Med-Kayzulah

Kayzulah as she appeared to the Chelovayyans

**Queen Kayzulah** (Medanine: *Med-Kayzulah*), also known as the **Beguiling One** (Stanislavan: *Obmanchivyy*; Oratio Ecclesiastica: *Fallax Unum*), and as the **Goddess of Demise** (Federation Standard: *Almaranes Seresia*), was the sixth Queen of the Prometheans and their last ruling monarch. She is one of many claimants to the Throne of Medanah, the seat of power of the unified Realm of Phromethesse.

Med-Kayzulah, as with all others who claimed the Throne before her, believed herself to be the supreme incarnation of Medanah, the Goddess of Order and Chaos of the Promethean faiths, which is collectively referred to as Phromethism. She was the last of the Sërenesse rulers, one of the great clans of the ancient Prometheans. Med-Kayzulah held the highest authority among the Prometheans she ruled, and was feared by the entire galaxy during the First Epoch.

In F.E. 875, she formed an uneasy alliance with Kamen I, the Archregent of Chelovayya, against the Galactic Federation which sought to exterminate both Humans and Prometheans. This was known as the Alliance of the Prometheans and Chelovayyans, which lasted until the signing of the Treaty of Seresnea, when all of Queen Kayzulah's forces retreated to the Promethean Star System and agreed to stay within their home system for an unknown period of time.

Her death at the hands of her husband, Prince Nirlorm, marked the end of the Promethean Monarchical Era, and the beginning of the Promethean Regency Era. The end of her reign also marked the end of the long line of Sërenesse rulers.

## Biography

### **Early Life**

**Kayzulah** (Medanine: "The Northern Jewel") was born in F.E. 575, on the Planet Deucalion, to Commodore Khelyoh, one of the many space-faring commanders of the Realm of Phromethesse, and Lady Se'mala, one of the last remaining noble-women of the Sërenesse Clan. It is said that Lady Se'mala, a woman of great preternatural powers, was drained of all her psionic energy during her time carrying Kayzulah in the womb. As such, Kayzulah is known as a Promethean Neonate, an offspring which consumed much of their mother's energy during pregnancy.

Lady Se'mala, though drained of most of her life-force, then proceeded to give birth to Kayzulah's only sibling and brother, Mazrell. Unfortunately, he was born with Phalsia, a genetic defect which affected the Excerebro, one of the most vital organs of the Prometheans. She died shortly after Mazrell's birth, the latter of whom Kayzulah would blame for her mother's death, and which planted within her a seed of hatred for the Epimetheans, which later culminated in her eugenic policies during the final years of her reign.

Due to this early tragedy, Kayzulah was raised solely by Commodore Khelyoh, who saw in her unparalleled martial prowess, and a fierce tenacity fit for leadership. Though merely a child, others around her, even adults, felt 'inferior' within her presence. She possessed a power similar in potential to the Sërenesse Prometheans during the Age of Purity, or what is often called the Shama Yuna in the Medanine language, a time when the Planet Deucalion, of the Promethean Star System, was believed to be one singular lifeform, a living planet of sorts.

### **Awakening**

During Kayzulah's Awakening, she was not overwhelmed by the collective wills of the other Prometheans around her. Her unusual resistance to the Phrom Ethes, alarmed her father, who brought her to Virlorm, the last Steward of Thekalya before her eventual reign. Virlorm was unable to submit Kayzulah to his collective will, which frustrated him greatly. Although Khelyoh expected Virlorm to imprison Kayzulah, Virlorm, being a faithful believer of Sāmta, one of the many religious sects of the Prometheans, believed that Kayzulah was a potential incarnation of Medanah. Virlorm thus assented to Kayzulah's independence from his collective will.

During her teenage years, Commodore Khelyoh admitted her into one of the Arts Academies, of which she learned the upper class and nobility's secrets to maintaining control of the collective will of the Prometheans. She was also trained to become a great fighter under him, and was taught vast knowledge of military affairs.

Upon reaching adulthood, Kayzulah settled on her appearance which she bore for much of the remainder of her life. She was seen as a pale woman with voluminous silky hair of medium length, a sharp and captivating jawline, eyes which glittered gold at day and sparkled silver at night, and pitch black hair which transforms into a bright, glowing grey at dusk. To those around her, she was a manifestation of the beauty of Medanah, who was also the Goddess of Dreams and Visions, the Goddess of Light and Dark, as the Silver Goddess and as the Golden Goddess.

### **Political Ascension**

Around F.E. 595, at the age of 20, she became an Akarya, a political and religious advisor to the Steward of Thekalya, who sat on the right-hand of the Throne of Medanah. Kayzulah was regarded as a master of deception and manipulation. By the first few months of her appointment, her political rivals lost any hope of outmaneuvering her. Aside from her innate political acumen, her stunning beauty was one of many weapons she would use during her tenure as an Akarya, and one which she used later on in her life to even greater extents.

Around F.E. 601, Virlorm was assassinated by an Epimethean mercenary, from which his last will declared that Kayzulah was the true incarnation of Medanah, the prophesied Queen of the Prometheans whose reign would end the Age of Longing, the Mana Yuna, and restore the Age of Purity, the Shama Yuna.

Though some accepted the last will of Virlorm, most rejected it, and called for the election of the new Steward of Thekalya. The Prometheans who rejected the legitimacy of Kayzulah would be known as the Regnal Dissenters, and thus began the event that would be known as the Kayzulan Restoration. Kayzulah commanded all Promethean forces which remained subject to her will, to siege Danas Kolkatta, the capital city of Thekalya. The ensuing event would be remembered as the Siege of Danas Kolkatta, where Kalgod the Dissenter made his last stand against Kayzulah's forces. With the battle going supremely in her favor, the Royalist Forces stormed the Medan-i Palace, and as Kayzulah stepped over Kalgod's corpse, she sat on the Throne of Medanah, where all but few regnal dissenters, submitted to her.

The Archaka of Medan-i, the temple priest of the Royal Palace, placed the Crown of Medanah on her head, acknowledging her legitimacy as the Queen of the Prometheans, and recognizing her as the Incarnation of the Supreme Goddess. The Crown allowed her to subject all Prometheans to her will, and all bowed before her after her coronation. Dissenting wills were all but eliminated, and only one individual's will remained, the will of Queen Kayzulah, who would be renamed as Med-Kayzulah as is regnal tradition. For the first time in thousands of years, all Prometheans had one unified collective conscience.