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Agwene ni Gwydion is the second daughter of Corrina ni Gwydion and Immanuel ap Gwydion. For most of her life, she was not viewed as in line for a crown. However, when her older sister, Aiwyn, yielded the throne of the Resurgent Dream to claim the throne of Akaton by marriage, Agwene was granted the high throne of the Resurgent Dream.

In defiance of what was until recently a strong social taboo, Agwene is an open homosexual though political pressures made it necessary for her to agree to take a husband, High King Connor ap Daireann. While this marriage, to an Unseelie lord, and her sexual preference created a good deal of dissent and disagreement at the tradition minded high court, none of her nobles openly resisted.

Agwene's most notable political initiative was an attempt to bring a deeper peace and friendship between races. Agwene did much to bring about genuine equality between Fae and Humans in the Resurgent Dream. This includes the Edict of Racial Equality which makes all persons equal before the law regardless of race and consequently the Resurgent Dream has gone from having a racial cast system to being an active champion of racial equality in the world. Agwene's reign saw the election of the first human prime minister in the last five centuries of Danaan history, Vincenzo Lacau.

Agwene's reign also saw the opening of relations with many nations and the high queen has become something of a diplomat, making frequent personal state visits. The most notable of these state visits have been to Menelmacar, Pantocratoria, and Lavenrunz.

Agwene is the sister of Empress Aiwyn ni Gwydion and Grand Duchess Vicotira ni Gwydion. She is the niece of King Danwyth ap Gwydion (deceased), Grand Duchess Nianki ni Gwydion, and Grand Duchess Beatrice ni Gwydion. Agwene is fluent in English, Italian, Greek, Latin, Solimond, Paroseme, Mannikin, Glome, Quenya, Welsh and Ondine.

Agwene's reign came to a sudden end because of the Shattering, after which she joined the other Fae in the Dreaming.

Early life

Agwene was born a duchess, the second daughter of then Duke Immanuel ap Gwydion and his wife, Corrina. It was over half a century before the Homecoming War and the idea that the family would ever travel to the Resurgent Dream, much less rule there, would have seemed far-fetched in the extreme.

Agwene's grandfather, then Duke Timon ap Gwydion, had an extensive estate in the Dreaming, complete with a company of knights, all of whom adored his infant grandaughter during the first few years of her life. It was widely expected that Agwene would become a leader of knights, involved in the many wars that filled the Dreaming.

It is rumored that Agwene knew her grandmother in those now long forgotten days. However, Timon's wife seemed to be among the many things which faded from the memory of Sidhe on Earth. During the time between the Homecoming War and the Shattering, the name of Agwene's grandmother was wholly unknown in the Waking World. Presumably, the lady died while in the Dreaming.

Nonetheless, it is assumed that Agwene's grandmother was present on the estate at her birth, as were her grandfather, her parents, her aunts, her uncle, and her older sister.