Delta

Delta Drake Canalopin Image G.I.   General Information P.D.   Physical Description B.I.   Biographical Information M.I.   Meta Information Delta Aulian-Drake Canalopin (Winter 66TE - Summer 160TE), known as the Winter Princess or the Awaken Dragon, was an influential noblewoman and public figure in the Drakesland. She ended up embodying a renaissance of the Drakaen culture during convoluting times, not without having left her print over multiple nations in the region.

She became one of the main political actors in The Kingdom of Nidaros during the Formation of the League of Vircon, becoming the First Secretary General of the League. Joining efforts with her friend, Ralozi Miva, they founded and organized the successful sports event, The Nido Games.

She led the negotiations between his father, Vix Aulian, and the King of Nidaros, Vin Helianthus, resulting in the reunification and foundation of the Kingdoms of Valreach, where she spent most of her political career and became Royal Princess and occupying the charge of Prime Minister, among other political positions and titles.

She killed her adoptive mother, Tiffany Canalopin, after a transcendental experience in the Caves of Nidaros. Afterwards, she claimed the throne of Drakaes, becoming the 6th Autarch, leading a commonwealth of Drakan nations known as Zie Drakaen Köntrybund. After the dissolution of the mentioned Commonwealth, she committed suicide in Nidaros.

Decades later, she was resurrected in New Yoake by Alfric Canalopin, becoming the Nachtenreikina of the Night's Realm. She ruled as Imperina of the Nachtenreich until the crisis of the Twilight Empire of Amarillo. She disappeared shortly after becoming Empress of the new empire.

Appearance & Nature
Delta was a human being. Born from a southern race with light skin tone and slightly pointy ears. She had blond hair that she usually kept long and arranged with some braids. On some occasions, she had to cut that hair off. Delta has the average height for a human above her age. When she was born, her eyes were cyan but after finding the Dragon in the Caves, they became dark red and eventually very dark blue –almost black– after her resurrection.

One of the main characteristics of her nature, different from the other human races in Eldham, was her slow ageing as they grew. If the growing rate of a human is linear, the growth rate of her race is logarithmic.

Early Life
Delta was born in a small coastal village called Oncatea in the region of Meona, south of the limits of Eldham and east of the regions of Rathnir. She spent her childhood on the coast. A common activity for her during those times, used to be sailing and fishing with her family, acquiring knowledge and expertise managing small boats and ships.

When she was eight, her mother died while bringing to life a boy. Delta and his father, Roland, stayed in Oncatea until Delta was twelve. Then. Roland decided to leave their town after a big flood that destroyed half of the buildings in the village and most of the ships. Delta and his little brother joined a carpenter’s guild, led by a friend of the family. There, they helped to rebuild the village.

Arrival at Eldham
Her father, Roland began sending letters to Delta after he fell sick and had to stay in bed for weeks. Delta, through those letters, discovered that her father became Hand of the Kingdom of Nidaros, in the northern lands of Eldham. Delta left Oncatea a couple of days after receiving her father’s letters.

After a long sea voyage to the north, she arrived at Nidaros, during the Autumn of the year 81 T.E. She was 15 years old when she set foot in Eldham for the first time. Delta moved to her father’s place in the city and spent the last days with him.

In his last will, Roland Sien left all his properties and titles to Delta. Delta, doubtful about her fate in these unknown lands, ended up accepting her father’s inheritance, becoming the new Hand of Nidaros, the highest advisory and governmental role after the King, in the Kingdom of Nidaros.

Regional tensions in the Drakesland
After being appointed as hand, and joining the rest of the advisors and politicians in the Round Table, she led the negotiations with the city of Jorvick in the nation of Mugen, resulting in the signature of the Final Road Agreement, putting to end the historical tensions and territorial disputes between the cities of Nidaros and Jorvick.

Delta had to manage, as well, two more crises in the region, in the form of rebellions. The first one took place in Northwich –soon after renamed to Nujh– against the rebel settlement of Tamarin. Delta and the Nujhaians faced the rebels together with the allies of the Coalition of the Bay of Peace, achieving a decisive victory, in the Summer of the year 82 T.E.

