Dalessa
Beautiful, buxom, and 40 years younger than her husband, Andoran’s Grand Ambassador Senator Augustyn Naran, Dalessa is a charming companion, an effervescent conversationalist, and a cunning opportunist with numerous interlacing and sometimes conflicting loyalties. While she claims to have been attracted to her husband nearly a decade ago due to his philanthropic work in Almas, her association is far more political than a result of appreciation for his altruism. Dalessa’s father, Gol Ephialtes, sits upon the board of directors of Andoran’s corrupt Lumber Consortium, and it was he who first suggested that his daughter inveigle herself into Naran’s life as a way to bend him to the Consortium’s influence. The plan worked masterfully, and Naran fell in love with the magnetic Dalessa the first time they met. For the first few years, Dalessa even convinced herself that she loved Naran too, but she can now hold up the ruse only when in his direct company, and she relishes any opportunity she has to escape his presence. It isn’t that she hates her husband—indeed, she’s grown quite fond of him in a patronizing, fraternal sort of way. But she yearns for a fate of her own, outside of the political considerations of her father or husband, whom she has served long enough.
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