Queen Camille Auredel

Pre-Monarchy
Born in 3E44, Camille is the first child of King Cyrus and was only 19 years old when he died. As an infant, her grandmother, Queen Kanekh would take her into the manicured gardens of the Royal Palace. Camille looked up to her grandmother, and continued to cultivate her love for living things, as well as keeping a down to earth position with the people. She also inherited her father's sense of wanting to leave her own mark. She spent her time with her grandmother, learning the value of a plan. She had a love for her people and an ambition to improve the lives of Adenian citizens through innovation.

Coronation and her Early Years
Queen Camille Auredel was crowned in 3E63 at the age of 19, following her father's untimely death. The people did not receive her warmly, and she knew that, but she was determined to prove them wrong. Her adviser suggested solving the people's problems, making their life better. By her 20th birthday that winter, she knew what she would do. Camille had planned to tackle the water problem. Adenia was experiencing a severe drought throughout the expanses of the nation; it was especially felt in Biscay and Arenthia, Aden was spared because of the reservoir created at fourfalls. She brought before the council a two phase plan. Phase one was to build pumps and wells to access the water table under Aden and then to use it to supply the city's main districts. The second phase was to lay pipes from the city to Arenthia and Biscay with more pumps specifically to send water their way. The waterworks (as it was called) was completed entirely by 3E65. Queen Camille never settled down, always pouring over her grandmother's plans, trying to figure out what she can do next.

Flooding Elista Valley
The valley south of Aden, just over the crest of a steep hill, was where the district of Elista lie. Because of the recent droughts, the valley had become a very dry with constant dust storms. Queen Camille devised an almost insane idea to mitigate the problem: she would flood the valley. The palace built all the residents of Elista homes on temporary stilts and moved everyone into their new homes.

After that, some levees and dams constructed around the parts of the valley to help settle the water and control flow. When all the construction was finished, they diverted the auxiliary pump into a tank on the top of the hills surrounding Elista valley. When the time was right, they released a little at a time to gradually fill the basin and raise the water level so what once was a valley, is now a bay. All of the stilt homes were then connected to each other by a grid network of stone walkways so the homes were not disconnected from the city.

Since the flood, the community value has increased drastically to the point of it becoming a popular tourist destination. It developed a unique culture of canal travel and sea-faring that was integrated but separate from that of Aden City. Queen Camille was praised wildly for how much better the valley was following her intervention. Shortly after everything was settled in, she opted to build a palatial manor along-side the bay for the royal family and officials to use for vacation.

Palace Renovations
Camille became concerned with visiting dignitaries and how they viewed the palace. Though it was great and a marvel to behold, she felt that it could be better. The first thing they did was clean up the river and its banks as it flowed through the middle of the palace. After cleaning it, the bottom was dredged out and surfaced with pristine white tiles. The sides of the banks lined with Quays made of white granite from the surrounding hills. Trees were planted throughout the grounds and various other efforts to beautify the buildings. The royals spent around 10 years working on the beautification of Aden Palace. Their goal was for it to be something for dignitaries to rave about when they return to their lands.

Final years as Queen
After the palace was renovated, Queen Camille spent many years working directly with the people. Holding court to hear citizen's concerns and addressing them one at a time. She spent around four years holding court in this way. As a result, the people had a confidence in their power to effect changes and in the monarchy's rule. As she saw these changes she realized they were not having lasting effects, one problem would be solved but others sprout up. In order to fix these, she decided she needed to focus on an area and work on benefiting it as a whole. She believed that a Queen needed a broader focus than what she desired, so in 3E98 at the age of 53, she stepped down from power and handed it to her sister Oriana. This decision was highly protested but Camille had bigger plans for her people.

Former Queen Camille
Once she was free of her coronal duties, she moved out of the palace and into the sea-side manor next to Elista. From there she did her work throughout the Trinity City Region, traveling between Biscay, Arenthia, and Aden. As she traveled she kept being pulled to Biscay. She always loved visiting the city because of its unique charm. She moved to Biscay in the year 112 in order to nurture it. The first thing she did was expand the city. She built onto the western portion of the city all the way to the river. The are was then walled in. After that, she did not like how the land was really low and would flood easily so she raised the lands up and graded it so it was flat. From there they put down column, replanted grass, and built large homes. Next to the river, a large port was constructed that controlled a choke point on the Cephesus river. After she was done, the city was then referred to in one of two parts: Old Biscay or New Biscay. At the entrance to New Biscay, the city built a mansion for Camille to live in. This was to become the governors mansion later.

Final Years and Death
In her last years, Former Queen Camille spent her time working in the city and writing entire libraries of stories about the city, the river, the old temple, and the hills around Biscay. It was in 3E135 that while napping at her desk, she died peacefully in her sleep. She was interred within her own mausoleum, in the heart of Aden Palace. Her legacy would regale her as Camille the Great, alongside her father Cyrus the Great and grandmother Kanekh the Great. She is remembered as the Queen who revitalized Elista, established a human connection between the monarchy and the people, and finally as the mother of Biscay. Few monarchs will ever leave a legacy like she did.