Sofiya Theodosiya of Reza

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Princess of Hanseti-Ruska
Sofiya Theodosiya Barbanov

'A Crow's Chirp', by Diane Renee Anion-Marna.

Grand Princess of Muldav
Tenure: 1729-1741
Predecessor: Aleksandra I

Born: 11th of The Deep Cold, 1706, Reza, Haense
Died: Alive.
Spouse: Kazimar, Red Prince of Muldav (m. 1729-1741)
House: Barbanov
Father: Marius II of Haense
Mother: Valera of Adria

Princess Sofiya Theodosiya (11th of The Deep Cold, 1706- Present), otherwise monikered as Sofiya of Reza, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska and member of the royal house of Barbanov. Sofiya was born as the second daughter of King Marius II and his first wife, the late Valera Varoche. The princess also served as the chamberlain of Hanseti-Ruska, appointed under the Royal Council of Queen-Consort Milena Ekaterina.

Biography

Early years in Haense

On the 11th of the Deep Cold in the year 1706, Princess Sofiya Theodosiya of Haense was born the second daughter of Grand Prince Marius of Kusoraev, future King of Haense, and his first wife, Valera of Adria, who died delivering the heir to Haense, shortly before the boy himself succumbed to death. Valera's death as well as the post-humous discovery of her incestuous Horenic lineage in the Varoche Scandal was remembered in Haense for causing a period of dread in the palace.

This dread perpetuated in Sofiya and her elder sister Mariya throughout their childhood. They grew to become spiteful as a result of their mother's death and father's disattachment due to grief. The two sisters developed a tumultuous relationship, Mariya being brash while Sofiya was timid yet pompous. Sofiya, from the age of 5, began to enclose herself in the tallest tower of the Prikaz, not allowing others to see the weakness of her tears, something she'd frequently been scolded about by the venomous Aleksandra Ruthern, then Chamberlain of the palace. Aleksandra disallowed servants from entering Sofiya's room for fear of reconciling her tantrums of anger and sadness, one recounting that "the poor princess can heal with love, but our chamberlain is right to attempt to strengthen her heart for the future." However, the stone face of the haeseni only betrayed Sofiya in her youth, pushing her away from normality by disallowing her the comfort of love.

Sofiya, aged 3, in vestal robes.

Departure to Aeldin

The last straw was pulled when Sofiya, aged 10, witnessed her father burn down the entire city of Ves and it's occupants beside Emperor Antonius. She'd seen the ashes of a city hundreds of miles away floating in whisps around her bedroom window, and declared that she'd no longer bear the grief that her family pressed onto her, planning her departure for the continent of Aeldin. Without so much as a goodbye to her half-siblings, step-mother, father, or even her sister, Sofiya boarded her father's royal ship, The Ingrid, and sailed to the court of the aeldinic Kingdom of Banardia.

Return and marriage

After her half-brother (the new King of Haense)'s wedding became known to the land across the sea, Sofiya set sail to return to Haense at the peak of her 19th year. The Haeseni princess resided in Aeldin from pre-pubescence to young adulthood, becoming adapted to Banardian decorum excepting a subtly haeseni pattern of speech. Her shyness had since faded in order to survive the competitive nature of the Banardian court, yet her imperious and rotten attitude persisted regardless of any attained charisma.

Upon arriving, she was immediately greeted by her new sister-in-law, Milena Ekaterina, with whom she bonded with quickly due to their "foreign" upbringing. An incident occured after Sofiya attended her first court session, in which she reprimanded a rude girl to no avail, only to later find out that she was the youngest daughter of the now deceased Aleksandra Ruthern, whom Sofiya had since grown to despise. She then met Aleksandra's son, Vladrick, and confronted him about his sister and horrible mother, only to be threatened with death, something she made light of by returning his anger with jokes. Through their mutual humor, they’d amend their hateful relation, which would lead Vladrick to introduce Sofiya to his older brother, Kazimar, the Grand Prince of Muldav.

Sofiya and Kazimar hit it off quite well initially, perhaps due to his desperation in seeking a wife: a result of various failed betrothals, as well as his curation of a scandalous bastard daughter, whose mother had died not long after her birth. Kazimar would request Sofiya’s hand in marriage shortly after they met, issuing the matter of their marriage to her brother, King Andrik. He accepted, pleased to have his sister potentially marry a vassal of his own. Kazimar, wary of the existence of his bastard, waited to present her to Sofiya, but on the girl’s 5th birthday they both travelled to where the girl’s mother had been living before her death, a bleak desert nation by the name of Thyra. Sofiya was unamused at the surroundings, but was happy to usher the young girl away from an unhappy life, as she knew she couldn’t bear to see another girl suffer the same fate she did in her youth.

They were married on the 14th of Sun's Smile, 1729. It was suspected by many that the reason for their hurried wedding ceremony was that Sofiya had become pregnant out of wedlock, though none could be too sure on the validity of the rumors.

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Marriage	Notes
Princess Maya Valeriya	13th of Sun's Smile, 1730	Alive	Unwed	Firstborn child of Sofiya and Kazimar.
Princess Karina Sofiya	10th of Sun's Smile, 1732	Alive	Unwed	Secondborn child of Sofiya and Kazimar.
Prince Dimitri Stanimar	10th of Sun's Smile, 1732	Alive	Unwed	Thirdborn child of Sofiya and Kazimar. Heir to Muldav.