1. Did you have a hero or a special role model while growing up? Describe them. Lym grew up trying to follow in the image of her mother. The previous queen who not only led a war against the invading nation or Armes from the front, but also managed to severely hamper the gladiator/slave caste. Arshtat, her mother, was a decisive ruler, who was loved by her people for victory over the Armes army in the war 8 years ago. She was thought to be wise, and knew how to manage resources. She was also known for knowing how to delegate people to fill jobs that she herself couldn't do. Arshtat was a powerful enough rune magic user to wear and control the Sun rune, at least for a while and Lym herself doesn't know about Arshtat losing control of the rune.
2. What’s your opinion on your family, or how you were raised? Lym loved her family a great deal. She viewed her mother as the ideal queen, and her father as what a Queen's Knight should be. When she was young she looked down at her brother because he was unable to ever be Queen, but as she grew older she grew incredibly close to him and abandoned that view. That being said she thought the man who won the Queen's Games and she was married to to be a small minded, slimy, manipulative schemer and was not upset at all when he died at her brother's hands. Lym was raised to be the next queen. She was schooled in politics and how to read other people, as well as on diplomacy and how to manage human resources. She was kind of jealous of her brother being able to study how to survive outside the palace, but understood that she was destined to be the next queen since she was the only girl and had no cousins.
3. If there was one thing you could do to change the world, what would it be? Lym actually changed the way that her government was organized to give more power to the people and to try to phase out the power of the noble houses who's squabbling tended to be the largest drag of social resources. She gave every town, human, dwarf and badger a seat on the government's new parliament and an equal say to give the direction to Falenas.
4. If you could be reborn as someone else, who would you be? Why? Lym isn't so much looking to be reborn someone else, but sometimes she wishes she was born in a world where the Godwins didn't exist. Without the Godwins, her mother never would have had to wear the sun rune which eventually devoured her soul. Without the Godwins no one would have ever orchestrated the cheating at the Queen's games to end up with Gizel as her fiancé, and ultimately the assassination of her mother and father never would have happened. She wouldn't have been a puppet Queen for almost a year and after that, she would have had time to actually learn the trade as opposed to be thrust into it at the age of 11.
5. Describe the happiest and saddest moments of your life. The happiest moment of her life was when her brother rescued her from the Godwins by killing her husband and chasing them out of the Sun Palace. She was reunited with her brother and no longer a pawn for a government who's only purpose seemed to be controlling the Sun Rune for the reason of world domination. The saddest moment in her life was shortly after the realization of what happened on the night the Godwin assassins killed her mother and father and chased her brother away as a criminal. This was multiplied by the fact that the night started with her official engagement to a man that she thought was slimy and manipulative through events of cheating that even she could see.
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Lym grew up trying to follow in the image of her mother. The previous queen who not only led a war against the invading nation or Armes from the front, but also managed to severely hamper the gladiator/slave caste.
Arshtat, her mother, was a decisive ruler, who was loved by her people for victory over the Armes army in the war 8 years ago. She was thought to be wise, and knew how to manage resources. She was also known for knowing how to delegate people to fill jobs that she herself couldn't do. Arshtat was a powerful enough rune magic user to wear and control the Sun rune, at least for a while and Lym herself doesn't know about Arshtat losing control of the rune.
2. What’s your opinion on your family, or how you were raised?
Lym loved her family a great deal. She viewed her mother as the ideal queen, and her father as what a Queen's Knight should be. When she was young she looked down at her brother because he was unable to ever be Queen, but as she grew older she grew incredibly close to him and abandoned that view. That being said she thought the man who won the Queen's Games and she was married to to be a small minded, slimy, manipulative schemer and was not upset at all when he died at her brother's hands.
Lym was raised to be the next queen. She was schooled in politics and how to read other people, as well as on diplomacy and how to manage human resources. She was kind of jealous of her brother being able to study how to survive outside the palace, but understood that she was destined to be the next queen since she was the only girl and had no cousins.
3. If there was one thing you could do to change the world, what would it be?
Lym actually changed the way that her government was organized to give more power to the people and to try to phase out the power of the noble houses who's squabbling tended to be the largest drag of social resources. She gave every town, human, dwarf and badger a seat on the government's new parliament and an equal say to give the direction to Falenas.
4. If you could be reborn as someone else, who would you be? Why?
Lym isn't so much looking to be reborn someone else, but sometimes she wishes she was born in a world where the Godwins didn't exist. Without the Godwins, her mother never would have had to wear the sun rune which eventually devoured her soul. Without the Godwins no one would have ever orchestrated the cheating at the Queen's games to end up with Gizel as her fiancé, and ultimately the assassination of her mother and father never would have happened. She wouldn't have been a puppet Queen for almost a year and after that, she would have had time to actually learn the trade as opposed to be thrust into it at the age of 11.
5. Describe the happiest and saddest moments of your life.
The happiest moment of her life was when her brother rescued her from the Godwins by killing her husband and chasing them out of the Sun Palace. She was reunited with her brother and no longer a pawn for a government who's only purpose seemed to be controlling the Sun Rune for the reason of world domination.
The saddest moment in her life was shortly after the realization of what happened on the night the Godwin assassins killed her mother and father and chased her brother away as a criminal. This was multiplied by the fact that the night started with her official engagement to a man that she thought was slimy and manipulative through events of cheating that even she could see.