Hekatia Butterfly

## Queen Hekatia Butterfly

Her Majesty, Queen Hekatia, Head of House Butterfly, Queen of the Mewmans, Sovereign of the Butterfly Queendom and the Groundlands, lady of the Mewnians and the First Settlers and monsters. Protector of the Realm

### Title

- Her Highness, Princess Hekatia Lunaria Jasperine, of House Butterfly (454 A.M. - 468 A.M.)
- Her Royal Highness, Royal Princess Hekatia Lunaria Jasperine, of House Butterfly (468 A.M. - 474 A.M.)

- Her Majesty, Queen Hekatia, Head of House Butterfly, Queen of the Mewmans, Sovereign of the Butterfly Queendom and the Groundlands, lady of the Mewnians and the First Settlers and monsters. Protector of the Realm (474 A.M. - 513 A.M.)

### Occupation

Queen of the Butterfly Queendom
Successor - Eclipsa Butterfly

Predecessor - Meteora Butterfly

### Family

Meteora Butterfly (Mother)
Norse Fields (Father)

Edmund Cross (Husband)

Eclipsa Butterfly (Daughter)

House Butterfly

### House

House Butterfly

*"In her quest for knowledge,*

*she eventually discovered*

*that there are spells that should never be conjured"*

Hekatia Butterfly was the 19th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is best known for practicing dark magic related with death, as well as being the first queen to practice dark magic.

### Early Life

Hekatia Lunaria Jasperine Butterfly was born 454 A.M. to Queen Meteora Butterfly and King Consort Norse Fields. She was born during a Hekatism, where Mewni's 3 moons aligned, with the 2 smaller moons being crescents and the largest being full, thus making her a night queen. She possessed pink hair and eyes she got from her father, as well as having purple Hekatism’s on her cheeks. Since her birth she was known as a tall child, being the tallest newborn in the history of the Royal Family. Her early childhood was marked by the constant presence from her mother Queen Meteora, who had withdrawn from the conflicts for her daughters' upbringing. 459 A.M. the Great Monster War got so bad it demanded the Queen to return to the battlefield. Meteora believed no place was safe for her daughter on Mewni, and thus sent her to Elfendor Interdimensional University. At the school due to her age Hekatia was educated with more simple and accessible knowledge for her first 3 years. This made Hekatia fluent in 16 languages. 462 A.M. Hekatia studied the history of magic. Hekatia showed an interest in unsolved mysteries. 466 A.M. Hekatia returned to Mewni to celebrate the anniversary of Mewnipendence, as she did every year. However monsters ruined the celebration that year when they attacked unexpectedly and tried to kidnap the princess. Hekatia was taken to the castle, but in a moment she was alone and surrounded by monsters in the Garden of Roses. She was saved by the newly crowned King Ragenald Luctior of the Underworld and his group of demons and skeletons that emerged from the burning ground. Hekatia stood starry eyed but not for the young king. This combined with her great taste for mysteries and her studies, awakened her greatest interest that would mark her life: the magical nature of death. Once she was back at Elfendor she went on to study more about death. She even visited the restricted sections of Elfendor’s library. Hekatia reports “Even though there are many books and sources, nothing really presented any records of what necromancy actually occurred at some point in the history of the universe. All information is ambiguous, inconclusive, or quite fanciful.” Despite the lack of information, Hekatia wasn’t discouraged. On the contrary, it encouraged her more in her search. She wrote “1,993 books and 4 may be key information, maybe I'm on the right track, I'll only find out when i finally get the wand.” 468 A.M. Hekatia inherited the Royal Magic Wand. During the ceremony even one step down from her mother she was still taller. She returned to Elfendor finally with the wand now in her possession. Hekatia could finally put her years of study and theories to practice. However Glossaryck reminds her “you can’t write a book without learning to write the alphabet.” She started studying the basic sections of the book of spells first. In a matter of weeks Hekatia showed an above average magical intelligence and excellent ability to cast spells. The same year she got her wand