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| succession = Queen of All [[Tavaris]] <br /> High Chief of the Tribes of [[Rodoka]] <br> Chief of Line Nuvo
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| reign = 18 March 1640 - 9 November
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| successor = King Kanor III
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| spouse = Chief Vandri of Nevran (m.
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| mother = Queen Žarana
| birth_date = 7 January 1617
| birth_place = [[Nuvrenon]], [[Tavaris]]
| death_date = 9 November
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'''Queen Melora II of Tavaris''' (Melora Nuvo Navandri ''née'' Vetra; b. January 7th, 1617 CE, d. November 9th,
In the style of the era in which Tavari monarchs listed titles from lowest to highest significance, her full title as queen was “''Her
==Early Life==
Melora was the first child born to King
As a child, Melora was often called “brash,” “stubborn,” “obstinate,” and “insistent” in the notes of her royal tutors. She was known from a young age as someone who, in the words of her father in 1623, “insists always on taking her own course of action, refusing any outside attempt to cause her to take some other action, unless suitably convinced according to her own standards or physically prevented.” While in 1623 the King noted “the former was far, far rarer than the latter,” he is known to have remarked in private later in life that he had become very proud of how his daughter had matured and had learned to better heed the expertise of others.
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==Reign==
King
===Third War period===
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The [[History of Tavari-Banian Relations#Third War|Third War with Bana]] began in 1645, five years after Melora ascended the throne. [[Bana]] invaded King’s Island, the island on which the Tavari capital of Nuvrenon sits, in the first ever land invasion of Tavaris by the Banians. The Banians blamed Tavari spies for spreading a plague that was currently ravaging their country, primarily because an outbreak of that same illness had struck in Tavaris just 4 years earlier. Melora famously refused to temporarily relocate the Silver Court away from Nuvrenon, no matter how much of King’s Island the Banians took. “I shall not move a tanai and neither shall my court, no matter how close to our walls the Banians are, and if they breach them, then we shall fight them to the last woman and last man, and I intend to be the last woman,” Melora is recorded as having said in a meeting of the Council of State in 1645.
There were three failed attempts by the Tavari to expel the land invaders by force. The Tavari Army was able, though, to rebuff Banian attempts to invade the city of East Harbor, and eventually a Tavari Navy blockade was able to starve out the Banians on King’s Island, who surrendered in 1651. A period of extended economic prosperity followed the war, especially in Rodoka, where Queen Melora directed a significant amount of resources for development. In 1655, she invested
===Emerald Coast and the Fourth War===
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Bana launched the Fourth War in 1670. The Raonites would rally as many soldiers as they could muster and join the war in 1676. Tavaris had not yet restored its military capacity to pre-Third War levels, and was caught off guard by the attack. Additionally, the Tavari Navy was spread thin across Tavari holdings from [[Metrati Anar]] to the [[Tavari East Pacific Isles]]. Bana focused almost the entirety of their assault on the eastern coast of the island of Avnatra (the island comprising the largest portion of Tavaris) and when the Raonites attacked the mainland Gondwana front in 1676, the Tavari could not maintain both lines and were overtaken on Avnatra. The city of East Harbor was burned to the ground in 1677, leaving more than 60,000 people dead. From there, the Banians only bolstered their hold in eastern Avnatra, seizing several other major cities in the area, such as Lansai.
In response to these events, the single greatest military defeat ever suffered by Tavaris, Queen Melora declared a national emergency and ordered a “national impressment” of every single able-bodied adult in the country, regardless of gender, into the Royal Tavari Armed Forces. While for most people this meant mandatory service in local militias to defend from Banian attack, or in some cases as a laborer in rebuilding efforts, several thousand Tavari were drafted from the general citizenry to the front lines of the war. This had never before been done in Tavari history, not even during the 15th century Raonite invasion, but there was no coordinated public opposition to the move, and those few people who did refuse to serve were imprisoned and, in some cases, exiled to [[
The Tavari expelled the Banians from Avnatra in 1680 and immediately turned their focus to Emerald Coast. The Raonites immediately surrendered, unable to match the full brunt of Tavari forces, and so the Tavari turned to Bana. In 1683, Bana surrendered after the Tavari invasion of the city of Bana, which was by far the wealthiest city in the country. Despite having dominated Tavaris for most of the war, Bana was decimated and bankrupt by the end. Bana was forced to pay reparations to Tavaris and could therefore not afford to restore their military capacity. Tavaris’ victory in the Fourth War assured Tavari supremacy over Bana and Ni-Rao, and it was credited in large part to Queen Melora herself.
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After the war, Queen Melora enjoyed incredibly high popularity, which she retained until her death. In recognition of her efforts to defend the country, and in particular the Akronist settlers in Emerald Coast, as well as her financial cooperation with their colonization project, the [[Akronism|Church of Akrona]] awarded the title “Defender of the Faith,” a title adapted from Auroran monarchical traditions, to Queen Melora. It was the first time they had ever acknowledged the Tavari monarch in such a way, and the granting of the title is usually called the “turning point” in Akronist-Traditionalist Tavari relations from a relationship of hostility to one that was more tolerant.
Queen Melora guided the country through the economic bubble created by the wartime industry and then its collapse, and was able to kickstart the Tavari economy by working with [[Alksearia]] to invest in Tavari colonial efforts in Arcturia and selling some Pacific island holdings to [[Salovia|Salovia]]. She also personally financed early ventures in [[Union of Free Cities|Ilarís]].
All her life since her first visit in 1630, Melora had desperately wished but never managed to travel to Rodoka, the island over which she was High Chief for 62 years, due to staunch protests from her advisors who feared for her security at sea in an era of high tensions with Bana, and then later who objected on the basis of her age. Even in her last year, as she struggled to be able to hold a quill to write her personal diary, she wrote of a wish to see Rodoka "one last time with living eyes." She never got her wish, but in recognition of it, Melora was interred under the largest public square in the city of Lantaž on Rodoka, which was renamed Queen Melora Square in her honor. She is the only Tavari monarch buried somewhere other than the Royal Catacombs in [[Nuvrenon]].
==Family and Issue==
Queen Melora married Vandri Nevran Totova, who was Chief of Line Nevran, in
Vandri Nevran Totova was the brother of Tažran Nevran Totova, who succeeded him as Chief of
Issue:
* Kanor Nuvo Navandri (
* Avandra Nuvo Dezara ''née'' Navandri (1641-
*
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