BLO | Zhoya Bonworth
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Queen Zhoya Bonworth (a.k.a. The Absolutist)
With Mirabella Bloodscale dead, royal advisor Zhoya, who had done much to curb the tyrant's excesses, was crowned to public acclaims. Rumours she had set up the Queen's possession went unproven.
To her fellow Counts of the East shock, she affably courted the peasants' support; yet, privately, she was Eastern to the core, and too firm to be split from her advisors.
Zhoya had all Grandees of the South involved in their still-going conspiracy hanged “as Mirabella should have”.
The Kingdom eagerly moved on. Nobles competed to grow the best chili peppers, and a miraculous desert source was used to water crops. The realm grew ever greener, and The South became the “Breadbasket of the Ninth”.
The Coast, however, grew suffused with the “Eighth Chapter”: a cult founded by a rogue archaeology professor, Etraveon da Operi, to worship a huge mechanical arm he had dug out. Drawing magic from the “Arm of the Eighth”, the warlock planned to take Coastal lands in which to be free from the Church. Zhoya sympathized, but would not antagonize The Council. Etraveon was assassinated.
Studies of the arm itself led to the creation of the Royal Bombard, an eldritch cannon ensuring The Coast's martial supremacy.
Taking the Queen's refusal to get an heir as a sign of undeath, nobles came to support the fanatical Grandees' goal of having a mob slay the “lich-queen”. While eager to burn witches, the commoners were undecided about Zhoya, who had opposed a peasant strike but also given them much.
Her steadfast support to a necromancer Conte tipped the scales: she had to be evil, or possessed.
The people converged on the Palace, steeling themselves for what had to be done; but Zhoya launched into her best speech yet, and won back their support. Now Church and nobles were scared of 'the Absolutist' siccing a mob on them: a tense calm settled on the realm, which thrived under her talented rule.
Now confident in her power, Zhoya could, at last, shed off her "gentle" mask.
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Ambitious Vassal
- BLO | Event 0031 - A Nightmare
- BLO | Event 0032 - Coronation
- BLO | Event 0033 - Council Introduction
- BLO | Event 0034 - The Path to Victory
- BLO | Event 0035 - An Untimely Death
- BLO | Event 0036 - A Dangerous Cult
- BLO | Event 0037 - The Honour Guard
- BLO | Event 0038 - Finding a Spouse
- BLO | Event 0039 - Blood Money
- BLO | Event 0040 - The Spymaster's Investigation
- BLO | Event 0041 - The Warlock Operi
- BLO | Event 0042 - The Southern Conspiracy
- BLO | Event 0043 - Eligible Options
- BLO | Final 0001 - The Counts are Victorious!
- BLO | Scheme 0001 - Possession
- BLO | Scheme 0004 - The Counts and the Crown
