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Navier Trovi

Navier Ellie Trovi

The Remarried Empress

The empress of the Eastern Empire, respected by her country for her wisdom and charitable nature. She is faced with the biggest hurdle of her life when her husband, Emperor Sovieshu, brings home a slave as a concubine, and is left to deal with the fallout on her own. After getting divorced from Sovieshu, she marries Heinrey and becomes the queen (later empress) of the Western Kingdom (later Empire).

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• Brutal Honesty: Played with. As an empress, she has a very diplomatic approach towards any potentially volatile topics. But personally, she very openly, albeit politely, tells both Sovieshu and Rashta that she doesn't want anything to do with the concubine and her child. Navier even admits to herself that she feels bitter towards the baby for being the main cause of her life being thrown upside down, although she knows Glorym is innocent.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Downplayed, she does get jealous in some instances where Sovieshu put Rashta's wellbeing above her own but she is in denial of it for a little bit until she acknowledges it later. In either cases, while she is inwardly irked and frustrated, she always keeps herself calm and composed and deals with those situations reasonably. This later comes to a head when, after she overhears Sovieshu planning to divorce her, she becomes distraught with losing her position and how Sovieshu does not love her the way he does Rashta, and acknowledges that she does love Sovieshu.
• Consummate Professional: Her duties as an influential empress are her first and foremost concern. She refrains from addressing her personal matters if she feels they will get in the way of politics. After getting engaged to Heinrey, she immediately starts thinking about how to be a good co-ruler with him and hopes to reinstate trade negotiations with Luipt, with the potential of creating distribution hubs among the continents Hwa and Wol.
• Cool Big Sis:
  • Crossed with Nice to the Waiter. She takes great care of her ladies-in-waiting, defending their best interests. The trope is played straight with her younger ladies-in-waiting, Lady Laura, Miss Rose, and Dame Mastas, and in the received end with Countess Eliza, Countess Joubert, and Viscountess Verdi. Rose and the countesses are level-headed and compassionate enough to remind Navier that her feelings are valid, while Laura and Mastas are hot-tempered and fiercely loyal, ready to skin others alive for even looking at Navier wrong. While Verdi and Eliza end up leaving Navier, the majority of Navier's ladies-in-waiting remain with her in the West.
  • Averted. Rashta initially calls her "Sister" because they share the same "husband" and clearly expects they are going to have an amicable relationship. Navier immediately makes it clear that while she may tolerate Sovieshu having concubines, she is not going to familiarize with them nor let them approach her. The fact that it takes some time for Rashta to accept it causes Navier severe frustration. Navier does, however, tell Lebetti - who isn't fond of Rashta herself - to call her "Big Sister" just to mess with Rashta, though Navier later does genuinely grow fond of Lebetti.
  • Played Straight towards Evely, a teenage orphan who received sponsorship from Navier. She is very concerned with Evely's well-being, whether is it physical or emotional. Evely reciprocates the feeling, wanting to use her magic skills to help Navier, and resents the situation Rashta put her former guardian into.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has a very dry sense of humour.

  Sovieshu: I'm your husband.

  Navier: But you aren't my lover.

• The Dog Bites Back: She spends the first half of the story being kicked around and embarrassed. But right at the moment of Sovieshu and Rashta's apparent victory, she immediately asks for and receives permission to remarry. This was not part of her ex's plan, but there's nothing he can do about it.
• Foot-Dragging Divorcee: Zigzagged. She isn't opposed to divorce, since she knows it is inevitable, especially considering her husband is the emperor, but she refuses to accept his reasons to demand divorce due to them being untrue and insulting. However, she ultimately doesn't put up much resistance, realizing she should focus more on remarrying and maintaining the dignity she has.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A more reserved example than usual, but she is definitely this, as a merciful, kind-hearted ruler.
• Ice Queen: Sovieshu is initially attracted to Rashta because she's everything Navier isn't but he wishes she was: Warm, friendly and dependent on the men around her to do anything. Navier is cold, practical, independent and rarely affectionate. Unfortunately for Sovieshu, it turns out that what he thought he wanted wasn't what he really wanted: He quickly loses interest in Rashta, but only after badly alienating Navier. Also, just because Navier wasn't the cuddliest person in the world doesn't mean she didn't love and respect him. Heinrey understands this, which is why he falls in love with her, and his adoration and respect for her is why Navier reciprocates.
  • It becomes somewhat literal when Navier develops ice magic.
• Ignored Epiphany: After Heinrey accepts her proposal, she muses that she won't be as hurt by him taking concubines as she was by Sovieshu, which makes her realize she was jealous of Rashta because Navier used to love Sovieshu. However, by this point, Navier doesn't want to be by Sovieshu's side anymore, knows he is going to divorce her anyway, with her love and trust in him being shattered, and she is already engaged to Heinrey, so she doesn't dwell on this too much.
• Irony: Sovieshu wanted to temporarily divorce her because he believed she was infertile and needed Rashta's child to be his heir. After Rashta gives birth, someone else turns out to be the father. Navier ends up getting pregnant with twins, proving that he was the infertile one all along. Rubbing salt into the wound is that Navier's daughter Lari is technically first in line to the throne as he and Navier are distant relatives.
• Kissing Cousins: Her family, House Trovi, is well-known for producing numerous empresses for previous emperors in the Eastern Empire (at some intervals, to avoid excessive inbreeding), making them practically a part of the imperial family by birth. This, naturally, implies she and Sovieshu are related to some degree. It is the reason he is able to name Lari as his heir and why Duke Trovi ends up becoming the de facto ruler once Sovieshu becomes too mentally unstable to rule.
• Lady in Red: Her most often worn colour, particularly in promotional artworks.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She initially didn't know about the causes of her infertility, Sovieshu's real feelings for her and his plan towards Rashta, Heinrey's shapeshifting abilities and schemes with Ergy, or Kapmen's telepathy. Navier figures a lot of it on her own, or is eventually told the truth about it, but some things she never learns about, like Ergy's schemes with Heinrey.
• Manipulative Bitch: Shows some shades of it. She is surprisingly good at making jabs where it hurts her opponents the most, but she usually avoids getting into arguments. She is viewed that way In-Universe, considering how quickly she managed to set up her remarriage to another monarch.
• Married to the Job: Quite literally. She was picked as the next empress almost as soon as she was born and spent more time in the palace than at her family's home. Being an empress is pretty much her identity and almost everything she does reflects on that, to the point she barely has any regard for her personal feelings. Kosair's outrage at Sovieshu divorcing her is partially caused by the fact he knows his sister sacrificed her childhood learning how to be a good empress and now she is going to be set aside despite everything she has done.
• Morton's Fork: One of her main problems during the story's first part, regarding concubines. If she goes against Rashta, it would make Navier look petty and unkind. If Navier goes against Sovieshu, she would look like a nagging, jealous shrew. If she won't do anything, she'd end up looking like a weak pushover, unfit to be an empress. She ultimately takes a fourth option by proposing to Heinrey to become his queen when the possibility of divorce becomes increasingly evident.
• Oblivious to Love: There are at least three men vying for her, yet she cannot see it. She also takes a long time to realize her own feelings. Justified, as she was raised to not expect romance from an Arranged Marriage.
• Proper Lady: She usually knows what to say and how to act, allowing her (and people she wants to help) to save face in awkward situations.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: As an empress with influence on the emperor, she has many duties. She investigates rumours, does a lot of budget paperwork, hosts diplomats, deals with trade affairs, and sponsors promising students as charity work. Rashta realizes how much work being an empress actually is while going through Navier's notes, but doesn't put in enough effort on her end; Sovieshu has to do a lot of the work for her.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Navier is restrained, aloof and considerate, even when her personal life is at stake. Kosair is impulsive, hot-blooded and easy to take offense.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She rarely raises her voice or loses her calm, but she is definitely a force to be reckoned with and everyone around her is aware of that.
• Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: She has a fairly cynical view of love, particularly after the ordeal with Sovieshu, seeing it as a fickle and dangerous emotion causing people to make reckless decisions. This is averted, however, after she falls in love with Heinrey.
• Slave to PR: As an empress, she is responsible for the imperial family's public image and she takes it very seriously.
  • She refrains from going against Sovieshu in public, believing they need to present a united front for both their citizens and foreign powers.
  • When Marquis Farang tells her about negative rumours spread about her by Rashta's faction and suggests he could counter them by smearing Rashta, Navier declines, noting that in the long run it would end up making the entire imperial household look unsympathetic in the public eye.
  • While kept in house arrest with Heinrey after their remarriage, she is less concerned about herself and more about how will this affect his image as a monarch.
• Stealth Insult: She gifts Rashta's future baby with a magnificent bejewelled sword, telling Rashta that she wishes the child to be like that sword. Rashta is delighted until Ergy points out that said sword is purely decorative and serves no practical function whatsoever. Later on, Rashta tries to regift the sword to Navier, but the insult falls flat since Navier is in a great position in her empire, unlike Rashta was when she got the sword.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She and Kosair look a lot alike.
• Tough Leader Façade: She must hide her discontent over her possessive husband's infidelity and a host of humiliating incidents just to fulfill her duty as an empress. While Sovieshu seems to believe her a heartless person, it is made apparent she does have feelings and can be hurt, which Heinrey observes at many points.
• Tsurime Eyes: In the webtoon. They line up with her Sugar-and-Ice Personality.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: As befitting of an empress, her clothes are mostly Pimped Out Dresses. She dresses in a more subdued manner during the brief period between her divorce and arrival to the West.

