OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To codify Kaida's older sister. The sub will also tie into site lore because of the Netherworld event.
Image Credit: Here.
Role: Kaida's older sister, warrior.
Permission: Can use Firemane stuff because I own the company. ARGH gear available for Firemane per this thread.
Links: To Hell and Back, Field of Blades.
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
Age: 75. Eldorai have a longer life span and develop at a slower pace than humans. They become physically mature around the age of 30, and fully develop around the age of 50.
Force Sensitivity: Non-Force-User.
Species: Eldorai
Appearance: Of average height for an Eldorai female. She has pale skin, pointed ears, blue eyes and short blonde hair that she keeps at a practical length. Her skin is marked by several nasty scars. Many of these were inflicted upon her during her time in the Field of Blades. The most prominent one runs across her right cheek right down to her jaw. Lavina dresses plainly and practically. Her armour is a plain battle suit, not a gaudy parade outfit. Outside of the line of duty she wears baggy pants, tank tops and collarless shirts. She is economical in her movements. Her physique is well-built and strong.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Name: Lavina Taldir. After losing her memory she called herself Ashana - Eldarai for Endurance/Resilience. She holds the rank of Lieutenant.
Loyalties: Court of the Shadows, Shadow Knights, Siona Vaerum, Asuran Star Combine, Kaida.
Wealth: Lavina is not wealthy at all. She owns little beyond her personal possessions, weapons and a curio from her family. The restoration of her commission has improved her financial situation a bit, but she must still be careful with money.
Notable Possessions:
- Lightsabre. Lavina still knows how to fight with a lightsabre, but it is now less practical for her since she does not have the Force.
- Sarix.
- Shatter Rifle.
- MkI Bolter.
- She has an apartment on the Defiance, the Shadow Knights' mobile 'capital', but spends more time aboard the Ardent Duty. This is her sister's ship.
- Collection of trophies from her Ashana days. This includes furs or teeth of animals she's slain as well as weapons, helmets or dog tags of enemy soldiers she killed. Lavina feels a bit awkward about the collection, but has held on to it.
- A family curio: Kaida and her sister have a pair of matching rings their parents bought them when they graduated school. Ashana retained hers, but did remember its meaning. She just somehow knew it was important and thus held on to it.
Personality: The old Lavina was brave, kind and self-disciplined, but also arrogant, tempestuous, sexist and a bit racist. Ashana maintained the fundamentals of Lavina's somewhat prissy and superior attitude, but that was tempered by a heavy helping of cynicism, resentment and anger. And fear. She hid it well, but was rather afraid of dying in case she goes back to the limbo of the Netherworld. Despite this, Ashana threw herself into combat with gusto. Fears fuelled her survival instincts. Battle was not just something she understood better than anything else in life, she revelled in it. However, this was a double-edged sword, for she was liable to succumb to berserk rages, especially if triggered. While these empowered her, they could also make her a threat to herself and her allies.
When she was in such a state, Siona was one of the very few people who can calm her down and make her see reason. Both elves still have a strong bond. Siona stuck by her even when it was inconvenient for her and essentially taught Ashana how to cope outside of the Netherworld, which is something the berserker is grateful for.
Lavina's present personality is a composite of both. She is extremely introverted, reserved and cynical. She really has very few cares for anyone except her sister and Siona. Her beliefs are that the Eldorai need the harsh medicine of the truth...but she is afraid of what it would mean to reveal it to them. She wants to help them, but at the same time she cannot rely on them. It is also a bit awkward that Siona, who in many ways is a surrogate sister, is spiritual and believes in the Goddess Illyria, while Lavina has become privy to truths that question the old myths. Lavina is formidable and very brave in a fight. Lavina, much less than Ashana, does not like being flirted with by random people. She is not celibate, but has always been rather conservative and controlled in that way. In that regard she is shyer than her younger sister.
She shows a softer side around children. Indeed, little ones seem to relax her. For the same reason she is very protective of them and reacts aggressively if she sees violence being inflicted on them. Lavina is deeply jaded and slow to trust others, especially strangers. She is protective of her sister, but both have changed a lot over the years they were separated. Strictly speaking, Kaida is the younger sister, though she tends to act as the opposite.
COMBAT INFORMATION
Weapon of Choice: Blasters, slugthrowers and various melee weapons.
