Polaria Butterfly

## Queen Polaria Butterfly

*"An explorer like her mother before her,*

*In the seas of Mewni ventured*

*In navigation's that by the Star of the Queen were guided."*

Polaria Butterfly was the 6th Queen of the Butterfly Queendom. She is best known for exploring the seas of Mewni. Polaria united the maps of the western and eastern seas and islands.

### Early Life

Polaria Eleanor Butterfly was born 101 years after Mewnipendence during the night, thus making her a night queen and the first queen born in the new century. She was born to Queen Cosmica Butterfly and her cousin King Consort Pyxar Firefly. She possessed blue four pointed stars on her cheeks as well as blue hair and eyes which she inherited from her father. Her name was chosen when Cosmica saw the northernmost star out the window of her room. The two most striking features of her childhood were her adventurous spirit and her love of water. She learned to swim before learning to speak and it was common to find her swimming in the castle pools and even the rivers of the Queendom. 106 years after Mewnipendence she took her first inter-dimensional trip at the age of five to Paradisia, one of her favorite places. In fact any dimension with an ocean one a place in her heart. From 109 to 111 years after Mewnipendence she won her three siblings, Auster, Northos, and Grace Butterfly, which made it impossible for her family to travel. This however, didn’t diminish the princess’s love for travel, and when she found the Great Mewni river led to the ocean, her dreams became her life goal. For that she would need a ship. On Polaria’s 11th birthday she asked for one from her parents. Her parents gave in to her request and received a ship...in a bottle. For the next year she periodically asked her parents and on her twelfth birthday she had an “adult conversation” with her parents and to her surprise they granted her a ship. However she was not permitted to captain it until she was 14 and placed her under the tutelage of her great-uncle

     Aegean, the veteran Lord of House Waterson. During the two years with her great-uncle she learned seamanship techniques to maritime navigation. Polaria wasn’t the only student of Lord Waterson. Her great-uncle’s grandson, Adrian Waterson, who in fact was Polaria’s 6th cousin is the most notable. Though Waterson in name Adrian didn’t have the characteristic blue eyes and hairs of the house, instead he had the House Fields's characteristics of brown hair and amber eyes. A rivalry eventually developed between the two, due to the way her great-uncle taught them. Adrian was taught how to move watercraft, while Polaria was taught to tie knots, handle cables and sails, and clean decks. The last earned her the nickname Polaria the deck cleaner. Angered by the injustice, Polaria confronted her great-uncle. His answer left her speechless. “I'm teaching Adrian how to tail a ship, and i'm teaching you how to be a captain, and a captain needs to know the work of everyone on her crew.” Although they divided the cabin between the two during the occasional continental voyage, the rivalry between the two didn’t diminish. On a voyage to the Mushroom Kingdom, Polaria cut the strings of Adrian's hammock, forcing him to sleep on the floor. In return Adrian threw all Polaria’s clothes into the sea leaving her in her underclothes. 114 years after Mewnipendence, when having dinner in the Jade Kingdom with Aegean, a bard played a sad song which caused Polaria to cry, which Adrian mocked her for. In response she dumped oyster sauce on his head. When she finally turned 14, 115 years after Mewnipendence she inherited her

    wand as well as command of her own ship. A galleon made of oak, pine, and other hardwoods. The hull is encrusted with pink gems and blue sails. Her first voyage as captain occurred three months later, with a hand picked crew of 100, including Adrian. One curiosity is that despite the rivalry between the two Adrian was the first to join the princess’s crew. This was due to Adiran being the only available and best helmsman in the Queendom. Polaria decided to seek a special gift for her brother Auster’s sixth birthday in the Hundred Kingdoms of the Rainbow Isles. On this trip she planned to expel Adrian from the crew of the Seastar. On the way back she began a relationship with the prince of the Clifford Kingdom. This kingdom lies at the chalk cliffs where the first settlers of Mewni came. Her relationship with the prince lasted less than a year when he tried to force her to lie with him, thankfully this was stopped when Adrian barged in and knocked out the tooth of the prince. The relationship between Polaria and Adrian changed drastically from there. Their rivalry disappeared from then on and they even shared the captains quarters from then on.

