Amity

## Common Knowledge

Empress Amity Malovazen was the second-most recent ruler of K’Vesten, killed by the Binturian Party.

## Further Description

Empress Amity Malovazen was the last queen of K’Vesten, and the last truly unifying force to come from within its borders. Despite her nation’s longstanding history of magical use (and abuse), Amity felt that magic was far too dangerous to continue existing, as it would only bring more suffering. With the influence of the K’Vesten Magisters at an all-time low, Amity and her close confidant Belladonna conspired to capture the powers of the Constellations, wish-granting beings who in old days would descend to the Material Plane, and use their power to take all the magic on Temporis for themselves and destroy it.

Her plan succeeded in capturing the Constellations (except the late S’olär and the protected Elysium), however the Binturian Party freed them all. Amity was killed shortly thereafter by the re-fused Hades.

Up until her demise, Amity was the inheritor of one of the K’Vesten royal heirlooms, the Cornucopia of the Mountain Gods.

## Early Life

### Royal Upbringing (9,982 A.B.)

Amity was the only child of the K’Vesten monarchy, and was raised by private tutors and royal stewards (along with her parents, occasionally). She realized very early that games of politics were being played around her, and even using her as a pawn in some of those games, and adapted to court life very quickly. By the tender age of 14, she had already thwarted four assassination attempts against both herself and her mother and father.

### Consequences of Magic (10,009 A.B.)

The unified front against K’Vesten, in the aftermath of former Magister Bethlem, had begun their counter invasion a few years before Amity had been born. She understood on some level that K’Vesten had wronged the invaders in some way, but even so felt that the nation should have some recompense for its former actions. That recompense came in 10,009 A.B., when her mother and father were turned over to the invaders (along with a few Magisters) for execution. Rather than blame the politicking that had led to her parents’ deaths, which she thought to be simply a part of life, Amity instead blamed the root cause of K’Vesten’s influence elsewhere that instigated the whole mess: magic itself.

In the years following, the Magisters wielded far less power than they had in tens of thousands of years, allowing Amity to actually govern her nation without arbitrary roadblocks and political infighting slowing down her orders. Recovery from the war was difficult, but now seemed feasible on some level, and she was lauded by nobility and peasantry alike. Unsatisfied with the possibility of another incident, and seeking vengeance for her parents, Amity scoured archives and libraries in K’Vesten’s deepest cellars and beyond for an answer, some way to destroy magic itself. During her search, she found another like mind in Belladonna, a newt-folk with a grudge against magic as deep as her own.

Together, Amity and Belladonna learned of the wish-granting Constellations that thousands of years ago would visit the Material Plane, and conspired to use them to wish away magic for good.

## Time with the Binturian Party

### Stealing the Stars (10,016 A.B.)

In the aftermath of the Planar War, the Constellations began to vanish from the sky once more. Amity and Belladonna understood this meant that they once again walked among mortals, and put their plan into motion. Amity tricked the Binturian Party into going out and helping her track down the Constellations, and with their locations known they could be hunted by the K’Vesten Magisters eager for immense power of their own. With Belladonna’s help, the Magisters hunted down and captured all the Constellations but S’olär and Elysium (though not for lack of trying, the Magisters and their armies fruitlessly hailed the walls of Jericho for days).

Understanding there was some unspoken connection between Atlas and Elysium, the Magisters and Amity tried to use his capture to lure Elysium out of Jericho. While doing so, the Binturians learned from Polaris himself an ancient and archaic way to free the Constellations, and defeated the Magisters guarding them. After a tense battle, Atlas was also freed and fused with Elysium against his wishes and the Binturians’ warnings. The reformed Hades cut down Amity with ease, though Belladonna escaped her wrath. Though the Binturians continued on their journey to defeat Hades, K’Vesten mourned the loss of its queen and vowed revenge against the Binturians (which would manifest in the Seven Nations’ Alliance years later).

## Further Information

* Belladonna
* The Binturian Party
* Constellations
* Cornucopia of the Mountain Gods
* Hades
* Jericho
* K’Vesten
* Planar War
* Seven Nations’ Alliance
* Starless Nights