Sidja Foryel-Goldnyr

Sidja Foryel-Goldnyr is the former chancellor of Anglunia. She descends from a great line of warriors, and is the Leader of the Neihernspried Resistance.

Biography
Descended from a long line of ferocious warriors. Sidja Foryel-Goldnyr (affectionately known as Six) decided to forgo her families legacy, and to much of her siblings disappointment, hone her talents as a builder and explorer. In her travels throughout Anglunia she found the city of Rannikko. There she met the Great Lord Prinobots and decided to power the building of Rannikko’s industrial port with him.

She was rewarded in due time with a position of a Council member for her dedication, as well as starting to work towards founding an Explorers guild. She is the second youngest of seven siblings, with her younger brother Yalnif Foryel Goldnyr soon joining her in Rannikko as he too wanted to build in peace. They both share distant ice elf ancestry, with their light blonde hair. However later on her hair took upon a dark black look to it due to a stressful time in her life. Sidja has soft greenish blue eyes while Yalnif has a more human-like dark brown. She possesses none of her families skill with the blade, but has a warriors sprit nonetheless. She will defend her countrymen and her family to the last, picking up a bow when it’s required of her to uphold her duty to them.

She soon progressed up the ranks, becoming the Onsyr (lord) of Rannikko in a burgeoning political career that would soon see her become Chancellor of Anglunia. This followed on from her predecessor and the late Yinower Delas-Nuwan. She is currently an Aellonsyr in Anglunia under Yirsidani (Queen) Eliyawin Yinower-Nuwan.

Neihernspeid
Within a week of her becoming Chancellor, The Neihernspried, a vast plague swept through the lands. This was in the form of a highly infectious, highly dangerous parasite. She took upon the role of health minister for the population and did her best to implement safety measures. Despite her best efforts it swept through the country- the Yirsidani (King) at the time Yinower Delas-Nuwan became infected, leading to his eventual suicide. She upped her efforts during the course of the King's infection, joining an organisation called the Resistance in the fight against the infected plague bearers. The Resistance is an organisation dedicated to the removal and eradication of infection from all across Eldham. Its a multi-national one that started the development of a cure to this mind-controlling fungal parasite.

In a singular defining battle, the Resistance stormed the island of Agora- the source of the the Neihernspried. They fought fiercely but were beaten back into an unconditional surrender. Sidja narrowly avoided the battle, misfortune shining when beforehand a beaker of strong chemicals was knocked over her arm and notes. In her haste to save her research on the cure, her arm was badly burnt in the process. Arm hastily bandaged, she arrived at the battle field too late to help her comrades. She witnessed them become infected before her eyes- those that had surrendered were forced to take off their masks and inhale the spores, while the rest lay motionless on the ground; dead.

Fleeing the scene she went on the run, the Neihernspreid hunting her down for her research. She was offered shelter by Battlemoose and a few other citizens of Anglunia until she could set up a new Resistance headquarters underneath the city of Myrtle. In hiding she completed her research and finalised a cure to bring the country out of the infection. She also struck a deal with the leader of the Neihernspried, a shadow of a man called Cab in a treaty called The Room. This treaty was to confine all of the infection in Anglunia to a singular location; Cab's stew store in Myrtle. In exchange both sides would hold an uneasy peace between their factions. To this date it has not been openly broken by either party, and is widely considered a success.

The Machine and the Infection
Over time Sidja delved into robotics and mechanical development in an effort to create machines that could deal with the infection instead of easily susceptible humans. This was inspired by the discovery of a sentient autonomation called Kenshi849 underneath the ancient fort of Arrowfell. He was able to provide assistance in the development but was unable to understand the secret to his own sentience, and therefore the robots lacked direction to work remotely.

Sidja was undeterred and set about working on prosthetics and mechanical organs to upgrade fellow Resistance members to make them less vulnerable to the parasitic infection. However her sanity began slipping, the feed from her global communicator showing the Neihernspried was gaining ground in many countries around Anglunia. This combined with the stress from her job as chancellor- attracted the unwanted attention of an Eldritch, primordial entity called The Machine. The Machine has only the form of the objects it possesses- those that can move in a mechanical way can be brought under its control.

This entity entered the mechanical armature and prototypes in her laboratory and trapped her in there. It then performed an excruciating procedure to remove her limbs and replace them with metal ones. Midway through- she used her newfound yet painful metal limbs to smash her way out and escape. It stopped the procedure, but the Machine now had intermittent control over most of her body and mind. She fought her way to street level, when she encountered Cab. There she felt immense hatred- an incomprehensible desire for murder directly linked to the entities control over her. The Machine hates all that it deems unclean, and considers the Infection to be the worst kind of filth. Knowing this- Sidja asked Cab to infect her, a desperate attempt to salvage the remainder of her sanity. He complied, albeit hesitantly, loading a crossbow with the A variant and using it. Once infected-the Machine lowered its hold, unwilling to subject itself to residing in the same vessel as the Neihernspried.

As her fellow Resistance members discovered her new form- Cab offered to regenerate her limbs using the infection as an attempt to remove the entity from her entirely. This was met with pushback at the mere suggestion, but when it became clear even her organs had been replaced, he was permitted to help. The skilled surgeon Alternmill and now lead roboticist Kenshi took the lead on several surgeries to extract what was left of her organic parts from her synthetic components while Cab used the infection's regenerative powers to replace them with organic flesh and living organs. This was done on the mutual agreement that the Machine was too dangerous to everyone to be allowed free reign over anything, least of all human life.

This intervention by Cab (at that time called Melvaren) came at a steep cost. The nature of the infection is manipulative, and as she was now deeply indebted and incorporated to it; was drawn back to Agora for subsequent infections. It stole some of her memories, and she was on the verge of succumbing to the infection when Kenshi intervened and helped her away from Agora. With newfound clarity she's aware of both the Infection and the Machine within her, the last surgery to restore her arm and the side of her skull infinitely postponed due to Cab's malpractice.

She now uses this to her advantage, alternating between infecting and curing herself in order to use the advantageous parts of both Machine and Neihernspried infection. But this isn't easy keeping both in check. The Infection compels her to turn on and betray her resistance allies by infecting and enslaving them, while the Machine screams inside her head to eradicate all infection from the face of Eldham via genocide.

She is still looking for a solution, but for the moment finds solace in her blossoming relationship with Kenshi, who has stayed by her side and truly understands the threat the Machine poses.