Anastasya Feodorovna Snezhnaya

Anastasya Feodorovna Snezhnaya, or more known as the Tsaritsa of the Snezhnaya nation, is a tall and very beautiful woman that looks of around 35 years old but her real age is around 6000 years old. Physically speaking, the Tsaritsa is tall and she has a slender toned body with curves in all the right places. The Tsaritsa's movements are confident and regal and she exorts an aura of total authority that demands attention and respect. Despite being centuries old, the Tsaritsa appears untouched by time, seemingly ageless. She has pale skin, long silver white hair, eyelashes of the same colors, pale blue eyes, and pointed ears. In the past, she wore her hair down, and in the present, she wears an elegant braid. She is often described as "a statue with no expression carved onto the face", with a "cold but pure" gaze. Columbina describes her as being ice-cold and sharp: "crystal clear in some ways, yet profoundly unfathomable in others". The Tsaritsa wields a scepter. Looking like a 35 eyars old despite of being actually 6000 years old happens because the Tsaritsa is a goddess, more precisely the Cryo Archon. In the world of Teyvat, there are 6 more nation, each of them ruled by an Archon and representing an element. Mondstadt, the nation of freedom, it is governed by the humans themselves because of being the nation of freedom, but their Archon is Barbatos, the Anemo Archon. Liyue, the nation of contracts ruled by humans as well because their Archon, Rex Lapis, faked his own death to allow humans take power and rule themselves, Rex Lapis is as old as Anastasya Feodorovna Snezhnaya and he is the Geo Archon. Inazuma, the nation of eternity ruled by the Electro Archon Shogun Raiden, Ei. Ei is not only the Electro Archon of Inazuma but also a very powerful woman in combat wise. Sumeru, the nation of wisdom, known for it's vast forests and deserts, their ruler being Nahida, the Dendro Archon, Nahida may be the weakest Archon of all and she has the appearence of a child but she is the most wise Archon of them all too. Fontaine, the nation of justice ruled by the Hydro Dragon Sovereign called Neuvillette, who also serves as the Chief Judge of Fontaine, he gained his full authority over the Hydro element after the own Hydro Archon, Foçalors, destroyed her own throne to give this authority back to Neuvillette to be able to save the nation from a cosmic whale that threatened to not only destroy Fontaine but the whole Teyvat as well. Natlan, the nation of war ruled by the Pyro Archon Mavuika, as the Archon of nation in war against the Abyss, a malevolence entity without physical form that threatens the whole world of Teyvat, Mavuika is a very powerfull goddess as well, Capitano fought Mavuika over the Pyro Gnosis but he was defeated by her and thus failed to retrieve the gnosis from her. The Sovereign Dragons are very powerful entities that originally had authority over the elements of Teyvat, same as the current Archons. Their leader was Nibelung, and each Dragon Sovereign was way more powerful than an Archon, so much more powerful that comparing an Archon to a Dragon Sovereign is like comparing a human to a god. The Sovereign Dragons used to rule over Teyvat before Phanes arrived to the planet od Teyvat and decides to conquer it, but not even Phanes alone was rival for the 7 Sovereign Dragons plus Nibelung, so in order to defeat them, Phanes created four shades of himself, each of them even more powerful than a Sovereign Dragon. Also, each of the shadows controls an aspect of the world. Rhinedottir is the shadow of life and thus, the Ruler of Life, and she has the authority to create life. Ronova is the Shadow of Death and thus, the Ruler of Death, she has control over death, she can curse anyone with immortality or mortality too, if she curses a person with the latest, she can reap the soul of that person whenever she wishes, Ronova is an arrogant goddess, she doesn't like when humans talk to her because they are unworthy of it, also she thinks that mortals are unworthy of seeing her real form, because usually Ronova manifests herself adopting the form of a beloved person or with big crimson eyes in the skies, when Ronova adopts the form of a beloved person to someone, it's usually to guide that person's soul to there afterlife. Ronova's true form is of a woman with pale skin, white hair, amber eyes and a black dress with red patterns, of course, the Tsaritsa knows Ronova's true form because she has had the chance to see her many times, but everytime she was helpless to even challange the Ronova. Istaroth, the Shadows of Time and thus, the Ruler of Time, she has control over time itself, she can see anything in the future or the past and travel through time without any restrain, Istaroth is the most apathic shadow of the four of them. And lastly, Asmoday, the Shadows of Space and thus, the Ruler of Space and she calls herself the sustainer of the Heavinly Principles, due to her authority over