Grande Almunda Oquendo de Sandoval Aldana. The Queen. Her entrance silenced the Cardenal's birthday ball; her husband is dead, her son is in a prison without walls, and her response has been to run a conspiracy of a dozen people with the unhurried patience of a woman who has buried everything except her purpose.
Her method never varies: she lets an argument run until her daughter arrives at the correct conclusion, then confirms it. When Amanda called Axel a liability to be abandoned, the Queen's ruling stood everyone down:
In these situations we take what allies we can find. We don't get to choose.
Her objectives, in order, are the campaign's spine: find the King. Free the King. Protect the King. She has also ruled it folly to ignore the wisdom of dwarves, a judgment Kodai accepted with a bow as no more than his due.