Aeterdust Family

The Aeterdust family is a new noble family, first sighted and now residing in Strahan, Atamara.

What is known about the Aeterdust Family

Nobody alive knows who founded the Aeterdust family and how long its roots span across history except for its few remaining members, but they keep it as their most safeguarded family secret (the first of many). What is known today is that a few years back, Vladimir Aeterdust, his wife Wensicia and their daughter Sheeana, appeared in Strahan, a rural region of the Cagilan Empire on the continent of Atamara. They had wealth and stature, but were completely unknown to anybody and all gossipers agreed their name fit them very nicely, since they seemed to appear out of nowhere in the realm. Strahan soon found out they are a clever, hardworking, trustworthy, yet brave and dignified sort of people, but they keep to themselves most of the time and have rather odd customs, starting with the names they all wear up to the peculiar coat of arms. There where also rumors that Sheeana also has a brother, a twin, a young man named Feyd, who left the family at an early age and found his way in the Colonies, a young man with strange tastes, who was said to be even more weirder than the rest of the family, but just as clever.

Other Aeterdust family members thrive in this world aswell, but their number is a mystery. Irulan Aeterdust has attested to belonging to the family, being one of Sheeana’s and Feyd’s first cousins, but whether on the father’s or mother’s side she never said to anyone. “It is the family that knows and only the family that needs to know” Irulan once answered when the question aroused. She is as much an Aeterdust like Vladimir, Wensicia and their children, living by the Aeterdust family motto: “Live what needs be lived, tell what needs be told, the rest is dust…”

Sheeana Aeterdust

All who have seen Sheeana describe her as pretty, dark-haired young girl with eyes the color of the sky at noon. Since her early age she has had a mild, tolerant temper, always friendly and smiling shyly. This young girl believed anyone can prove to be good and kind and was always willing to offer a second chance, yet she rarely opened to people, she keept a lot to herself, having low self esteem and fearing that others will not care or notice her. Sheeana has lived half her life in Strahan and, when coming of age, took up arms and became a knight of Strahan, defending the Cagilan Empire and honoring her father’s wishes. Vladimir Aeterdust always dreamed of seeing one of his children fighting for the realm where he was prospering, but he always intended Feyd to be that child. As Feyd left home at the age of 13, Sheeana was the only one left to grant her father's wish and resigned herself to her faith, enduring rigorous training without ever complaining. It was very challenging, quite brutal for a girl of her sort, but she never showed it for her father's sake and in time came to peace with her role. She grew stronger and bolder, learned to lead and, when becoming a knight, wore her title with pride. Still, not even fighting managed to totally cast into darkness her mild, understanding manners. She remained a kind, gentle sort of person, but her shy smile was now hardened, saddened. And it was her mild temper and her smile that made her soldiers devoted to her, no her leadership or fighting skills.