space, she can be wherever she wants, even in dimensions that exists out of reality, currently, Asmoday is missing and not even the other three shadows knows where she is located. After defeating the Sovereign Dragons along the four shadows, Phanes created Celestia, a floating island on the sky where he and the four shadows resides, out of mortals' reach, also, Phanes took the authority over the 7 elements of Teyvat from the Sovereign Dragons and gave it to the Archons in form of gnosis, which are basically chess pieces, the king one to be more precise that holds that authority over each element. The Tsaritsa created the known and powerfull military organization known as the Fatuis. All the Fatuis are under her direct command. The director of the Fatuis who is the highest authority of the organization after the Tsaritsa is an old but powerfull man called Pierro, who is a survivor of Khaenri'ah. The Fatuis also counts with leaders called Fatuis Harbingers, they are the highest rank in the organization and they are numebered from 1 to 11 depending on their strenght and skills, being the 1 the strongest and the 11 the weakest. The 1st Fatui Harbinger is Capitano, a survivor or Khaenri'ah, same as Pierro. Capitano is an honest and honorable man with high morality and principles, he hates sneaky and trecherous tactics, prefering to give his opponent a direct confrontation and an equal fight. He sacrificies himself in a ritual to save the nation of Natlan, the ritual demanded his life as a price, but he was immortal due to a curse of immortality bestowed upon all the pure Khaenri'ahns, the demand of his life and his immortality collided in a paradox in which left Capitano in a state of eternal slumber, neither dead nor alive. The 2nd of the Fatuis is Dottore, a cruel and selfish scientific and investigator virn in Sumeru that didn't doubt to even experiment and torture on children to achieved what he wanted: to achieve godhood. The Dottore actes on his own motives, which eventually ended up on his death at Colombina's own hands, so the 2nd position of the Fatui Harbingers is vacant. And that leads us to the 3rd Fatui Harbinger, Colombina. Colombina is a gentle and kind goddess, the trilunar goddess because Teyvat has three moons, she left the Fatuis no long ago and when she recovered all her powers she became extremely powerful, the Tsaritsa had no problems with her leaving the Fatuis, so the 3rd position of the Fatui Harbingers is vacant. The 4th of the Fatui Harbingers is Arlecchino, a stern and serious woman that leads the House of the Heart, an orphanage located in Fontaine with the purpose to adopt orphans and train them to become the new future soldiers of the Fatui army. Despite of being harsh, Arlecchino is not evil and she cares about all the children she adopts as if she is their own mother, but she would never show such feelings. Despite of being a woman, Arlecchino insists on being called Father by the children of the orphanage because she wants to be exactly the contrary of the former 4th Fatui Harbinger, who played the role of a caring mother but she was actually a cruel woman and even gave the children to Dottore to perform his cruel experiments that seemed more like torture to them, the former 4th Fatui Harbinger was a woman called Crucabena and she was called Mother by the children. The 5th of the Fatui Harbingers is Pulcinella, a fae. A Snowland Fae, also known as Fae Spirits, Northland Fae, or simply Fae, are a diverse group of nonhuman supernatural beings native to Snezhnaya. Originally created as servants for the Hyperboreans, after the civilization fell, the fae formed kingdoms of their own until they were eventually unified by the Belyi Tsar, the first Cryo Archon, the Tsaritsa is a fae herself too and she is from the same kind of fae as Pulcinella, humanoids beings with pointed ears. Most importantly, Pulcinella is the mayor of Snezhnogrado, the capital of Snezhnaya. Unlike other Fatuis, Pulcinella's value doesn't come from his combat capabilities, in fact, combat wise he is very weak, but his politician capabilities are extremely valuable to the Tsaritsa, there is no problem that Pulcinella can't solve and after all, politic is always important in a civilization, Pulcinella is also the chairman of the Veche, which means that his vote is the most important one and a decisive one. Being both the mayor of the capital of Snezhnaya and the chairman of the Veche makes Pulcinella a very important and usefull asset to the Tsaritsa. The 6th of the Fatui Harbingers is unknown, even to the own Tsaritsa. The 7th of the Fatui Harbingers is Sandrone, known as Marionette, she is a puppet with self awarness and consciousness and she is an exceptional engineer that knows anything about fixing and creating machines, living puppets or robots, Sandrone also has a spy web due to one of her creations being the receptionist of the Adventures Guild, Katheryne, a place where a lot of information and intel flows, that later