Rashta Isqua

Rashta Isqua

The Former Slave

A former slave girl who becomes Sovieshu's concubine and eventual empress. She differs from the Eastern Empire's nobility by having a naive, pure personality, though it becomes clear that she can be manipulative and two-faced when she needs to be...

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• Anguished Declaration of Love: She confesses to Ergy as he prepares to leave the Eastern Empire. However, it is left deliberately ambiguous how much of it is sincere and how much results from her desperation over Sovieshu's cooling attitude towards her and the consequential prospect of impending loneliness, the case of believing her own lies, or the mood swings caused by her late stage pregnancy. There is also, of course, the fact that Ergy has been masterfully manipulating her all this time.
• Asshole Victim: Once exposed for all her cruel misdeeds, she’s declared guilty and imprisoned in horrid conditions, ultimately taking her life with poison that was slipped in.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. After ordering a gossiping maid's imprisoned father executed, said maid hits her with a chair, leaving her with a permanent scar on her forehead that needs bangs to hide, something Rashta is not pleased about. She becomes more unkempt as her sanity deteriorates, until when she's found dead in a pool of her own vomit in the tower following her trial.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: An interesting example as this trope didn't exactly apply to Rashta at first. When she arrives at the palace with Sovieshu, she was a mostly naive, sweet-natured person that genuinely wanted to get along with Navier, who she admired back when she was a slave. However, her manipulative, envious tendencies were always there, though she only acted on them as a survival tactic within the palace walls. As time went on, and her paranoia about being abandoned by Sovieshu began to take over her, Rashta transformed into a two-faced, selfish, backstabbing bitch, while still putting on her gentle, caring act for those she could use it on (mostly men in power). After Navier remarried, her envy and drive to be taken seriously by the nobility overtook her original sweet personality, becoming colder and malicious, until there was nothing left of her old self.
• Broken Pedestal: Many commoners view her sympathetically due to her humble roots and contrast with the cold, powerful Navier, thus hoping that she will represent them at court. One of her supporters is a young journalist who writes favorable articles on her. However, after it becomes clear she doesn't care about politics, and she maims and imprisons his sister for discovering one of her secrets, he turns against her.
• Cassandra Truth: Inverted when Navier rebukes Rashta's attempts at befriending her and tells her to befriend Sovieshu's next concubine. Not only does this jab seriously strike Rashta's nerve, but after Navier's departure from the Eastern Empire, Rashta becomes increasingly paranoid about every woman even approaching Sovieshu, not realizing Sovieshu is too busy mourning losing Navier to notice any other women.
• Chosen Conception Partner: Kind of. Sovieshu is initially infatuated with her, but his long-term goal is getting an heir out of her and remarrying Navier. It fails as Rashta's daughter, Glorym, is revealed to be the child of her former lover, Alan Rimwell, and goes missing.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She shows no hesitation in throwing people under the bus if she thinks they are going to betray her, even if they are willing to help her.
• Crime After Crime: Being a former slave, she is blackmailed by her former owner, Viscount Roteschu, about already having a child, Ian, with his own son. Since her funds as a concubine are closely monitored because she isn't educated enough to manage them herself, she has to buy his silence by giving him the imperial family's precious jewels she receives from Sovieshu, whom she doesn't trust enough with her predicament due to fear of losing his favor. Both of these sources of income are insufficient and easily traceable, so she ends up borrowing a lot of money from Ergy, a foreign duke with way too much influence over her. Once she becomes an empress, he demands his loans back with interest, making her sign off a strategically important port to him, which later causes a huge scandal and international tensions between the Eastern Empire and Blue Bohean. Furthermore, after her daughter Glorym turns out to be Alan's, Rashta is accused of treason and embezzling the empire's coffers and sentenced to a lifetime imprisonment, where she kills herself soon after.
• Crocodile Tears: A frequently deployed tactic of hers whenever she needs to get away with something. She eventually loses this advantage after becoming empress. As the empress, if she accuses someone of a crime, she is expected to be telling the truth, not simply trying to escape an inconvenient situation.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: She is one for a typical otome-game protagonist, being a beautiful, naive, low-birth woman unaccustomed to noble life who captures the heart of royalty. However, the realistic consequences of having anyone like Rashta as a consort, let alone an empress, show throughout the story. She is illiterate, short-sighted, alienating to the nobility, and open to manipulation by others, and she ends up putting Sovieshu and the Eastern Empire in a bad light when she is unable to properly handle the duties and authority expected of an empress.
• Dialogue Reversal: Deliberately done by Evely when she confronts Rashta after arriving to the palace, mirroring her first meeting with Navier.
• Dies Wide Open: After she dies, her corpse is discovered with her eyes still open.
• Driven to Suicide: She kills herself shortly after being imprisoned, using a poison pill someone helpfully gave her.
• Dying Dream: Just before her death, she hallucinates all the people she harmed, healthy and alive. Then she sees her children grown up and goes to play with them in the garden, where she meets Navier, just like on the day they first met.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For all her crimes and shortcomings, she genuinely loves her children. She is excited and happy during her first pregnancy, and is devastated by the trauma of (supposedly) losing Ian and the resulting issues with being a good mother to Glorym.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Attention Whore: Despite having to hide her former slave status, she feels a constant need to put herself in the spotlight, even if it endangers her facade. She goes to Navier's part of the palace (where she is explicitly forbidden to go), claims that she is Heinrey's penpal just because she found it funny, as well as insists on showing up to official banquets, balls and parties where she is not welcomed. Her behavior eventually leads her to encountering Viscount Roteschu during a ball, resulting in him blackmailing her into paying him for not revealing her past. Navier notes that Rashta's choice of wearing simple, light-colored dresses made her stand out among the elaborate gowns of noblewomen, but later she starts listening to Ergy's deliberately misleading advice on fashion, resulting in her wearing an increasingly ostentatious and tacky wardrobe. She tries to pull the "copied dress" gambit twice, despite getting foiled both times (with the second attempt making her look even less credible), and goes against the suggestion to have her wedding dress be more simple, having it decorated with multiple accessories to the point of looking like a white Christmas tree during her wedding, witnessed in front of both domestic and foreign nobility and royalty, who begin to see her as a laughingstock.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Though she shows some cleverness, she is prone to impulsive actions that give her short-term benefits but harm her in the long run. For example, spreading malicious rumors about Nianne's son actually being her brother-in-law's - which results in her divorce - in an attempt to divert gossip about Rashta's low birth away from herself, even though there was the high penalty of lashes if discovered. Duke Tuania eventually discovers the truth and holds a grudge against her for ruining his marriage, to the point that after she tries to flee the empire after her own child turns out to not be Sovieshu's, Duke Tuania catches her and drags her back to be put on trial. Also, She borrowed large sums of money from Ergy, despite knowing he might ask for it back with interest. Even on the occasions when he gives her genuine advice, the effort required for it to work makes her decide to not heed it. And finally, hurting a bird given to Navier to create a rift between her and Sovieshu by pulling out its feathers, which Rashta hides in her pillow and forgets about. A maid accidentally discovers this, resulting in her having her tongue cut out and being imprisoned by Rashta, who is afraid of the truth getting out. Said maid is the sister of a popular commoner reporter who, suspecting Rashta’s role in her disappearance, begins to write negative articles about her, eventually causing her reputation among the commoners to fall.
  • The Paranoiac: Even before becoming empress, she is improperly paranoid of people. Out of fear of being abandoned by Sovieshu because she had a child already, she doesn't ask him for help, despite being blackmailed by her former owner, an action that results in more disastrous consequences. This paranoia later manifests as her lashing out at her maids over minor slights that she thinks could compromise her position and viewing both Evely and Lebetti as threats.
• Female Misogynist: Shows shades of this trope, despite genuinely admiring and copying everything Navier does. She definitely prefers male company due to the fact that she is used to manipulating them with her looks and fake attitude, to the point of excluding noblewomen from her parties as an empress. In the game, she's shown thinking to herself that she likes spending time with men more, since women are jealous of her beauty. When her second child turns out to be a girl, she initially wishes it was a boy, though this has more to do with Heir Club for Men issues than her own views, and she is very happy when Glorym is declared the crown princess. Ironically, every person responsible for her final fate is a man.
• Freudian Excuse: She's a former slave desperate not to go back. All she wants is to stay in a place where she's appreciated, respected and liked. Unfortunately, the place she settles on already belongs to someone else. Further, she knows just as well as anyone that she's not ready for the responsibilities of being an empress and, coupled with Sovieshu's decreasing affection for her, she's badly out of her element and unable to adapt quickly enough.
