Tsarmina Greeneyes
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Tsarmina Greeneyes was a female wildcat and the main antagonist of Mossflower. She was the daughter of Verdauga, the sister of Gingivere, the niece of Ungatt Trunn, and the granddaughter of King Mortspear. Tsarmina was wicked, cruel, partly insane, deathly afraid of water, and very intelligent. One of her first orders of business was to break the Sword of Martin the Warrior when he was brought before her father; Martin then vowed to one day slay her.
Tsarmina murdered her ill father by using the healer fox, Fortunata, to poison him. She then blamed the deed on her hapless brother and subsequently had him imprisoned in Kotir's dungeons.
Secure as the new tyranness of Kotir, Tsarmina ruled with an iron claw. As ruler, Tsarmina's main title was Queen of the Thousand Eyes (her other titles included Queen of Mossflower, Lady of the Thousand Eyes, Slayer of Enemies, Ruler of Kotir, Conqueror of all Creatures, and Tsarmina the Magnificent, she immediatly rejected any title with her father's name). She commanded the Thousand Eye Army.
Tsarmina was determined to rule all of Mossflower Woods and have the resident woodlanders as her slaves. She waged a long war against the Corim, who retaliated with guerrilla tactics. She frequently had frightening dreams of water, her greatest fear after she became queen. She tried to kill the eagle Argulor whenever she had the chance, but the eagle always flew out of range of her bow and arrow. She then joined with the mercenary Bane, who was traveling through Mossflower, and saw Kotir and sought to conquer it. When Tsarmina discovered this she tricked him, and and had him killed by Argulor. The final blow arrived when the woodlanders flooded Kotir, which in turn took advantage of Tsarmina's fear of water. Her fortress was eventually brought down by a ballista, and she was killed in a terrific battle at the edge of Kotir's former site by the might of Martin. Tsarmina was driven into the lake and her crippling fear of water, together with her wounds and apparent inability to swim, saw to her demise.
[edit] Trivia
- Tsarmina's name is a play on words involving the Russian title Tsarina and the word "mean".
