Fredrika Stålfelt - Filibuster from the north

“Gustaf, Edvard, Ebba, Hedvig, and Axel, the five children of the new generation of this branch of the Stålfelt dynasty. One inherited the main title, another received estates in the south, another pursued a military career; properties, titles, everything… and then Fredrika arrived.

How unfortunate it was to be the youngest daughter of such a household, especially arriving eight years after the last son and, as a woman, likely destined to marry some random nobleman and carry his dynasty instead. Johanna Lovisa Fredrika Stålfelt, however, had other plans.

As the years passed, she learned how to ride horses, how to shoot, and other modern activities such as tennis and astronomy, not to remain in Sweden, mind you, but to emulate the heroes from the stories her father used to read to her as a child.

When she turned eighteen, she set her own plan into motion. The people of El Salvador would not even know what had hit them. She and an entourage of three bodyguards landed at the port of Los Cóbanos, where she planned to recruit collaborators and march on the capital. By midnight, however, she was sitting in the city jail, asking them to telegraph her family for ransom money.

Six months later, she landed in Tallaboa, in Spanish Puerto Rico, this time with a larger entourage. There, she recruited local mercenaries and attempted to seize the city of Ponce from the Spaniards alongside local collaborators, much like her hero Antoine I of Patagonia had attempted in southern Argentina. After suffering massive casualties, she was lucky to make her way back to the port and flee to nearby Haiti.

Now it is 1893. Fredrika and another band of mercenaries and local collaborators have arrived in Bismuna, Nicaragua, under cover of night. This time, she has the famous German-African adventurer Marcus Hotzendorff as her marshal-at-arms to help administer her local forces.

As the group arrives in the village and begins hanging her coat of arms everywhere, she approaches you with new orders.

“Yu! Go get de odder soldiers, yes? I am going to make a grand speech in de center of de village!”

As the startled locals gather in a circle around the adventuress, you and the rest of her mercenaries form a shield wall around the self-proclaimed Queen of Nicaragua.

This time, it will work.

It has to.”