Hischecha

Hischecha was the third Queen of Portia. Her untimely death from a parasitic infection led to the first major fracturing of Portian power.

History
Hischecha was born in 17 PT to her mother, Schifshech II, the second Queen of Portia. She assumed the throne in 33 PT and ruled for seven years before contracting a parasite and quickly succumbing to it in 40 PT.

When she was ten years old, Hischecha laid her first clutch of eggs, from which she chose her daughter Schifshacha as her heir. Before she died, the Portian parliament convinced her to name one of the slings from her fifth and latest clutch - Schichichenda - as her heir, despite the fact that she already had one. The Portian parliament considered Schifshacha to be a stubborn heir and wanted a younger heir who would bend more easily to their whims, invoking a part of the early-established Portian constitution to favor Schichichenda over her older sister as she was actually born during Hischecha's rule.

This controversial decision created two groups of Portian royals: the Shachans, who rallied around Schifshacha and believed she and her children deserved to rule, and the Chendans, who accepted the rule of Schichichenda as legitimate. Tensions between these two groups would eventually lead to the Portian Civil War.