### Reign as Queen

117 years after Mewnipendence Polaria announced her engagement to Adrian, and a year later they married on the Seastar and she was crowned queen at the age of 17, matching the age of her great-grandmother when she was crowned. The ceremony was also the first presided over by a female celestrean. There is a common misunderstanding about Polaria’s legendary “great expedition” about it lasting six uninterrupted years. However the “great expedition” is a series of small expeditions between 118 and 123 years after Mewnipendence starting sixth months after her reign started when Seastar left Port Waterson.  Another myth is that Polaria explored all of the world's seas and continents. In actuality Polaria began her journey in sites that were already known in the Waterfolk Sea, such as the Mushroom Kingdom, Hundred Kingdoms of the Rainbow Isles, the Jade Kingdom, and the Coconut Kingdom. These stops were intended to catalog as much information from navigators of these places. According to the queen “every kingdom has its own maps, with its own knowledge of the world.” After the queen returned home from this journey it took 100 days to unify the maps into one large Known World Map. Many of the maps Polaria collected pointed to a large landmass known as the Lands of the Ancient Mewnian Empire. However recent notes indicate that the site was no more than ruins. Polaria decided to join her crew and sail west. Seastar arrived 34 days later at its destination. The queen and her crew discovered the large continent was in fact hundreds of thousands of small islets with beaches of volcanic sand and large ruins covered with vegetation. The most disturbing however was “petrified mummies with expressions of horror on their faces.” Polaria found scrolls on immaculate parchment in the remains of a library. Polaria ignored her crew’s warning that the place was cursed and collected everything that was possible. If the High Mewnian language hasn’t disappeared

     it’s thanks to Queen Polaria. The Seastar crossed to the west side of the archipelago, and even after it reached there she proceeded to sail even further west. The more the ship advanced the sky and the sea became grey and opaque. A strange note, the queen was overcome by nightmares. From Adrian's journal after writing what his wife had described   "It was the song without a bard that cut through the pale, dark air and filled her ears. Polaria did not see a hand in front of her face, but somehow she knew what there was around her. Under her feet the floor slid, wet and silent, of stone so black it seemed to drink the light, and the surface as deformed as the waves that broke on the beaches. She didn't feel uncomfortable, years of experience having a deck underfoot. Still, she couldn't help being careful. The floor was so smooth that not even life could get hold of it. And it definitely couldn't, Polaria thought as she cut through the ruined hall amid the lichen-covered mummies that inhabited it, charred with their rocky expressions of despair and death — silent screams so sharp they would be able to blow a large rock like sand. CLAC! CLAC! CLAC! Once again she heard the knock, but she couldn't say what or where it came from. Polaria moved on, plunging into the veil of night that covered the ruins, merging them with its beautiful and terrifying darkness. Her feet took her deeper into the unknown, into a cold sea of shadows where any sunlight would die swallowed. The unknown is the worst of lovers, she told herself, trying to encourage herself not to stop walking. It brings you fear and curiosity. The path seemed to end when she felt her hand touch a wall. She couldn't see it, but she could feel it in her palm and fingers; scaly and cold as a snake, but hard as stone. Suddenly, she felt something drip on her wrist, and then on her forehead, between her eyebrows. A thick, slimy line came down to reach her lips and taste her with the metallic taste of blood. The unknown is the worst of lovers, she tried to tell herself again, but more thick, red drops

dripped onto her hair, her arms, her body. CLAC! CLAC! CLAC! Polaria looked up and saw the pieces of stone leaping out of the shadows towards her. Polaria stumbled backward and fell, hitting her hips and elbows against the slippery floor. Close, she thought as she stared at the deformed stones. They had a pale, ghostly glow, and blood as red as dragon fire flowed from its fissures and carvings like orbits. As sudden as each clac was the hands that grabbed her arms, waist, eyes, thighs, neck; pulling each part of her fully down, towards the depths, with its cadaverous and icy touch. The ghosts below her were pale flames without heat, the eyes were gems. Tourmaline and amethyst, ruby and jade. Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Even under water, almost three dozen high-pitched whispers managed to make her eardrums burn as if they were going to explode. Polaria struggled to keep the air in her lungs, but it soon escaped her lips in an explosion of bubbles that swirled around her before tearing up the darkness that bathed her eyes.” Despite this and the instance from her crew and husband she pushed forward. On the 16 day a large oily stone platform was found, and on it was a Mewman sized statue of headless women with tentacle legs pointingfurther west. She decided to approach the statue but Adrian

