The NAE Royal Marriage

**The NAE Royal Marriage**, also known as the **Marriage Incident** was the wedding of Fern and Ruler on 04/02/2023. The groom, Ruler, was the Emperor of the Necro-Arcturus Empire, making Fern the new Empress-consort to the NAE. The wedding was notorious for the many chaotic events that occurred, including: an interruption to the wedding, an attempted coup, and the murder of the priest.

**Engagement**

While the wedding was a grand affair, the cause for it was much more muted; Fern proposed to Ruler,

## The Wedding

Empress Fern (left) and Rudher (right) proclaiming their vows with the priest (Taha) in the background

### Location

The Imperial Palace, Caras Sirion

and he accepted. According to a testament from Ruler himself, Fern asked "quote 'Ruler, do you want to marry?' and he said 'yes'". In preparation for the wedding, it had been announced many weeks before its occurrence and Caras Sirion, the Empire's capital, prepared relentlessly. Many kings and ambassadors were invited to the wedding, including the Emperor of Narda, Osmeus II, the Mansa of Mobasa, Milo and the Sultan of Sharafi, Chris Alhakim. International terrorist and self-stylised King of Riddenheim, Joris Bohnson, was not invited, but decided to attend nonetheless. Eventually, everyone coalesced on Caras Sirion, and the wedding was about to begin.

**Marriage**

The wedding had not even begun before it faced its first problem - the priest was late; this may have been because the the betrotheds decided to hold the event in the Imperial throne room instead of the church. It is speculated that the increasing tension and impatience from this delay may have been the reason behind the other escapades that occurred.

When the priest finally arrived, and the ceremony began to commence, Boris stood up during the exchange of vows and objected to the entire affair, proclaiming a coup on the NAE, and that, as Emperor, he should stand next to the betrotheds. This was met with boos and jeers until he eventually sat back down, and the wedding was attempted to continue as normal. However, the guests were already exasperate and ruthlessly questioned whether there was to be a bedding ceremony or not, which was first asked by Dark Lord Pingu of Narda. After finishing their vows and the priest proclaimed them newlyweds, they were met with applause from their attendees. This, however, would be short-lived, as Lord Varas, irritated with the priest, shot him to death with his bow. After this, many of the Nardan attendees fled the wedding out of fear of repercussion, and Joris, who had angered many by this point, was also forced to flee after being assaulted. Perhaps, however, the most shocking event was the attempted assassination of Empress Fern, which failed - though the assassin escaped too.

**Aftermath**

While the chaos of the wedding was unparalleled, many guests praised it for its eventfulness. According to a fleeing citizen, Lord Pingu had proclaimed "*for the Nardani, a wedding with less than three deaths is considered a dull affair"* in a show of approval. Many were pleased with the outcome of the event, aside from Spokos, who complained the event occurred earlier than he expected, and overslept.