Ciora Telva Thelaria
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For most of her life, Ciora lived a life of revelry and lascivious behavior. She craved affection from her mother, Coela, but it was affection she never received. Seeing how driven her mother was to see to the success of the family, Ciora rebelled. What was good for her was whatever would embarrass the family. She drank to excess, often and publicly. She had open, wanton affairs, often with men of low station. One of these encounters left her with a child, Qidus, whom she barely acknowledged in her perpetual intoxication.
The family had hoped that, when Qidus was born, she would settle down and become a semi-proper Calpian matron, but it simply didn't happen. She went back to her wanton lifestyle. Recognizing the inevitability of her behavior, her brother paid certain people to see to it that she was infertile. Then, he constructed a separate apartment for her on the grounds of the family's poppaicus. He saw to it that she never ran out of wine or male companions, but that she also never left the poppaicus.
Two days after her fourty-first birthday, she claims to have received a vision. She says she saw an an iridescent dragon lying dead and motionless on a floor of slate. Gradually, she says, life returned to the dragon which looked into her eyes and spoke, saying, "Tell them I shall awake."
The family, of course, believes this "vision" to be a byproduct of her lifestyle, so they have laughed it off. Regardless of the truth of that opinion, the vision has had a profound effect on Ciora. She is now sober. Because of her history, she is still effectively a prisoner in her apartments, but she voraciously studies religious tomes and histories, as well as studying divination magic. Other members of the family joke, cruelly, that she should have drunk from whatever bottle gave her that vision sooner in life.
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