Jennet

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"You are both risking everything that I've strived to keep contained since your births! Have you forgotten our law? Keep your petty rivalry down, or you'll both be branded as impostors and traitors to your own throne!"

High Queen Jennet of the Kingdom of Caynea, the wife of the previous generation's King Harvill, is the mother of the twin Bermands, and the instigator of the Transfers. She has lived for far longer than the average Caynean woman usually does. Nobody really knows why...yet. That is, nobody who actually knows that Jennet is still alive, knows why she is still alive.

While Jennet raised the Bermands under King Harvill's nose, the Transfers managed to be kept secret until Harvill's death, at which point Bermand was crowned King of Caynea at the age of 19. While Bermand was King, Jennet's title became High Queen, which despite the grandiose nature of the name, was really more of a formality, as she no longer held power over the kingdom in her position. However, she remained an advisor to King Bermand. When Bermand married Princess Aliana and quickly had a daughter, Jennet was already nearing her life's limit at the time Aliana was to give birth. At this time, she was contacted by a demon from Caynea's past: the ice demon Kasiell, who was famously defeated by Gregor Caynea some centuries ago.

Kasiell spoke to Jennet's mind through his disembodied spirit, and offered Jennet a bargain: while she is not long for the world, she could be given extra lease on her life in exchange for Aliana's. Jennet already intended to kill Aliana to preserve the secret of her Transfers, so she accepted the bargain and poisoned her during labor. Kasiell upheld his half of the bargain by inhabiting Jennet's body, which effectively "froze" her in time; she no longer aged, but her will was no longer her own. Officially, High Queen Jennet was said to have died of grief following this incident, but she actually shuffled herself into the shadows as a secret advisor to the Bermands while continuing to coordinate the Transfers well into Princess Lynia's teenage years, until Lynia inadvertently discovered one of the Transfer meetings while out for a midnight stroll across the palace.

While Bermand's ambitions of defeating the nomads of Riga are genuinely his own, Jennet takes over the military might of Caynea after the campaign ends in success and intends to march on Lestalia. When her secret is revealed, Kasiell discards Jennet's body, causing it to rapidly age itself to "catch up" - essentially killing Jennet and decaying her body to dust within seconds.

"The man without shadow promises you the world. Tell him your dreams and fanatical needs. He is buying them all...with cash."

Propaganda - Das Testaments Des Mabuse