Éléanor Laval
Éléanor Laval
Born: 1780
Died: 1865 (Age 85)
Queen Eleanor Laval is the surviving daughter of King Louis XVI who was beheaded during the Montaigne Revolutions in 1892. She was secreted away to Avalon during the wars and remained there until the end of the Wars of Succession when she successfully overthrew Emperor Dumas and reclaimed the throne for the Lavals.
The early years of the revolution were terrifying for the young girl, and she was immediately beset by political intrigue in Avalon as the price of her shelter was to turn her into a puppet queen once placed back on the Montaigne Throne. However, the cunning princess managed to make her own allies and twist Avalon’s support for her in the War of Succession into her absorbing a portion of the Avalonian Navy into her service.
Eleanor navigated the Avalonian nobility to find herself a suitable partner whose family had resources, but no prospects in Avalon for advancement. Her rather lazy suitor, Philippe Ducharme, also came from a family of strong ties to Montaigne. Upon her coronation, she welcomed them to Montaigne as a new noble house which provided her with a steady foundation to secure her throne.
Despite her efforts, she could not secure a full restoration of the monarchy and the Grand Council was established from the remaining republican forces. She bitterly accepted it to prevent them from finding foreign backers right after she had cut off relations with Avalon. For the next several decades, she exercised every ounce of royal power and grasped every expansion of influence she could. None of this was popular, but she was cunning and always made each chip at republican independence seem as if she was safeguarding a traditional piece of Montaigne’s identity and culture.
While she was politically unassailable, there were groups who resented her displays of royal privilege with some assuming that she continued to worship Akmon in secret against the laws of the land. Cabals of anarchists formed in secret, patronized by the Lord of Riots, and plotted to finish the work of the revolution.
Late in life, even for elves, Eleanor and Philippe had two daughters. The oldest, Chloé Eleanor Charlotte Laval was heir and crown princess. The younger, Valerie Marie Laval, was second princess. Queen Eleanor made it clear that her dynasty would continue, despite calls to reform the monarchy and have the sovereigns sworn to follow the constitution. The threat of generations of monarchs such as Eleanor was the last straw for some.
Queen Eleanor was assassinated in 1865 by radical followers of Eosphorus who struck during a parade on Heroes’ Night, a festival that the queen begrudgingly attended for public relations purposes. Herself and her daughter, Princess Chloé, were killed in the ensuing riot.
King-Consort Philippe ruled until their daughter, Valerie, came of age. Many questioned whether she would follow in her mother’s footsteps, but it seems that the young girl has made efforts to depart from her mother’s Machiavellian methods in exchange for rapprochement with the republicans that control the Grand Council.
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Date of Birth
1780
Date of Death
1865
Year of Death
1865
Family
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Philippe Laval
(spouse)
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Gender
Female
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Silver
Height
5'7"
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