at the end of the year she created her first great spell, known today as a last resort, Almafinita, a spell that blasted a purple flash that instantly killed its target. A year later 469 A.M., Hekatia received news that her parents had been wounded in battle prompting her to return to the Butterfly Kingdom immediately. Her parents laughed at the wounds but the princess was relieved. Hekatia’s parents worried her so much that it merged with her interest in the occult magical nature of death. Upon returning she questioned her teachers about death as well as checking books on souls, magical history of ancient civilizations, dead languages among others. Such interest led to three events. The first was the attempted poisoning of Hekatia who was saved by her potions teacher, it was unknown who had done this. The second was when two students witnessed Hekatia “projecting a figure of a ghost” in a room that legend said was haunted. She was accused of creating the ghost story and she only got a warning, she didn’t seem to mind. The last one occurred a week later 470 A.M.. Hekatia entered the biology lab, where she made a corpse sit down on the table and make slight groans, she was spotted by a teacher. she was expelled from the school for unethical use of dark magic for immoral and unnatural ends. Hekatia didn’t fight her expulsion and said once a student screamed she undid the spell. Her parents questioned her on this in which she only told them she caused an explosion. She claimed she would restrict her studies from now on. People reported to hear the princess whispering in her room, sometimes in an unknown language, seeing a strange black light flickering through the doorway, and an icy morbid chill in the air. Some said the princess even at her young age had grey hairs and dark circles under her eyes. Despite all of this she was a very kind and polite princess. She even volunteered to help at the cross clinic. It was here she met Lord Cross’s younger nephew Edmund Cross, a dark turquoise haired boy with grey eyes. He was highly intelligent and careful of those in need, yet ambitious and a slight complexity of grandeur. Edmund and the princess got along but not to the point where they considered themselves friends. However all that changed on a night when they were tending to a wounded soldier that returned from her mothers war. He contracted an infection that would kill him in days. Begging for them to end his suffering, Hekatia agreed and did just that. It was after that Edmund and Hekatia created a bond of trust and their friendship flourished. One night 471 A.M., Meteora invited her daughter to a private dinner to discuss something. Whatever happened in that room is unknown. However it was so serious that it was enough to drive Meteora to change her decision from allowing Hekatia the right to marry whoever she wanted, to making the princess marry Edmund Cross. Hekatia in her diary reports “mama saw what she shouldn’t…. I've never seen her so furious, so sad, so terrified.” Although she didn’t have an interest in Edmund it was better than marrying a stranger. Hekatia finally accepted an invitation to a ball in the underworld. The ball occurred in the Lucitor Kingdom and is still a subject to many unanswered questions to this day. Testimonies report that the princess acted even stranger than she normally did and when it came time for the waltz she disappeared leaving Edmund and only returned an hour later. In her diary she reports that “thanks to my 9th grandmother Febe such a ball wasn’t a waste of time.” The princess also talks about the rulers of the underworld. “What I and many other magic users do with brooms and carriages, the Lucitors do with bones and corpses.” 473 A.M. the death of King Consort Norse came. Hekatia was taken by silent mourning and locked herself in her room for days. Her fear of loneliness only got stronger when her mother began her trials by battle and displayed the skulls of her enemies in the throne room. However things would go from bad to worse when her mother was killed. Hekatia spent all day by her mothers coffin. During the night she asked to be alone with her mother one last time. The Magical High Commission who had gone to check on the princess who they found talking to the once dead Queen Meteora. The Magical High

