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Irulan was always described as resembling a fallen angel looking for ways to get back up again. She has hair the color of the sun in midday and the same Aeterdust grayish blue eyes, she walks with such grace as if she is floating and when she smiles she can light up even the darkest of nights. Yet in her eyes one can see the constant search, restlessness and melancholy of the seeker that can never find home.
As long as Irulan can remember she never belonged to a place. Her parents, closely related to Vladimir and Wensicia yet considerably wealthier than them, brought her up till the age of 8 and then put her in the best schools in the world so she can grow up to be a lady. It is there she learned the manners in which a lady should act, but which she always despised. Both her parents died of pneumonia when she was 14 and she was left with the entire wealth of the family, being an only child. She decided to sell the family estate, as she was not going to live there, and to continue her studies, but not languages, arts and the manners of a lady, but the ones of a knight. Irulan knew ladyship was not for her, something her single-minded parents never understood, she was ambitious and strongwilled and seeing the means to become a knight right in front of her, she seized the chance. Since forever she has had a thing for authority and being told what to do when she hasn't asked for guidance or hasn't accepted to be part of a group that follows one's orders. It usually appears to her disrespectful towards her own person, she has her own way of following orders, which has always been: conscience first, orders second, if it goes past conscience than it's just fine.
She completed her studies and became a knight in Sirion at the age of 17. Still, she did not feel she belonged to Sirion, it was not her home, but she did not know where home was. Her will was to live there until faith showed her a path to take that would lead her to a place she could call home, if there actually was such a place.
But fate it seems, had different plans for her and they did not yet include leaving Sirion. Still in search of something, Irulan decided to become a bureaucrat and joined the Sirion Army of Bureaucracy, using the ways of the pen rather than those of the sword from then on. In a few months of service she was named marshal of the army, to lead and guide all bureaucrats of Sirion. And there was more holding her in Sirion than duty towards her army and her people, it was something concerning the matters of the heart as well. |
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