Not even a month after, Delta travelled to Puerto Amarillo to seek support against another rebellion, this time in the region of the Segrespent of the same Kingdom of Nidaros she now lived in. Kkiss, allied with other rebels in the continent, declared the independence of the county of the Segrepent. In Amarillo, she met the Amarillian leaders Salazar Van Den Green and Soronaca Trichechi, who would become very close friends for Delta.

At night, after the diplomatic talks, a group of assassins attacked the city to eliminate the high-ups of both Amarillo and Nidaros. During the attack, narrated in the autobiography of Soronaca, The Walrus, Delta fought hand-in-hand with Soronaca. She saved him from an attack, taking the blade of Green's sabre, who attacked Soronaca confused by the darkness, with her bare hands. Delta would carry those scars for the rest of her life. After the attack, Delta stayed in Puerto Amarillo for some days. With the help of Soronaca, she wrote letters to King Vin, who was dealing with the rebellion in Ekaway.

All these conflicts and chaos in the region showed Delta the lack of a political status quo able to stand alone against any challenge. She then rescued the idea that her father defended, a new union between the states in the Drakesland, different from the Regnum and the Concordat but united enough to face the regional adversities, together.

Delta’s Political Rising and League of Vircon
Months after the rebellion was dealt with, Delta travelled again to Puerto Amarillo to share her political ideas with the new allies. There, during the hot Summer of the year 83 T.E., the Constitution of the League of Vircon was signed, reforming the previous coalition of the Bay of Peace. Delta was named Secretary General of the League.

The founder states of the League had been the ones around the Strait of Vircon, The Republic of Amarillo, The Kingdom of Nidaros and The Northwich Dynasty. Delta would base her political activity around those three states as Secretary General of the League. The Hand of Nidaros also focused on gathering other Drakaen states for the newly formed League. She travelled to Aurica, the old Drakaen capital and convinced Zie Drakaen Union to join Vircon. A short time after, she crossed the bridge of the Frostbite to New Yoake and after a meeting with Lady Von, The Republic of New Yoake joined as well.

Delta, by that time, had become quite well-known around the northern region of the Drakesland. Even though she was a lowborn and a foreigner. Vix Aulian, King of Northwich visited Nidaros to talk with her. He ended up adopting Delta into the House of Aulian. Becoming the first member of the following generation. With her adoption, she got her first noble and royal title, The Princess of Northwich.

Founding The Nido Games
An era of peace and cooperation between the now Virconian nations of the Drakesland began. It was in that context of economic growth and expansion of Nidaros when Delta met Ralozi Miva, aka. Dunxter, a young descendant of the Nido Tribes, owner of The Thunderbird Club, a popular tavern in the street of the Sea Dragon of Nidaros.

Ralozi just had come back from a long trip that took him away from Nidaros since the Fall of the Concordat. He told Delta about a lost tradition of the old Nido folk. A yearly sporting event that used to bring the best athletes of the tribes together in the cult of the body and mind and the pursuit of honour and glory. Delta and Ralozi, sharing the ideals those games used to represent, decided to bring back those old competitions. And so, during the summer of the year 87 T.E. and after two years of preparation, building and gathering nations to participate, The Nido Games were celebrated in the old Nido settlement of Nibury, rebuilt from the ruins of Sorbia for that occasion. The event was a success, many nations from all across Eldham came to Nidaros to participate in the event which lasted four weeks.

It was in that event, during the Boat race competition, that Soronaca Trichechi confessed his romantic feelings to Delta. That same night they both consumed their love for each other and began a formal relationship.

In the last sport of the event, in the Capture the Flag modality, Delta and Razoli decided to participate in the match. Delta's team, formed by InverseAtom, BeeKay and Mastertiff achieved first place while Razoli’s team got the second position. Having finished the event as Champions of Nido, Delta and Razoli conducted a last ceremony and the delegations of the nations that had come to Nidaros went back to their homes.

The Nido Games would be remembered across Eldham as one of the biggest and most exciting sporting events ever made to that date. The Games put the Drakaen region and the League of Vircon back on the international stage.