Combat Function: As a Force-User, Lavina was very proficient with a lightsabre. Her focus lay in Form V. It was a product of her Netherworld experience. She was very good at buffing herself with the Force or utilising her pyromancy to blast opponents. She could summon flames, transfer or absorb heat or control existing fires. Likewise, she could employ telekinesis in a battering ram role, though she lacked finesse.
Lavina is no longer able to use the Force, but is tough and resilient. She has a much higher than normal pain tolerance and strength for an Eldorai. Lavina is trained in the use of ranged weapons such as blaster and slugthrower rifles. She is a very good shot. Her skill at ranged combat and technical support skills complement the abilities of her sister. Lavina's ability to cope with her Netherworld trauma has improved, but is something a canny mentalist could exploit. For the same reason, she does not respond well when contacted via telepathy. Hearing voices in her head triggers her Netherworld trauma, since the dark spirits of the Field of Blades kept trying to twist her mind.
As a tradeoff to losing the Force, Lavina is a lot calmer and more controlled now, which means she is once again able to command small units of soldiers instead of being relegated to a battering ram role. It has also given her the proper mind set to play the role of a sharpshooter. Lavina is a soldier and will generally not operate alone, but as part of a unit. Her usual companions are her sister Kaida and her posse. Kaida focuses on duelling and on using the Force, especially her elemental ice abilities. This makes the two a good team, as Lavina provides skills Kaida does not have or only possesses to a lesser extent. Lavina will also work together with Siona, whose Force Dead nature makes her a good anti-Force-User shock trooper and ambusher.
Strengths:
- For an Eldorai and even for a human, Lavina is strong, tough and resilient. She trains frequently and harshly. Moreover, the time she spent on the Field of Blades has given her a very high tolerance for pain.
- Losing the Force forced Lavina to change her combat style and tactics quite a bit. She has evolved into becoming an expert at ranged and support purposes. She is great at sniping, gunslinging and can do some technical stuff such as slicing. She's also a good pilot.
- Lavina served in the Angelii corps and Omega Pyre, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. She lost her ability to lead when she went near-mad in the Netherworld. However, the return of her memories has reawakened her skill at small unit leadership.
- Lavina used to be able to feel the Force, but is no longer able to do so. She knows how to use a lightsabre, but her lack of Force connection does not make it a practical weapon for her anymore. For all her training and experience, she is perfectly mortal and can be injured like anyone else.
- Eldorai sensitive-hearing has advantages, but also makes her more vulnerable to high-pitched frequencies such as those emitted by sonic weapons.
- Lavina is a tactical, not a strategic leader. She does well at commanding small units, but it is presently beyond her experience level to command a large force or be responsible for big picture stuff.
Lavina Taldir was born in a time of transition for the Eldorai. For centuries, they had considered themselves to be the sole intelligent species in the galaxy. The Goddess Ashira had made them in her image. All other beings were just lesser parodies of her glorious creation. There was nothing for an Eldorai in space, which was imagined as a coild void. Lavina grew up in a time when the outside galaxy forced Kaeshana open and the Eldorai were forcibly integrated into a galactic system. The elves, complacent for many centuries, found themselves confronting a galaxy that was very different from what they had imagined. Their hubris led to catastrophe.
Lavina had two loving parents and a younger sister she cherished deeply. She was born into a lower caste, but not common, family on Kaeshana, the Eldorai's homeworld. Her parents were administrators in the city of Naldasa, about 100km from Santaissa, the capital of the Eldorai Matriarchy. Her mother, Divya, was in a good job, while her father was a data entry clerk. Lavina was born at a time when outsiders were starting to return to Kaeshana after a long absence due to the plague and 400 year darkness. These outsiders were bringing new technology, new threats, and new opportunities to the Eldorai. In their homes though, the Taldir family never saw any of these off-worlders, being concerned mainly with survival.
Lavina grew up in a very traditional system of education and childhood. As a young girl she learned from a male servant how to read and write, and began her junior schooling at age ten. While intelligent, Lavina was not brilliant, being most interested in history, and less in theology and mathematics. Her sister Kaida was born soon after beginning school. At the age of 18 she was enrolled into a private school, paid for by her mother’s high position. She was looked down on though by the other girls of more aristocratic background and suffered from bullying. After one such incident she fought back, using her Sciia (the Force to the rest of the galaxy) to set fire to her tormenter’s hair.
