Queen Sophia I Catarina

Queen Sophia I, also known as 'Sophia The Peacemaker' of Catarina was a Queen of Catarina and the Sixteenth overall Monarch, being the daughter of Rupert III.
During Sophia's reign, she oversaw the Catarinian Civil War, fuelled by House Aurelius and the Royal Family, believing due to their wealth and magical prowess that they should take over as the new monarchs of Catarina, despite being over a thousand years into the royal lineage at this point. Many instantly denounced House Aurelius' ideals, but were soon silenced when House Aurelius began plotting to overthrow the royal family forcefully. 
First, House Aurelius began to try paying off the Lords in the other towns of Ironwüdd and Tearstone, but both declined vehemently, condemning the act as treason, reporting it directly to the Queen, fully initiating the Civil War in 981FY. House Aurelius then started recruiting mercenaries and soldiers that had travelled from around the world, with a main warband known as the Claxon's Warband, nicknamed for their screeching war cry sounding like a battle horn. Soon House Aurelius had an entire fighting force with it's army numbering between 500 and 800 fighting men, with various range of skills.
The warband cleverly intercepted many messages, switching them and redirecting them to indicate that they were going to try and march on the capital in an attempt to try and capture it, despite being heavily outnumbered. This in turn led all but one of the Sieg Knights, being Siegbrut, to leave Fort Sieg and head to defend the capital with the main army. This however was the main plan of House Aurelius as their goal was actually to capture Fort Sieg, as it was a heavily defensive position. As such the Warband attacked and successfully took the Fortress, killing Siegbrut and the very small garrison of standard soldiers positioned there. Lord Duncan Aurelius led the attack himself alongside his wife, Juselda.
The retaliation for this however was to be brutal. The Sieg Knight captain at the time: Siegluff led an army of around a thousand men with the rest of the living Sieg Knights to besiege the castle. When the army arrived however, the Fort had been set ablaze and abandoned by House Aurelius, knowing full well that there would be retaliation. As such the Sieg Knights were too busy trying to save the Fortress before it was reduced to rubble. The warband then proceeded to head to The Rest, the capital of Catarina with an attempt to breach into the city and kill the royal family. This however, would be their first and last mistake. They believed that the full fighting force of Catarina would be sent to retake Fort Sieg, but this was a ruse planned by Queen Sophia, turning the tables on them by sending out false reports of their main army returning to the Fortress. As such, the Queen herself hid around a thousand men in the forest on the outskirts of The Rest, leading the army herself as she had been trained to be a warrior, much like her entire lineage. When The Rest began to be besieged with magic and soldiers from the Warband, the Queen initiated a full cavalry charge against the army, which took them by surprise and completely destroyed them as they had no time to react. She had also given strong instructions to the defenders on the walls to make as much noise as possible to drown out the sound of the cavalry, by dropping explosives and bombs as well as sounding many loud horns. 
Duncan and his wife were captured by Sophia, who had them imprisoned in the dungeons of the White Palace, one of the very few times the palace dungeons were ever actually used. Soon the Sieg Knights managed to capture Duncan's only child, also named Duncan and brought him before his mother and father. Sophia then executed their son and heir right in front of them, doing the deed herself by decapitating him with the Sword of Auld. The Queen then had Juselda executed and to make matters worse, imprisoned Duncan in the dungeons and had the heads of his wife and child impaled on spikes and placed just outside his cell in full view of him to see. After several weeks she then executed him, beheading him also. She however laid all three remains to rest outside of Amberfall, saying that she almost respected the fact that they had the courage to try and rebel, but never should have in the first place. The Civil War only lasted several months as a result.
The rest of Queen Sophia's reign was very peaceful, before making a local family of Amberfall as the new Lords. She was one of few Catarinian monarchs to be given a title by the people, becoming known as 'Sophia the Peacemaker'. She was also the only Female Catarinian monarch to take part in a conflict. Sophia's child was Frederick II, who succeeded her to the throne in 1072FY.
Category:Monarch