Queen Aquiela of Lutianen

"The Queen of Lutianen raised up from the large chair she had occupied. While the Commander of Palatial guard stayed stand at respectable distance she passed for him and walked up to the to middle of the room. She then turned back, to touch the books covering the shelves that surrounded one of the large columns in the room. The Queen made a circle around this large cylinder, pretending to look for a particular book but with a distracted enough look on her face to make a point. Those where books about her city judicial system, pretty but useless; as the subject described in them." from Murder Case in Lutianen
  Lady Aquiela of Lutianen was born from a slave, but in one of the most important Noble Caste families on her nation. She was also born with potential for magic, and unlike most women who have that she decided to develop it. Failed in became a sigrax, burning her potential in the First Test. What made her an alchemist.
  Succeed at the First Test inevitably means enter the Mage Caste, loosing all titles and claims of Noble Caste for good, never became entirely clear if Aquiela failed on purpose or not. Her father did sacrificed his Noble Status for the chance to grow in Mage Caste and reached the ranks of Mage's Brotherhood,  but most who try the Second Test are destroyed by it, and a even larger number of those who pass the First Test remain as sigraxes never reaching the Second.  
    In any case Aquiela certainly used the advantages of be an alchemist in conjunction with her inherited social position during all her life.  
     Aquiela is a small woman of bronze skin, thin waist and large hips. When she was five an failed attempt of murder against her father resulted in a scar large scar on her face that no magic could cure. She carried the mark proudly, and made it a constant remind of her close ties with Mage Caste. In a time when Kings died mysteriously more than once a year, the shadow of retribution may have paused the plans of more than few enemies of Aquiela. 
     Her father was not a Noble anymore, her mother was nobody, and she had no shortage of false friends among her aunts and cousins. Childhood was not particularly easy, but victims do not survive childhood in Sharitarn, least not in freedom; and much less in Noble Castes. So she never complained or looked for compassion. Her father had no other children, he was not in a contract of free companionship when she was born and he decided to recognize her, that granted to Aquiela legal rights of free person and the due status of member of her lineage. 
   She got the free companions other women of her status did not wanted, at first. By strange good luck they seemed to be always more than other women had noticed. And after the relationships they continued allies of her, sharing resources and information, and gladly contributing to small brunet's ascension in prestige. Eventually she joined the one man all Noble Caste women on Lutianen would kill to have in their beds. 
    Then she was 35 years old, and the free companion in question was a 12 years old boy who had just killed a adult cousin in fair duel. The adult cousin in question had been the king, and the boy was one of his possible successors. As noble in lineage as she was the union brought him the necessary support to compensate the young age. Cerbion became king, and the father of all her seven children. 
    Cerbion ruled up to the age of 140 years. She was by his side up to the last day, and despite the dangerous paranoid nature of Noble Caste on Lutianen they never turned against each other in serious matters. Being an alchemist Aquiela was able to take advantage of magical items, and potions worked more efficiently for her than they did for the king. She kept herself health and young looking for a long time, and involved herself with a fair number of interesting lovers. But she only started that after the King reach an age when his reputation was above that sort of thing. 
     When Cerbion died of old age Queen Aquiela lost her first important battle. The heir she wanted, and Cerbion agreed in point as his successor, renounced the claim to the throne. A different grandson of Cerbion was chosen them, the young man Cerrival, who was little more than a puppet in the hands of archmage Bindhai.
    Considering herself too old and tired to fight against Bindhai, her former mentor and protector, the Queen abandoned public life and the Royal Castle. She moved to a discreet fortress in the village of Guadlu to expend the rest of her extended life reading, watching her slave-dancers, sharing long conversations with a select few Scholars and Mage Castes. And enjoying the maze of rivers fed by magical fountains on Guadlu Plateau.