• Girl in the Tower: She ends up imprisoned in a castle tower for life.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: After being imprisoned, she loses her already precarious grip on sanity and starts hallucinating all the people she harmed before finally killing herself with poison.
• Hypocrite: She views Navier as a cruel woman once she announces her intention to marry Heinrey immediately after she divorces Sovieshu. Never mind her bird torture, ruining Navier’s reputation with her lies and Crocodile Tears for the heck of it, killing the man who helped her escape slavery in order to test an assassin’s loyalty, and cutting off a maid’s tongue and almost executes another maid’s imprisoned father just for getting on her bad side.
• I Just Want to Be You: Towards Navier, to a degree. Besides obviously wanting her position, Rashta initially follows and emulates Navier when greeting foreign guests, causing her understandable embarrassment and irritation. Later, after Ergy tells Rashta that Navier is an exemplary empress, she keeps following and imitating the latter in public, copies her ballgown, and starts taking notes on her to imitate her better. After Navier expresses frustration at this and demands her to be kept away from her, Rashta sends her servants to spy on Navier.
• Imperiled in Pregnancy: Constantly, which may explain her mental problems to a degree.
  • Her pregnancy is first discovered during a medical examination after she is stabbed by Viscount Langdel in revenge for slandering Nianne.
  • She stumbles and falls by herself when Kosair becomes livid at her for insulting Navier in front of him. Then he tries to slip Rashta abortive drugs.
  • She suffers from (apparently psychosomatic) abdominal pain when seeing Sovieshu dancing with Navier at her wedding with Heinrey.
  • A maid she abused snaps and swings a chair at her, wounding her face.
  • She eventually gives birth prematurely due to the shock she suffered after reading a newspaper article revealing she appropriated Navier's promissory notes for charity.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: For all that she’s proud of her beauty, she doesn’t seem to understand what actually attracts men to her. This is seen through her wedding dress: instead of continuing her habit of wearing beautiful but simple dresses that highlight her uncomplicated beauty, Rashta demands the most extravagant dress the wedding designer can literally come up with despite said designer's objections and then as many sparkly accessories as she can manage to wear with it. It gets so bad that Sovieshu demanded she change before the reception. While this is partly due to Ergy’s advice, Rashta genuinely believes that as the empress, she needs to wear the most expensive thing possible.
• Insane Troll Logic: Once it’s established that she’s the emperor’s new mistress, she decides the next course of action is to befriend his wife at any given opportunity without the decency to give courtesy to a woman far outranking her in the food chain. To the point of automatically thinking this makes them sisters since they’re in a relationship with the same man. Unsurprisingly, Navier spells it out that no, they’re not sisters, and no, she doesn’t want befriend her husband’s concubine.
• Irony:
  • To get attention away from her low birth, she spreads rumors about Nianne's son actually being her deceased brother-in-law's, causing her divorce. Rashta's own baby turns out to not be Sovieshu's as initially believed. In a further twist, Nianne's son was truly her ex-husband's all along.
  • Ergy hires the fallen Isqua noble family, who had lost their two daughters as infants, to act as Rashta's parents so he can hide her slave origins when she becomes an empress. It is later revealed Evely, an orphaned mage girl they berated and even slapped for disrespecting Rashta, is their biological daughter.
• It's All About Me: Only cares about herself, her children and, to some extent, Ergy. While she's not that bad at the start of the story - at this point she would honestly be satisfied to just stay a concubine - she refuses to accept that Navier is never going to like her, that she shouldn't try to compete with her, and that she shouldn't be trying to reach out first.
• Kick the Dog: She mistreats a bird given to Navier to shift the blame on her. Later, when one of her maids discovers it by accident, she has her tongue cut off and tries to have her executed. Then when another maid accidentally starts a rumor about her looking for something, she orders her father in prison executed. Sovieshu nixes the last order and chews her out over her bloodlust.
• Light Is Not Good: She has white/silver hair and mostly wears light, pastel hues, and eventually becomes morally corrupt.
• Manipulative Bitch: She consistently uses her childlike appearance and massive crocodile tears to manipulate others. It's mostly towards Sovieshu, who falls for it almost every single time, even when he knows something is wrong. Otherwise she is outmatched by everyone else, including Sovieshu sometimes.
• Misplaced Retribution: One of the things she's accused of but actually didn't do is having an affair with her former master's son. The relationship had already ended by the time she met Sovieshu and she had no idea she was pregnant. She also wasn't trying to trick anyone because she assumed it was Sovieshu's child.
• Moral Myopia: She gets paranoid and livid whenever she assumes other women are trying to woo Sovieshu and steal her position as the next empress. Never mind the glaring facts that this is exactly what she did to Navier.
• Never Learned to Read: Understandably, since she was a slave. She is taught reading and writing after arriving to the palace, but she has considerable difficulties. It is one reason she struggles when she finds herself needing to quickly learn everything needed to be a proper empress. While she is forgiven for a lot when she is still a concubine, after her marriage, she is judged much more harshly by nobles.
• Never My Fault: Constantly blames others for actions she did.
• Proud Beauty: She is absolutely convinced every man loves her just because of her looks and is used to being treated favorably due to her looks, which she employs to devastating effect. Subverted later, when, after becoming an empress, she organizes a tea party with only noblemen invited, instead of noblewomen. This move backfires on her, with nobility viewing her as crass.
• Refuge in Audacity: She often uses her facade and status of being naive and innocent person to say or do many bold things. However, not all of her actions is this as she doesnt know some things - especially in regards to high society.
  Rashta: We're sister now because we have the same husband.
  Navier: [appalled] What?
• Sanity Slippage: Her trauma from her slavery days, stress from the constant effort of covering up her past (especially the existence of her illegitimate son whom she believed had died), and pressure of having to fill the role of the new empress amid court distrust - while Navier's shadow still lingers behind - keep piling up until she becomes increasingly mentally unstable.
• Scars Are Forever: Her hands are scarred from working back when she was a slave, and later she gets another scar on her forehead after being hit with a chair.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Viscount Roteschu knew Rashta's real parents, who were genuine criminals, and it is established that the descendants of criminals are made slaves.
• Smug Snake: Many of her ploys fall flat due to her short-term thinking, but she never lets that get to her.
• Spanner in the Works: Her becoming pregnant leads to Sovieshu divorcing Navier to marry her. Navier in response sends a proposal to Heinrey to marry him. Because of her love for her country, he ends up not needing to go through part of his original plan, which would have involved declaring war on the Eastern Empire.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Both of her children have her silver hair and dark eyes.
• Tareme Eyes: Underlining her Ambiguous Innocence.
• Third-Person Person: Keeps talking like that, but she slips sometimes.
• Ungrateful Bitch: She was able to escape slavery due to her admirer Pix, who even lost an eye for doing so. After she contacts him again, he is willing to help her hire an assassin to get rid of Lebetti. Rashta, as a part of a test, has said assassin kill Pix, despite him having no intention of betraying her.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her getting pregnant leads to Sovieshu (incorrectly) confirming his belief that Navier was infertile, leading to him divorcing Navier to marry Rashta so he can legitimatize her baby, an action that leads to the Eastern Empire's reputation deteriorating. Glorym turns out to not be his child and it was Sovieshu, not Navier, with infertility issues.
• Unwitting Pawn: She is easily used by Viscount Roteschu, Ergy and, to an extent, even Sovieshu.
• Villain with Good Publicity: She initially enjoys some support from lower classes due to her low birth and seemingly fairytale love story. Nobles, however, pretty much despise her due to her low birth, slandering Nianne and driving Navier out. Rashta later loses her popularity among common folk as well with how badly she handles her duties and authority as an empress.
• White-Collar Crime: Particularly in the game, where the pregnancy plot is dropped.
• White Hair, Black Heart: She isn't completely evil, but goes off the slippery slope as the story progresses.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Keeps resorting to this whenever she feels things might not go her way.
  • After Heinrey proves that she is not his correspondent, she starts crying and telling him he is mean to her because she is a commoner.
  • During the New Year’s Ceremony, Sovieshu and Navier dance together while she asks Heinrey to dance with her, but he refuses. She turns into an “emotional wreck” over the rejection and inspires Sovieshu to leave Navier so that he’ll comfort her.
  • Copies Navier's dress for the ball and accuses her of doing it. Later she pulls the same ploy on Lebetti.
  • Attempts to pull a Party Scheduling Gambit to make it look like Navier upstaged her.
  • Accuses Kosair of pushing her to the ground while she's pregnant, despite admitting earlier she fell on her own.
• Yandere: Played With. She is quick to accuse other women of trying to seduce Sovieshu, but it is more about fear of another divorce and loss of the empress' position than actual jealousy. She reacts very badly to him being nice to her maids, and after Evely arrives at the palace, Rashta immediately assumes Evely is going to become Sovieshu's next concubine and starts plotting against her. The fact that Evely, who idolizes Navier, is very disdainful of Rashta does not help. Rashta's jealousy over Evely and then Lebetti's actual attempts to seduce Sovieshu for revenge eventually leads her to planning outright murder.