Being a Sciian, or Force user, was not a stigma in Eldorai society, and was much more common than with humans. Indeed, being a Force user was one of the few ways for the lowest ranks of society to advance themselves. Lavina was no exception; she was taken out of the private school and enrolled at one of the government schools designed to help train and manage Sciians before they could become a potential threat. Her affinity for fire meant that she was enrolled primarily as a potential soldier in the future. Over the next twelve years she continued her education in the ‘Academy of the Four Powers’, performing well. During this time tragedy struck when a terrible flood, common on Kaeshana, swept into the city of Naldasa. Lavina’s sister Kaida was present and watched her parents get swept away. In doing so she unleashed her own Sciiac powers and froze the waters, showing her own powers. Lavina arrived too late, but took Kaida with her back to the Academy as they were the only two members of the family left.
By the age of 30, Lavina was a young adult who had done passably well at school and her studies at the Academy. She was then enrolled with the Angelii Istrai or young angels, where she was taught to use her powers offensively, trained with weapons and in combat situations. After ten years of this, on and off, she became a full Angelii, and began a tour of duty in the outer lands near the western sea. It was when she was 44 that she saw her first combat. Outsider slavers had preyed on the Eldoraii for many years, but they became emboldened by the relative weakness of Eldorai technology and attacked more often. In this first battle Lavina fearlessly led an attack on some human and Trandoshan slavers and used her powers to roast one of them, and then spear a second. Her courage was noticed and she was promoted to Wing Leader, the equivalent of a corporal. As more and more outsiders and their tech came into Santaissa, Lavina became very interested in the outsiders, learning the language slowly and talking with the travellers when she could. She resolved one day that she would leave Kaeshana and venture into the stars.
When she was fifty, and nearing the end of her compulsory term of service, Lavina was promoted to Host Leader, or Lieutenant, and given extra responsibilities. She was tasked with being an ambassador of sorts with the off-worlders in the city, and to act as translator. With the choice of either returning to lower caste civilian life or staying and learning more about the galaxy, she accepted the post eagerly. It was in this position, at age 55 that she met Colonel Siobhan Kerrigan and Jedi Master Phylis Alince during their journey to Kaeshana and decided to go with them when they left the planet and begin her adventures. With her went her sister Kaida. Both siblings had unearthed secrets that made them question the rigid orthodoxy of the Eldorai Matriarchy. As a result they were branded outcasts. Thus the two Eldorai departed Kaeshana, entering a larger stage than they could have imagined.
Siobhan took an interest in both Space Elves. Perhaps it was because her dead mentor and lover Adril Tythorin had been an Eldorai, too. So she recruited them for Omega Pyre, pulling strings to ensure that they were both assigned to the same Company. Adjusting to her new life among the humans was not easy for Lavina. Though more enlightened than many of her kind, she was still rather sexist and racist. She was also determined to protect her younger sister, who had a habit of getting into trouble. One of the Pyre's Force Knights taught the pair how to use lightsabres.
When an OP expedition ship that included Kaida crash-landed on Belsavis, Lavina was part of a rescue operation. She made sure to give her sister a stern talking to, having been deeply worried about her. The pair proved their mettle when they participated in the battle of Sluis Van, where the Protectorate defeated a pirate armada. Both led the charge when OP forces stormed a military space station the corsairs had seized for themselves, slaying many enemies by combining fire and ice. When Lavina was injured fighting a Dark Jedi, a wrathful Kaida slew her attacker.
A bit later Lavina and her platoon were deployed to Bespin, which had fallen under the sway of the barbaric Bando Gora. There she served under the command of Colonel Kerrigan. She slew a True Reaver in single combat and saved Siobhan's life twice. The first time was when the Colonel was almost blasted off a platform of Cloud City while shielding her soldiers from bombardment. The second time was when Siobhan dropped a roof on a gigantic abomination. Lavina helped kill said monstrosity by using her pyromancy. What was left of it was finished off by an air strike.
When Queen Tirathana VI died and a struggle for power erupted on Kaeshana, Kaida and Lavina accompanied the Protectorate delegation led by the exiled Princess Anya Venari, Foreign Minister Linna Beorth and Colonel Kerrigan. Civil war broke out when the archconservative Princess Nalia tried to seize power. Kaida and Lavina did battle against her followers, helping the decadent, but more progressive Princess Silaqui take the throne. As a reward, the two sisters received a royal pardon and their exile was lifted. However, both chose to stay in Protectorate service. They had become strangers on their own homeworld. Their faith in their adopted nation was tested when they faced the Bando Gora hordes in the final battle on Gehenna. Fighting their way through hordes of Bando Gora Reavers and other abominations, they were separated during the brutal battle. They managed to escape when a good portion of the mountain ceiling collapsed upon the mad cultists' subterranean lair during Exarch Kerrigan's duel with their supreme leader.
