Aquilla I

Aquilla I was the second ruler of the Empire of Alberea, following in the footsteps of her father, the legendary Solidor I.

She was known for her ruthlessness and mercilessness, which she clearly learned from her father, but perfected during her own reign. She became empress in 1355, a year after Solidor I started the Annexation of Doren before dying of heart failure. As such, she finished wat her father could not have, with more of an iron fist than anyone could have ever imagined. With tactical guile and ruthless scorched-earth tactics, she brought fear and hopelessness to the Dorenese Provinces. The Dorenese resistance bent to the knee to Aquilla I three years after her coronation and have not gathered since.

However, what she did antebellum was perhaps much more important. As a devout follower of the Faith of the Chant, she required all of the Dorenese citizenry to be exposed to the faith, regardless of the fact that the Dorenese peoples already worshipped a pantheon of their own. To institute this, she began a long theological campaign that turned the Dorenese gods into patron saints of specific Dorenese cities. Citizens from the colonies were still required to convert to the Faith of the Chant, but could now keep worshipping their old pantheon, but now in the form of saints that fell within the bounds of the Alberean faith; supposed historical figures that had existed in ages long past to found the Dorenese Provinces.

During her reign, she furthermore instituted most of the modern-day divisions of the empireal military, such as the dreaded Combustion Corps and the infamous Lamention Legion, who were instated to keep the Dorenese colonies servile to the empire.