Quote Originally Posted by Ashlyn_Ishina View Post
I mean, that would work. Though that doesn't help my current issue. In my current short story I am delving more in to the character of her father and I *need* to know how to handle this in it. I am not a fan of retconning when I don't have to. It's bad enough I have to take certain assumptions and liberties within Viera culture in the jungle due to how little information we have despite them being in the series for just under TWENTY YEARS. Though, that does mean that as long as I make that stuff believable, it's very unlikely to be contradicted by a primary source. Unlike the Bozjan lore.
There was a queen before the Garleans invaded. She was probably a Hrothgar. She was not named Gunnhildr, but 'Queen Gunnhildr' is a historical figure that Bozja still holds in high regard. At this point naming your daughter 'Gunnhildr' would probably be similar to if you named your son 'Jesus'. (Or in a perhaps more accurate but less immediately understandable to western audiences way, if a Middle-Eastern family named their child 'Nebuchadnezzar'.)

That queen is dead now. Probably in the initial conquest of Bozja, but if not, definitely after the Bozja Incident. We will probably not be looking back on her, as post-liberation Bozja is more interested in moving forward with a more egalitarian society to moving backward to a more stratified monarchy.

That all you needed? Everything outside of that is fair game, and if someone tries to say 'but in THE CANON' later on, you can say that it wasn't known at the time you started writing.