Solaria Butterfly

## Queen Solaria Butterfly

*"A castle stormed is a hero born,*

*with might as strong as steel.*

*Kneels the void before*

*and the crushing force she wields."*

Solaria Butterfly was the 24th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is best known for going on many adventures during her life, as well overseeing a period of peace after going on most conquests.

### Early Life

Solaria Butterfly was born on the 4th of Dragonette, 629 year after Mewnipendence to Queen Vesper Butterfly and King Consort Caspian Waterson. Solaria was a queen of day. She possessed copper colored skin, burgundy hair, and olive eyes as well as possessing gold lightning bolts on her cheeks. Since Solaria’s childhood she showed herself to be a strong and robust girl, having been born twice the weight of her younger sister Melody, who later was shown to be very artistically skilled in music. Although an age gap of 6 years was had between the two sisters as well as them completely opposite tastes in any subject, from toys to dressing styles to type of humor, the princesses were very close, with Solaria playing a protective role over her sister. This protectiveness in Solaria was caused by the death of her father Caspian and her grandfather Arthur McKnight, husband of Queen Heaven the Scared when she was very young in a shipwreck. Solaria’s relationship with her mother couldn’t be described as close but it couldn’t be described as non-existent either. Her mother Vesper and Solaria both shared antagonist personalities, Solaria's being inherited and Vesper's being caused by her own mother, Heavens paranoia and strict rules. This led to many quarrels between mother and daughter over the ways of life. It was said that Solaria was closer to her mothers close friend, Lady Hilda. At the age of 3, Solaria won her first wooden sword from her grandfather, and immediately began to practice with it. Some people at court would have even come to claim that she shortly after starting her fencing practice would have killed one of the castle’s cats in cold blood. This was used as a sign of her evil nature, however this fact is difficult to prove and may have just been created to tarnish her figure in the eyes of history. Sir Erec McKnight was in charge of Solaria’s training, and she was named a squire at the age of 8. By the age of 11 Solaria was already besting boys and girls 4 to 5 years older than her in combat, and forcing experienced mewmans-at-arms into submission in the castle courtyard, demonstrating her undoubted martial streak and combat ability. At the age of 12 she was already capable of beating anointed knights in unique combat. At the butterfly tournament, 642 years after Mewnipendence, Solaria met Dorian Fields, son of Lady Aquitaine Flowers and squire of Dame Ragnelle McKnight. Dorain was a delicate boy and small for his age and was bullied by other squires for his way of dressing and speaking. Seeing this, Solaria intervened taking down all 7 of the older squires with only a wooden sword. However Solaria was left with more bruises and Dorian offered to take care of the princess’s wounds as a gesture of thanks, and Solaria commented that she would take Dorian as her squire when she became a knight. Although they didn’t see each other routinely after that day for a few years, they developed a friendly enough connection that all of their encounters were pleasant. Solaria received her wand on her 14th birthday, 643 years after Mewnipendence. At this ceremony Dorian was invited. At this ceremony her mother also named her a knight, acknowledging her many achievements, all of which were received even before she became a knight. Furthermore as she promised the previous year, the princess took Dorian as her squire, which didn’t please Dame Ragnell, the knight who Dorian was already a squire to. Dame Ragnelle challenged the Princess to one fight under the right of honor. Taking another knight's squire as your own was considered dishonorable. Dame Ragnelle was under guests rights and not wanting to spill blood on her birthday, Solaria decided to not use lethal weapons to which Ragnelle agreed. Ragnelle ordered a training sword to be brought to her and Solaria chose to fight empty handed. Solaria quickly dodged all her blows and quickly disarmed the Dame quickly and the feast returned to normal. According to Glossaryck, Solaria was very skilled in magic, learning the spells of her ancestors as well as creating her own. Her plan was to use them for her arts of fighting and martial ability. However she came to realize that even though she was a full knight she had a lot to learn. She then made the decision