Vincenta Ahyen

Treason is not merely an act. Treason exists within one's very being, within the potential of the abilities one is born into this world possessing. It is something that cannot be escaped. We must be aware of those who could willingly turn on us, those against whom we have no defenses, those who would overturn our way of living on a selfish whim. We, as a society, must stand together in ridding our land of these threats or face our own extinction. As your queen, I will not allow the Queendom of Leland, united by the blood of our forefathers, to fall into darkness.

— Queen Vincenta Ahyen, on the eve of the Declaration of Aurant Expulsion 

Vincenta Ahyen was reigning queen of the Queendom of Leland from 571 to 586. Her reign is generally considered to be the beginning of the end of the queendom due to her paranoia leading to the implementation of strict and sometimes gruesome policies, particularly the banning of Power of Aura which lead to the mass execution of visaurants.

Royal Beginnings

Vincenta was born at the Palace of the Lioness in Harmonil in 539. She would be the first of three children and the only daughter to Queen Mathilde Ahyen. She grew up at the palace, taking an interest in poetry and meditation and preferring the company of only herself.
In 554, when Vincenta was fifteen, an outbreak of the virus responsible for Regifted Syndrome swept through Leland. The royal family, already distanced from the lives of the average people, was isolated further due to safety concerns. It was discovered that the epidemic had actually been a plot to overthrow the crown by stripping them of the enmanity that gave the ruling class the claim to power. Queen Mathilde retaliated swiftly against those who had planned the coup and continued to keep the palace at minimum staffing levels for the protection of herself and her family. The fear of this time in Vincenta's life never left her, and it would sow the seeds of paranoia within her.

The Rise of Treachery

In the following years, Vincenta would struggle with the expectation that she take a husband or, as her mother had on many occasions, a court lover. While there were many people at court she felt an attraction to, her inability to trust them prevented her from making a connection. Even a marriage for political purposes was too much for her to consider.
While Vincenta had nothing but respect for the queen, she questioned her mother's relationship with her clejador. The two agreed on many things, and when they didn't the clejador had a way of bringing the queen over to his side, often the opposite of what Vincenta saw as the right answer. Mathilde brushed off her daughter's concerns that the clejador was manipulating her, but Vincenta could not let it go. She became convinced that her mother had become the clejador's puppet, which made her unfit for the throne. In 571, Vincenta would poison her mother and frame the clejador for the murder.
At the death of her mother, Vincenta was coronated Queen Vincenta, the Golden Spider. There were whispers that she had been responsible for the former queen's death, but backstabbing, murder, and general underhandedness were all common when it came to ascension to the throne of Leland.

Rule of the Golden Spider

The new queen would keep all of her advisors at a distance, preferring to receive information and advice in written form rather than verbally so that she could form an opinion of her own without fear of being charmed into something else. In her isolation she realized that, like her mother before her, she was susceptible to those who could not be controlled by Power of Persuasion. Visaurants and True Nulls alike were a threat, though visaurants were far more dangerous because of their manipulative nature.
Vincenta began removing True Nulls from positions of influence in court and eventually they were banned from holding employment in the palace altogether. She gave leeway to the ruling nobles of the territories to regulate the employment of True Nulls at a local level, though she made it clear that those who maintained the status quo would fall out of favor with the crown. 
Visaurants would also be purged from court, though they would remain otherwise unaffected until the 574 Declaration of Aurant Expulsion. This decree outlawed the use of Power of Aura, referencing the murder of the previous queen by her clejador as the basis for the ban and preying on the superstitions surrounding the inherent mysterious nature of Aura. By nature, a visaurant is always able to see the auras of those around them, and so every visaurant in the queendom immediately became a criminal. The punishment for violating the decree was death. Visaurants in the palace were immediately executed, and over the following months mass executions would take place across the queendom. Those who were able to flee to remote areas of Leland where they wouldn't be perceived as a threat did. In the following years, children who presented with Aura were murdered, as were their parents.
Following the events of 574, the rest of Vincenta's reign seemed uneventful by comparison despite the increase in regulations across all aspects of life. Vincenta would become more and more isolated from reality until her passing in 586, allegedly from poisoning, though a culprit was never found. Since she had no children, Vincenta was succeeded by her cousin, Queen Nicasia Ahyen. Nicasia would do nothing to repeal Vincenta's discriminatory policies and many of them would remain in place until the fall of the queendom in 711.

Enmanity
Power of Persuasion

Life

539 SU 586 SU 47 years old

Parents

Mathilde Ahyen

Aligned Organization

Queendom of Leland