Andromache Progenitrix

Beatrix Ellimond, the first Sailor Andromache, was never the ruler of Andromache, nor did she have any ambitions to rulership. She was the daughter of a mercenary and a cloth merchant and from a young age her mercenary mother taught her the art of swordplay. She married a wealthy exporter of luxury cloths named Nivas Andrin at the age of 16 and eight months after her marriage gave birth to a daughter they named Roslyn. When she was 18 she was surprised by a strange guest in her house, a talking iguana who called himself Marius. He gave her an odd pen which allowed her to transform into a strange, magical creature: Sailor Andromache. Though Marius encouraged her to use her newfound power against the imperial occupiers, Beatrix was reluctant to risk her own life, as well as the lives of her husband and daughter. However, when her sister Alessandra was executed on false charges of treason against the Empire, Beatrix was spurred to shed the trappings of a society dame and take up the mantle of rebellion. Taking her family to Citadel, Sailor Andromache enthralled the masses with her displays of magical power. Along the road, Marius managed to take the form of an apparently human man, serving in the capacity of strategist and confidante for Andromache. From Citadel, Sailor Andromache led several raids on imperial fortresses, gathering supporters in every town she visited. Eventually, she made her first appearance in Chiandris during a festival, and using her powers, created a wave of magnetic energy strong enough to fling the open carriage in which Imperial Governor Frangiskos rode. The deaths of him and his guards drew the wrath of the empire, who sent a large military detachment to Andromache. Sailor Andromache led the defense of Chiandris and managed to hold it against the invaders, and over the course of the next sixteen years led her armies forth, pressing outward from Chiandris until the remaining imperial forces were cornered at Gretton. During the battle of Gretton, however, reinforcements arrived from the imperial capital and Sailor Andromache was captured. In desperation, Marius led three rescue attempts before they could get her off of Andromache but each failed. She was transported to the imperial capital, tried for treason, and publicly tortured and executed by beheading. With the assistance of Marius and General Honorius of Hektor, Beatrix's daughter Roslyn managed to expel the remaining imperial forces from Andromache. When Roslyn assumed the throne of Chiandris, she posthomously crowned her mother and declared her a martyred demigod, a living avatar of Heaven.