to go on a pilgrimage across the continent, like a traveling knight, in search of services, honor, and glory. As was expected Vesper wasn’t pleased with the news claiming she wasn’t willing to lose her daughter, the heir, and the wand in some accident. To ensure the wand wasn’t in danger of being lost Vesper and Solaria used a magical contract which enchanted the wand to return magically to the royal bedchamber if Solaria died. As for losing the heir Solaria replied simply “the song of steel will give place to the song of lyre.” In clear reference to her sister Melody. Solaria left the following week accompanied by not only her squire Dorian but by Dame Mabel Wood and her squire Scorpius Firefly; the experienced Sir Hornet Hollow and his squire Lotrie Redbird; Sir Aruthur Blade who was one of the children of Lady Hilda, his squire Pine Forest, and the apprentice nurse Elenise Cross, in addition to Sir Glossaryck of terms. From the Butterfly Kingdom, the itinerary left for the Spiderbite Kingdom, where they found their first great service. They joined a group of Spiderbite Kingdom’s troops to finish off a group of outlaws who attacked merchants who traveled on the roads through the forest of probable spider bites, in the vicinity of the port town of Peter Park. Although the conflict was solved in a matter of days Solaria realized how different the battle was from her training by laying eyes on her companions who she met when arriving at Spiderbite who had died during the fight. Solaria and her group continued on their journey, which was recorded by Scorpius Firefly whose accounts were published as “The Solarian Warrior'' which goes into detail about the trip. Among the achievements of Solaria and her entourage the following stands out: the tournament of the Gorge, in which Dorian was knocked over by 10 year old Prince Matthias Spitfire, the dispute between two houses borders in the white desert of Camilade, the hunt for ivory dealers in the Marphins, where the met the bard, musician, Harriet, who joined them on their journey, the hamster prairie arsonists, which resulted in Solaria shaving her hair after her hair tips were scorched, the rescue of Lady Century’s twin children, the death of Sir hornet in the battle of the southern branch of the Redcarp River, the killer of Weald’s grove, which Solaria cut in half with her wands blade of fury when he fell to his knees in surrender, the battle of Oyster’s anchorage against pirates from bunny island, in which Sir Aruthur lost his right hand, the battle on the high seas on their way to the Neuterlands against more pirates, which resulted in the death of Dame Mabel Wood as soon as they landed in Milkport, caused by an infection young Elenise was unable to treat. In the Neuterlands, Solaria and her entourage delayed their resumption of the trip for two weeks due to various conflicts with pirates and looters that plagued the coastal region of that part of the continent. With no foreseen improvement in the conflict, Solaria decided to take the only route available, but far from the safest; the wayward roads that cut through the Claws of Stone in the Unclaimed lands. Little was recorded during this part of the trip but an account from the young Elenise gives an idea about the mysterious nature that shelters this place so unknown even to the natives of this part of the continent. “The soil is rocky, slippery, and black; the mist dense and constant, the valleys so deep and narrow that only at noon the rare sunny days illuminated us. At night, strange sounds and noises make you crave silence and the waters of the narrow rivers below glowed pale glowing green. There are almost no plants, legends say demons, monsters, and twisted creatures inhabit the caves hidden among the rocks. There are ancient and unrecognizable ruins that can be seen from time to time. The roads at certain points are on the edge of mountain walls that extend into valleys and deep bathed shadows… Our supplies had run out already by the time we reached the Fahrmann Kingdom, after forty days of travel, of which many were walking in circles, I suspect.” However, Solaria and her entourage didn’t find just an unhealthy place. Towards the end of their journey, the group crossed paths with Mina Loveberry, a former commander of the Mewni Warriors, created by Queen Helia Butterfly and served the butterfly kingdom, who disappeared more than a century ago during the reign of Queen Eclipsa the Queen of Darkness. Although she was found living in a cave decorated with reptilian-like bones and without remembering exactly how or when she stopped there, Mina was in a better state of health than anyone expected