Sovieshu Vict

Sovieshu Vict

The Regretful Emperor

The emperor of the Eastern Empire. Decent and hardworking on the surface, but has the unfortunate idea to bring home a slave girl as part of a bigger plan. Navier's first husband and eventually Rashta's husband.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Everything seems to be going his way right until the moment Navier asks to remarry immediately after divorcing him. Then everything falls apart and he ends up rather pitiable, even if everything that went wrong was entirely his own fault.
  • First, he loved Navier but was dissatisfied with her cold attitude. She did love him back, just not in a way he could recognize. It's only when she's gone that he realizes how much he truly depended on her.
  • Second, by this point he had already lost most of his interest in Rashta because he actually does recognize when she's lying. His attachment to her declines even faster after this point because he realizes what she's really like and what he lost in order to get her.
  • Third, the baby he divorced Navier over turns out to not even be his: Rashta was in the very early stages of pregnancy when they met. When this is revealed he's publicly humiliated.
  • Finally, he still genuinely loves "his" daughter despite the circumstances but the situation is just incredibly untenable. Then she gets kidnapped anyway. All of these points together make it clear he deeply regrets every part of this, but too little too late.
• All for Nothing: His whole plan centered around divorcing Navier, expecting she would stay unmarried until he secured an heir by marrying Rashta so he could divorce her and remarry Navier. Which, accounting for how he ended up treating Navier prior to the divorce and never having a proper discussion about what his real plan for Rashta was, naturally doesn't work out in his favor. Furthermore, he fails to realize how much Rashta's inadequacies would affect the empire and how it would impact the public opinion in the long run. Making it worse, her baby was never his, Navier was able to have children after all, and he was the infertile one all along. After he finally explains himself to her, Navier tells him she would have never agreed to the plan anyway.
• All Take and No Give: Constantly forces and tries to get Navier to do or admit things at his and Rashta's whim - partially due to his subconscious desire to see if, and prove, that she loves him - but never even attempts to truly give her genuine support or see her side of things because he is too self-absorbed.
• Asshole Victim: When things start to backfire on him during his divorce with Navier, he tries to reach out to her but she bluntly refuses to speak to him. When she later sees instances of him breaking down or in utter sadness she can't really bring himself to feel sorry for him considering all the things he put her through.
  • Kapmen punches him for disrespecting Navier in response to his insinuation that they’re having an affair, though it temporarily caused problems for their trade negotiations. Twice, if you choose Kapmen's route in the game.
  • During Rashta’s trial, she openly humiliates him by pointing out that since both she and Navier got pregnant with other men, it means he is the one who is actually infertile. This definitely dug under his skin.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He can't stand Navier showing interest in any guy to the point where even talking to other men, mainly Heinrey and Kapmen, earns her a snide remark or quip from him. You can guess what his reaction was when she married Heinrey.
• Divorce Is Temporary: Soundly averted, despite his initial plan and his following desperate attempts to get back with Navier.
• The Dulcinea Effect: After helping one of the maids Rashta abused, he realizes he liked to be a hero for helpless women, something the powerful Navier couldn't be, and what had initially drawn him to Rashta. He eventually averts this trope after realizing how much he loves Navier and becomes less insecure.
• Easily Forgiven: He believed Navier would return to him without question once he explained that he divorced her to secure a rightful heir, even though he humiliated her while doing so. He turns out to be wrong as she refuses to forgive him for his actions against her.
• Entitled to Have You: The best way to describe how he views his relationship with Navier. As he has loved her since their childhood, and knows that he will only make Rashta his empress to legitimize her child as an heir, but plans for Navier to continue being the empress eventually, he appears to believe how he treats her prior to divorcing her won't change their remarriage after a year once the child is born. Keep in mind he has never outright told Navier he loves her and she is under the assumption their marriage is a political one only, he fails to inform her of his plans for Rashta at any point prior to divorcing Navier, and constantly calls her cold or heartless instead when she is only acting as an empress should. Before the divorce, he suggests Navier could adopt Rashta's baby despite Navier repeatedly making it clear she doesn't want to do it and wouldn't feel comfortable with it. He ignores that and proceeds with his plan, absolutely confident that Navier would go along with it and come back to him in spite of her feelings on the matter and his prior treatment of her. It's ultimately a major part in why Navier gives up on him entirely to get remarried to Heinrey.
• Fatal Flaws: Many of his personal problems contribute to him losing Navier, the slow decline of his empire, and his following descent into insanity.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: While he says the opposite, he clearly hates the mere idea of Navier taking a lover. He became jealous of Navier and Kapmen's friendship, resulting in a chain of events - arguing with Navier right in front of Kapmen over her refusal to accept Rashta's baby, resulting in Kapmen punching Sovieshu - which ruins any trade negotiations with Luipt and the Eastern Empire despite himself putting her in charge of them, causing her to further resent him for both sending away a friend and doing an action that would not be beneficial for their empire. Not to mention one of the reasons the relations with Luipt were important was because it is a magic-centered country that could have offered a solution to the Eastern Empire's declining mages problem. Similarly, Sovieshu becomes absolutely livid after her remarriage to Heinrey, to the point where he tries to prevent her from leaving the country. This results in the Western Kingdom having to issue a demand to release their ruler, straining diplomatic relations between their countries. Kapmen would later help establish trade relations for Luipt and the new Western Empire after Navier becomes their empress, giving them further standing. Meanwhile, the Eastern Empire continues to suffer because of the decline of their mages without a potential solution.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: He could be a prime example of this trope, unfortunately. His actions are driven by a desire to secure a rightful heir under the belief Navier is infertile thanks to them accidentally eating infertility drug laced cookies, which were ordered by his mother for his father's favorite concubine in their childhood. He was too scared to tell his mother about also giving them to Navier, so he was the only one to receive infertility treatment. But rather than being honest with her about this incident, he is insistent on her adopting Rashta's child and later using a convoluted plan to divorce Navier, marry Rashta and have her produce a rightful heir before remarrying Navier but he never reveals this plan to Navier while continuing to favor Rashta over her. He also never tells Navier directly that he loves her, which coupled with her being Oblivious to Love, gives her further credence to believe he is in love with Rashta and betrayed the trust and love she had for him. The irony of the situation? Navier does end up having children with Heinrey, proving that she was capable of getting pregnant all along while Sovieshu was the infertile one, rendering everything he did All for Nothing. Furthermore, Sovieshu was well aware Rashta already had a child, but fails to inform her about knowing this since he figures it is not important when he asks her if she is in trouble or blackmailed. Scared about being cast away if he knew about her son with Alan, she denies being in any trouble. This ends up causing a lot of problems down the line once she becomes his empress because she ends up not getting help with being blackmailed by her former owner.