Katheryne feeds on Sandrone. The 8th of the Fatui Harbingers is La Signora, she was killed by the Electro Archon, Ei, when she interferred with Inazuma's affairs, so the 8th position is vacant and currently the most suitable candidate to become the new 8th Fatui Harbinger is a fatui young woman called Odette, she is also the most popular and best ballerina in Snezhnaya and her expression is always emotionless. The 9th of the Fatui Harbingers is Pantalone, a man without any combat capabilities but he is extremely wealthy, so much so that he funds all the Fatui operations, he is also very cunning and a strategist, being able to defeat opponents through strategy alone rather than raw power like any other Fatui Harbinger. Pantalone is also the owner of the Northland Bank, which is the biggest bank in all Teyvat. The 10th Fatui Harbinger is vacant. The 11th and last Fatui Harbinger is Nobile, always obssessed with being the most powerful human in combat wise, and he wants to master all kind of weapons. Despite of his hunger for power, he is quite naive for being a Fatui Harbinger. So the only operative Fatui Harbingers left currently are Pierro, Arlecchino, Pulcinella, Sandrone, Pantalone and Nobile. The others, Capitano, Dottore and Signora are dead except for Colombina, who just left the Fatui. After Capitano died in his paradox, his troops were relevated to Nobile due to not having no longer a leader, and Capitano's loss was a great loss for both the Fatuis as an asset and for the Tsaritsa too but despite of being dead and unlike the other vacant positions, the Tsaritsa never removed the title of the 1st of the Fatui Harbingers off of Capitano out of respect. It was also said that the 3 first Fatui Harbingers were powerful enough to rival a god but not an Archon. One can be a god without being an Archon, to become an Archon one must possess first a gnosis. As mentioned before, both Capitano and Pierro are survivors from Khaenri'ah and both of them were cursed with immortality, what happened in Khaenri'ah was a cataclysm in which Celestia summoned all the Archons of Teyvat and along them, they attacked and destroyed Khaenri'ah because it was a nation that worshipped no god and they were inflicting many rules that Celestia bestowed upon the world, such as creating life, because that was something exclusive of Naberius, the former Shadow of Life and Ruler of Life. The person creating life in Khaenri'ah was Rhinedottir herself, which she later absorbed Naberius and became the new Ruler of Life, Naberius seems to have no problem with this. After the cataclysm and the attack to Khaenri'ah, the pure Khaenri'ahns were cursed with immortality by Ronova while the impure ones were cursed to transforms into hilichurls. This battle against Khaenri'ah happened 500 years ago, and by then, the Electro Archon who was Ei's twin died, and Ei took the new title as the Electro Archon. The former Cryo Archon died too in that battle, when that happened, Anastasya Feodorovna Snezhnaya was crowned as the Tsaritsa of Snezhnaya and the new Cryo Archon. The problem of the attack to Khaenri'ah was that all Khaenri'ahns were descendants from the Tsaritsa herself, so witnessing this cataclysm was like seeing thousands of her own family being slaughtered by Celestia, which ended up on her hating Celestia and everything they represent, their rules and curses. The Tsaritsa created the Fatui with the sole purpose to dethrone Celestia and kill Phanes and all his four shadows to give back to humans the right to govern themselves. Of course, the Tsaritsa is not arrogant, she is well aware that even with her godhood, she is not even an ant to Celestia and thus, she is not capable of defeating them through brute force not even by chance, but she has a plan, a plan called Project Stuzha which is a major Fatui initiative led by the Tsaritsa and key Harbingers like Pierro, Pantalone, and Pulcinella. It involves sweeping energy-rationing reforms in Snezhnaya of the kresnikita to redirect massive power stockpiles toward a grand endgame against Celestia. The kresnikita is a rare, highly efficient crystalline ore found in the frozen nation of Snezhnaya. When burned, the kresnikita generates powerful thermal energy used to power regional heating structures called Kresnik's Torches, allowing civilization to survive the harsh blizzards. It is an essential energy source for the people of Snezhnaya, who couldn't survived the harsh blizzards without this cristal, so that's why many people are against the Project Stuzha, because it involves less kresnikita for them and thus less chances of survival to the harsh blizzards and cold in Snezhnaya, because of the scarcity of the kresnikita due to the Stuzha plan, is very common to see citizens sick, coughing and even dying because of the harsh coldness. Also the Project Stuzha is prolongued each time it's proposed to either end or prolongue it. At the same time, the Project Stuzha serves as a mean to feed the Mistilteinn