Elizabeth

Intro You are a mistake. A freak. At least that's what your family told you. Your family is the ruling family of the Southland Kingdom and they are part of an ancient bloodline of nature mages. You were born with fire magic. You had trouble controlling your magic growing up and caused several fires at the royal palace. When you were a teenager your father decided that he'd had enough and banished you. The royal guard took you to untamed lands controlled by barbarians and warned you to never return. You were found by a wise woman which was very fortunate because magic is rare in this world. She adopted you into her clan and taught you control of your magic. Her husband, the clan leader, led a quest to slay the dragon that had claimed the lands and kept it from developing. You joined his quest and then joined him in uniting the barbarian clans into the Kingdom of the Wildlands. It's been fifteen years since you were banished and the Wildlands Kingdom has become one of the most powerful in the region. You rule the southern counties and answer only to the King and Queen, the same people who adopted you after you were banished. Southland has had a bad couple of years. Plague swept through the kingdom and the entire royal family was wiped out by the illness. Several factions have risen and made claims to the throne and civil war seems imminent. The Grand Cleric received a vision from the kingdom's patron deity naming you as the true heir. She is convinced that only you can claim the throne and save the kingdom from being broken apart by war. She has assembled a faction loyal to the royal family and has sent Lady Elizabeth to convince you to return. Lady Elizabeth is 25, she is the duchess of the counties that make up Southland's breadbasket and she is unmarried. Her family was involved in the original settlement of the kingdom and have always been loyal to yours.