New challenges as Secretary General of Vircon
Right after the Nido Games concluded, new conflicts appeared in the Drakesland. The Catanian mayor of Iron, ananas, who had been allied with kkiss in the rebellions of Ekaway and Lapis already, formed a new settlement in the territorial waters of Puerto Amarillo. At first, Amarillo tried to deal with them alone but after the defeat in the First Battle of Kibris, they realised that they needed the help of The League of Vircon to deal with them. Delta, joined forces with the Uraki Imperium and their vassal of Catania to deal with the mayor of Iron. After a set of trials against ananas, Delta and the Catanians stormed Iron and forced the insurrection to retreat to Kibris, where they would strongly fortify. The Hand of Nidaros ordered several incursions into Kibris to gather information and scout the fortress.

The forces of Vircon and Uraka organised a last attack for the summer of the year 92 T.E., an event that would be known as the Second Battle of Kibris. The Virconian armies led by the General Commander of the League, Lhytt de Amarillo, assaulted the sea fortress and breached in. Delta commanded the archery while the ships of the coalition were approaching Kibris. Soon later, with the NRDF, the Nidarosean Royal Defence Force, Delta assaulted Kibris through the breach. by the end of the bloodshed, Ananas had fled from Kibris. With no more enemies standing, Delta Aulian and Lhytt rose the Virconian banners over Kibris.

After the short rule of Soronaca as mayor of Kibris, the decision of Amarillo was for the fortress to be destroyed. She supervised the operations. In the process, Delta met who would become one of her biggest political rivals in Vircon and the Drakesland, a young Amarillan at that time, Juniper Kyani, Juni de la Pantera back then.

Relationship and marriage with Soronaca
The term for Delta as Secretary General of the League of Vircon was coming to an end. With the conflict against Kibris solved and after signing an alliance with Uraka, Vircon was more secure than ever before.

With that new peace, time arrived to celebrate and enjoy in Vircon. The age of prosperity came around the time that Delta and Soronaca announced their wedding. The ceremony was celebrated during the Fall of the year 94 T.E. in the Senate Building of Puerto Amarillo and ended up becoming the biggest party ever celebrated in the Drakesland. To celebrate the wedding, they organised a Tournament in Nibury, using the facilities of the Nido Games. The tournament lasted for some more days. The wedding celebrations ended in Nidaros.

Delta’s Involvement in the Development of the Region
The Hand of Nidaros began several projects as Lady of Nibury, mayor of the city. She coordinated the expansion of the road system, connecting it to the Frostbite Bridge. At the same time, coordinated efforts with New Yoake led to the building operations of a promenade around the western coast of the Frostbite. Delta was in charge, as well, of other development projects in the Kingdom like the expansion of the walls in Nidaros or the creation of a bigger Harbour for Nibury.

Meanwhile, Northwich had been renamed to The Isle of Nujh and joined the Uraki Imperium as a vassal. Busy with her tasks as Hand of Nidaros, Princess Delta wasn’t able to help in her father’s kingdom. It was then that Juni de la Pantera moved to Noshea and began operations to develop the coastal town.

Not even a month after the appointment, Gre'en Leyla-Earcala, regentess of the colonies of Simulami in Eldham, north of the Drakesland, travelled to Nidaros. With the diplomat, the Soleviel faith came to the Kingdom and, with Delta’s allowance, a small church was built in Nibury, where Soleviel ceremonies would take place from then on.

Reunification into the Kingdoms of Valreach
The first step for reunification between Nujh and Nidaros was the Cooperation treaty signed between both nations, which Delta herself developed. Even if the original intention of the treaty was unification itself, the document ended up recognising the common history and culture of both Nidaros and Nujh and formed the main precedent for a union. Delta and her father Vix, kept planning a reunification.

That attempt ended up with The Regnum of Aulian, trying to force a reunification and make Vin leave the throne of Nidaros. The Regnum of Aulian planned to establish a unified state ruled by the royal House of Aulian as Monarchs.

