Catalia Fisa

Photo of Cat from Heart of Fire

"Between us, we are your sword and your shield. We will fight for you and protect you." - Cat, Heart on Fire

**Catalia "Cat" Andromeda Eileithya Thalyria** (formerly Cat Fisa) is the main character in Amanda Bouchet's Kingmaker Chronicles series. She is the Kingmaker, the only person alive with the magic that can tell truth from lies. She is the New Origin of Thalyria.

## History

### Early Life

Cat was born Delta Fisa, fourth in line to the throne of Fisa. Like all royals in Thalyria, her family was cruel and siblings were pitted against one another from birth. She was protected by Thanos and her older sister, Eleni (Gamma Fisa). Catalia and Eleni's mother, Andromeda, grew tired of their friendship and force them to fight each other. She tried to use compulsion magic to get them to kill each other but both resisted. After Eleni was killed, Catalia fled to the Chaos Wizard's house where she met Poseidon's oracle who gifted her with the magic needed to blend in and hide from her mother.

### A Promise of Fire

After Cat fled her home, she spent 8 years touring Sinta in Selena's circus. She befriended Vasili, Aetos, and Desma. She remained hidden there, deemed the *Lost Princess* by her people until Beta Sinta, Griffin, abducted her for her Kingmaker magic. Griffin had a magic rope that he kept tied around Cat at all times, but he allowed her to use her magic to disappear for bathing. Despite her anger over the abduction, Griffin and Beta Team treated Cat well and she eventually warmed to their cause. Griffin took off the magic rope in exchange for a vow that Cat wouldn't leave him, which she couldn't break due to her Magoi blood. Andromeda used blood magic to track Cat and attacked her using creature driving to control a dragon. Cat chose suicide over being taken home but was saved by the Gods.

Griffin introduced Cat to his family including his sister Egeria who he had placed on the Sintan throne when he took over. Egeria was overseeing a healing center project and Griffin left Cat for the first time to go and help inspect that project. While he was gone, Cat's soothsayer magic gave her a vision that Griffin's team would be attacked by Acantha Tarva. Cat rounded up the army and rode her horse Panotii to go save him. They rode far faster than should have been possible and arrived in time to fight with Griffin but he was mortally injured. She used up much of her life force to save him and he released her from their vow. Having fallen in love with Griffin, Cat decided to stay. Cat was nearly killed by Daphne, a former lover of Griffin's and lost enough blood to reveal her location to Andromeda permanently.

### Breath of Fire

At the realm dinner, Cat ran into her very pregnant cousin who had married into the Sintan royal family. Her cousin's husband accidentally revealed her true identity to Griffin and they have a huge fight because Griffin felt betrayed that she hadn't trusted him with her secret. Griffin becomes violent and destroys their entire room so Cat assumes that they have broken up and goes back to her old room. Griffin freaks out that he scared her so badly and spanks Cat before making love to her. They reconcile and Cat suggests that they travel to the Chaos wizard's house to learn how to secure the assistance of the ipotanes to protect them from Tarva. The Chaos Wizard gives Beta Team gifts from the Gods including Titos, a snake that uses Kato's body as a host. He sends Cat and Kato on a quest and tells the others to stay behind. During the quest, Cat is badly injured by a beast and nearly drowns but suddenly grows gills, magic that was given to her by the God, Poseidon, before she was born.

Kato is pretty shaken after their quest and Cat declares him to be the brother of her heart. They travel to the Phythian Gap, in the foothills of Mount Olympus, and encounter the Hydra, a multi-headed serpent creature. Griffin asks Cat to be careful and not take any hits to the middle. They fight the Hydra but every time they cut off one of it's heads, more grow in it's place. Griffin orders them to retreat but Cat gets cocky and decides to retrieve her knives. The Hydra kills her and she arrives on the planes of Asphodel in the underworld where she gets to see Eleni again. Beta Team, with the help of the Gods, manage to bring her back to life and she promises to stop being so reckless.

They meet with the ipotane leader, Lycheron, who challenges Griffin. He wins the challenge and they return to Sinta. With the ipotanes guarding their border, they have more time for scheming and decide to join the Agon Games, and olympic competition in Tarva where they fight other teams, usually to the death. The winning team gets to meet the Tarvan royals. They use the team name of Elpis (hope) and pretend to be week so they are easily able to beat their first team and they spare everyone's lives. They kill everyone else including a Cyclops and win the games. Cat realizes that her sister, Ianthe, was sold as a sex slave to Alpha Tarva, Galen. With the help of Ianthe, and Galen's youngest sisters, they are able to assassinate Galen and Acantha and take Tarva for themselves, promising to rule more justly. One of Galen's sister's sacrificed herself to save Cat in the fight and reveals that she is a seer and that Cat is pregnant with a baby she will name Eleni, after her sister.

### Heart of Fire

Griffin's brother, Piers, arrives in Tarva and he is extremely angry with Cat for risking his sibling's lives in the Agon Games. He summons Ares, the God of War, to punish Cat but his plan backfires and Cat is not taken after all.

Cat feels like she doesn't have control over her offensive magic and thinks she will need it to free the kingdom of Fisa from her mother. She and Griffin venture on their own back to the ice plains to meet with a witch-hermit who can supposedly help. They arrive safely but find Andromeda, not the witch. Andromeda beats Cat but as Cat is falling into a volcano, Ares shows up and tells Cat that Nike gave her wings before she was born. Cat flies out and saves Griffin. They return to Tarva and find that the army has grown significantly because of Fisan defectors joining. They decide to do a combat trial in Sykouri, a city in Fisa that was destroyed long ago by Phoibos' fire.

Cat's army is ambushed in Sykouri and Andromeda mind-controls both armies into trying to kill everyone. Cat, Griffin, and Kato are immune and Kato protects Cat while she learns how to used compulsion magic and steals everyone's minds back. Andromeda flees but one of her medal mages throws a dagger at Cat. Kato sacrifices himself to save her but she tries to bring him back from the dead, incurring Zeus's wrath. Zeus banishes Cat to Tartarus until she can learn to control herself. She escapes with Prometheus who has been tortured for thousands of years.

Now able to control her magic, she goes to Fisa to confront Andromeda and finally wins.