The "that woman" Amon spoke of was Countess Katarina Karkov, the last member of Silcaria's royal family after its former king, Stefan, was overthrown. She had an irreconcilable feud with Silver Sablinova, leader of the Wild Legion, because he had once tried to obstruct her when she sidelined parliament, controlled the legislators, and weakened the king's authority. He ultimately failed, and the Wild Legion was forced into exile overseas, where it became a band of mercenaries. That was why Silver Sablinova joined Latveria's Unification War, providing the still-rudimentary general staff with a vast amount of geographical and hydrological data.
After the war ended, this beautiful blue-eyed woman was arrested abroad by Constantine, the Praetorian Guard Commander, and put on trial by the prosecutorial organs and courts of the newly established Legal Department. In the eyes of ordinary people, even if she was not sentenced to death for hiring assassins to kill the Regent and the Emperor during the Latverian Liberation War and the Balkan Peninsula Unification War, she would surely receive life imprisonment or a lethal injection as a heinous criminal for manipulating the Silcaria Criminal Syndicate to commit murder, traffic drugs, and smuggle illegal weapons. Yet, to many people's surprise, she did lose her freedom—but she was merely placed under house arrest in the gardens of Royal City Castle. Though stripped of every social status, she still lived in luxury. Her only regret was that she could interact only with Sisterhood security personnel and the Praetorian Guard.
She had survived because, after the war, she obediently surrendered the assets swallowed up by Silcarian nobles, officials, and the comprador class. She also provided the transaction networks of every drug trafficking organization supported within Silcaria, along with secret weapons factories and weapons orders. The Emperor had decided to spare her life.