Empress Navier

Navier

Novel
Young
Webtoon
Young

Alias

Her Majesty
Butterfly
My Queen

Biographical Info

Residence

Western Empire
Eastern Empire

Gender

Female

Height

5'7

Personal Status

Status

Alive

Marital Status

Married

Relatives

Sovieshu (Ex-Husband)
Heinrey (Husband)
Lari (Daughter)
Kai (Son)
Duke Trovi (Father)
Duchess Trovi (Mother)
Kosair (Brother)
Miss Masters (Sister-in-law)
Wharton III (Brother-in-law)
Krista (Sister-in-law)
McKenna (Cousin-in-law)

Professional Status

Title

Empress

Affiliation

House of Trovi
Imperial Family (former)

Debut

Webtoon

Episode 1

Novel

Chapter 1

Empress Navier Ellie Trovi is the protagonist of the Remarried Empress series. She is the current Empress of the Western Empire, the deposed Empress of the Eastern Empire and a member of the House of Trovi.

History[]

Plot Summary[]

Navier's family, House of Trovi, had previously had daughters who married into the Eastern Empire's Imperial Family. She was hand picked by the previous Emperor, Osis III, to marry his son, Crown Prince Sovieshu. Despite their arranged marriage, they were always close childhood friends. She spent her life preparing for the role of becoming Empress and helping to lead her country diligently.^[1] In order to have a good relationship with Sovieshu, she even planted a tree in the garden as a child.

In the first episode of the WEBTOON, Navier is attending court since Sovieshu wants to divorce her and marry his concubine Rashta instead. Navier states that she accepts the divorce, surprising nearly everyone in the room except for two people: Duke Ergi Claude of Blue Bohean and King Heinrey of the Western Kingdom. Many nobles protest her decision while Rashta smirks as she pretends to be anxious. Navier is asked again if she accepts Sovieshu’s request for divorce, and replies with a resounding “Yes. I accept.” After accepting the divorce, Navier surprises everyone in the room again, by saying that she’d like approval for her remarriage. High Priest Vimirey asks her whom she wishes to remarry. This is when Heinrey makes his grand entrance, revealing his presence at the divorce hearing. He moves to stand beside Navier as everybody else in the room starts exclaiming their surprise at his sudden appearance.

The webtoon proceeds to go back a few months, to when Navier was still the Empress of the Eastern Empire. This is the start of the lead-up to the events of the hearing.

Personality[]

Navier describes herself the perfect empress. At first glance, she appears to have a methodical demeanour and is always composed. Her way of thinking is very practical and logical, so she won't engage in things that do not concern her or need her interference. For those who spend more time with her, however, she is an intelligent, patient and kind woman who has great devotion to her work, family, and friends. She tends to throw playful verbal jabs and crack jokes, though she admits most people don't tend to understand her humour due to her serious nature.

That being said, she was very carefree and engaging and often mischievous in her crown Princess days. She often sneaked out of her home when certain "Sir Leedy" came to visit her, which was a secret code name for Sovieshu. She often hit him with pillows whenever he teased him too much or she got mad at him. Hitting him with a pillow also led to the incident of her first ever kiss.

But after her coronation, she became more reserved to uphold the image of an empress and slowly drifted apart. Like Sovieshu, she lacks proper communication skill when it comes to express personal feelings. She's known as the ice queen due to her reserved nature.

Physical appearance[]

Navier is a pale-skinned young woman who is known across multiple countries for her cold beauty with waist-length blonde hair ^[2] that has bangs split on either side with small hair strands sticking in front of her ears, golden-green eyes (leaf-green eyes in the novel), she has a slender frame and she appears to be of tall built.

Relationships[]

Love Interests[]

Heinrey I: The current Emperor of the Western Empire and Navier's second husband. His interest in her was evident from their first meeting during the New Year's festivities, but with her being married at the time, there wasn't much that he could do about his affections. Initially, he restricts his advances and communicated to her primarily through letters in his bird form 'Queen', but he eventually becomes more bold in his advances. During his time at the Eastern Empire, he saw her more vulnerable side and felt upset on her behalf at her treatment, stating that if he had been the one to marry her, he would do anything to make her happy. After finding out that Sovieshu wanted to divorce her, she bumped into Heinrey during a trip to Wilwol and she proposed marriage to him. After getting engaged to Heinrey, she immediately starts thinking about how to be a good co-ruler with him, quickly figures out Sovieshu might try to prevent her from remarrying and asks Heinrey to come to her divorce proceedings to remarry her on the spot so High Priest Vimirey can officiate their wedding there. While kept in house arrest with Heinrey after their remarriage, she is less concerned about herself and more about how will this affect his image as a ruler. Similar to her marriage with Sovieshu, she originally only married Heinrey out of convenience, especially after the whole ordeals with Rashta and Krista. But as opposed to Navier’s former standoffish marriage, her marriage with Heinrey turned into one of mutual respect, understanding, support, and love, with her opening her heart to her lover and husband.

