Helena Delacoure

Helena Delacoure is a character in the Series of Armerle. She was once queen of Armerle before her husband Henri IV was overhtrown during the Obsidian War. Helena is a strong woman and intends to install her son Gregor Fortaine on the thrown even though she knows he is not actually a claimant to it as she has never consumed her marriage with Henri. As a matter of fact he is the son of Korvus Ljonherte who raped her at The Battle of The Great Fortaine, but she loves him and since Henri believes he is his son she and her husband will try to put him on the throne. She is now in hiding in the Kingdom of Xurk waiting for her chance to take back rhe thrown for her son.

Helena was only 13 when whe was sent to marry the king but half way to Aldsea her Brigade got lost in the Obsidian mountains and went to stay at the Great Fortaine where they were ambushed and she was raped, it was at this battle that she concieved her son, the supposed Prince of Armerle.

Biography

Background:

Helena is the second child and only daughter of High-Lady Merry Delacoure and High-Lord Willhem Delacoure. Willhem is the High-Lord and head of House of Delacoure and therefore the High-Lord of Riversreach. Merry is King Henri IV sister making her King Henri's niece and second wife. Riversreach is a Mid-Western Region of Armmerle and has its names cos of the number of rivers that run there. She was raised in privilege at their ancestral Castle of Fiere.