand in marriage to Prince Nikan II, Demetrius’s son. Demetrius would have his revenge by having Sola assassinated in his organ room. Misha assumed leadership of the principality after her husband's death, never seeking revenge against Demetrius. 
As time past, the villagers of the principality would become more and more like the animals they got their Anthropy from, and would eventually give birth to altogether sentient animals. The anthrope refuge would continue to operate under the leadership of Misha, but when it was announced that the principality would be visited by the crown (at the time, Prince Aewe), she disappeared. Her disappearance marked the end of the principality, who was promptly annexed by the kingdom of Citad, and given to Prince Nikan II and Goston, who lived there for the rest of their lives.
Aristan fled back to her old fortress and fought against werewolves for control of her castle ruins but eventually lost, the ruins became the modern day Lycan Hall. 
Aristan would flee to the islands of Insulam where she resorted to living life as a magic shop owner. her work didn't go unnoticed and she quickly rose the ranks until becoming the regents royal mage of the island kingdom of Iaye.
== Life as royal mage ==
Following the king of Iaye's policy of keeping magic under control Aristan hatched a plan to further her power on the lands of Insulam. She uses her position to turn the prince of Iaye into a scarecrow without attracting suspicion to herself. 
She does this in order to garner support for her policies of ridding the kingdom of witches and wizards who did not properly obey the king's rules on the usage of magic (her rules by proxy). She also does this to have free rein and a supply of magic users to steal their powers from to keep her young. 
The disappearance of the prince causes a war in the island dominions, which she stops when her objective is complete by contacting the right people. Following the Short War, Aristan had the entirety of magic users of Insulam under her control. Aristan's power causes magic users to have their actual form revealed as monsters or old people, a useful tool in her hunt for magic users. the Kingdom of Iaye became a haven for magical creatures following the implementation of Aristans policies, but this would not last. With the policy completed, the king of Iaye released Aristan from her position, and she returned to her secretive shop where she continued her business. Her final role was teaching the Shakfish nobles a class on the Closure, soon after, Aristan left and her history unknown until she was recognized when she married John Amiable, a son of the God King of Citad. 
=== The Sinking of the island of Iaye ===
The Iaye kingdom lives alongside a centaur community, and tensions rose when Iaye's daughter sought to marry a centaur rather than the Shakfish noble she was promised to. The Shakfish, in a rage removed the Closure a gigantic heat dispersing gemstone that effectively plugged the islands volcano, causing the island to sink into the depths. During the battle, the royal artifact a sharp throwing disk that could summon gales of wind was stole nby the Shakfish. The Mermen of Iaye have been at war with the Shakfish ever since. 
==Marriage to John Amiable==
Following her departure from Iaye mere months before its collapse, Aristan lived a life in the forests as a bear, possibly to reconcile her fragile psyche with the length of her life. after an unknown time she returned to society, even visiting Unifiers grace. She was part of the first to embark onto the god kings flying kingdom in the clouds where she met his son, the also incognito John Amiable. 
They lived a simple life above the clouds, and had the future king Vonagen together. This life ended when Hannah Strongfire, the grand daughter of Aristan and Sola Petrichos Citad, was invited to the Marriage of Noblewoman Sognis and recognized Aristan for who she was. Realizing that he was in fact married to his great great great great great great grandmother, and father of his great great great great grandfather, John Amiable killed himself. Sognis and Hannah, aware of the situation on the surface kingdoms had Vonagen legitimized by Hannah as his son (despite her advanced age). Vonagen would later become king of Citad following the death of the Twin Kings. 
==End of life as Sognis==
Hannah would not keep the secret of Aristan's nature forever. When her grandnephews, the future twin kings, would ask her questions about Aristan, she would speak of her in the present, and eventually reveal to them her nature. The twin kings, realizing their monstruous heritage and Aristans influence over the centuries had her killed. Aristan was found and killed by the Twin Kings, but before she died she prophesied that the end of the Twin Kings line within one hundred years.
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