Elsa Konrad Pösen

Set against the northern sea, the territory of Pösen survived the War mostly unscathed, leaving the young baroness in charge of one of the last intact homes of Eisen’s pre-War culture. The sense of peace did not stop the brave Elsa from marching south with her father’s best warriors to lend the Pösen armies to the war effort. Elsa distinguished herself as a great leader and heroic fighter, and once her father died, she was the obvious choice to take up leadership of her königreich. Then the real troubles began.
Once the War ended, Horrors besieged Pösen, climbing up out of the swamps that dot the landscape. Warriors returning from war found themselves without respite, driven into a pitched battle to rescue family and home from all manner of monsters. Elsa set to work immediately bringing her Iron Guard to order and recruiting ex-soldiers to patrol her borders. A brilliant tactician, Elsa turned the rise of the Horrors into an opportunity, organizing military bands to sell their services to traveling merchants for protection traveling south from Vestenmennavenjar. With the cut she got from the endeavor, she renovated her ports to put Pösen in place to control the import and export of goods into Eisen and solidified herself and her city as paragons for the rebirth of the country.
The baroness remains a proud and arrogant warrior, at home fighting Horrors as much as arguing with the other Eisenfürsten. Below the arrogance lies a canny mind, however. Elsa has begun secretly supporting the flagging Fischler and thrown her support behind the Drachenblut in the hopes their young commander Rosamund Roth might be the Hero Eisen truly needs to pull itself back into a single, united country.