Nikki Yevozh

was the adopted heir of the Empire of Alusia's Emperor Alekai Chevik during the mid-400s A.U. As the head of the Department of State, she belonged to the now-notorious “Inner Circle” founded by her mentor Lavrency Beriak within the Alusian civil service and extended to the Alusian military through the patronage of Chevik. Yevozh was assassinated the day before her coronation, the last widely recognized claimant to the Imperial title.
== History ==
Yevozh was the successor to the late Lavrency Beriak, chief of the Alusian State Department. She became the heir to the emperor after the accession of Emperor Chevik, following the abdication of Empress Illyana as per the terms of the Treaty of Ahlam. Neither Chevik nor Yevozh were related to the Alusian Royal House by blood or marriage, instead following a largely untested policy of adult adoption.
The would-be Empress Yevozh was challenged immediately by an attempted coup from the Legitimist faction of the Alusian clergy, civil service and junior brass, which sought to install a bloodline member of the Imperial House of Alusia and to counter the perceived corruption of the Inner Circle. While the security apparatus of Alusia strongly supported the Inner Circle after the death of Yevozh, the Legitimists manage to claim control of government facilities and to challenge or in some instances co-opt the lightly-staffed Deadhand Era Alusian military.  The Legitimist platform demanded the nationalization of all foreign assets in the country as “war reparations,” the restoration of a bloodline Alusian Royal to the throne and the abolition of foreign-funded churches in the country. The struggle of the Inner Circle and the Legitimists, known as the Legitimist Crisis, would ultimately destroy the Imperial House and lead to an indefinite Regency.
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