Aalina Lorimer¶
Contested
This page is named in the open question State of Brusau in 704 SM: the Rivenlands gazetteer has Queen Aalina alive and ruling an independent Brusau in the autumn of 704 SM, while the campaign sessions record her death and a treaty that made Brusau a Sancturi province.
Queen Aalina Lorimer rules Brusau, the most warlike of the five great Riven Kingdoms of the Fifth Age. In the autumn of 704 SM she is thirty-two, "a stern and effective ruler", "an excellent military strategist" who "despises the Sancturi Gods and the Imperium" (S319). Her kingdom lies along the Broken Sea between two Sancturi frontier provinces and "has been at constant war for as long as anyone can remember."
Reign¶
The Lorimer Dynasty is "relatively new and has only been in power for the last 20 years". Before it Brusau was held by the Tabor dynasty, who "lost out in a political move and have been exterminated or exiled" (S319). The queen has broken the old council of nobles, the Erubule, which once advised the ruler and chose the successor: "their power has been substantially diminished now that the Queen chooses its membership directly and has confiscated and redistributed lands from her rivals" (S319).
Under her rule Sancturi worship and proselytizing are "forbidden and punishable by death", and Sancturi agents are "arrested and ransomed or executed" (S319). The last Sancturi invasion, about five years before 704 SM, "was only barely repulsed", and most recently The White Fire under Vinias helped the kingdom drive back the Imperium at the Battle of Beddenford (S319). In the autumn of 704 SM the Sancturi still hold "significant territory" taken from Brusau and Floren, and are "presently in a infrastructure and building phase before the next major offensive" (S319). The wars themselves are told under the Sancturi Campaigns.
Heirs¶
Prince Eofhelm Lorimer¶
The youngest of the royal Lorimers, eight years old in 704 SM, "still a young boy, but heir presumptive" (S319). The gazetteer lists the prince and princess under the queen without naming their parents.
Princess Aylyld Lorimer¶
The prince's "ambitious older sister, with a violent temperament", fifteen in 704 SM (S319). The sources do not say why the younger brother is preferred.
Death and the treaty¶
The campaign records tell a different end. "After Queen Aalina Lorimer's death, the Erubule (council) made a treaty with the Sancturi. The remaining Lorimers (royal family) and the rest of the nobility have been granted provincial Sancturi citizenship (only valid in Brusau for 5 years .. afterwhich it will mature into full citizenship) in the reorganized province of Brusau. They retain their lands and wealth" (S187, repeated in S189). The kingdom's capital, Altandon, passed to General Yutoshi of the III Nightshade Legion (S189). What the party did in occupied Brusau belongs to the Sancturi Campaign.
Gap
No source says how or when Queen Aalina died, who her consort was, whether the prince and princess are her children, or whether Eofhelm or Aylyld survived the treaty.