  • Didn't Think This Through: A lot of problems would be avoided if he didn't constantly show Rashta off at numerous banquets, parties and balls before teaching her any etiquette or at least explaining the nuances of palace life to her. This causes her to constantly step on the toes of people she shouldn't be making her enemies. Even worse, after discovering that Rashta is pregnant, he starts making preparations to divorce Navier and marry Rashta to secure a legitimate heir, then divorce Rashta to remarry Navier without telling her his plans in the first place because it incorrectly proved to him that Navier truly was infertile, ignoring an aide's suggestions to wait a few more years to confirm or consider other options for heirs. Marrying Rashta causes a lot of political turmoil in the long run as she is unable to properly handle the authority of an empress. Even when it is pointed out that he should be doing more to rein her in, he ultimately brushes off any concerns because what is important to him is the baby, allowing things to get out of hand to the point of no return. He also knew who Rashta's owner was when he berated Navier for supposedly inviting him on purpose to upset Rashta, but he never considers how said former owner could blackmail Rashta with her being a runaway slave because of her lack of power. Even when he catches Rashta selling off the jewels he gifts her, he doesn't press further when she denies being in trouble. Him not doing anything about Viscount Roteschu early on results in Rashta selling off an important sea port to Ergy to pay off the loans she borrowed to buy Viscount Roteschu's silence, resulting in a scandal and international tensions. Also, before his divorce with Navier, he constantly puts Rashta's needs and feelings above hers. In the long run, he doesn't seem to care about how Rashta would feel after being used to give him an heir and then removed from the position of his empress after 2 years in favor of Navier. He also clearly didn't give any thought to how Rashta's baby would be raised, having both a biological mother and a woman who would be officially called her mother, and how both Rashta and Navier would feel about it, not to mention the public opinion. Navier later points this out to him as part of the reason she wouldn't go along with his plan.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: At multiple points, he ignores critical observations about other people. Despite claiming he knows Navier the best, it is also apparent that he doesn't fully understand how she thinks or why she acts the way she does, and rather than trying to accept this or compromise with her, he instead becomes frustrated she isn't acting in the way he wants her to. Also, he chooses Rashta as a concubine and doesn't reconsider when she shows repeatedly that she is incapable of being a proper consort, even when just about everyone else sees this. He even catches her lying several times and actually keeps Viscount Langdel's report on her smear campaign against Nianne, yet this does not make him reconsider how much having someone like that as an empress would affect his country's reputation. His obsession over Heinrey "stealing" Navier from him makes him blind to Ergy's increasingly destructive influence over Rashta, despite several warnings by others and Ergy's already ambiguous loyalties, mainly his friendship with Heinrey. This is even more glaring considering that Sovieshu had Kapmen sent away, thinking his friendship with Navier was something more, when ultimately Kapmen, while having feelings toward her, had no ulterior motives toward the Eastern Empire unlike Ergy. In contrast, Sovieshu knows Ergy helped Navier escape house arrest despite his orders because of Heinrey and yet never seems to ever question his motives until far too late.
• Heir Club for Men: Averted. After Rashta gives birth to a daughter, his advisors tell him to set her aside and try for a son. He declines and changes the law so she can inherit the throne, even calling her "Glorym" as he hopes that her reign will be glorious. While he acknowledges women are as intellectually capable as men, with his mother and Navier as prime examples, this decision is also at least partially motivated by the fact that getting Rashta pregnant with another child who might or might not be male would take at least another 2 years and he was dead set on divorcing Rashta (and possibly remarrying Navier) as soon as possible. After Glorym is revealed to not be his biological child and goes missing, he later makes Navier and Heinrey's daughter, Lari, his heir, as she and Sovieshu are distant relatives.
• Hypocrite: To extreme hair pulling levels. It's gotten to the point that Navier gets sick and tired of having to point out his hypocritical actions and standards because she knows his head is too far up himself to even acknowledge or admit his flaws. Some of the instances are:
  • He takes Rashta to be his concubine and doesn't treat Navier with any respect, but has an absolute fit anytime he even THINKS Navier, who has tried to be as civil and respectful despite what he is doing to her, might take a lover as well. In fact, he would have tried to make it impossible for Navier to get remarried after divorcing her had High Priest Vimirey not officiated their marriage.
  • He doesn't see the issue with complaining to Navier about how she doesn't treat Rashta, his mistress, fairly and how she supposedly bullies Rashta for her poor status when Sovieshu himself was mad at his father for keeping mistresses. Much later on he does bitterly acknowledge that Navier was right.
  • He sneakily gives a gift to his concubine, Rashta, under Naviers name, which stains her reputation, and doesn't consider it a problem. However, he can't fathom giving a wedding present for Navier's marriage to Heinrey as he feels it would make him look bad and hurt his pride.
  • He constantly plans and tries to get Navier to accept Rashta's baby as her own, as she is his wife, but she wants nothing to do with it. However, he himself doesn't want anything to do with Rashta's previous child from her previous lover when he himself is her current lover.
  • He tries to give Rashta, a previous commoner/slave, Navier's magic ring but gets angry and chides Navier when she hypothetically suggests to him that he give her a ring so she can give it to one of the commoner men.
  • He gets angry and criticizes Navier for remarrying to Heinrey when he was the one who initiated the divorce from Navier so he could marry Rashta and then later remarry Navier.
  • Later, when he hears false rumors about Heinrey cheating on Navier with Krista (Heinrey's sister-in-law), Sovieshu muses about comforting Navier, despite having cheated on her himself.
  • At one point, he justifies not letting Rashta see Glorym because she wouldn't be a good mother, citing the bird incident and how observing people's behaviors can reveal their true character. However, he had ignored many of Rashta's questionable behaviors while siding with her. Not to mention he immediately believed Rashta when she claimed Navier hurt the bird and only found out the truth when Rashta punished a maid over finding the feathers.
  • He berates Heinrey as a “scoundrel and womanizer” for getting engaged with Navier. This coming from the same jerk who openly cheated on his then-wife and pushed for their divorce to be with his pregnant mistress.
• Hypocrite Has a Point:
  • Although he says it for purely selfish reasons, he isn't wrong in that Navier should be careful about taking foreign lovers.
  • He’s completely right that Duke Tuania’s divorce is his own fault and problem, not Rashta’s.
• Ignored Epiphany: As he is finalizing his divorce with Navier, he realizes he is acting much like his father, who was constantly unfaithful to his hard-working mother with various concubines and gave her so much grief. This does nothing to change his mind, so he still goes through with the divorce and regrets it too late to change anything.
• Irony:
  • He was loved by Navier all along as he wanted, but his own actions trying to secure an heir and lack of communication causes him to lose it without ever realizing so. In a further twist, she doesn't realize she used to loved him until after their divorce is inevitable and she proposes to Heinrey.
  • One of the reasons he doesn't consider adopting his distant nephew as his heir was because he feared said nephew would be used by his ambitious father as a Puppet King. After his entire plan to secure an heir with his direct blood completely falls apart, the nephew rejects his offer to succeed him. In a further twist, after his mental health rapidly deteriorates to the point he can no longer govern, he ends up being a figurehead while his former father-in-law becomes the de facto ruler to keep the Eastern Empire afloat.
  • He wanted to temporarily divorce Navier because he believed that he caused her infertility. In the end, he was the one who was infertile and his throne goes to Navier's daughter with Heinrey, as she and Sovieshu are distant relatives.
  • He tells Duke Tuania off for blaming Rashta for his divorce, citing that he could have just ignored Rashta and the decision to divorce Nianne was ultimately his, which HE made. In time, this becomes Sovieshu’s own predicament regarding Rashta and his own ex-wife, Navier.
• It's All About Me: Almost every action he takes is thought of himself first, how othes people view him, and his pride. The only slight exception is his daughter which ironically turns out not to be his. Other examples of his characteristic are:
  • His fixation with Rashta is primarily and subconsciously based on her being different from Navier, in which Rashta fawns over him, as he wants what Rashta does to him to be from Navier instead. This ironically pushes Navier away from him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: To a slight extent. He's not an outright evil guy as all his actions ultimately stem from a genuine desire to start a family with Navier. Unfortunately, while he loves his daughter and tries to be kind in somes moments with Navier, it mostly falls flat because he's going about it wrong, since he doesn't realize that he is constantly emotionally abusing Navier and, if his plan does work like he wanted, will end up placing everyone in a toxic family environment due to not considering Navier and Rashta's feelings on the matter.
• Kissing Cousins: Navier's family, Trovi, is well-known for producing numerous empresses for previous emperors (at some intervals, to avoid excessive inbreeding), making them practically a part of the imperial family by birth. This, naturally, means she and Sovieshu are related to some degree. It is a reason he is able to name Lari as his heir and why Duke Trovi ends up becoming the de facto ruler once Sovieshu becomes too mentally unstable to rule.
• Lack of Empathy: A huge factor in the problems he creates with his plans for his and Navier's future is that he never looks at things from Navier or others' perspective - only from his and how it will affect him. He gets the shock of his life when Navier directly points out one of the obvious issues of trying to get her to be the stepmother of Rashta's child given Navier and Rashta's social positions in society:

Navier: I won't become the mother of a child who I've raised for my entire life only to be kicked out hearing the sounds of mother's enemy.