Kaida was badly injured and Lavina helped her through her recovery period. However, things turned tupsy-turvy when Lady Protector Tegaea Alcori, who had become the Protectorate's leader following the disappearance of her predecessor Lady Protector Cira, was nearly killed by the Sith Assassin Kaelin Isandros and was unable to continue in office. She and Siobhan withdrew to Kaeshana, with Tegaea recovering there under the protection of the Queen. Kaida had acquired a strong dislike of Siobhan after the events of Gehenna, but did not feel at home in the Protectorate anymore. Moreover, she yearned to return to her homeworld. She felt like she could make more of an impact there by defending her people and helping them adapt to the manifold threats they faced. Even if it meant swallowing her doubts about the ancien régime and not divulging the truths she'd unearthed.
However, this was something Lavina could not stomach. Perhaps her disillusionment with the Eldorai Matriarchy was greater. Either way she did not want to return. Both sisters had a row. Harsh words were said on both sides. Eventually they reconciled. Both vowed to stay in contact, but over time they drifted away from each other. Lavina left the Pyre and became a mercernary. She hooked up with an independent group of Eldorai who had experienced the same disillusionment with the ancien régime and lived a nomadic existence. In a way they were a predecessor to the Shadow Knights.
She became a wanderer, acquiring credits through raids and by carrying cargo. She assembled her own group of warriors and freedom fighters, acquiring a corvette as a mobile base of operations. They fought slavers, Sith and others who preyed on the weak. The band scored a big success when they ambushed a group of slaver ships, put the slavers to the sword and freed their 'chattle'. However, any success in this crusade barely made a dent, but Lavina felt it was better than burying her head in the sand and staying passive. Here and there she received a holomail from her younger sister, who was climbing the ranks of the Angelii. Both sisters wanted to meet again to catch up...but then Akala sent opened up the gates of the Netherworld and sent trillions of people to hell.
Lavina was one of them. What happened in the Netherworld changed her forever. She encountered the spirits of the dead, those who had been slain by her hand and those she had been unable to save. Old childhood friends, enemies, former comrades, her parents. But that was not the worst. No, the worst was eventually finding herself locked in the Field of Blades, where she found herself among others of the lost and the damned who had been raptured into the Netherworld. Here there was no end to the meaningless slaughter. It was eternal. Those slain would often arise again to fight anew.
The anguish of their former defeats and the whispers of the Dark Side drove them to madness and despair. She fought, she killed, she died, arose and fought. The horror of it made her lose her memories apart from a seeming eternity of dying and killing. She held on to a family curio, but no longer knew what it meant. Time lost its meaning in this accursed realm. She stalked those who wounded her, becoming a strong Sometimes she implored whichever deities might be listening to end her suffering and grant her true death. Eventually she stopped and just lived for the fight. She became almost feral. Every time Lavina was struck down she arose once more. Every time she was struck down the pain, the fear, the anger rose. A dozen, a hundred, a thousand deaths, and how many more? Could they be counted? Who was she? It didn’t matter, all that mattered was the endless dance of death amongst the blades.
As she fought she repeated the one mantra again and again; ‘Taeris ai Ashana’ ‘I will endure’. Over time she came to know nothing else, it became her name, her identity, her soul. Ashana, Endurance. Dark spirits, long trapped in this realm, whispered into her mind, believing she might be a good pawn that could facilitate their release. Salvation came from an unexpected quarter. For the near-feral Eldorai was saved by a Harbinger of Twilight called Siona Vaerun. The Haringers were a cult of Force Dead Eldorai who worshipped Illyria, the Eldorai Goddess of Death. Vong slavers had turned them into voids in the Force by conducting brutal experiments. Then they'd toppled their captors. To most Eldorai they were demons, for Illyria was reviled as the betrayer of Ashira.
However, being closed to the Force, Siona was immune to the whispers of malevolent spirits. This allowed her to keep more of her sanity intact as she underwent the cycle of death and rebirth in the Netherworld. Lavina was almost incapable of rational thought. Words sounded like nonsense to her. The stranger had no aura she could perceive...yet she seemed familiar. Almost like kin. Something compelled the battle-crazed Eldorai to stay her hand. Somehow Siona managed to get through to her and break the cycle. While Lavina slew, Siona guided her out of the abyss and into the light.
