Mash Dardellan-Lochatlan

Mash Dardellan-Lochatlan is a member of the House Lochatlan, a small noble family in Anglunia.

Childhood
Mash Dardellan-Lochatlan was born in the town of Norstaeyya in the winter on 138 SMP. Her mother was Hadanna Alsey-Lochatlan, the onsyr of Norstaeyya at the time, and her father was Dardellan Yinower-Nuwan, a noble from the prominent House of Nuwan. Her family wasn't big as most of her siblings had already grown up by the time of her birth, so it was almost as if she was the only child altogether. Hadanna was a busy mother, and oftentimes Mash would find herself left to her own devices.

Mash learnt to read and write pretty early in her childhood. By the age of five she could already engage in conversations on different subjects, read and recite long passages in Yirsi'tal. As a matter of entertainment she indulged in reading old books, tattered manuscripts that conveyed knowledge of the olden times, and, of all various fields of study one could find, she soon became interested in alchemy. The cellar of the family house was quickly turned into a place for the young enthusiast's experiments and there, down in a dusty old basement, she would spend many nights sleepless, working on mixtures and concoctions she had learnt to brew.

When Mash was about 10 years old, she was baptised into Soleviel and admitted to the local temple in order to receive historic and spiritual education as an apprentice. There she was taught theological disciplines and the ways of Solaris, and as she grew up over the years, she would soon make a diligent scholar and a purposeful pilgrim. In the age of 14 she embarked on her first pilgrimage to the monastery of Saint-Auberion, where she would meet the Patriarch of the Church of Soleviel Yorg Aulian, who then officially initiated her as a member of the Soleviel clergy.