Nautilus

**Nautilus** is an adult Seawing Queen.

## Personality

Nautilus has only reigned for a relatively short time. Only having come to gain the crown’s power 5 years ago after she challenged her mother. Which she had conveniently poisoned to weaken her. Of which she of course claims she wasn't the one responsible for. These suspicious events have made many untrusting of her, and she, even more untrusting of everyone else. Planning out everything beforehand, she is quite paranoid of betrayal, and will not settle for anything but perfect in the way her kingdom is run.

Nautilus can react explosively if she finds something has gone wrong with any of her meticulously planned endeavors. Known for being quick to anger, and quick to violence, she often either eliminates useless dragons, or sends them out as mere foot soldiers to die in the many conflicts that she creates.

Despite her hands-on approach to punishing failures, when dealing with other queens or royals, she knows it's better not to… cut the problem in half.(Literally) Instead she resorts to more large-scale threats. Why should she worry about war when she can cripple a nation's trade and slowly isolate them from the other kingdoms till she can easily get what she wants?

She doesn't seem to have much attachment to her kids. Seeing them as.. Insurances that the other royals won’t try to usurp her throne with them in the way. Nautilus is quite sure that they are harmless to her, too young to really pose a challenge if they did attempt to take the throne.

Strangely however, Nautilus seems to prefer the one male of her only clutch. Teaching him herself in usually more combat oriented lessons, while keeping the three daughters away in many useless history and etiquette classes.

## Backstory

Born as the youngest in a clutch of three. The kingdom had been prosperous for years even before she had been born, and it continued to be as she grew up. Being the youngest and most overlooked, she was viewed as… lesser, even to her brother. This didint sit well with nautilus as her sister prepared for the throne. But she was small, she was weak, how was she supposed to stand up to lophius? They were a looming presence with a mind much sharper than hers

While her sister was put in charge of the army… her brother in charge of diplomacy, she… was delegated to the miserable job of socializing and pleasing the nobles in the kingdom. A job she quite frankly despised, as she knew they all looked on her like she was a failure, a disgrace!

That, she would stand for. So as they all grew older, and Lophius was ready to take the crown. Nautilus took action. A series of mysterious murders started popping up in the kingdom, first it was random lowborns, but slowly the killings started to… increase up to even the royals. All killed with poison by danger to the back. It was all orchestrated by her, hiring numerous unsavory dragons to commit staged murders, not that she ever admitted to such a thing.

Her plan came to fruition however when her sister was found in her royal chambers, dead, surrounded by multiple assassins, all gravely injured by lophius seemingly before her demise. This unfortunate event sent the kingdom into an outrage as they tried to find who could have helped those assassins into the heavily guarded palace. No one suspected the weak and stupid Nautilus… no.. not even when the ‘culprit’, one of the many chefs, was captured, put on trial, and executed after pleading guilty.

And no one found out, none that she let live of course, and though her mother stared at her strangely sometimes… wondering if the innocent youngest could have done anything. Years past and still, nautilus seemed to stay in the background. Despite being the supposed heir to the throne, rumors were raised that maybe the queen would have another clutch.

Those rumors didint last long as the queen got incredibly sick, poisoned from a dish of squid. That was when Nautilus made her final move, challenging her mother merely days after, where she easily ripped out their throat. It's hard to battle when your choking on your own blood after all.

Immediately after rising to power, Nautilus instated a much more strict hierarchy, where rising above your station was almost impossible, only through amazing accomplishments, and slipping down was far too easy… It helped to cement her power fast, demeaning and degrading any noble who had dared doubt her, and eliminating any workers and soldiers she thought had any chance of disappointing her.