Queen Boadicea

"'I was whipped by the Romans when they tried to take our lands — hence why we are fighting. We fight not for we are mad, but for our freedom. Our freedom. Think of how many of us are fighting and why. We must win this battle or or lose grasp of freedom. We can either live in fear or die free. Let the men live as slaves if they want. But I will not. We will not. Not after what they have done to our king and my daughters.'"

"- Boadicea speaking to her fellows during the revolt against the Roman Empire"



Queen Boadicea, also known as Boudicca or (erroneously) Boudica, known in Welsh as Buddug, and referred to by the Eldaernth as the legendary Warrior Queen, is a Shena Anorian human of disputably royal or noble Celtic origin. She is both the queen of the Felfathaer tribe and the spare British Iceni tribe, a Celtic tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire under her leadership in AD 61 (Earth time).

Boadicea is the widow of Prasutagus, who was king of the tribe. When Prasutagus came to pass, his will was unfortunately ignored by the Romans and the kingdom was annexed. Boadicea was flogged, her daughters were raped, and Roman financiers called in their loans. This mistreatment incited Boadicea to rebel against the Roman Empire.

Although largely outnumbered, the Romans eventually won the war with the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and his legions, which then forced Boadicea to escape into hiding along with her daughters and the remaining Iceni, intent on taking on the Romans again.

However, upon her retreat, she encountered by chance a mysterious stone structure, which magically whisked Boadicea and her tribe to the mountainous outskirts of Meledall. Although astounded by the new environment, Boadicea and the few Iceni quickly adapted to the new world and made relations with the nearby Eldaernth, who offered the Humans fragments of the Everstone. She later became queen of the Felfathaer tribe.

Back on Shena Anoria, the Celtics and the Romans believed her dead after endless speculations of her whereabouts.