Mary Belgrave

Mary Belgrave was born the hereditary home of the Belgraves in the town of Anikas. She was the middle child of three siblings. She lived a rich life in Chevrki with many accolades as she was a competent politician and diplomat. She died in captivity after the fall of Qeshbago when religious soliders of the Athnikas Republic took her home.
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Mary was born in 116 AJC in Anikas. She was the second of three children. Her older brother Nova was 5 years older and her younger brother Sen two years younger. She was birthed to a loving mother and father. She spent most of her childhood inside the city walls of Anikas except when she visited her uncle Beowulf in Rexhold. 
She was a fathers girl and was really interested in his career in politics and diplomacy. She spent many hours in libraries of Anikas learning about history and geography of the places she couldnt visit yet, cause at heart she was adventourous and curious. 
Her teenage years were troubled as her fathers work got more and more as he climbed the ranks of Chevrki and became the countrys leader. When her father rewrote the constitution for chevrki to become a monarchy the fell of and she fled to the northern town of Zhaitker-Klend.
=== Arrival in Zhaitker-Klend ===
After the falling out with her father and death of he mother, Mary arrived in Zhaitker-Klend a broken person. Zhaitker-Klend was a ancient town with a rich history spanning almost 200 years. Here she met Polystralian. Polystralien was a old and wise man with a lot of knowledge. He was still the governor of the region which had long been forgotten. She settled in the town where she agreed to help the old man with his governing tasks in trade for his mentoring.
Mary did a lot as Assistant Governor. She completed the roads of the region, renovated the city of Vietca and fixed the landscape of the region. She learnt a great deal from Polystralian, especially through his knowledge of Head Diplomat. She learnt to be cunning, nuanced and justful, just as Polystralian himself was. Eventually she was given the role of Head Diplomat of Chevrki where a eventful career began.
=== Life of a politician in Chevrki ===
After the resignation of Apex Neon Belgrave the next in line was Chidius Caldarian II with Vandoro Umbra as hand. Chevrki was in turmoil do to the decisions of Neon Belgrave and the political establishment was no place for a sane man.
Chidius Caldarian was loved, but not a very effective politician so Vandoro Umbra stood for most of the decisions and day-to-day tasks. Vandoro helped Mary navigate the terrible situation and she found her place after a while. 
Her first task was to create better realations with Alfheim. Alfheim and Chevrki had been bitter rivals after the Uldarashi civil war and because of the actions of Sabizos Rothbreed. Land was eventually sold to Alfheim as a way to say sorry and better realations. Around this time Mary met the Phoenix Empress Amy Luon and became friends which strengthend realations between the far away nations they represented.
Because of Marys close friendship she was given more and more resposabilities in Chevrki where she was eventually Lord Protector after both Vandoro and Chidius fell ill.
==== Holsatia Rebellion ====
The people loyal to the old Apex Neon felt misrepresented in Government in Chevrki and felt like the Government with Vandoro Umbra as Hand was taking Chevrki back and just increasing instability.
This Rebellion split the Belgrave family and almost tore it apart. The Belgraves living in Anikas was with the Rebellion as it was where Neon was situated. The People of Schwanstein, Meramhold and Royal Harbour were also with the Rebellion. Eventually the Rebellion was shut down by Uldarash and the Rebellions leaders fleeing to Savernia.
This Rebellion forever split the Belgrave Family in two.
=== Fall of Uldarash ===
Since the Uldarash civil war tensions had been building as Alfheim continued to grow after the civil war, shifting the power balance in Uldarash. Chevrki became more and more loyal to Alfheim after Sabizos and Neon had fallen out of power. 
When Aurelian stepped down from the Auroran inherited set of emperor in Uldarash and Rakia Ganeff took his place as Regent the real shift in power started happening. Ganeff favoured Aurora less and less after the civil war and rather fought for representation of all people.
Eventually ScotchKnight stepped down too and Ward Ganeff was put as Regent. Now there were two Regent Emperors who didnt have full power and both were increasingly polerizing the Empire. Ward favoured Aurora and Rakia started to favour more the eastern countries. Alfheims military power had also just increased since the civil war, yet the Auroran military power was stagnant. Rakia and Mary grew close during his Regency and he was like a mentor to her and eventually he trusted her with a seat at the Uldarashi high council. 
The fall of Uldarash was already going down, but Marys joke thather father could coup savernia may have been the last straw. Uldarash blew up and different factions formed afterwards, one of the being the Union of Haven.
=== Union of Haven ===
After the fall of Uldarash the Union of Haven was established in eastern Haven. Mary may or may not be considered one of the founders, but she was a forerunner for the UoH. Mary set on the High Council of the UoH and was close with the current leader Ganeff.