Sovieshu: surprised Pikachu face

• Law of Inverse Paternity: Turns out Rashta's baby is not his. Furthermore, all evidence points to him being infertile.
• Loophole Abuse: Averted. After Navier's remarriage to Heinrey, Sovieshu orders his advisors to dig through all possible papers to find a law allowing him to make her remarriage void. They come up empty handed. However, they do find a law allowing him, ironically, to annul his divorce to her, making him even more frustrated, since he needs the divorce to temporarily make Rashta his legal wife.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He comes to regret mistreating and divorcing Navier, though by this point she has long given up on him and has even fallen in love with her new husband. At the end of the story he finally comes to terms with everything and learns an important lesson for himself and how he will conduct himself in the future.

Sovieshu: Now I realise how arrogant I was. I couldn't rule your life like I ruled my country. When I asked Navier for a divorce, there was no way to get her back. I knew it, but I just couldn't let it go. I was stupid, Marquis Karl. Navier has been long gone. I’ve had my chance to not make things go as bad as it is now. Yet I chose the worst option possible for myself. But I will not despair at this fact. That would be the worst option, too. If I could never throw away these regretful feelings—no matter how much I wanted to, I'll hold it and move on. That way, I won't regret this moment in the future.

• Never My Fault: Refuses to acknowledge that the problems that arise between him, Navier, and Rashta are his fault just as much as Rashta's but instead blames it on Navier. It costs him his marriage with Navier as he never self-reflected and addressed the problems properly, in which, shortly after the divorce, he can't fathom why she "betrayed him" and won't return to him.
  • He accuses Navier of intentionally inviting Viscount Roteschu to a ball to slander Rashta even though Navier notes that 1. Viscount Roteschu was invited long before Rashta came to the palace, 2. Navier herself had no way of knowing he was Rashta's owner, and 3. beforehand, Sovieshu adamantly denied that Rashta was a fugitive slave anyway and threatened to punish anyone for just speculating about it.
  • Sovieshu even tries to pull out of the deal Rashta made with Ergy to give him control over an important sea port on the idea that she was a fraudulent empress since she used to be a slave, all while denying he was the one that put her in the position despite knowing she was unprepared for the role and having done very few actions to rein her in beforehand. Ergy immediately points this out to him.
• Operation: Jealousy: Majority of his actions, in which he gaslights and blames most of the issues that arise in regards to Rashta and their relationship on Navier, is him subconsciously trying to prove that Navier loves him and is doing it on purpose because she is jealous which will make her act more on her feelings toward him. The situation is ultimately deconstructed when Navier, rather than change her behavior to be more like Rashta or attempt to “win” Sovieshu back, concludes that he has betrayed her and begins considering an exit strategy instead. Even more, he’s not as attached to the traits (friendliness, emotional dependence and vulnerability) that he’d hoped Navier would potentially adopt as he thought he was.
• Pet the Dog: He actually takes care of Evely, one of Navier's sponsored students, even if only in an attempt to make a good impression on Navier in case she comes back to him, does rein in Rashta's mistreatment of their servants and has his knights rescue Lebetti when Rashta attempted to murder her.
• Pride: One of his flaws that costs him everything in the end. There's even a point in the beginning of the story where Navier ask him who would be a good man as a partner to which he immediately says it's himself.
• Puppet King: He eventually becomes a figurehead due to his mental issues, with his ex-father-in-law actually governing the Empire.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He believes the reason he and Navier have no children despite being married for years is because one of them is infertile due to a childhood incident when they both ate cookies laced with infertility inducing drugs. When Rashta becomes pregnant, he concludes Navier was infertile and makes plans to divorce her. He was correct about one of them being infertile, but evidence points to it being him rather than Navier.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: While he is a jerk, he is as concerned with his country as Navier is. However, he makes increasingly bad decisions due to his lack of judgement and things take a turn for the worst as he endures Navier leaving him to remarry and the consequences of Rashta's actions.
• Sanity Slippage: Losing Navier, whom he really loved, and the ensuing chain of events from Rashta's actions takes a heavy toll on him. Eventually, he begins to hallucinate seeing Rashta and Navier, one particular vision causing him to fall off a balcony. Following the accident, his personality is split into two - one that is his 19-year-old self with no memories of what has happened during the last 6 years, and his regular, messed-up self. At the end of the novel, his mental issues make him incapable of governing and although he retains his title, his former father-in-law becomes a de facto ruler to keep the empire running.
• Turn Out Like His Father: His father, Osis III, kept a parade of concubines, causing his mother, a lady-turned-empress from House Trovi, a lot of grief. As a child, he sided with his mother, only to repeat his father's mistakes when he grew up, involving not respecting Navier's feelings.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As children he and Navier ate cookies he took from his mother's room. Those cookies were poisoned with an abortive drug capable of also inducing infertility, intended for one of his father's mistresses. When his father discovered what happened, Sovieshu lied to protect his mother and indicated another concubine, Alicia, as the person who made the cookies. This resulted in Alicia being kicked out of the palace and coming to Blue Bohean, where she seduced the king's brother, Ergy's father, and sidelined his wife, Ergy's beloved mother, resulting in Ergy's grudge towards the Eastern Empire. Furthermore, Sovieshu never told Navier what happened, leaving her in the dark about her infertility problems, and takes extreme measures to resolve the issues.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When Sovieshu was younger up until his late teens he was actually charming, considerate, and a bit of a jokester compared to his adult self. This side of his is shown in flashbacks and when he suffers from memory loss and reverts back to his 19 year old self (dubbed as "Day Sovieshu"). This was why Navier actually fell for him although she didn't realize until later due to how they became distant due to Sovieshu growing more arrogant, prideful, and self-absorbed along with everything that happened with Rashta and the divorce. Navier and even "Day Sovieshu" himself lampshades in confusion and astonishment about how much of a jerk he grew up to be and how he treated Navier.
  Day Sovieshu [Chpt 413]: My future self… is an idiot. He was an idiot who didn’t even try to understand her.

Heinrey I

Heinrey Alex Laszlo

The Foreign Prince

The brother of the Western King, known for his womanizing attitude. He later becomes the king/emperor himself. Navier's second husband (and love interest).