Sovieshu: The Emperor of the Eastern Empire, Navier's first husband and distant cousin. She and Sovieshu had been best friends since childhood and betrothed for just as long, but their marriage was solely for political purpose. Despite that, she loved him in her own way as mentioned both in novel and webtoon but she was never open about it, that led Sovieshu to believe she doesn't love him which was far from the truth. Unbeknownst to her, he wants her love as well, not just her commitment as his empress. Convinced that she was infertile, he concocted a plan to divorce her and marry his pregnant concubine, Rashta. After the birth of his now legitimate heir, he would then divorce Rashta to remarry Navier, despite that the latter very openly, albeit politely, told him that she doesn't want anything to do with his concubine or their child. However, he neglects and emotionally abuses Navier during the course of the series prior to the divorce, humiliating her out of jealousy for her growing friendships with other men and blaming things on things related to Rashta due to Rashta's lying, even if he should know better. Even so, Navier only answers with words and refrains from going against him in public, believing they need to present a united front for both their citizens and foreign powers. His requested divorce was eventually accepted by both Navier and High Priest Vimirey, but Sovieshu's plans quickly changed when she requested to marry Heinrey instead moments after. She has since moved on from Sovieshu, though he doesn’t feel the same. He was extremely distraught upon learning of her pregnancy. She later gets attacked by Krista's brother and falls into coma. Sovieshu hearing this, starts hallucinating and falls from the window also falling into a coma. There they share a telepathic communication despite thinking it was a dream. Later he loses his memory and thinks he's a crown prince. He then attempts to win Navier's heart again and asks her to take him as her concubine. He is solemn when he discovers that her daughter, Lari, looks exactly like her, as he had dreamed of having a child with her that took after her. He becomes extremely regretful of his actions and tries to foster a cooperative diplomatic relationship with the Western Empire out of guilt and love for Navier. By the end of the series, his throne goes to Navier’s daughter (as he and Navier are distant relatives), and her father ends up acting as the de facto ruler once Sovieshu becomes too mentally unstable to rule.
Spin-off Ending: In recently published spin-off story named "Sovieshu's regression", Sovieshu is able to transfer his consciousness to a parallel reality with the help of a magical pocket watch and prevents the divorce from happening, which surprised everyone, including Navier. He later admits that he loves her but Navier doesn't believe him and thinks he has lost his mind. But when he finds him crying in his sleep asking her to not leave him, she realises that Sovieshu genuinely loves her. Despite being indifferent towards him at first, she slowly starts to warm up and finally accepts his apology. Fast forward ten years, it's shown that they've been living blissful marriage life and Sovieshu seeks her when he wakes up in the morning implying they're not sleeping in different quarters like their past married life.

Family[]

Lari and Kai: Navier and Heinrey's twin daughter and son, respectively.^[3] Navier is a loving and affectionate mother who keeps a close eye on them to ensure they don't run into trouble. Although the twins (particularly Lari) give Navier a few scares, she adores her children. Despite being busy as an empress, Navier enjoys caring for the twins herself and spending time with them. This is also due to their ability to shapeshift into birds, which is a secret outside of Heinrey's immediate family.

Kosair Trovi: Navier's older brother. He cherishes her dearly, acting very kindly around her compared to his usual personality and liking to gift her extravagant items that no normal brother would give their younger sister. He is fiercely protective of her, to the point of having tortured several people, much to her disapproval. He was banished from the Eastern Empire after poisoning Rashta’s food with an abortion drug and interrogating and maiming Viscount Lotteshu, in order to hurt Sovieshu for betraying Navier. Kosair’s outrage at Sovieshu for divorcing Navier is partially caused by the fact that he knows she sacrificed her childhood learning how to be a good empress, and now she is going to be set aside, despite everything she has done. Rather than execution, Sovieshu exiles Kosair due to a lack of sufficient evidence that he was the one who planted the abortion drug. His exile turns out to be an opportunity to turn over a new leaf, and he becomes an unexpectedly popular knight in the Western Empire, helping out his younger sister in less troublesome ways.

Duke and Duchess Trovi: Navier's parents. Her mother taught her much of the strong beliefs that she keeps about how an empress should act, including that if her husband were to take a concubine, she should put up with it and not complain openly. Her father taught her horse riding and made a special handkerchief for her, which she later gave to Heinrey. It is implied they have a close relationship, as when she was upset over struggling position in court, others offered to have her parents brought in to comfort her.

