The Roseate Queen

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> *"The Roseate Queen sits on a white throne threaded with living flowers. She is a handsome woman of indeterminate age. Her skin is dark and her eyes are ringed with kohl. Her smile is tentative, but her voice is strong."*
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The **Roseate Queen**, also called **Her Roseate Majesty** or **Her Roseate Splendour**, is the ancient, immortal ruler of Arbor, who has ruled for over a thousand years. Her gaze is represented by rubies, and no part of the city can completely escape her influence.

## Beneath Her Ruby Gaze

The Roseate Queen's Palace lies to the south of Far Arbor, her Temple to the north of Near Arbor, and her visage adorns the walls of many towering structures.

The Queen holds audience under a magnificent dome in her Palace decorated with mosaics of the Second City, gleaming in red and gold. She spends her spare time in her Palace supervising the expansion and improvements made to her residences, and certain criminal trials are conducted near the balcony of the Queen's throne-room, so that she may preside over them herself if she so fancies - though this has not happened yet.

The Queen's traditional regalia are a mirror, cage, and three crowns; the Priests-in-Scarlet in the Temple to the Unending Queen use donations of attar to create more crowns for the Queen, for the "betterment of her dreams".

## She Who Fled Her Past

The Roseate Queen was once known as **Neferneferure**, the fifth of six sisters and the youngest surviving sister of the Duchess. She along with her sisters conspired to trap the Masters and the Bazaar in the Second City, but when their plans failed, Neferneferure fled to the Elder Continent, where she took refuge in the third Arbor.

Sometime after the third Arbor's destruction, the Roseate Queen went on to rule the Arbor that remained in dream. She abolished the previous succession laws, declaring that she alone would choose her successor, and implemented the Sequestration, a significant set of reforms of the city's laws and relations.

## References

1. ↑ An Embassy to London, *Fallen London*
2. ↑ Near Arbor (Temple), *Fallen London* *"Its friezes commemorate the city's three greatest victories."*
3. ↑ Make your request of Her Roseate Splendour, *Fallen London*
4. ↑ Walk South (Far Arbor), *Fallen London*
5. ↑ Near Arbor (Temple), *Fallen London* *"New rubies have been fixed in the eyes of its statues."*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Far Arbor (Palace), *Fallen London*
7. ↑ Near Arbor (Temple), *Fallen London*
8. ↑ Enter Arbor 2, *Fallen London*
9. ↑ Queen of Roses, *Fallen London* *"Second City mosaics gleam on the walls in gold and red, [...]"*
10. ↑ Witness a trial, *Fallen London* *"The trial is held beneath [...] balcony of the Queen's throne-room, so that she may preside in person [...] A Far-Arbori [...] explains that this has never happened yet."*
11. ↑ Gift your Attar in tribute to the Roseate Queen, *Fallen London* *"[...] a waxen image of the Roseate Queen, wearing her three crowns and carrying the mirror and cage of her office."*
12. ↑ Offer your Attar to the Temple, *Fallen London*
13. ↑ Why is she interested in the Rosers?, *Fallen London*
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 The Attendants, *Fallen London* *"The fifth of six went to the old land under the mountain to escape the end."*
15. ↑ Homecoming, *Fallen London* *"[...] you watch as a funerary procession makes its way towards a temple. A group of hooded creatures [...] are led inside, and do not emerge for centuries."*
16. ↑ Buying secrets, *Fallen London* *"We played those black-cloaked [...] fools, [...] Beat them at their own game and pulled the nose of the Bazaar."*
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 The Queen's Favour, *Fallen London*
18. ↑ Take a series on the succession laws of Arbor, *Fallen London*
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Ask about the laws of Arbor, *Fallen London* *"We do not have so many since Her Roseate Majesty's reforms."*