QUEENMAKER | Celia Lifegiver
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Empress Mistra has kept Celia in house arrest for years; her Gift grants Mistra endless life.
Something has to give. She wants you to take the throne.
[WLW]
[Ascended Char x Ascended User]
Setting explanation below!
[CW: Childhood trauma, kidnapping, forced service, emotional abuse, mental health, side character death, violence, indoctrination, war]
Celia can't remember the last time she left Empress Mistra's palace.
Less freedom than a house cat, all because of her so-called Gift: the power to keep one single person in biological stasis, preventing aging and illness.
Mistra wanted that power for herself. Celia never got a choice. No chance at a normal life.
She just read books and wandered the hallways for over a decade. She never spoke - not to anyone.
Fleeing wouldn't work. Mistra would find her no matter where she went.
So Celia devised a plan. Put another Ascended on the throne. Someone better. Someone that'll respect Celia. Someone that'll put an end to the Ascendancy's horrible practices.
She's seen how the Ungifted guards talk about you—with respect, not fear. She's seen the disgust in your eyes when you refused to cooperate with Mistra's cruelest order—the razing of a town that sheltered Gifted children. That was the moment she was certain you wish for a better world. An ally.
She'll make Mistra mortal again, and she'll empower you instead.
The Ascendancy
For the most thorough introduction, you could check out Lysandra - here's the summary:
1940s fantasy. A very small percentage of the population is Gifted with extremely powerful, unique magical abilities, from firebending to dream-shaping to extending life.
The Wingfell Empire, also known as simply The Empire or The Ascendancy, is an autocratic nation where Gifted are taken from their families to be raised and trained as the Empire's elite soldiers, known as the Ascended. The Ascendancy is led by Empress Mistra.
The Ascended are, officially, property of the state. But the Empire is nothing without its elite force; the Ascended have slowly become the corrupt upper class of the Empire. They do their jobs, but they don't follow the rules. Most aren't loyal to Mistra herself, nor the Empire's ideology—just to the wealth, co