Aldara Ellan

Aldara Ellan is a Seraan Lightbringer and mystic. She currently resides in the Lunar City-State of Lirgal, located on the Southern Part of the Astyllean Empire. She is also a scholar of the holy texts of the Asitir faith, having translated many of them from Seraani to Traveler's Tongue.

She currently serves a position as the Lunar Councillor of the Lunar City-State of Lirgal. After having found the ruins with the help of Ljukkti and Ellira Accero, she worked with the latter to rebuild the city and bring glory back to it. In such process, she managed to catch the attention of important figures of Aldovir, such as Uzair Audalad-Elernel.

Aldara Ellan was elected the Dáiorei of the Asitir religion by the Deralynor - at the time, highest authorities of the Asitir religion. Though that was a formative moment of the new, reformed Asitir religion, her blessing as the Dáiorei has not yet been done.

Aldara Ellan is a character played by Ewatomi [Discord: Ewatomi#5790], who joined the Stoneworks server the 16/08/2021.

Early life
Aldara was born in Quacomar, in 893 ACA based on the Twin Dragon calendar. Although technically born under the Empire, she was not citizen, as she was born in the Halsar clan of the Seraan wanderers. Being born in a family of itinerants, she did not spend much of her formative years in one place, leaving her birthplace but a few weeks old. Deprived of many worldly comforts, she learned to both value what little one could have and always find new ways to improve and strive for more in any situation possible.

Aldara's parents were always very focused on religion, attempting to convince her to participate in daily rituals and learn the teachings of the Adaere Namu. Initially, she was resistant to these attempts, as her childish mind and then later on rebellious teenage spirit made it harder for her to get used to these strict religious concepts. Always interested on what was beyond the limited worldview offered by her upbringing, in every town and country they visited she would try to find a book or a scroll on history, or language, or religious beliefs.

Around the time she had turned seventeen, the clan's temporary settlement was raided by bandits, and many of its members were assassinated, among them a dear childhood friend of Aldara and her father. This marked an important turning point in her life, as her clan broke up due to its reduced size and its members wandered away searching for different Seraan clans to integrate.

Contact with Asitir
Although born in an Asitir clan, Aldara was initially minimally interested in studying religion. She preferred the study of history, world lore, and mysticism, her contact with any religion being either historical interest or passing curiosity. Her interest for the ancestral Seraan religion began when she was around fifteen years old, after her parents taught her stories from the old Kingdom of Olarã. Being told about such a forgotten detail of world lore and the sorry past of her people spiked her interest in it, and she engaged with the religious and cultural practices of the Seraan with an almost academic interest. Though she was still not religious, she rapidly connected with the old tales and stories of the Ancient Seraan.

Her belief in the Asitir religion grew over time, reaching a turning point when the bandit raid against the Halsar occurred. As her father occupied himself with lorekeeping and religious traditions, she found that it was necessary for her to continue his work and legacy.

The Dandur clan
After her original clan was wiped by a bandit attack, Aldara and her mother wandered searching for a new clan to join. Near Qamiya, they found a small group of wandering Seraan who specialized in healing, mysticism and magic. As the Halsar were wandering traders, collectors and often worked as cheap farmhand, Aldara had to adapt to the style of living of this new clan. Her interest in world lore and her newly acquired passion for religious studies helped in understanding the intricacies of Seraan mysticism and witchcraft.

Her prowess at mysticism proved itself useful when she had to save a child from a rich trader from an illness. Using her knowledge of Seraan healing practices, she was able to cure the illness, and her clan was handsomely rewarded as a consequence. She was named the Clan leader in 920 ACA, but due internal conflicts the clan disbanded in 922 ACA.

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Pre-Lirgal life
Aldara followed to settle in an isolate place near Helemar, hoping to find small jobs she could do there. After some contacts with the government of the city, she found a home she could rent at least temporarily. In a makeshift office cramped in the inside of the house, she wrote the first two volumes of The Princess, a book which analyzes power in Rathnir [and gives tips on worldbuilding and roleplaying politics OOC].

Her work got noticed by several influential people in the world, notably the Imperial Archoness Hazel McSpiegel-Caicuria and the Velereth Sareariel Lelya-Earcala. Because of her work, she was able to secure a position as the Aurlûnor Velande's Minister of Education, and take an informal place as one of the Archoness' advisor. With this, she was able to meet several world leaders and influential people with whom she still keeps contact with.

Following the many crackdowns on heathenous and heretical religions within the Velande, culminating with the start of great intolerance towards syncretics, which she was seen as, Aldara sought refuge in the Lotus City State of Vraelea, whose government had already entered in contact with her. She was formalized as a Vraelean citizen, and is currently still residing there. Finally residing in a place whose religious tolerance was remarkable, she was able to find and translate the many tomes of the Asitir religion.

It was in Vraelea that she met the nomad Ljukkti.

Current life
Aldara now serves as the Lunar Councillor to the Lunar City-State of Lirgal, and the Templekeeper of the Lirgalyn Temple. Though she had not interacted with diplomacy before, she showed enough competence for the City-State to be accepted within Aldovir without great diplomatic incidents. By Imperial decree, land was given to Lirgal, and after such more land was gifted by the Caeronate of Carn to the City-State.

Due to money problems and a program of taxation being instituted in the Empire of Astyllea, Aldara was forced to turn to a life of crime in order to sustain the costs of maintaining Lirgal, and thus sought opportunities of looting and stealing beyond the borders of the Empire.