
Glaswinia
Alana Blackhorn
Chapter 1
by mally01
Here are the main cast of Glaswinia.
Queen Alana rules over the realm which is a mix of imperial traditions but also is starting to be more modern. She has many enemies including her own daughter Princess Clarice Blackhorn. Her husband who had been King had been killed in a hunting accident ten years ago and Alana had taken over the reins of power. At the age of forty-eight, she was still very beautiful and turned many heads which made several of the women at court jealous. How will she steer the realm in these trying times?
Princess Clarice Blackhorn is the daughter of Queen Alana and is a rebel at heart. She is power-hungry but hides her ambitions. She wishes to take over from her mother who she thinks will ruin the realm leaving her nothing to rule over. She is twenty-one years old and like her mother turns heads wherever she goes. What will she plan to gain the throne? from her mother and to save the realm as she sees it. Who will she get to help her with this endeavour to cast her mother out?
Lady Helen Grange is Alana's lady-in-waiting. She believes that the throne was stolen from her family decades ago and that she is the rightful queen of Glaswinia. She tends to the Queen's affairs from day to day scheduling audiences with nobles and peasants alike. She would love to see Alana brought down to the level of a peasant. However, her allies were limited as she could not side with the princess as Clarice would take river the throne. Helen at forty-nine was a year older than the queen but likewise was beautiful.
Brielle was the priestess of the Glaswinia church and she had seen the realm descend into debauchery and poverty. She believes that the reason for this the Queen Alana being too liberal in her rule Sure she could be tough but she also allowed things to go unpunished so people turned away from the church. Her ambition is to return the population back to worshipping the gods just as it was when the King was alive. Brielee is forty years old and has been a priestess since the age of twenty.
Helga is the head maid to Alana and at twenty-five is the youngest head maid in Glaswinia. She toils to make her Queen comfortable every day and receives little thanks. She unlike most others in the palace knows more about Alana, especially her sexual needs and has frequently covered for the Queen. The queen has had many casual flings mostly with prostitutes from the local brothel. Yes, the Queen preferred the company of women but she also took men to bed just for a change. She would be happy to see the back of the Queen one day then she could serve someone more deserving.
Dranos was of the old school that women should serve not rule. He had been the friend of the deceased King and had been with him on that fateful hunting trip. He had brought the King's body back to the palace and had to watch as Alana assumed the throne upon his friend's ****. He vowed to himself that one day he would see a man on the throne once more. He spent most of his days commanding the royal guard and had found an ally in Medusa. The witch was looking for an heir to the throne among the many sexual conquests of his late friend.
The witch Medusa kept to herself in a house just outside the city limits in the swampy marshes. People tended to steer clear of the swamps in fear that Medusa would enchant them. Alana did not fear Medusa but she did respect her so she was left alone to do whatever she did. Medusa did have one ally in the city and that was Lord Dranos who had asked her to find a suitable heir to the throne that was a male. To this end, she had looked into her smoking cauldron to find the former king's conquests.
Madam Sage was the owner of the local tavern and brothel in the city. She supplied many girls to the palace and to the Queen in particular which gave her protection. In her stable, she had many girls many of whom had serviced the queen and Sage knew the queen had a proclivity for stronger dominant women. Sage would do whatever for whoever paid the most money and would be discreet about the transaction. She was also the leader of an underground rebellion against the throne.
What's next?
Queen Alana Blackhorn rules over the Island Realm of Glaswania with a strong but fair hand. However, there are among the population those who would seek to oust her from power. Her daughter Clarice Blackhorn believes that her mother will ruin the realm leaving her nothing to rule over when it comes to her time. Lady Helen Grange believes that she is the rightful Queen after the throne was stolen by the Blackhorn family and she should be Queen. The priestess Brielle believed that the population should be steered to the gods and that they should worship them by if needed. Helga the Queens maid was just fed up serving and wished that Alana was brought down to earth and shown how people had to struggle to live. Lord Dranos believed that a man should sit on the throne instead of a weaker woman. Finally, the witch Medusa believed in causing problems just because she could.
Updated on Sep 25, 2023
by mally01
Created on Sep 4, 2023
by mally01
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