 Perry D'Aur
Inadvertent co-founder of the PA, some
forty years prior to Throne Price. A landless Dark Demish nobleborn
serving as Fleet Captain for the Blue Demish House of Barmi in Killing
Reach, Perry found herself fighting a space war over a territorial dispute
which by Okal Rel should have been taken to the sword. Eventually, in
disgust at the violations of Okal Rel, she refused outright to continue
the fight. Her attempt to force the ruling family to the Challenge Floor
went awry when a commoner uprising caused the family to flee - leaving
Perry and her supporters to defend the territory and the commoners against
an opportunistic attack by her Vrellish adversary. Defeat was averted
by the leader of the Vrellish mercenaries abruptly throwing in with Perry
- this being the quixotic and chaotic Vrenn. Perry and Vrenn were left
in charge of a sizable portion of real-estate on the planet Barmi II.
Demish justice caught up with Perry in the golden-haired person of Prince
D'Ander, rebel Demoran Prince, who for reasons of his own chose to ratify
Perry's fledgeling Purple Alliance, and gift Perry a child of high enough
blood to hold title to Barmi. Thus was born Ayrium, Protector of the Purple
Alliance and Liege Barmi. The PA's survival, and her own, through the
following years never ceases to amaze Perry - that they lasted out D'Ander's
attempt to use Amel as a puppet in his bid for the throne, D'Ander's death
on D'Therd's sword, Ev'rel's eminity, and Ameron's manoevering to establish
the PA as an experiment in mixed commoner/Sevolite governance and buffer
zone between Gelion and Rire.
Perry is a competent military commander,
and a more than competent administrator and quartermaster. The PA's survival
through lean and dangerous years can at least in part be attributed to
her ability to extend slender resources. She is blunt, earthy and warm-hearted
- still referred to as 'Cap' decades after her regular space command ended
- with a weakness for young men in trouble. Over the years she has assembled
an unlikely stable of mekan'stan: Vrenn, the mercenary with a dark past,
Amel, the Courtesan Prince, and Horth, Leige of Nersal. She has seven
children, by different fathers, both sevolite and commoner. Her relationship
with her 'son in law', Ameron, is ascerbic, since she suspects him of
embroiling the PA in his schemes without being willing to offer them the
legitimacy of being part of the Ava's Oath. Perry is, deep down, a traditional
Blue Demish nobleborn. Circumstances, and her own blunt honor, decreed
that she become a revolutionary.
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