Rhagaea -

![[characters_banner_2.webp]] `Apr. 18, 2025` · [[Horseapple]] · #Fragment #Characters #Bannerlord > [!custom-callout]- All mentions > *Pulled from* [[3-companion_strings-(Bannerlord)]] — “Whoever wins this war, landlords will cheat tenants, city guards will demand bribes from merchants, warriors will rape farmers' daughters, husbands will beat wives. The plague and the flux will take more lives than all the evils of man put together. I will strive to be a good queen, but I can offer no guarantee that my heir, or my heir's heir, will not be a monster. I could marry Lucon or Gario, and save thousands of lives. But men are willing to fight for me, though it gains them nothing, for no other reason that the throne is my right. I will not betray these men. People will think back on my victory and think, "Heavens smile on those who are in the right.” > > *Pulled from* [[3-Travels-in-Calradia-(DLC)]] — “During my stay in Lycaron the town was abuzz with preparations for war. Rhagaea's forces had recovered somewhat from their defeat at the siege of Husn Fulq, and her ally Pharon Leonipardes was preparing a new force to go out and do battle with Garios' troops. Tacteos watched them sadly. He liked Rhagaea personally, he said. But he did not expect that the Calradian-Empire could ever be made whole again. There had been too many civil wars. It was if, he said, two old friends had quarreled and said cruel things to each other that could never be unsaid. It was time for the Empire to be replaced by a younger uncorrupted people, with fewer bad memories and festering wounds.” — “I am in Vostrum. There are reports that Khan Monchug has declared war on the Southern-Empire and is approaching with a huge army. People say that Rhagaea's forces are busy with Garios, and that she will not be able to defend us. Most of my fellow scribes have fled to their home villages. I should probably flee too, but I am very tired.” > > *Pulled from* [[3-heroes-(Bannerlord)]] — “Epipheria is a noblewoman of the Impestores, a clan noted for their fanatical loyalty to the aristocratic, oligarchic wing of the Senate and their personal eccentricities. Unlike most of the women of the oligarchs, who tend to be conservative, she trained as a warrior. At the outbreak of the civil war, she took some of her family's famed wealth to raise her own warband to fight the 'tyrant' Rhagaea and the 'upstart' Garios in the name of senatorial supremacy.” — “The southern third of the Empire is ruled by Rhagaea, widow of the murdered emperor. For her, politics is personal: all men want their families to inherit what they have, and if you loved Arenicos then you will support the rights of his heirs. Arenicos was indeed loved, and also there are some Calradians who believe that the endless squabbling and civil wars can only be overcome by a king, or, if necessary, by a queen.” — “Ira is the daughter of Rhagaea, one of the three claimants to the imperial throne, and the slain emperor Arenicos. At one point, her father appeared to be grooming her as his heir. But though she took well to military campaigns, she also displayed a wild side unbecoming of imperial dignity, carousing in taverns with other young aristocrats and even appearing in the arenas as a gladiator. She is Rhagaea's heir-apparent, but her mother makes no secret of wishing to find her a responsible consort to ensure the continuity of the dynasty.” — “Pharon is patriarch of the Leonipardes, an imperial house that owns vast estates on the hot plains of the south. The family has traditionally taken the welfare of its tenants seriously, but expects total loyalty from them. He has little to do with the Senate and the politics of the capital. Dynastic inheritance seems to him the natural order of things, so he has leaned towards Rhagaea in the civil wars.” > > *Pulled from* [[3-spkingdoms-(Bannerlord)]] — “The lands that are now the southern Empire were once ruled by proud independent city-states controlling trading routes over the Perassic Sea and the steppe. They invited the Empire into their internal feuds and one by one they were absorbed, some by treaty, some by conquest. Calradian aristocrats intermarried with merchant princes and nomad chiefs, many of whom claimed descent from the kings, champions and demigods of eastern legends. In recent generations, as these towns grew to become some of the richest and most populous in the continent, many Senatorial families elsewhere became suspicious that the southerners would someday try to make one of their own into a hereditary monarch. The southern nobility's support for Rhagaea, an unapologetic advocate of the dynastic principle, would seem to confirm these fears.” > > *Pulled from* [[3-std_story_mode-(Bannerlord)]] — “Choose one and pledge allegiance. When this civil war began, I was a bit torn... Rhagaea was the cleverest ruler, Garios probably the best fighter, and Lucon seemed to have the best grasp of our laws and traditions. But you can make up your own mind.” — “As I said before, there's a case for all of the claimants. When this war began, I thought Rhagaea understood best how to rule, Garios was the strongest warrior, and Lucon had the firmest grasp of our traditions.” > > *Pulled from* [[3-wanderer_strings-(Bannerlord)]] — “I am fighting because the Emperor Arenicos named me, the mother of his children, as his heir. That is how it has been done the past 100 years. The Senate are a bunch of greedy squabbling rich old men, and there is good reason why the people no longer accept them as their masters. I do not proclaim any lofty cause. Whoever wins this war, landlords will cheat tenants, city guards will demand bribes from merchants, warriors will rape farmers' daughters, husbands will beat wives. The plague and the flux will take more lives than all the evils of man put together. I will strive to be a good queen. I will pursue policies that I believe to be sensible, such as persuading the Aserai and the Khuzait to accept imperial citizenship and join us rather than harass our frontiers. But I can offer no guarantee that my heir, or my heir's heir, will not be a monster. I could marry Lucon or Gario, and save thousands of lives. But men are willing to fight for me, though