Fallen Fox, Kneeling Royals

Freya Lyon was born a nine-tailed fox at the end of the primordial chaos, with unmixed blood, and spent thousands of years watching the world until not much in it reached her any more. On one of her attempts to rise higher, a heavenly punishment came down and nearly finished her. The man who came across her and pulled her out of it was the founding emperor of Noxen, travelling among ordinary people at the time. She gave her word under the law of heaven to guard his kingdom for the rest of her life, and the emperors who came after him called her the Primordial Elder. Each time she guarded the kingdom's fortune it cost her a tail, and over five hundred years she cut them nine times. The ninth required her to disperse her power first and go through the ritual with none of it left. Consort Jynna, who could not stand her, picked that moment to block the ceremony in front of the court, struck her, and broke the blessing token. The heavens went out of order afterwards, an avalanche came down, and the kingdom's fortune began to slip. The royal family knew what Freya was. King Cedric Grant did nothing about any of it and the Empress Dowager let Jynna carry on, so Freya was left holding the damage with her power still scattered. She took the suffering that landed on ordinary people onto herself.