for being lost in that region, not showing any signs of aging despite being alive for over 100 years. Solaria introduced herself as Princess Solaria of House Butterfly and heir to the throne and offered Mina a fresh start. Mina knelt before Solaria and swore her life to Solaria, the one who saved her from her old life and gave her a new one. When they arrived in the Fahrmann Kingdom, the group was very well received by the royal family there, leaving with the Fahrmann Kingdom group that would go to the Butterfly Kingdom for theButterfly Tournament. Harriet sang all of his old songs as well as composed new ones on the entire journey to Butterfly Kingdom which caused Solaria to throw him in a rill on the third day. Although she was already known as tough and strong and was expected to be one of the great warrior queens, not even Solaria could stop herself from crying after she was received and welcomed home by her mother Vesper and her sister Melody after two years away. To avoid the image as a sensitive girl, the princess ordered Harriet not to comment on what happened there. However the popular song “the weeping lighting” suggests that the bard could not sensor his art of expressing himself, although many believe the bards claim that the song came from Princess Melody herself. However that years butterfly tournament reserved far more surprises for Solaria than just a mocking song. While watching preparations for the Arena of Flags, Solaria caught her sister Princess Melody in secret flirtations with Prince Matthias Spitfire after a warning from Prince Mukwald, who was one of the princess suitors. Although both were 10 and 12 at the time, Solaria wasn’t happy with the “undue caressing” by the prince and went to report the case to her mother. Many believe this to be the reason Queen Vesper rushed to send Melody to Elefendor Interdimensional University and why Solaria offered 400 pieces of silver to anyone who pushed Prince Spitfire into the squires jousts. Fate or not, the person who was responsible for this was Solaria’s own squire Dorian. Dorian not only fulfilled the princesses wishes but embarrassed her in front of the entire kingdom by handing her the champions, which is a symbol of love. The two shared many kisses that night but did not start a relationship. When Melody left for Elfendor the castle turned into a dismal and boring place without the princesses joviality, joy, and love for music. Fortunately this state didn’t last long thanks to Harriet, who started to inhabit the court daily with his songs. Solaria was irritated with these songs but chose not to censor him after seeing her lonely mother Queen Vesper finally seem happy since her daughter left and her husband died. She reveled in the music and rejoiced more intensely on the commemorative dates Melody returned home. If the queen and the bard shared more than just a taste for music is speculative to this day. 645 years after Mewnipendence, Solaria wanted a new challenge and enlisted in the capital guard. Solaria’s undoubted intelligence, skill, and strength led her to the position of commander of the guard in less than a year at the age of 16. During Solaria’s command there was a considerable decline in robberies. When Vesper asked how she had done it Solaria replied that she had all the known thieves gathered. She said they were never questioned and said now they would only have to worry about unknown thieves. A year later, there was a dinner to celebrate the 30th anniversary between the alliance of the Butterfly Kingdom and the monster kingdom of Avarius. Solaria didn’t hide her disapproval for the monster family and refused to sit at the table with the family she referred to as “cowardly profiteers,” which led to an argument between her mother and her. Stressed by the argument left the command of the city guard that night to the hands of her second-in-command, while she went to relax with Lorie Redbird. However such a decision proved to be a horrible one. Not long after midnight a group formed by Mud Dwellers and Septarians silently invaded the castle. Although they were surprised by the attack Lorie and Solaria were able to kill their attackers. However Vesper was killed in her sleep without even a chance to defend herself. Vesper’s death led to a week of mourning especially in the castle, which was never so dismal in silence, even with Melody’s return for the funeral and mourning. Although the kingdom and the princesses sympathized for the loss of their mother, Solaria tried to start acting as queen and decided to send back Melody back to Elfendor where she would continue their studies but where she would also be safe.