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• Affably Evil: He is charming, polite, and clearly loves his wife and family very much. He is also a manipulative schemer who won't think twice about making a barbed comment at someone, exacting revenge against people who wronged his loved ones, or expanding his power at the cost of strangers.
• Berserk Button: Don't disrespect those he cares about or you will live to regret it.
• The Casanova: Subverted. It turns out he is quite celibate, but he cultivates this image in order to seem nonthreatening.
• The Chessmaster: His schemes go much deeper than anyone would have thought. He had been planning to invade the Eastern Empire for years and indirectly used Rashta with Ergy's help to weaken its reputation. The only reason Heinrey doesn't go through with a full invasion is because he falls in love with Navier, who would prefer her home country intact. And yet he still benefits from the chaos as their daughter Lari is named the next Crown Princess of the Eastern Empire.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: After Ergy comes to the Eastern Empire, Heinrey warns Navier to stay away from Ergy, commenting that he brings misfortune to every woman he associates with. Later Ergy tells Navier to be wary of Heinrey, who is notoriously two-faced. As it turns out, they are both absolutely right about each other.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Despite his Charmer personality, he has a tendency to get himself cornered into awkward situations whenever he tries to flirt with Navier.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Navier unknowingly names his bird form "Queen".
• Everyone Has Standards: He is a ruthless schemer, but he cared about his older brother, Wharton III, and was fully willing to follow his last request to take care of his wife Christa and allow her to stay in the capital. But when she shows obvious signs she is in love with Heinrey despite him being married to Navier, he is greatly unnerved enough by Christa's behavior and how Navier could view it to want to send Christa away. Even more so when Christa attempts to make herself his concubine.
• The Evil Prince: Played with. There are rumors he poisoned his older brother, and he is far less benign than he acts, although the rumors turn out to be false. However, he did accidentally cause Wharton's health to decline even more by trying to help him.
• Love Redeems: Deconstructed. He gives up on his invasion plans after marrying Navier. However, by the time it happens, he managed to covertly set in motion events that deal enough damage to the Eastern Empire's reputation that he is able to conquer the empire without actually waging a war, through his and Navier's daughter, Lari, inheriting the Eastern Empire's throne.
• Love Ruins the Realm: Invoked, discussed, averted, and ultimately inverted. When his cousin and aide McKenna asks him if he is going to go to war for Navier, Heinrey responds that while the war between their countries will eventually happen, his people won't love a queen who in their minds would be associated with war. With that in mind, he concocts a plan where he, exploiting rumours about the Love Triangle between himself, Rashta and Sovieshu, declares a war on the Eastern Empire "for Rashta", which would eventually fulfill three objectives: 1. give him an excuse to go to war, 2. smear Rashta's reputation and 3. get him Navier. Navier proposing to Heinrey prevents him from going through with it and he ultimately decides against actually waging war on the Eastern Empire for her sake. Things work out so well for him he's eventually able to transform his kingdom into an empire while his daughter with Navier becomes heir apparent to the Eastern Empire.
• The Man Behind the Man: Due to his older brother's ailing health, he wielded a lot more power in his country than anyone had suspected, long before he became the king. He is the one who came up with the idea of increasing the Eastern Empire's natural mana decline and had been planning the invasion while his brother was still alive.
• Mistaken for Gay: Rashta accidentally intercepts his letter to Navier and assumes it was written for Ergy, who exploits this to hide the real recipient of the letter without Rashta getting suspicious.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: He has ambitions to turn his kingdom into an empire - and succeeds.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: Into a bird.
• Would Hurt a Child: If it means advancing in his goals, he won't hesitate unless the child is important to him or his loved ones. A major case is Evely, who loses her magic for the decline he caused, but she recovered it through a necklace he secretly gifted her.

Eastern Empire

Countess Eliza

Countess Eliza

One of Navier's ladies-in-waiting in the Eastern Empire. She's one of the older ladies who serve Navier. She does not follow Navier to the Western Kingdom, but is still on good terms with her.

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• Team Mom: Crossed with Cool Big Sis. Since she's the oldest of the ladies-in-waiting, she tends to act like this towards Navier and the other ladies.

Laura

Laura Tallital

One of Navier's ladies-in-waiting from the Eastern Empire. She's younger than the other ladies-in-waiting and is prone to outbursts when emotional. She follows Navier to the Western Kingdom.

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• Genki Girl: She's quite cheerful, and is often the source of comedy due to her brash attitude.
• It's Personal: Part of the reason why she's so incensed by Sovieshu taking a concubine is because her own father is unfaithful to her mother.
• Red Oni Blue Obi: The Red Oni to Joubert's Blue Oni. She's the more passionate, enthusiastic one of the younger ladies-in-waiting while in the Eastern Empire.

Countess Joubert

Countess Jamenne Rossi Joubert

One of Navier's ladies-in-waiting. She's the calmest out of the ladies-in-waiting. She follows Navier to the Western Kingdom.

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• Awful Wedded Life: Downplayed. While her relationship with her husband isn't bad, per se, she doesn't see him that often, and so she has no problems following Navier to the Western Kingdom because of that.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Laura's Red Oni. She's the calmer, down-to-earth on of the younger ladies-in-waiting while in the Eastern Empire.

Kosair Linder Trovi

Kosair Linder Trovi

The heir to Duke Trovi and Navier's older brother.

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• Adapted Out: He gets only a passing mention in the game.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Deconstructed. He adores his younger sister; before visiting her, he goes on a shopping spree to buy her presents - not for the first or last time. Unfortunately, his attitude boils down to "hit first, ask questions later" when it comes to protecting her. He's pretty aware of how he troubled Navier, which is why he avoids her for a period when she comes to the West herself.
  • Played for Comedy. After Heinrey reveals that he is going to marry Navier, Kosair's first reaction is "[Heinrey] has good taste". Then he remembers Heinrey's The Casanova reputation and starts grilling him for his plans towards Navier.
• Blood Knight: He seems pleased at every opportunity to cross blades with someone.
• The Brute: He is not very subtle about his methods.
• The Dreaded: He has a rather unpleasant reputation in the Eastern Empire, to the point that Navier gets a This Is Gonna Suck reaction when she learns he is coming to visit her. His exile turns out to be an opportunity to turn over a new leaf and he becomes unexpectedly popular in the West.
• The Exile: He spent many years fighting bandits along the Eastern Empire's borders, where his father sent him to keep him from making trouble in the capital. He is officially banished from the Eastern Empire after attacking Viscount Roteschu, but is later invited to the West by Heinrey.
• Hot-Blooded: He is always ready for a fight.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Upon meeting Rashta for the first time, he has to be restrained from physically attacking her. Later he attempts to poison her with an abortive drug and tries to dig up as much dirt on her as possible, much to Navier's disapproval.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Kosair is a handsome, cheerful young man who has no problem torturing or beating people at the slightest provocation. This becomes quite apparent when he casually slices off Viscount Roteschu's ear while interrogating him about Rashta.
• The Scapegoat: Sovieshu uses Kosair's attack on Viscount Roteschu to pin more crimes on Kosair, some of which were actually done by Rashta, and puts them up as a pretext to divorce Navier. Kosair is aware of this and feels guilty about it which is why he initially avoids his sister once she comes to the West.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Navier is restrained, aloof and considerate, even when her personal life is at stake. Kosair is impulsive, hot-blooded and easy to take offense.
• Spit Take: He chokes on his drink when Heinrey tells him he's about to marry Navier. At this point, she is still married to Sovieshu and their divorce is not announced yet.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He and Navier look a lot alike.
• Would Hit a Girl: He is ready to beat up Rashta as soon as he sees her. Interestingly, he is far more reluctant to fight Mastas even though she wants to fight him, although it is because Navier would probably be mad at him for beating up one of her beloved ladies-in-waiting.
• Would Hurt a Child: He tries to slip Rashta an abortive drug.

Nianne Tuania

Nianne Tuania

A popular noblewoman and Navier's old friend.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: She is a redhead in the novel, but has dark brown hair in the webtoon.
• Chekhov's Gun: Viscount Langdel's report on Rashta slandering Nianne.
• Cool Big Sis: She is over a decade older and more experienced than Navier and other younger noblewomen, to whom she offers plenty of both practical and romantic advice.
• Fiery Redhead: She reacts much more overtly to Rashta's provocations than Navier.
• Foil: To Navier. They end up divorced thanks to Rashta and find love again in a younger, morally ambiguous man (though Nianne doesn't remarry), adapt to their circumstances by integrating themselves into the Western court after their divorces, and refuse to return to their ex-husbands after feeling betrayed by them not believing their innocence. Also, similarly to Sovieshu, Duke Tuania comes to regret his divorce, resents Rashta for causing it, and unsuccessfully tries to get back with his ex-wife.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Despite being in her 40s, she is considered to be the most beautiful woman in the Eastern Empire.
• Malicious Slander: She is made the target of rumors started by Rashta claiming that Nianne had an affair with her deceased brother-in-law, which resulted in the birth of her son, leading to her divorce from Duke Tuania.
• May–December Romance: She is the object of the younger Viscount Langdel's affections. It doesn't go anywhere due to her already being married, but after she's divorced they end up running away together. They don't marry, however.
• Proper Lady: She is less aloof and restrained than Navier, but still is viewed as the paragon of a court lady. In fact, Rashta causing her divorce by spreading false rumors of Nianne is one reason she gains the resentment of nobility in the Eastern Empire.
• The Social Expert: She is very skilled at charming people. She is even able to take advantage of the unsavory rumors surrounding her to get herself accepted into the Western court. When Navier is met with opposition from Christa's supporters, Nianne takes it upon herself to sway high society's opinion in favor of the new queen and accomplishes it easily.
• Uninvited to the Party: Inverted. Being Navier's friend, Nianne deliberately does not invite Rashta to her tea party. However, Ergy, as one of the invites, brings Rashta along with himself. This, of course, ends badly when Rashta makes a rather rude comment about the hostess, making an enraged Nianne declare the party over.
• Walking the Earth: Played With. She follows Viscount Langdel after his exile and her divorce for a few months, finally stopping by in the West with him when Navier marries Heinrey.

