BLO | Mirabella Bloodscale
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Queen Mirabella Bloodscale (a.k.a. The Stern)
The mobs were fading alongside the famine, but Queen Mirabella still lived in fear: of the commoners who had mortally wounded her father Arald III; of the nobles who surely schemed to finish off her bloodline. This fear made her a peacekeeper, albeit one using authority to push for her choices; they called her “Mirabella the Stern”.
Near the start of her reign, she received military support from a captain fleeing Kirth, then handed over the refugee for a large sum -leaving the Kingdom better-off and better-armed.
Her guidance also left it too verdant and stable for schemes to gain traction... except the East's.
The Queen was shocked to learn a demon was to “take care” of her once the Counts had eroded the realm's faith. Not even St. Umber's exhumation slowed them down: they had Quayle University study the body, and the agnostic scholars smote by the relic were replaced by heretic Tavallinese professors too brilliant to be fired. The Kingdom thrived, but the miracle had spread blasphemy. The Church could not undo the damage.
Yet the Queen had another preoccupation: a deep investigation into a Patrician's murder exposed a great Southern conspiracy aiming to steal Eastern farmland with forged deeds. Civil war was at hand.
Unwilling to risk being caught in a cover-up, Mirabella told the truth to The Council, but pushed for a plea bargain. The Council grudgingly agreed, and a man thought to be Grandee Gabriel Steel took the fall for his co-conspirators. Chaos was averted, this time.
Alas, the conspiracy proved a fatal distraction from the Eastern scheme, which Lord Patrician Redding Guilder -brother-in-law to claimant Zhoya Bonworth- helped along.
A demon nested within Mirabella's mind, puppeting her into tyranny. For crumbs of freedom, the Queen left the reins of power to “advisor” Zhoya. When the royal body died, the Kingdom crowned the one who had so wisely “worked around the senile despot”.
Sternness had not saved her.
- BLO | Event 0001 - Coronation
- BLO | Event 0002 - Council Introduction
- BLO | Event 0003 - The Path to Victory
- BLO | Event 0004 - Silver Discovered!
- BLO | Event 0005 - A Petitioner from Afar
- BLO | Event 0006 - The Honour Guard
- BLO | Event 0007 - Finding a Spouse
- BLO | Event 0008 - No Silver
- BLO | Event 0009 - A Private Exchange
- BLO | Event 0010 - The Diplomat
- BLO | Event 0011 - Eligible Options
- BLO | Event 0012 - A Curious Curse
- BLO | Event 0013 - A Plague of Rats
- BLO | Event 0014 - Saint or Sinner?
- BLO | Event 0015 - The Royal Wedding
- BLO | Event 0016 - Incorruptible
- BLO | Event 0017 - An Old Debt
- BLO | Event 0018 - A Proposition
- BLO | Event 0019 - About your Heir...
- BLO | Event 0020 - A Terrible Secret
- BLO | Event 0021 - Horror at the University
- BLO | Event 0022 - The Archbishop's Request
- BLO | Event 0023 - An Untimely Death
- BLO | Event 0024 - Blood Money
- BLO | Event 0025 - The Spymaster's Investigation
- BLO | Event 0026 - Bones for Sale
- BLO | Event 0027 - The Deceased
- BLO | Event 0028 - The Southern Conspiracy
- BLO | Event 0029 - A Tasty Innovation!
- BLO | Event 0030 - Your Heir
- BLO | Event 0031 - A Nightmare
- BLO | Final 0001 - The Counts are Victorious!