     argued with this decision. She responded to Adrian's agreement by saying “I gave you a command, Adrian, and you disrespected it, just as you have done before. But I’m no longer just a princess, nor just the captain of Seastar, I’m the queen, your queen. And although you’re my king, you’re still my subject, and a crewman, like everyone else on that ship. You cannot disobey, ignore, or mock my orders as you did when we were children. I delegated a function to each one, and it is not up to you to change them whenever you want. I cannot rule a Queendom if I cannot rule a ship or maintain order within my own marriage. I’ll never be respected if I show tolerance for disrespect and contempt.” Adrian never argued with his queen for
the rest of the voyage, and she approached the statue. She used her telescope spell to look at the direction the statue was pointing but all she could see was more sea. Taken by a strange sense of nausea she decided to turn around and sail back to the Queendom . Upon returning Polaria discovered that her great-uncle and mentor, Aegean had disappeared with his crew beyond the Delphinidae Sea. Between 119 and 120 years after Mewnipendence Polaria left on a simpler but far more significant expedition. For 5 months Seastar sailed around the coast of the continent of Mewni. Leaving the chalk cliffs to the south, climbing up the west coast, cutting through the frozen sea to the north, and descending the crystal clear waters on the east coast. The queen recorded over a hundred kingdoms on her voyage. Some are the Camelidae Kingdom in the Desert of the Sizzling Torment, The Silvan Kingdom in the Grove of Singing Trees, and the Cetus Kingdom, whose fortress was carved in a large rocky mountain by the sea. At the end of the same year Polaria once again sailed to the frozen sea to go to the north pole of Mewni. With the exception of a few white coated animals and ice, there were no signs of civilizations. “A vast and inhospitable ice desert.” It was on this trip that Polaria improved her effort of using stars for navigation, it was the first time she cited a star known as “Queens Star” which was a star constantly fixed in the north. 121 years after Mewnipendence an expedition was carried out to a large landmass to the east whose coast was only mapped. The coastal island was inhabited by a large slender blue skinned people with yellow eyes who were peaceful in nature. Polaria then decided to go to the central continent in the east, but the blue skinned people warned that it was an unhealthy place full of dirty vapors, diseases, ruined cities, and dangerous beasts. From the highest point on the islands she used her telescope spell where she saw a dark, dense and endless forest. 122 years after Mewnipendence she went on a new expedition to the east but this time she focused on the  northern region of the sea. The queen went to a secluded island called Rabbit Island where she hoped they would be cute and peaceful but instead they were pirates who tried to kill her and gave chase. The queen found refuge in the Wyvern Kingdom, whose castle lies in the cape of Wyverns on eastern continent. Polaria describes the place as “a large cloudy rocky beach, with a dark forest covered by dense fog and stone mountains. According to the queen most kingdoms on the continent lie on the coast because the forests and lakes are inhabited by monstrosities such as dragons, hydras, wyverns, vampire bats, and giant apes. Polaria had intended to sail behind the continent, where her great-uncle disappeared, when an infectious disease affected her crew and she was forced to return home. A year later the Seastar would finally sail beyond the continent. In the middle of the sea, separated from any civilizations existed the Coral Reef of Singing Mermaids. These mermaids would gain legs when they chose to walk around on land. All maps pointed to this place being dangerous to men and as she was the only female on the ship, she used her mermaid transformation spell and swam to the place by herself. While there

     she discovered the secret song of the mermaid, used to hypnotize the invading men and lure them to their death. After four days, Polaria resumed her journey to the east. The more the ship advanced the more the sea became darker and the fog denser. After 40 days they arrived at what all maps pointed to be known as Dark Island. The island was a small island with black gravel beaches and swampy forests. Polaria reported “in the heart of the island, there's a circular construction erected with oily black megaliths. Nevertheless there's no signs of life, not even animals. It's the only island not covered by forests, as if the trees refused to approach the place.”  Despite the islands being the eastern most landmass the queen decided to sail a little further east. After two days, in the middle of the haze of the sea,  a ship was found adrift. When her and her crew boarded the ship with black sails they found no people. But what really disturbed them was when they found a soup bowl in the captain's quarters, and it was still warm. Polaria and her crew turned the Seastar back towards Mewni. On the journey back

     they heard the faint sounds of horns in the haze to the far east. At the end of the journey the queen started to feel sick, many including her husband thought she was sick. However it turned out she was pregnant. The following year she gave birth to her first heir Dirhhennia Butterfly, a girl with light brown hair and amber eyes like her father, she also possessed full moons on her cheeks. Just as her mother, Cosmica had done,

    she ended her adventures. Two years later, 126 years after Mewnipendence she gave birth to her second heir, Crescenta Butterfly, a girl with light brown hairs and blue eyes. 130 years after Mewnipendence, Polaria lost her mother, Cosmica Butterfly and her father Pyxar Firefly within a three day period. 140 years after Mewnipendence, was the hardest year of the queen’s life. Dirhhennia was deemed unable to handle the duties as a queen and she did nothing but made balls with magic. Though Polaria defended her daughter, she was placed under pressure to replace Dirhhennia with Crescenta as heir. Polaria eventually did this but was able to cope with this well and there was no lasting spite between her two daughters for this.

### Post Queenhood

Polaria ended her reign 145 years after Mewnipendence at the age of 44 and after 27 years as queen. She lived to see the birth of one of her granddaughters, Febe Butterfly. Polaria died 153 years after Mewnipendence, at the age of 51 due to severe pneumonia. She was buried in the crypts of the Butterfly Castle.

Polaria's map of the western islesPolaria's map of the eastern islesPolaria and AdrianPolaria during her coronation
### Trivia

* Her and Adrians ratings were
	+ Romanticism- 3/5
	+ Companionship- 4/5
	+ Sensuality- 3/5

* During all their life, Polaria and Adrian competed for their daughters' attention
* Polaria used to jump on the bed with her daughters when they were kids
* Whenever she and Adrian fought, Polaria used to say she would leave him and go back to the Coral Reef of Singing Mermaids. Adrian eventually thought she was bluffing
* Polaria slept in a starfish position and spent the whole night progressively punching Adrian in the face