Caleira II (Caleira Maglal-Gasha; 1754 - 1814) was Queen of Vicus from 1804 to her death in 1814. Nicknamed the Battle Queen or the Iron Queen and known for her fierce political scheming as a staunch traditionalist conservative and commanding royal troops, she controlled the government of the late rule of House Nalkhate.
Caleira’s father was General Laromal Maglal-Gasha, who for his victories in the Second Cyarik War was awarded a place on the Imperial Congress by King Tyerri II as well as a marriage. In her adolescence, she was married off as the King’s fourth consort, giving birth to a son, Yavon VII in 1771. Despite being the youngest of the wives, she played the King’s other wives and concubines against each other, and allied with archconservative politicians and noblemen in the Imperial Congress, earning a reputation as a tough politician in her own right.
When her husband went comatose for fifteen days in 1791, she quickly gained a lot of power in the court by various means; she aligned herselves with the rising archconservative leaders Yavon Preed and Yothgar Masha. Asserting herself as the most powerful of the wives, she was made Queen of Vicus following a successful palace coup following the death of King Tyerri II’s first wife Pulina II under suspicious circumstances. As such, following the death of her husband a month later, she and her archconservative allies were able to place her son Yavon VII on the throne instead of Tyerri’s intended reformist successor, Prince Avab Tyerri.
Although her son was King, she exerted much de facto power over Vicus; her as Queen, Preed as Chancellor, Ozmund O-Clerel as War Minister, and Tyerri Gazell as head of the Bank of Vicus, consolidated power as the Gang of Four around the archconservative faction Friends of the Monarchy. When the Great War broke out, the Queen officially served as a military leader; earning her name “Battle Queen” and becoming the first woman in Vicusian history to serve as such (although the role was symbolic). In 1813, while visiting troops on the front-lines in Shanno, she contracted influenza. She was immediately returned to Nalkhate, where her health steadily deteriorated. She died three months later in 1814 at the age of sixty and was buried in the Temple of Prophet Zathgit in Mogharbura.