Ergy Claudia

Ergy Claudia

A duke from the island nation of Blue Bohean, and Heinrey's friend who comes to the Eastern court for mysterious reasons.

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• The Casanova: Shares this reputation with Heinrey, although Ergy's seems to be more justified.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: After he comes to the Eastern Empire, Heinrey warns Navier to stay away from Ergy, commenting that he brings misfortune to every woman he associates with. Later, Ergy tells Navier to be wary of Heinrey, who is notoriously two-faced. As it turns out, they are both absolutely right about each other.
• The Corrupter: While Rashta was never that pure, he really does his best to derail her character even more.
• Dragon with an Agenda: He acts on Heinrey's orders to some extent, but clearly has his own goals in mind.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is a scheming mole undermining the Eastern Empire, but his friendship with Heinrey seems genuine, and his main goal is getting a place where he and his ailing mother can live in peace and prosperity.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite Sovieshu's orders, he's convinced to help Navier escape house arrest after she sincerely asks him to help Rashta become a good empress so the citizens of her country won't suffer from misrule. He even jokingly complains about Navier making him feel guilty.
  • For some time there's an ongoing question about Rashta's original sales document, which would prove her to be an escaped/former slave. The document ends up with Ergy. Who, after considering the matter, decides to hide it instead. As he notes, while he's trying to ruin Rashta, it's not fair to do so over something she had no control over, especially since she was the victim. Though it helps that he was pretty sure she'd destroy herself anyway.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he does not have Rashta's best interests in mind, he gives her a mix of both good and bad advice about politics and high society, but since his helpful and astute advice usually requires more work and effort from her, she quickly drops it.
• Loan Shark: He initially lets Rashta borrow a lot of money from him without batting an eye. Once she becomes empress, he demands it back with interest by asking her for a strategically located sea port.
• Manipulative Bastard: The most prominent example in the series.
• Pet the Dog: He chooses his friendship with Heinrey over Sovieshu's favour by helping Navier escape from the house arrest Sovieshu imposed to keep her from leaving the Eastern Empire.
• Revenge by Proxy: He projects his unfaithful father and Wicked Stepmother onto Sovieshu and Rashta. Ergy pretty much says so to his mother. Interestingly, his resentment toward Sovieshu is more direct than it appears because it was he who made Alicia the scapegoat to cover up his mother's attempt to poison one of the concubines, which banished her from the palace and lead her to seduce Ergy's father.
• Troll:
  • He almost reveals Heinrey's plan to Navier quite early on, but their conversation is interrupted by Sovieshu.
  • Part of the reason he lies to Sovieshu about Glorym being really his child, although he mostly does it for distraction purposes while he makes his escape.
• Villain Has a Point: When Sovieshu tries to break off the deal Rashta made him to give him control over an important sea port because she was a slave and thus a fraudulent empress, he is quick to point out that Sovieshu was the one that made her an empress despite knowing this.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Pulls this on Rashta after she is sentenced to lifetime imprisonment.

Western Kingdom/Empire

McKenna

Lord McKenna

Heinrey's cousin and aide. He can also transform into a bird like Heinrey, and acts as a messenger bird when Heinrey cannot.

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• Beleaguered Assistant: McKenna often gets saddled with paper work and logistics by Heinrey, much to his displeasure. Navier coming to the Western Empire actually helps to reduce his overall workload, which makes him further appreciative of her.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: They tease and bicker frequently, but they are best friends who have known each other since they were little.

Lady Krista

Former Queen Krista

The former queen of the Western Kingdom, and the wife of the previous king, Heinrey's brother, Walton III. She remained in the palace even after her husband's death.

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• Attempted Homewrecker: Krista was in love with Heinrey since before her marriage to his brother, Walton III, but had to marry the latter because of her family. After the former king's death, Krista remains in the palace and continues her duties, even after Navier arrives and establishes herself as the true ruler; partly because her family doesn't want to let go of their former power, but also because Krista is still in love with Heinrey. It gets to the point where she spikes his drink with a love potion and then tries to blackmail him into making her his mistress, which goes exactly as one would expect. She ends up banished from the palace and then "kills herself" when she believes her father won't save her.
• Hopeless Suitor: She'd been in love with Heinrey even before she got married to his brother, but Heinrey was disinterested in her and ends up falling in love with Navier, marrying her instead. Heinrey is rather unnerved about Krista's feelings toward him once he learns this fact and doesn't take her trying to be his mistress kindly.

Rose

Lady Rose Quevel

The sister of Yumin Quevel, the Captain of the Western Kingdom's royal guard. She's asked by Heinrey to become Navier's temporary lady-in-waiting while the rest of her ladies-in-waiting arrive from the Eastern Empire.

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• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Mastas's Red Oni. She's the calmer, more experienced of the two ladies-in-waiting Navier gains after coming to the Western Kingdom.

Mastas

Mastas Violet

The sister of Aprin Violet, an appointed knight who's acquainted with Kosair. She becomes one of Navier's ladies-in-waiting while the rest of her ladies-in-waiting arrive from the Eastern Empire.

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• Blood Knight: She's very eager to fight Kosair to prove her strength and hone her abilities.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Rose's Blue Oni. She's the wilder, less experienced of the two ladies-in-waiting Navier gains after coming to the Western Kingdom.

Others

Grand Duke Kapmen

Grand Duke Kapmen:

A foreign dignitary and a powerful magician from the Kingdom of Luipt. He and Navier have a working relationship.

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• Brutal Honesty: He is not particularly diplomatic in his approach.
• Cassandra Truth: Before leaving for his country, he impulsively asks Navier to come with him, asking her what is she going to do if Sovieshu decides to divorce her. She declines the offer, declaring Sovieshu would never do that. She bitterly remembers Kapmen's words when she later realizes that Sovieshu really intends to proceed with divorce.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Whoo boy, does he get hit with this.
  • He nearly gets into a fight with Heinrey just because he was walking with Navier in the gardens.
  • He does get in a fight with Sovieshu over the latter insisting that Navier should adopt his bastard(s), leading to a minor international incident ending trade talks.
  • Finally, he basically roofies Heinrey after the wedding with a love potion to keep him away from Navier.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In a moment of pity, he gifted Navier with a Love Potion to use on Sovieshu. Kapmen never expected her to come back and ask about it. However, to show her the effects, he drank it himself, resulting in his strong infatuation with her. After his usually effective Magic Antidote didn't work, he realizes that the potion actually brought to surface feelings he already had for her.
• Love Potion: He makes one clearly labeled in a bottle for Navier's birthday.
• Love Redeems: In the game he is revealed to be the one behind the disappearing magic, but he returns it all to be with Navier if you choose his route.
• Magic Antidote: Subverted. His antidote fails. Note that it was already tested and proven effective against the aforementioned Love Potion. It failed on him for other reasons.
• Marriage of Convenience: In the novel, Princess Charlotte of Whitemond wants to marry Kosair, who is involved with Mastas. To spare Kosair from the political implications of rejecting a princess for a minor noblewoman, Kapmen, while still in love with Navier, marries Charlotte instead. While Charlotte eventually falls in love with Kapmen, we never learn if he lets go of Navier.
• Replacement Goldfish: In the novel, he marries Princess Charlotte, a woman who looks a lot like Navier.
• Shock and Awe: He specializes in electric magic.
• Telepathy: He can read people's minds and usually responds to questions before they are even asked. In fact, he isn't fooled by Rashta's act because he can clearly see what kind of person she really is.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: It is implied he never gets over his feelings for Navier.
• Walking the Earth: He and Navier give up their noble status and travel the world if you choose to marry him in the game.