Serafina del Arquevalleta

Serafina Marcelina del Arquevalleta is an Evoran monarch who ascended the throne in 351.

Early Life and Adolescence
Serafina was born as the second child to the Evoran royal couple. Her father was the crown prince at the time of her birth and ascended the throne when Serafina was six years old.

From an early age Serafina showed sociopathic tendencies. She was cruel to her slaves even by royalty standards. She learned as a child how to bring people around her under her spell, from the other nobility's children in the palace to her parents and governesses. She used her superficial charm to get close to people, and her keen observational skills to psychologically manipulate them.

When she was ten, an incident occurred with one of Serafina's tutors to whom she took a great disliking. By manipulating guards and other governesses and tutors, she was able to get him alone in a room and tied to a chair while slaves administered physical torture. She administered demands that he should spy on the other royal children in the palace, examine their belongings, and learn their secrets. His lessons with her would then become debriefings on what he had learned. Every time he protested he was tortured again, and if he tried to call for help Serafina let out a high-pitched yell, begging him to stop hurting her. The slaves present at the scene described the look on her face when the man cried out in pain as "maniacal glee, undercut with horrifying excitement."

In her mid-adolescence, Serafina began to use sexual appeal to manipulate guards, servants, ladies-in-waiting, and lesser nobles.

Conspiracy
Serafina, as she grew older, became very firm in the belief that she was far better suited than her brother to rule the country. At fourteen she began to search for ways to disqualify him from leadership. After reading a great deal of history in search of precedent, hiring spies to search for blackmail, and turning up with nothing, Serafina decided to have him assassinated.

Hernando del Arquevalleta's assassination was staged as a hunting accident in 347. He was survived by his wife, Catalina del Arquevalleta (née de Salcedo) and his son, Marcelo. Serafina arranged the assassination of her nephew the following year, securing her place as first in line to the throne.

Ascension to the throne
Year 351 saw the bloody conflicts of the Second Evoran Slave Revolt, starting with the battles over irrigation in the central region in the summertime and reaching the palace by autumn. Following the murder of her father, King Lorenzo del Arquevalleta, Serafina quelled the uprising and crowned herself queen.