Katharine

**Katharine** is one of the Queens of Fennbirn. She is the Poisoner Queen.

## Appearance

Katharine is slight, small, too skinny with very defined facial features from years of vomiting and poison training. This has also left scars all over her body. She has hollow cheeks and pallid skin. As a queen of Fennbirn, she has black eyes and hair. Her hair is long and hangs down her back, she often wears it in a braid. Katharine prefers to wear loose, black dresses. Her favorite accessory is a pearl necklace. She wears gloves to hide her scars. Katharine is the youngest and smallest of the triplets. Nights of sweating and vomiting have made her skin fragile and translucent. Her bones jut from her shoulders. She is always cold.

## Personality

Growing up with the Arrons, particularly Genevieve Arron, have made Katharine fearful, timid, and lacking confidence in herself. Natalia Arron has told her to "take things as they come to keep from becoming overwhelmed." She is afraid to die and will not just sit around waiting for her sisters to kill her. Katharine is also ambitious, especially once she becomes Queen Crowned.

After she becomes possessed by the Dead Queens, her personality changes quite dramatically. She becomes daring and very temperamental. The Dead Queens also make Katharine wicked, vindictive, and bloodthirsty. Her true personality breaks through at times, especially around Pietyr Renard.

## Biography

### Early History

Katharine and her sisters, Mirabella and Arsinoe, are the triplets of Queen Camille and Philippe. As is tradition for the queens of Fennbirn, she never knew her parents because Camille and Philippe left for the Mainland after Camille gives birth.

Katharine and her sisters spent their first six years living at the Black Cottage with the midwife, Willa, also as island tradition dictates. When they turned six, they were separated and each sister went to live with the most prominent family of their gift. Thus, Katharine moved to Indrid Down and became the ward of the Arron family.

## Relationships

### Pietyr Renard

Katharine and Pietyr meet at her sixteenth birthday celebration and *Gave Noir*. Pietyr has been recruited by Natalia to teach Katharine how to win the suitors over and how to behave with the confidence and poise expected of the Queen Crowned. He successfully helps Katharine come out of her shell, but in the process the two fall in love. Pietyr attempts to save Katharine from the priestesses and pushes her into the Breccia Domain. He genuinely believed that he was saving her from a much worse fate. When Katharine escapes from the Breccia Domain, she feels spiteful toward Pietyr and wants to punish him for what he did. So she tries to make him jealous by flirting with Nicolas Martel, and eventually marrying him, even though she does not love him. When Nicolas dies, Pietyr helps her hide Nicolas' body. This redeems him in her eyes and they resume their relationship. Pietyr genuinely loves Katharine and vows to protect her.

### Natalia Arron

Katharine views Natalia as the closest thing to a mother she will ever have. While Natalia is intimidating and not particularly warm or loving, Katharine loves her and is very loyal to her. Katherine's worst fear is letting Natalia down. Natalia does seem to genuinely care about Katharine, but also knows Katharine becoming Queen Crowned is the only way she will maintain her hold on power.

### Mirabella

Mirabella and Katharine are sisters, with Mirabella being the older sister. Mirabella challenges Katharine to fight to the death in revenges for apparently killing Arsinoe during the Queens’ Duel. Katharine manages to imprison her and Arsinoe, who was in hiding, with the help of Natalia. While in the dungeons of the Volroy, Mirabella and Arsinoe agree that something is off with Katharine but ignore their feelings in order to escape with the help of Jules Milone and Emilia Vatros after Katharine’s coronation.

Katharine’s actions, controlled by the dead queens, cause Mirabella and the general population of the island to believe Katharine is wicked. Mirabella witnesses Katharine kill Madrigal Milone, again as a result of being possessed by the dead queens. Afterwards, Katharine agrees to Luca’s suggestion of offering a peace treaty to Mirabella. Katharine asks Mirabella to come to the Volroy and ally with the crown against the rebellion. Katharine hopes that Mirabella will be able to fight the mist and possibly bear the triplets since she is unable to due to being poisonous.

