Empress Freeda Cidel

### Relatives

Iven Cidel (father), Princess Efia Cidel (half sister), Princess Afin Cidel (half sister), Princess Drogma Cidel (half sister)

## History

### Early life

Freeda Cidel was born out of wedlock with one of his knight retainers in the later end of the emperors life. His knight commander would attempt to raise her in secret however princess Efia, of Iven Cidels first marriage, would discover her and report it to Iven and Elion. Elion was furious however as Freeda aged her ton softened towards the girl. By the age of 14 she was dedicated to one day becoming an honor guard to the royal court and continued her training till she became one of the strongest knights in the Cidel empire. At age 18 she'd join the knight army and reach the honor guard by age 24. However a year after she joined Empress Elion and Iven Cidel would die, neither having named a true heir.

### Beginning of the civil war

With no named heir to the throne princess Efia Cidel made her claim as the first born, countered by princess Drogma Cidel as the daughter of Iven and Elion. Their bases of power were split over who to support as many humans wished to see Efia crowned and most Elions wished for Drogma to be crowned, the clashes between these two factions caused a civil war. This civil war was also occurring at the same time as the rebellion of shadows and the empire was flung into chaos. As a daughter of Iven Cidel Freeda also had a claim to the throne and she had the support of much of the military, many asked her to put an end to the chaos so she made her own claim, and became the target of the other two armies.

### War of the princesses

As the war succession began Efia and Drogma's forces collided along the closest cities to Citadel island, Freeda fled to the east to gather more support for her claim. At the same time a new player entered the game Assel Cidel, claiming to be a bastard daughter of Iven Cidel during his campaigns to crush the Queens of Acar. Assel Cidel was an Acar and had a large pool of support from former Queen of Acar supporters. With a stalemate between Efia and Drogma, Drogma decided to head south and crush Assel's faction to increase her own standing. In the battle of the Therima mountain range she would slay Assel and her faction and turn her attention east after Freeda.

Freeda used the aggressive nature of Drogma against her and encircled her forces and slew her in one on one combat. With that Drogma's forces and the Elion's recognized Freeda's strength and began to rally behind her. She returned to Citadel island to take the throne only to find that princess Efia was forced to abdicate by her supporters and the crown was given to princess Afin. Freeda set up her forces to take the fortress island but was helped by princess Efia to enter in secret and assassinate those that forced her to abdicate and supported her sister. By the next morning Afia was also forced to abdicate the throne to Freeda, ending the war of the princess.

### The crusade

Following the end of the war of the princesses Freeda rallied her army once more to put down the rebelling dissidence and reformed the empire anew. This war would last an additional five years, however the rebellion had little way to fight against her well equipped army and by 1158 BDoS the rebellion of shadows was finally ended.

### Freeda Reformation

After the lengthy campaign to bring the rebellion dissidence to order Freeda Cidel returned to citadel island and penned the six pillars reformation. She'd end up disavowing the six tenets church as the main religion of the empire and would rename the empire from Cidel to Ocwus, as the empire stretched from ocean to ocean. Among her many changes to keep the empire from fracturing again she allowed the formation of churches of the seven and the return of temples to the Acar. However by this time many of the original doctrines of those worships were lost. This reformation was able to save the empire from ripping itself apart and later changes would reform the empire into a republic.

### Laying the ground work for the republic

After ending two wars Empress Freeda Cidel decided to bring order by shutting down farther war of successions by de-centralizing the power of the empire and bringing up a more fair and equal constitution. After her death in 1115 BDoS the empire began to hold a senate and eventually elections that changed it from an empire to a republic.

## Modern reinterpretations

Among other historical figures the Monoga reinvented Freeda through the interpretation of a heavily stoic warrior woman, often depicted to fight against Empress Elion in most stories involving the two. Famously in Castles of Dabiur video game series the two would fight on opposite sides in the fictions setting.