Valencia

**Valencia de Villarreal**, full name **Valencia Drusilla Priscilla Isabel Francesca de Villarreal y Çulvaga** is a Valadórran military general and political leader who became President-for-life following the Valadórran Revolution. As **Valencia I**, she is the first and current Empress of the Valadórran Empire.

## Biography

### Early Life

Valencia was born in 1640 in a declining nobility on one of the central isles near the Ysla de l'Toré. The Villarreals were a relatively unknown family at this time, so Valencia found it hard when she was seeking work in the Viceroyality. Her mother once owned a sugar cane plantation, until it was shut down due to multiple "health violations", and her father was apart of the Kingdom of Milíria's Royal Army. Valencia would be the youngest of three other siblings: Velasco, Pantasilea and Isabella.

Valencia was ironically not interested in politics when she was growing up, and preferred the more simpler life of growing up to become an aspiring chicken farmer, and expand her knowledge about the varying chickens, as well as the science behind them. Most of her early life, Valencia would always be on their parents' farms studying the chickens and varying roosters. It was Valencia that would expand her family's plantation to have multiple chickens of varying types, even writing a notebook which started simple, and would become more seemingly comprehensive and detailed, even with drawings of the chickens, detailing their behaviors, the quality of the meat, mating patterns, and the biology of their beings, including debates with other farmers that would involve chicken features such as the combs and feathers.

Valencia was known to be quite an intelligent, and charismatic even as a youth. Her parents would have enough funding to have Valencia and her siblings be granted a decent education. At the age of 10, Valencia would become a scientific lead of her project about the Elven-bred Torécana, which were known to have rather different social behaviors and egg shell types than the Ssamanor Junglefowl. She would also have them selectively breed, creating what is now known as the Valencicana, named specifically after her. As time went on however, Valencia would start to diversify her studies from chickens to the varying aspects of theology, and history, as well as learning of warfare.

Valencia would be routinely bullied for her short stature, her lightly colored eyes, her family's lineage and her slightly longer ears, often being called a "cat", due to how they curved. When Valencia turned 16, she would become more political, and would start to notice the cracks in the Viceroy, as well as the rampant corruption that was occurring around her, especially after the seizing of her parents' land from the Royal Government due to "land seizures for state security", during their costly war against the Phiasican nation of Ourleri, especially out at sea to the east. The young girl would decide that a career in the military would be the top priority to steer the Viceroyality in the right direction. For the next three years, Valencia would undergo physical body shaping to help make up for her short stature, and would apply for the Viceroyality's Military Academy in Antiguatúna, which she would be accepted.

### Military Career

Valencia would graduate as a lieutenant under the Royal Calvary as an officer. She would serve under a then Colonel Mencía de Omadi, whom she would grow a close friendship with despite Omadi being in her late thirties while Valencia was only 23.