It began with an ultimatum from Nujh sent to Nidaros, to make Vin Helianthus abdicate and establish a provisional government. Delta gave public support to the reunification and wrote a letter pushing King Vin to accept a deal with Nujh. The Round Table of Nidaros was divided about the matter. In a desperate move to save his Kingship, Vin tried to get Nidaros to join Aristios. Delta opposed due to the crisis that was caused inside The League of Vircon as a whole. The conflict ended with an intervention in Nidarosean sovereignty, in the form of a referendum imposed by Uraka and Aristios. The referendum ended with a negative result to the proposition of reunification.

Even though, Delta, as the main interested person in such unification, didn’t stop talks between both royals. Finally, after a Council was formed and many discussions were held, Nidaros and Nijh united and formed The Kingdoms of Valreach, in the Autumn of the year 98 T.E. Delta, as one of the main founders and writer of the Constitution of the Realm, became Minister of Foreign Affairs and Winter Princess of the Frostbite and the Frosty Grove, the principality she was granted rule over.

Delta Aulian-Drake as The Awaken Dragon
During the Valrean civil war, Delta was found dead in a pond in the gardens of Nidaros. A funeral conducted by Yorg Aulian took place in Nidaros, giving a short truce in the war for all the Drakesland to pay respects to the fallen Autarch.

Titles
Sorted chronollogically, by year of adquisition.


 * Hand of Nidaros. Title inherited from her father, Roland Sien, after his death. Meritocratic charge for the City and former Kingdom of Nidaros.
 * Secretary General of the League of Vircon. Named after its foundation by the Virconian Committee.
 * Medal of the Order of the Mayor of Puerto Amarillo. Given to her by the 2nd President of Amarillo, Soronaca Trichechi for her work with the formation of the League of Vircon.
 * Princess of Nujh. Adquired after adoption by Vix Aulian, King of the Island of Nujh.
 * Lady of Nibury. Noble title for the rank of Mayor of a town of city. Owner of the Nidarosean and Valrean cultural city of Nibury, south of Nidaros.
 * Champion of the Nido. Ceremonial title won after organsing and achieving victory and 1st place on the Nido Games.
 * Fundatur of Vircon. Title given to her by the Committee of the League of Vircon for her job as founder and 1st General Secretary of the League.
 * Crown Princess of the Kingdoms of Valreach. Attributed to her after the reunification of Nidaros and Nujharia into Valreach.
 * "Winter" Princess of the Frostbite and the Frosty Grove. Ceremonial title gained after the foundation of Valreach. Noble title of the of the Frostbite.
 * Unifier of the North and the South. Self-attributed after the unification of Nidaros and Nujh into Valreach, and the later integration of Neo Drakaes.
 * Archbishop of the Soleviel Church. Chosen by the Soleviel Council and named by the Patriarch Victoria Maestro.
 * Patriarch of the Soleviel Church. Named 5th Patriarch by the Archbishops of the faith, two consecutive times, and a third, years later.
 * Queen of Otello. Named by the previous monarch, Ananas. Ruler of the Crown dependency and vassal Kingdom of Valreach, Otello.
 * Autarka bon Drakaes. Named herself after the death of her mother and previous Autarch, Tiffany Canalopin. Ruler of Zie Drakaen Köntrybund.
 * Protector of the Drakaen People. Symbolic title attributed to her after the work to keep the peace and unity in Drakaes against all odds.
 * Unifier of the West. Self-attributed after the incorporation of The Kingdom of Amarillo into the Drakaen Köntrybund.
 * Oficial de la Legión de Honor del Reino de Amarillo. Received after her death for her influence over the success of Amarillo.
 * Reina Consorte del Reino de Amarillo. Adquired through marriage with who would become the King, Soronaca de Poprhyropolis.
 * Rose of the Night. Title given by the Yoakens after her ressurrection in New Yoake.
 * Imperina bon Zie Nachtenreich. Position adquired after a successful vote in the Imperial Council of the Nachtenreich.
 * Yoaken Moon Princess of Volas Lunam. Given by the Yoaken King, Alfric I after The Longest Night. Royal Ruler of the Flying Island of Volas Lunam.
 * Emperatriz de Amarillo. Received after the union between the Nachtenreich and Amarillo, also through marriage with Emperor Soronaca.