it gains them nothing, for no other reason that the throne is my right. I will not betray these men. If I win, in centuries to come, people will think back on my victory and think, ‘Heavens smile on those who fight for truth.’” > > *Pulled from* [[3-world_lore_strings-(Bannerlord)]] — <-- for queen rhagaea - “You may wonder why it matters. (Whether) under a good king or an evil one, landlords will rape their tenants' daughters, watch captains will demand bribes from merchants, masters will beat apprentices, husbands will beat wives. Well, perhaps it does not matter. But the common people - if the good king triumphs, even if it costs tens of thousands of lives, they will tell it to future generations. That right beats wrong. And perhaps the wrongdoers will be a bit more afraid, perhaps the righteous will be a bit bolter. Lucon says he fights for the return of the old laws, that prevented tyranny. I do not believe that. Garios says he fights for his own men. Him I believe. (War…) The Empire... Learned to love it. So long as the ruler is from one faction, there will be war. Men fight civil wars because they cannot stand to see one from the other faction lifted above them, to see his imitators in their alleys elevated by his glory. Do not think it will end with the death of Garios or Lucon. The ruler must come from above. I am not aristocrat nor populist. I am a foreigner. I am the memory of a dead man, my husband, a cold man who gave no one is full counsel.” — “Rhagaea knows she would be a good Empress, and that the time is right to establish that a woman can inherit. Believe me, I am the last to dispute that only men can sit on the throne. But if Rhagaea is empress, then it is only one easy step for her mad daughter Ira to inherit it.” — “The quality of blood will always show itself. Look at Garios and his scoundrels. Play to the mob. Who are Rhagaea's people? Nobodies. She's a jumped-up adventuress.” — “Echerion the Tyrant-Slayer was my ancestor. Wouldn't be right if I fought for an upstart demagogue like Garios or a half-foreign adventuress like Rhagaea, now would it?” — “Arenicos was a good emperor, all told. But if he indeed named Rhagaea his heir, and that is not just a lie, it shows that even the best of men may be seized by madness. The daughter of the former Padishah? How do we know she won't just serve us to her people on a plate.” — “Lucon and Rhagaea will never restore the assemblies. Neither has any faith in the people. Garios, well, he is no democrat, but he has that faith. I will fight for him. Maybe he will bring back the assemblies. No one else will.” — “<-- apys for garios --> “Well, of course what I want to is to serve the people. Lucon is a vile little hypocrite and Rhagaea a puffed-up foreign usurptress, so of course I would back Garios.” — “I am fighting because the Emperor Arenicos named me, the mother of his children, as his heir. That is how it has been done the past 100 years. The Senate are a bunch of greedy squabbling rich old men, and there is good reason why the people no longer accept them as their masters. I do not proclaim any lofty cause. Whoever wins this war, landlords will cheat tenants, city guards will demand bribes from merchants, warriors will rape farmers' daughters, husbands will beat wives. The plague and the flux will take more lives than all the evils of man put together. I will strive to be a good queen. I will pursue policies that I believe to be sensible, such as persuading the Aserai and the Khuzait to accept imperial citizenship and join us rather than harass our frontiers. But I can offer no guarantee that my heir, or my heir's heir, will not be a monster. I could marry Lucon or Gario, and save thousands of lives. But men are willing to fight for me, though it gains them nothing, for no other reason that the throne is my right. I will not betray these men. If I win, in centuries to come, people will think back on my victory and think, ‘Heavens smile on those who fight for truth.’” — “I don't know if Arenicos really named Rhagaea as Empress, or if that's one of her lies, and I don't care. What I do know is this: I don't want this empire run by a Padishah's daughter. It needs a soldier-emperor. It needs me.” > > *Pulled from* [[Blog_42_Empire_Pt.1]] — “His one child, Ira, was a daughter. There had been ruling empresses of Calradia in the past, but Ira had a wild and irreverent streak. Her right to rule was championed by her mother, Rhagaea, Arenicos's foreign-born wife. ‘It is good for the children of emperor's to succeed their fathers,’ her partisans said. ‘If we unite in loyalty to the imperial family, the civil wars will stop.’” — “Rhagaea emerged from the palace and addressed the throng that had gathered at the reports of the emperor's death. She raised before them the slain emperor's robe, drenched in his blood. The crowd cried out that she should be the empress, that the emperor's family must rule from this day on, and that she must take vengeance on his murderers - although who exactly that was, at this point, was mostly a matter of rumor.” > [!location]- Info from: > [[3-lords-(Bannerlord)]] ```   <NPCCharacter id="lord_1_14" name="{=kadJAjaA}Rhagaea" default_group="Infantry" age="42" voice="softspoken" is_hero="true" is_female="true" culture="Culture.empire" occupation="Lord" face_mesh_cache="true"> <face>   <BodyProperties version="4" weight="0.1" build="0.3" key="0000AC0E50FC30045948A3188A41766557598897843A8925A7E38F398578987400070656077375210000000000000000000000000000000000000000011C1040" /> </face> <Traits>  <Trait id="BalancedFightingSkills" value="0" /> <Trait id="Commander" value="10" /> <Trait id="Politician" value="20" /> <Trait id="Manager" value="14" /> <Trait id="Generosity" value="1" /> <Trait id="Calculating" value="1" /> <Trait id="Authoritarian" value="1" /> </Traits> <Equipments> <EquipmentSet id="s_emp_king_template_bat_f" /> <EquipmentSet id="s_emp_king_template_civ_f" civilian="true" /> </Equipments> </NPCCharacter> ``` > &emsp;&emsp; ![[encyclopedia_calradica.gif|center|300]] >*“A massive `Mount & Blade` wikipedia.”* About [Encyclopædia Calradica](About-the-Encyclopædia.md) About the [Project](Project-(Pillar).md) About the [Author](Horseapple.md) &emsp;&emsp;