Queen Alana Armstrong

Queen Alana Armstrong ruled from 1504 after the death of her father King Elias Armstrong, and reigned until her death in 1520. She married Fabián Caliente in 1505 and had two children, Corona and Camilla.

## Appearance

Average height with dark blonde hair worn mostly loose with some braids.

## Life

The eldest child of King Elias, and 25 when she came to power. She came from an old Waldren family, and grew up loving stories about dragons. She only knew she would one day rule for two years at most, but genuinely wanted to rule well.

She was coronated early in 1505, and married a few months later to Fabián, the son of a Grancinco government official. She had her first child born just before the end of the same year and named her Corana, then had her second child less than a year later, Camilla.

She was happy in her marriage, with some concerns about her husband, but brushed it off out of arranged marriage nerves and stress of ruling.

Ruling was going well, although noble families kept sticking their noses in where it wasn’t wanted and a few years was not long enough to properly stabilise Tandeli, so Queen Alana had a lot of work. Her husband helped where he could, but he was not well liked by the people of Tandeli, especially not at first.

However, the year her youngest would turn 10 she overheard a plot to assassinate her, led her by her husband. It was to be held that night, and once the information had sunk in, she gathered her Hands to prepare. She fended off her attackers and pushed her husband off the roof in self defence. The next morning she executed his previous Hands, and she became the sole ruler of Tandeli.

This was when the pain of betrayal kicked in, for she had grown to love her husband, and the betrayal hurt immensely. Over the next four years she suffered hallucinations and nightmares of the attack. She began to have severe mood swings, succumbing to fits of rage and physically destroying her and her husband’s old bedchambers. She slowly became paranoid that there would be another attempt.

Along the way, although it’s not known exactly when, she unlocked and began to learn magic, particularly offensive and defensive spells. She eventually mastered the power to shape shift. This study was intense and she neglected her duties, leaving her children and advisors to pick up the slack.

A gentle intervention was attempted, first by her children, then her staff, then other noble families. It did not work. It was decided that someone should attempt what her husband failed, and children, young as they were, decided this duty must fall to them.

However, they failed, and their mother flew into a rage. She unleashed a blast of magic and transformed into a dragon, destroying part of the castle. She flew off, ready to lay waste to the kingdom. She destroyed part of the capital, then flew north and west, burning parts of the Ayuda forest and it’s settlements to the ground. This is now the area known as the Scorched Plains.

She managed to sustain her dragon form for 12 hours at a time, disappearing to sleep before shifting again and returning to her rampage.

After approximately a week had passed until a barrage of arrows caught her attention. Armed forces from Grancinco, backed by her own nobles. In a rage she fought back, although she soon had to land, her wings peppered with arrows.

After a full days battle she was defeated and killed by a member of the Ambrose family, whereupon she reverted to her original form. Both the Queen and the young Ambrose died of their wounds.

### Trivia

Queen Alana's story was heavily inspired by Marinda's Don't Make Me music video, released in October 2019

Corona was named for the Spanish word from 'Crown' and named months before the Corona virus pandemic became worldwide.