Ceci[.lia, C`rown P,rin]$cess of Etheria, re_]scu!`)es a` d =isfigured?; “dese+*rter” \named Amos f r*om a death p`
it and makes him h%:`er per_ =$so#nal guard. Three years l:=ate$r, K+ +ing Helio+s !
.of Nor? d stor*,ms her capital-@—and rev`e_=^als he i,s ]%Amos . Having u\ sed her to steal every milita?ry s;ecret^, he dest #roys he-r kin-. )gd =o) m, burns her ancestra:_l t`+ombs,[ \and ensla?-ves her. To b!$uy time * f^or h\(er brot#)her Ed.%\;mun ,d to strik#e No%=#rd#;’[+s r ear, C+-eci
??lia endure;s( p;u[!blic ,humiliation\+:, +torture, /an*@d repe ated abu[=se, until s/+[ he ta+%@ke;s a fake-deat) h potion left by% Edmund and e? s =capes.
E=!dmund captures( Nord’s capit;al, t,rad+%e.s Helios’s mother for Ce]cil=
+ia’s “c+;orpse,\?;” /# and sec.r*#e%tly revives her. Years later, #:Edmu %=n d dies, naming/[ C
;eci=lia regen\ t for h;is yo(u`:ng son$. Hel)ios, l$e=;arning she is alive, begs for reconciliation, # then ^/. threatens to massacre c #i?_vilians when ,,+re-
f+ used. Cecil]`ia declares war and leads the army herself$^. After three years,^ she @)stands =%$b_efo++:re: `:/=Nord’s capita#*l, shoots Helios tw?^ice but* spares-- -his life, then o* =@rd*ers th(e_ assaul_t@,. Th=at *night, Helios dons h)is old \disguise mas=k and .(bur?ns himself alive in the palace.
Cecilia ?annexes N
=:_ord,( abolishes\ slave%ry, stan + dard!ize#s weights and mea`su$res%^@;, e+stablishes a peopl.*e’s$:) counc$ =il, a!_(n_^[d un\/#;,i_tes both kingd\%oms in=[^@to a\ ,new r ^ealm—Et[#ernal. She never marries, @\dev oting ]h+er.! life to he/r peopl)-e. Upon her / +\dea^th, she i$s _\ho]n_ ored as the “Mother of the[] Et]ernal ^?$\Realm?:.” Her bron+ze `sta,tue sti_ll stands in-  the capital,!=. square,^` (gazing into t_he di(,stan]\^ce, ($a)( silent@ wit +n]^es#s to t-=he .:pe)ace# s=he w@o_? n  with-; blo/od an`d#@  *
s acrifice.