Adrielle Neprathep
Harbormaster of Absalom, Lady Adrielle Fyrlenn- Neprathep
Born in Sothis, Osirion as the daughter of a shipping clerk, Adrielle Neprathep’s girlhood was marked with broken noses, scraped knees, and an intense love of math. When she grew up and followed her family to Absalom, the young woman took reasonable stock of her prospects for both employment and romance and opted to join a mercenary company led by the self-styled General Versi instead. She became a combat engineer and a good one, rising through the ranks of the First Guard through skill, luck, and a good instinct for when to duck. By the age of 30, Adrielle was Versi’s chief of engineers and wealthy from careful investment of her loot, but somehow the military business lost its appeal. Even as Adrielle designed ever more lethal devices, she saw that the people who started the wars—the people who caused all the trouble—were almost never the ones who got killed. Most of the people Adrielle’s machines slaughtered were just poor young fools caught up conflicts beyond their control.
In 4702 AR, Adrielle resigned her commission and took a job as a senior engineer at Absalom’s docks. It was calming work, a balm for her troubled soul. In due time she met and married a petty nobleman, a quiet, retiring man named Encarius of House Fyrlenn, and in so doing became Lady Adrielle. By 4712 AR, Adrielle was once more chief engineer, this time of the Beast, Absalom’s vast 5-story stone crane. She worked closely with Goodman Hugen, the Harbormaster, and when Hugen started his secret plan to overturn Absalom’s government to something more egalitarian, Adrielle was one of the first people he spoke to. The engineer looked at the goods she was unloading, at the wealth that poured through Absalom, at how little of it stuck to the hands of her workers and how much to the aristocrats never seen at the docks, and she agreed.
Then Hugen’s ship sank, and opportunity arose. Now Lady Adrielle Neprathep finds herself running the missing man’s entire scheme. Where Hugen had considered a popular revolution, Adrielle has chosen more peaceable means— more than most in Absalom, Adrielle knows what war is like, and will have no part of it. In the race for the position of primarch, Adrielle is the favorite of the Citizens’ League, the chosen standard-bearer of the dockworkers and soldiers and sailors who see her as one of them.
By temperament fiery, aggressive, and unyielding, Adrielle has learned a measure of wisdom in her later years. She lacks a politician’s natural guile, but makes up for it with a keen grasp of strategy and tactics, treating her campaign for primarch like a military operation, with enemies to crush and allies to woo. Chun Hye-Seung and Adrielle have found themselves in agreement on matters of city defense, and Adrielle feels a sense of camaraderie with one of the few people she knows that appreciates the work of an engineer. She considers House Candren an ally, in Hugen’s honor, though Adrielle hasn’t quite realized the extent to which ruthless seizure of the harbormaster’s title has sparked Lady Alidane’s resentment. Lady Dyrianna, High Hetaera of the Temple of Calistria and Guildmistress of Courtesans, makes an even more unlikely ally. Dyrianna hates Lady Darchana and fears that her proposals to ban the faith of Norgorber will soon extend to Calistria; she has placed her widespread information network at Lady Adrielle’s disposal in order to push back against this development.
In 4702 AR, Adrielle resigned her commission and took a job as a senior engineer at Absalom’s docks. It was calming work, a balm for her troubled soul. In due time she met and married a petty nobleman, a quiet, retiring man named Encarius of House Fyrlenn, and in so doing became Lady Adrielle. By 4712 AR, Adrielle was once more chief engineer, this time of the Beast, Absalom’s vast 5-story stone crane. She worked closely with Goodman Hugen, the Harbormaster, and when Hugen started his secret plan to overturn Absalom’s government to something more egalitarian, Adrielle was one of the first people he spoke to. The engineer looked at the goods she was unloading, at the wealth that poured through Absalom, at how little of it stuck to the hands of her workers and how much to the aristocrats never seen at the docks, and she agreed.
Then Hugen’s ship sank, and opportunity arose. Now Lady Adrielle Neprathep finds herself running the missing man’s entire scheme. Where Hugen had considered a popular revolution, Adrielle has chosen more peaceable means— more than most in Absalom, Adrielle knows what war is like, and will have no part of it. In the race for the position of primarch, Adrielle is the favorite of the Citizens’ League, the chosen standard-bearer of the dockworkers and soldiers and sailors who see her as one of them.
By temperament fiery, aggressive, and unyielding, Adrielle has learned a measure of wisdom in her later years. She lacks a politician’s natural guile, but makes up for it with a keen grasp of strategy and tactics, treating her campaign for primarch like a military operation, with enemies to crush and allies to woo. Chun Hye-Seung and Adrielle have found themselves in agreement on matters of city defense, and Adrielle feels a sense of camaraderie with one of the few people she knows that appreciates the work of an engineer. She considers House Candren an ally, in Hugen’s honor, though Adrielle hasn’t quite realized the extent to which ruthless seizure of the harbormaster’s title has sparked Lady Alidane’s resentment. Lady Dyrianna, High Hetaera of the Temple of Calistria and Guildmistress of Courtesans, makes an even more unlikely ally. Dyrianna hates Lady Darchana and fears that her proposals to ban the faith of Norgorber will soon extend to Calistria; she has placed her widespread information network at Lady Adrielle’s disposal in order to push back against this development.
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