### Reign as Queen

She was crowned queen at the age of 18. Her reign began with the search for revenge and justice for her mothers death. She placed Mina Loveberry in command of the Royal Guard. After that she contacted the Avarius Family and demanded action. However the maximum that the representatives of the Mud Dwellers and Septarians offered her a diplomatic meeting in 6 to 7 weeks. However Solaria expected the slight and tried to act quickly, according to Queen Solaria “If someone can kill one of us and gets away with it, we’re no longer a house to be feared,

     and less our name respected.” In retaliation, Solaria sent several Mewman detachments with orders to set fire to monster farms, hamlets, and villages, in addition to displaying the bodies and heads of the Mud Dwellers who invaded the castle throughout the monster territories, thus giving them a taste of what happens to those who “were on the wrong side.” However in order to not waste good soldiers, Solaria used criminals held in the dungeons as soldiers. “After entering the forest death half of the scum will die on the way in and the other half will die on the way back, and we empty the dungeons.” Solaria’s plan began to show signs of effectiveness when the first news began to arrive after a few months, but its confirmation as a great success came a year later, when House Avarius itself reported back to the queen about “the internal conflicts between the tribes under the shadow of certain death.” In response wasn’t very willing to solve the infighting among the monsters, but promised that she would take action if those responsible for her mothers death were handed to her. Over the next few months those responsible for her mothers death were handed to the gates of the Avarius castle, who were turned into the queen's justice.  Once the sensation of justice was obtained, Solaria tired to keep her word, talking advantage of the many knights, mercenaries, hunters, and warriors present at the Butterfly Kingdom and offered rewards for the heads of the criminals hiding in the forest, which were causing the monster infighting and were the ones from the dungeons. Such a decision also proved to be a good one. The military grew and the economy grew in the kingdom due to the presence of the many skilled warriors from the tournament. To this day it's debated whether all these events were planned by the queen or was just coincidence. Much of her decisions and deeds are attributed to her squire Dorian, who became extremely close to the queen after the death of her mother and her sisters absence, as being seen as the queens “favorite.” The rumor only gained reinforcement when she named him a knight and months later announced her engagement to Dorian Fields. The wedding took place a few months later and would have been restrained however thanks to Dorian’s good sense and taste it was full of pomp. The expectations surrounding the royal marriage between the two warriors would be conflict and chaos, however the result proved to be far more peaceful than imagined. Solaria hoped her headaches would occur outside the castle walls, however they came from the inside, starting a week after her wedding. Solaria

     caught three boys exit Princess Melody’s room, who was home for the wedding, on three different nights, one of which was a classmate from Elfendor. With the absence of their mother, Solaria decided to play the maternal role, and after a long conversation with her sister, she agreed not to meddle in her sisters intimate and romantic life, but warned her to take care of herself. Although everything seemed good in words, Solaria didn’t like the practice of Melody bringing a different “classmate” into her room every night on her sporadic annual visits, however she kept her word and didn’t interfere, for the time being. Melody finished her studies at Elfendor and returned permanently to Mewni 653 years after Mewnipendence, however her stay in the Butterfly Kingdom was brief, as Melody soon expressed her desire to wander the continent as Solaria had once done. In Melody’s words “in search of pleasures of the learning she left in Elfendor and singing the lute song instead of a steel one.” In normal situations Solaria but in recent news of conflicts beyond the forest of certain death made her cherish the safety of her sister, who would be much safer to the north. Two weeks after Melody left chaos arrived. Reports from peasants and farmers reached her court and she realized it wasn’t the monsters that were the problem. To solve the situation, Solaria gathered a force of 50 warriors from knights to mercenaries, to even some Mewni Warriors, Mina Loveberry among them, and marched on the hunt. When the troops crossed forces against one of the creatures causing the problems for the first time it was revealed the kingdom was facing an infestation from Firewyrms, giant worms that can spit fire and dig underground tunnels to hide and move around. Although Solaria managed to kill the creature with Mina, the cost was too high, with the overwhelming death of 20 soldiers including one of the members of her original entourage Sir Aruthur Blade and 10 others wounded, including King Dorian. Before marching back to the Butterfly Kingdom, a native mercenary of the Firewyrm Kingdom, on the eastern continent, warined the queen that such creatures were native to his land and that only the expert hunters from the kingdom, and that they could solve the infestation before it became uncontrollable. Without thinking twice Solaria sent the man to hire them directly and bring the wyrmhunters back immediately. In the meantime before the wyrmhunters arrived, Solaria joined Mina Loveberry and some of the other Mewni Warriors, who would be dubbed the Solarian Warriors, on independent missions to try to take out as many wyrms as possible. However they were only able to kill one . When the wyrmhunters arrived 50 days later the wryms had already spread to neighboring kingdoms but the hunters explained it wasn’t horrible yet and went to work hunting the wyrms. It took only 20 days to end the infestation, killing 9 adult wyrms, capturing 5 young ones and collecting 30 eggs. Solaria kept the 4 wyrms killed by her as prizes, having them stuffed and placed in the throne room on display, this gave her the title the monster carver. The most likely explanation for the wyrm infestation is that the eggs were smuggled to the continent by the septarians. Apart from a small rebellion by the dogbull tribe that was easily subdued, peace persisted for the following years. Finally 657  years after Mewnipendence Princess Melody returned from her travels around the continent, with an extensive repertoire of songs and stories which led Queen Solarai to commission her sister to place Melody in charge of leisure matters in the kingdom. However not everything was as well as it appeared. Solaria began to suspect something was strange after she noticed that the stories told by Melody’s fellow travers differed from the stories Melody told. Suscptison gradually grew on the queen, everytime her sister told stories after being questioned by Solaria, Melody preferred not to comment, and when she did, she would give information