Empress Mother : Navier's distant relative and former mother-in-law. It is said that the late empress had a soft spot for Navier and cared for her very much. The two spent many days together preparing for Navier's eventual inheritance of her position as an empress.

Friends[]

Evalie: Navier's sponsored mage and unofficial ward. Evalie is notably close to Navier and looks up to her. In turn, Navier acts as a pseudo-maternal figure for the young girl, offering praise at her feats, checking up on her and comforting her when she is down. Evelie reciprocates the feeling, wanting to use her magic skills to help Navier, and resents the situation Rashta put her former guardian into. When Navier's life is threatened, Evalie is called upon by the Western Empire and sent by Sovieshu to save her life using her healing abilities, which she does without hesitation. Evalie is never made aware of the fact that Heinrey’s initial espionage was the reason behind her original mana loss, though this may be because by the time Navier knew about this, Heinrey had already halted these plans and Evalie had regained most of her mana.

Nian Tuania: Despite being many years her senior, Navier and Nian have a close relationship. After Viscount Landre's imprisonment, Nian asked a favor of Navier to save him. Navier fought to have his sentence changed from execution to exile, and it was successfully granted. To Navier's surprise, Nian left her husband and followed the exiled Landre. After Navier remarries and moves to the Western Kingdom, she is reunited with Nian, who helps to integrate Navier into their new social sphere.

Laura Tarita l: One of Navier's ladies-in-waiting from the Eastern Empire. Unlike Eliza, Laura is very outspoken and quick to anger when someone disrespects Navier, even if it results in being punished for her words, in which case Navier will defend her and comfort her. Laura doesn't hold her tongue around Navier in private, something Navier appreciates. Laura followed Navier to the Western Empire to be her lady-in-waiting there as well.

Countess Jou b ert: One of Navier's ladies-in-waiting from the Eastern Empire. Countess Joubert would like that Navier lives as happily as possible, whatever that means improving her deteriorating marriage with Sovieshu or outright divorcing him to remarry into a healthier relationship with Heinrey. Like Laura, Countess Joubert followed Navier to the Western Empire to be her lady-in-waiting there as well.

Countess Eli za: Navier's former head lady-in-waiting when she was the Empress of the Eastern Empire. Despite being the more reserved of Navier's ladies-in-waiting, Eliza was always there to reassure Navier that her feelings are validated.
Rose Quevel: Navier’s Lady in Waiting. When she is first introduced, she comes off as a bit snobbish, showing her blatant dislike of Navier. However, soon she begins to like her as she gets to know her better, and they become good friends.
Miss Masters: Leader of Unit 2 of the Knights of the underground and one of Navier’s ladies in waiting. Was introduced to Navier by her brother, Aprin Violet. Despite appearing as brutal and fierce, actually is innocent and soft at times, which led Navier to have a soft spot for her. She is always there for Navier, and has helped her on many occasions with her intellect. Also takes a lot of interest in her brother, Lord Kosair.

Sir Artina: The Deputy Commander of the Knights of the Eastern Empire, and the personal guard to Navier when she served as Empress of the Eastern Empire. She placed a lot of trust in Artina, who kept many of her secrets.

Allies[]

Kaufman: A grand duke and representative from the Kingdom of Luipt who prepares trading arrangements with Navier. Kaufman felt sympathy for her as her country allows her husband to freely commit infidelity and took it upon himself to gift her with a love potion that he had crafted. Trying to prove to her that the potion would cause no harm, he tested it on himself and, having miscalculated exactly how potent it was, fell madly in love with her, even going so far as to threaten both Sovieshu and Heinrey when they got too close to her. Although Kaufman had to eventually return to his kingdom, he offered to take her with him so that she doesn't have to worry about her husband's concubine, an offer she declined. He later drugs Heinrey to fall in love with Krista, though he is able to avoid major consequences of this action by virtue of his status as an important foreign diplomat as well as his deal with Navier to use his telepathic ability to their political advantage. He later tried to make amends for his mistakes by helping her in court matters besides diplomacy.

Circe: A princess and representative from the Southern Kingdom. Circe quickly become good friends with Navier during the New Year's festivities through their similar sense of humor and mutual dislike of harems. Circe's gossip has led to Navier almost losing her composure on several occasions.

Lebetti Rimwell: Viscount Lotteschu's young daughter who absolutely worships the ground that Navier walks on, and has several painted portraits of her. She's very prejudiced against slaves and often tormented Rashta as her enslaver. But Navier was unaware of her vile nature. Although Navier's original intentions for Lebetti were to use her as a way of warning to Rashta, Navier quickly came to care for Lebetti, who cried when she found out about the divorce and vowed to take revenge in Navier's name, although Navier discouraged her from doing so.