   Commission would have entered an argument with the acting queen about the breakdown of the natural order and how they would have to take her into custody. Things got even worse when Reynaldo said that Meteora, or the thing she now was, should return to her death. Hekatia attacked the Magical High Commission and Rhombuluus would have crystallized her feet immobilizing her. Meteora would have then descended from her coffin, staggering and moaning and attacked everyone present except for Hekatia. After realizing she wasn’t her mother anymore, just the remains of her relentless side, Hekatia hit her with her Almifinita spell, returning her to her death. In tears Hekatia surrendered to the MHC who was brought to the Magic Bureaucracy to stand trial. She was charged with the breakdown of the magical order and extreme immoral use of dark magic. However she was acquitted by the MHC because the Butterfly Kingdom was in the middle of its greatest conflict with monsters since Mewnipendence. To try to prevent the image of the queen of her people being trained, the Mewnisters pressured her to move her wedding to Edmund in the next two weeks. Throughout the week before her marriage her and Edmund tried to make changes so that their married life wasn’t so different and shocking. Edmund showed support for her and said she could always count on him. The marriage was described as a marriage between two friends that didn’t cross the boundaries of friendship. Lady Rose Flowers said even though there was no romantic love between them there was love itself.

### Reign as Queen

Hekatia was officially queen at the age of 20. As the Queen of the Butterfly Kingdom she not only inherited the typical Royal Duties but duties of managing a war as the grand general of the Butterfly Army. Hekatia knew on the topics of war and spent the next 4 years just saying keep it up to her generals. However things began to change 478 A.M. when the Spiderbite Kingdom threatened to remove their troops from the war, believing they were fighting a lost cause. In an attempt to negotiate Queen Hekatia and King Edmund traveled to the kingdom. The first attempted negotiation wasn’t successful with King Spiderbite. However King and Queen Spiderbite’s minds appeared to be changed on a monster ambush while travelling to a town in their kingdom. All 20 of the knights were killed and the only report comes from Princess Spiderbite who wrote "After Queen Hekatia abandoned her butterfly form and whispered some incomprehensible words and her wand burn in a black spectral flash, the night was taken by a wintry cold and a dense fog formed around us. Suddenly the monsters began to be consumed by shadows with black fire eyes, their screams were horrible, but soon they were silenced.

    For a moment, the eyes seemed to look at us, but Soon they vanished as Queen Hekatia fell to her knees, massaging her wrists. When the fog faded, the bodies of the monsters were dead on the ground (except for two septarians who fled to the forest), and close to them, the bodies of our soldiers, who had originally died a few yards away. It was clear what had happened, but we had no time for conjecture. We took Queen Sinew back to the castle, where she had her wounds treated" The period following this was one where the Monster War wasn’t on the battlefield but was in the Royal Court. Known as the Four Meetings of the Secret Chamber, was a series of meetings, the first two meetings between the Queen and her Mewnisters and the second two being between the Queen and the allied kingdoms monarchs. There's no records of these meetings, and a silence vow was taken between the participants, some say the queen used a magical contract and some say she used the locker spell. The only known information is that the members agreed to reduce the number of soldiers on the battlefield. Hekatia wasn’t interested in the political information of the change, Edmund was the who the Mewnisters sought to discuss to bring the matters to his wife. The Mewman combined army withdrew, some say half, of its forces from the battlefield. To this day the reason for such a decision is discussed to this day. Most agree this was a way to continue the war while trying to manage the lack of resources and supplies so that they could suspend their soldiers' time on the battlefield. Another measure adopted by the Butterfly Army was to avoid battles during the day and only attacking at night. This would lead some to believe that the Mewmans would have an impending defeat, however time itself would prove them wrong. The small amount of battles fought would result in great victories of the Mewman troops, who relied on Queen Hekatia finally joining some of the battles over the following years. It was when the Queen was in personal command of her troops that rumors that “the Mewman army fell and rose again to fight.” or as “an army of the undead.” However most passed this off as Mewmans covered in mud hiding under the ground, popping up as a surprise element. However that theory regained more fame during a battle 484 A.M. during a Hekatism where Hekatia personally led her troops. During this battle Hekatia faced the two septarians that were responsible for the ambush in the Spiderbite Kingdom. One of them was the young prince of septarsis, Toffee and his personal guard, Seth. The Septarians became a long term problem of the Butterfly Army, due to their immortality, which was a high factor of regeneration especially the prince's guard, Seth. Hekatia reports that “he is a figure with extremist and dangerous ideas that attracted young generations of monsters, including the young prince Toffee, who clearly sees him as a brave hero.” Hekatia and Seth met many times on the battlefield but it was said that they insulted each other rather than assaulted each other. It was during one of these encounters that Seth would plant the seed that would upset Hekatia for years to come. “No matter how many times I am defeated, I will live to see you die, you can’t stop time. Your precious and noble Butterfly Family has been infertile since Venus the Fairest. You’re old and you’re only getting older and without an heir you take your family and its rule into oblivion with wider steps.”  Hekatia now resolved to kill Seth after this. The only effective known way to kill a septarian was to use the lightbringer spell created by her great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother Queen Etheria the Knight. However she knew she could never perform such a spell. Another way not fully proven was the use of ophidian steel.

