Cinna I avCinnaetti

### Aliases

Archdiabol and Protector of The Isle and Dissian Race, Empress-at-Sea, Dragon of The Isle, Keeper of The Broken Throne of Carcosa, Heir of Oksida, and Diabol of Red Ward and Port Ward.

### Affiliation

Laughing Dragon Triad (former)Lotus Society (former) Carcosan Conclave

## Biographical information

### Marital status

Tleitz avGoetia (consort)Gaedos avGoetia (consort)

## Cinna I avCinnaetti

An idealist anarchist crusader turned pragmatic *de facto* head of state, Cinna of Carcosa, later Cinna I avCinnaetti would leave their mark on history as a complicated, often contradictory figure. Nominally in favor of avoiding conflict and instead garnering wider influence through trade and the Tzinnaed, they would also engage in more personal combat than any other avCinnaetti to date; taking part in the Razing of Rashida, the Vaskr Conflicts, the Expulsion of The Litu, and other internal Carcosan conflicts. Similarly, despite their upbringing, they would also go on to codify class divides in the Carcosan Conclave and permitted policies biased towards Dissians at the expense of Humans, Dwarves, and Elves. Ultimately, Cinna of Carcosa's legacy would compose primarily of the institutions they helped shape and the part she played in leading Carcosa through the later Provenance era and into the new age.

### Early life

Born to Nanuq of Oksida in Phlegathos as Tzinnubare aed Phlegathos, Dis during the Oksidan Crusade, Cinna's early life would be spent largely in their mother's shadow. Attending studies in the Miskaton Syndicate scribery, they would specialize in medicine before transferring to serve as a medic in the Cerbari Host recovery units. Eventually rising to the rank of warhost, they would lead their detachment in the Battles of Lower Stygia, Mnethos, Bythia, and Tartarus in Dis before the Oksidan Crusade's invasion of Carcosa.

### Carcosa and rise to power

Cinna would survive the events of Carcosa's arrival on Provenance and initially utilize the goodwill afforded by her mother's sacrifice and medical services to establish a small base in what would eventually become Carcosa's Red Ward. Following the Vaskr Raids, she would capitalize on her martial background, resources looted during retaliatory raids, and a fledgling personal fleet to expand their power over Red Ward until eventually styling herself diabol, taking the title of the former lords of Dis. In this period she would also found the Tzinnaed as a means of garnering influence and protecting the isle from future incursions. Expanding operations into Upper Port following The Second Street War, they would finally go on to openly buy the votes of the residents of the Foreign Quarter before styling themselves archdiabol, a title previously only held by Baal.

Nominally neutral in the other conflicts that would see the emergence of the diabol class despite their involvement in the arms industry, Cinna would go on to recognize Khoros Veleth, with whom she'd go on to form a lifelong friendship, as the only other Carcosan to attain the title of archdiabol in exchange for preferential distribution of grain. Amid Carcosa's overall decline in influence across Provenance, Cinna would focus on internal affairs amid their cantons and industrialization efforts. Later claiming to only have been unenthusiastically involved in the expulsion of the Litu, she would nevertheless provide the bulk of the resources required for the other diabols' efforts as part of a wider conspiracy to gain support for the founding of the Lotus Society. Named the Keeper of The Broken Throne, symbolically taking on the stewardship of the former throne of The King in Yellow, they would see Carcosa through its escape from Provenance as the realm came to ruin.

### Rule as Keeper of The Broken Throne

In the absence of precedent, Cinna viewed their role as archdiabol and keeper as primarily consisting of keeping peace on the isle following the chaos of the decline era and the violence of the street wars. Breakaway diabols were dealt with with a high degree of prejudice, twice refusing the conditional surrender of renegades in the case of Lilit avGoetia and Faeda il-Nosgath. She would also serve as a unified voice for the isle, negotiating good relations with the Zurmanians and other states.

Claiming to have had no involvement or foreknowledge of the Proclaiming of The Conclave, it's often speculated they were indeed involved in the arrangement of support required for their coronation given the ideologically divided nature of Carcosan politics at the time. They would eventually approve the first formal democratic measures on Carcosa by permitting diabols to form electorates that would influence the voting power of each diabol within the Conclave, though they would not intervene in requiring the electorate of each canton be open to all races, abstaining rather than voting against the edict as it was written with only guarantees for the Dissian population. This, combined with the overwhelming over-representation of Dissians among the recognized diabols admitted into the Conclave has caused a fair deal of speculation that they may have been a Dissian nationalist, though within their own cantons they did rule with nominal equality among races.

### Later life and legacy

Having taken the brothers of her former enemy, Lilit, as consorts, Cinna would go on to proclaim the avCinnaetti lineage by edict in [date] and over time give birth to Cinna II, Lilit II, and Phito as founding members of the family. Eventually abdicating in [date], Cinna I would be succeeded by Cinna II with wide ranging support and spend the remainder of their years leading the Tzinnaed and as an influential advisor in Carcosan affairs. She would ultimately die in [date] at age 156 enshrined as *mother of the nation* next to her mother in the Reliquary Tower.

Remembered most for their leadership during some of Carcosa's most trying times, Cinna cannot be fully disentangled from the complicated shift away from the anarchist ideology of the Oksidans and towards the outright monarchist alignment of the later avCinnaetti. Similarly, though she may have ruled with relative equality among races in her diabolates, Cinna was also a smuggler, raider, and mercenary that also permitted inequality elsewhere in the isle to fit her political goals. Criticism of her relationship with the avGoetia lineage remains commonplace among her detractors given the questionable nature of Tleitz and Gaedos' acquiescence to become her consorts following the execution of Lilit.