𝔹𝕖𝕟𝕖 𝕍𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕖, 𝕄𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕦𝕤 𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕚

Born to Bryzania and Eloi Diamata, Leta was a single child, who grew up well-educated but sheltered more out of her own volition than her social parents'. She was spoiled for choice of options for what to dedicate herself to, but never took to the interests of her passionate, hard-headed father and mediator, cultured mother. Instead, she chose solitude and studies from a young age, which earned her an early reputation of a bore. Evarra, at the time, was going through something of a Golden Era - Bryzantia had just funded the expansion of the Spell Speaker school and Eloi was in the process of economic negotiations with other countries. Talk with Baria was going quite difficultly, as it had always been. The long-standing conflict escalated when Bryzantia's kitin, Pragma, was shot with an arrow while flying low near Eloi's ship, keeping a protective eye on him in the queen's absence. Bryzantia, back at home in the royal residence, before her very daughter, died alongside Pragma...

Leta is only young at that time, but besides the deep grief over her mother, she is also forced into isolation for the sake of safety. She isn't even allowed to go to her mother's funeral which is large, ornate and attended by thousands of people. The death of the queen brings about many changes. King Eloi, obsessed with revenge and solving his wife's murder, begins looking into higher security and investigating Barians. His focus on the task leads to a decline in his responsibility to his country and, when faced with a choice between kingly duties and his plans for a personal secret service of illusionists, he easily chooses the latter.

A regent is quietly appointed, officially posing as a right-hand man to Eloi, but actually responsible for royal decisions. The royal council is rearranged and renewed to accomodate the regent, at said regent's leisure. To the public, it seems like the king's grief has lead to solitude and his daughter represents the royals in social functions for the time being. In private, however, Leta starts getting trained to be a queen at the council's decision, prepped to replace the unstable, temperamental king. She has no real control, nor autonomy, as her decisions come under the scrutiny of many a biased advisor intent on molding her into the opposite of Eloi, and perhaps even a copy of Bryzantia.

By the time Eloi returns after the execution of a suspected Barian assassin, the establishing of an elite secret service and much tighter royal security, the council sends off the regent and receives the king begrudgingly. They've been working in overtime, subtly promoting propaganda of young, easily moldable Leta as an exciting prospect; the "child queen", a second Bryzantia, so little and yet a much better choice than her father. Still grieving, Eloi doesn't have the willpower to realize, nor oppose the manipulation.

THE FIRST WAR

For centuries, Eloi rules half-heartedly, leaving Evarra at the mercy of advisors, self-proclaimed more capable than him, because of unfortunate environmental changes in Evarra. Their help becomes mandatory when the winters start getting colder and catches become more scarse, the roughest weather in recent Evarran history. The country's economy crumples with ice spanning fishing territories and animals migrating to warmer places permanently. Besides that, even food becomes more difficult to naturally come by. It's unlike anything Eloi or his parents have ever had to deal with and he's fully out of his depth.Without waiting for their king to instruct them, natives begin ensuring their own survival. Protected animal species begin getting hunted, crime gets more frequent and fishermen start breaching the territories of their neighbour, Baria, for a more plentiful catch. Soon enough, small skirmishes break out on the borders between Evarrans and Barians. To squash the impending confrontation, Eloi enters into negotiations with Baria again. Though heavily implored by his council to beg for access into Baria territories for a percentage of Evarran profits, he instead decides to think ahead and offers to use his personal wealth to buy out Barian islands as fishing checkpoints. Implying that seasoned Evarran fishermen would make better use of these areas and would bring Baria times more profit, he is turned away by the insulted Baria royals.

Enraged, Eloi returns empty-handed and doesn't raise a finger as fishermen altercations become exasperated. They turn into larger battles, then a war as the respective kingdoms become involved in the conflict. Evarra fights valiantly, initially pushing back her Barian enemies back. A victory on neutral terf isn't enough for Eloi, who aims to overtake more foreign territory and continues forward. It lead to a catastrophic loss to Evarra sailors, suddenly dumped into warmer waters, where Barian drakes and warriors were in their own terf and element. A hasty retreat followed. Shamed, Eloi returned home and finally listened to his upset council, who called for his resignation to preserve the nation's trust in the royal title. He went into hermitism after placing the crown on his daughter's head. Leta inherited a throne and a war from her estranged father.

THE SECOND WAR

Expected to do better with the guidance of the council, who she was expected to obey, Leta quickly came to distrust the controlling, wary advisors. She took one look around her and replaced most of them. In their place, she instated inventors, tacticians, intellectuals, men and women with a purpose beyond royal matters, but rather war such. Under their guidance, she expanded and reformed her father's secret service, took advantage of war times to take a loan from Saydira and strengthen economic connections with them, promising a return in assets. The funds she put into better vessels and weapons manufacturing, training more sailors and infantry, as well as feeding her army. Resource routes are established between the border frontline and nearby fishing areas some Evarrans took advantage of while the two countries were busy. Hopes and morale was high, with the Evarran people fighting for their survival as much as their country's pride and territories' integrity, uplifted by the queen herself stepping onto a ship herself to sail to the frontline, head shaven to blend in with her people.

The war unfolded much like the first conflict, though Leta learned from history and made sure the Barian coastline was empty and avoided when she sent her troops there. Instead of revenge, she focused on and targeted coastline natural resource mines. Though they were eventually driven off by impending fire mage attacks, Leta's people profitted greatly from their raid, with a percentage of war spoils transported to Saydira to pay off their debt. As a final act of revenge and what little bit of anger she inherited from her father, Leta retaliated and instructed that mass fires were set more inland. Though the act was framed to give her people more time to mine resources, many knew better. The sudden death of both Baria royals heightened suspicions of the young queen's cruelty. Thus she was aptly named - The Warlady. Evarra came out the other end of the war, victorious, well-fed, with new fishing territories acquired and plenty of natural resources to help resume regular life.