Lavina had long forgotten her name, so when Siona asked her for it, she replied with one word: Ashana. Henceforth, it was her name, for she had endured. Eventually, the pair managed to find their way to the Harbingers of Twilight. The reception was awkward. Ashana was still rather feral and, moreover, a Sciian. In an amusing twist on traditional Eldorai notions, the Harbingers disdained Sciians, viewing them as shackled by Ashira. Yet she resisted when some tried to 'cure' her and Siona refused to forsake her new friend. Having forgotten everything prior to the traumatic events in the Netherworld, Ashana was very feral. The slighest trigger could cause her to have a violent outburst, for it was all she knew. Siona had to essentially reteach her normalcy. The wild, amnesiac Eldorai needed time. But this was something the pair did not have, for they received word of Kaeshana's doom.
Before a massive asteroid devastated the planet, the Eldorai Matriarchy, backed by Firemane and the Silver Sanctum Coalition, had launched an exodus, saving billions of Eldorai and many of the surviving Kar'zun. However, for those who had to be left behind, the conditions were hellish. They called themselves the Forsaken. They cursed the exodites, accusing them of abandoning them to save their own skin. It was this chain of events that brought the Harbingers back to Kaeshana. When they returned to the homeworld many of them had not seen in ages, Ashana went with them. She proved her mettle battling warlords, foreign slavers and raiders. While fighting off an Archangel incursion, she tore throuh battle droids and HRDs with ruthless ferocity to rescue Eldorai the machines had abducted.
The Harbingers ended up in an the enemy of my enemy is my friend situation with the Shadow Knights, a group founded by Eldorai soldiers and rebels who'd grown disgruntled with what they saw as the government abandoning Kaeshana. Both came together separately to evacuate or otherwise help people. Initial contact was awkward, even violent, but then they found common cause against the Monarchy, slave raiders who took advantage of the chaos on Kaeshana, and later the First Order when it sought to annex the planet. Kaeshana became a battleground, but when the Galactic Alliance withdrew following the Kaeshana Rebellion, the Shadows and the Harbingers were forced to likewise evacuate the planet.
Ashana fought in the Kaeshana Rebellion, fighting alongside Eldorai partisans. Her new friend Siona was at her side as they battled the enemy. However, Ashana became so battle-crazed during the fight that her companion had to shoot her with a stun bolt and drag her away from the battlefield when they received the order to retreat. Since then Ashana has remained with the Harbingers and the Shadow Knights. While her bond with Siona is strong, she does not socialise much. She is formally a member of the Caerith Tyari, the Shadow Knights' corps of Force-using warriors, but stays aloof from most of her comrades. Her memories have not returned and she's understandably reluctant to let a healer or mentalist poke inside her mind. Indeed, the idea rouses her to anger.
However, here and there she received flashes of the past, but could make sense of them yet. Little did she know that the sibling she was separated from so many years ago was closer than she thought, for Kaida Taldir had recently joined the Shadow Knights. For her part, Kaida believed her sister to be dead. When Lavina went missing and failed to return her calls, the frost elf had tried to find her. However, Kaida had little time to mount an effective search, for the wars and strife kept her occupied. But now a reunion was imminent.
Siona and Ashana participated in the Shadow Knight expedition to Kaeshana. The Eldorai rebels had received reports that the planet had suddenly emerged on the other side of the Galaxy and was no longer occupied by the First Order. This sounded crazy, to say the least, but probes had confirmed it. Thus the Shadows decided to dispatch a task force to investigate and look for survivors. Siona and Ashana were assigned to the team, which was led by Kaida Taldir. Siona and Kaida took an instant dislike to one another. For her part, Ashana did not recognise her little sister and responded poorly to attempts to reconnect with her. However, reunions would have to wait. When the team arrived in Kaeshana's orbit, they found that the reports were true. However, when they tried to land, a sort of disruption field caused their ship to crash.
