Narnia OCs: Ilse of Knife’s Edge
For @spareoom event 1
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Ilse, daughter of the Viscount of the county west of Knife’s Edge in Archenland, is born in 991. She grows up with three brothers and works as a healer in her county. She travels to Anvard in 1013 for the celebration of Prince Cor’s return to Archenland, where she meets the newly honored King Peter, who has just defeated the giants of Ettinsmoor. They are taken with one another, as she finds him to be thoughtful and chivalrous, and he finds her to be joyful, outgoing, and caring. They begin a courtship, which results in an engagement in 1014 and a marriage in early 1015. She is named Queen Consort of Narnia. In the autumn of 1015, the Pevensies ride after the White Stag and disappear back through the wardrobe into England, leaving Ilse devastated and widowed at 24 years old. She is heir presumptive following their disappearance, and after personally searching the woods for her missing husband, is reluctantly crowned Queen of Narnia in 1016 by the Council of Lords. In 1022, she attends Cor and Aravis’s wedding at Anvard and finds close friends in them, and in 1025 their son Ram the Great is born. Ilse never remarries. In 1029, she approaches her brother and his wife to be surrogates for the heir of the Narnian throne. They agree. In 1030, a boy is born, and Ilse names him Prince Curt. In 1032, he is brought to live in Cair Paravel and is raised by Ilse. He becomes king after her death in 1055. Ilse is very kind and dignified, being a healer and a homebody. She enjoys cooking, entertaining, and caring for others. Many of her struggles as a monarch originate from her indecisiveness and the fact that she is not a natural leader. Unfortunately, she can also trust naively, which does not always bode well for ruling a country. Over time, she matures into a more discerning, confident leader. She is not athletic by nature, but she does learn how to use smaller weapons like the dagger, as well as a crossbow and blunt pole weapons like a quarterstaff, which are skills she utilizes as the supreme commander of Narnia’s army. Ilse is mostly forgotten to history as she is preceded by the Golden Age, but because of her quiet, motherly, and consistent care for Narnia following the jarring disappearance of its greatest monarchs, its descent into its Dark Age is much slower than it would have been otherwise.
