Empress Ariana Vergi

## Ariana Vergi

Ariana Vergi (Photograph; age 18)

**Ariana Merdei Vermilion Grace Vergi** (1 September 1919 – December 22 1942) was the 16th High Empress of Imperial Russia and the Sous Novian Empire—the mother of the 17th and 18th High Empresses; Margaret and Margaret. Though the fourth-youngest of all of Sous Novia`s Empresses when she died, with all three of her younger siblings having been younger than her when they died, she succeeded them at the age of 23. Tsarina Alice, Tsarina Coraline, and Tsarina Katherine (also known as the Three Romanova Sisters) and advisers to their older sister (then known as Archduchess Ariana)—their death during the Russian Revolution being the last straw for Ariana—in a fit of rage, she declared that all Bolsheviks must be slaughtered down to the last Russian revolutionist, women, children, or otherwise. This bloodbath instigated by the young Empress denotated her fall into insanity and extreme paranoia—this extreme paranoia that she had harnessed subconsciously for her means; this viewpoint was so extreme even the Sous Novian Imperial Family was hesitant to send her on missions requiring killing—though she recovered gradually from her fall into insanity and extreme paranoia. Originally **Archduchess Amelia of Imperial Russia and the Sous Novian Empire** by birth, she was given the name and patronymic *Ariana Aqua* when she converted and was received into the Sous Novian Latin Church. She and her immediate family were the only Sous Novian Family affected in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, as all three of her younger siblings (sisters; Katherine, Alice, and Coraline) were murdered while going there to recover bodies of the Romanova Family—a move that ultimately cost them their lives. She inherited the Russian Nuptial Crown and passed it down to her eldest daughter (Margaret) who passed it down to her younger sister (Elizabeth) upon her deathbed. She was later canonized in October 22, 1943 in the Imperial Sous Novian Latin Church as **Saint Ariana the Martyr of Confessions and the Pinnacle of Magical Abilities**. The crimes against her were absolved after her death as the Bolsheviks by murdering her three beloved sisters had driven her mad and insane with fury and grief—the Bolsheviks who had murdered her family members were captured and killed by a firing squad of Russian soldiers. Her six younger siblings who had been born many years after the execution of her three younger sisters were unable to fully fill the gap left by their deaths—though she loved them dearly, they were never as close to her heart as all three of her younger sisters had been. Grand Duchess Maria Darmstadt Romanova as she would later come to be known was her confident growing up in the Palace, and later became her main/only adviser after all three of her sisters were executed by firing squad—her Norwegian-Swedish origins made her an outcast in the Russian Imperial court though she didn`t possess hemophilia like a majority of her extended family; she also later became her concubine later in life.

## Early Life

   Ariana was born on 1 September 1919 at Margaret Palace in Vertigo as *Archduchess Amelia Merdei Vermilion Grace Vergi* of Imperial Russia and the Sous Novian Empire, the combination of two of the greatest Empires the world had even seen. She was the first child and eldest daughter among the five children of Anastasia Nikolaevna, the High Empress of the Sous Novian Empire, and her first wife, Princess/Grand Duchess Helena of the Russian Empire. As an infant, she was noted to be as beautiful as Maria Nikolaevna Romanova (one of her mother`s three younger sisters). Born with the rank of an Archduchess, she was proclaimed the heir apparent to the throne of the Sous Novian Empire by birth, and became an extremely independent child from the time of her birth to the time of her death. Amelia`s uncle, San (three) became her confident and protector—eventually choosing to flee the country after being accused of trying to murder Adriana (then known as Archduchess Amelia) in her sleep by using poisonous sleeping gas; this charge against him was later overturned after