The Roseate Queen
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"The Roseate Queen sits on a white throne threaded with living flowers. She is a handsome woman of indeterminate age. Her skin is dark and her eyes are ringed with kohl. Her smile is tentative, but her voice is strong."[1]
The Roseate Queen, also called Her Roseate Majesty or Her Roseate Splendour,[2][3] is the ancient, immortal ruler of Arbor, who has ruled for over a thousand years.[4] Her gaze is represented by rubies, and no part of the city can completely escape her influence.[5]
Beneath Her Ruby Gaze[edit]
The Roseate Queen's Palace lies to the south of Far Arbor,[6] her Temple to the north of Near Arbor,[7] and her visage adorns the walls of many towering structures.
The Queen holds audience under a magnificent dome in her Palace decorated with mosaics of the Second City, gleaming in red and gold.[8][9] She spends her spare time in her Palace supervising the expansion and improvements made to her residences,[6] and certain criminal trials are conducted near the balcony of the Queen's throne-room, so that she may preside over them herself if she so fancies - though this has not happened yet.[10]
The Queen's traditional regalia are a mirror, cage, and three crowns;[11] the Priests-in-Scarlet in the Temple to the Unending Queen use donations of attar to create more crowns for the Queen, for the "betterment of her dreams".[12]
She Who Fled Her Past[edit]
The Roseate Queen was once known as Neferneferure, the fifth of six sisters and the youngest surviving sister of the Duchess.[13][14] She along with her sisters conspired to trap the Masters and the Bazaar in the Second City,[15][16] but when their plans failed, Neferneferure fled to the Elder Continent,[14] where she took refuge in the third Arbor.[17]
Sometime after the third Arbor's destruction, the Roseate Queen went on to rule the Arbor that remained in dream.[17] She abolished the previous succession laws, declaring that she alone would choose her successor,[18] and implemented the Sequestration,[19] a significant set of reforms of the city's laws and relations.[19]
References[edit]
- ↑ An Embassy to London, Fallen London
- ↑ Near Arbor (Temple), Fallen London "Its friezes commemorate the city's three greatest victories."
- ↑ Make your request of Her Roseate Splendour, Fallen London
- ↑ Walk South (Far Arbor), Fallen London
- ↑ Near Arbor (Temple), Fallen London "New rubies have been fixed in the eyes of its statues."
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Far Arbor (Palace), Fallen London
- ↑ Near Arbor (Temple), Fallen London
- ↑ Enter Arbor 2, Fallen London
- ↑ Queen of Roses, Fallen London "Second City mosaics gleam on the walls in gold and red, [...]"
- ↑ Witness a trial, Fallen London "The trial is held beneath [...] balcony of the Queen's throne-room, so that she may preside in person [...] A Far-Arbori [...] explains that this has never happened yet."
- ↑ Gift your Attar in tribute to the Roseate Queen, Fallen London "[...] a waxen image of the Roseate Queen, wearing her three crowns and carrying the mirror and cage of her office."
- ↑ Offer your Attar to the Temple, Fallen London
- ↑ Why is she interested in the Rosers?, Fallen London
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 The Attendants, Fallen London "The fifth of six went to the old land under the mountain to escape the end."
- ↑ Homecoming, Fallen London "[...] you watch as a funerary procession makes its way towards a temple. A group of hooded creatures [...] are led inside, and do not emerge for centuries."
- ↑ Buying secrets, Fallen London "We played those black-cloaked [...] fools, [...] Beat them at their own game and pulled the nose of the Bazaar."
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 The Queen's Favour, Fallen London
- ↑ Take a series on the succession laws of Arbor, Fallen London
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Ask about the laws of Arbor, Fallen London "We do not have so many since Her Roseate Majesty's reforms."