Just as Mirabella and Katharine have begun to trust and love each other like Arsinoe and Mirabella do, the dead queens seize Katharine as her and Mirabella find the sight of the first temple and the secret of the first queen. Katharine screams at Mirabella to run but she is wounded, and the dead queens take over Katharine's body fully. Just as they are about to transfer to Mirabella, her touch brings Katharine back to herself. Katharine is extremely upset and is fighting the dead queens who are about to possess her sister. Mirabella tells Katharine to kill her so that the dead queens can not have her, and Katharine weeps as she slits her throat. In the end, she keeps her promise to herself and doesn't let the dead queens possess and destroy Mirabella like they did to her.

In the end battle of Five Dark Fates, Mirabella and Katharine are reunited in spirit as a part of the mist and destroy the last of the dead queens before they reach Arsinoe.

### Arsinoe

Arsinoe and Katharine are sisters, with Arsinoe being the older sister. Katharine calls a Queens’ Duel. During the duel, Katharine shoots Arsinoe with a poisoned arrow. Believing Arsinoe to be dead, Katharine parades back to Indrid Down with her entourage. During the celebration feast, Katharine threatens to stab an Arron who badmouths Arsinoe and raises a toast in her honor.

Arsinoe reveals that she is alive and well to Katharine, and the rest of the island, during the second Queens’ Duel between Mirabella and Katharine. Katharine manages to imprison Mirabella and Arsinoe in the dungeons of the Volroy. While in the dungeons of the Volroy, Mirabella and Arsinoe agree that something is off with Katharine but ignore their feelings in order to escape with the help of Jules Milone and Emilia Vatros after Katharine’s coronation.

Arsinoe and Katharine don't have direct contact again until the final battle at Indrid Down, when Arsinoe has come to free Katharine of the dead queens possession and kill her to avenge Mirabella, as no one knows what really happened during her death. Arsinoe and Katharine meet on the roof of the Volroy, and Arsinoe rids the dead queens of Katharine through low magic. She, Katharine and Pietyr then rid the dead queens of Rho Mutra's Corpse and the dead queens hang in a black cloud around them. Katharine, seeing what is about to happen, tackles Arsinoe to the ground to avoid the dead queens plummet to posses Arsinoe. They begin to slide down the side of the roof into the mist, and Katharine shoves Arsinoe into the Volroy wall so she can get a hold of the stones. Before Kathrine dies, Arsinoe whispers her name and is started that Katharine would save her instead of herself.

Following her death, Arsinoe and Pietyr watch as the mist destroys what is left of the dead queens. In the mist, she sees Illian, Mirabella, Daphne and Katharine all destroying the dead queens together.

### Sweetheart

Sweetheart is Katharine's pet snake, and unbeknownst to her, her familiar. Katharine has had Sweetheart since she was a hatchling. She is a coral snake with red, yellow, and black coloring. Sweetheart is the only venomed creature Katharine does not fear because she has never bitten her. Sweetheart knows the vibrations of Katharine's voice and the scent of her skin. Sweetheart lives in a glass-sided cage. Katharine sometimes wears her like jewelry.

## Powers & Abilities

Katharine is a naturalist, but due to her mother's, Queen Camille, dislike of the Arrons, she switched and said that Katharine was a poisoner and Arsinoe a naturalist so they wouldn't have another poisoner on the throne.

* **Chlorokinesis:** ability to create and manipulate plants
* **Animal Manipulation:** ability to influence and control animal behavior
* **Zoolingualism:** ability to communicate to animal life forms and understand their reactions
* **Animal Companionship**: ability to form a bond with an animal, whose feelings and actions will mirror theirs
* **Animal Intuition**: ability to have a natural way with animals

When she becomes possessed by the Dead Queens, she gains small amounts of power from all the dead queens. As she continues to ingest large amounts of poisoned food due to the Dead Queen poisoners, she eventually becomes poisonous herself, and can poison other people. Their possession makes Katharine practically indestructible. She reveals to Pietyr that she does not have a gift of her own without them.

* **War Gift:** enhanced agility, strength, stamina, and accuracy
* **Telekinesis:** ability to control and move objects with the mind

Katharine is also highly skilled in archery and knife-throwing.

## Trivia

* Katharine and her sisters' birthday is December 21, which is four months until Beltane Festival.