    regularly found in books and when referring to nobles she would just give their titles and last name and just referring to the citizens not by not but by kingdom or by profession. Solaria’s suspicions grew even more when Melody turned down King Mukwalds marriage proposal saying her heart belonged to another and later denying it when questioned later. Solaria wasn’t convinced by her sister's response and suspicion grew to their maximum when Solaria discovered Melody spent nights outside the castle, although she didn’t discover the reasons until after the butterfly tournament ended, when Melodys runaways ended. However it didn’t take long for Solaria to find the answers she was looking for during the butterfly tournament when King Mukwald came to her with a rumor that Melody was meeting a lover at the Crescent Moon Inn. At first, the queen only observed however before she divided to follow Melody on one of her escapes, Solaria fell into a malaise that took her three days to recover from. This turned out to be the news that Solaria was pregnant.

    When she finally found herself well enough to get out of bed, Solaria found her sister crying in her bed with bruises and scrapes on her face. The Queen demanded to know what happened but Melody would not say and expelled the queen from her room. This would be one of Solaria’s last memories of her sister. For the next day Melody simply disappeared, after Solaria was surprised that her sister wasn’t seen during the whole day, something that wasn’t like her even when she was upset. Solaria found everything in Melody’s room, study, and office as it was before except for a pile of ashes that were once letters and pages of a personal journal. Solaria ordered half of the city watch to go out and search for her sister but all they found was a commoner who claimed to had seen a girl that looked similar to Melody with a lavender cape the night before coming in an alley, and not long after seen hurriedly riding a warnincorn towards the forest of certain death. A massive search was conducted of the area, and ended up finding a disturbing discovery: the corpse of Rheaslysa Flamethrow wife of King Matthias Spitfire, wearing the lavender hood that Solaria identified as her sisters. The next day Solaria demanded the presence of King Mattihas Spitfire in her court, however the only spitfire’s that attended were the kings vassal lords, including the mother and father of the deceased queen who cried over their daughters body. When She demanded to know where the king was they replied that he hadn’t been seen in days. Such words paired with what Melody had said nights ago told Solaria everything. King Matthias killed his wife and kidnapped Princess Melody in a fit of passion. Solaria ordered the entire entourage of Spitfire be imprisoned. After that Solaria made the decision to march to the Spitfire Kingdom in person to bring her sister back, even though her court was against this due to her pregnancy. Many volunteered but Solaria was adamant and hired 500 mercenaries, and marched to the north accompanied only by King Dorian and Mina Loveberry and the other Mewni warriors who she gave giant magically enchanted armor to, gave them swords which instead of cutting would leave a red mark on the victim that would slowly spread to the rest of their body and untimely making them implode as well as making the warriors be only affected by her own magic by making them swear a magical oath to her. Due to Solaria’s lack of personal writing habits, details of the princess’s rescue period are scarce. The first record, details the return to the butterfly kingdom of the entourage and the queen, who in addition to having a new scar on her belly carried her newborn daughter Hesperia Butterfly, heiress to the throne, who had been born under a tree at dusk. However not everything was as happy as the wagon that accompanied them brought the dead body of Princess Melody. The next day Solaria