Fortunately, they survived, but their ship was grounded. They found themselves in a twisted hellscape. After defending themselves against vicious beasts, they ran into a group of survivors, led by a Dark Eldorai insurgent called Morwen. The survivors understandably held a grudge. Siona was able to communicate with them, and the Shadows learned that Kaeshana had been dragged through the Netherworld. After some awkward negotiations, the two groups decided to team up to escape the planet. Yohara, the researcher of the Shadow Knight team, had determined the source of the disruption. On the way the party was assaulted by a horde of Ashiran fanatics, who believed that they could obtain Ashira's forgiveness and enter paradise if they purged the planet of infidels. Ashana fought fiercely in melee, tearing through many of the zealots. She was hurt, but the pain fuelled her.
After a brief respite, the group ran into the Harrowed, a mixed group of Kar'zun and Eldorai. Like the Harbingers, they were Force Dead, but this was due to the influence of the warp rather than experimentation. Some of them were also more than a little unhinged, such as a self-proclaimed Illyrian prophetess. The newcomers had to prove that they were alive and not mirages or ghosts. Once the Harrowed were satisfied, their leader, a Kar'zun called Brak'Vrasz, agreed to lead the Shadows to the source of the disturbance. It was a so-called anomaly.
They eventually reached the anomaly, where they were confronted by the Sicarii and their suspicious leader Raekana. The Sicarii were a cult of Illyrian assassins. Raekana was their prophetess and a bit of famous figure among Illyrians. Paranoid and suspicious of the newcomers, she was very reluctant to cooperate, especially since the party included former Angelii. Siona put her diplomatic talent to good use, urging Raekana that it was time to move out of the darkness.
The anomaly was a curtain of red, a dome of crimson surrounding a darkening void. As Yohara, the Shadows' researcher explained, heart was a pure pierce of Nether energy, which should not exist inside the realspace of this galaxy. Therefore, the Force had formed a barrier around it. However, this in turn had caused an opposing barrier of Force null to form. Thus the barrier was composed of three layers, and the party required the three opposite to penetrate through: A Force-User, a Force Dead being and a Non-Force-User. Kaida went through first. She was able to complete her task and activate Yohara's machine, but then was assailed by powerful Nether energies.
Seeing her sister suffering caused Ashana to regain some of her memories. She received flashes of memories from their childhood and from the day they had discovered the true origins of their species and went into exile. She went after her. Ashana was able to protect her sister and regained her memories in the process. However, both sisters lost their respective connections to the Force. Siona was quick to follow Ashana and make sure she was alright once the storm had passed. While the sisters of ice and fire recovered, Brak'Vrasz and the primeval Eldorai warrior Eyrecae carried on. All those close to the portal received visions of the great battle Kar'zun and Eldorai had fought many centuries ago. Brak'Vrasz became Force-Sensitive, while Eyrecae was turned Force Dead. With the last two layers penetrated, the field had been overcome and the Shadows were able to send ships to evacuate the survivors.
Now Ashana was Lavina again. However, she had lost her connection to the Force. Kaida was also affected by this, though she would eventually regain it. The two sisters had some time to reconnect during the shuttle ride back to the Shadow Knights' worldship. There they and the survivors were received by Archon Naesala Faethyra and other Shadow Knight leaders. Lavina would have preferred to have some privacy after it, but had to attend a debriefing. The leaders were given a somewhat edited account of what had transpired. This included learning that the Eldorai had not defeated the Kar'zun on their own merits, but enlisted humans and covered it up. After some discussion, the three leaders decided not to cover this up, which would be futile anyway, but they were rightly concerned about it causing unrest.
These concerns turned out to be justified. Eldorai nationalists, angered by what they regarded as an insult to their people, rioted in the streets. Protesters who believed the visions were true and that the Eldorai should denounce the lies of the Queens of yore and join with the Kar'zun clashed with those who believed the visions were lies that spat on the sacrifices of Eldorai patriots. Fighting broke out in the streets. Some of the refugees were attacked. There were cases of arson and looting, as some disturbers of the peace tried to take advantage of the unrest, seeing it as a chance to loot.
Lavina, Kaida and Eyrecae were caught up in a riot and had to defend themselves. The Shadow Knights' militarised police force was deployed to quel the disturbances. Many of those who were mobilised to keep the peace were Qadiri. The Tygarans were less disposed to be concerned about ancient Kaeshana history. Their own very nasty history of war was fresher, and they had no intention of getting wrapped up in the Eldorai wars. Lavina stayed with her sister and both got to survey the damage on the next day. While Lavina reconnected with Siona, whose people had been affected by the tumultuous events, Kaida received new orders from the council. Lavina decided to join her sister's crew.
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