Queen Ewar

**Queen Ewar** was the reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Nórar from 1542 - 1562. She become queen at the young age of 29 after succeeding her grandfather after his death in 1562 at the age of 83. She was initially considered an "uneducated" queen because of her lack of experience, giving her the nickname of Ewar the Slow. She overcame this name only after around half a decade when she started to become ruthless and unforgiving to her vassals, court, and peasants. Three major plots on her life were made: one in 1549, 1556, and the final in 1562, leading to her death and ending her reign.

Ewar was born into the House of Arǔn-Ulutar in 1513 and was the daughter of Gaelwyn and Aóles. She was raised with little memory of her father, Gaelwyn, and little visits from her father. Gaelwyn was employed as the Chancellor for King Hálcheàr V and was thus barely around. Ewar's education was mostly defined by different people but her last guardian, Argid Borss, defined most of her education as a child. Ewar came of age at 18 in 1531 and her father ended up dying when she was 19 and he was 42 in 1532 after drowning during a nighttime swim.

Ewar became Queen in 1543 after the death of her grandfather the same year and was coronated in November. Because of her misguided education by mostly older people who had dementia or were bad at educating, she failed to impress her subjects and was laughed at for not being able to deal with situations at court. She was very lenient to offenders of the law and led to her council losing faith in her leadership. Around this time, she gained the nickname Ewar the Slow, leading to her become determined to change her ways. She employed herself a tutor in 1546 to educate her on matters that would strengthen her standing as monarch and she was told to become more bold an stern by her tutor. In 1547, she decided to execute her Chancellor, Duke Faerndun, for no apparent reason and declared the signing of the Royal Constitution the same day. The Royal Constitution outlined her decision to majorly increase taxes on lords and peasants, require a larger quota of levies yearly, and destroying the position of Chancellor and replacing it with Lord Protector. She continued her transition throughout the rest of the late 1540s into a ruthless monarch and became feared among peasants and vassals alike. She managed to escape a major assassination attempt on her life in 1549 during a royal tournament and decided to take to blame her Steward on the plot.

Ewar continued her ruthlessness throughout the 1550s but it only made her people more angry with her rule over the Kingdom of Nórar. She was faced with a major rebellion in 1554 that was lead by a three-man council of dukes of her realm. The three dukes sought to depose Ewar and install an elective monarchy but the rebellion was crushed after 9 months in early 1555. She experienced an independence uprising and assassination attempt on her life in 1556 which she both curbed. Ewar was eventually faced with a rebellion under her son's name, Sígnàr, in October 1559. This rebellion aimed to depose her rule and establish Sígnàr as King of Nórar. The rebellion lasted around two and a half years and ended in the capture and beheading of Ewar in early 1562.