15th Shahanshah

V 198 - V 230

Odyssa I Pelegon was the fifteenth Shahanshah. 

Odyssa had a cold and dispassionate relationship with her husband and only had one true born child with him. Both she and he were known to take lovers outside the bounds of marriage, and some opponents of the Shahanshah even accused her acknowledged trueborn daughter, Zottyah III, of being the first of the many bastards she would have in her life. Her court fool once japed that "the great Odyssa Pelegon could field a legion with her bastards,” and that “there has never lived a woman who loved the act of childbirth more than our fair Empress, but alas, she does not like to get children by her husband.”

Accusations of infidelity notwithstanding, Odyssa was an effective administrator. While her brother had merely held the Imperium together following the Years of Blood and Iron, Odyssa succeeded in truly reuniting the Empire.