Namidia Korlat

Namidia Korlat, also known as Namidia the Cruel was a Yutemond noblewoman and the founder of the Korlat dynasty. She established the Duchy of Korlat through her husband, Thaddeus. She was the first suo-jure Duchess of Korlat.
Namidia is popular in story folk for her cruelty, she was the daughter of Korlat and his consort, Amalia who originated from an unknown noble family in Yutemond. She is noted as the most ruthless woman of her time, was a warrior tribal woman and the first elevated suo-jure duchess in Yutemond.
== History ==
=== Origins ===
Namidia was the daughter of Korlat, a wise tribal leader in Yutemond, he was a relative of Gormond who was a distant cousin of his from a rich noble family in the city lands of Yutemond.
She was bull-like, with heavy shoulders, a thick neck, and huge arms. Though she was on the heavy side, she was not fat, but more massive and square. She kept her hair short up to her upper back and had silver-greyish locks.
==== Youth ====
In 720 BE, Lady Amalia announced that she was pregnant with a daughter. That daughter, Namidia, was born the next year, at Korlat Castle. As a babe, she was a big and healthy child; almost twice as heavy as her father had been. She received her first sword at the age of three, and took to swordplay at once.
She supposedly immediately butchered a cat with the sword, although some doubt the truth of this tale. Regardless, when Namidia was eight, she stabbed to death a palfrey which had kicked him, and slashed half the face off the stableboy who came running towards the animal's screams and and by the age of thirteen she was already defeating hardened knights in mêlées.
Namidia had more success in his military accomplishments. In 724 BE, she won renown a tourney by defeating three knights of the Imperial Guard in the joust, and next winning the mêlée. She was knighted by her father, Korlat, at the age of sixteen, making her the youngest knight in Yutemond at the time.
Her mother, Amalia gave her a silver locket with their portrait in as children before she died of illness in 677 BE. Soon after, Namidia was left without a mother and at the age of seventeen and took a liking to a lowborn boy her own age named Claudus who originated from a neighbouring family at Korlat Castle, though the boy was poor she declared him her "mistress."
== Tyranny ==
=== Marriage ===
A year after Amalia's death in 678 BE, Namidia was arranged to marry Thaddeus of Dalmacia, a member of Korlat's cadet branch and one of the few members of their line; it was imagined that Namidia would leave Claudus as per her father's decree to wed Thaddeus, however she strongly rejected the idea and married him while pretending to have cut all connections with her long-time lover.
==== Revenge on the mountain tribesmen ====
Soon after, Korlat was killed during an ambush raid and Thaddeus with Namidia assuming authority over the Korlat tribesmen rained hell on the mountain people. According to some tales she burnt women, children and men are the stake and provided mercy for no one. 
Namidia is noted to have personally fought on the battlefield; though it was common for Korlat women to be treated the same as men most of Yutemond at the time did not see women fit for battle due to structured gender roles. She also ordered four levels of dungeons constructed, and had the fourth level build specifically for torment. 
=== Namidia the Cruel ===
Many people of Yutemond smurred her as "the cruel" as she continued her campaigns on a defeated tribes-people, it was reported that she killed pregnant women, poor people and others. One time, an elderly man was burnt alive for complaining about the masses of Korlat tribesmen merging into the hillsides; instead of addressing the issue she branded the man as "xenophobic" and burnt him before having the man gelded and torn to shreds in a fire.
Namidia was also accustomed to Claudius who she declared her first "Imperial Paramour," the term used exclusively by the emperors of Yutemond. A title of which Namidia had attempted to assume. Though, Thaddeus was enraged at being cuckholded; he continued to have sex with her whenever she demanded it noting that his place as a consort best not be disturbed.
===== Execution of Thaddeus =====
Due to Claudus' power at court and influence over Namidia, she had Thaddeus stabbed to death which enraged many prominent nobles and caused a coup to brew within her own court when she declared her intention for Claudus (a lowborn whoremonger) as his successor.
== Death ==
=== Desposition ===
Day by day, the Yutemond people turned against Namidia, as both smallfolk and lords began to despise her for her many cruelties on the general populace, while those from her native lands branded her as a "stubborn little bitch" in reference to the fact she was apparently only 5'4 at death.
Namidia was dethroned by her children; Aurora and Galerius Korlat in name only while the Korlats of Dalmacia restored peace to the realm as regents for the young Aurora. She died at the age of 60 during her imprisonment and was buried in the Bronze Tomb of Korlat Castle beside her mother, Amalia.
==== Issue ====
During her reign, she produced two children;
* Aurora Korlat, 2nd Duchess of Korlat
* Galerius Korlat
== Legacy ==
The book A Necessity for Cruelty was created by pyschologists of the Imperial pharmarcy on the remains of Namidia Korlat in an attempt to understand her cruel nature. The book was banned by her daughter, Aurora but later the ban was lifted by Galerius with the intention to teach children in schools the meaning of kindness and to prevail from cruelty.
In popular culture, she is known as Bloody Namidia and in modern childrens in folklore she is considered a demon.
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