St. Sascaria

Saint Sascaria of Cildania
Sascaria Killian was the last Emperor of the Divine Empire of Cildania overseeing the transistion into the First Republic and is remembered by the Department of Cildania as a holy Saint, patron of Lawful, Women in the workforce and peaceful change.

Sascaria Ana Kilian was born on the 29th of November 1926 to Prince Kadaram of Cildania and Lady Namine, daughter of the Prince of Gilzon. Sascaria came to power at the age of 22 after the assassanations of her cousin Emperor Elias II and his son Eshmunazar at the hands of terrorists acting in the name of Hebileean independence in 1915.

In 1915 Cildania was in crisis, with the Liberal Revolution with lawlessness in many urban areas and coastal Ylrith and high country Akinawa only recently returned to government control following the uprising of 1913. In the east much of Hebilon was under rebel control as conflicting Hebileean nationalists battled with each other and government forces.

Fearing that a young girl with a known history of physical frailty wouldnt present a strong enough imagine to bring order of confidence to the Empire Sascaria took the throne as man, taking the regal name Gildas II after the Empire's founder and issueing a declaration legally declaring herself to be male.

As Gildas II she purpused vigorous reforms aimed towards devolution and the extension of equal rights to Bythronic and Seleco-Cildanian citizens addressing some of the rebel concerns but some historians point more to infighting within the rebel movements than the Emperors policies for the pacification although throughout her reign the rebellion was always constant.

Throughout the second half of her reign she sponsered bills in parliament and applied pressure on MPs to pass them pushing forwards liberal policies and laying the groundwork for a federal parliamentary democratic system to replace the Akildar dominated divine imperial parliamentary democracy and granting significant support and priviliges to the Hebileean devolutionists undermining the support for the nationalists and lifted the party bans.

When in 1928 she asked republician New Cildania party leader Sir Dawid Marand to form a co-alition minority government and supported the Cildania Reform Act, applying what some later would call illegal pressure on the hereditary upper house to secure its passage and then in on may 1st 1929 she abdicated the throne and appointed Patriarch Gregory V as head of state for the Provisional Transitional Government to oversee the establishment of the Cildanian Republic with Sir Dawid Marand as Chancellor.

Sascaria resigned from public life not wishing to stand in the way of democratic government until the 14th year of the Republic to condemn an attempted reactionary coup. For the remainer of her life she made few political appearences and devoted her life to the Department and gained some reknown writing and illustrating a number of books on the native birds of Cildania.

Sascaria never married and that added to her proclamation as a man have lead some historians and conservative critics to suggest that she was a homosexual however accounts that while serving as emperor to fill the part she had taken a wife have no historical foundation and find their origin in a popular film dramatisation of her life made in the 1980s rather than any accredited source.

Sascaria Kilian died in her residence in Mina’ H’ashrit on the 12th of August 1968 at the age of 72 in a heatwave. She was declared a saint by the Department in 2017 with sixteen verified miracles. She remains to this day an immensely popular figure with biography and period drama writers both in Cildania and abroad.