Dread Empress Regalia II

"*Quite literally not what I was aiming for, but I can work with this.*"
―Dread Empress Regalia II, as her flying fortress began falling on Laure

## *Unknown*

**Regalia the Second** was a former Dread Empress ruling at around 650 AD. She initiated the Sixty Years War which had ruinous consequences for both Praes and Callow.

## Reign

Ruling from before 650 AD, she died before the Sixty Years War was concluded, probably quite early on since a *“parade of Emperors and Empresses”* followed her.

Like Regalia the First, she also used a flying fortress with the same result - it crashed into Laure. The remnants of it have potentially been used in Laure to build a Royal Palace, as well as a custom house near the docks known as the Regalian.

The cause of her death is unknown though it’s likely to be at the hands of Heroes since she died during the war.

## Epigraphs

*“Quite literally not what I was aiming for, but I can work with this.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II, as her flying fortress began falling on Laure

*“Here is the truth of our dreadful crown: to claim it a declaration of war on banality, on mediocrity. The banner of the enemy is apathy, the slow grind of the inevitable. Victor or ruin, every Tyrant that ever lived bet their madness against the bridle of the Heavens.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II

*“Mark my words, the Imperial banner will be flying above Summerholm by midsummer.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II, shortly before initiating the Sixty Years War

*“They call Ater the City of Gates and then forget to mention how often those are shut on people’s fingers.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II

*“Oh, on most days we lose. But once in a while, just once, it works. And those moments of perfect clarity where all the world is in the palm of your hand, a hundred thousand middling minds made into flawless assembly by your will? Those are worth all the rest.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II

*“A passable plan done in a day will nearly always beat an exquisite scheme requiring a month.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II

*“Take no comfort in that, hero. For though dawn ever comes, night ever does precede it.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II

*“No man in Creation is so dangerous as a well-meaning fool.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II

*“The only thing more dangerous than being hated by a villain is to be loved by them.”*

– Dread Empress Regalia II

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/chapter-76-storm-surge/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2017/12/25/interlude-skirmish-ii/
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5. ↑ https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2018/07/02/court-iii/
6. ↑ https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/chapter-78-trenchant/
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13. ↑ https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/chapter-44-drop/