Side Story 55: Da Capo—Repeat From the Beginning.
Dravlia Kongun—Revolution Queen, High Queen of Ankor-Nazta, reincarnator of Earth, Saint of Goddess Crustacia, War for the Faefolk commander; there were many titles you could attribute to the most famous otherworlder Peolynca had ever nurtured. After all, unlike her fellow otherworlder blessed, Hestia, Dravlia had already ascended to godhood with her divine name, Chihiro, Goddess of Change, Ingenuity, and Ambition.
She was known to all dwarves, as her contributions to Crustacia’s golden age immortalized her within Ankor-Nazta’s history and taught to every dwarven child, nevermind how her ardent followers in the railroad guild, the church of Chihiro, and the many Beats’N’Rocks fandoms were growing more numerous with every year. Even outside the realms of the dwarves, she was known by elven artisans, dragonewt artificers, Aleistunum mages, and the historians and military commanders of the Folschreck Empire as an grand ally or vicious enemy from the time of the War for the Faefolk.
Born in 2418, Dravlia only managed to live for 35 years before her untimely death in 2453, an age most dwarves would still be working as an apprentice at a renowned smithy or artificer workshop. In fact, having started in the year 2431, Dravlia was only 13 years old when the War for the Faefolk had initially begun.
She was a tinkerer and thinker, not a combatant like Hestia and Saori, and had already focused on crafting and inventing even as a young dwarf, due to her mental age being that of a middle-aged woman. With the help of her dwarven body’s naturally dexterity and the wealth of knowledge her clan, the Konguns, had available to teach her when they first learned of her being an [Otherworldly Reincarnator] and a blessed of Crustacia, young Dravlia quickly adapted to her new environment and rose in importance as an artificer.
Even more impressive was how she became the youngest High Queen of Ankor-Nazta, officially nominated into the position by about 70% of the clans after the previous High King had died in the war. They didn't need a warlord to support their allies in Saelariel, they needed the support and funds of the High Queen position to enact Dravlia’s plans of the first manatech train.
It took four years to dig the tunnels and create the foundation of the current underground train network, and during this time, the first train had been finished. With the ingenuity of the dwarves in creating something as fantastical as the train, with most believing Crustacia had anticipated the War for the Faefolk and had reincarnated Dravlia as a dwarf to lead them to victory through her, the project was finalized far sooner than Dravlia had anticipated.
With the train’s invention, supply routes could finally be accelerated, expanding from Saelarial to the far eastern part of the continent, allowing the dwarven and elven forces to be sustained. Victory came quickly with Folschreck divided between three wars, and the humans eventually deciding that surrender to Saelariel was more preferable than to lose to Carmaniate or Bole’Taria.
With victory crowning Dravlia and her train as the deciding factor of the war, she continued with her position as the High Queen, despite the fact her age made her less than suitable for the role with the ensuing post-wartime era. To many, their opinions of the queen became validated as Dravlia wasn’t the most active High Queen, preferring to continue her days tinkering in her laboratory to continue working on her inventions, wishing to improve on dwarven technology. To others, though, it was this period of eight years until her death that solidified her as the Revolution Queen.
Her story has been written and a new one had already begun … and now, in the position as a goddess, she would watch this adventure unfold. Although not as strong as her fellow gods, as she was turned into a goddess by Crustacia through people’s near zealous fervor during her time as the High Queen, she still held a lot of influence due to her ability to promote innovation. Through her newest, and only, blessed, Grimnir, she would once again oil the engines of creation; only this time, she would perform it in the same position as her Origin Goddess, Crustacia, with her original name back on Earth, Chihiro.