ordered all the Spitfire entourage she had imprisoned to be executed with the children 9 and younger to be spared and given to butterfly nobles to be assumed into butterfly society and stop any Spitfire retaliation. As for what happened between the departure and return, no one had the courage to ask the queen or king what happened and the only known report comes from Mina Loveberry. This report details several battles between the Butterfly Entourage and the weak Spitfire forces, as the Butterfly forces were led over farmland and ultimately the castle walls, during which Solaria and Dorian broke off to find Melody. When Mina found them, Hesperia was already born and Melody’s body was already discovered. After the Spitfire army was defeated and the majority of the hired mercenaries left for home, Solaria performed one of the strongest feats of magic of any queen in a long while to make sure the Spitfire kingdom never rose up again. In a prime example of emotion guided magic she made a comet from the half belt of Demetria, which orbits the moon of Darlene, crash into the great Spitfire volcano causing a cataclysm which devastated the surrounding lands. Such sources of what happened only can be found in artist performances such as poems and songs and plays and so their accuracy is debated but what is common form these stories is that Solaria found her sister on her deathbed in a Spitfire watchtower, and when she was returning to Mina she would have crossed paths with King Matthias Spitfire and would have attacked him with a sword, some sources say her bare hands. Some say

     during the match Matthias would have uttered the same words Melody had said during Solaria and Dame Ragnelle’s fight on her 14th birthday over Dorian. “The beetles will feed on your eyes, the worms will crawl through your lungs, the rain will fall on your rotten skin, until nothing left of you is but bones.” Solaria then would have killed Matthias with his own sword. The struggle left Solaria to give birth under a nearby tree, being the only queen so far to give birth via c section performed by herself with her own sword and stitched by herself too and then proceed right back into battle with her daughter in her arms. It was then the title monster carver took a new meaning. This was also the only battle where Solaria’s butterfly form was awoken unintentionally. Whatever are truths or mere artist inventions remains unseen to this day. There was no doubt Solaria was an extremely protective mother, plunging the kingdom into another era of long peace. The only times where Solaria had to use her sword was during the hunts of the criminals still in the forest of certain death and the misunderstanding surrounding Hesperia’s pregnancy 671 years after Mewnipendence. It was one of those sporadic hunts that took Solaria to its end 681 years after Mewnipendence when her entourage were surprised by a group of size shiftier monsters while camping. Solaria’s chest was crushed by a size shiftier with a rock. Dorian and the other survivors took her body back to the kingdom where she was buried in the crypt. The 3rd of the great warrior queens was dead at the age of 52 ending her 34 year reign. Although she was remembered as one of the fiercest warriors not only in butterfly history but in Mewni history, it is also true that her achievements and talents in order to maintain a long standing peace in the midst of so many disagreements must never be forgotten.

### Trivia

* Her favorite song was a religious one called "Charisthéa"
* Solaria loved boar pie, eating it at least once a week
* She always said she liked strong wine and ale, but she always sweetened with honey to drink it
* Solaria hated flats, sandals, and high heels
* When Melody was born, she poured some water on her to see if she would do something besides sleeping
* Dorian once suggested to bring one of Solaria's friend to their "date nights" and she threatened to shave his hair