Akane Tsukuda

Akane Tsukuda (あかね) was Queen of the Kingdom of Nohr from 1 January 2016 to 3 October 2016. From 20 June 2016, she adopted the additional title of Empress of Maloria. She inherited the throne at age 16, after her father's four eldest brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children. The Kingdom of Nohr was already a constitutional monarchy, in which the sovereign held relatively little direct power. Privately, Akane attempted to influence Nohrian policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality.
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Akane married her first cousin, Prince Nea Della Rovere, in 2016. Their two children married into royal and noble families across the Role-Play World, tying them together. Her reign of nine months is known as the Akanian Era and was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of cultural, political, and military change within the Kingdom of Nohr, and was marked by great expansion of the Nohrian Empire. She was the last monarch of the House of Tsukuda.
Nea's expansionist foreign policy, which Akane endorsed, led to conflicts such as the Nohr-Oath War and the Second Nohr-Brazensteil War. "If we are to maintain our position as a first-rate power", she wrote, "we must . . . be prepared for attacks and wars, somewhere or other, continually." Akane saw the expansion of the Nohrian Empire as civilising and benign, protecting Role-Players from more aggressive powers or cruel rulers.