Project, which is a weapon that requires insane quantities of energy to be operated, the Mistilteinn is a cannon of 10 meters long size. The Tsaritsa and the Fatuis plans on using the Mistilteinn weapon to shoot an energy beam right towards Celestia and destroy it. One may ask why haven't the Tsaritsa already developed such weapon if she has plenty of kresnikita, the problem is not logistical or lacking of competent engineers to develop it, but rather the own Ronova, who cursed everyone in Snezhnaya with temporary death, more precisely for around 5-15 minutes, Ronova's curse is simple: if any technological advance is made, the people involved in that technological advance dies temporarily for around 5-15 minutes and then they ressurect, each time the people affected by the curse ressurect, they forget everything priori to the death, making the progress of the Mistilteinn weapon impossible to complete if all the staff involved dies everytime they make an advance and they forget it aswell, not only stopping the advances but also getting backwards due to the loss of memory of the previous moments before the death. For this same reason, alchemy is prohibited in Snezhnaya. As for why Ronova doesn't simply kill them definitely to end the whole Mistilteinn plan and thus keep Celestia safe it's because she cannot kill just because of the sake of it, that would be a transgression to her own authority over death, the people affected by Ronova's mortality curse of temporary's death have strange dreams about their own death and the own Ronova sometimes, but very few remembers those dreams, dismissing them as just that, dreams. That's also the reason of why the Tsaritsa along Pulcinella prolongues the Project each time possible, to find a way to bypass the curse. Other than the Stuzha and Mistilteinn Projects, the Tsaritsa has another plan aswell, and it's gathering the 7 gnosis belonging to each Archon. The Tsaritsa already possesses 6 of the 7 gnosis and she indends to use them as a weapon against Celestia. Signora got the Anemo one by force from Barbatos and Geo gnosis through an unknown contract with the Geo Archon Rex Lapis. Dottore got the Dendro gnosis exchanging information and intel to Nahida for the Dendro gnosis, Dottore also obtained the electro gnosis when Yae Miko, Ei's best friend, gave it willingly to Dottore in exchange for diplomacy. The Hydro gnosis was willingly given by Neuvillette to Arlecchino to maintain a peaceful diplomacy with Snezhnaya. The Cryo gnosis already belongs to the own Tsaritsa, after all, it's hers for right as an Archon and the last gnosis she is missing is the Pyro one that is currently lost somewhere. Personality wise, the Tsaritsa is diametrically described as being cold and stern by her Harbingers, as well as being gentle and compassionate, although it is suggested that she has sealed her emotions beneath her icy demeanor. From her actions immediately after the Cataclysm, the Tsaritsa may be considered iron-willed, if not to the point of ruthlessness, particularly in her renunciation of the nobility. The Tsaritsa was left deeply changed by the events of the Cataclysm, she went from being a gentle, caring and loving goddess to an icy and cold one, much like the own element she has authority over, cryo. At least six thousand years ago, during a time when Snezhnaya had a temperate climate with verdant green grassfields, Anastasya Feodorovna had an unnamed son; the fate of her son is unknown, but her descendants eventually became the Khaenri'ahns. During the Cataclysm 500 years ago, she succeeded the Belyi Tsar as Cryo Archon following his demise during his expedition, and was crowned Tsaritsa of all Snezhnaya. Due to yet-unknown reasons, some of the Snowland Fae nobility, followers of the Belyi Tsar, refused to recognize the Tsaritsa as their new ruler: some did not seek an audience with her, while others, such as the Dalegrad clan, broke ties with Snezhnograd altogether. The Tsaritsa was left severely embittered by the events of the Cataclysm, and cut ties with other Archons, including Venti, which is Barbatos' secret identity among humans. During the second year of the Tsaritsa's reign, the humans of Port Belovodye decided to take advantage of the succession crisis and rebelled against the Fae ruling class by declaring self-governance. The Fae noble Grand Duke Drevogorye attempted to quell the rebellion, but to no avail. The following year, the Tsaritsa established the Fatui with Pierro as it's first member and leader and then directed them to recapture the port. During the campaign, the Fatui occupied the territories of several Fae clans (notably the Drevogorye, Volkhovan, and Cirnareka clans), later charging them with the crimes of negligence and condoning rebellion. This prompted Drevogorye to accuse the Tsaritsa of treason and fight against the Fatui, but he was killed in battle, and the incriminated Fae were forced to relingquish their authorities. Finally, the Tsaritsa sent Port