#for those of you who noticed the create date of hana’s account yes this retweet of the trend article is indeed her first ever tweet

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HLAW: Day 7—What If/Duchess Hana

I hope everyone had a fantastic Hana Lee Appreciation Week! There’s still so much wonderful content that I personally have to reblog, but I wanted to share what I’d made for day 7 in regard to my HC for Duchess Hana. Maybe one day I’ll write the entire interview as well!

Tagging @hanaleeappreciationweek, and a big thank you to the hosts @lizzybeth1986 and @sazanes for leading such a wonderful event!

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The Rise of Her Grace Hana Lee, The Duchess of Chrysopolis

By Ana de Luca

Photographed by Donnie Brine

January 1st, 2019

The Duchy of Chrysopolis has a storied history. Named after “The Gilded City,” it was founded in 1707 CE by Aurelia’s successor state Ladonia following The Pontian War to watch over the kingdom’s new territory in the lowlands, which had been divided into ten regalities and split in half between their kingdom and the Kingdom of Cordonia (who themself founded Duchy Gáza).

Nearly half a century later, the Ruby Rush led Ladonia to cede the majority of their land to the larger forces of Cordonia, Drakovia, and Auvernal. Chrysopolis was sold to Cordonia, but its regalities went to Drakovia under the purview of their duchy Dikhforos. However, it and the territories would too fall under Cordonia’s rule at the start of the 19th century during Queen Constantina’s March.

As a result, all ten regalities became baronies of the northern dukedoms Chrysopolis, Gáza, and Dikhforos. Though the first bid for full independence failed, in 1855 CE the Lowland Rebellion succeeded in reinstating their status as regalities. For assisting in this rebellion, Gáza’s noble house was stripped of their rank, and thus all three dukedoms became held directly by the crown.

Though they had regained much of their independence, the regalities had lost their major political supporters within the monarchy’s court. With a predominantly Maurus populace, they were the central victims of a rising wave of racist sentiments resulting from misdirected blame regarding the 1973 oil crisis, and their civil rights protests against this initially did not gain much traction.

However, that changed when Duchy Chrysopolis was given to Eleanor Shen upon her engagement to the late King Constantine. The People’s Queen, she was a prominent supporter of the Mauri Rights Movement and helped to establish the Ministry for Minority Affairs in 1999. Through her, the regalities acquired a voice that was heard amidst the court once more.

Unfortunately, Queen Eleanor was assassinated the following year on November 10th at the turn of the century. Her death remains one of the bleakest moments in Cordonian modern history, and the people of the lowlands lost hope in gaining the support of the monarchy. But Chrysopolis’s newest duchess Hana Lee, daughter of a regality herself and royal councillor, intends to change that.

Notes:

The Kingdom of Cordonia is located on the island of Pontios, which I place south of the Peloponnese and west of Crete. The map below drawn by @cassiopeiacorvus (with some additional edits by me) is based off of one of my original and very poor edits using PB’s map of the Five Kingdoms.

The emojis on the map represent the original ten regalities of the lowlands through their sigils: Antirrhinum (flower), Kallistine (bear), Kham (grapes), Tychæon (clover), Montu (goat), Areiona (horse), Errol (hawk), Samsara (snake), Talanton (boar), and Perseis (shark). In 1968, Errol was absorbed into Duchy Domvallier when its noble house was found in violation of a new law, and thus in the present timeline there are only nine regalities.

Queen Constantina the Conqueror was the first Christian monarch of Cordonia, and during her 50-year rule in the first half of the 1800s, she sought to unite the entire island of Pontios under her reign. Her efforts led the kingdom to double in size, and she is both Constantine’s namesake and the founder of the royal House Reese.

I made up the Pontian term maurós (pl. mauri, adj. maurus) to mean a person of non-European descent, based on the real exonym Moor and its usage in European history. Since Cordonia’s canon suggests the country has been a kaleidoscope of ethnicities since its inception, unlike other European countries, my version of Cordonia demographically is nearly 50% Maurus.

The tweet can also be considered part of “The Royal Insta” series, the set of social media posts I’ve created specific for my TRR AU. I used Hana’s alternative FC Kaitlin Marianelli (credit to @lizzybeth1986) for the article’s photo, and as a bonus to mark the end of HLAW, check out Hana’s Twitter bio below!