Queen Harp

Submission for the Historical Characters Contest 
Queen Harp was one of the earliest Icewing queens and the one responsible for the strict rules governing animus dragons in the tribe. 
==Appearance ==
Harp had immaculately polished white scales that seemed to glow in the sun. Gray was speckled along her spine and tail. Her wings and underscales were tinged with aquamarine and her horns and spikes were a slightly darker blue. She had several deep gashes along her chest and neck that never seemed to heal and were constantly wrapped in bandages. She wore an appropriate amount of jewelry for her position, including earrings, horn rings, and necklaces. Sapphires were embedded underneath her eyes, in a pattern that emulated a Seawing's glow markings. 
== Personality==
Harp was, as a dragonet, extremely ambitious and hard on herself, always pushing to be better. As she aged, these traits only grew more prominent, expanding to other dragons. She was strict and harshly enforced the rules, which she thought might have led to Flurry's actions. After Flurry was finally killed, Harp did her best to be a good queen, harboring a deep hatred of animus magic, although she hid it. With other dragonets she encountered, she was much more lenient with the rules and easy-going, mostly to try and avoid another Flurry repeat. 
==History==
Harp was born in the early days of dragon civilization, in about 859 AS. From the day she hatched, it was clear Harp was to be the next Icewing queen. The only other contender to the throne was Princess Flurry, the queen's daughter, but she was lazy and, to be honest, not that talented. On the other hand (talon?), Harp was skilled diplomatically and physically, able to dispatch a dragon twice her size. Even with the rumors Harp might not be fully Icewing, it was clear who was the next queen. As the two aged, the skill gap only grew larger. Despite this, they remained close friends, or so Harp thought. They had a strange kind of relationship, to say the least. Flurry was constantly asking her for tips and tricks to "get ahead," sort of like that one classmate who always asks for the answers. Harp was happy to oblige, but in return she pushed Flurry harder than ever. That's when it all started to go wrong. 
When she was about 13, she announced to Flurry that she was planning to challenge the current queen, Queen Sleet, for the throne soon. Flurry appeared indifferent, but in the week leading up to her challenge, strange things started to happen. While she was training with Flurry, she somehow stabbed herself in the leg with a spear. She dropped a glass sculpture in front of the entire First Circle. One night, she heard bangs on the door, only to find an ice statue outside. Harp brushed these off as strange pranks, and once her leg had healed, finally challenged Queen Sleet. As she stood before the queen, issuing her challenge, Flurry burst through the doors and killed Sleet with a flick of her claws. Suffice to say, the entire court erupted into chaos. Although Flurry was the rightful queen, a vast majority of the Icewings were unhappy with the outcome. It only added to the outrage when Harp was executed in public, although Flurry was able to ensure she didn't actually die and was thrown in the dungeon. 
Several years passed, and the Icewing kingdom was slowly deteriorating. Flurry was a terrible queen, prone to bursts of rage and madness. Meanwhile, Harp wasted away in the dungeon, kept between life and death by Flurry's magic. Eventually, one of the guards let word slip that she was, in fact, alive, and a rebellion group called the Shards managed to break her out of jail. Flurry, of course, was furious, and massacred nearly everyone in the palace. The Shards, on the other hand, were trying to find a way to kill or imprison Flurry. A solution came in the form of Boreal, Flurry's son, who had escaped from the palace. He also conveniently happened to have inherited his mother's magic. Together, they formed an idea for a spell that came in the form of a narwhal-horn spear, enchanted to kill Flurry as soon as they were in the same room. So with the help of Boreal's enchanted spear, she was able to kill Flurry. The kingdom rejoiced and Harp was finally crowned queen. 
Harp's reign was off to a rocky start. She had to repair all of the damages Flurry had done, including outside of the tribe. One of the first things she did was limiting the so-called magic users to one spell in their lifetime. Boreal, who had been promoted to the First Circle, had already used his and didn't object to this rule, only proposing a name for the magic: animus magic, after the fury from which is had been spawned. After this, she went straight to work trying to rebuild diplomatic relationships with other tribes. While on one of these missions, Harp met Monsoon, the prince of the Seawings, who was about her age. They immediately clicked during the week she was staying at their palace. A few weeks after her return, she had two eggs that were very obviously part Seawing. Boreal was the only one who knew, and he managed to smuggle the eggs over and give them to the Seawings, who were much more forgiving than the Icewings when concerning hybrids. This is thought to be how animus magic was introduced to the Seawings. Although she was saddened, the incident was pushed away and remained largely unknown. 
um i'm running out of time so bullet points 
* things returned to normal
* until boreal's daughter, juno (harp's great niece) decided the animus rule was unfair (she was an animus)
* started looking for blackmail
* found out about harp's two seawing dragonets + her seawing lineage 
* threatened her with this
* harp abdicated the throne and juno became queen
* but she couldn't change the rule so it was kinda pointless
* juno was angry
* harp decided to get out of the ice kingdom and ended up moving to the kingdom of the sea
* she couldn't find monsoon but met another seawing named delta
* they fell in love, became mates
* since they couldn't have biological mates, they endd up starting an orphanage
* harp died at 41 after drowning in a storm
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