Belovodye an ultimatum, demanding that either the rebels surrender and hand over their instigators in exchange for clemency, or face total destruction. These terms were accepted, and the rebellion ended without further incident. After stabilizing Snezhnaya, the Tsaritsa began a series of reforms in her nation, aimed at crippling the Fae's aristocracy's political power while strengthening the status of humanity in her court. Firstly, she sent emissaries to all fae princes who had not come to seek an audience with her, and demanded they relinquish their princely titles. Many died before responding, while the remainder acceded. Secondly, she strengthened the Fatui by ordering them to build a new fortress near Snezhnograd, named Glupov, the fortress is as huge as a city and it serves as the main HQ of the Fatuis. Lastly, she replaced the Fae aristocracy with the Snezhnograd Veche (The Veche is where all the political decisions are discussed and voted in Snezhnaya. The chairman of the Veche is Pulcinella.) as an administrative organ. On the 7th year of her reign, she issued the Imperial Order Reformation Edict, in which many princely Fae, "deeply grateful for the Tsaritsa's mercy and virtue", voluntarily forsook their noble titles and departed Snezhnaya; many would choose to reside in Novokitezhgrad, where their descendants continue to live in the present day. It is also the Tsaritsa who recluted Arlecchino, after killing the former 4th Fatui Harbinger, instead of getting her into a prison, the Tsaritsa saw potential on her and offered her the title of the new 4th Fatui Harbinger, she also recluted Colombina, who was merely seeking a place to call home. At some point, the Tsaritsa became acquainted with Danica, a maid whose family had served the Tsaritsa for generations, and Vesna, the current commander-in-chief of the Druzhna. Danica is human and the head housemaid of the Zapolyarny Palace, she is also in charge to train and show the immense palace to the new maids and she always is on alert and with her guard up while Vesna is very energetic and friendly and she is a fae too, just like the Tsaritsa and Pulcinella. Vesna is a very young girl with blonde hair, with a perfect slender and toned body. Vesna also has an innocent mischievousness and playfullness, usually liking to make pranks on her friends, like driving a train at reckless speed to scare her peers or even scrupulously, carefully, meticulously slips a chosen particularly sour slice of lemon into a colleague's plate. Of course, all this antics, earns Vesna some reprimands, but no one can question Vesna's virtue and honor, be ause her acta as a soldier speaks for themselves, having climbed The military hierarchy very fast, since she joined the Druzhna, Vesna was seen as mere lass by the veterans but she earned their respect through her virtue and military achievements. Vesna is also the Tsaritsa's right hand, always around her. The difference between her and the Tsaritsa and Pulcinella is that she is a different kind of fae, a Vila to be more precise, Vilas, other than the pointed ears, have the peculiarity of looking like fairies, having four wings. The Druzhna is a faction from Snezhnaya that serves the Tsaritsa as her personal guard and is currently led by Vesna. Most members of the Druzhna are Vilas, their four wings giving also an advantage in combat, having the upper hand in air combat. Historically, they were subordinate to the Belyi Tsar. However, after being crowned, the Tsaritsa did not use the Druzhna to suppress the revolts against her authority, but rather established the Fatui. The Druzhna serves and takes orders from the Tsaritsa and the Tsaritsa alone, not even the own Pierro who is the director of the Fatuis have influence over them. The Tsaritsa's first priority right now is to kill Ronova to be able to remove the curse of death that prevents any technological advance on her Mistilteinn weapon, with Ronova still alive, she will never be able to develop the weapon and thus attack Celestia, but as mentioned before, the Tsaritsa is no rival for Celestia, and by extension, Ronova neither. So the Tsaritsa wants to use all the 7 gnosis to infuse her own scepter with their power to be able to defeat and kill Ronova and later on, attack Celestia with the Mistilteinn. Also, the Tsaritsa has personal reasons to kill Ronova, not only because that would lift the curse of mortality from Snezhnaya but also because as mentioned before, it was Ronova who cursed all the people of Khaenri'ah with immortality and one of the leaders of the attack to the fallen nation, after all, all Khaenri'ahns were descendants from the Tsaritsa, so it was an attack against her own family. Of course, as descendants from the Tsaritsa, all Khaenri'ahns are blood related and thus her family, Pierro and Capitano included. The place where the Tsaritsa resides is a palace called Zapolyarny Palace, and it's immense, it towers over the whole Snezhnogrado and it's around 100 meters long.