After Ganeff stepped down as leader of the UoH Mary ran as candidate for leader. She lost by 4% to Vic van Barcht. Maybe the UoH wouldnt have fallen if she was elected. We will never know.
When Vic started to introduce govermental reforms to make the UoH less democratic people stared questioning things. The reforms were passed in the High Council, but not in the Senate as the reforms included the dissolution of the Senate. This led to Astro with the Afheim Military couping the UoH and putting Vic as empress. After little thought Mary with ZTK, Nebula and Umbria joined the Horde and togheter with Dande formed Qeshbago.
==== Breakup of Chevrki ====
Chevrki joined the UoH strong togheter under the leadership of Chidius Caldarian II, but after he announced he would resign hist title as apex the hysteria started. Provinces had deep nationalistic feelings and Chid was the only thing holding them togheter apparently. 
All the Provinces got their independence and Mary even split the province of Umbria to Umbria and ZTK cause the only reason they were united was cause of her father uniting them out of spite. Nebula, ZTK, Umbria and Dande stayed in the UoH. Rexhold joined Aurora and Laurentides united with Vinovia and Lorent to create the Horde. Dande eventually joined the Horde.
=== Qeshbago and the Horde ===
The fall of the UoH led to the formation of Qeshbago. Mary was chosen as leader of Qeshbago, something that she had waited a long time for. She was back in Chevrki with her old friends and were protected by the Horde. Her friend in the UoH was not so happy. the Horde was seen as the sweats, the pvpers, the invaders by the people of Haven (except Chevrki). Mary lost her friends in Haven and the quickly became her enemies. She made new friends in the Horde, but the two sides in Haven ould eventually crash.
Qeshbago did good in the start. Defeating rebels in Umbria and incorporating all provinces into a working system. The Horde grew ever stronger and seemed untouchable by the rest of Rathnir. Mary was trusted high up in Horde leadership and especially by their leader Ringo. The only thing that could threathen them were otherwordly powers and themselves(LOL).
==== The Haven War ====
The Laumont Rebellion was the last straw that started a continental war in Haven. A Lorentish settlement in Savernia called Decesmont procalimed their independence from Savernia and all of the Horde supported them. The real reason for the Hordes support were that Savernias leader Olly Ashwood had used the Horde to gain control of Savernia, then joined the Commonwealth of Haven who were the Hordes enemies.
At the first Battle of Antlers Rest the Horde won a decisive victory. It wasnt enough to win the war, but they were going in the right direction. Meanwhile Mary was doing her thing and eventually got Tamji to join Qeshbago which would end the war yet that was not long lasting. The second Battle of Antlers Rest was also a decisive Horde victory in terms of kills, but two soilders had found their way into Decesmont and camped on top of a tree which made the battle a "tie"?????. 
This was basically the gods saying that the Horde was too good for Rathnirs own best. Ringo and other higher ups were banished.
==== Loris and Paragon ====
The old owners of the city of Roris wanted to return to Chevrki. They wanted to settle some desert which was declined by Mary yet they did it anyways. The locals of Umbria wanted to go to war which Mary allowed. The locals hoped for a swift victory as the people of Loris were builders and not so competent fighters, but when the battle started the force of a mercenary group know as Paragon stod by Loris and crushed the locals.
Paragon were surprisingly complient and payed retribution as long as Loris were allowed to stay in Qeshbago.
==== Selva ====
The Selvans had lived long and peacefully on an island in Nebula. They were of Leverosi origin and had fled Sørligste a long time ago. Suddenly sometime during Qeshbago there started a mass influx of Leverosi and Lautine people to Selva. They wanted more and more land and autonomy. At one point Selva trippled the other citizens of Qeshbago in numbers. 
The Selvans kept pushing and Qeshbago had no chance to stop them. Eventually Ringo stepped in and got Selva to force in and agreement. The Selvans joined Qeshbago and helped the nation growing for some time.
After the Haven war there was chaos inside the Horde and no one was there to stop it. Selva saw there chance to claim independence and so did the unhappy Umbrians after Loris. Qeshbago fell and Mary could have done nothing to fix it.
=== Mary`s Death ===
The fall of Qeshbago led to the creation of many petty kingdoms, one of them the Athnikas Republic. They were a extremist theocratic democracy who did everything in the name of their god Luna. Mary thought she could keep control of her own home region, but the Athnikas Republic had people on the inside.
Mary was taken prisoner in her own home of Vietca where she died in captivity. She lasted long for a 57 year old woman.
Category:Traveler's Era