     However such a metal is extremely rare and there were only four swords in Mewni created from the metal, two being in the Butterfly Kingdom. It was during this time Hekatia started on a spell trying to have the same effects as the lightbringer spell but not as difficult to cast. Though she left this spell unfinished due to her husband coming up with an idea on how to stop the septarian. You would cut them into parts, burn the parts, and spread them over a large distance. This wouldn’t kill them but it would slow the regeneration process. Even with the problem solved she continued to search for a way to kill the Septarians. She tried to finish her spell she left

    unfinished but she couldn’t get the results she wanted. She also during this time started to try and convince an heir. This caused her great pressure and stress, because if she was unable and she died the Butterfly Family would be at an end. Coincidentally or maybe not the day-to-day life in the castle became sinister or dismal. Servants reported seeing Queen Hekatia wandering the castle at night, disappearing without explanation. She would go to isolated places in the castle where voices and noises would come from and when she disappeared the castle would fill with a strange gloomy, icy air. The Queen also began to wear only clothes that covered her entire body. People also reported her skin became a pale white and her hair became almost colorless, and some even said she had glowing

     red eyes. On her 40th birthday which was the first since her birth that was on a Hekatism, a dinner was scheduled in honor of the queen but she was absent. When so much time had passed and a sudden gust of cold hair swept through the whole castle extinguishing all the candles. The guards and Edmund went in search of the queen. They found her in a corridor heading towards the dining room, no one reported any unusual behavior from the queen during the dinner. While changing in her room Edmund reported that the black marks on her wrists and hands, which were the result of the use of powerful dark magic, had now covered her entire forearm and were so back that they camouflage themselves with the shadows. Whatever happened before that dinner, Hekatia announced her pregnancy a week later at the age of 40, the eldest queen to become pregnant. It wasn’t an easy pregnancy as you would expect. Hekatia even seemed to grow older with each passing second. After a difficult birth she gave birth to her only daughter and heir Eclipsa Butterfly, 495 A.M., becoming the oldest queen to give birth in the Butterfly Kingdom’s history. Even as a mother she wasn’t able to understand the meaning of motherhood. Although she was caring and helpful she seemed more concerned with her magical studies, spending more time with her daughter only when she would look for her or when she caused trouble. One night Edmund noticed she was out of bed and went looking for her. He found her in Eclipsa’s room caressing her hand and head. She said Eclipsa had woken up in the middle of the night. A week later during the Mewnipendence parade, Eclipsa became aware of her mothers disappearance and asked her father where she was. When the same gust of cold wind that swept through the castle on her 40th birthday was felt. All the Royal Guards and Magical High Commission went searching for her. Inspecting all the rooms and secret passages until they found her in a dark room that looked like a dungeon, with tears in her eyes, the book of spells in front of her with torn pages with burn marks on the ground and ashes of burnt paper and pink sparks flying upwards. When questioned all she said was she was “putting an end to something that should have never begun.”  After this event there were no reports of Hekatia’s strange behavior but she did start to have respiratory problems that got worse year after year, in addition to the apparent end to the “soldiers covered with mud strategy.” However the account of Edmund raises the question if something else happened that night. “Seeing her change into bed, I noticed the black scars had taken over her whole right arm, which wasn't the case earlier in the morning.” 507 A.M. a group of monsters successfully invaded the Butterfly Castle after a long siege. Edmund was killed by an arrow. The situation didn’t get worse thanks to Hekatia who arrived just in

    time to save her daughter from a size shiftier in the Garden of Roses. Concerned about her daughter's safety she appointed the daughter of Celina Loveberry, commander of the Mewni Warriors. Mina Loveberry. It was after this date that Hekatia once again worked on the spell that would kill the Septarians, however she would change it from that purpose to just a spell which would cause massive destruction, if Hekatia finished this spell it would have been her most powerful. However she had to pass down the wand to her daughter as tradition dictates, passing the relic as well as her unfinished spell which she hadn’t named yet. Although her last years were not very expressive she spent most of them trying to make up for what she had lost with her daughter. On her last birthday 512 years years after

     Mewnipendence she received a letter from her daughter calling her the best mother in the world, which gave her a little happiness in her final months. 513 A.M. at the age of 59 and after 39 years as queen, thus making her the longest reigning queen thus far. She died due to respiratory complications caused by the scars left by years of use of forbidden magic, being the first queen to use such magic. According to Lady Rose Flower “She looked more at pace than she ever had appeared in her lifetime.” She was buried in the crypts of the Butterfly Castle.

### Trivia

* She liked the play organ, especially at the nights when she couldn't sleep
* Hekatia had to drink Bloomoon tea to force her childbirth
* Two alternate titles by which she was known among smallfolk were "the Corpse Queen" and "the Wingrey"
* Hekatia confessed that she studied blood magic, but she never wrote about it anywhere
* Since the poison incident in Elfendor, Hekatia used to say she could "hear the death"
* St. Hekatia's Day is celebrated as Hekatism Day or the day of the dead